Sentences with phrase «for perplexity»

The artist proposes that there is still a space for perplexity, mystery, and emotional relevance.

It's almost as if the open - world nature of Monster Hunter: World and it's cooperative multiplayer — you know, the two things that would appeal most to newcomers — are not endemic to the very DNA of the series, and it's in these instances where Monster Hunter's reputation for perplexity carries over to World.

As the disciples and their friends lived through the first weeks and months after the crucifixion of Jesus it is most unlikely that they abandoned the Bible, and if; from it, they sought illumination for their perplexity, then the methods of interpretation12 we have here briefly outlined throw some light on how they would have gone about it.

There was good reason for their perplexity, for the theological view of man is always bound up with natural and social views of man and what had happened was that old views of nature and society had changed radically.

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To the German people, stunned by the war and the consequences of defeat, their former optimism shattered and spent, shuddering to contemplate the debt - darkened years of the future, Barth in the phase of his dreadful insight into the futility of all search for security must seem a veritable Jeremiah, and his teaching an evilly perfect rationalization of their indigence and perplexity.

In perplexity, Sam goes to his pastor, who tells him to listen for the voice a second time.

The disciples meant well; but disappointment, perplexity, confusion, and sheer physical exhaustion were too much for them; they could not keep their eyes open.

«My point is that any summary conclusion jumping from our conviction of the existence of such an order of nature to the easy assumption that there is an ultimate reality which, in some unexplained way, is to be appealed to for the removal of the perplexity, constitutes the great refusal of rationality to assert its rights.»

In any perplexity about how to respond to this or that, his many friends would at the drop of a hat telephone him for counsel.

For two thousand years, how to respond to this call has been a source of deep perplexity and tension for those who would follow JesFor two thousand years, how to respond to this call has been a source of deep perplexity and tension for those who would follow Jesfor those who would follow Jesus.

The fact that we can die, that we can be ill at all, is what perplexes us; the fact that we now for a moment live and are well is irrelevant to that perplexity.

At the risk of oversimplification, the interlocutors argue for God's temporal as well as eternal justice, while Job expresses perplexity over their claim for his temporal justice.

In the Lenten Gospel readings the church will make its progress by means of a series of dialogues — on temptation (with the devil), on perplexity (Nicodemus), on longing for what is real (the Samaritan woman), and on the true identity of Jesus (the man formerly blind).

The perplexity of this leader from the image — ridden West, standing in the presence of a mystery that still evaded him, is a true symbol of Israel's place in the ancient world: a place that might well be equally unique in the modern, save for our debt to Israel herself.

the possibility and necessity of living in a dimension of meaning in which the urgencies of the struggle are subordinated to a sense of awe before the vastness of the historical drama in which we are jointly involved; to a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom, and power available to us for the resolution of its perplexities; to a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of... our vanities; and to a sense of gratitude for the divine mercies which are promised to those who humble themselves.

The concept of tragedy seems indispensable to refer to certain fundamental aspects of human moral experience, and yet it poses many perplexities for theological and ethical thought.

He also warned: And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

And so we force each person and each generation to confront, as if for the first recorded instance, and with fresh amazement and apprehension each time, the same perplexity: «Is this strange, creative, aggressive creature truly a woman?»

Christianity in Jewish Terms is, quite simply, an indispensable volume for those who would, two thousand years after Paul's letter to the Romans, understand the continuing promise and perplexities of the mystery of living Judaism.

Something over a year ago I was for some weeks in the direst perplexity.

He doubts that the wisdom of one can serve the other, for there is a hiatus between religious and philosophic truths and the actual perplexities with which man must deal.

Although universalistic passages are found in the Hebrew Bible and reflected in the Talmud, this issue remains a perplexity for ancient Israel, to be taken up and seen in a new perspective in the New Testament (SFL 34).

The Italian Conference of Bishops called it «cause for bitterness and many perplexities.»

But all this perplexity is unnecessary — the fact that a lot of people haven't known «what» they were talking about for centuries is important, but it is not grounds for assuming they were talking of nothing!

In ancient Israel's most dismal, hopeless hours, prophetism continued to speak with honesty, realistically acknowledging the anguish of Israel's existence and the fearful perplexities therein for the prophet; and yet at the same time it joyfully affirmed Yahweh's reign and the ultimate success of his Word.

For I have wondered how much of your religious perplexity is due to the contrast between the world view of the Bible and the world view of modern science.

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I chuckled once or twice, but mostly just watched it with a look of perplexity, waiting for it to be funny.

The catalyst for professional development and training can be found in the state of perplexity that often characterises professional educational work — it is not an unproblematic venture as some trainers suggest;

are expressing perplexity over the market for bonds, which is institutional and driven by accounting and regulatory concerns (ALM, pension funding regs, risk charges on surplus for holding equities, marking investment grade bonds at amortized cost rather than to market, etc.).

The jury is out on whether or not this qualifies him as a communist, but his claim does provide a source of perplexity when evaluating the inspiration for his ongoing Kandor sculpture and installation series — the newest of which being currently displayed at Gagosian Gallery (Beverly Hills) alongside the latest chapters of his filmic project, Extracurricular -LSB-.....]

It was perfect for him: the idea of an art of deception and concealment, forms dissolved or overlaid with perplexities for a greater good.

British painter Cecily Brown (b. 1969) nurtured an early fascination of «scary» art: «I had sneak looks at it, like you might look at Playboy», just as German painter Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) was attracted by art's capacity for uncertainty, perplexity — and coincidence.

The jury is out on whether or not this qualifies him as a communist, but his claim does provide a source of perplexity when evaluating the inspiration for his ongoing Kandor sculpture and installation series — the newest of which being currently displayed at Gagosian Gallery (Beverly Hills) alongside the latest chapters of his filmic project, Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction (EAPR).

These actions will culminate in the creation of a large - scale project that, for her, questions the perplexities of what it means to be American in the twenty - first century.

For me, the Library of Congress subject headings have been a source of bafflement, perplexity — and to a lesser extent, wonderment — ever since I wandered into the stacks, way back in university.