Sentences with phrase «greeks thought it a form»

The ancient Greeks thought it a form of cowardice.

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The series of attributes is clearly an artificial reflection of a reaction to Greek philosophy; it is not found in this form in the Qur» an or the Hadith, and has made people think in an unhealthy way.

It is the theme of some of the best Hebrew poetry in the Psalms; it appears as one of the first generalizations of Greek philosophy in the form of the saying of Heraclitus; amid the later barbarism of Anglo - Saxon thought it reappears in the story of the sparrow flitting through the banqueting hall of the Northumbrian king; and in all stages of civilization its recollection lends its pathos to poetry.

The general position of these writers, whose contributions vary considerably in approach and quality, is that Jesus made no claim of divinity for himself and that the doctrine of the incarnation was developed during the early centuries of the Christian era as an attempt to express the uniqueness of Jesus in the mythological language and thought forms of the Greek culture of the time.While recognizing the validity of the patristic theologians» work, which culminated in the classical christological definitions of Nicea and Chalcedon, the British theologians question whether these definitions are intelligible in the 20th century, and go on to suggest that some concept other than incarnation might better express the divine significance of Jesus today.

We Christians are repenting of having succumbed to dualistic thinking through the influence of Greek thought and, especially, in extreme form, the effects of Enlightenment thought on Protestantism.

The Latin word resurrectio appears to have been created for Christian use, and while the Greek equivalent anastasis is certainly pre-Christian, it does not seem to have been widely used until Christian times, some scholars thinking that, when Paul referred to it at Athens, his hearers mistook it for the name of a goddess.26 The idea of resurrection first came to expression in the form of a narrative, and until the advent of the above technical terms, words of very general usage, such as «raise», «wake up», «stand up», etc., served the purpose of relating it.

In reality, Greek thought always regards God in the last analysis as a part of the world or as identical with the world, even when, or rather especially when, He is held to be the origin and formative cosmic principle which lies beyond the world of phenomena For here, too, God and the world form a unity within the grasp of thought; the meaning of the world becomes clear in the idea of God.

In contrast Greek thought puts the really real in a set of static forms, and processive physical events are less than real.

A «Lord» had a supernatural nature, which may or may not be described as divinity in proportion as Greek or Jewish forms of thought are being observed.

Inevitably, heirs as they were of the Greco - Roman world in both its pre-Christian and its Christian stages, the schoolmen utilized the forms of thought developed by the Greeks, the creeds shaped in the early centuries, of the faith, the writings of the Church Fathers of those years, and always with reference to the Bible.

I believe Paul is saying that although Greek philosophy uses the concept of «form» to think of god as this perfect, unchanging, unfeeling deity, this is not what we see in Jesus Christ.

Making this Greek spinach pastry in pie - form is easier than you think.

Believing that the purest and most aesthetically pleasing form of thought was mathematics, they used math to come up with an answer (see «How the Greeks Found φ,» page 69).

I've never been a big pasta salad fan, so each time I used to think of Greek salad it was in the pasta salad form.

But there are reasons why the Greeks and many other cultures have thought of young love as a form of madness or illness.

There are actually two; 1) the Greek situation will probably stumble along in its current form for a while, creating substantial volatility in world stock markets, and 2) given all this negative news there may be some nuggets of gold in the Greek stock market that are worth a look for adventurous value investors (the WSJ had a piece on Greek shipping companies today, so I'm not alone with this line of thinking... beware!).

His current thought process has led to an investigation of classical Greek vessels whose forms he considers sublime.

With reference points ranging from Sudanese cliff dwellings and Native American amphitheaters to classical Greek forms to the mobile structures of nomadic and seafaring groups, Rudofsky's stated goal was to «break down our narrow concepts of the art of building by introducing the unfamiliar world of nonpedigreed architecture» — a notable early instance of non-Eurocentric thinking in the American art establishment.

To borrow a line from the ancient greeks, one needs to be able to think about both form and substance -LRB-; — RRB --RRB-