Sentences with phrase «as a present reality»

He had been vindicated in his obedience to what he took to be God's will; the love that had marked his earthly life could not be destroyed but was now secure forever in the divine life — and he was known to his people as a present reality.

Growth occurs as a result of preaching when people experience the gospel message as a present reality.

Bultmann is not speaking of the intercession of the ascended Christ, but of the cross of Christ as a present reality in the everyday life of the Christians.

A «cameo essay» explains the reasons for this decision roughly as follows: the gospels contain sayings proclaiming God's rule as both present and future; Jesus could not have said both things; the future eschatology appears «bombastic and threatening»; therefore, Jesus must have spoken of God's rule only as present reality.

(Acts 1:7), and although the interpretation of the Kingdom of God as a present reality is not absent from the New Testament outside the gospels (e.g. Col. 1:13), James (2:5) and the author of Hebrews (12:28) use the term only, and Paul (e.g. I Cor.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls should not have to consider this as their present reality.

Not exact matches

While we all know what virtual reality is — an immersive experience where an artificial environment is presented in such a way that it feels and appears like a real environment - many people aren't as familiar with augmented reality.

He said to keep in mind that entertainment is not real life, and that seeing people's lives only as they want them presented is not reality.

For those who like to send cards listing everything the family has done in the past year, now augmented reality cards from sites such as Blippar and iGreet let you show your favorite selfies along with animated trees and dynamic presents.

While continued advancements in sensing, imaging and mapping — as well as AI and computing — are helping to evolve the technology, the reality is that the complexity and cost requirements are presenting challenges.

Please also realize we are presenting what is a sophisticated understanding of the reality of Internet dynamics, but also inclusive of a brick & mortar environment — and as has been proven over and over and over again, Internet financials are a whole new breed as evidenced by America Online, Google, EBAY, Kmart, etc., etc..

Although payday loans are presented as an alternative to costly bank overdraft fees, the reality is that most borrowers end up overdrafting anyway, often due to the payday lender making a withdrawal from their account, and most borrowers end up paying fees for both.

I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

There is a confidence — from those who have been delivered from drug addiction to those who grew up in the county with our proverbial silver spoons — that the present reality and its attendant despair will not always define our neighborhood, and that as we trust in Christ individually, that transformation radiates outwards in service and love to others.

Of course what the Times and its media minions present as reality has real effects.

That is, we may at last come to some accommodation in our necessary journeying, our wayfaring in time and space, in relation to the present realities of explicit time and place that are always conditions to our actual existence as persons.

And if this be so, our work as educators and as advocates of a well - functioning American educational system is to develop citizens who are at home in the canons that comprise the formal reality of their heritage, who are equally at home with the varied individual things that comprise the material reality of that heritage and of their present life, and who are able to devise constantly new frames that are adequate to both, that marry ancient canon and novel particular in a new canon which integrates as fully and complexly as possible all its participant elements.

In short, the irreducible complexity of molecular systems is controversial among molecular biologists when it is presented as an idea with philosophical consequences, and tacitly accepted as reality when it remains in the world of innocent fact.

This morning my heart's all in that there's living present power in Jesus» blood to cleanse me this moment and this day... not just as a point of doctrine but as reality from God that frees.

As Taoist sees the world, the present world is that of arbirary and artificial reality, in which the humans strsuggle afainst each other.

The only answer which is plausible can be given by the biological theory of knowledge: in the same way as our perception carves Out of the whole physical reality only that zone which has practical importance for our organism, only those recollections which are relevant to our present situation are transmitted into our present moment.

However this break is complete and systematic in Process and Reality and most explicit in Adventures of Ideas, Chapter X, where the notion of one actuality as truly present in another, and not merely represented in it, is asserted to be the one fundamental metaphysical advance since Plato (AI 214f.).

Only by recognizing the past as that given reality with which every present has to do can these absurd consequences be avoided.

But if the past is real only as it is given reality by the present, most of the connotations of «cause» can not apply to it.

As for the basic secrets of the cosmos, Jeans says, «The ultimate realities of the universe are at present quite beyond the reach of science, and may be — and probably are — forever beyond the comprehension of the human mind.»

In my view, he underestimates the degree to which Americans cherish the concept of «public education» even as they chafe under its present reality.

Using human experience as a model to depict the nature of reality, Whitehead argues that every actuality (i.e., every actual event) has both a present subjective immediacy and a past objectivity.

To the contrary, precisely because of the idiosyncratic reality of God and God's peculiar way of being present, interests in liberation from oppression, realization of our full humanity, and the righting of injustice are mandated as an integral part of interests in God.

The eschatology of Jewish apocalyptic and of Gnosticism has been emancipated from its accompanying mythology, in so far as the age of salvation has already dawned for the believer and the life of the future has become a present reality.

But atheists should not now deny the reality of God on this score if God were presented as the Ground of the universe in process, since to attain the Ground is not a destruction of the universe or its abandonment, but its differentiation and fulfillment.

In other words, the cross is not just an event of the past which can be contemplated, but is the eschatological event in and beyond time, in so far as it (understood in its significance, that is, for faith) is an ever - present reality.

Charles Hartshorne, Man's Vision of God (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941); Reality as Social Process (Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1953); The Divine Relativity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1948); Process and Divinity: Philosophical Essays Presented to Charles Hartshorne, ed.

But if this is the case, the reminder will vanish instantly like a tiny atom in the eternal potentiality which was present in his soul, and which now becomes a reality, but again as reality eternally presupposes itself.

It usually refers to the real substance or essential nature of something (though what those terms precisely mean is a matter of philosophical discussion); so Hebrews 11:1 is more getting at faith as providing substance to a future we hope for — that their hope for the future, through faith, becomes a present reality to affect their actions.

Neither announcing the death of God nor reducing theology to anthropology, Bonhoeffer is trying to protect a very specific and concrete understanding of the incarnation from either dualism or immanentism, so that Christ may be known as the present Christ who assures God's presence to reality and reality's presence before God.

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If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

Where such a reality (as spelt out in 1) does not exist, either practically or experienced as such by those living in an illusory construction of the present («our inviolable shores» ideology) the talk of peace tends to take on impractical («brotherhood and sisterhood of all humankind») and essentialized («the global village») colours.

But if we hold, as for example in Process and Reality, that all final individual actualities have the metaphysical character of occasions of experience, then on that hypothesis the direct evidence as to the connectedness of one's immediately present occasion of experience with one's immediately past occasions, can be validly used to suggest categories applying to the connectedness of all occasions in nature.

Secondly, he presents the symbolic statuary figures as exemplifying the dual and simultaneous presence of permanence and fluency in a same moment of reality.

The bridge dissolves, and I am left with a series of present «momentary selves» inexplicably linked so as to constitute that obscure reality which we generally refer to as «personal identity.»

Many factors in the initial moments (milliseconds to mere minutes) were required to be extremely precise to allow for the present reality as we know it.

If the reality at work is the inner creativity of God expressing himself as, among other things, the «low - level universals» of a multiplicity of «I's» or as expressing himself in the supposed subjectivity of psychicalized cells, how exactly does my present self - awareness derive from this?

Consequently, the system ideal, like the notion of personal identity sketched in (ii), is perhaps better viewed as a regulative principle guiding philosophical reflection than as a philosophical reality that we can appropriate and elucidate in the present.

In essence the reader becomes a part of the novel as experienced; the logos irrupts momentarily into reality where to some degree the reader's potential is actualized in the absolute present.

The insistence that communism and fascism be weighed on different moral scales continues, says Martin Malia in his introduction to the American edition of The Black Book, because «no matter what the hard facts are, degrees of totalitarian evil will be measured as much in terms of present politics as in terms of past realities.»

If this is to be recognized as a truth that shapes our present reality, it must include the voices of as many groups as possible.

Whitehead's philosophy requires a broader conception of time, for example, one which will allow for the reality of the past in the present, a concept that the traditional metaphysician would likely judge as intuitively false, leading to the additional judgment that much of human experience is appearance rather than reality, a position which we reject, having come to a greater understanding of Whitehead's metaphysics.

But when I have seen this, my next task is to let the book's message universalize itself in my mind as God's own teaching or doctrine (to use the word that Calvin loved) now addressed to humankind in general and to me in particular within the frame of reality created by the death, resurrection, and present dominion of Jesus Christ.

The relationship of the finite creature with the supremely worshipful and unsurpassable deity is being affirmed; and along with it there is also affirmed the possibility of its becoming on occasion a matter of conscious knowledge on the part of the human, as it is always a present reality in the very nature of God himself.