Sentences with phrase «cosmic struggle»

«Religion of the noblest kind,» says Wieman (1929), «is man's recognition of this creative cosmic struggle and his personal allegiance to the process of progressive integration» (p. 216).

Earlier in the twentieth century, scholars attributed this to the influence of Hellenistic dualism, but now scholars accept a Jewish background to the concept of a cosmic struggle of good and evil.

Because of our contemporary awareness of the evolutionary, narrative character of the universe, and the growing sense of our species» continuity with this emergent process, we are now in a position to interpret the long search of religion as a prolongation of the cosmic struggle toward more intense beauty.

It may be from Zoroastrian influence that some Jews developed the picture of a cosmic struggle, which is to be found in apocalyptic literature.

We are made in the image and likeness of God, and the spiritual reality of the universe is that we are in the midst of a cosmic struggle between heaven and hell, between right and wrong.

Jim Sheridan's latest In America begins with a tense border cross and a spacey ride through the Holland Tunnel that quickly sets up the cosmic struggle Irish émigrés Johnny and Sarah (Paddy Considine and Samantha Morton) and their two young daughters must embark upon once they arrive in New York.

Kippenberger is portrayed in «theatrical contortions, exaggeratedly cramped positions, in tight cycling shorts and top, engaged in a cosmic struggle with himself, upside down a la Baselitz, as a skinny - legged naked Olympic sprinter, as a fabulous dancer.»