Activism is not only an escape
from deeper realities but an attitude which puts more faith in the endeavours of men than in the movement of the Spirit.
Not exact matches
After learning of some surprising
realities about the level of misinformation being disseminated about Social Security, Cheryl has made it her goal to provide students with a
deep understanding of the multitude of factors that play a role in determining how retirees can achieve the maximum value available to them
from Social Security.
Deeper than the common act of vision in which it expresses itself, and more important than the common power of action
from which it emerges by a sort of autogenesis, there is the
reality itself to which we must look forward, the
reality constituted by the vital union of all the particles endowed with reflective consciousness.
Peter moves
from the security of fixed, failed
reality — «We fished all night and have nothing» — into full, uncontained
reality — The water is
deep and dark, spurring Peter to sense the gap between his world and Jesus» new creation.
This may help us to see why the Bible, in spite of the fact that it was turning men away
from the gods of mankind's infancy, was quite vigorous in retaining God - talk to point to the
deepest reality man encounters in his historical existence.
It may be that, more and more in the new world, men may find they can speak of the
deepest reality of their experience without any need to use the God - talk inherited
from our fathers.
Here he contends that just as Chuang - tzu tried to perceive the nature of
reality from the perspective of fish or butterfly, so, too, should Christians seek to transcend the boundaries of history, religion and culture to develop
deeper contacts with the mysterious ways in which God operates.
Their ways of doing this are most varied, ranging
from a sense of acting in accordance with the «rightness in things» (as in much Chinese religion), through a mystical identification of the
deepest self or atman with the cosmic
reality or brahma (as in Hinduism), or a «blowing - out» of individual selfhood by sharing in the bliss of Nirvana (as in most varieties of Buddhism), to the sense of fellowship or communion with God found in our own Jewish - Christian religious tradition.
In
reality, they assumed, a
deeper analysis of organisms shows that their behavior is also explained by efficient causes operating among their parts or on them
from without.
But it breaks down impotently as soon as melancholy comes; and even though one be quite free
from melancholy one's self, there is no doubt that healthy - mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a genuine portion of
reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the
deepest levels of truth.
I regard a Christology as modern if it uses every relevant insight of modern knowledge to differentiate the historical element in its interpretation of the event Jesus Christ
from the mythological, and remembers that the actual event comprises only history and the ontological
reality of God's presence and action within that history — whilst the mythology expresses that
reality in ways which may indeed convey
deep truth, yet have in themselves the status not of ontological
reality but of poetry.
Although we all need to take an entertainment break occasionally
from the harsh
realities of living in this broken world, we also should read things that draw us into
deeper engagement with the
realities and struggles that our communities face.
The word of the church to the world must therefore encounter the world in all its present
reality from the
deepest knowledge of the world, if it is to be authoritative.
Someone can only speak to me with authority if a word
from the
deepest knowledge of my humanity encounters me here and now in all my
reality.
Few will deny, for example, that Paul's theology represents with something approaching adequacy the fact and meaning of sin in human life — the
reality of moral evil, the universal blight it brings, man's hopeless entanglement with it, the perverse and rebellious pride,
deep in our nature, which degrades us, distorts our efforts, mars even our best moral achievements, and
from which we know God must save us if we are to be saved at all.
If we had had no experience of going
deeper we would not be able now to recognize the shallow as shallow, the superficial as superficial, or appearances as distinct
from reality.
To separate government
from the
reality of religion —
from that which speaks to the
deepest and highest and most commanding ways of understanding what is really real — is to separate government
from the people who are the source of its legitimacy.
For Bergson, each tension yields a problem that is also the mark of apparently irreconcilable views of what is vital to the place of human beings in the world: (1) Time is measurable according to length and brevity, but immeasurable in
reality, because it is qualitative, felt, and immediate; (2) Psychological life is divided into a self awareness of
deeper, dynamic layers of human beings and what is superficial and fixed; (3) There is an inner consciousness and an independent world apart
from inner consciousness.
One of the
deepest divides in our society is between those at the top who see
reality comfortably
from that point of view and those at the bottom whose experience is so different.
Unity in the oikoumene is a continuous task, as Panikkar well stated in an early text: «Ecumenism has to start with suffering arising
from diversity; in a further step, it should unveil the
deeper, common striving; and it could well culminate in the religious effort to bring closer this unity of
Reality.
But at its
deepest, this need stems
from the
realities of the Christian life.
Beginning with Genesis 1:1, I plan on taking you verse by verse through the Bible to explain it
from a historical - cultural perspective, and in a way that exposes how religion has forced Scripture to become its errand boy, when in
reality, Scripture should be leading us away
from religion and into a
deeper and more intimate relationship with God.
Thus, a way of conceptual work is indicated for philosophy; this way leads back
from the late, clear but superficial abstractions to the original, confused but
deeper aspects of our concrete experience of
reality (cf. PSM).
With the pretext of a
deeper understanding of
reality, Latin American theologians reinterpret the Christian message and they separate themselves
from Christian orthodoxy The Instruction says that is impossible to separate Marxist analysis
from Marxist ideology.
But because the world of sense perception is too shallow to contain the depth of importance resident in the whole of
reality the symbols which employ material
from this shallow world (as their first intentionality) always remain somewhat off - shore in
deeper waters where they appear to us only in a refracted visage.
The focus of the discussion was the use of social sciences in theology, the rereading of the Bible
from the perspective of the poor, the Christian communities in the struggle of liberation and the assumption of some elements of critical and Marxist analysis for a better and
deeper understanding of the conflictual
reality of the continent.
Ascribing motive is a way of protecting myself
from the painful
reality that
deep down, I want these people to like me and understand me.
Now with the world becoming one, if it remains, and with our leading Western universities importing religious teachers
from the East to teach students the religions that brought forward views like reincarnation, not to mention the success of missionaries in our midst
from non-Christian religions, we Christians had better think long and
deep concerning these religions, not only to be honest with ourselves, but to do justice to the central
realities of our faith.
Speculation does not take heed of the fact that in relation to sin the ethical has its place, which employs an emphasis which is the converse of that of Speculation and accomplishes the opposite development; for the ethical does not abstract
from reality but goes
deeper into
reality, operating essentially by the aid of the category of the individual, which is the category overlooked and despised by Speculation.
But he voiced a message and a complaint which found an immediate and extraordinary response at every level of society,
from that of the
deepest spiritual experience to that of the most practical economic and political
realities.
The
reality is that a Church such as the Anglican Communion is such a mixture of histories, and of theological difference, that inevitably there will be
deep differences and
from time to time these will lead to grave crises, such as the one faced in recent years.
But the crafty maneuvering is more than worth it to
deep - pocketed bold - faced names who run the gamut
from Gere to
reality - TV star Bethenny Frankel to hooker - loving former Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
But he suggests that quantum odds can nevertheless emerge
from a
deeper layer of
reality in which everything is specified deterministically.
How
deep this goes is unknown, but it is conceivable that a short - lived fruit fly has an experience of
reality that is radically different
from that of a long - lived turtle.
I touch on my recent Grand Solar Minimum debunking videos; on a new book that I am reading by Hector MacDonald called «Truth; How the Many Sides to Every Story Shape Our
Reality», and also on Cambridge Analytica's successful hacking of democracy based on
deep and dark manipulations of the on average 5,000 data points on each persons Facebook profile that they illegally hijacked
from a Russian psychologist; as exposed by the guy
from Canada with pink hair.
The
reality is, you've probably been unassumingly eating GM food sources for years, as it can be present in chocolate, biscuits, mayonnaise, bread, corn chips - and even in
deep - fried fish»n chips
from your local takeaway.
Today, my hope is to start telling a
deeper story — the ebbs and flows of
reality that you can't always see
from my Instagram feed.
Laced throughout these days, thoughts rise up
from a
deep place inside you (your soul) calling out to you with visions of WHO you could be, WHERE you could be... all these visions float around inside you ready to turn into a
reality until your mind steps in and says, «but HOW?»
And, with the above results of our survey into the attraction of a man who shows more emotion, we can assume that even though our perception is that society stops
from opening up, in
reality, both men and women deeply crave the ability to communicate on a
deeper emotional level.
About Blog Knowledge attained can be valuable when taken
from objective information influenced by our personal judgment, however the
deepest truths of our
reality come not
from this knowledge or the conditioning of society, teachers or preachers but
from our own higher consciousness.
Any relief at the revelation that that violence is not going down in the film's present - day
reality, though, just as quickly gives way to the
deeper horror about what Moll and her community might be hiding
from us.
It is one of Allen's
deepest reflections on the seventh art and its function as an escape
from our harsh
reality.
Haneke's camera is scrupulously avoidant of anything remotely approaching exploitation or cruelty, but it doesn't flinch for a moment
from the harsh physical and emotional
realities of the dreadful situation, its confusion and loss and humiliation; that kind of unremitting honesty, however — that kind of acknowledgment of the painful, irremediable fact of death — makes for the most stirring, principled, and meaningful illustration possible of the truest meaning of love, the kind that goes much
deeper and wider, and endures longer, than romance or joy or even togetherness.
However, by going for
deeper, more horrific chills, Hostage is so far removed
from the realm of
reality, that it becomes one of the most laughably bad movies of its kind.
It is only after hacker cult figure Morpheus agrees to show Tom «how
deep the rabbit hole goes» that Tom, and we, learn The Ugly Truth: the surface of the earth has been uninhabitable for centuries, and all humans are spending their lives in a virtual
reality construct, while a complex network of machines uses the electrical energy and body heat
from their real bodies, which are stored in individual pods, as a fuel source.
When she suddenly finds herself haunted by a presence, she has trouble distinguishing fiction
from reality and falls
deeper into a world of her perceptions.
Monica is the author of
Deeper Learning with QR Codes and Augmented
Reality: A Scannable Solution for Your Classroom available
from Corwin Publishing in March 2016.
You can order Monica's new book
Deeper Learning with QR Codes and Augmented
Reality: A Scannable Solution for Your Classroom
from Corwin Press.
With the engine's roots buried
deep in Germany, Mazda had an interest in this unconventional engine design
from the beginning, partnering with NSU which in turn made Felix Wankel's dream of a rotary engine a
reality.
Although the story moves toward the adjustive, a
deep sense of the
reality he created kept Dickens at first
from writing a happy ending.