Sentences with phrase «for meaninglessness»

And if for meaninglessness and despair one wants to offer a gospel of purpose and hope, one has to experience — in one's person, and in the corporate person of the church — the «sickness unto death.»

No matter how we start, if we iron out the inconsistencies, and substitute meaning for meaninglessness, we are bound to reach the truth eventually» (RPM 439).1 There are many assumptions in Hartshorne's program.

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Of course, when we realize that baptism is NOT required for eternal life, then this entire debate fades away into meaninglessness, but we already talked about this...

Only through the gift of faith can we know the full reality of guilt and meaninglessness, for only the perspective of the new Adam or the new man of faith has sufficient distance from the old Adam to realize the full weight of brokenness.

Our nostalgia for God has created our Angst, just as our demand for an unchanging absolute has hurled us into meaninglessness.

is because of our great hesitancy to enter into the anxiety that shapes our own epoch: for the anxiety of meaninglessness and despair, however it may be named, is the most debilitating of all.

The capacity for keen enjoyment departs, and one is beset by a sense of meaninglessness.

Yahweh, who redeemed the nation for his own purposes will now for the same essential purposes commit the nation to its preredeemed status of chaos and meaninglessness.

In some respects, then, death becomes the ultimate enemy, «the last enemy to be abolished», 14 in that it becomes for man the symbol of all which threatens his life with defeat and meaninglessness.

And there is a kind of cosmic loneliness which makes one feel so lost before the indifference of the universe and the meaninglessness of life that one finds no home for his soul.

When we humans were primitive thousands of years ago, we survived because nature provided us the basic conditions for life, that is called anthropic environment that until now sustained our existence, We as creatures never affect the environmental balance, but today because of many synthetic products our existence had endangered nature, that awareness developed a kind of concern for us to correct some of what we seemed us environmental abuse, That is the phiysical or material aspect of reality, in the spiritual part of our responsibility we also began to realize the meaninglessness of our existence without God, and for the atheists the reverse, Why do you think is the reason?

If we discount appeals that had relevance only when considering the claim that Premise X is meaningless or the claim that Premise X is logically false (i.e., Griffin's appeal to the meaninglessness of «X is a powerless actuality» in the first case and to «the definition of «actual being» in the second case), Griffin's text provides nothing in the way of support for the assertion that the metaphysical principle upon which he is relying is correct.

A theology that is open to the future must first exist in the present, not a present which is an extension of the past, but a present which is a culmination of the past, and hence for us a present which is a moment of vacuity and meaninglessness.

At a time when our primordial trust has been weakened due to our experience of suffering, mortality, guilt and the threat of meaninglessness, an encounter with this picture is capable of allowing us to trust once again that we are cared for and that reality is not indifferent to our deepest longings.

A preference for the freshness and immediacy of experience in reaction to the meaninglessness or venality of traditional faith is hardly new, of course.

I realized that I envied the popular Catholic mass because that liturgy, for many, expressed the mystery which makes sense out of life always threatened by meaninglessness.

If Ahab is the paradigm of the new American, we will not have the tolerance for the ambiguity, the irony, the hopelessness, and the meaninglessness of the historic eras that dawn ahead of us.

In the first book he narrates the talk of cardinals» table; they discussed the problems of thieves and meaninglessness of giving death punishment for stealing.

A lot of movies pontificate on the meaninglessness of revenge without much conviction, reveling in vigilantes acting as our proxies for the indulgence of our worst instincts before paying lip service to law and order.

For all the charm of the performances, the film eventually spirals away into utter meaninglessness and you yearn for the games to eFor all the charm of the performances, the film eventually spirals away into utter meaninglessness and you yearn for the games to efor the games to end.

But, hey, you're all intelligent, sophisticated people (I take much for granted), so use this time just to ponder the meaninglessness of nothing and why Ally McBeal is still on the air.

PORTER - MAGEE: There were so many state standards that were vague to the point of meaninglessness, you know, that just did not articulate the content that students needed to learn and the skills they need to master to be ready for college and beyond.

T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land resonated profoundly, relating meaninglessness and isolation, and the desperate quest for human connection.

With his choice of the exhibition title, Kiefer dedicates the installation to the French writer Louis - Ferdinand Céline's book «Voyage au bout de la nuit» («Journey to the End of the Night») from 1932, which describes the demise of European humanism in the trenches of World War I. Famous for its gallows humour and world - weary misanthropy, the book is a darkly humorous and grotesque description of the meaninglessness and evil of war.

'' [A Conversation with Jung Young Moon] Writing for Skeptics: Navigating Meaninglessness.»

Science believes in randomness as the basis of existence, and so with humans doing non-random things, and having a meaning and purpose we perceive to our lives, and taking actions that we understand will lead to desired outcomes, then they have rebelled against humanity for the sake of their randomist meaninglessness ideology.

for further discussion of the meaninglessness of climate model outputs for for forecasting purposes.

The last passage prompts Mark Obbie at LawBeat (Jul. 18) to reflect: «Has there ever been a clearer argument for the utter show - biz meaninglessness of such «debate» shows?»