Sentences with phrase «elements in»

The principal elements in the death and resurrection cluster of the Christian Myth are (A) his death as sacrifice and atonement, and (B) the «magical» elements of the resurrection stories.

The upholders of the view that there are contingent elements in God are not arguing that his behavior or character is vacillating and unpredictable.

Their collapse was probably accelerated by the fact that they had their chief strength in the Greek and Latin elements in the population and had never been deeply rooted in the Berber stock.

If, however, we define life in terms of the capacity to respond selectively to events, a conception of God that allows some contingent elements in his experience will permit us to apply the term «life» to God univocally.

Survival and intensity, reiteration and novelty — these are the dual elements in Jesus» own statement that upon a rock he would build the Church.

There are other elements in the Bowery solution.

Charles Wood cherishes these inconsistent elements in the Bible.

We should not be surprised, therefore, if there are elements in Sartre's philosophy which are applicable to the Whiteheadian cosmos.

«Paradoxical instances,» «aleatory points,» «dark precursors»: these, I would suggest, are the only divine elements in the Deleuzean chaosmos, «primitives» in both a methodological and metaphysical sense: «savage concepts» apparently resonating «with «things in their wild and free [not yet actualized] state» (cf. D&R xx).

Another man might have responded to this situation by cautiously modifying some of the extreme elements in his earlier position, but not Altizer.

Another contribution along these lines published more recently is E. Jüngel, Paulus und Jesus (Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie 2 [Tülbingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1964]-RRB-, where the existentialism is modified by the use of the «word - event» concept of the «new hermeneutic», and the present (Kingdom of God) and future (Son of man) elements in the teaching of Jesus are interpreted in terms of the nearness and distance of God to history.

Scattered widely throughout the history of mankind there have been «somewhat exceptional elements in our conscious experience... which may roughly be classed together as religious and moral intuitions.»

If we view the soul as an effective social system for the procurement of intense experience, we can legitimately apply to it Whitehead's statement in «Immortality» that «the more effective social systems involve a large infusion of various soils of personalities as subordinate elements in their make - up — for example, an animal body, or a society of animals, such as human beings» (IMM 690).

If I accept once again that Catholicism has all the answers, then it is likely that I will have to do violence to certain elements in my nature — the conviction, for instance, that all life is one, or that it is better to have polygamy than the starving widows of soldiers begging in the streets.

Having two annual days of remembrance permits citizens to go beyond studying one or two elements in King's legacy.

What are the odds that out of all the elements in the entire universe, we would be on a planet that has air, when air is exactly what our body needs to survive!

Indeed we know that where the patient thinks of the counselor in this way some necessary elements in the healing situation are lacking.

See especially Asghar Ali Engineer, Islam and Liberation Theology: Essays on Liberative Elements in Islam, (New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1990).

First, it does accord with one of the basic elements in religion as discussed in Chapter 3 in the analysis of change.

Frankly, I am a little skeptical of some of the elements in these creeds since they were developed after Christianity became the official state religion of the Roman Empire, and I fear that some of the statements of these creeds were politically motivated, and were heavily influenced by Roman Emperors, rather than by honestly dealing with the text of Scripture.

The anatomy of social power vividly illustrates the interfusion of physical, mental, and spiritual elements in human affairs.

In Religion in the Making, subtle but important changes have occurred in the understanding of these four elements in the philosophic system.

The message that comes through Snow most clearly is the hostility of the most powerful elements in Turkish society to anything authentically Western, particularly the claims of individual conscience.

Dr. Dodd has given us a brief summary which is very useful in stating the essential elements in that declaration: how that the God of Israel, who had spoken by the prophets, had acted decisively in Christ, pouring out the gift of the Spirit, and how that this Christ, now exalted, would return in glory for the establishment of God's kingdom.

Usually there are visual and tactile elements in the experience as well.

We are no longer at the mercy of the elements in the same way our ancestors were.

We believe that we can find the emergence of cultural elements in some animal species, and that these cultural elements affect their evolution.

Seems it could start with any of the three elements, depending on the person and his / her situation, and go in any direction from there to pick up other elements in different permutations.

Today, I have already noted, it is chiefly Hellenistic elements in our theology that make the appropriation of Buddhist insights difficult.

Paul Tillich emphasized the polar relation of these elements in his systematic theology.

It, then, often proves possible for those who lack the distinctive firsthand experience nevertheless to notice elements in their experience, to which they have not previously attended, that allow them imaginatively to have some understanding of what they are being told by others.

2 - 3 (except for elements in 3.5); 4.2 (in part), 4.3 (in part), 4.5; 5.2 (except for 323.22 - 35, 37 / 493.4 - 22, 24 [o]-RRB-, 5.3 - 6.

Martin tends to equate Christian faith with the acceptance of the supernatural elements in the New Testament picture of Jesus.

It multiplies several times over the analysis of elements in one actual event.

An «element» is a focus of relationships between some or all of the elements in a hierarchy, including other elements at its own level.

For instance, Charles X, Polignac, LaFayette, and Louis Phillippe appear as individual elements in the French Revolution.

These contrasts add to the subjective intensity of the passage of the Bill as an actual event and function as dynamic elements in a narrative.

Let's start with the overt religious elements in the film, which feel supremely authentic and work incredibly well.

These outworn elements in today's media aesthetics are demanded by the social relations.

In the light of the Biblical vision of the Garden of Justice, Shalom, and Harmony (Integrity) of Creation, these religious and cultural resources, particulary appropriated by the poor and oppressed, can be revitalized to be flowers, fruits and even roots of various elements in the Garden of God, in which humans are gardeners.

As Charles Long notes, the persistence of African elements in the African American community is a hotly debated issue.3 Long does not try to resolve the issue.

The awareness of circumstances manifested in an institution such as the papal curia shows up in its relations with other elements in an event.

The general idea is that some elements in the hierarchical field are abstract enough to be included in a formal category of relationships that applies to other events in other durations and that such applications may be formally derived and analyzed without prejudice to the critique of narrative elements described previously.

According to Whitehead (PR 28f) the analysis of an actual entity into prehensions exhibits the most concrete elements in its nature, and such an analysis is called a division.

The hypothetical elements and contrasts evoked by the flow of narrative are, in process terms, real elements in the constitution of the actual event.

The imperial cult, the worship of the emperors, is one of the central elements in the ideology of the emperor and is a good place to start (though it is not, as is so often the case, the place to end).

All actions in this duration are present as constituent elements in the final form of the «passage» as a complex occasion.

Although the theocratic elements in Israeli law are ad hoc rather than systemic, they are nonetheless integral to Israel's character (the Right of Return for Jews, for example).

How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest organisms in which nerves can not be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility.»

That being said, I'm not convinced that things aren't in the process of a reversal to the Dark Ages in regards to certain elements in the Christian world today.