Sentences with phrase «dependence upon her as»

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You might as well try to take advantage of peoples» dependence upon texting then.

Yet tensions erupted in 1538 over what both Farel and Calvin came to see as Geneva's excessive dependence upon Berne.

The fourth pillar of Islam is the fast -LCB- sawn) of Ramadan as a reflection upon the human dependence on God and on spiritual goals.

Drawing upon The Courage To Be, Scott is aware of three characteristics of «absolute faith»: (1) To live in the power of being that enables a person to withstand the onslaughts of guilt, death, and meaninglessness; (2) To experience the dependence of all manifestations of nonbeing upon being, such as the dependence of meaninglessness upon meaning, thereby testifying to the ultimacy of being - itself; and (3) To accept being accepted in spite of one's separation from the power of being (AC 95f).

55 But even this awareness is qualified by the insistence that the power of God can be understood as one that «dominates all» and is «master over all,» 56 leading to the realization of «the complete dependence of everything real upon God.»

Babies know about as much of human fallibility and dependence upon God as they will ever know — and perhaps even more than we will ever know.

In consequence, therefore, man must first of all be seen as a finite process of becoming, with recognition of his dependence upon environmental factors both natural and historical.

Augustine disputed with Pelagius about free will, and generally Pelagianism has been viewed by the main stream of Christian thought as a heresy in which man's dependence upon grace for salvation is denied.

For Schleiermacher, as we have seen, 20 the essence of religion lay in the individual's feeling of dependence upon the Infinite.

These are certainly historical facts, because they both imply an element of dependence of Jesus upon the Baptist and they are inconceivable as products of a Christian community concerned to exalt its Lord and engaged in rivalry with a Baptist sect.

Your notion of the «given'to God seems close to what I think of as the dependence of God upon the past as the sum of acts of more or less free beings, to whose activity God is passive, since otherwise it would not be real activity.

The Church should never think of itself as possessing grace, but as participating in it, and that participation is above all dependence upon grace as forgiveness.

Such an understanding is present in Schleiermacher's definition of religion as a sense, feeling, or awareness or human dependence upon God.

On the human side, it is the always potential and often the actually realized sense of dependence upon the divine reality that sustains and (as traditional language would phrase it) «saves» such existence from triviality, meaninglessness, and extinction.

He calls attention to (1) the degeneration in syncretism of the old Yahweh faith prior to the appearance of the eighth - century prophets; (2) a kind of «emancipation» from Yahweh in increasing dependence upon the maturing structure of the political state; and (3) the dissolution of the old tribal social order with the shift of economic power to the cities, the increasing inability of the farmer, because of the burdens of heavy taxation, to maintain himself as a free man, and the growing concentration of land in the hands of a few wealthy urbanites (cf. Isa.

Just as the Sabbath reminds us of our dependence upon divine grace, so, according to Qoheleth, our play experiences suggest God's gracious favor as their basis (Ecc1.

In broad outline, Hartshorne's dependence upon White - head finds clearest expression in his enthusiastic adoption of Whitehead's view of the universe as essentially one of perpetual change and becoming.

To speak of a Creator without a creation is to talk linguistic nonsense — quite as much as to speak of creaturely freedom as if it were a freedom apart from dependence upon God's initiating and continuing concern.

And the absence of vital and healthy institutions elsewhere, particularly religious institutions, leads to a general dependence upon the state as the provider of social goods.

«17 We need not, however, be misled, as Ayer apparently was, by this strong dependence upon a mathematical metaphor.

Alcoholism was portrayed there [in the previous chapter] as a complex, psychophysiological dependence upon alcohol which ends up being its own obsessive - compulsive dynamism (Alcohol Problems and Alcoholism: A Comprehensive Survey [NY: The Free Press, 1981], p. 159).

A man who is utterly self - contained and whose chief ambition is to be «self - existent» and hence to exist without dependence upon relationships of any sort, is a man whom we regard as an unpleasant if not vicious specimen of the race; and it is odd that deity has been regarded, and this even in Christian circles, as more like such a self - contained human being rather than as like a man who in every area of his life is open to relationships and whose very existence is rich in the possibility of endless adaptations to new circumstances.

The Faustian notion of freedom as the absence of superego constraints or restrictions from the side of tradition is thus revealed to be bondage of the will in separation from and yet in symbiotic dependence upon the heritage.

Hartshorne's dependence upon Whitehead finds clearest expression in his enthusiastic adoption of Whitehead's view of the universe as essentially one of perpetual change and becoming, in opposition to the dominant views of traditional Western philosophy and theology that the basic realities of both God and the universe endure permanently without essential change.

A clear example of this dependence of justice upon social power is the achievement of voting rights for such minority groups as Negroes.

On the basis of such a distinction, it is open to one to understand the structure of experience in the following way: With respect to the immediate relation of awareness to its data, experience is to be understood as an asymmetrical relation of dependence of the noetic upon the ontic pole, whereas, with respect to the mediated relation of cognition and its data, experience is to be understood as the asymmetrical relation of dependence of the ontic on the noetic pole.

Would they find here, as they already thought they had found in the creation story and that of the flood, evidence of dependence of Hebrew culture upon Babylonia?

(The relevance for the prayer of confession of the awareness of dependence upon the given structures of existence, as well as of the awareness of imperfection, is evident from these comments).

Nothing could exist as pure actuality, without relational dependence upon things other than itself.

Thus the Franciscan lives in full dependence upon the incarnation, as does the Augustinian.

The first of these difficulties is relative to the absolute dependence of our spiritual life, as we know it here, upon the brain.

And whereas, it is the duty of nations as as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord: And, in so much as we know that, by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?

His definition of firstness is one of the most precise definitions in the literature of the idea of external or nonconstitutive relation, and the definition of secondness is equally precise as definitive of internal or constitutive relations, except for the arbitrary limitation to dependence upon just one other entity.

However, it began a new phase of environmental deterioration with its great and increasing dependence upon non-renewable resources such as fossil fuels and on renewable resources such as timber and food.

To talk of substance is to suggest (however different may have been the meaning of that word in the classical and medieval period) something that exists in and for and of itself alone, without any necessary dependence upon that which is not itself: while to put the adjective individual before substance is to talk as if this substance could be seen primarily as a particular instance of a more general class.

To the extent that traditional conceptions of morality require a recognition of some salutary dependence upon nature, or of insuperable limitations on human self - transformation, science must be understood as an outright rejection of them.

It is on this lattermost level that the evolutionary process itself becomes self - conscious, reflects back upon itself and its dependence on a creator who made the world as a process consistent with its own principles but not totally self - sufficient.

84 The task these ministers set before themselves, as they readily admitted, was far beyond their own competency to perform and it demanded not only the most earnest efforts to improve their gifts and the most rigorous budgeting of their time but a constant dependence upon God for success.

The solution would obviously be to go from exclusive dependence upon diapers to — > using the diaper or another back - up (undies, trainers, or commando - just - in - pants) as a tool.

This is dependence too, but it is different and conflicting with dependence upon the people so long as the funders are not the people.»

In a recent paper titled, «Demarcating circulation regimes of synchronously rotating terrestrial planets within the habitable zone,» my co-authors and I analyze a set of climate model calculations to examine the dependence upon stellar effective temperature of the atmospheric dynamics of planets as they move closer to the inner edge of the habitable zone.

Treatment centers utilizing these medications often see the same patients repeatedly, as relapse follows relapse and permanent dependence upon numbing drugs replaces true healing and productive lives.

If anything, the US tech sector has become dangerously reliant upon, and correlated to consumer spending through its dependence on advertising as a revenue source and will suffer alongside the consumer.

Upon understanding the gameplay, microtransactions allow disabled gamers access to gameplay functions that mitigate disability related gaming difficulties such as twitch reflexes or a dependence on visual or audio cues.

Michael has created his own style of «Medusa» painting or «Medusa Style» as he calls it, evolving from an original painting idea he came up with based upon our culture's dependence on technology.

Austerity advocates are knowingly or unknowingly the useful idiots of the bloated financial sector, as artificially limiting government expenditure and giveaways to public assets, makes more room for and dependence upon private debt issuance.

This must include ending Australia's economic dependence upon the export of coal as a necessary first step.

In contrast, the present «handcraftsmen's» method of delivering legal services will produce ever - increasing costs because it doesn't use specialization as an on - process, in response to the law's ever - increasing complexity, volume, and dependence upon technology.

The fault (the original sin) lies within the «stars» of our law schools, i.e., insufficient awareness created as to the many - faceted dependence of law upon technology.

The development of such legal infrastructure is necessary given: (1) the dependence of every legal service upon e-records; (2) e-records are the most frequently used kind of evidence; and, (3) other widely used areas of the law such as privacy and access to information, electronic commerce, taxation, and criminal law, are dependent upon e-records.