Sentences with phrase «about nature of»

In making the case that the death of God was permanent, the book initiated a wide - ranging and innovative — some would say undisciplined — conversation about the nature of post-Christian existence.

But yeah I'm sure no one wants to know TMI about the nature of my sin..

This paper will examine the arguments on each side, indicate what the societal view implies about the nature of God, and suggest an additional argument for the societal view based on the idea of God's freedom and faithfulness which this view implies.

By speaking of «theory - laden» practices, Browning also calls attention to value orientations and beliefs about the nature of things that already reside in practice.

The direct evidence consists of what Whitehead himself tells us, first, about how his books are meant to be read and understood, about the genesis of his ideas, and about modifications in his views; and second, about the nature of his thinking, about his difficulties in translating his thoughts into words, about the sources of his philosophical terminology, and about the peculiar manner in which he composed his books.

Names did not merely mark off A from B; they really said something about the nature of those who bore them.

[t] hrough the colonially established apparatus of the political, economic and educational institutions of India, contemporary Indian self - awareness remains deeply influenced by Western presuppositions about the nature of Indian culture.

He is a theist who constantly engages atheist in civil discussions about the nature of such matters.

«By removing all religious references from the flyers, parents and students have no way of knowing about the nature of the events and can not make informed decisions about whether to attend.»

Nor is its purpose to imply certainty about the nature of conditions when there is,,,, not a consensus in the profession.,,,,,, What will be the effect of carrying out such a proposal?

In the Fourth Gospel he is explicitly quoted on this matter (John 5:28 - 29) but, even if this saying be read out of the record, evidence remains, especially the narrative of his conversation with the Sadducees about the nature of the resurrected body.

It is now almost twenty years since, among other things, an article by Christopher Duraisingh in Religion and Society, laying emphasis on the hyphenated character of Indian - Christian identity, [3] sparked off a debate about the nature of this identity of Indian - Christians in the contemporary context.

Division also arose about a serious debate that arose about the nature of Jesus.

The previous discussion indicates how Whitehead believes one can, by generalizing from occasions of human experience, talk meaningfully about the nature of nonhuman actual entities in themselves.

Philosophy has aided theology a good deal within this century in helping it to examine its own language critically, and there is still an important place for philosophizing about the nature of religious experience, and the reality of religious truth.

They felt differently about God, about the role of women and, most interestingly, they felt very differently about the nature of planning.

One can justifiably ask about the nature of a «basic commitment» to the authority of the Bible.

But this common conviction about the nature of perception is in the final analysis incoherent.

They teach diverse beliefs about the nature of Jesus, God, the second coming, Heaven, Hell, the rapture, criteria for salvation, speaking in tongues, the atonement, what happens to persons after death, and dozens of other topics.

What can we conclude about the nature of God based on these new sciences?

His pacifist morality was of one piece with what emerged in his initial reflections about the nature of God's power.

The results are clear statements about the nature of belief, the God of Jesus, the Christian God, and the nature of prayer.

Included are questions about the nature of evangelization, the authority of the Bible, church memembership, and the role of Western churches.

By memory we can generalize about the nature of our own experience, and then by analogy form some conception of the nature of ape, canine, or porpoise experience.

We need to reflect on this point and to ask if there was anything about the nature of the American revolution that helps to explain it.

This means that an analysis of the structure and relations of any finite actuality should, at the same time, reveal intimations about the nature of its ground.

Percy conveys the postmodern, post-Christian Tupperware partygoer's disappointment in the randomness of a world «lacking mystery and substance» as he employs a playful literary technique involving human «looniness» to explore the dilemma of man's uncertainty about the nature of existence.

Yet this flies in the face of everything we should sensibly know at the end of our horrifying century about the nature of man - that he is capable of good and evil, that his nature is divided, that he is marked by original sin.

But it tells us almost nothing about the nature of the divine existence in itself.

There is nothing about the nature of «the good» which explains why enjoyment is better than suffering, or why enjoyment plus intelligence is better than simple enjoyment, or why it is better to be aware than not to be aware.

I find the mix of dark and comedic elements in the book of Esther and in the celebration of Purim fascinating, for I think they teach us something important about the nature of power and of evil, something about what it means to relate to forces that seem beyond our control.

But during this development, and later, there is surprisingly little change in what was believed about the nature of God himself.

To reduce the Church to the mere masculine is to lose what is authentically ecclesial about the nature of the Church.

We can say more, on the basis of the Bible, about relationships among people than about the nature of the people who are related.

This conclusion is not only a biological claim; it is also a claim about the nature of reality.

Barth reflected a radical confidence that he could find in the Bible the unvarnished truth about the nature of God and any other truth worth knowing.

What do our results reveal about the nature of voting coalitions?

A new reading of the Bible, the Church Fathers and other theological sources, and perhaps especially the documents of the Second Vatican Council have been moving Catholic theology toward a new consensus about the nature of revelation.

That God's love, manifest in diverse ways throughout the duration of the universe, might come to a full and unsurpassable self - expression in an individual human being who lived and died in the Middle East almost two thousand years ago does not seem incongruous with what we now understand about the nature of an evolving universe, especially if we regard religion as a phenomenon emergent from the universe rather than just something done on the earth by cosmically homeless human subjects.

The debate is an argument about the nature of the spirit realm, specifically, about whether or not beings of the spirit realm took up any «space.»

A significant lack of clarity about the nature of sin and radical evil in the context of a new humanity looms in this project.

Liberals in the saddle can indulge in abstract disputes about the nature of the ideology that legitimizes their rule.

Within the great Christian tradition, revelation does not primarily suggest the disclosure of a set of truths — be they ethical or religious or philosophical — that give information to men about their actual behavior or their ideal behavior, or even about the nature of the universe and the meaning which it may possess.

Even Albert Camus insisted that it would be dishonest of us to deny that a longing for clarity and lucidity about the nature of reality is an essential part of our existence.

We learn something about the nature of God when we take seriously the cultures that take shape in God's name.

Henri Bergson's view of creative change exhibits tensions between conceptual and supra - conceptual assumptions about the nature of cognition and reality.

I don't know, but I remember this story because it says something about the nature of relationships we all experience.

The implications don't just provide for thought - proving questions about modern culture, but also about the nature of truth itself.

It depends on differing theological judgments about the nature of Christianity.

The demands of «the human spirit for the time include authentic understandings, many of them rooted in the Gospels and in the deepest Christian intellectual traditions, about the nature of human existents.