He noted in particular that the question of
historical factuality is raised very forcefully in the stories of the crucifixion and resurrection.
Within the church, both biblical fundamentalists and liberals have been preoccupied
with factuality.
In the modern period with its emphasis
on factuality, critical thinking is deeply corrosive of religion in general, Christianity and the Bible in particular.
This does not mean that he accepts everything that meets him as «God - given» in its
pure factuality.
The latter phrase could be Hegelian, and it could mean that suffering and death are finally important only insofar as their
particular factuality is transcended by an all - encompassing expression and experience.
Indeed (and it seems to me this is a very important statement about us), we live in the only culture in human history that has
identified factuality with truthfulness.
He may also have thought that Whitehead's theism belonged with theism in general as a fallacious attempt to humanize the universe; for Santayana, though he saw theistic religion as possessing a type of poetic or symbolic truth, was, at the level of
blunt factuality, an atheist.)
Thereby there could be no primary association of God with transcendence or of the world with
immediate factuality or presence.
As for the postliberal claim to eschew the experiential subjectivism of liberal theology, Henry charged that in elevating narrative
over factuality, narrative theology becomes unable to distinguish truth from error or fact from fiction.
The fact that this date is the result of the synthesis of all of Scripture causes May 21st, 2011 to take on very
sobering factuality.
Put your petty notions of
factuality away and absorb one of the forerunners of next year's Oscar race.
Works in the exhibition range from
dry factuality to humorous and farcical, and posit the 20th century queerness as the shared «Other» of the Communism - Capitalism dichotomy, while tracing the uneasy yet tangible historical links between the early 20th century Communist activism and the gay rights movement of the second half of the century.
«There are some wonderful dialogues happening between works,» May says, «such as the relationship
between factuality and truthfulness in storytelling, the representation of the figure in painting, systematic oppression, and creative approaches to conversations about feminism.»
If you grant that my statement was in fact factual (I am not interested in discussing the
putative factuality of the statement), what kind of recourse do I have against these people if their actions have negative consequences?
Does this mean that Frei - style narrative theology simply waves off the question of
historical factuality?
Still, their customers value the idea that RPW focuses
on factuality and clarity as their major concerns.
Atheist's seem to find comfort in the logic and
factuality of science and I used to believe that as well.
Even if we were to rationalize this reality away in such cases, we face and affirm
their factuality when we are wronged, when someone has lied or cheated or broken a promise to us.
«he had to accept the truth of her accusation» synonyms: veracity, truthfulness, verity, sincerity, candor, honesty; More accuracy, correctness, validity,
factuality, authenticity «he doubted the truth of her statement» antonyms: dishonesty, falseness • that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality.
And it is true independently of their historical
factuality.
For fundamentalists, the Bible must be factually true in order for it to be true at all, and hence all of this concern with defending
the factuality of scripture.
Secondly, modernity has made us preoccupied with
factuality, with scientifically verifiable facts and with historically reliable facts.
Their truth does not depend upon
their factuality.
This explanation — whether it refers to the nature of Jesus, or his role, or something else — is subject to all the requirements of logic, consistency, and
factuality that apply to any statement.
Insofar as faith in its Christian expression moves through
the factuality of estrangement and death, it can never accept a mere negation of the profane.
Anthropologist Clifford Geertz termed religion a construction that «clothes» its symbols with «such an aura of
factuality that they seem realistic.»
Feelings are the next step up from flipping a coin in regard to determining
the factuality of something.
The lower point of the vertical line stands for God in his consequent aspect as the recipient of all that has occurred in the order of creation, hence as concrete and everlasting in that
the factuality of the occasions in the process have entered into and helped to mould the divine experience in its capacity for infinite adjustment and relationship.
The alleged «silence» about the virgin birth from other New Testament authors can not be used as an argument against it since
its factuality would have been revealed by Mary only after the resurrection and it did not constitute the centre of the Easter message; Redford even finds hints thatother New Testament authors framed their affirmations to allow for the virgin birth.
Involved in
this factuality besides the spatial element is a corresponding temporal one, and thus granting the existence of these frames entails granting the existence of a Newtonian - like simultaneity that holds within the frame.
Thus «the historicity of Moses» means
the factuality of Moses, that there really was such a person.
The ideology calls for a movement to win the world and all is subservient to that ideology no matter how much it flies in the face of reality — of
factuality.
The greatest threat to a totalitarian movement, once it gains power, is
factuality.
... This applies not only to nature, but to human history in
its factuality.