Sentences with phrase «as belonging to the world»

It is a characteristic of the religions which elevate mystic realization of the formless and nameless Spirit as the ultimate human destiny; they consider historical religions with their nama and rupa as belonging to the world of maya to be transcended.

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Such a momentous matter as the terms of trade in which capital flows between China and the rest of the world might seem more naturally to belong to democratic or governmental institutions.

This does not belong to the secular world / media to comment, it belongs to the catholic church in this case to decide what they hold as being truthful / sacred in the service of their Lord and Savior.

Many years ago, I heard someone speaking about how Jesus» life and death absorbed the «shock» of sin and death within creation and how we as His body have been called to a similar mission — the verses which speak of us «carrying in our selves» the marks that we belong to Him, sharing in some small way in His sufferings as we share in His life — it's all part of a realm where the sweet savor of the fragrance of Him is allowed to be evidenced in this broken world.

In pursuing any of them we are emancipated from the whole attitude towards the world that looks upon it as material for satisfying wants and from the anxieties that belong to this attitude.

If, to the contrary, the difference between humans and some sub-humans were slight (if, for instance, humans were only slightly superior to nonhuman primates, so that human existence were a species belonging to what we now call the nonhuman animal world), it would not be clear that the appearance of humans represents the maximal importance of subhuman existence as such.

As a world leader for freedom and the protection of basic human rights, the United States should take every opportunity to advocate for people — including Americans here at home — to think, believe, and act according to their religious belief whether they belong to a minority or majority religion in their nation.»

Emboldened by this move, Neuhaus likewise feels free to declare that «the great majority of Christians in the world belong to bodies that, in continuity with two millennia of history, believe women can not be ordained to what is traditionally called the presbyterate,» as if the mere pronouncement of such a statement thereby settles the matter for any contemporary or future discussion.

To this day, the greatest achievement of theological mediation in this direction is Bultmann's method of demythologizing, which assumes that any objective meaning of the gospel, any meaning that speaks of the world or reality as such, including the idea that the end of the world is at hand, belongs to the world of myth and not of gospel, and therein is consigned either to the premodern age of humanity or to the realm of the old Adam or «flesh» (sarxTo this day, the greatest achievement of theological mediation in this direction is Bultmann's method of demythologizing, which assumes that any objective meaning of the gospel, any meaning that speaks of the world or reality as such, including the idea that the end of the world is at hand, belongs to the world of myth and not of gospel, and therein is consigned either to the premodern age of humanity or to the realm of the old Adam or «flesh» (sarxto the world of myth and not of gospel, and therein is consigned either to the premodern age of humanity or to the realm of the old Adam or «flesh» (sarxto the premodern age of humanity or to the realm of the old Adam or «flesh» (sarxto the realm of the old Adam or «flesh» (sarx).

If religious belief is attained when reason makes a «total response of the total being to what is apprehended as the ultimate reality,» such that in this act reason is reborn, then it follows that those who totally accept a given world - view as ultimate, whether it be theistic or non-theistic, naturalistic or supernaturalistic, immanentist or transcendentalist, as normative for their entire lives and as the supreme value in their hierarchy of values, and hence not taken as a means but as an end, belong to the religious dimension.

To this mythology belongs the expectation of the end of the world as occurring in time, the expectation which in the contemporary situation of Jesus is the natural expression of his conviction that even in the present man stands in the crisis of decision, that the present is for him the last hour.

In the place of a potential matter we have an actual creativity as the ground of the unity of the world's actuality, and the determination or form that belongs to the individual entities is interpreted as potentiality instead of as actuality.

Their alternative speculative suggestion is that a realm of finite actual occasions has always existed, that it exists as necessarily as does God, and that the basic God - world relation belongs to the very nature of things.

Or put it this way, the world to which my wife and I belong is part of a society, and it is a characteristic of a society that as long as it endures it lays down conditions to which successor members of that society must conform.

One can celebrate it provincially, as the United Methodist church and small Methodist bodies are free to do just as Lutheran churches celebrated Martin Luther last year — even though both Luther and John Wesley, Methodism's founder, belong to a larger world.

It was only then that «the fundamental and persistent character of the Messiah, as of one rising from humanity and clothed with power, was displaced by... a heavenly being, who came down to the world, sojourned in it, left it, ascended to heaven and now enters upon the dominion of the world which originally belonged to him.»

The gospel mandate to take the good news to the corners of the world and the symbolic representation of Eucharist as a cosmic banquet where people from the East and the West and from South and North participate with a sense of oneness and belonging epitomizes the urge for universalism.

But we can read them and use them as witness to the reality of the divine Activity in and through Christ, stated in terms and through stories that belong to a world of historical and scientific thought different from the world in which we live.

The way in which these are done may differ from age to age, as would be inevitable in any social process which belongs in the world; but the several functions remain constant in themselves.

Should someone explain that the fear of God, in the sense of that felt in this world of time, should belong to childhood and therefore disappear with the years as does childhood itself, or should be like a happy state of mind that can not be maintained, but only remembered; should someone explain that penitence comes like the weakness of old age, with the wasting away of strength, when the senses are blunted, when sleep no longer strengthens but weakens; then this would be Impiety and folly.

Religion is described as the «moral sanction», the «solemn completion», and the «universal ground for consolation and justification» for this world.12 This means religion is an integral part of this perverted world, and not simply the perverted consciousness belonging to it.

But if it should as objects for the contemplation of the intellect but its objectification in actions and deeds that become embodied in the flesh and blood life of the reader, it will in turn realize a new potentiality: the transformation of the reader's self and the world to which that self belongs.

Being - in - the - world and its «belonging to» necessitate the orientation of the self, but this may be nothing more than reading the text as a code of linguistic signs (langue).

Ours is indeed a belonging world, and we can live well and happily only on such terms as are appropriate to such a world.

If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own.

The spirit in which he went about that work, the results of which have put the world eternally in his debt, is fairly indicated by a memorandum written in his early forties and never intended for publicity: «Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property, which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might best be served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.»

Thus, purity of heart is to will one thing, but to will one thing could not mean to will the world's pleasure and what belongs to it, even if a person only named one thing as his choice, since this one thing was one only by a deception.

The very notion of a seeker - friendly church, where everything and everyone is «nice,» smacks against Jesus» warning: «If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own.

In its statement, the conference said, «the nature of the unity towards which we are striving is that of a visible fellowship in which all members, acknowledging Jesus Christ as living Lord and Savior, shall recognize each other as belonging fully to His Body, to the end that the world may believe».

Whitehead describes an occasion's concrete relation to the occasions of the world, the world to which it belongs just as much as they do, as its prehension of those occasions.

To develop this sense of «belonging» will be a way in which, here and now, life can become meaningful; for in the little cells of Christian faith and love which are our parishes as they ought to be, hope is implanted m men's hearts that lifts them above, and yet sends them back into, the community life of which they are also a part, knowing that they have passed from death into life, because they love the brethren and are therefore empowered to bring a stream of fresh, courageous, loving life to a sadly disillusioned and despairing worlTo develop this sense of «belonging» will be a way in which, here and now, life can become meaningful; for in the little cells of Christian faith and love which are our parishes as they ought to be, hope is implanted m men's hearts that lifts them above, and yet sends them back into, the community life of which they are also a part, knowing that they have passed from death into life, because they love the brethren and are therefore empowered to bring a stream of fresh, courageous, loving life to a sadly disillusioned and despairing worlto be, hope is implanted m men's hearts that lifts them above, and yet sends them back into, the community life of which they are also a part, knowing that they have passed from death into life, because they love the brethren and are therefore empowered to bring a stream of fresh, courageous, loving life to a sadly disillusioned and despairing worlto bring a stream of fresh, courageous, loving life to a sadly disillusioned and despairing worlto a sadly disillusioned and despairing world.

What is guaranteed is the Church as the Body of Christ, one as He is one, filled with His Spirit, belonging to Him, knit together in a community which is truly Catholic, possessing the Apostolic Gospel, and sent into the world to preach it and to live it.

As noted above, the concrescing actual entities within a given structured society prehend in different ways a common world, i.e., the concrete interrelatedness of their immediate predecessors together with the common element of form which bound them together as this rather than that society.2 This feeling of both emerging out of and yet still belonging to a unified whole is then incorporated into their individual processes of concrescencAs noted above, the concrescing actual entities within a given structured society prehend in different ways a common world, i.e., the concrete interrelatedness of their immediate predecessors together with the common element of form which bound them together as this rather than that society.2 This feeling of both emerging out of and yet still belonging to a unified whole is then incorporated into their individual processes of concrescencas this rather than that society.2 This feeling of both emerging out of and yet still belonging to a unified whole is then incorporated into their individual processes of concrescence.

But precisely insofar as the event is here wholly absorbed in the given world of occasions to which it itself belongs, it is not distinct from them.

Believing that the future as well as the present belong to God, the minister of these Advent texts might find it well to listen to Hans Kung's admonition: to take care lest she preach judgment too loudly and insistently before the small and defenseless and too softly and half - heartedly before the powerful of this world.

They do not belong to our own, immediate world — or, as one might put it, to the sidereal vessel which bears us.

Thus there is little hope for our recovering a feeling of truly belonging to the cosmos as long as we hold onto the assumptions about physical reality (such as the primacy of primary qualities and cognate assumptions) underlying scientism and materialism.5 For we will continue to have a gnawing suspicion that the real world is so different from our projections that we are still without a home in the universe as it runs on colorlessly and meaninglessly beneath our secondary and tertiary «subjective» projections.

It doesn't belong to her, even if the world is telling women they have the same authority as man.

One could look at the example of Rome, at a country that thought itself the center of the universe, treating the world as if it belonged to Rome, constantly extending outward without realizing that the core of Rome could no longer support the weight of the extended empire.

------ John 15:19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own.

Your father loves you too as we are all his children, not just believers... praise be for the living, it's not too late: God does not belong to us, and this world belongs to him...

WORLD: Nothing if you include the study / formulations of philosophy and psychological benefits of religious ritual, along with other social sciences, as part of science... instead of classifying them as belonging to just a bunch of crazy loonies with no cause for their actions.

There was one God, but there was also one Lord, belonging to the divine world, who supremely revealed him; and, as well, there was one Spirit — «his Spirit that dwelleth in you.»

Such moments were staging posts in the early life of CS Lewis as he struggled to make his atheism fit with his experience of «joy» when he encountered poetry, literature, music and beauty that seemed to belong to another world, a process he describes in Surprised by Joy.

At any rate, it is clear that in categories of understanding familiar to the non-Jewish mind «the Lord Jesus Christ» was preached to the Gentiles as belonging to the superhuman world.

Again, the insistence on the societal nature of the world, and on man's genuine participation since he himself is organic to that world, illuminates the Christian belief that man belongs to the creation and that the whole natural order, as well as human history and personal experience, is integral to the purpose of God.

A critical question is how brave can we be as we begin to design a new sort of world order and how brave can we be in casting off our religious and other prejudices that belong to another age in order to remold them in the service of a new world?

The modern world treats sex as though it belongs to the secular world and that God tries to cheat us of it.

The Anglo - American idea... means that the party who does not abide by certain specific decrees emanating from a judicial body is a contumacious person and may, as a rule, be held in contempt of court, fined and jailed... Now, this very concept of contempt simply does not belong to the world of ideas of a Latin lawyer.

The definite integral denotes a specific number, something fixed, and as such belongs to the world of things and their properties.