Sentences with phrase «christian view of reality»

Dostoevsky sees» and this bespeaks both his moral genius and his Christian view of reality» that it would be far more terrible if it were.

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And... it's just that kind of myopic world - view, that is so out of touch with reality, that will keep you and the «Christian Right» on the continued path to irrelevance.

As Christians, Birch and Cobb believe that in many respects the Whiteheadian vision of reality is more compatible with biblical points of view than are other visions, Platonic for example, on which Christian in the past have relied.

Secondly, unlike the classical Indian Christian Theology, or for that matter the Indian classical Philosophy of the high caste, which is based on the transcendental nature of the Ultimate Reality and a cyclical view of history.

For example, when Dennis Hirota writes that Shinran «avoids a voluntaristic... view of reality, with such concomitant problems as predestination, the need for a theodicy, and a substantialist understanding of reality or of self», I applaud Shinran and hope that the Christian tradition to which I belong succeeds equally well in these respects.

It should not be surprising then that Whitehead thought of God as a single actual entity immune to the possibility of loss.59 At least William Christian sees this as the proper Whiteheadian view.60 Nevertheless, Christian's position is challenged by Ivor Leclerc, who argues, in agreement with Hartshorne, that Christian's conclusion is incompatible with the categoreal scheme elaborated in chapter two of Process and Reality.61 Here, according to Leclerc, Whitehead «makes clear» that the category of «subjective perishing» is «necessarily applicable to every actual entity whatever, including God.»

The next essay, «Christ, Reality, and Good,» is a further treatment in depth of the view that Christian ethics is not concerned with the knowledge of good and evil.

Yet, for the past decade; the organized ecumenical movement has been viewed with indifference, if not suspicion, by Christians who have preferred to cultivate their personal spiritual gardens, to pursue various sorts of denominational consolidation and reorganization, or to wrestle with the relation of faith to social issues in abstraction from the struggle for the integrity of the social reality of the church.

From a Christian point of view, therefore, spirit, at least finite spirit, can never be thought of in such a way that in order to attain perfection it must move away from material reality, or that its perfection increases in proportion to its distance from matter.

For that matter, earlier Jews and Christians not only differed from their Hellenistic brethren on how they viewed God and Christ but held jarringly different notions of the basic structure of reality.

The notion of the people, i.e.Minjung, and of small - scale movements and initiatives which represent them, is from the Christian point of view partly a socio - ecclesial vision in the sense of a theological appraisal of the church as social reality in the larger body politic, and partly eschatology in the sense of a vision of the ends worked out within, and ends which extend beyond, human history.

It means that in the Christian view Jesus Christ is the person through whom we know concretely the personal reality at the heart of God's purpose for the world.

I don't see christian churches teaching people to stone anyone anymore, just to legislate against them (stomping on the first ammendment in the process) in hopes that they can ignore the reality of others not agreeing with everything they say, or not behaving in what they view as the right way.

Inherent in Christian understandings of the realities of the human condition and of what personhood might be if it were set free to flourish, and in Christian understandings of society and church, is a strong stress on human sociality and an equally strong resistance to the ways in which individualistic views of personhood erode or deny sociality.

Now with the world becoming one, if it remains, and with our leading Western universities importing religious teachers from the East to teach students the religions that brought forward views like reincarnation, not to mention the success of missionaries in our midst from non-Christian religions, we Christians had better think long and deep concerning these religions, not only to be honest with ourselves, but to do justice to the central realities of our faith.

And if we do link secularizing dynamics with this reality, I think that discussions of «unintended Reformation» may obscure what, at least from a Christian point of view, needs to be exposed.

Stackhouse's entire argument seems to require the view that adequacy both to the ideal unity of the «Christian thing» and to the reality of pluralism requires that one be a «realist» of some sort.8 It also seems to require rejection of the «nominalist» view that pluralism is finally irreducible.

Toward the end of my college career, however, I became less persuaded of the adequacy of a purely secular view of the world, and more persuaded that perhaps the Christian version of reality was the true one.

The apparatus theory proposed by Jean - Louis Baudry and Christian Metz posits that spectators in classical narrative cinema are manipulated by the images and, deprived of the ability to critically contemplate the act of viewing, confuse film illusion and reality.

Moderated by Sharon Louden, Artist and Editor Panelists include: Sean Mellyn and Jennifer Dalton, Artists and Contributors to «Living and Sustaining a Creative Life» Christian Viveros - Faune, Writer, Curator and Art Critic for the Village Voice Paddy Johnson, is the founding Editor of Art F City and writes a column on art and Internet for artnet news At a time when art is increasingly viewed as a commodity and art - school graduates feel that gallery representation is imperative for making a living and a career, it is more important than ever to show the reality of how an artist sustains a creative practice over time.

How America Got Divorced from Reality: Christian Utopias, Anti-Elitism, Media Circus Kurt Andersen 432,209 views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XirnEfkdQJM Clink on «Show More» for a copy of the whole text.