Sentences with phrase «apprehension many»

If the past became necessary through being apprehended, the past would be the gainer by as much as the apprehension lost, since the latter would come to apprehend something else, which is a poof sort of apprehension.

But the fact that it has happened is on the other hand the ground of an uncertainty, by which the apprehension will always be prevented from assimilating the past as if it had been thus from all eternity.

Knowledge of the present does not confer necessity upon it; foreknowledge of the future gives it no necessity (Boethius); knowledge of the past confers no necessity upon the past; for no knowledge and no apprehension has anything of its own to give.

This «axiom» is consonant with Berkeley's emphasis on the direct apprehension of ideas as the principal basis of our knowledge of reality.

«Why should a man have, any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements?

In subsequent phases of concrescence, ideas are objects of more complex comparative feelings which may or may not reach conscious apprehension.

I also think that the apprehension that it turns following Jesus into Works or Ethics neglects the fact that taking Jesus seriously means that we would take the Spirit with utter seriousness as being at the center of Jesus» life.

Yet his dismissal of the «common apprehension» that active powers play a role «in our complex ideas of natural substance» as they do in voluntary action «they being not, perhaps, so truly active powers as our hasty thoughts are apt to represent them,» is conspicuously hesitant, For what is the force (that is to say, the weakness) of «perhaps»?

It is not hard to believe that Coleridge would have been highly sympathetic to, for instance, Whitehead's remark that «In our direct apprehension of the world around us we find that curious habit of claiming a twofold unity with the observed data....

I use the word contemplative with considerable apprehension, fearing that you will associate it with the kind of living that's done best in monasteries or in mountain retreats or in desert caves.

Curiously, this visible absence creates the apprehension that there are even more policemen, in mufti, than the government could possibly muster.

For the artist, the problem with all of these positions is their apprehension about the created world here and now.

One reason, therefore, for the «absolutely new atmosphere» in the New Testament is to be found in this vivid apprehension of eternal life as a present possession, so real that he who has it has already received Christ's second coming, passed through the judgment, and been raised from the dead.

Then I thought of getting a hat the natural color of the fur, but the apprehension of being looked upon as one affecting singularity felt uneasy to me.

Here Gunkel demonstrated the collective apprehension characteristic of the third type and concluded that it originated in the cultus.

Indeed, if there is to be a full apprehension of the mutual embodiment of the world and God, then neither the world nor God can be felt or sensed as wholly distinct and individual.

I do not mean any external brightness, for I saw no such thing, nor any imagination of a body of light in the third heavens, or anything of that nature, but it was a new inward apprehension or view that I had of God.»

I hope he will be good - humored enough to realize that such a chapter as I have just written is not meant to be an attack upon science but an attack upon that one - sided obsession with the material and the tangible which leads to the loss of spiritual apprehension.

For anthropocentrism is a secondary reaction to the fear engendered by our species» apprehension of its sense of being «lost in the cosmos.»

Do we not find lying at the center of Whitehead's vision a nondualistic apprehension of the union or coinherence of the macrocosmic and the microcosmic, of the outer and the inner, of the beyond and the near at hand which has no genuine precedent in the Western historical tradition?

Is this doctrine grounded in a religious apprehension of the togetherness of the universe, leading to an understanding of actuality as complete togetherness — «togetherness of otherwise isolated eternal objects, and togetherness of all actual occasions» (SMW 251)?

If you get a general notion of what is meant by perishing, you will have accomplished an apprehension of what you mean by memory and causality, what you mean when you feel that what we are is of infinite importance, because as we perish we are immortal.

The apprehension of being singular from my beloved friends was a strait upon me; and thus I continued in the use of some things, contrary to my judgment, about nine months.

And so we force each person and each generation to confront, as if for the first recorded instance, and with fresh amazement and apprehension each time, the same perplexity: «Is this strange, creative, aggressive creature truly a woman?»

for your own information — definitons faith — strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.

Surely something like a nondualistic sensibility is a necessary prerequisite for an actual apprehension of the mutual embodiment of God and the world.

(These reports of sensorial photism shade off into what are evidently only metaphorical accounts of the sense of new spiritual illumination, as, for instance, in Brainerd's statement: «As I was walking in a thick grove, unspeakable glory seemed to open to the apprehension of my soul.

I mean, communicated from a divine source by Jesus Christ as God, through inspired prophets and wise men, apostles, teachers, the writers of the books of the Bible, councils of church leaders, popes, and so on, in such a way that the message has been transmitted in human language, clothed in the external forms of human thought, given, indeed, in the characteristic language and thought - forms of particular nations and cultures, but at the same time in such a way that its essential content has been unaffected by the human mind's fallibility, ignorance and feebleness of apprehension.

«For the apprehension of the divine,» he says, «the letting go essential to mystical experience and the liaison of the divine to a historical manifestation are complementary to each other.

The «heart» stands for the apprehension of that which is instinctively and powerfully perceived as desirable.

If there is one silver lining to President Obama's re-election» an event that fills many with apprehension» it is that it's provided a clarifying moment for American conservatism.

First, the simple fact that this structure of divine - human unity emerged at a time and place in history where the cultural, linguistic, political, and religious maturity and unity of a significant portion of humankind bode well for its apprehension is a major factor in its importance.

A sense of apprehension about a rapidly changing society with little knowledge and understanding of the dynamics, structures, and uses of power in that society produce in clergy a crippling anxiety.

This «categorical» revelation of God in the joyful apprehension of Himself is what Viladesau seeks to establish as constituting the foundation of art and beauty.

Notwithstanding all of religion's creedal statements and outward dimensions, worship grounds itself at the perceptual level within the heart and mind, where direct apprehension necessarily reveals patterns of infinite individuation.

And yet at the same time there is what Driver calls «ritual apprehension», a reluctance to claim «ritual» as a vital term in our vocabulary 1.

3 «Apprehension» and «recognition» are Whitehead's terms: «discernment» is mine.

I suggest that we discern the pastness of an event, and classify our apprehension of it as a memory, only when we apprehend a successor to it at the same location.

This real foundation affects mythological thought rather in the way that Kant's Ding an sich affects our capacity for apprehension with its categorical determination.

And it is in this task that the imagination, if it has been informed by acquaintanceship with the ways of men as immemorially they have uttered in speech their turgid and passionate hearts, may silently and in strange ways come to an apprehension of what otherwise eludes the mind.

Nor need I try, for who is not familiar with the wealth of material in the Gospels in which that apprehension is expressed?

He concluded his statement by saying, «I think, I shall give my vote for integration with sadness of heart and the deepest misgivings because I can not see clearly that it is the leading of the Holy Spirit».37 F. Berkeli (formerly the mission secretary of the Lutheran World Federation) of Norway agreed with Max Warren and voiced the same apprehension about the administrative unity of the two councils.

In his study of the Madhyamika, Frederick I. Streng distinguished the «mystical» and the «intuitive» structure of religious apprehension.

It means a fresh apprehension of the working of God in history: a fresh and vivid realization of the God who in Christ revealed himself to men long ago and who, still in Christ, stands ready to make himself known in gracious power also to us and to our generation.

For different reasons, the Orthodox churches viewed with apprehension the closer relationship between the International Missionary Council and the World Council of Churches.

In the course of the argument the noetic force of time in the process of apprehension and the significance of the revival of liturgical worship as the church's pedagogy have been pointed out.

The theatre of redemption is the theatre of creation; anything has overt or covert influences upon everything; the beetles under the bark are the apprehension that furrows the brow that watches the untrapped waters destroy the town.

END OF FOOTNOTE) Now Jesus Christ is an event in and through which «the living God Himself» is offered for our apprehension.

I could not begin to convey the warmth of Jesus» apprehension of the love of God.

There dwells of course within every human heart a feeling of something higher than itself, a dim apprehension of a Power ruling all that is, and giving His Law to all that lives.