Sentences with phrase «devoid of»

The universe as a whole, due to the second law of thermodynamics, popularly known as entropy, may freeze as the original heat of the big bang dissipates and every physical thing becomes devoid of energy.
This guy is the Anna Nicloe Smith of conservatism — completely devoid of talent, driven only by greed, and famous for absolutely nothing beyond making a foolish spectacle of himself.
The usual reason for doing this is that the evolutionists regard Precambrian as so different, so devoid of life in comparison with other rocks, that creationists have simply borrowed their description.»
Wiesel's Israel, Ellis contends, is «abstract» and «mystical,» devoid of any concern for «maps or politics.»
Secondly, conceptual feelings, apart from complex integration with physical feelings, are devoid of consciousness in their subjective forms.»
As primordial he is deficiently actual in two ways: a. his feelings are only conceptual and b. his conceptual feelings are devoid of consciousness.
Totally devoid of any substance whatsoever.
It never did fit well with the Biblical witness, where God is in constant interaction with the creatures and is affected by their decisions — hardly the picture of a God devoid of contingency (see Rice's contribution to Pinnock et al. 11 - 58).
These concerns are also prevalent in Lewis's and Tolkien's analyses of «men without chests» and the creation of a disenchanted world devoid of poetic myths that stem from and preserve folk culture.
The relation between nature and mind which results is totally one - sided, leaving the unified, rational character of mind (as totally devoid of nature) as the defining characteristics of existence as such.
He may also reply that, since panpsychism is the proper view of reality, a universe devoid of minds is the same as absolute nothingness.
I actually read a good part of these comments... It is interesting that atheists assume that believers are ignorant, small minded, devoid of reason or intellect and incredibly weak, so much so they need a «crutch».
On the other hand, Botha is attempting to rule South Africa and introduce meaningful change with pragmatic judgments devoid of mythological legitimations.
I would also be inclined to give greater emphasis to the more «classical» roots of modern fundamentalism in the post-Reformation traditions of both Reformed and Lutheran scholasticism and perhaps be willing to suggest that the line is not so totally devoid of theological insight as Barr seems to indicate.
He fears that the suggested changes in Christology will portend «the end of all meaningful religious and spiritual dialogue» and will result in a «sterile relativism, a monistic spiritual syncretism devoid of creative, truly pluralistic conflict and fruitful, truly creative tension.»
Your questions have no contextual basis, are without comprehension of history, and are devoid of insight or hindsight.
Fourth, Heidegger's «thinking» is so yieldingly devoid of overt philosophical convictions that it produces neither any answers nor even any very interesting questions.
In their standard metaphysical discussions, process theists usually define coercive power as the power to bring it about that another entity is totally devoid of any degree of self - determination.
The reason most persons would agree that a universe devoid of knowers is a possible state is because, although such a universe could never be known directly, it is conceivable; we can even meaningfully describe what would have to occur for such a universe to become actual; all minds would have to cease to be.
And yet both sources are about as laughable and devoid of fact as each other when looked at with any sort of objective thought.
In abstraction, the eternal objects are devoid of any real togetherness — they remain «isolated» (SMW 169 / 244).
Many Jews have decided that the solution is to downplay or oppose the positive contribution of Christianity in American life and, correspondingly, to reduce halakhic Judaism to behavior devoid of distinctive intellectual commitment.
Neither is conversion an isolated event devoid of an element of nurture.
So maybe if we want to communicate the message of Jesus we have to get away from archaic terms like gospel which have become traditional» buzz words «or theological jargon devoid of precise meaning and make anew the original intent which was about an announcement of the coming of God's Kingdom and all that that implies.
As is explained on its website: «The college will develop and enrich the cultural and educational life of our country; and respond to Benedict XVI's call for a New Evangelisation, bringing life to «the interior desert that results when man, wishing to be the only builder of his own nature and his own destiny, finds himself devoid of that which constitutes the foundation of all things»» (Motu proprio Ubicumque et semper, October 2010).
My bar mitzvah had been an empty ritual, devoid of God — and truth.
He sides against the faux - bohemian sophisticates devoid of real virtue and so who have no idea to how to live well as beings born to love and die.
He is a historian and editorialist with Corriere della Sera, who described himself in the piece as «devoid of faith.»
You can't expect people to alter their language to some kind of minimalism devoid of metaphor.
Ron, gods requiring torture and blood sacrifice of an innocent in order to forgive others» flaws (that the gods themselves instilled) is a primitive and barbaric concept, utterly devoid of reason or compassion.
At no time in its existence, then, has the universe as known by faith been devoid of meaning.
But lets not be so ignorant as to believe history is devoid of the forced imposition of atheism or the state as the arbiter of proper religious beliefs.
35 Paul neither «did theology» in an abstract, academic manner nor «proffered advice» devoid of theological undergirding.
Likewise, the specific focus of faith will highlight certain events of history and read them as interesting, whereas an inquiry devoid of this focus may scarcely notice them at all.
Against those who he thinks rely too complacently on Christ's promise that the gates of Hell will not prevail, Carlin points out that there is no promise that the Church in America will not fail or be reduced to a small and defensive enclave devoid of cultural influence.
These objects were devoid of self - motion.
As an example, highly patriarchal societies that value boys over girls, result in females receiving leftover food, devoid of milk, meat and other essential nutrients.
She is not, however, devoid of a moral compass.
Your denial of the Christian duty to work for peace is evidence of an ego devoid of courage and integrity.
Thus... if «the personal is the political» (to use the familiar feminist slogan), then no doctrine of the Trinity, however construed, can be wholly devoid of political, spiritual and sexual implications....
Even though to cosmic pessimism the universe outside of us appears to be devoid of any objective meaning, this is no cause for personal despair.
They both agree that the fundamental units of nature are bits of stuff wholly devoid of self - determination or self - motion.
The market economy comes with a price, and the Pope is deeply concerned about unemployment, social dislocation, and the «whole ultra-liberal, consumerist system which is devoid of values, and introducing it with the power of propaganda.»
Let's recognize our biblical influences and then go on to deny that others can offer public reasons devoid of their own indemonstrable premises.
Rush Limbaugh is devoid of morals and character because he sold out on those values to the highest bidder.
However, that does not mean that God the Father or even Jesus Himself are devoid of violence.
In our generation there is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power when integrated with the basic prehensions of science, and be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfaction.
The ideal may be our own imaginary construction, wholly devoid of cosmic support.
It is a creative advance devoid of «perishing.»
No pure possibility is excluded from this vision; it is a pattern of potentiality which is completely «devoid of all negative prehensions» (PR 524).
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