Sentences with phrase «existential life of man»

This objection rests upon a psychological misconception of what is meant by the existential life of man.

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This alienation is reflected in the existential uncertainties of a man as deeply pious as Samuel Johnson; or it can be seen in Mary Margaret Alacoque, immersed in a cloistered religious life.

It is the experiential insight that gives succor to man's deformed yearning (sehnsucht) for perfection in life, and it reveals to us that «God can not be contained within reason, because what he does goes beyond reason,» therefore the initial anticipation of the revelatory act / reality is signaled by the existential realization that God's «unnecessitated» love for us as created being, both corporately and individually, makes transparent «God's gift of Himself.»

What I have particularly in mind is that while there is much talk about taking Jesus as a key to the interpretation of human nature, as it is often phrased, or to the meaning of human life, or to the point of man's existential situation, there is a lamentable tendency to stop there and not to go on to talk about «the world» — by which Miss Emmet meant, I assume, the totality of things including physical nature; in other words the cosmos in its basic structure and its chief dynamic energy.

But what is always more deeply at issue is the question of existential sovereignty: who is in control in time and history and in the life of man, who sets the terms of existence, who is lord of life — God or man?

(a) Man may regard his encounter with the powers which dominate his life — death, life, spirit, blood, and so forth — as the decisive factors in his life: science will then be an academic luxury devoid of any existential importance.

In other words, some particular action or set of actions in the historical realm — which is the realm in which man actually lives and from which his concrete existential knowledge is drawn — must be seen to be «important» in the most profound sense of that word.

In a strange kind ofa way, Rahner's view of man being dynamically constituted in a permanent existential of supernatural life is actually rather static and in the end a-historical, despite his insistence on the need for categorical instances that open this existential up.

While it is true that Rahner's presentation of man as a «supernatural existential» does aim to maintain some kind of nature of man such that it can not be absolutely identical with his supernatural vocation, the texts quoted above appear to indicate that the supernatural life that is given to the believer is something already possessed by the non-believer in equal measure.

Drive follows a man with no name (Ryan Gosling) who is the perfect picture of the existential hero: a quiet stoic with no known past or attachments, defined only by his actions and the code by which he lives.

Dead Man (1995) With «Dead Man,» his first period piece, Jim Jarmusch imagined the 19th - century American West as an existential wasteland, delivering a surreal reckoning with the ravages of industrialization, the country's legacy of violence and prejudice, and the natural cycle of life and death.

An existential story showing how life is made up of fleeting moments in time in one man's journey of survival, far from being something that conveys a futility in our existence, The Red Turtle shows how these moments through dream - like sequences of self - reflection are actually what shape our own lives.

The result is an achingly poignant and startlingly immediate portrait of a man adapting to life with a disability, struggling to maintain his own academic work and intimate relationships while his experience of the world and existential, spiritual beliefs evolve into something completely new.

Critics are calling Gyllenhaal's performances as Davis one of the best of his career, commanding in the role of an assured, confident man whose life is thrown into emotional and existential chaos after he loses his wife in a car accident.

Following on from the arrival of a UK poster this past weekend, a new international trailer has debuted for Woody Allen's Irrational Man, which you can watch below after the official synopsis... Woody Allen's IRRATIONAL MAN is about a tormented philosophy professor who finds a will to live when he commits an existential aMan, which you can watch below after the official synopsis... Woody Allen's IRRATIONAL MAN is about a tormented philosophy professor who finds a will to live when he commits an existential aMAN is about a tormented philosophy professor who finds a will to live when he commits an existential act.

With Dead Man, his first period piece, Jim Jarmusch imagined the nineteenth - century American West as an existential wasteland, delivering a surreal reckoning with the ravages of industrialization, the country's legacy of violence and prejudice, and the natural cycle of life and death.

Firewatch throws players into the existential crisis of protagonist Henry, a middle - aged man looking to restart his life as a park ranger in a national forest.