Sentences with phrase «apprehension which»

The legal test is thus one of reasonable apprehension which is the sole standard for judicial disqualification in Canadian law.

He called on Federal Government to regulate the social media as some individuals used the platform to cause confusion and apprehension which threaten the peace and unity of the country.

The Colts, with their No. 1 quarterback, John Unitas, still in the hospital with broken ribs suffered last week, came into the game feeling an apprehension which quieted the dressing room as the players suited up.

It is as simple as that», while perhaps the most substantial of the offerings is «The Spiritual Senses», a series of reflections on the nature of interior apprehension which contains a comment on Saint Bonaventure neatly summing up Dom Hugh's whole approach: «For him the recovery of the spiritual sense is part of the re-ordering of the human person that comes through the encounter with Christ.»

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Speaking of Novartis — the company's experimental CTL019, which is expected to be the first approved drug in a revolutionary new cancer treatment space that turns the body's own immune cells into cancer - killers, is already facing some apprehension from doctors and patient groups who are worried about its eventual pricing.

Newman concedes this dilemma, saying that «we can not make sure, for ourselves and others, of real apprehension and assent, because we have to secure first the images which are their objects, and these are often peculiar and special.»

It is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.

This higher ignorance is not born of a passive skepticism, which in craven tenuousness denies the possibility of certainty beyond the apprehension of the senses.

The language of mythology, or, as I myself prefer to say, metaphor, is the language which religion speaks; it can do no other, for religious faith is neither scientific formulae nor philosophical concepts, but a dramatic, poetic, symbolical way of speaking of the deepest realities and our apprehension of them.

Interfaith dialogue is not just a matter of understanding the other, it is a grappling together towards a deeper apprehension of the divine, in which different insights correct and enrich each other.

Any apprehension of the «beyond» of God is an apprehension of the «beyond» which we see manifested in the man Jesus.

To be sure, as Copernicus achieved a finality in establishing a heliocentric universe, so the Bible represents final gains in thought and insight — apprehensions of truth which, once laid hold on, need not be discovered all over again.

In terms of Newman's distinction between «real» and «notional» apprehensions and assents, Hartshorne's a priori arguments justify the notional assents which provide the intellectual and theoretical grounding for the experientially informed real assents of living faith.

To be sure, classical realism is lost to us, a development due in part to increased awareness of the extent to which the human mind and cultural forms are the irreducible prisms for any apprehension of reality.

It may take the negative form of apprehension and the compulsion of «I must do this, or else...» Often it takes the form of duty, which may be gladly accepted or done from a feeling of stern necessity.

When parents in a society with race lines look with apprehension upon the marriage of their child to a person of a different race, they have in view the indignities and disabilities which the unjust society will visit upon the couple and upon their children and their children's children.

That religion is strong which in its ritual modes of thought evokes an apprehension of the commanding vision.

It is this which explains many evangelicals» (including Henry's) basic apprehension concerning governmental involvement in economics and welfare.

In the constellation of preparation, person, act, apprehension, and response in community — which was seen in the coming of Christ and what that coming brought about — we have a microscopic picture of what macroscopically is the truth about the world, both in the realm of history and in the realm of nature.

as it is reflected in the gospels, which seems to draw from an even deeper spring than apprehension of a threat to the national heritage.

There is a sense then in which once the life in grace has begun it can never fall completely out of its apprehension of that grace, even when we rebel against God.

Thus, after a discussion of the «literalness of theism,» in which he argues that it is God who loves literally, while it is we who love only metaphorically, he remarks: «If someone should say that I have been using «literal» and «metaphorical» in an unusual, nonliteral, and even metaphorical sense, I should reply that I have apprehensions this may perhaps be true.

He then goes on to draw out certain implications of these fundamental beliefs, part of which he describes as a «mystery,» that is, surely, as belonging to that «wisdom» which should follow upon the apprehension of the preaching of «Christ and Him crucified.»

Others have seen this surrender as due mainly to the preoccupation of the divided churches with their fractional apprehension of Christian truth, which left each sect an easy prey to the encroachment of an aggressive secularism.

Certainly Nehemiah and Ezra, and presumably the leaders of the ritual movement likewise, took their course through an apprehension as well based as that which had functioned in the days of the prophets.

But a study of the context will show that what was most particularly in his mind was just this distinction between the fundamental Gospel and the higher wisdom (not to be confused with «the wisdom of men») which can be imparted to those whose apprehension of the Gospel is sufficiently firm.

«Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.»

But the apprehension and acceptance of these principles does not depend on the knowledge and acceptance of the age in which they first took shape, or of the historical persons who first discovered them.

In his classic work, The Acting Person, Wojtyla examines the cognitive experience of values, which he equates with the apprehension of the good of a specific object, and the relation between knowledge of values and the will.

On the contrary, all things come from God: «Tis thou that madest the artificer his body, thou gavest a soul to direct his limbs; thou madest the stuff [materiam] of which he makes anything; thou madest that apprehension whereby he may take his art.»

In all of this there is not a single item which is not at home within Judaism, just as there is no single remark of Jesus which can not with some degree of closeness be paralleled in the Old Testament or in other Jewish literature, but taken as a whole Jesus» teaching, without any question, represents a highly distinctive and original apprehension of reality.

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

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

And the other example is the startlingly brilliant and heartbreaking passage in which Tolstoy describes the thoughts and internal apprehensions of Anna's child Seryozha in the long days since his mother went away — a scene that is more or less indescribable and that one must read to appreciate.

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

Our «first naivete» is surely the condition of being in some sense «called,» but unable to distinguish the authentic message from the reality - apprehensions of our culture or from the dogmatic and ecclesiastical framework in which we hear it.

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?

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.

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

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.

Every apprehension of the past which proposes to understand it better by construing it,; has only the more thoroughly misunderstood it.

It is actually a double option which determines Professor Radhakrishnan's explicit and implicit evaluation of religion: his preference for the apprehension of ultimate reality as proclaimed by the seers and sages of India and, within this tradition, his preference for the teachings of the Upanisads in the peculiar interpretation of the Advaita school.

In the preface to Religion in the Making, he states that the foundation of religion is based on»... our apprehension of those permanent elements by reason of which there is a stable order in the world.»

Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.

... is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something that is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.9

Satyagraha (the apprehension of truth), ahimsa (the inviolability of all life), paratma - samata (the identity of all alien spirits), paratma - nirvana (the self - transformation into an alien soul), mahamaitri (great, all - encompassing love), and maha - karuna (great compassion) are age - old religious ideals which Indian saints realized centuries before Christ and which Gandhi put into practice anew in our century.

Everywhere (And such is now the case almost everywhere in Christendom, which, as it seems, either entirely ignores the fact that Christ Himself it is who so frequently and with such heartfelt emphasis warned against offense, even at the end of His life, and even when He addressed His faithful Apostles who had followed Him from the beginning and for His sake had forsaken all — or maybe silently regards this as an extravagant apprehension on the part of Christ, inasmuch as the experience of thousands and thousands proves that one can have faith in Christ without having noticed the least trace of the possibility of offense.

Finally, by means of past experiences and unconscious memories «the instinctive apprehension of a tone of feeling in ordinary social intercourse» to which Whitehead also appeals is explicable without reference to unmediated feelings.

Bergson uses the term «image» to indicate an immediate, direct «finding» which is more «mental» than raw sensation, but less than an «act» of cognitive apprehension.2 Roughly, «images» are the «raw material» of «intellectual effort.»