Sentences with phrase «dualistic terms»

Their conjunction remains so puzzling that many who operate in dualistic terms refuse to acknowledge their real assumptions.

But more refined questions suggest that a sizable number of Americans still express their faith in dualistic terms.

Whereas reality was once perceived in dualistic terms, it now takes on a «multiplex» character.

An absolute phenomenism, not believing such a dualism to be ultimate, may possibly end by solving some of the problems that are insoluble when pro- pounded in dualistic terms.

Horace Bushnell was typical of almost all Victorian social theorists and pastors.8 They described human nature in dualistic terms by misconstruing the meaning of the New Testament concerning «spirit and flesh.»

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They live and think in terms of the dualistic world view of heaven and earth which is embedded in their respective Holy Scriptures.

I will note here that Catherine Keller's analysis of hetero - reality in terms of the separate self - hood of men and the soluble selfhood of women corroborates the stunted character of relations within the dominant patriarchal worldview, which diminishes both relationality and individuality with its dualistic patterning of subject - object in male - female relationships.

The Greek term psyche (soul), which Christians naturally found themselves using in order to describe the spiritual aspect of a man, already implied the dualistic approach to human nature and introduced a concept for which there had been no verbal equivalent in the language of ancient Israel.26

Both of these points have to do with what King terms «Dualistic Transcendence»; and, at this point, I wish to state only that I do not regard such transcendence as false in a literal or ordinary sense, nor do I believe that a genuine dualistic transcendence is to be found outside of the Christian tDualistic Transcendence»; and, at this point, I wish to state only that I do not regard such transcendence as false in a literal or ordinary sense, nor do I believe that a genuine dualistic transcendence is to be found outside of the Christian tdualistic transcendence is to be found outside of the Christian tradition.

Fishburn said that the task force had tried to use «expressive» language in dealing with sexuality — not sex, as it was invariably termed by the media — but that this language was converted by the secular media into a dualistic, simplistic and moralistic language that treated sexual relationships as if they were being entered on a police docket.

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

Those who approach matters from a dualistic point of view often miss this commonality of long - term interest, seeing primarily the tensions.

When we experience dis - ease, there is a tendency to think in terms of absolutes — curable or incurable — partly due to Western medicine's Biomedical Model, and partly due to modern society's dualistic nature.

In seventeenth century physics the concept was interpreted in terms of a dualistic metaphysics.

Through photographic material, and coded representations of familiar imagery, a third hidden term counters dualistic consciousness.

Under all this lies a thesis about discovering ourselves in spiritual terms by tuning into inner thoughts, and about reality as being dualistic (as the compositions are).