Sentences with phrase «alien form of»

At the very moment when Christian mysticism is either collapsing or receding behind the walls of the monastic cloister, an originally alien form of mysticism is increasingly becoming real to the Western mind, and is casting its spell upon a contemporary and seemingly post-Christian sensibility.

While the religious or the ecclesiastical Christian has increasingly become incapable of speaking about damnation, the radical Christian, who has been willing to confront the totally alien form of God which has been manifest in our time, has known the horror of Satan and Hell, and can all too readily speak the language of guilt and damnation.

Explaining this and purifying the traditions from elements introduced by earlier and more alien forms of metaphysics is the task of process theology.

Not exact matches

The enemy aliens can take the form of everyday objects, thus making your task all the more suspense - filled.

In the 4.4 billion years it took a species capable of space travel to form on Earth, Fermi proposed that the galaxy should have been overrun with intelligent, technologically - advanced aliens.

As for the first pagans (sumerians), they worshiped the fallen angels that come in form of aliens, gods and goddesses, enchanted beasts, and serpent weilders, and shouldn't be taken lightly, these witches, wizards.

Well, if we take your statment, «All we know so far about life in the universe is here on Earth so it's safe to at least theorize that alien life forms have a very good chance of being bipedal and humanoid.»

If these aliens came form a planet of similar size, chemical composition, and distance from its star it stands to reason that they could be very similar to us in many ways up to and including our penchant for religions.

Some people believe that the President of the United States is actually an alien that has taken human form and that the flu shots are mind control serum.

Unless these aliens brought some kind of evidence for their religion and the existence of their deity, such as a demonstration of the power of their form prayer, I really have to much to rethink.

It was formed at a time of stress (great wars of religious & political nature) in which the promise of everlasting life given to the humans from an alien (he is an off this world god).

When I recall the rubber suited and farting Slitheen of the Aliens of London compared to the terrifying zombie march of the two - dimensional monsters taking form at last in the dark tunnels?

If we conceive of the Word or Spirit as moving more and more fully into the body of the profane in response to the self - negation of God in Christ, then we can understand how the Christian God gradually becomes more alien and beyond, receding into a lifeless and oppressive form, until it finally appears as an empty and vacuous nothingness.

While it is true that the event of the Crucifixion, or the movement of the universal process of atonement, reveals the self - estrangement of God, a polarity manifesting itself in the yawning chasm between the Father and the Son, a consistent and radical form of faith must never fall into a nondialectical dualism by wholly isolating the alien God and the incarnate Word.

This transition is effected by the death of the abstract and alien God in the kenotic process of Incarnation and Crucifixion; but a religious form of faith can only grasp this process as a series of events that are autonomous and external to human consciousness.

When all evil and nothingness pass into the faceless epiphany of a total Antichrist, then the ultimate ground of chaos will be dissolved, every inherent sanction for all alien and compelling demands will be removed, and every opposing other will stand revealed in a lifeless and vacuous form.

Let the contemporary Christian rejoice that Christianity has evolved the most alien, the most distant, and the most oppressive deity in history: it is precisely the self - alienation of God from his original redemptive form that has liberated humanity from the transcendent realm, and made possible the total descent of the Word into the fullness of human experience.

For so long as consciousness remains bound to religion, it must exist in an alienated form, closed to the inner reality of Spirit by its very belief in an alien Other.

Moreover, I regard the Incarnation as a historical movement and process; it does not reveal the illusory opposition between God and the world, but rather effects an actual reconciliation between estranged and alienated opposites, between an alien and transcendent form of God that is estranged from the world and a fallen and broken form of the world that is estranged from God.

Once God has died in Christ to his transcendent epiphany, that epiphany must inevitably recede into an abstract and alien form, eventually becoming the full embodiment of every alien other, and thence appearing to consciousness as the ultimate source of all repression.

Islamic culture has been affected by the cultural, social, and political conditions in which it existed and by the challenge which the Muslims faced, a challenge which stimulated them to meditate on their Faith and to present it in its genuine form, free of alien interpolations.

Barkun devotes several chapters to the recent evolution of this hybrid superconspiracy theory, which includes a variant — derived from 1920s pulp fiction with an assist from Tolkien — in which the conspirators are not space aliens but reptilian creatures from Inner Earth who take on human form.

To an alien life form living on another planet billions of light years from us the death of an 8 year old human, while tragic to us, might be linked by what Einstein called «s p o o k y action at a distance» to an alien birth making it one of their most joyous occasions.

Topher, I think Joey is talking about the relative probability of life also forming elsewhere in this vast universe, not necessarily saying that aliens seeded the earth — although it is possible that life formed elsewhere in the solar system and came to earth via meteors etc..

But now Nestorians had been condemned in the Roman empire and they were seeking refuge in Persia, there was no longer any danger that such a form of Christianity would be a link with an alien power.

It would be a mistake to see this as entirely inflicted on the immigrant groups by an alien American culture.17 Some form of it is what lured many to these shores in the first place.

And the further interesting thing is that the forms of religion that are more bizarre or alien to modern Western «scientific» culture — astrology, occultism, Zen, yoga, Sufism — appeal to the «intelligentsia» and so ironically tend to cluster about our contemporary university centers (the remaining seats of that culture).

Meanwhile the less alien varieties — that is, fundamentalist or ecstatic forms of our own traditional faiths — abound amid the non-intellectual portions of our cultural life, in «Middle America.»

Thus Hegel, even as Blake, correlates and integrates the death of God and apocalypse, for the French Revolution is the historical advent and embodiment of the death of God, yet this is the death of a wholly abstract and alien form or manifestation of God, an epiphany or realization of God which does not occur or become real until and the full and final birth of the modern world.

But two - thirds of the way through the season, Peter Parker encounters a much more subtle threat, an alien parasite that attaches itself to him in the form of a sleek new black spider - suit.

May it not be that the particular form of the Christian message, based as it is upon a record of events long ago, recorded in terms largely alien to modern thinking, partly explains the comparative ineffectiveness of the Gospel?

Easy for me to dismiss Ivy's correlations of scripture, speculation, and alien life forms.

Here's the majors, so plan accordingly for your place in this life or the next: 1) there is not a single fossil to evidence mankind's evolution from some so - called earlier form (see missing link) however we do however have mountains of DNA evidence showing we have common ancestors with primates — so you either believe in a Creator, or Aliens, or actual evolution or a mix of any of the three.

It is a form of transcendence that can not possibly be viewed as a physical separateness or alien otherness.

In The Descent Into Hell, Altizer claims that the more divided and fallen is consciousness, the more divided and alien to each other are the centers of consciousness, and the more God will appear in a purely transcendent form.

And since Islam also presents no counterpart to the Christian doctrine of original sin, it can only find all the more alien the orthodox Christian kerygma that God assumed human form to die willingly an excruciating death in atonement for the sin that has affected all humanity since the fall in the Garden of Eden.

Above all, a Christ who even now is manifest in the preincarnate form and epiphany of God, and who can be reached only by a total reversal of our history and experience, must be named as the Antichrist, as the dead and alien body of the God who originally died in Christ.

A faith that names Jesus either as the Son of God or as the prophet of God must be a backward movement to a disincarnate and primordial form of Spirit, a movement annulling the events of the Incarnation and the Crucifixion by resurrecting Jesus either in the form of the exalted Lord or as the proclaimer of an already distant and alien majesty of God: hence an orthodox and priestly Christianity is inevitably grounded in the sacred authority and power of the past.

What once would have seemed like an alien Eastern invasion of Christian musical space — a mystical form of biblical literalism transposed into mesmerizing vibrations — has become an acceptable form of meditation in the Evangelical community.

Thus, too, Christendom has known the most terrible guilt in history, and as a religious Christianity has progressively and ever more fully reversed the movement of the Incarnation, the Christian God has increasingly become alien and abstract, until in our own time he has only been present and real in actual experience in a totally alien form, and the whole body of Western humanity has been initiated into a radical and total state of guilt.

you can find examples of this pathetic god and its very human traits... its all thru out the bible, and it even makes excuses for why god seems so human — two possible reasons for this — either those who wrote the bible screwed up and forgot to make god seem godlike because its all a lie... a fabrication of man... or god isn't a god but rather a petty, hateful alien with a napoleon complex (not sure they have a napoleon in the alien form... godzilla — lol, but godzilla at least is a true possibility... god and those who believe are living in a fantasy world!!

That it loomed so large and continued to be characteristic of Orthodox monasticism was evidence of a retreat from the world and emphasis upon a special form of mysticism which was alien to the West and which widened the gulf between the Orthodox and the Roman Catholics.

As a figure of a much more general phenomenon and as an example of its most extreme form let us consider Carlo Levi's description of the religious life of a village in southern Italy in which he lived for a year, a life so alien that he considers it not only pre-Christian but in a sense pre-religious.

And when we see what God is doing, we can join with culture in standing against war, hunger, and other forms of inhumanity, but infusing such stands with the principles of the Gospel and the example of Jesus Christ (Resident Aliens, 46 - 47).

The man lost radio contact with planet earth about a decade ago and has been drifting aimlessly through an 8 million quid hazy cosmic jive of his glory years with a rag tag collection of space junkies in tow believing that his fossilized form is some kind of relic from an alien master footballing race which he will eventually call back to north london in a kind of soccer inspired rapture in which Sam and Johnny and Krish and Pat and Mr Admin will finally see all their bizarro football predictions come to fruition..

Progressive thinktank the Fabian Society argues that tenants in born in the 1970s are suffering under a form of social apartheid completely alien to their post-war predecessors.

I believe this is known as liberal democracy, and is of a form alien to, and actively suppressed in, the continental EU.

This suggests that while people feel good about discoveries of any previously unknown life - forms, they are particularly keen on finding aliens, Varnum says.

The group, led by Benoit Beauchamp, director of the University of Calgary's Arctic Institute of North America, are examining strange, alien - like life forms living in the discolored snow and investigating the unique environment that sustains them.

He doesn't want to be dogmatic, because the Bible doesn't explicitly say there aren't extraterrestrials... but it does say we supposedly have dominion over all the plants and animals... Genesis 1:26 would have to be dealt with, of course, if there were aliens... though perhaps not if the life - form were merely a form of moss or lichen... and there's no scriptural barrier to God's having designed a planet populated entirely by spatulas...