Sentences with phrase «events as»

The rules governing nature in general finally apply to historical events as well.

We can define an ether of events as opposed to an ether of stuff.

Scholars cite two events as the source for Lewis» early atheism.

These fundamentalists detect an anti-Christian value system in the media, and counsel a return to religious fundamentals, which often include proscriptions against dancing, movies, plays and rock concerts, attempts at censorship of media — especially films, television and books — and encouraging participation in church social events as a substitute for secular culture offerings.

But the future events contain the past events as rectified, as best as possible.

Seems like God intervened in these events as well as many others.

Although I was raised in West Virginia, I first learned about these events as a nearly grown man when I saw the movie Matewan, John Sayles's cinematic vision of the seminal events of the mine wars.

The fact that such irregular events as aid to Hispanic refugees can be typified as actions of plot gives evidence that congregational life possesses a larger coherence than its sequence of liturgies and standard programs by themselves suggest.

The fullness of the reality present in such past events as the Incarnation and the Crucifixion is available for Christian men living in our present time.

I live south of the Mason Dixon line where we have many shooting events as sports.

Magazines, newspapers, and TV stations gleefully recorded the events as the studio heads and theatre owners were picketed and attackers and supporters tossed their quotable quotes at each other and the press.

In Process and Reality, Whitehead gave up this account of overlapping events in favor of a cosmology in which all events as well as physical processes were not continuous but discrete.

He did so by positing events as primary in relation to objects.

I may be wrong, and hope that I am: but I have an uneasy feeling that they will not achieve this by seeing current events as further evidence of their founder's special closeness to God.

And since they lived in a prescientific age, when anything — naturally caused or otherwise — could happen, they did not hesitate to relate events as having supernatural causes.

Without setting the problem of faith and reason in the context of some general ontology of events as has been done here, our dialogue can only be one - sided and imperialistic.

The media play an ever more important role in such events as political campaigns, the overthrow and creation of governments, and in the way wars are planned, fought and interpreted.

After trying so long to think of events as simply the product of matter in motion, it is time to think of matter as a pattern of events.

Whitehead describes in some detail the transformations and transmutations that are involved in the process of human experience being affected by these external physical events as transmitted through bodily ones.

This experience «can be used to include not only human and amoebic experience, conscious or non-conscious as the case may be, but also non-conscious taking account of the environment which characterizes molecular, atomic and quantum events as well» (LL 131).

Since durations have no specific temporal thickness, but vary with the particular duration of the perceiver's specious present (CN 59, 69), simultaneity can not have to do with the relations between events as they are extended temporally, but spatially.

Does the Body of Christ (the American Church) have an obligation to ignore Tony's «Debacle» (an attention - getting debate being staged) and try to draw Tony and the Christian community back into the deeper issues of lack of character, inability to honor God's authorities, abuse of financial power, church blindness, and using church events as a smoke - screen for evil actions?»

A number of examples of logical order come to mind: Plato's realm of Ideas, for instance, constitutes a preassigned pattern that charts particular things and events as real or good only to the degree they conform to these preexistent ideas.

Also, it seems more reasonable to think of these periodic events as aggregate events which are the outcome of coordinated activities of constituent occasions than to think of them as acts of single individuals (although Whitehead does identify subatomic pulses with single actual occasions).

Events as situations of sense - objects and relations among events are given as there, not here (in the percipient event) or nowhere (embedded in the allegedly aspatial realm of mental entities).

At the same time they encourage participation in church social events as a substitute for secular cultural offerings.

Moreover, Hartshorne believes that God, as omnipresent, is instantaneously aware of all events as they occur in the universe.

That is why such events as the new theater and other mind - boggling statements of our future are so important to us.

In recent years the Western churches have been greatly influenced by the Orthodox and Oriental churches; they have felt the appeal of many Eastern rituals: the strong emphasis on the paschal mystery; the attention to the role of the Holy Spirit in the eucharistic rite; the value of commemorating such events as the baptism of the Lord; and the unity of Christian initiation.

Now, if events produce themselves out of their causes rather than causes produce events as passive effects, then there is an element of self - production in every event which may be understood in terms of spontaneity and freedom.

In his earlier philosophy of nature, and in the original Lowell Lectures, Whitehead conceived of actual events as being divisible into smaller events ad infinitum.

At one point in the series, she describes the attendance of these events as profoundly spiritual, even worship - like experiences.

They spoke to the conditions of their times from the standpoint of both the judgment and the proffered deliverance of Yahweh, and proclaimed their faith in a divine Ruler who moves within political events as in all other events of human history.

It is important to notice that Whitehead's cosmology begins with these actual entities or events as the real things.

Of course no human knower completely grasps or includes the entities he knows, but God fully incorporates and thus preserves all events as they occur.

When you go to these events as a believer you know what's supposed to happen.

He begins his pulsating, momentary existence as an individual from a set of complex impulses derived from the ongoing energy of past events as they objectify themselves into the present.

That may sound strange, because we don't usually think of events as being meaningful for God.

(Of course, God does not know the present events as present anyway.)

He may also be correct that «the very concept of prehension makes little sense without viewing Whitehead's events as centers of experience actively selecting from their environments» (WPSP 11).

Wilson's biography also highlights certain events as crucial in Lewis's personal and literary development, chiefly the death of his mother (when Lewis was nine) and his alienation from his father.

To interpret significant events as special acts of God is to turn God into an agent of mechanical intervention.

Even in this journal in a piece by a scientist I recently read said that «Bergson and others were right to emphasize biological events as inherently life - affirming, but wrong in mythologizing them.»

Mark puts the story here, in any case, to point to the coming events as decisive proof of the barrenness of the old Israel.

Although I was raised in West Virginia, I first learned about these events as a nearly grown man when I saw the movie...

The actual events as recorded are not particularly elusive.

Such conformation is witnessed just as clearly by accurate descriptions of natural and historical events as by abstraction, generalization, and inference.

It makes present to us crucial events of the past by which the stream cut for itself the channel in which it still sweeps us along — such events as the call of Abraham, the Exodus and the giving of the Law, the Exile and return of the Jews, and that climax of the whole drama recorded in the Gospels, which, as we shall presently see, controls and interprets it all.

Although Americans continue to see the catastrophic events as an attack on the U.S. — and, of course, it was — as many as a fourth of the victims were citizens of other countries.

Following the method of typological interpretation, 11 which saw Old Testament events as prefiguring New Testament ones, the 40 years that the children of Israel spent wandering in the wilderness of Sinai were interpreted as a figure of Christ's 40 days.