Sentences with phrase «as givens some realities»

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

The community came into existence in a rejoicing over the resurrection as given reality and in expectation of its imminent universalization.

It wishes to have done with the «gendered» perception of the individual and with all «gendered» usage of words, so that «man» or «masculine» might designate a feminine body and the body itself is no longer understood as a given reality.

My disappointment lasted only a second as I gave myself a reality check and counted my blessings.

Not exact matches

In a sketch that parodied the real - life events of Arie Luyendyk Jr.'s recent proposal on the ABC reality show, McKinnon as Mueller sat down with contestant Becca K. (Cecily Strong) to tell her he couldn't give her everything she wanted right now.

For instance, by holding up your phone and using the camera as a viewfinder, an augmented reality application could give you reviews about the restaurants you pass.

Given how the state had spent time building up a new middle class,» [a] ny deviation from the mainstream, or irony, is seen as a threat to the credibility and legitimacy of the [Chinese Communist] Party in bringing [an] idealized way of life to reality,» Arsene told CNBC in an email.

According to his math, the S&P 500 index «will give back recent gains as investors embrace the reality that tax reform is likely to provide a smaller, later tailwind to corporate earnings than originally expected.»

The company claims its glasses will be augmented reality devices that deliver texts and emails and as well as give you directions, track your heartbeat, and translate foreign languages.

The reality is that Facebook got as much money today as the market was ready to give.

A tent houses the shoes, as well as a station where customers can experience a virtual - reality giving trip to Peru.

The word «actually» serves as a spoken pause, giving the presenter's brain time to catch up and decide how to resolve the conflict in his or her mind between the question asked and reality.

In some cases, the best answer we can give is that to be most effective in your particular position, you need to accept this as a new reality and work with it, rather than fighting what's changing.»

With that in mind, gold positions continued to be rolled back as the markets are adjusting portfolios given the increased potential for the dollar to rise in the weeks head becomes a reality.

However, in order to both keep the model as simple as possible and give predictions that are in reality a best - case scenario, our model simply assumes that each household's income grows at a steady, fixed rate each year, that retirement savings grow and accumulate returns at a steady pace, etc. (For more detail on the values used in the model for growth in home values, retirement assets, etc., see the Methodology Appendix below).

Social entrepreneurs understand that the world is a network of complicated systems interacting with each other to give the results that many accept as reality.

As Archbishop Chaput observes in his Erasmus Lecture published in this issue («Strangers in a Strange Land»), the public reality of marriage gives its redefinition powerful «sign value.»

Example being, the age of Earth... what do we do when our «god - given» brains are driven crazy by what the Bible says, and what we see as reality?

Reality... his bones would have been produced and marveled at as proof that he did not resurrect the Jewish leaders at that time for sure would have produced them... providing of course that they were available... why do nt you take the time to study, read the evidence for yourself before spouting like so many other bitter atheists (that I once was for many years)... give love a try you might enjoy it, it gives live meaning and true purpose, everything finds its place in Christ... I hope you find hope some day...

Why you all don't understand that Chrisianity gave humans dignity in the belief of free will and our obligation as Christians to forgive then you avoid reality.

Everyone on the face of the earth, whether they appreciate it or not, seeks to bring their perception of reality as close as possible to the actual reality given the perceptive tools we are supplied.

Recreation (literally, re-creation) reflects the order of creation, participating in the nature and order of reality as given by God.

Although Calvin is remembered primarily as a theologian and biblical commentator, his experience of the realities of public life in the cosmopolitan imperial city of Strasbourg had given him a new confidence to address the issue of Christianity in the public arena.

Assuming it was Christianity, it ameliorated many of the harsh realities of human existence, such as your own death, the death of a loved one, injustice, feelings of being at the mercy of the forces of nature, and so on, gave you answers to questions about life, and so on.

Given the distinctiveness of human existence and the aesthetic character of reality, it follows that greater beauty is served insofar as subhuman existence is so ordered as to maximize the possibilities of happiness.

Given the «miracle» Nicaragua already is and could be — a Latin American nation where the hungry are being fed, the sick are being healed and the homeless are finding homes, where schools and parks are being built and faith is being put into practice as well as proclaimed in temples — it is hard to deny the reality expressed in a common slogan one hears there: «There is no contradiction between Christianity and the revolution.»

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.

God's act in Abraham, and in Jesus Christ, is brought home as an unfailing reality in the believer: God gives life to the dead.

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.

I am a Christian because Christianity gives me the language to lament and to doubt, «to confess the ugly realities» as Austin said — from the violence I observe in the world and in my heart to «to the sin of white America» which Emily Scott described as the attempt «to still the voice of a whole people and keep them from singing.»

Sometimes the clue to the reality of their individuality is given only by a phrase — a widow, a younger son; sometimes we see the ligaments and joints of the history, as in Peter's case.

In the third place, to see Christ as the reality which stands between man and man means that there is given to each life the possibility of a new way which involves a restoration to our right mind and the freedom to become a new person.

As inhabitants of the modern world, we are religious now perhaps to the extent of our desire to crack open the coffin of materialism, and to give to reality a larger, freer definition than is allowed by the militant materialists of the corporate economy and their political servants, or by the mechanical paradigm of reductive science.

Style, as it is defined in The Rebel, is the «correction which the artist imposes by his language and by a redistribution of elements of reality» and gives the «re-created universe its unity and boundaries» (Rb 269).

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.

Various promissory notes are given (PR 32 / 47), such as the sole explicit discussion of «the «superjective» nature of God» (PR 88 / 135; but see PS 3:228 f), and the famous «fourth phase» of the last two pages of Process and Reality, which proposes a «particular providence for particular occasions.»

When he tells them «Peace be with you,» not once but three times, he is giving them what they need to claim that «shalom» as a reality.

It must be given to the reality by virtue of which this claim or insight can be relativized as we advance in truth.

As a matter of theology, the word asserts that «whatever is divine» in Jesus, his deity, is as truly and fully divine as very God himself; but as a matter of religious conviction and experience, it is the assertion that very God, in all his mystery and in all his glory, is of «one substance with,» is the same reality as, that which in Jesus Christ we have been given to see and know and touch and feeAs a matter of theology, the word asserts that «whatever is divine» in Jesus, his deity, is as truly and fully divine as very God himself; but as a matter of religious conviction and experience, it is the assertion that very God, in all his mystery and in all his glory, is of «one substance with,» is the same reality as, that which in Jesus Christ we have been given to see and know and touch and feeas truly and fully divine as very God himself; but as a matter of religious conviction and experience, it is the assertion that very God, in all his mystery and in all his glory, is of «one substance with,» is the same reality as, that which in Jesus Christ we have been given to see and know and touch and feeas very God himself; but as a matter of religious conviction and experience, it is the assertion that very God, in all his mystery and in all his glory, is of «one substance with,» is the same reality as, that which in Jesus Christ we have been given to see and know and touch and feeas a matter of religious conviction and experience, it is the assertion that very God, in all his mystery and in all his glory, is of «one substance with,» is the same reality as, that which in Jesus Christ we have been given to see and know and touch and feeas, that which in Jesus Christ we have been given to see and know and touch and feel.

All religious reality begins with the acceptance of the concrete situation as given one by the Giver, and it is this which Biblical religion calls the «fear of God.»

(2 Cor 5:7) And Paul gave the meaning of «faith» as «the assured expectation of what is hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities that are not seen.»

In the area of knowledge, religion's weakness is not in questions it raises but in its attempt to give dogmatic answers: Beyond the myths about the origin, end and meaning of life, beyond the alienated notions of transcendence and death, there exists the concrete dialectic of finite and infinite, and this remains a living reality as long as we remain aware that it is not in the order of answer but in the order of question.

And this at once gave assurance of a wholly rational interpretation of its processes and the growing conviction that mechanism and materialism as a final reading of the nature of reality were indisputable.

Surely the Christian — and only the Christian — should be able to exercise this clarity of vision and thought because the Revelation has to some degree given him an understanding of the world, and also because, terrible as the reality may be, he can accept it without despairing, for he has hope in Jesus Christ.

«There's no such thing as «paying your debt to society,» and in Christian terms, the notion of forgiveness and giving people a second chance is simply not a reality if you have any drug offense on your record,» he says.

Whether or not the brain «stops functioning» at any given point is not necessarily the same question as whether there exists any other reality besides the one «the brain» can observe.

When we have become intellectually mature enough to give up childish notions of divine intrusions and rescue expeditions, even with respect to Jesus himself (about whom we speak in the next chapter), and to trust in God who is revealing the divine self as actively energizing within the world, we shall be able to have a more soundly based and more credible view of the divine reality.

Only someone who overlooks the fact that this answer itself has a real history which is a history of the reality reflected on as well as of the reflection itself, can think that the Church with its principles, because they too can be given concrete form, is always able to follow directly on the heels of what is new in the changing course of history and that only by its own fault and failure could the Church lag behind events in its theological reflection on morals.

We can just as well explain the reality of someone by giving reasons why he is absent than by the evidence of his presence.

We do not simply create the nonhuman realities — plants, animals, and inorganic materials — that we interpret; rather we experience these realities as given to us for interpretation, and in their givenness values are disclosed.