Sentences with phrase «neo-confucian philosophical understanding»

That is the philosophical understanding behind African myths, customs, traditions, beliefs, morals, actions, and social relationships.

• There is much misinformation on this thread: o The emergent movement is not a cult o emergent started as a conversation among people of various theological / philosophical understandings and remains that way o The emergent conversation hasn't faded away at all — in fact — it's now integrated in practically every Christian expression o Mars Hill and emergent have very little in common o Mark Driscoll and Tony Jones have very little in common o I don't know of the personal behavior of everyone involved in the conversation, but because people have been involved — I'm sure there has to be bad behavior from some.

They sought a new philosophical understanding of the Christian faith, and in doing so they seemed to be moving even farther left than the liberals

The study concludes with an analysis of the insights Newman brings to bear upon contemporary philosophical understandings and his status as a latent forerunner of the phenomenological movement.

It just so happens that you need good reading comprehension and philosophical understanding to see it.

It should be clear by now that Teilhard's vision can offer an authentic way to a Christian future only if it is buttressed by a philosophical understanding, which Teilhard himself only partially and precariously achieved.

For Teilhard the problem was not simply that technological development outstrips our philosophical understanding and moral codes.

Feminists began their critical work in response to insults and injustices generated — to paraphrase Sobrino — by scientific and philosophical understandings that «explained» and «gave meaning to existing realities» of exclusion, especially of women.

Third, in both classical schooling and higher education, a self - conscious recovery of a biblical and philosophical understanding of created nature and the practical and spiritual relationship to it that fosters the human good must have a place in the curriculum.

It is also important to add that philosophy is less than the totality of Christianity, so that any philosophical understanding of evil can not possibly be sufficient for anyone who suffers.

This basic philosophical understanding is consistently expressed in Metz's later work.

The Laurels School in Clapham, for instance, gives greater prominence to the development of sound philosophical understanding.

That theism has existed in some form since the earliest human civilizations, it appears evident that a concept of God has been a necessary part our philosophical understanding of the world and our relationships to it.

The reason you're still sticking to it is simple — either you busied yourself too much away from a true philosophical understanding of your own beliefs or you lack the mental or empathetical faculties necessary.

4) Erich Frank, Philosophical Understanding and Religious Truth (New York: Oxford University Press, 1945), p. 128.

It is only slight exaggeration to state that he feels the traditional Western religious and philosophical understanding of God to be such a mass of errors and inconsistencies as to require removal in toto from the body of metaphysical thought.

But he thinks that the Christian and the philosophical understanding of human life are so close to one another in their conception of sin that he refuses to distinguish between them at this point.

Sin is thus a phenomenon of the ego on the same level of immanence as the philosophical understanding of human life.

Her images of the world as God's body and her models of God as mother, lover, and friend of the world illuminate the more philosophical understanding I derive from process theology.

This choice bears witness to his conviction that «metaphoring,» and hence imagination, are indispensable to philosophical understanding.

Quoted by Wilhelm Halbfass, India and Europe: An Essay in Philosophical Understanding, Motilal Banarsidas, Delhi, first Indian edition 1990, p. 167.

Our postmodern age needs both the radiant light of Christ's theological wisdom and encouragement to venture out in search of decisive philosophical understanding.

Whitehead explains the need for religion to be grounded in a philosophical understanding: «Religion requires a metaphysical backing; for its authority is endangered by the intensity of the emotions which it generates.

Without some philosophical understanding of what is meant by the word «Creator» this whole sentence is basically meaningless.

Yet, despite this fundamentally theological mode of approach, there is much in the Summa that is likewise applicable to the person in its use regarding the human individual, and also according to a purely philosophical understanding.

This is not to say, however, that we can not recast our philosophical understanding and the conceptual framework surrounding such dogmas.

The old paradigm refers to a philosophical understanding of children, discipline and parenting that is based on a distinct hierarchy and may include many different parenting techniques and attitudes.

This neuro - philosophical understanding of human nature presents a number of challenges that can only be addressed through appropriate forms of governance.

Show your philosophical understanding of your own dream.

The Neo-Confucian philosophical understanding of the orderly world is featured in scenes such as gardens, landscapes, scholars, birds and plants.

It seems to me that Bishop connects this visual experience to his philosophical understanding of reality and change.

Retrospectively, this series of experimental work anticipates his philosophical understanding of the photographic medium, that is, «photography is just a glimpse, a detail or fragment of the whole», as if camera obscura is «a window» through which one looks at the world.

Beyond the material and visual references, nature is also reflected in Drew's philosophical understanding of his work, which he views to be a reflection of the cyclical nature of time, the continual processes of transformation, and the connectivity of all things, or as the artist has succinctly put it, «the nature of nature.»

Not exact matches

Philosophical and political arguments, by which we might understand the meaning of the term as it is used most commonly today, begin with Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France.

I reassured myself that this was the true philosophical position — an attempt to understand my two friends as they understood themselves.

I fully understand the philosophical implications (does this not negate human responsibility etc,,, etc..

@chad, looks like it either lacks the understanding of these philosophical terms or it conveniently hides behind its ignorance to suit its worldview.either ways its verbal diarrhea is proof of its perpetual incontinence.

I understand «Pascal's Wager» very well, but it is taken from a philosophical (man's earthly) point of view, mine is not... mine is taken from a point of faith.

I asked the question to understand how (and if) it is possible to separate science from atheism in the minds of believers so we can truly discuss the concepts based on their evidentiary merits, not necessarily their philosophical implications if indeed there are any to be had.

From the moment I could understand what murder meant, I was taught that it was «wrong» — a relative consensus that seemed to be universal; that came from people of different philosophical backgrounds.

«The Autonomy of Historical Understanding,» in Philosophical Analysis and History, ed.

History is full of communities that were wracked with bitter philosophical divisions as to what the good life meant, and everybody but Aristotle seems to have understood that even when we agree on what goods exist, we may not agree on which ones take precedence when they conflict.

3 The concept of synoptic judgment was developed by Louis O. Mink, «The Autonomy of Historical Understanding,» in Philosophical Analysis and History, ed.

But instead of a religion revealed through philosophical constructs — easily reasoned out and understood, instead we get a God inconveniently revealed in people, and food and wine and water and bodies and pies and oil and beer.

But we don't need to understand philosophical similarities between Christianity, Judaism and communism to understand that what is now evaporating from the European landscape is a kind of faith — a faith in something larger than the individual, something one might give oneself to in devotion and sacrifice.

In itself this would have had minor philosophical consequences if the subatomic entities could be understood as smaller exemplars of the sorts of entities that physicists had been studying.

I fully understand your vehemence to my position but my only real philosophical goal in this life is to believe what is true.

But we may, I think, conclude with Errol Harris (AT 74) that from the Hegelian perspective, the philosophical shortcomings of classical logic extend to mathematical logic as well, and that as logic of the understanding, both deal with the «abstract concept of class or aggregate,» and are both inextricably connected with a metaphysics of externally related particulars that lose themselves in a «spurious infinite,» and with a concomitant mechanical cosmology.

Where an understanding of the Resurrection of Christ is concerned, historical, philosophical and theological problems are inextricably intertwined.

I am using «natural theology» to refer to conclusions of philosophical inquiry supportive of some Christian teaching from data that are understood to be factually and logically independent of Christian revelation.