Sentences with phrase «claims ultimate significance»

The theme, often struck by Reinhold Niebuhr, that a proximate cause becomes demonic when it claims ultimate significance, is one which Harrington picks up with enthusiasm.

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Finally, aware of the religious dimensions of the texts, they are able to appreciate how claims to ultimate significance are inevitably forged in terms that are anthropologically rooted, historically conditioned and literarily defined; on the other hand, for the first time, many of them come to perceive Christianity as in fact making a number of extremely interesting religious claims.

Also, if he claims for statements about Jesus» ultimate significance a self - evidence or demonstration in no way dependent upon participation in the community of faith, he would not intend his statements to be theological in the sense of my definition.

Polkinghorne's discussion of the resurrection focuses, in contrast, on general philosophical arguments to the effect that «in order to confirm... the claim that the integrity of personal experience itself, based as it is in the significance and value of individual men and women and the ultimate and total intelligibility of the universe, requires that there be an eternal ground of hope who is the giver and preserver of human individuality and the eternally faithful Carer for creation.»