Sentences with phrase «also as a unity»

But Whitehead upholds such perplexities by his conviction that recognition of a thing as a composite and also as a unity are required modes of understanding, that these two modes are reciprocal, that they presuppose each other, and that the perspective emphasizing the composite exhibits an outcome and the perspective emphasizing the unity exhibits a causal factor (MT 63).

Not exact matches

As the party deepens its ability to cultivate «unity of thought» among citizens, «Amazing China» demonstrates the scope of China's propaganda machine, which not only crafted a stirring documentary about China's renaissance under Xi but also helped manufacture an adoring audience for it.

«I would also respect my mandate as the leader of the Progressive Conservative party to carry on, to build a platform for unity in the future.

MacIntyre takes the unity of liberalism, laissez - faire capitalism, Marxism, and utilitarianism not just as proof for his science - fiction metaphor, but also as a pointer to the teleological alternative that is, he believes, the only solution left.

According to the Patriarch, the Council «will address internal issues of the unity and administration of the Church, but also matters such as relations with other churches and faiths, in order to present a unified voice and credible witness for the life of the world.»

As the realization of absolute unity, the bliss of brahman must also transcend all worldly forms of bliss associated with plurality.

But there is also unity as well as variety in the theology of the New Testament.

Underlying this erroneous tendency, as Faith has pointed out many times over the last forty years, is the implicit or explicit denial of the transcendence of God, the Divinity of Christ, the historical objectivity of revelation and the authority of the Church in matters of faith and morals, and also the denial of the spiritual soul as a principle of existence that is distinct from yet integrates the material within the unity of our human nature.

Organisers say: «For over 20 years we've gathered together in a profound expression of unity which has not only shaped the New Wine movement, but also impacted the faith of countless individuals as they have encountered Jesus afresh.

One final point that follows from this line of thought, which is also common to both Holloway and Pope Benedict, is that just as the Incarnation has already unified the family of man in a new way, society needs structures of government that reflect its increasingly globalised unity.

They should also lay great emphasis on the living unity of priestly existence and spiritual life so as to overcome the doubts and difficulties of our theological students as well as of the science of theology itself.

Just as the Reformers sought to reform the church of their day, so also, they would want those who came after them to continue the reforms «till we all come to the unity of the faith» (Ephesians 4:13).

We also may be said to live after death as church members related to the person of Jesus and dependent upon the church's unity and prayers for our continued existence.

Paul also experienced an internal unity in Christ; he was more than a Pharisaic Jew, more than a Hellenistic Jew; from his conception he had been «in Christ» and as an adult he realized that being «in Christ» meant having the power of God, the power of Being itself.

He who thinks that the world, without any such unity of significance as constitutes an experience, would still have been or might be a real world, and who deduces this from the fact — which spiritualism accepts — that the world without a particular human personality, Mr. X is perfectly possible, must also be one who thinks that if from «himself» those qualities which make him Mr. X were to be subtracted, nothing of the nature of mind would remain — in short, he is one who does not believe that other minds are members of himself.

They are of course also regions, having all the properties of regions as well as the distinctive property of atomic unification by the subjective unity of the occasion whose standpoints they are.

The British who colonized India had accepted the European concept of nationhood as constituted by unity in blood and language, «ethnic purity and a single language»; therefore, they said, that «India is not and can never be a nation... India is a collection of religious communities... But the unfortunate tragic element was that this British interpretation of Indian history was also accepted by many of our national leaders... So British interpretation plus the shortsightedness of our own leaders, not excluding the Mahatma, together resulted in this dreadful phenomenon of communalism».

This book not only deals with preliminary issues surrounding Luke and Acts such as the context of Luke and Acts in the canon of Scripture, and the unity of authorship for Luke and Acts, but also deals with numerous theological themes and issues in Luke and Acts such as salvation, the person and work of Jesus Christ, the coming of the Holy Spirit, the ongoing role of Israel and the Law, and the beginnings of the church.

The entry point into the debate has varied, but there has always been an awareness in the Church that the search for visible unity and the communion the churches seek, is connected inextricably with the authority with which the Church interprets and lives up to its traditions, but also the way in which we act as Christians in the world.

It is also necessary to insist that any pattern of development for the tribals and others who still have cultures and communities predominantly based on the primal vision of undifferentiated unity, world - as - nature and cosmic spirituality, should introduce differentiation and individuality, historical dynamism and secularism gradually and without violently tearing down but grafting on to the stabilities of traditional spirit and patterns of life and living followed by them In fact from my experience, I have found that modernized educated tribal leaders are the worst offenders in this respect.

Just as we all know Whitehead's emphasis on atomic units, so we should also recognize Russell's presentation of organic unities, and not to take simple metaphors in an exclusive and dogmatic way.

He stresses the unity of the change also in such a way as to conceal the successive stages within some of the axial revolutions.

Struggling to give revelation its proper place, they also lost (not at first, and never altogether, but at length) fifteen hundred years of Catholic intellectual tradition, a tradition that bothered itself with the iotas, and whether or not Mary should be referred to as the God - bearer (the Theotokos), and what precisely is the Pelagian error and what is not, and whether the two natures of Christ conflict with the unity of his person, and so on.

Any set of occasions, conceived as thus combined into a unity, will be termed a nexus» (AI 197); and also,» [the] sole principle of unity [of a nexus) is derived from the bare fact of mutual immanence» (AI 203, brackets added).

Consequently as regards the fundamental contention we are examining, it is not appropriate, in view of the historical associations that burden the word «material» to subsume under the term «matter» the subjectivity which is also met with within the primordial unity we have described, because to do so would at least obscure the equally fundamental difference encountered in that unity between the knowing subject and the object which is merely met with.

The liberal arts, he recognized, made pathways by which the mind journeys to God — who, as the ultimate source of unity, cohesion, and interconnection in everything that exists, is also the ultimate subject of inquiry.

As Holloway puts it, «It involves also «I», «myself and again «myself in a threefold and different relativity, and in doing this it realises «me» as me, itdoes not disintegrate but manifests the unity of my person.&raquAs Holloway puts it, «It involves also «I», «myself and again «myself in a threefold and different relativity, and in doing this it realises «me» as me, itdoes not disintegrate but manifests the unity of my person.&raquas me, itdoes not disintegrate but manifests the unity of my person.»

In his address to the conference, Henry Smith Leiper said, «And because of what we have seen of the dependence of the world mission on the Church, we who have had active service in the mission field know that as truly as a world mission without an urge to unity is unthinkable, a Christian Church without a consciousness of world mission ought to be also unthinkable».30 He then added, «am ecumenical movement without a sense of world mission to spread that community is a complete anomaly.

[22] For Ignatius, who harboured no illusions about the fact that at the end of his journey his end would come at the teeth of beasts in the amphitheatre of Rome, [23] the letters, with their plea to the recipients that their hope to retain their unity lay in their regarding «a bishop as the Lord himself,» [24] the letters also offer a vehicle to counter the Gnostic / Docetic heresy.

Insofar as the several occasions are mutually supportive of one another, they also contribute, but should they clash, or be individually trivial, they detract from this final unity of all actuality within God.

It denotes a tendency that can also be perceived in Boff s recent writings, understanding the «trinity» as a model for unity - in - diversity or unity - in - relationship, largely detached from God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as witnessed in the Scriptures and subsequently worked out in worship and doctrine.

It appears to us, as it does to many other critics, (see WM; see also PS 2: 216 - 21; PS 3: 15 - 25; PS 5: 195 - 203) that Whitehead himself here commits the «fallacy of misplaced concreteness» inasmuch as he puts a dubious multiplicity in the place of clear - cut unities.

The rigid adherence to microcosmic ultimate event - units as the sole actual entities seems to us to be not only inadequate with respect to the [254] higher forms of unity, but also to introduce an inconsistency in Whitehead's thinking.

He also commendably puts forward a vision of the unity of all God's actions as fundamentally one work, but differentiated in its many aspects of creation, evolution, personal providence, salvation and redemption in Christ and eschatological fulfilment.

The churches of the WCC are on a pilgrimage towards unity under the missionary vision of John 17:21, «that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me».

Ironically, while these Creeds were intended to promote unity, they really just caused the church to become ever - more fractured and disunified, for as the complexity of doctrinal statements increased, so also did the charge of «heretic.»

See also Process 40, where God is presented as the «ideal realization of potentialities,» and Process 32, where Whitehead writes that «such a primordial superject of creativity (God, that is) achieves, m its unity of satisfaction, the complete conceptual valuation of all eternal objects.»

It is true, as Hall points out, that for Whitehead ordering principles are «immanent» within particular occasions (see UP 261 - 70), but in most cases those ordering principles also reflect the «mutual relations» of individuals, as well as the «community in character» pervading groups or societies of individuals (AI 142).13 This is particularly true of persons: the relations between occasions which constitute the human body and brain, and the «community of character» of the succession of personal experiences, give an essential element of unity to human experience.

Just as faith in God is an end in itself, so also church unity is an end in itself, and just as good works are the indispensable fruit and sign of true faith but not its end or its cause, so also cooperation «in witness and service to all,» as New Delhi put it, is a necessary fruit and sign of church unity but not its end or cause.

It could be experienced as the inherent dynamism, the «energy» or «motion» of the universe, and yet it is also unified, for it is the process of this diversity in unity.

«In general terms: wherever a psycho - physical total wave is continuous with itself above the threshold, there we find the unity or identity of a consciousness, inasmuch as the connection of the psychical phenomena which correspond to the parts of the wave also appears in consciousness.

But also as with the Bible there is a unity of purpose and of faith.

«We also talked about racial unity as it pertains to bringing the country together,» Rodriguez, who also serves on CT's board, said in a statement.

And so, just as the Catholic Church rightly takes the initiative in promoting human unity in social and political trends already at work in the modern world, so she can also take leadership in the ecumenical movement, and interreligious dialogue.

Hartshorne also uses them to evaluate sets of experiences, however: «the very contrasts between cases of ideal beauty and distortions toward either extreme of un-unified diversity and undiversified unity can themselves, taking life as a whole and memory of other cases into account, enrich the total beauty of experience» (AMV 304 - 05).

Since Hinduism as a mystic religion can not comprehend this historical nature of prophetic missionary religions, it gives them also a mystic interpretation; so much so, Hinduism can not tolerate them until these religions themselves accept the mystic interpretation of the unity and equality of all religions.

And it will also be crucial to emphasise the fundamental unity that should exist between man and woman, male and female, the centrality of marriage not as a mere socially useful arrangement that might finally one day come into its own again, but as part of God's original plan «from the beginning», the great fact that the whole story of our redemption is a marriage story centred on Christ the Bridegroom and his Church, the Bride.

It is certainly true that Vatican II's teaching on the «collegial union» of the bishops balances the earlier assertions of Vatican I. Moreover Lumen Gentium also teaches that «the individual bishops... are the visible principle and foundation of unity in their particular churches» and as such individual bishops enjoy their own proper authority in their diocese.

It is significant that Vatican II (and also the Uppsala Assembly of the World Council of Churches) defines the church as the sacramental sign of the unity of all humanity, and also speaks of the presence of the Paschal Mystery among all peoples (see Decree on the Church, and the document on the Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World) This approach assumes that in Christianity, acknowledgment of Salvation (understood as the transcendent ultimate destiny of human beings) finds expression and witness in the universal struggle for Humanization (understood as the penultimate human destiny) in world history which is shaped not only by the forces of goodness and life, but also by the forces of evil and death.

This idea of unity is connected not only with the particular method of direct religious experience, meditation and vision but also has a bearing on logic and conceptualization even where they are wholly unrelated to religious experiences as such.