Sentences with phrase «essential nature»

This principle flows from the reality of the human person, an autonomous creature whose essential nature consists in a capacity for reflection and choice.

The first is that the Rorschach Test was never intended to reveal the most essential nature of your being — it was intended to help psychotherapists understand your thought patterns better.

Our intention here is not to settle this controversy on the meaning and function of specific moral precepts as between a Catholic universal ethics based on essential natures and a situation ethics given a Protestant interpretation.

But taken at face value, they are alienating insofar as they betray us into placing our own possibilities outside of us as attributes of God and not of humanity, viewing ourselves as unworthy objects of a projected image of our own essential nature.

According to Aristotelian metaphysics, particular persons differ in accidental qualities but all share the same essential nature which has real existence in each existing human being.

The Institute offers a variety of educational programs, classes, groups, and retreats, designed to promote and develop greater Self - awareness that leads to an understanding and experience of our true essential nature.

The basic premise is that, just as every cell in our body apparently has all the DNA needed to create a new us, each person has their own essential nature that is present in even the shortest observation of that person.

In 1951 Rauschenberg created his «White Paintings,» in the tradition of monochromatic painting, whose purpose was to reduce painting to its most essential nature, and to subsequently lead to the possibility of pure experience.

Could this free up, say, 20 % to 30 % plus of the value of SR&ED tax credits (i.e., roughly $ 700 million to $ 1 billion or more of the Government SR&ED spend of approximately $ 3.3 billion a year 2) without damaging the essential nature and intent of the SR&ED incentives?

It also explored the essential nature of money in general.

So what the enneagram does is it exposes our personality as a mask and invites us to take this mask off and really excavate our essence to figure out who we really are, what our true self is, how our essential nature really needs to come forward, so we can be the gift we were born and to be.

For Evangelical Christians, worshipping God in spirit and truth would surely require accepting his essential nature as one undivided God revealed in three persons, including the Son of God.

Matrimony reminds us of the earthiness of human clay, breathed upon by God's love, and of the completed, united twoness of our essential nature.

A different view, and my own, is that liberal intolerance represents not the self - undermining of liberalism, but a fulfillment of its essential nature.

Doesn't such a choice imply that the aged are merely living on the downhill slope of life and that our essential nature is actually realized in youth or early adulthood, and that nothing worth representing or acknowledging is gained by subsequent experience — as though there were some brief and shining moment, at around the age of thirty - five, that one was at one's peak, was fully oneself, even if it hardly seemed thus at the time?

Secondly, both shared the idea of the Roman Empire and of the essential nature of the Church, and therefore of law and legal instruments.

By taking this eschatological turn Jones sidesteps the sticky feminist problem of hypothesizing about woman's essential nature or else about an original gender harmony from which humanity once fell.

Thus, instead of emphasizing aseity, or self - containedness as well as sheer self - existence, as God's essential nature, such theologians give the central place to love - in - action, which presupposes and entails relationships.

But he was given no name, which in biblical understanding signified that he still lacked his essential nature.

This is utterly contrary to the essential nature and obvious purpose of Jesus» parables.

In a certain sense, however, the Church was self - sufficient by virtue of its divine foundation, and even its members were extraneous to its essential nature and structure.

In sum, even without making explicit reference to liturgical orientation, Pope Benedict's study of the Holy Week mysteries provides evidence for and confirmation of his insistence upon the essential nature of the ad orientem position during the Eucharistic liturgy.

It could be that no explanation of these questions is possible, that this is just the essential nature of reality.

a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.

It denotes the essential nature common to Socrates and all other men.

Yet for Aristotle this direction is completely determined in advance by the essential nature of the object, whereas for Whitehead the direction is a function of several variables: the object in relation to its environment (PW 187/206).

Whitehead's teleology is then descriptive of the event's process of actualization; it says nothing about the event as striving to give rise to a specific character determined beforehand by its essential nature (PW 188/207), nor is it in conflict with physical determinism (PW 206/226).

It means that in our basic nature — our essential nature, if one prefers that term — God has made us as much like himself as a finite creature can be like the Infinite.

Parallel with this great fact concerning the wholeness of Christian experience in its essential nature is our approach to it and our certainty of it.

I believe that the basic meaning is that human existence reflects, or is believed to reflect, the essential nature of God.

And if we are prepared to affirm that God's essential nature is sheer love, then we can go on to say that human nature is potentially a reflection of that love, although inevitably in a finite and limited, and equally in a defective, fashion.

It was in Greece that reason came to be most closely identified with man's essential nature.

Once they are unmasked, shown for what they really are, religious belief and the idea of God can be useful instruments of human self - understanding, revealing to us our essential nature and worth.

This idea of the whither of fulfillment led Metz increasingly to agree with Moltmann that the future is God's essential nature.

Clearly, with such a division of the realms of knowledge no conflicts about the essential nature of man such as arise from the usual body - mind - spirit trichotomy need occur.

15.13), a God with «future as his essential nature» (as E. Bloch puts it), as made known in Exodus and in Israelite prophecy, the God whom we therefore can not really have in us or over us but always only before us, who encounters us in his promises for the future, and whom we therefore can not «have» either, but can only await in active hope.»

Our essential nature and identity is not physical, but spiritual and eternal — a microcosm of the Divine macrocosm — with the ability to reveal all the qualities of God.

The essential nature of a substance is not affected by its relations.

He continuously emphasizes that the essential nature of the Jewish religion derives from the connection established from earliest times between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel.

Original sin, which is by definition an inherited corruption, or at least an inevitable one, is nevertheless not to be regarded as belonging to his essential nature and therefore is not outside the realm of his responsibility.

Biblical revelation culminates in the Christ who reveals the essential nature of man.