Sentences with phrase «bodily movements]»

Jesus died in the sense that his individual bodily organization disintegrated.

But is not the nonsocial nexus precisely what disappears when bodily organization disintegrates?

In the soul - body analogy; God's knowledge of the world is transcendent in that it transcends human knowledge of bodily events because God is attuned to all while we are attuned to only our nervous system (and even that knowledge is imperfect).

Augustine's use of the language of bodily experience is what makes the Confessions communicable to readers of every age.

A person wholly independent of bodily structures would, in and of itself, be deceased.

My critics reject the argument that the ruling violates the religious liberty rights of Jews and Muslims; they maintain that, on the contrary, infant circumcision violates the rights of children to bodily integrity and religious liberty, since they can not consent to being circumcised.

Our moments of bodily and mental «togetherness» are analogous to the experience we have of Jesus in the church.

Now, Gudorf contends, present inroads on this tradition insist that: «1) bodily experience can reveal the divine, 2) affectivity is as essential as rationality to true Christian love, 3) Christian love exists not to bind autonomous selves, but as the proper form of connection between beings who become human persons in relation, and 4) the experience of bodily pleasure is important in creating the ability to trust and love others, including God.»

And even though we have no ordinary experience of the soul separated from its body, it is at least possible that the soul could prehend itself or other souls more directly without bodily mediation.

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency: German court ruling on circumcision riles Jewish community Germany's top Jewish leader called on the federal Parliament «to ensure religious freedom» following a Cologne court ruling that said circumcising young boys on religious grounds amounts to grievous bodily harm.

He then ascends bodily, while two men in white (i.e. angels) interpret this to the disciples.

The picture suggests a bodily resurrection of the dead and a transference of the living directly from this world to another.

What the Church knows as the descent of Christ into Hell is not, according to Blake's vision, a descent apart from the body, but rather a descent into the very depths of bodily repression, a descent that is only consummated in the identification of Jesus» «Satanic Body of Holiness» with the totality of the cosmos, and its consequent presence as the redemptive fire of passion throughout the whole body of humanity.

As the Christian thing concretely present, a congregation is a complex of practices comprised of bodily and mental acts regarding ourselves, our neighbors, our shared social and physical contexts, and God.

Personally, I don't care for images that use bodily functions to make a point.

Human birth and bodily functions can't have seemed very appealing when viewed from heavenly glory.

These earliest testimonies thus stand in contrast to the Easter stories in the Gospels, where the empty tomb is a central fact and the appearances of Christ are thought of, in the light of this, as being in some cases bodily: involving touch as well as sight, and including eating in the presence of the disciples.

They still look expectantly to the bodily return of Jesus descending from the heavens, the battle of Armageddon in the Middle East and the replacement of this present world with a «new heaven and a new earth».

If the appearances to the apostles were private manifestations, in the sense that a casual bystander would have seen nothing: if; that is to say, they were in the nature of visions rather than of bodily seeing, this does not imply that these men were not confronted with the Lord's presence as an external reality.

So in I Corinthians, having asked how the dead are raised, he attempts to answer the question by saying, on the one hand, that there is some kind of real, though indefinable, continuity between our present bodily mode of existence and the life beyond death, and, on the other, that there is discontinuity also.

So, in a different sense than we have employed the idea thus far, we would say that the athlete's bodily actions were more fully his acts than is true for the spastic person, for they more adequately express his intentions.

That is why I said that of course I did not maintain that one can not be an intelligent Christian and continue to believe in a bodily resurrection.

Up to now our attention has been focused on the last things in the lives of individuals: personal death, particular judgment, immortality, an interim state, heaven / hell, and bodily resurrection.

«Daesh fighters have been systematically perpetrating mass atrocities, including killing members of religious groups such as Yazidis, Christians, Shia Muslims and others, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of these groups, deliberately imposing conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction in whole or in part.»

Experience itself, therefore, is only truly consummated in the passion of generation where the spontaneous expression of bodily energy duplicates and even makes incarnate in each individual body the universal process of the kenosis or emptying of the Godhead.

Gluttony is as much a spiritual as a bodily problem.

Neither does what Paul tells us about the appearance to himself suggest that he thought of this in terms of a bodily manifestation (and the account of it in Acts indicates clearly that Luke believed it was not).

The scriptural witness of the prophecies should be enough as a basis for faith; Mary did not find the Lord through her quest for his body, but only through answering his personal call to her; she must not cling to his bodily presence, for his life is now on another plane, with the Father who is the Father of all those who follow Jesus because he is his Father who has raised him from the dead; Thomas is offered sight and touch, as a gracious concession to his lack of faith; but he does not believe because of this, but because the risen Lord addresses him; and the happiness of those who have faith without sight is greater.

Every fragment of ecstatic joy and bodily delight foreshadows this union, every momentary death of selfhood negates a barrier to this apocalyptic reversal, every affirmation of an opposing other sanctifies that Satan who will ultimately be transfigured into Jerusalem.

Unless one can accept, say, the doctrines of the Virgin Birth, the bodily Resurrection of Jesus, and the Trinity, then one can not be a Christian believer.

Luke, however, says (3:2 l - 22) «The heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form, as a dove.»

We saw in relation to the inclusion of the body, that it was not necessary to think of the person as a vast multiplicity of acts of being in order to do justice to the bodily character of personal being.

Just as we can say of our bodily organs that they are naturally completed only because they are united for the sake of sustaining our biological life, so also we can say of two individuals that their union is comprehensive only if and when their bodies coordinate so as to work toward a common biological end — which is sexual reproduction.

This said, the crucial point at this stage of the argument is to recognise the connection between the purposes of the bodily organs and the meanings of the related human acts.

Peter Robbins, who voiced Charlie Brown in most of the Peanuts specials has been arrested on charges of stalking and making a threat to cause death or great bodily injury.

Putting the focus back on chastity might help us remember that repentance and redemption are always possible, as well as encourage us to view sexual behavior in a wider context of self - control, bodily respect, and patience, rather than as a simple prohibition against a particular physical action.»

Mark Elvins points out that in mediaeval times it was clear that almsgiving required compassion for the person in need as much as bodily help.

The only thing more intelligent than making something up out of thin air is discussing the fictional character's bodily functions.

When The Rapture comes and all of the humble, compassionate, charitable, honest, non-judgemental True Christians ascend bodily to Heaven, I'm sure we'll miss both of them.

I believe he created our sexuality and understands our bodily rhythms.

Even though Whitehead says «the novelty received from the aggregate diversities of bodily expressions... requires decision» to reduce it to a coherent expression (Modes 36), still the diversities once received are determinate object / parts logically required to remain as they are in order to retain the self - identity of the process / whole.

All his time and strength might have been spent in ministering to the bodily needs of the people about him.

We can not say whether Jesus was actually seen with the bodily eyes in some kind of physical form (so as to have been capable in theory of being photographed).

He comes back in bodily form.

Sometimes the risen Presence is bodily: indeed, fleshly.

It is a strange story, surely not meant to be taken as a literal record of an actual encounter with Satan in bodily form.

The RSS's main ritual and recruiting mechanism has been the so - called Sangh Shakha, a daily meeting to promote bodily and mental well - being and to inculcate loyalty to all things Hindu.

Rather, it requires bodily co-operation towards a single bodily end.

Sexuality in our age is almost completely dominated by the stimulus of bodily attraction, that is, the male - female mode of sexual power or that power of attraction which humans have in common with the animals.

The true virginity is not (as the Church has for so long held) the power to renounce bodily love.