Sentences with phrase «fact of death»

This is perhaps a bit unfair to ask, but a lawyer's death has obvious repercussions on a practice well beyond the sad fact of the death.

In these words the «holiness,» that is, the supernatural character, of the Messianic community is directly related to the saving fact of the death of Christ.

Although Qoheleth's hatred of life has arisen from the stark fact of death, according to Lohfink, this is an intermediate stage.

Of course even Bultmann, to say nothing of Kierkegaard, wrote in the conviction that he knew more about Jesus than the mere fact of his death.

One of the ways in which the dread fact of death has been made less important, for a great many people at any rate, has been by talk about «life after death».

Much as these painters of old employed rotting fruit, flowers and skulls to remind us of death and the transience of being, Hirst's animals, whether livestock, sharks, or insects, underscore the evanescence of life by facing us boldly with the physical facts of death.

The judge ruled in his favour and, on the secretary of state's appeal, the Court of Appeal held that the simple fact of a death or serious injury of a person in custody gave rise to an obligation on the state to conduct an enhanced investigation, by a person independent of those implicated in the facts.

It is noteworthy that while Paul's reflection upon the saving facts of the death and resurrection of Christ leads him to the love of God as the supreme principle exhibited in these facts, it is his reflection upon the Spirit and the charismata or gifts of the Spirit in the Church that leads him to love or charity as at once the greatest of all charismata --» the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit given to us» (Rom.

Instead of fixating on «controlling the time and manner of our death,» or escaping the fact of our death in frivolous or Quixotic pursuits, we can let our sure end be our inspiration to live positive, worthy, and meaningful lives until that time when «there is no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.»

If refusal to face squarely the fact of death is found so widely in these days, so also is loss of belief in a continuation of human existence, beyond death, in what used to be called the «after - life» It is indeed true that among conventionally - minded church - people and many others there is a vague feeling that when the body dies the «soul» goes on.

This is the fact of death.

It is not the fact of death but our feeling about death that has changed because of sin.

All knowledge about death does not alter the fact that death is not a meaningful part of life and that there is nothing for us to do but to accept the fact of death; hence as far as our life is concerned, defeat.5

These facts fall within the eschatological setting of the whole, no less than the facts of His death and resurrection.

The meaning of this passage has been a matter of dispute among New Testament experts, although it is quite obvious that if it does nothing more it asserts that the Apostle believed that there was some connection between the fact of death and the reality of human sin.

The Pauline kerygma, therefore, is a proclamation of the facts of the death and resurrection of Christ in an eschatological setting which gives significance to the facts.

In the preaching attested by Paul, although it was similarly addressed to the wider public, there does not seem to be any such comprehensive summary of the facts of the ministry of Jesus, as distinct from the facts of His death and resurrection.

Hence it is the fact of death alone that lends serious gravity to the ethical demand which vulnerability imposes upon us.

We have already seen that Paul's preaching was centred in the proclamation of the facts of the death and resurrection of Christ.

, the experience of a jarring awareness of the fact of death, and a sense of breakdown in the larger human matrix.

And this time has seen a magnificent multiplication of devices, institutions, analgesics, and therapeutics designed to make man, the «time - creature,» more content, prosperous, and secure in his «brief and mutable traject,» or designed to obscure the fact of death by narcotizing the living as we cosmetize the dead.

The fact of death is robbed of its former significance.

She says, «I don't remember when it began, but I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life.

How can I be realistic about the facts of death and still be a person of hope?

The minister's theology in preaching must be brought to bear at every point on the human situation: on prayer; on the problem of evil; on sin and repentance; on the fact of death.

We know and take seriously the fact of death.

My present concern, however, is not with an assessment of the significance of the calculus of reward and punishment, so often part of this general acceptance of the fact of death.

That is to say, the fact of our death provides us with something we can readily enough forget or neglect — namely, the insistence that whatever we do, whatever we are, whatever we achieve, have about them the quality of finitude and mortality.

«2 But, if everything was alive, then the main occasion for wonder and primitive bafflement was the fact of death.

And in this case, a fact of death.

I think he had no idea that the fact of his death would so strongly influence his work for so long.»