Sentences with phrase «contemporary experience which»

Thus contemporary theology is stalemated between a longstanding affirmation which does not touch the lives of many, and an appreciation of the needs and aspirations of contemporary experience which has great difficulty in being theological.

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What he produces is an anatomy of suffering the major axis of which is the irony that «battles over the value of suffering intensify in the contemporary world precisely at the same time people in ever greater numbers discard the notion that suffering is an inevitable part of human experience.»

We do not yet possess a mystagogy in the experience of God and his grace which would be practicable for the ordinary pastor and which would appeal to our sceptical, scientifically trained contemporaries.

There can be no appeal to woman's experience or to contemporary psychological knowledge for norms by which to evaluate the Christian revelation.

Several of these reform movements — such as the 19th - century urban parks movement, without which contemporary big - city life would be almost unlivable — have made permanent contributions to our experience and understanding of good city life.

Instead, we have two competing research programs, each with its own fundamental intuitions and program of inquiry to pursue, as in Imre Lakatos's philosophy of science.15 Only «over the long haul» can we judge which will be more progressive more able to handle the classical challenges raised by the entire history of metaphysics, by dialogue with existing religions (Christian and otherwise), and by the experience of contemporary religious believers.

This understanding of God's relationship to the world has been enormously influential in contemporary philosophy of religion, especially since the publication in 1948 of The Divine Relativity from which the above quotation was taken.2 Although the consistency of divine relativity with the understanding of simultaneity in modem physics is a recognized point of contention, the question I wish to ask is whether the theory of divine relativity is metaphysically possible.3 How could it be possible for God to know and feel the different experiences of radically distinct subjects with equal vividness all at the same time?

The problem of Santa Claus theology is that it emphasizes belief for belief's sake, or affirms a belief which no longer accords with contemporary experience.

For he can help us to get some spiritual distance on our cultural situation; he can increase our awareness of those aspects of our modern consciousness which cut the heart out of our Christian experience, and so help to free us from them; he can help engender in us a sense of humor about ourselves which comes from taking a less contemporary and more eternal perspective — a perspective in which our love of God, our gratefulness to Christ and our concern for our neighbor will have a chance to grow.

Whereas contemporary understanding envisions the curious person as open to knowledge, life, and new experiences in a kind of whimsical, impish, or carefree way, scholastic theologians saw curiosity as a wayward pursuit which impedes the studied application of the mind to worthy things.

Even those who are not informed about contemporary psychological analysis of human experience may very well feel that it is not adequate to describe that experience as if we were speaking about some persistent «I», to which things happened; a self which did things that were, so to say, merely adjectival to the substantival «I».

Contemporary approaches to religious education aim at providing meaningful experiences through which the Christian message and experience can be communicated.

For evidence we may cite the contemporary existentialist philosophy in which nothing matters but the moment of experience.

This dialectic provides categories, within our contemporary context, for discerning how communal expressions, when they are cut off from transformative communal experiences, become «objective» and «institutionalized» in ways which dichotomize subjects and objects, experiences and expressions.

The familiar immediate presentation of the contemporary world, which philosophers of the day described as the awareness of sense - data, is called by Whitehead «Experience in the Mode of Presentational Immediacy.»

Beginning with the experience of Paul, the Christian view of this world which came to theological expression in the Reformers and which has now been revived with great power in the contemporary Protestant theology, has always shown a certain distrust of identifying human efforts toward the good with the divine work of redemption on the ground that the good as man knows it and seeks it is really of a different order from the good revealed in Christ.

He was strongly opposed to the teaching of some of his Christian contemporaries who wished to interpret the idiom of resurrection as an allegorical description of that Christian experience by which «a man, having come to the truth, has been reanimated and revivified to God, and, the death of ignorance being dispelled, has as it were burst forth from the tomb of the old man».35 Tertullian was adamant that the resurrection was in the future and to be understood in physical, fleshly terms («I pronounce that the flesh will certainly rise again»).36 In order to forestall those who could contend the impossibility of such a hope on the grounds that the decayed corpse would have long since wasted away to nothing, he pointed out that quite recently, in his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state of preservation.

Thus «faith», the pattern of contemporary religious experience which is to relate us to God through Christ, can not by its very nature be built upon «the present evil aeon», with all that it provides of worldly security under man's control and invariably at his disposal; by definition «faith» is the life given in death, and consequently has its basis beyond our control, is lived out of the future, is «an act of faith».

Furthermore, the Christian community exists in the contemporary world in which Christian people have their own specific experience and grasp of what this tradition, grounded in the apostolic witness to the originating event, can mean to them.

On the other hand, to celebrate the integrity of the tradition, its documents and declarations, to give impetus to the continued reflection of the church on issues of contemporary meaning and value, is to experience the renewing power of being a part of a community of faith, of having an identity which transcends the anomic character of «doing your own thing» and going it alone.

We have seen how in each of the other two types of doctrine of love contemporary experience raises questions which have forced a reconsideration of the meaning of love within that perspective.

The general theme of abiding in the highest good is the greatest contribution neo-Confucianism has to contemporary philosophy, because it is the point at which an axiological theory of experience is put forward.

In the second place, Whitehead shows us that the true objects of experience are not the presented sensa or the contemporary entities in the regions on which we project the sensa.

And he calls our experience of the contemporary world, behind which there lurks the deposit of accumulated past experience, perception in the mode of presentational immediacy.

We must note, however, that it has been Western scholarship which has unraveled the depths and subtleties of the Oriental mystical vision; or, at least, it has been Western thinkers who have succeeded in translating the exotic language of Eastern mysticism into the contemporary language of Western experience.

This same Spirit renders each of us a contemporary, as it were, of this Jesus — astonishing as it is to comprehend — in a faith encounter in which God's Spirit effects living contact for each believer with the foundational experience of belief: the encounter with the Lord.

Whenever we attempt to express the matter of immediate experience, we find that its understanding leads us beyond itself, to its contemporaries, to its past, to its future, and to the universals in terms of which its definiteness is exhibited.

He can in this way realign philosophy with contemporary scientific theory, while at the same time providing the latter with a «ground» in immediate experience which had been lacking in traditional empiricism, modeled as that was on corpuscular theories of nature.8 In his early work, Whitehead employs Bradley's antiatomism within a classically empiricist framework; redefined as a continuum, sensation still plays its conventional role as a theory of «presentation» (EPNK 60), the given foundation of the reflective process.9

But Christian discrimination ought to operate on another level here; it ought to applaud the metaphorical adroitness in giving a new context for the passion story, a context which provides for disbelieving contemporary human beings a genuinely «secular» experience of the narrative, and one which is in continuity with the parabolic way of hiddenness and mystery.

He accepts the early tradition that various disciples had visionary experiences, most probably located in Galilee, and that these experiences led to the founding of «a community which preached the resurrection and exaltation of Jesus as the Messiah and / or the Son of Man among their Jewish contemporaries.»

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Contemporary touches are seen throughout, most noticeable is the open kitchen which is visible from the dining room, «so that diners are able to experience the theater of the cooking experience from a celebrated chef,» said Brown.

With the growing prison population in many western countries, fathering from prison is emerging as a further significant context in which to understand the contemporary experience of fathers in families.

His leisure time passion is collecting «egg» images from the contemporary art world and finding life experiences which rise to the «level of art.»

There are unique considerations regarding the needs of infants during the first three years of life which are highlighted by contemporary knowledge, underscoring the impact of early experience on the development of human infant brain and mind»

The Bolivian experience also highlights the challenge of producing innovation in citizenship - making and the resilience of the «state» and the «nation», two poles between which the pendulum of contemporary politics is still hopelessly oscillating.

He creates an emotional experience which feels contemporary and traditional at the same time.

Rebel Without a Cause suggests contradictions and conflicts at the heart of the familial relations that constituted contemporary society but also the very means by which society's leading cultural institution had organised and legitimised certain experiences.

Examining the way in which contemporary rides are increasingly deploying sophisticated digital image projection technologies to augment their experiences, Ndalaianis points out that of «all entertainment media, it's only the theme park ride that can deliver such intense somatic and visceral effects on the body» (p. 70).

I had a less of a happy experience with «Gare Du Nord» [C] from French helmer Claire Simon, which melds drama and documentary in a look at contemporary France against the backdrop of its biggest Parisian station.

Ha Jin's prodigious talents are evident in this powerful new book, which brilliantly brings to life the struggles and successes that characterize the contemporary immigrant experience.

With experience of undertaking modules in a diverse range of subjects, she has acquired exceptional knowledge of contemporary and classical theories which include philosophy, history, cultural studies, film and literature.

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Its Gothic and Bohemian Baroque architecture provides a magical setting in which to experience Prague's contemporary art, dining and entertainment.

This is an Indian specialty restaurant which offers a unique dining experience, and recipes which combine the ancient with the contemporary.

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