Sentences with phrase «from historical existence»

Because it constantly portrays mystery in the form of a gracious promise, the Bible forbids our searching for meaning, salvation, or fulfillment completely apart from historical existence.

As Evangelicals and Catholics fully committed to our respective heritages, we affirm together the coinherence of Scripture and tradition: tradition is not a second source of revelation alongside the Bible but must ever be corrected and informed by it, and Scripture itself is not understood in a vacuum apart from the historical existence and life of the community of faith.

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Consequently the existence of a historical event at the shift in the aeons seems not to be a factor distinguishing Jesus» situation from that of the Church.

The univocal and equivocal imaginations deny metaphor, deny that any new insight can come through the ordinary — the one flattens it to sameness, the other escapes from it — but what Lynch calls the analogical imagination delves into the mundane, for it is precisely in and through the complexities of historical, limited existence that insight comes, if it comes at all.

Underlying this erroneous tendency, as Faith has pointed out many times over the last forty years, is the implicit or explicit denial of the transcendence of God, the Divinity of Christ, the historical objectivity of revelation and the authority of the Church in matters of faith and morals, and also the denial of the spiritual soul as a principle of existence that is distinct from yet integrates the material within the unity of our human nature.

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.

Therefore, there is no basis from which to create what I would call genuine historical existence, nor any way to call man to what seems to me the vital need of our age, the vocation of responsible technological existence.

Thus when I observe a meticulous and highly sensitive scholar like Bultmann proceeding with his method of demythologizing to interpret Christian faith exhaustively and without remainder as man's original possibility of authentic historical existence, and then making, as it were, a sharp turn from this procedure in his appeal to the saving event of Jesus Christ, by way of preserving the Kerygma, something demonic in me leaps up with glee, and I want to shout far joy.

In his historical tour of the proofs for and against God's existence, Nathan Schneider, a journalist and activist whose last work treated the Occupy movement, unfolds the story of provers and their arguments from the ancient Greeks through medieval Muslims to today's analytic philosophers and New Atheists.

The chief points of change are, first, that the scene has been transferred from the supernatural world of the gods to the earthly sphere of human history; secondly, that It is not a god who experiences the renewal of life (for the God of Israel is not himself subject to death and resurrection, but on the contrary initiates and controls these events) but the people of Israel, who look in hope for restoration when their existence is threatened; and thirdly, that this hope is expressed as a metaphor describing the historical future, rather than as a myth of cosmic renewal.

The final three chapters summarily consider the evidence against and for the virgin birth, arguing that it is neither myth nor indemonstrable truth; instead the evidence for the existence of an historical tradition anteceding the Gospels, ultimately from Mary herself, is more credible than any alternative explanation; hence, for anyone open to the possibility of miracles, there is good evidence to affirm Jesus» virgin birth on the basis of the New Testament's testimony.

In chapter 3 of his The God Delusion published last September, Richard Dawkins included a rebuttal of «The argument [for God] from admired religious scientists,» in which he pours scorn on the citing of eminent believing scientists (contemporary or historical) as evidence for God's existence.

For as individuals we are not isolated from the network of spiritual, historical, and cosmic relationships that shape our personal existence.

It is from this source that divine possibility originates and becomes actualizable in historical existence.

In the context of Christian theology, the problem of faith and reason asks this question: What is the relation between the certitude that God enters into a saving relationship with man (most effectively and uniquely in the historical existence of Jesus of Nazareth) and those certitudes that seem to spring from man's commonly held ability to abstract and verify the forms of events and processes in the world?

Therefore, there is no basis from which to create what I would call genuine historical existence.

In the Old Testament, God is known as Creator only because he is first known as Sustainer - Redeemer.27 The creation faith of the Old Testament nowhere gives the impression that its Primary interest is in origins as origins; rather is it a faith that speaks from, and back to, historical human existence and in its articulation is concerned to say what man is and what in that faith his existence means.

From Merriam Webster: Myth 1 a: a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon b: parable, allegory 2a: a popular belief or tradition that has grown up around something or someone; especially: one embodying the ideals and inst.itutions of a society or segment of society b: an unfounded or false notion 3: a person or thing having only an imaginary or unverifiable existence 4: the whole body of myths 1.

However, to Christian faith, the God of revelation who becomes manifest in the humiliation of the cross is disclosed as one who has from the beginning emptied the divine self of any claims to the kind of power and presence that might frustrate the openness of historical existence.

Another way to escape from history is to follow the gnostic path of dreaming up some radically other world, to which we «essentially» belong by virtue of an esoteric knowledge or «gnosis,» membership in which therefore keeps us from having to dwell fully within the messiness of historical existence.

Notwithstanding the fact that whatever human meaning we may discover would be inseparable from the meaning of the cosmos, it is still necessary for us to focus our quest for the meaning of revelation on the question of the significance of our own existence as a distinctly historical species.

There is more evidence of Jesus» existence than any other historical figure from that time, yet people don't question their existence.

Cobb names God as the ethical, historical, and personal ultimate, that is, where this God is a particular actual entity A good case can be made that ethical principles, historical existence, and personhood can not exist apart from the specificity of some concrete and particular being.

If his knowledge of the God was imperfect in comparison with his who according to our supposition receives the condition from the God himself, this does not concern us here; for Faith does not have to do with essence, but with being [historical existence], and the assumption that the God is determines him eternally and not historically.

But by locating revelation in the realm of transcendental subjectivity, or on a plane radically discontinuous with actual human events, they have removed it from a more challenging proximity to our historical existence.

However, we can not expect from revelation a vividly detailed picture of the future direction our historical existence will take.

Taking refuge in nature's regularities seemingly offers one such haven from the turmoil of historical existence.

Catholic theologians can speak of the new challenge posed by the necessity of a post-Constantinian form of the church, while Protestant theologians can vie with one another in detaching faith from all forms of existence in an admittedly secular historical present.

From this difference, I suspect, flows the other great differences between my religious, moral, and intellectual orientation and Spinoza's: the sovereignty and mysteriousness of God; the enigmatic, tantalizing imprecision of religious language; the freedom of man; the fear of God and the value of repentance; the sheer particularity and fateful contingency of individual and historical existence.

The existence of the historical figure of Jesus is easily proven, which is why even the most ardent atheists tend to stay away from making such easily disprovable claims.

Hegel started from the belief that, as he said of the French Revolution, mans existence centres in his head, i.e., in thought, inspired by which he builds up the world of reality».2 In his greatest work, the Phenomenology of Mind, Hegel traces the development of mind or spirit (Geist), reintroducing historical movement into philosophy and asserting that the human mind can attain to absolute knowledge.

Out of the Egyptian existence of formlessness and void Yahweh had created for Israel a life relatively formed and ordered; certainly in the popular mind this definition of existence continued to be valid and to provide meaning enough for historical consciousness, however strong the opposing judgment from core Yahwism, from prophetic Yahwism.

The notion of purpose comes to us in part from our experience of historical existence.

Once we acquired the distinct feeling that our historical existence has «exiled» us to some degree from the regularities and rhythms of nature, we became restless to find exactly where we do fit in.

The greatest consequence of Kant's thought for the history of theology was its separation of the sphere of distinctively human existence — the moral, spiritual, and historical — from the sphere of the phenomenal world in which scientific thinking is relevant.

The existence of a Little Ice Age from roughly 1500 to 1850 is supported by a wide variety of evidence including ice cores, tree rings, borehole temperatures, glacier length records, and historical documents.

Lifted the historical justification for publishing houses existence (fronting the massive costs of print, promotion, distribution), the transition from «writers as providers of goods for publishers» to «publishing as a service for (or partnership with) authors» seems natural, at least where digital books are concerned, as the interests of writers, editors and readership can be more closely aligned in the latter model (depending on terms).

Since Schwab's fundamentally - indexed mutual funds have been in existence for over six years now, and that period spanned a significant market downturn, it is worthwhile to take a look at their historical risk - adjusted performance, as measured by the trailing five - year Sharpe Ratio (all data from Morningstar):

Records substantiate the existence of short, square, «under the table» dogs from at least 1000 B.C.. By piecing together historical facts and documented records, it is possible to some extent to follow the development in China of the breeding of dogs likely to be the ancestors of the present - day Shih Tzu.

Nicole Furman: «I think that the content of the work I create is unique, as I seek to challenge a lot of societal preconceptions and ruling institutions through common «symbols» (from gender preconceptions, to the mere existence of innocence, to historical construction and reconstruction), which is conceptual, yet always maintaining aesthetic priorities (which conceptual art seems to disregard, and which for me define art).»

Many of Lemmerz's works focus on taboo - related themes, taken from contemporary, as well as historical events, where suffering, death, identity, and existence are central themes.

When objects of this sort are erased from existence, they enable Orientalist constructions of history to proliferate itself within the dominant historical narrative — as if nothing existed there to begin with.

The existence of a Little Ice Age from roughly 1500 to 1850 is supported by a wide variety of evidence including ice cores, tree rings, borehole temperatures, glacier length records, and historical documents.

Emphasizing that the United Nations has an important and continuing role to play in promoting and protecting the rights of indigenous peoples, Believing that this Declaration is a further important step forward for the recognition, promotion and protection of the rights and freedoms of indigenous peoples and in the development of relevant activities of the United Nations system in this field, Recognizing and reaffirming that indigenous individuals are entitled without discrimination to all human rights recognized in international law, and that indigenous peoples possess collective rights which are indispensable for their existence, well - being and integral development as peoples, Recognizing that the situation of indigenous peoples varies from region to region and from country to country and that the significance of national and regional particularities and various historical and cultural backgrounds should be taken into consideration, Solemnly proclaims the following United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a standard of achievement to be pursued in a spirit of partnership and mutual respect: