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exalts nature with this design.
The great convictions were of the reality and immediacy of a God of righteousness and love, and the unparalleled conceptions of
the exalted nature of man and his duty under God — or in terms more congenial to the modes of thought of the wise men, conduct that best fulfills and expresses his high being.
Not exact matches
The definition of art as the effort to
exalt some beauty in
nature, but not to enslave man to mere imitation, is Camus» aesthetic equivalent to the notion of a dynamic value in
nature.
To
exalt him as a great thinker, as though he could take delight in being praised for having honed his mental tools very sharp, no matter what they cut; to speak admiringly of him as an excellent orator, as though adeptness in the use of images were an enviable thing, no matter what they imaged; to do him reverence as a great student who learned from Newton and Locke and the Platonists, from
nature itself, no matter what he learned — to honor him thus is to do him no honor that he could accept — or which, accepting, he would not thereafter bitterly rue.
Thus the quest of the historical Easter, in the sense of the initial
nature of the disciples» Easter faith, suggests that this began with the conviction «that Jesus was somehow alive among them and that, if this was so, God had indeed acted and had raised him and
exalted him.»
In view of the fluid
nature of this belief, and since, for the reasons outlined above, the disciples had been led to believe the Easter message that Jesus had been
exalted to heaven, the divine raising of Jesus from the dead was not only a synonymous way of proclaiming the exaltation of Jesus, but the most natural way of doing full justice to the two foci of the Easter message, death and exaltation.
The lines can not be sharply drawn, however: one could not believe that God had accomplished so much in and through Jesus and had
exalted him to so supreme a status without soon asking, «What then was the essential
nature of this Jesus that he can have become the agent of God's redemptive purpose?»
I have only
exalted my Father and His Christ as I have even come against my own carnal
nature as mere man:
But few of us would endorse those elements of tradition that baptize patriarchal oppression, endorse violence against women, oppress lesbians and gays,
exalt perpetual virginity as the superior state, or declare that heterosexual rape is a lesser sin than masturbation (on the view that the latter act contradicts
nature while the former act, while also sinful, is in accordance with
nature) The postbiblical tradition, like Scripture itself, does not provide one coherent, consistent sexual ethic.
This too is a
nature - rite — it is the Christian spring festival — transfused with historic meaning in its reminiscences of the passion and resurrection of Jesus, but most of all permeated with religious immediacy and
exalted hope.
Thus from the war of
nature, from famine and death, the most
exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely the production of the higher animals, directly follows.
By no means am I a philosopher, but I would venture to say that when Weston A. Price said, ``... man's place is most
exalted when he obeys Mother
Nature's laws,» he was speaking about more than dietary choices.
«Thus, from the war of
nature, from famine and death, the most
exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.»
Working with the great cinematographer Emmanuel Lubeski (Children Of Men), Malick spends much of the brilliant first hour assembling
exalted images of man and
nature with an intuitive, poetic style that recalls Wong Kar - wai.
While in her earlier works Silke Otto - Knapp depicted mainly
exalted cityscapes as well as artificial and exotic
nature, in the past few years she has concentrated almost exclusively on the theme of choreography and dance.
The ephemerality, immediacy, and popular
nature of magazines appealed to a generation of artists that challenged the
exalted status of painting and sculpture.