Sentences with phrase «julian dennison»

According to Julian, then, as beloved human beings created in the image of the Trinity, we already, right now, at this moment, have our resources for the year ahead: the capacities truly to see God who is the truth, to contemplate God who is wisdom, and to delight in God who is love.

From Julian of Norwich we learn we are made for love, to bring joy to God because God loves us, to be loved by the God who delights in us, and to love God and God's world and God's creatures and take a deep delight in them in return.

Having insisted on the unity of our capacities, Julian would, I imagine, go on to talk about how we can exercise them specifically for seeking, finding and loving God: Your first capacity, for seeing the truth, gives you the ability to encounter God directly, to come face to face with God, she might say.

Says Julian: In reality, our ordinary way of talking about this leads to a serious mistake that Robin....

Keynote lectures, which can be found online here, were given by Rémi Brague, Alasdair MacIntyre, Thomas Pink, and Rev. Julian Carrón.

As Julian was told in a final vision more than 15 years after her first revelation:

All of you Downton Abbey - heads who've always wondered how whatever happens on that show came to be are in luck, as Julian Fellowes has announced plans to develop a Downton...

Pray, Julian would add, but also think through what comes to you in your prayer.

As for how we arc to use these resources for seeking and finding God, I imagine Julian saying something like this: Get firmly in your mind that each of these three really does correspond to one of the three persons of the Trinity — truth, to God the Father; wisdom, the ancient Sophia, to the second person, who is God our Mother; and love to the Holy Spirit.

It is precisely because they knew how to silence themselves before God that women like Teresa of Avila, Julian of Norwich, and Catherine of Siena were able to have so much influence over the Church in times when women had little voice.

He cites with approval the couplet coined by Julian Hills: «sayings are repeated, deeds are reported.»

Another was Julian Huxley, who promoted a religion of «evolutionary humanism.»

But it was Julian of Norwich (d. about 1416) who most explicitly analyzed God's care as closely resembling that of a mother: «The mother's service is nearest, readiest, and surest: nearest because it is most natural; readiest because it is most loving; surest because it is truest» (Showings, Long text 59).

* Jaynes, Julian.

In the disturbing investigations and speculations of Julian Jaynes, language preceded self - conscious thought in human evolution.

See the critical reviews by John Cobb in Religion in Life, XXXII, 2 (Spring 1963), 294 - 304; Julian Hartt in The Review of Metaphysics, XVI, 4 (Jane 1963), 747 - 769; John Hick in Theology Today, XX, 2 (July 1963), 295 - 298; and H. W. Johnstone in The Journal of Philosophy, XL, 16 (August 1, 1963), 467 - 472.

Like a worldly Julian of Norwich set loose on Thoreau's pond, she has looked through to nature's bottom and managed, without sentimentality, to find all manner of things to be well.

Cardinal Julian Herranz got a «pontifical mandate» in April to uncover the source of hundreds of personal letters and confidential documents that made their way to Nuzzi.

«25 In addition to Tillich, Robinson appeals to such diverse ideas as Rudolf Bultmann's demythologizing, 26 Julian Huxley's religion without revelation, and Albert Camus's understanding of man without God.

There was no concerted challenge to the ideologically charged concept of «overpopulation,» although the work of Nicholas Eberstadt, Julian Simon, Karl Zinsmeister, and others has made clear that the term itself has no credible scientific meaning.

Each night I meditated on the Psalms and read the writings of Julian of Norwich, Therese of Liseux, Kathleen Norris, and Madeleine L'Engle.

Despite this, Beckett's book remains an important survey and reminder of what in Western thought is of value, and why, and demonstrates the truth articulated by both the Second Vatican Council and Saint Julian: «Whatever has been spoken aright by any man... belongs to us Christians; for we worship and love... the Logos which is from the unbegotten and ineffable God... [and] those writers were able, through the seed of the Logos implanted inthem, to see reality darkly» (p. 51).

Both Mithraism and Christianity celebrated the birth of their god on the winter solstice, the 25th of December according to the Julian calendar.

I personally get more substance out of a good Larry Niven, Arthur C. Clarke or Julian May novel myself when I want fiction.

But unless God's love is backed by His power, what guarantee have we that it will triumph in the end and that Mother Julian's conviction that «all shall be well» will be vindicated?»

More recently, the ecologist, Paul Ehrlich, wagered the economist, Julian Simon, that the prices of natural resources would rise.

I can think of no way more appropriate to close this chapter on the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ than by quoting some words by that remarkable English saint of the fourteenth century, Dame Julian of Norwich.

In her account of her «shewings», by which she meant the disclosures (or series of revelations) which she believed were given her in the cell which as an «anchoress» or hermit she occupied adjoining St. Julian's Church in Norwich (hence the name which has been given her), she sets forth what she has learned to be the proper «ghostly [spiritual] understanding» of the basic Christian message.

The end - result, as Dame Julian also wrote, is an awareness that «God is nearer to us than our own soul; for God is the ground in whom our soul stands.»

This awareness gives the assurance, again in Julian's words, that «all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.»

In the year AD 363, after the death of emperor Julian, the frontier between the Roman empire and the Persian empire came to be clearly marked.

If we were writing in England, it would be suitable to use as representative the writings of Julian Huxley or C. E. M. Joad.

Julian suspects some of the women they work with have been trafficked, whereas others he describes as «professional» who «regard it as a job».

Julian reflects, «If we'd been an established church and tried to do this it could have been complicated.»

Even the Emperor Julian, known by history as «Julian the Apostate» because of his hatred of Christianity, conceded in a letter to his friend that the growth of the «Christian sect» had gotten out of control because the Christians took better care of Rome's afflicted than Rome did.

Julian explains regretfully, «No matter what we've tried to do, we've only had one girl come to church for an event we did.»

There is in Julian a touch of spiritual masochism, in her mystical union with Christ in his sufferings.

For example, Jean Janzen draws upon the teaching of Julian of Norwich in a hymn addressed to «Mothering God / Mothering Christ / Mothering Spirit.»

This fact was not lost on Julian Savulescu, the Oxford ethicist and student of Peter Singer, who asked: If Charlie's life is not worth living, why shouldn't we directly kill him?

As Sir Julian Huxley wrote of The Mass on the World, it is a «truly poetical essay... at one and the same time mystical and realistic, religious and philosophical».

Julian was an English anchoress who, at the age of thirty and before entering a convent, suffered a nearly fatal illness.

But this lack of take - up hasn't discouraged Julian and his team of volunteers: «We are not here to convert them or turn them to Christianity,» he explains.

But Julian had one [119] final surprise in store for her readers.

This project of the vibrant megachurch (over 2,000 people regularly attend) is run by Julian Wolstencroft, a community pastor.

Given that the show's producers seem so keenly aware of the historical context around it (the first storyline is catalysed by the sinking of the Titanic, while women's suffrage and the social issues around the Great War are explored in depth), it seems strange that writer Julian Fellowes should ignore the historical accuracy of the place of faith.

The fourteen - day difference reflects the retention by certain Orthodox congregations of the Julian calendar, which was replaced by Gregorian reckoning in the majority of Orthodox societies early in the twentieth century.

The next time some idiot talks about stuff that happened millions of years ago, I'm going to ask them if they mean millions of years by the Julian or Gregorian calendar.

Millions of year by the Julian, or by the Gregorian?

August 28th 2,000,000 BC (Gregorian)-728763700.5 (Julian day) September 24th -1999960 (Julian Calendar) Nisan 30th — 1996216 (Hebrew) Rabi» al - Awwal 19th -2062022 (Islamic)

The Julian and the Gregorian calendars.