Sentences with phrase «dualistic ways»

Dualistic ways of thinking about what is spiritual and what is not affects the way people act and relate in a congregation.

I am not being naive — it wasn't around in Jewish writing, at least as expressed in that dualistic way, until after the captivity.

For Whitehead, one of the major problems that has «poisoned» much if not all of modem philosophy subsequent to Descartes is this dualistic way in which it treats of the relation between mind and nature (or nature and life as he sometimes phrases it).

And like Sartre, Camus, Russell and other cosmic pessimists before him, Klemke seems unaware of the tenacious hold that the dualistic way of organizing the world may have over his consciousness.

Not exact matches

Alex — my view is that male - centred dogmatic theology sets up a dualistic and paternal way of perceiving ourselves that is maintained to keep control.

Also the oppositions to a dualistic separation of mind and body or «mane and nature are comparable in the two movements.10 Process theology and feminist theology today overlap in a healthy way, and there is every indication that feminists will play leading roles in the further development of process theology.

The hierarchical, dualistic pattern is so widespread in Western thought that it is often not perceived to be a pattern, but is felt to be simply the way things are.

Furthermore, this way of thinking reveals dangerous dualistic thinking about creation.

Partly to provide a way of conceptualizing God's transcendence over evil, and in part for other systemic reasons which we need not cover now, Hartshorne is forced to introduce a dualistic account of the divine nature.

I am led to great appreciation for the subtle ways in which Pure Land Buddhism both distinguishes the other power from self power and also avoids a dualistic juxtaposition.

My concern in this paper is not so much why this dualistic problem exists (though I do think an answer can be provided), but to illustrate the nature of the problem as I see it and to point to a possible way out of it.

The dualistic, or dichotomous, structure of Victorian thought is most evident in the way modern Protestants approach moral issues.

The interpretation of the Epistle to the Ephesians is quite different, depending on whether the writer is seen as primarily dependent on Jewish thought and practices, or as someone whose thought is dualistic.9 It is very difficult to know whether the writers use the various words translated into English as «flesh» and «spirit» in a spiritualizing way or not.

In other words, we might think of this ultimate activity as being, so to speak, potentially dualistic, mysteriously capable of expressing itself in ever - enlarging personal as well as impersonal ways, environments and organisms.

But this statement sounds non-Whiteheadian, which is to say traditionally Western and dualistic, and it must give way to Whitehead's nondualistic understanding.

The human sciences, in spite of some notable exceptions, are still under the spell of this dualistic - materialist way of thinking.

And in 1989 Alastair M. Taylor and Duncan M. Taylor tried to prove that dualistic nature of Semitic religions paved the way for ecological crisis.

AND And teaches us to say yes And allows us to be both - and And keeps us from either - or And teaches us to be patient and long suffering And is willing to wait for insight and integration And keeps us from dualistic thinking And does not divide the field of the moment And helps us to live in the always imperfect now And keeps us inclusive and compassionate toward everything And demands that our contemplation become action And insists that our action is also contemplative And heals our racism, our sexism, heterosexism, and our classism And keeps us from the false choice of liberal or conservative And allows us to critique both sides of things And allows us to enjoy both sides of things And is far beyond any one nation or political party And helps us face and accept our own dark side And allows us to ask for forgiveness and to apologize And is the mystery of paradox in all things And is the way of mercy And makes daily, practical love possible And does not trust love if it is not also justice And does not trust justice if it is not also love And is far beyond my religion versus your religion And allows us to be both distinct and yet united And is the very Mystery of Trinity

In the pages that follow I shall give considerable attention to the way in which the dualistic separation of value from the universe has structured the whole question of science and religion.

A Christian theology that continues to operate in dualistic and anthropocentric ways is part of the problem and not part of the solution.

We come at the Romans text very differently than would have Paul's contemporaries, though in our own way we are also dualistic.

The dualistic ideals associated with the Victorian family and the national dream of «a Christian America» gave Americans a way of life based on family loyalty and hard work.

That is a dualistic, gnostic way of thinking which completely misses the point of Scripture and the incarnation.

Good / bad statements are by definition, dualistic, rooted in the notion that people and things are one way or another — black or white with little room for gray.

When you relate to your core this way, you create separation and suffering by shoring up the dualistic idea that you are separate from a part of yourself.

Ways to combat this dualistic and static way of thinking must be encouraged in social studies classrooms (Chapman, 2003).