Sentences with phrase «by immortality of the soul»

It also rests on something deeper than speculation about an infinitely prolonged life in the form of what is often meant by immortality of the soul.

Not exact matches

Nowhere does Bingham give careful attention to how soul and immortality have actually been used by religious communities, nor does he admit explicitly that Churchland's remarks on germs versus demons and the pitting of Ptolemy against Galileo amounts to saying that religious terms are comparable to pre-Copernican astronomical theories.

The real task is to explain the immortality of the whole person without minimizing the value of the body dimension by postponing its inclusion or presenting it as an eventual addition to the real person, the soul.

«Foreword,» The Father Shore: An Anthology of World Opinion on the Immortality of the Soul, edited by Nathaniel Edward Griffin and Lawrence Hunt (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1934), xvii.

5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; Romans 2:1 - 9 (KJV)

The instrument may perish but the tune survives and, as it is often argued by those who would attempt to bring «immortality of the soul» and some residual meaning of «resurrection'together into a single conception, that tune might very well be played on another instrument if one does not accept the idea that tunes can exist, so to say, without any expression through some instrumentality.

In this particular context, Whitehead is presenting his own resolution to the problem posed by the fluency and transience of the world, so subjective immortality of the soul takes on the guise of a discarded alternative.

The important consideration here is that primitive Christianity interpreted the rising again of Jesus Christ in this fashion, and not by a conception of the soul's immortality.

Whitehead approaches the question of man's desire for immortality, not by following the traditional path of the soul as having substance, but that every act, every event, every realization of value has everlasting significance and contributes everlastingly to the nature of things.

Moreover, if the personal immortality of the soul is effected by God and God alone, then the resurrection of the body in its immortal dimension would also be God's act.

Selman, on the other hand, seeks to subvert this same trend by constructing an extended argument in favour of the immortality of the soul (chapter 10).

McCabe had already said in an earlier talk on «The Immortality of the Soul» that «the subsistence of the soul has no more content» for Aquinas than that «a man has an operation by his soul which is not an operation of the body&raqSoul» that «the subsistence of the soul has no more content» for Aquinas than that «a man has an operation by his soul which is not an operation of the body&raqsoul has no more content» for Aquinas than that «a man has an operation by his soul which is not an operation of the body&raqsoul which is not an operation of the body».

[15] Whether the immortality of the soul can be proved by human reason is a traditional subject of debate among theologians.

Reinhold Niebuhr wrote in 1939, «The idea of the resurrection of the body is a Biblical symbol in which modern minds find the greatest offence and which has long since been displaced in most modern versions of the Christian faith by the idea of the immortality of the soul.61

Thus, out hope is in the Resurrection, and not in the purported «immortality of the «Soul»» as espoused by the Greeks.

They have confused «immortality of the soul» with whatever may be intended by the biblical phrase «resurrection of the body»; while theologians have attempted, as we have already observed, when I described the older scheme which comprised the last things, to bring the two conceptions together in a fashion which will retain each of them and yet relate them so that a consistent pattern may be provided.

The churches of Christendom have also been rejected by «the only true God», for they have accepted and continue to promote false religious ideologies, such as the trinity, hellfire, immortality of the soul.

Corresponding to the immortality of the soul, as depicted by the Greek philosophers, there is a particular judgment immediately after death.

One can therefore divert oneself by reflecting how strange it is that precisely in our age when everyone is able to accomplish the highest things doubt about the immortality of the soul could be so widespread, for the man who has really made even so much as the movement of infinity is hardly a doubter.

No good purpose is served by concealing this fact, as is often done today when things that are really incompatible are combined by the following type of over-simplified reasoning: that whatever in early Christian teaching appears to us irreconcilable with the immortality of the soul, viz. the resurrection of the body, is not an essential affirmation for the first Christians but simply an accommodation to the mythological expressions of the thought of their time, and that the heart of the matter is the immortality of the soul.

Even those who believe in the immortality of the soul do not have the hope of which Paul speaks, the hope which expresses the belief of a divine miracle of new creation which will embrace everything, every part of the world created by God.

At this stage it is quite clear that «Everyman» entertains the hope of immortality, and these numerous texts are the means by which the soul is supposed to be able to make its way through the nether world.

Tertullian (A.D. 155 - 220): «For some things are known even by nature: the immortality of the soul, the instance, is held by many... I may use, therefore, the opinion of Plato, when he declares: «Every soul is immortal»»

The widespread misunderstanding that the New Testament teaches the immortality of the soul was actually encouraged by the rock - like post-Easter conviction of the first disciples that the bodily Resurrection of Christ had robbed death of all its horror, (But hardly in such a way that the original Christian community could speak of «natural» dying.

Put his The Riddle of the Universe alongside Adams's masterwork and you can see how neatly Haeckel solves Adams's problem about unity by getting rid of free will, religion, and the immortality of the soul (that it is immortal «is the highest point of superstition») and by his theory of spontaneous generation (his zoological Big Bang that needs no Banger).

William of Occam recognized the authority of the Church in spiritual matters and said that, although they can not be proved, such tenets of Christianity as the existence of God and the immortality of the soul must be believed because they are taught by the Church and the Bible.

Delta immortality was the position taken early on by American Reform Judaism, as expressed in this official statement from the 1885 Pittsburgh platform: «We assert the doctrine of Judaism that the soul is immortal, founding this belief on the divine nature of the human spirit, which forever finds bliss in righteousness and misery in wickedness.

For the locus of Omega immortality is not the individual soul per se, but the complete society created by God's love, in which individuality is realized in fellowship.

5 But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who «will render to each one according to his deeds»: [a] 7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; 8 but to those who are self - seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness — indignation and wrath, 9 tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; 10 but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Some theologians today prefer not to use the term «immortality» when they speak of the future life, lest the Greek idea of the natural immortality of the soul be suggested by it.

Denial of the innate immortality of the soul was sometimes expressed (for example, by Peripatetics), but such denials were unfashionable, especially since the consecratio of a dead emperor involved the belief that his soul had been carried into heaven.

Otto Rank (at one time a protege of Freud), broke with his master and posited that we are, rather, motivated by the undeniable conflict between our sense of ourselves as «immortal souls,» and our realization that we exist by virtue of our all - too - mortal bodies, that we are desperate to believe that we will, somehow, live beyond our bodies, and that, in order to do so, we pursue «immortality projects,» that we invest in our activities the promise of eternal life.