Sentences with phrase «as inconceivable»

What is almost as inconceivable (at least, for some of us) is that Matta's life and career extended beyond the heyday of Abstract Expressionism.

More soon, but for now I'll reiterate: This is a huge victory, one that many observers would have dismissed as inconceivable not very long ago.

This is most likely due to the taste aspect, as inconceivable as it may seem!

Not as inconceivable as it seems right now.

«Tomorrow, communicating ideas without interactivity will be just as inconceivable.

As inconceivable as it may seem, tuning in to such chirps is now becoming routine.

Im only saying we have a chance if we make some big signings because the way we are playing I agree with you... Just saying it isnt as inconceivable as many people are making it out to be...

I would never say never but when you listen to him speak, hear the modesty and sense the fire in his belly and also knowing what he and AW have been through it strikes me as inconceivable at the moment.

It appeared as inconceivable to privatise not only the oil, but also the water, the post office, the hospitals, the schools and even prisons.

[3] The Greatest Good in the Universe Duns Scotus saw it as inconceivable that the Incarnation, the «greatest good in the universe», could be determined by some lesser good, i.e.Man's redemption.

For Christians, calling yourself a Christian while not believing that God has always existed as the triune Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is as inconceivable.

Yet as inconceivable as it may seem, the question of his messianic consciousness is a very live one in scholarly circles.

Not exact matches

It's not inconceivable that Krispy Kreme would go public again, Bachenheimer says, as time off the public market can increase the company's cachet and value.

It seems inconceivable that management behaved this way and got away with it for so many years because as today's leaders know, the most knowledgeable employees about a process are usually the people who perform it everyday.

The Minister of Finance has for some time rejected this view without providing his own analysis, It is inconceivable that the Department has not done its own research on the structural deficit, as it does publicly provide estimates on an historical basis.

And my reason would be exactly the same as the reason Hartshorne gives for rejecting it, namely that this God is more inconceivable.

it is inconceivable that a God drawn along the Whiteheadian lines, with a total grasp of the possibilities unfolding before the progressive advance into chaos and with a direct pipeline to the «ear» and «conscience» of each and every emerging actual entity, could not have found for the world a way around such unspeakable suffering [as that which occurred in the Holocaust].

NCR gives a link to some of these doubts by «Vatican experts»: unfortunately, these «experts» include John Cornwell, author of Hitler's Pope, who said he had never heard the claims described by Pacepa and considers them «most unlikely», though «as a supporter of Nato and the Western Alliance, it's not inconceivable the pope could have been targeted [by the KGB].

It was inconceivable to Luke that Peter or any primitive Christian could have — postresurrection and post-Pentecost — viewed the cross as a mere accident of history.

Had he known that the tomb was found empty it seems inconceivable that he should not have adduced this here as a telling piece of objective evidence.

These are certainly historical facts, because they both imply an element of dependence of Jesus upon the Baptist and they are inconceivable as products of a Christian community concerned to exalt its Lord and engaged in rivalry with a Baptist sect.

It is thus passing with a slowness, inconceivable in our measures of time, to new creative conditions, amid which the physical world, as we at present know it, will be represented by a ripple barely to be distinguished from non-entity» (RM 160).

The conclusion I want to pull out of these considerations is this: if there is at least one actual entity in the world characterized by at least one eternal object, one specific form of definiteness, then this actual entity provides all the ontological ground required for the realm of eternal objects — an appeal to God is not necessary.11 And, indeed, in Whitehead, as in Aristotle, there is an eternity and an abeternity of becoming so that within the terms of the system it is inconceivable that there be any region of the extensive continuum, no matter how far it be extended fore or aft, where there is not a generation of actual entities exhibiting concrete forms of definiteness.

And is it completely inconceivable that atheistic worldview, one in which God (no longer understood simply as an engineer) opens up the universe to an ever new future, could provide a fertile setting for understanding evolution?

It is certainly not open to misunderstanding; it is quite inconceivable that Diogenes should have been hailed as the saviour and benefactor of the city.

In short, we must get as close as we can to that almost inconceivable state in which our consciousness, divorced from all human association, stands naked in face of the Universe.

It is inconceivable to me that Paul can be quoted by modern male chauvinists as the biblical authority for excluding women from accepting God's call to serve others in the name of Christ, when Paul himself encouraged and congratulated inspired women who were prominent — to use his own descriptions — as deacons, apostles, ministers and saints.

The rhetoric of the American Declaration of Independence may speak of «rights» to life and liberty as inalienable, but the enjoyment of such rights within society was and is conditional; otherwise deprivation of liberty by penal incarceration would be inconceivable.

After a time, however, some Jews began to speak about resurrection of the body, which to them meant the entire human personality; they did this because it was inconceivable that Jews who suffered death as martyrs in the time of the Maccabees should be «cast as rubbish to the void,» their faithfulness to Judaism unrewarded and their bravery denied enduring value.

Yet the statement is there as though it were a matter of course, as though anything else were inconceivable.

Its adoption as the next ideology of a now intellectually bankrupt, but still officially Marxist, party is not inconceivable.

Even to contemplate a drawing back from empire — something so inconceivable to our pundits and newspaper editorial writers that it is simply never considered — we must specify as clearly as possible precisely what the elected leaders and citizens of the United States would have to do.

As Steiner's Hitler asks, «Was there ever a crueler invention, a contrivance more calculated to harrow human existence, than that of an omnipotent, all - seeing, yet invisible, impalatable, inconceivable God?»

This image was, in fact, enunciated by Hume, who saw the self as «a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.»

G. W. H. Lampe says of this important passage, «Had he known that the tomb was found empty it seems inconceivable that he should not have adduced this here as a telling piece of objective evidence.»

Something has then taken place just as powerful and inconceivable as birth, the saying «Here I am as I am» finds a new meaning.

As I said in my commentary, «For Christians, calling yourself a Christian while not believing that God has always existed as the triune Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is inconceivable.&raquAs I said in my commentary, «For Christians, calling yourself a Christian while not believing that God has always existed as the triune Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is inconceivable.&raquas the triune Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is inconceivable.»

It seems to me that his absolute identification of the revelation with the church is not accurate: I would say that the revelation took place within the church and is inconceivable apart from it, but I find it impossible to say, as he frequently does, that the revelation is the church.

In the second and possibly better of two formulations of this argument, he reasoned as follows: Since a being greater than God is by definition inconceivable, and since a being whose nonexistence is inconceivable is greater than a being whose nonexistence is conceivable, therefore, God must be a being whose nonexistence is inconceivable.

Attempts have often been made to show that this man never lived, that he is entirely the product of early Christian imagination, but these attempts have at no time succeeded in convincing more than a few, and it is inconceivable that they would ever convince the Christian, for the event whose historicity is to him more than the conclusion of an argument but is witnessed to by his own being as a Christian — this event includes the appearance in history of this man.

It ought to be inconceivable to a Christian that any obstacle, beyond those of temporal and finite necessity, should be placed in the way of the full and free growth, in and under God, of any man or woman or child, because each and all of them now must be seen as blood - brothers, not of us only, but of the most - high God.

It is utterly inconceivable that Biblical imagery should be forced into such a straitjacket as this.

Many things we think of as «churchly» were clearly inconceivable in that era.

Whitehead is as «post-evolutionary» in his thought as were the pragmatists, for example, in theirs.18 That is to say, Whitehead, James, Peirce, and Dewey all presuppose some concept of evolutionary development in their philosophies; indeed, their respective styles of philosophizing would have been inconceivable apart from the prior development of evolutionist theories.

If nothingness can be «conceived» only as an impossibility which we try vainly to picture or mean, then that seems equivalent in the most important sense to saying that nothingness is inconceivable.

And it is inconceivable to him that the communion with the «risen Lord», which the fact of resurrection has made possible, should ever be brought to an end — a communion like that, in which love is shared so richly, has about it the quality of everlastingness, even (as Baillie would doubtless say) of eternity.

Without modern scientific concepts, a view of «creation» anywhere near as accurate as ours was simply literally inconceivable.

In this realm, as in every other, it is inconceivable that the Jews should have lived in isolation from the thinking of the world at large.

Southern Baptist like Gov. Huckabee as VP on Romney's ticket (and it's not inconceivable) will erase all these divisions and will unite our party — there is no doubt in my mind.

And «nothingness» is inconceivable to Humans as all of space consists of something.