Sentences with phrase «decisive significance»

Recognition of diverse religious ends is the condition for recognition of the decisive significance of our religious choices and development, a significance that the particularistic witness of the individual religions collectively affirms.

But in so far as the moment is to have decisive significance (and unless we assume this we remain at the Socratic standpoint) the learner is destitute of this condition, and must therefore have been deprived of it.

Now if the latter is to have decisive significance, the seeker must be destitute of the Truth up to the very moment of his learning it; he can not even have possessed it in the form of ignorance, for in that case the moment becomes merely occasional.

He was not aware that he had bound himself, and now he had freed himself.4 Thus interpreted the moment receives no decisive significance, and yet this was the hypothesis we proposed to ourselves in the beginning.

Now if things are to be otherwise, the Moment in time must have a decisive significance, so that I will never be able to forget it either in time or eternity; because the Eternal, which hitherto did not exist, came into existence in this moment.

Hence if the Moment is to have decisive significance — and if not we speak Socratically whatever we may say, even if through not even understanding ourselves we imagine that we have advanced far beyond that simple man of wisdom who divided judgment incorruptibly between the God and man and himself, a judge more just than Minos, Aeacus and Rhadamanthus — if the Moment has decisive significance the breach is made, and man can not return.

Such naïveté is now impossible, for Freud taught us what the Bible knew — that the closer one gets to matters of decisive significance for the self (in this case, God), the less able he is to think disinterestedly.

If the constitutive assertion of this witness, however expressed or implied, is specifically christological, in that it is the assertion, in some terms or other, of the decisive significance of Jesus for human existence, the metaphysical implications of this assertion are specifically theological in that they all either are or clearly imply assertions about the strictly ultimate reality that in theistic religious traditions is termed «God.»

Yet this has decisive significance for his doctrine of evil, and for his creative solution to evil.

If his previous state had been one of «to be,» then under no circumstances would the moment have acquired decisive significance for him, as explained above.

Jesus may be a great teacher, and he may atone for our sins, but his teaching and suffering are of decisive significance only because he is the Lord who comes «to unite all things,... things in heaven and things on earth» (Eph 1:10).

But if the Moment is to have decisive significance -LRB---- RRB -, this is not the truth, for the learner will owe everything to the Teacher.

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The significance of the book lies in its insistence that Islam is not a matter of personal loyalties but a movement in which loyalty to ideals is the decisive factor.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

But Ogden, while agreeing with this approach, also claims that Jesus is the «decisive manifestation» and is of unique significance.

But whatever significance Whitehead may have attached to such considerations, he knew they were far from decisive.

The writers of the gospels believed that the facts of the career of Jesus Christ were worth recording because they had decisive religious significance which challenged theological interpretation; and the writers of the epistles.

Though Danny's Welbeck's tussle with Emre Can on Arsenal's left - hand - side will be another key battle to look forward to, the aforementioned player duels will carry greater significance and, in many ways, be decisive in the way this game takes shape.

The nutritional supplement for their leaves can have a major ecological significance and may also have been decisive for the evolution of ant - plant interactions,» says Joachim Offenberg.