Sentences with phrase «concerning immortality»

Of course there are endless problems, questions, difficulties, concerning immortality where the mystery is too deep for our plummets.

At the time Thornton had closely read The Concept of Nature (1920) and Principles of Natural Knowledge (2d edition, 1925), tended to interpret Science and the Modern World (1925) in line with these earlier works, and was acquainted with Religion in the Making (1926) though somewhat unsure what to make of its doctrine of God.2 He took comfort in Whitehead's remark concerning the immortality of the soul, and evidently wanted to apply it to all theological issues: «There is no reason why such a question should not be decided on more special evidence, religious or otherwise, provided that it is trustworthy.

The author uses process thought regarding three questions concerning immortality.

Not exact matches

Again, I'm not concerned with proving the reality of an eternal afterlife, I was more curious about the mind set that would cause someone to prefer non existence over immortality, even if that immortality was HYPOTHETICAL.

Without grace, belief in immortality is irreligious because it reflects central concern with the selfish preservation of the self.

They had inculcated a deep sense of sin and a conscious need of personal salvation; they had overpassed national and racial lines and had made religious faith a matter of individual conviction; they had emphasized faith in immortality and the need of assurance concerning it; they had bound their devotees together in mystical societies of brethren fired with propagandist zeal; and they had accentuated the interior nature of religious experience in terms of an, indwelling Presence, through whom human life could be «deicized.»

The objective immortality of his consequent nature is considered later (cf. Part V); we are now concerned with his primordial nature» (PR 47).

LJ - «I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.»

The proper priority can not be restored in an integral Christian theology by eliminating concern for or belief in personal immortality.

To concern oneself with the resurrection hope simply for the purpose of grasping hold of what seems to be a viable approach to personal immortality does not, however, do full justice to this first - century doctrine.

The quest for an adequate Christian eschatology has too often become narrowed down to the concern for personal immortality.

Out of the concern for personal immortality traditional Christian thought proceeded to construct in imagination a spiritual world in which the blessed enjoy their immortal existence.

It is in this sense that the postulate of immortality expresses the face of hope of the postulate of freedom: a theoretical proposition concerning the continuation and indefinite persistence of existence is the philosophical equivalent of the hope for resurrection.

Concerning the survival of the human personality after death, whether in the Platonic sense of the immortality of the soul or the biblical sense of the resurrection of the body, Hartshorne is at times agnostic and at others quite skeptical.

Angels are not sent out by God except when there is a real problem to be addressed and fixed; the very least the Unification Church could have done when I told them about this visitor (who is still with me by the way) was to send someone out to talk to me to see exactly what it was that I may have really known about the Providence concerning Rev. Moon reaching immortality in the flesh: but I suppose they all thought they knew more than my servant John; who happens to be» the greatest in the kingdom of heaven».

If there remained no other inscriptions or written material concerning Egypt, it would be possible to reconstruct, to a very considerable degree, the life and thought of ancient Egypt from this important book, for in the process of preparing for death and immortality, almost everything that is important in life itself is considered in one way or another.

The New Testament, therefore, so far as faith in immortality is concerned, does possess an «absolutely new atmosphere.»

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

One might call this an aristocratic view of immortality; the immortals — I speak of Heaven exclusively, for an immortality of torment need not now concern us — were always an elite, a select and manageable number.

If we were to ask an ordinary Christian today (whether well - read Protestant or Catholic, or not) what he conceived to be the New Testament teaching concerning the fate of man after death, with few eceptions we should get the answer: «The immortality of the soul.»

(As far as humans are concerned, there is no reason for us to reject the possibility of some sort of subjective survival beyond death as well as an objective immortality in God's own feeling.)

Since his major concern is an anxiety about the future, he can be offered some assurances about his personal continuity within the framework of «subjective immortality.»

But my concern in the lecture was not to discuss immortality in general.