Sentences with phrase «essential nature which»

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Marsh calls it, «an eye - opening exploration into how children are raised around the world and how child - rearing can inform the understanding of human nature more broadly,» noting the author's most essential point is that «one of the things which makes humans special as a species is that we don't limit care to our own children.

As molecular biologist Rana Dajani explains in a 2011 Nature editorial, the political and religious environment in most Arab states currently «fails to sustain creativity, curiosity and striking out into the unknown — all of which are essential for science to flourish.»

These, I suggest, are the essentials around which we can unite, and beyond which we must grant liberty for differing opinions about issues relating to the future of Israel, the chronology of the end times, the nature of the priesthood, the practice of the gifts of the Spirit, church governance or even (dare I say it?)

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.

Looked at that way, the essential content of revelation, or perhaps the very nature of God (whatever is the ultimate «subject matter» or «object» of the inquiry) dictates certain methods and movements of thought which, if followed, denominate the inquiry as «theology.»

The inner relationship between democracy (or that which it is meant to guarantee) and the Church is ev - idenced also by the essential charismatic element in the nature of the Church.

If I were to guess — and that is all any outsider can do at this point — I would say that the language of intrinsic value still in the Charter, granting nature some immunity from human need, language which, as noted, the Earth Charter Commission regards as essential and nonnegotiable, will prove the final stumbling block to official acceptance.

But there are others for whom evil is no mere relation of the subject to particular outer things, but something more radical and general, a wrongness or vice in his essential nature, which no alteration of the environment, or any superficial rearrangement of the inner self, can cure, and which requires a supernatural remedy.

And our nature being thus rooted in failure, is it any wonder that theologians should have held it to be essential, and thought that only through the personal experience of humiliation which it engenders the deeper sense of life's significance is reached?

The distinctive feature of his viewpoint is the contention that notions of relativity, contingency, and change, rather than being incompatible with the nature of deity, must themselves be essential components in an understanding of God which is both coherent and religiously adequate.

To some readers of Whitehead, it may seem that the consequent nature of God is something of an addendum, something that was «stuck on» as an afterthought and which is not essential to his system.

According to the passage, not even military objectives can justify the destruction of the natural resources which sustain human community, nor any more destruction of wild (non-fruiting) nature than is essential to those ends.

Personality, the most valuable thing in the universe, revealing the real nature of the Creative Power and the ultimate meaning of creation, the only eternal element in a world of change, the one thing worth investing in, and in terms of service to which all else must be judged — that is the essential Christian creed [As I See Religion (Harper & Brothers, 1932), P. 44].

For Nietzsche, on the other hand, the essential unity which may be said to underlie all things is not a complete totality which we can grasp through reason (as it is with Hegel), but an open - ended, incomplete process or chaotic flux which finds expression in the contingent, finite, temporal process of growth and decay which are characteristic of nature.

In other words, if nature is to be understood philosophically then it must be grasped in its concept, namely, that which is essential or universal in nature for thought.

Thus it is by way of the otherness of nature that spirit is able to return to itself in reason, thereby bringing into unity the essential otherness which characterizes the relationship between mind and nature.

G. R. Driver comments, «As thus interpreted, the poem depicts the introduction of the youthful Baal as a god of fertility into the Ugaritic pantheon and the establishment of his supremacy, under El's suzerainty, over all the other gods, exercising power over earth as god of rain; for rain is the ultimate source of the life - giving water which is essential to the whole of nature, however it may be distributed.»

Because the crisis of decision in the present moment gives man his essential character, he can not console or justify himself by viewing his sin as a weakness which forms no part of his true nature, or as a mistake which is an exception to be outweighed by appealing to his normal self.

When we inquire further as to the concrete meaning of Jesus, after his death, within the life of the early Christian community, we find ourselves at once forced to deal with two theological issues of fundamental importance: the nature of the church and the nature of revelation; for the essential and permanent significance of Jesus lies in the fact that he was the center and head of the church and that he was the central figure in that revelation of God which we have received and by which we are saved.

Rather the future is unrelated to the present, something which might possibly not be, and its not being would make no change in the present; something which is coming some time, but which so far as its essential nature is concerned could already have been some time; indeed the speculation is widespread that the blessings of salvation pre-exist and are already present in heaven.

But it does seem clear to me that we need to begin with a vision of a world community (1) consisting of a population within the biological carrying capacity of the planet (2) organized politically and economically in ways that provide to all human beings equal access to the means of material fulfillment and (3) organized technologically in ways that (4) neither exhaust essential natural resources of earth nor (5) upset the delicate balances of nature which make the environment capable of supporting life.

Only in that regular and candid encounter between ourselves and Christ in the Sacrament of Reconciliation will we grasp two essential truths of the spiritual life: the depth to which sin has a hold over our fallen nature, and the far greater power of the grace of Christ ministered to us through his Church.

He is not making Jesus's human nature constitutive of the Son's essential identity, which he always insists is independent of election.

Since His love - in - operation is His essential nature — He is love, which is His «root - attribute», not aseity, as the older theology claimed — the other things said about Him (transcendence, immanence, omnipotence, omniscience, omni - presence, righteousness, etc.) are to be understood, as I have already argued earlier, as adverbially descriptive of His mode of being love rather than set up as separate or even as distinct attributions.

In terms of such process thinking (about which I have written in Process Thought and Christian Faith, Macmillan, 1968), God is not thought to be simply the absolute, self - existent, unconditioned reality; there is a sense in which these terms are applicable as adverbs qualifying God's essential nature — but that essential nature is God's concrete love, his unfailing relationship with the world, his self - giving and willingness to receive from that world, his openness to «affects» from the world and from what goes on in it.

Thus, in a series of works published in 1919 and the early 1920s, in opposition to relativity theory, Whitehead argued not only that the geometry of the world was uniform, but that «the properties of time and space express the basis of the uniformity in nature which is essential for our knowledge of nature as a coherent system» (R 8, 29).1 Furthermore, he held that this uniformity was actually discerned there (H 14).

In so doing, Whitehead felt a need to provide for the uniformity of the spatial - temporal in which he had earlier located the basis of that uniformity essential for our knowledge of nature.

It is this uniformity which is essential to my outlook, and not the Euclidean geometry which I adopt as lending itself to the simplest exposition of the facts of nature.

An essential element of Hall's novel vision of the future is the idea that once technology has been fully established as a self - governing, self - sustaining system, a sort of «automatic rationality» with which we need no longer concern ourselves, we will be free to turn away from «actions over against nature,» to turn our attention «inward» to the sort of «actions» which enhance the aesthetic value of experience.

Newton does not believe that gravity is an essential property of matter, but he also denies that it can be a force that acts at a distance.15 Newton is clear on one point with regard to his analysis of gravitation; he is concerned with the mathematical treatment of gravitation, not with the nature or causes of gravitation or the manner in which gravitation acts but with the conditions under which gravitation acts (PNP 5f, 192).

There is no single memorial statue for the 200 thousand Korean women who died for the cause of the so - called justice and peace of the world.2 It is fair and essential to remember that many Christians supported these historical sins of imperialism, these and other cruelties by which imperialistic colonialism systematically destroyed the created order of nature, men, and women in the Korean peninsula.

If, however, the Catholic now sees that despite, and in addition to, his ethics based on essential natures, he must develop an individual ethics of concrete moral decision which goes beyond mere casuistry, and if the Protestant ethical theorist perhaps realizes that in the new and dangerous situation he must perhaps be less carefree in simply leaving the Christian to his «conscience», then perhaps the new situation will bring about a new climate in which, even theoretically, people will be compelled more readily to think towards one another rather than away from one another, and in which people will understand one another more easily and even gradually unite.

And I think some understanding of dualistic mythology, philosophy and psychology may help explain the caesura of which Stace is speaking and the divorce of mind from nature that gives Klemke's ideas their essential structure.

When God reveals himself, he always does so to people, which means that he must speak and act in ways that they will understand... It is essential to the very nature of revelation that the Bible is not unique to its environment.

This is the basis on which Paul says that pagans were judged originally — God revealed his essential nature in what he created but they were neither thankful nor did they worship him.

Note also in the reading that this is the word, it is what God said to Moses; that the quality of divine compassion and mercy and grace here comes through as it has not previously in Exodus; that this is a recital of faith in the nature and purpose of God (see the emphasis upon the divine «I,» even more pronounced in Hebrew, and compare the same feature in Joshua 24); and that all of this is an expansion of the single, simple, eloquent theme which opens and closes the recital: «I am the LORD,» conveying in the very name all the essential meaning of the divine Life.

The implications of this idea for a theology of nature are not, of course, worked out in the New Testament itself, but, obscure as the thought - forms undoubtedly are to us, there does shine through them a conviction that the whole universe, could we but see it, is in its essential nature in harmony not merely with some unknown divine power but specifically with God as revealed in Jesus, and that therefore there must be some modus vivendi between humans and nature which, even if not yet attained, is in keeping with all that is best in both.

The author, and perhaps Jewish thought in general at that time, recognized the intimate relationship of the age - old speculation of the Orient to that of Greece; both had come to express in differing terms but in essential unity the conviction that human life is infused with a pervasive entity which is more than human, finding its ultimate origin and nature in the being of the universe.

Far from being a stags through which humanity passes in adolescence, the adoration of a Savior God is essential to the maturation of human nature.

I may jettison as «religion» those items which are scandals to me, while those items I keep are the essential nature of Christianity.

ii) The Catechism also insists upon the essential specific gratuity of grace (gratuity being part of the etymology of gratia), CCC 1996; in other words, if it is not understood to be something which comes as a special further favour from outside and aboveour nature, then it can no longer be called grace.

In his concept of wisdom as the vitalizing power in man's restless urge toward better things, which yet was with God before creation and by him was implanted in the nature of things, there is, we have noted, the clear implication that in such wisdom man gains his truest insight into the essential nature of God.

Like Cobb, we must approach this problem by insisting on the essential unity of God, or the actual integration which obtains between the primordial and consequent natures.

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