Sentences with phrase «dialectical affirmation»

With this element excluded from Brown's dialectical affirmation of death, the «eternal Now» becomes what it is more honestly in Eliade: an Eternal Return in illo tempore, a return to eternity, a regression.

Altizer's historico - existentialist period was characterized by a dialectical affirmation of the world of experience, which maximized a radical thrust into the profane only to transfigure its present form.

Altizer's affirmation of the profane is a dialectical affirmation that seeks to destroy the profane in its present, all - too - pervasive form, in order that the sacred can be revealed in a new, immanent form.

Earlier, to «cling to being» was to close oneself to the sacred; now, the dialectical affirmation of being in the immediate moment is an epiphany of the sacred.

Not exact matches

A genuinely dialectical form of faith can never be Gnostic, for it can never dissociate negation and affirmation; hence its negation of «history» must always be grounded in an affirmation of the «present.»

For Tillich's method is only partially dialectical; it employs neither radical affirmation nor radical negation, accordingly it must culminate in a non-dialectical synthesis.

Being neither a Gnostic escape from the world nor a romantic flight from history, dialectical thinking moves by means of a negation that is simultaneously affirmation.

Insofar as the religious movement of negation is dialectical, its negation of the profane is at bottom an affirmation of the sacred.

A dialectical negation of time and space culminates in a regeneration of Eternity — a renewal or repetition of a primordial Totality — and therefore an absolute negation of the profane is equivalent to a total affirmation of the sacred.

While I believe that Christianity is called to a negation and reversal of both the way to and all images of a primordial Totality, I nevertheless believe that such negation should be dialectical in the Hegelian sense, and therefore it must ultimately entail an affirmation of the primordial Totality.

That which engages this dialectical reversal is the affirmation of the death of God.

But this negation must be dialectical, which means that finally it must be affirmation.

But as its negation of history is grounded in an affirmation of the present, a dialectical mode of faith can never dissociate negation and affirmation.

The modern affirmation of a dialectical relationship between conceptual proposition and existential experience which Fr.