Sentences with phrase «adventure of»

Suppose God is joined with his world in the adventure of a real history where both God and the creatures have freedom to act and to respond, God supremely, and the creatures within the limitations of their creaturely status?

You concluded that... the only pursuit for the individual was the adventure of power and his only morality, the realism of conquests.

Our course plan implied that the heroic adventure of Trinity Church was only beginning, that it did not already exist as a story and a code that generated value and outlook.

It demands that we commit ourselves to the adventure of exploratory hope.

It thereby secures that liberty of thought and action, required for the upward adventure of life on this earth.40

Smith manages to impart how the adventure of art is not dissimilar to a great historical deed, and how Constantine is himself a servant of art, with his face lit by the radiance of the cross.

I guess the only answer I have David is, I hope so... perhaps that's the adventure of living well in the paradox

If there is to be the adventure of moving from one moment, from one layer of strata, to the next, there must be space for the incursion of new possibility, a condition of indeterminateness inviting new determination.

There is, in fact, an embryonic suggestion of Whitehead's concept of peace as it appears in Adventure of Ideas, combined with what could just as well be termed, with Whitehead, «harmony and intensity of feeling.»

12 How could a loving God have permitted the monstrosities of Auschwitz, Bangladesh, or Cambodia, the tortures of innocents throughout the ages, and the incredible loss of intense harmonies in the adventure of cosmic emergence?

Orthodox Catholic belief, as Chesterton and countless others have stressed, is the reverse of boring: it has all the «Splendour of Truth», the excitement and adventure of exploring the countless riches hidden in Christ.

The attraction is designed to be so powerful that it dares both boy and girl to leave their old lives behind and set off on the new adventure of marriage.

If there should come a time when there would be no more «making,» then the adventure of God would be at an end.

When you embark upon this process, you'll notice that once you are able to discard everything you think you know about church, and begin the adventure of reimagining church (step 1), your life begins to spiral upward in some new and interesting ways (step 2), which then causes you to both seek more from Scripture (step 1) but also desire to run from risk and return to what is safe and known (step 3).

Here is a man who is rightly considered the most respected Catholic theologian in America writing a book of utter lucidity and beguiling simplicity that invites the inquiring lay person to the high adventure of Christian faith as that faith is taught and lived in the Catholic Church.

Whitehead described God's consequent nature as the adventure of God in the universe.

But in opening itself to the adventure of appropriating novelty each entity runs the risk of disintegration.

(Alfred North Whitehead: Adventure of Ideas, p. 18.)

It would be too much to expect, however, that so great an adventure of mind and conscience as was involved in such an outlook would be shared by the nation as a whole.

In other words our universe would still have been an adventure of evolution.

The greatest adventure of all is not to go to the moon or to explore the rings of Saturn.

The promise of a new and uncontrollable future opens out into the insecurity, indefiniteness, and adventure of history.

does not preclude truth claims but is an invitation to a lifelong adventure of inquiry, dialogue, and understanding.

In the opening quotation from Adventure of Ideas, Whitehead uses the word «nerves» to describe the role of «importance» in philosophy.

We want to restore the joy of our love and the adventure of our lives.

By the same token, the course of nature can not be» «the history of matter»... the fortunes of matter in the adventure of nature»» (N 157, citing CN 16).3 Third, the passage of nature and our «inherence in the Whole» (N 159) create a unity of the body and nature, and bind observers together by creating a groundwork of intersubjectivity.

... God does know more intimately than any the price his creatures have been paying for his huge adventure of making this universe of accident and freedom and pain as the only environment in which love could one day emerge to receive and delight in and respond to his joyous love.

As an ecologist with a degree in biological research, she is fascinated to watch the adventure of human birth incarnated in her own body.

We can no longer idealize nature as a haven from the adventure of history.

This is not fobbing you off because we have no answers, this is pleading with you not to allow yourself to be robbed of the most incredible adventure of your life.

Innovative life enrichment and marriage renewal programs in our churches, schools, and social agencies can help mid-years persons confront the challenge and the choices, the pain and the possibilities, and from this confrontation begins the adventure of new growth.

(Adventure of Ideas, pp. 170 - 71)

Thus we may no longer investigate religion as though it were not also part of the unfolding adventure of cosmic evolution.

Religious worship is «not a rule of safety — it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.

What he meant by this was as a whole an accomplishment of varied activity that expresses the potentialities of individuals interacting with their actual environments as much as possible, if, as Whitehead thought, each individual is the embodiment of the adventure of life, of existence itself, the art of life is the guiding of this advance.

We can not reduce them to formulas; but the clear conclusion from this way of seeing the pastoral task is the recognition that one of the surest aids to an effective pastoral care is to think of the pastor as involved in the needs, the suffering, the adventure of the spirit to which he brings the insight and concern of his office.

It is the gift of God to those who are open to the full adventure of searching for truth.

The New Marriage offers an ongoing adventure of self - discovery, personal growth, unfoldment, and fulfillment....

One function of growth groups is to help couples cope with marital «future shock» by enabling them to achieve more of the «adventure of self - discovery, personal growth, unfoldment, and fulfillment» in their marriages.

Just as Christian marriage is a lifelong adventure of discovery, just as family life in Christ is a lifelong adventure in relationships, so is the ownership of goods a lifelong adventure in management.

There is no denying the comic verve and unpredictable adventure of these four novels, but we need also to recognize that J. K. Rowling is both a master storyteller and a narrative moralist with something important to say.

The challenge of the unknown has always attracted men to the exciting adventure of investigation.

How can more of our schools make education a continuing adventure of the mind?

The extraordinary adventure of the World will have ended in the bosom of a tranquil ocean, of which, however, each drop will still be conscious of being itself.

What is my place in the adventure of planetary life?

A God not hemmed in by a doctrine of immutability becomes open to the adventure of divine love.

I was 23 years old, ready for the adventure of adulthood and ministry.

Suggested reading Frankfort, H. (editor): The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Times, Chicago, 1946 Olmstead, A. T.: History of Assyria.

Juergen Moltmann, «The Adventure of Theological Ideas,» as cited in M. Douglas Meeks, «Juergen Moltmann's Systematic Contributions to Theology:» Religious Studies Review, Vol.

In the progress of reason, in all cultural expression, and supremely in the growth of moral and religious insight man has had his life opened to the new adventure of partnership with God.