The central emphases of classical prophetism are lacking — the passionate address to the contemporary life of the covenant nation; the cry for justice and righteousness in the theological ethic; and the consuming concern
for ultimate meaning in the events of history.
Whitehead presents a revealing portrait of his own search
for ultimate meaning in the conclusion of the fifth chapter of Science and the Modern World.
Scientific method, though, can not reconcile itself to teleological perspectives and, therefore, must reject any such facile covenants of man with a world that is alien to his longings
for ultimate meaning.2 Monod's position is reminiscent of innumerable others that see the reading of purpose into nature as analogous to our subjectively superimposing colorful secondary qualities onto starkly colorless «objective» and neutral primary qualities.
Whenever the conventional churches fail in their mission to communicate the holy and to respond to grace, the search
for the ultimate meaning of life becomes the province of secular culture, especially of the theater.
The first constant I have already discussed; it is the need
for ultimate meaning.
For, if faith is «trust in God's love alone
for the ultimate meaning of our lives and loyalty to this same love and to all to whom it is loyal as the only final cause that our lives are to serve,» then a concern for justice, including political justice (the creation of a more humane and just social order), clearly follows from an attitude of faith without being identical with it.
Whitehead presented a compelling portrait of his own search
for ultimate meaning in the conclusion of the fifth chapter of Science and the Modern World.
The gnostic journey begins in bafflement and first looks
for ultimate meaning in the wrong places.
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It is an honor to now understand the
meaning and to know that receiving a Gold Star
means that this person had a family member give the
ultimate sacrifice
for our country, so that I can maintain the freedoms that I so cherish.
It could also
mean higher costs
for the
ultimate buyer of American - made defense goods: the U.S. government, said Dan Stohr, a spokesman
for the Aerospace Industries Association, a trade association
for the defense industry.
It does not
mean settling
for what's second best because a group of people, the majority of which are not willing to make the
ultimate sacrifice of putting themselves in harm's way
for others, are thinking about themselves as individuals and putting that ahead of the majority best interests.
Jesus died so You would live it was the
ultimate sacrifice and He did it
for us ALL (that
means you).
The reasons
for why in all three cases was so varied and nuanced, you'd almost have to say they were three different perspectives all leading to the same
ultimate conclusion which really
means 3 different unique answers.
The Arab spring is not a random event in history, a
means to an end; the
ultimate aim being joining forces
for the destruction of Israel.
Temporary
meaning in life is insufficient,
for our accomplishments die with the death of the universe - there is no
ultimate purpose in a universe void of God -.
The
ultimate purpose of our study of the Gospels, however, is not to find what they
meant long ago but to find what they
mean now,
for us.
It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling persons from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status,
meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship
for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the
ultimate goal of divine creation and human hope the kingdom of God in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»
If religious belief is attained when reason makes a «total response of the total being to what is apprehended as the
ultimate reality,» such that in this act reason is reborn, then it follows that those who totally accept a given world - view as
ultimate, whether it be theistic or non-theistic, naturalistic or supernaturalistic, immanentist or transcendentalist, as normative
for their entire lives and as the supreme value in their hierarchy of values, and hence not taken as a
means but as an end, belong to the religious dimension.
’25 Bloch believed that «the
ultimate, enduring insight of Marx is that truth does not exist
for its own sake but implies emancipation, and an interpretation of the world which has the transformation of the world as its goal and
meaning, providing a key in theory and leverage in practice».26 Drawing on this tradition Moltmann writes that unless truth «contains initiative
for the transformation of the world, it becomes a myth of the existing world.
The transcendence of God does not
mean anything else than that God is personality, provided there is an adequate understanding of the concept of personality...
For Christian thought, personality is the last limit of thinking and the
ultimate reality.
What we ought to be able to discover in this world picture, once the incredible science is gone, is a conception of the universe in which, under what are
for us weird and frequently utterly impossible images, the whole creation is seen as dependent upon a loving and active God who is its
ultimate meaning and its ground of being.
Temporary
meaning in life is insufficient,
for our accomplishments die with the death of the universe - there is no
ultimate purpose in a universe void of God.
For many other scientists, however, and for people of a modernistic bent of mind who saw in the sciences «a new messiah,» or at least a directive of life displacing both religion and philosophy, this preoccupation with the immediacies to the exclusion of ultimates meant frankly a secularizing of life, that is, a relinquishing of all ideal or transcendent aspects which hope and wonder might evo
For many other scientists, however, and
for people of a modernistic bent of mind who saw in the sciences «a new messiah,» or at least a directive of life displacing both religion and philosophy, this preoccupation with the immediacies to the exclusion of ultimates meant frankly a secularizing of life, that is, a relinquishing of all ideal or transcendent aspects which hope and wonder might evo
for people of a modernistic bent of mind who saw in the sciences «a new messiah,» or at least a directive of life displacing both religion and philosophy, this preoccupation with the immediacies to the exclusion of
ultimates meant frankly a secularizing of life, that is, a relinquishing of all ideal or transcendent aspects which hope and wonder might evoke.
But I can point to the universal experience of all humans who have a yearning
for something beyond our physical existence —
for ultimate purpose, value and
meaning.
But all this
means a new duty
for the Christian: he must bear it patiently and not imagine that it could be overcome by sexual promiscuity, incessant activity, moneymaking, a never ending round of pleasure, tourism and whatever other
means there are to drown the
ultimate Angst of life.
This
means that
for Whitehead perception is not mediated by internal representatives of its
ultimate objects but is directly of those
ultimate objects themselves.
For not only was Aristotle highly sensitive to the perils of determining the real by means of the logical — this was, after all, his chief criticism of Plato's theory of the Forms 6 — but Whitehead himself tirelessly attacked the tendency to mistake logical relationships for the structure of the real, an ultimate case of what he called «the fallacy of misplaced concreteness&raqu
For not only was Aristotle highly sensitive to the perils of determining the real by
means of the logical — this was, after all, his chief criticism of Plato's theory of the Forms 6 — but Whitehead himself tirelessly attacked the tendency to mistake logical relationships
for the structure of the real, an ultimate case of what he called «the fallacy of misplaced concreteness&raqu
for the structure of the real, an
ultimate case of what he called «the fallacy of misplaced concreteness».
That one can dare to maintain such hope depends on acceptance of the Christian faith's promise that precisely in the relinquishing of concern
for one's own security,
ultimate security and
meaning are found.
For them, the study of the humanities is
meant to form citizens; its
ultimate aim is civic engagement.
Stapledon thus brings together his basic concerns
for a viable community and a metaphysic as his narrator questions the
ultimate meaning of the only good he is able to perceive — the symbiotic love of two human beings.
(p. 99) «Nietzsche's atheism is thus a corollary of his basic commitment to question all premises and to reject them unless they are
for some reason inescapable... To escape nihilism — which seems involved both in asserting the existence of God and thus robbing this world of
ultimate significance, and also in denying God and thus robbing everything of
meaning and value — that is Nietzsche's greatest and most persistent problem.»
For suffering thus borne, willingly and without resentment, becomes a
means towards the healing of wrongs, and the
ultimate victory of good over evil.
Christianity is a profound philosophy about life's
ultimate meaning, a challenging gospel about life's ideals and about divine resources
for fulfilling them.
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For Barth, the meaning and basis of the Sabbath is thus also eschatological, for by pointing to the special history of the covenant and salvation, the Sabbath necessarily points to its ultimate consummation in history
For Barth, the
meaning and basis of the Sabbath is thus also eschatological,
for by pointing to the special history of the covenant and salvation, the Sabbath necessarily points to its ultimate consummation in history
for by pointing to the special history of the covenant and salvation, the Sabbath necessarily points to its
ultimate consummation in history.27
Significance and the question of the past are related
for the Hartshornians because by «
ultimate meaning» they seem to
mean «God preserves the past.»
Far those who would become lost in the intoxication of creative work (
for the doctor or professor or farmer who works joyously), the play of the Sabbath is a reminder that we can not find
ultimate meaning by mastering life.
Any scheme that is taken as a final and complete blueprint
for human felicity functions as an idol,
for no such plan can possibly encompass the fullness of excellence, and no humanly contrived pattern or program can embody the
ultimate meaning of human existence.
I - Thou is not only a direction, it is the direction;
for it is itself the
ultimate meaning and intrinsic value, an end not reached by any
means, but directly present.
The blood sacrifices God instructed Moses to institute as part of Israel's worship of Him were
meant to pave the way
for the only and
ultimate blood sacrifice that could save humanity from our sin.
The once -
for - all aspect, the
ultimate decisiveness of Jesus» death,
means that this experience remains unsurpassable and always present as an operative part of God's relationship with us.
But the effect has been in a sense to subordinate God to our need
for assurance about the
ultimate meaning of our lives.
I do take issue, however, with Hancock when he states that the natural sciences are «
for the most part... safely insulated from the questions of
ultimate purpose that condition our understanding of the
meaning of education.»
If we say that the
ultimate ground of all human hope lies in Jesus Christ, what does that
mean for our life together as God's people?
But
for its members it will fulfill the demands of being human: giving a sense of
ultimate meaning, offering release from personal failure, creating a noble identity of integrity, fostering the richness of a caring community, and upholding a standard of perfection which will both judge and inspire.
It seems entirely fitting that, in carrying out its other responsibility of expressing effectively the
meaning of
ultimate reality
for us, as distinct from describing metaphysically the structure of
ultimate reality in itself, philosophy should in its own way make use of the same vivid symbols that religion and theology employ to this end.
This
means that since humans are mortal, there comes a time when every life God created «shuffles off its mortal coil» and returns to Him, either
for ultimate judgment or
for ultimate reward.
Gestalt therapy challenges the «aboutism» of endless intellectualizing (in theology and philosophy) concerning the «
ultimate meaning of life» which so often becomes a substitute
for the direct, enlivening experiencing of spiritual reality.