Sentences with phrase «founding dialectic»

Which means that at the beginning of the twenty - first century we are, if we would reconstitute the experiment, returned to the founding dialectic between contract and covenant.

But the modern Christian who sees time as creative, positive and humanizing finds the dialectic of withdrawal from time quite absurd, to say the least.

Similarly I find his dialectic of past and future to be out of correspondence with reality, forcing him to reject not only the past but the non-eschatological future as positive elements in his theology.

Not exact matches

This is, however, not at all to say that «dialectic» finds no place whatever in Whitehead's system.

With the definition of religion given, Marxism would have to be considered a religion, at least for those who do not use it as a means to some political or economic end, but who find «in the conception of the «dialectic of history» with its inevitability, its total relevance, its impersonal justice - making power, the object of supreme valuation and complete relevance to life....

Any attempt to break loose from the path set out by Schleiermacher and to find a way in which to make the transcendent God our subject, rather than some aspect of ourselves, could be called an apophantic theology, standing as it does in that tradition of paradox or dialectic that marked the Cappadocian theologians and has always been a part of the theological tradition.

The dialectic between universalism and particularism, between inclusion and exclusion is found among all peoples.

In his essay on Boehme in 1901 Buber writes that Boehme's dialectic of the reciprocal conditioning of things finds its completion in Ludwig Feuerbach's sentence: «Man with man — the unity of I and Thou — is God.»

The sophisms of the substantiality of the «I» even today retain a particular luster, along with the Nietzschean and Freudian critiques of the subject; it is not without importance to find the root and philosophical meaning of them in the Kantian dialectic; this latter has condemned in advance any claim to dogmatize on personal existence and knowledge of the person; the person is manifested only in the practical act of treating it as an end and not merely as a means.

Of course, he perceives our own time as one in which historical roots are not available, but he has generalized this particular situation which he finds in Western civilization into a universal dialectic, or perhaps more properly antagonism, of the past and present.

At the same time I find that he has adopted a rigid dialectic that forces reality into patterns to which it does not correspond.

It first proposes the dialectic of its object, which is an event as well as a meaning at the same time, similar to what we spoke of in part one with regard to the narration of the founding events of the history of Israel.

«All plots,» say Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg, «depend upon tension and resolution, «6 and Kenneth Burke demonstrates the inescapable dialectic found in both fictional and historical dramatizations.7 Although we are socialized to think that tension marks an embarrassing and probably unnecessary failure in ministry (one recent book for pastors asserts that «conflict was not God's plan for humanity»), the agón of individual and corporate life is inextricable from a congregation's plot.

Between the security confessed by the recitation of the founding events and the menace announced by the prophet there is no rational synthesis, no triumphant dialectic, but only a double confession, never completely appeased; a double confession that only hope can hold together.

Rather than fighting over which side of Barth's dialectic to emphasize — the givenness or the nongivenness of the dynamic gift of grace — we should be seeking to proclaim the gift itself to a world that finds it increasingly hard to believe in such things.

While Hong Hao continues to work with found objects,» AS IT IS,» his recent solo exhibition at Beijing Commune, deals with the physical forms in a more straightforward manner, creating an interesting dialectic development of both the vocabulary and concept of his art.

Carrow's sculptural installation embodies a mindful approach towards found objects and assemblage that present a dialectic between past and present through the use of mass - produced tools, appliances and toys from the pre-digital age.

Berkson: Well, probably the best manifestation of the New York School ethos is the one that quite a few people find most telling, and it amounts to a dialectic.

Dialectical behavior therapy is so named because at its heart lies the requirement that both patients and therapists find synthesis in various contradictions, or dialectics.

Thomas Marra, PhD, founded and directed one of the first inpatient psychiatric programs using dialectic behavior therapy as the clinical focus of treatment for every patient admitted to the facility, regardless of diagnosis.

Participants will gain basic understanding of theories and models that involve best - practice including: Dialectic Behavioral Therapy, Neurological findings, Feminist Theory, Emotionally Focused Family Therapy and Client - Centered Play Therapy 2.

This very much sounds to me like the professional discussion surrounding «parental alienation» that has occurred over the past 30 years, in which each side (pole in the dialectic) is advocating for their position without finding synthesis with the other side (the other pole in the dialectic).