Sentences with phrase «from philosophical thinking»

Even though the Reformers tried to liberate the Bible from philosophical thinking, they hardly began to deal with the deep hold of substance thought on theology.

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He was constantly thinking about financial issues, from the operational to the philosophical: how to finance his organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and how to right the economic injustices suffered by the dispossessed throughout the country.

Scholasticism Theology moved from the monastery to the university Western theology is an intellectual discipline rather than a mystical pursuit Western theology is over-systematized Western Theology is systematized, based on a legal model rather than a philosophical model Western theologians debate like lawyers, not like rabbis Reformation Catholic reformers were excommunicated and formed Protestant churches Western churches become guarantors of theological schools of thought Western church membership is often contingent on fine points of doctrine Some western Christians believe that definite beliefs are incompatible with tolerance The atmosphere arose in which anyone could start a church The legal model for western theology intensifies despite the rediscovery of the East

But we may, I think, conclude with Errol Harris (AT 74) that from the Hegelian perspective, the philosophical shortcomings of classical logic extend to mathematical logic as well, and that as logic of the understanding, both deal with the «abstract concept of class or aggregate,» and are both inextricably connected with a metaphysics of externally related particulars that lose themselves in a «spurious infinite,» and with a concomitant mechanical cosmology.

Far from being a rhetorical trope or a philosophical tool, analogy for Przywara is the style of thought that best corresponds to the way in which being makes itself known.

Wolfhart Pannenberg concluded his incisive overview of the period with the observation that one must «spare the Christian doctrine of God from the gap between the incomprehensible essence and the historical action of God, by virtue of which each threatens to make the other impossible,» and went on to state that «in the recasting of the philosophical concept of God by early Christian theology considerable remnants were left out, which have become a burden in the history of Christian thought.»

In general, taking the objects for philosophical analysis from the data of sense perception leaves us in the grip of substance thinking even when we acknowledge that we can not discover substances in or through our sensory experience.

I think coming from a fundamentalist background, seeing the Greek philosophical uses of this terminology helps me recover a sense of a non-legalistic meaning and it avoids the problem of how you could be righteous without actually fully being so.

From the perspective of theology as we understand it, all human divisions, systems, social and political institutions, all philosophical thoughts, find themselves on the same level, on the side of the created world in its corruption and promise.

I think it would be beneficial both to Whitehead studies and to relevant portions of analytic philosophy to bring Whitehead more back into the American philosophical mainstream by considering his specific problems and solutions in light of current interests and as susceptible to criticisms from current perspectives.

It is the theme of his phenomenological personalism, and from it springs all his thinking, both philosophical and theological.

And, although the poem from Pilgrim's Regress surely betrays the influence of philosophical idealism on Lewis's thought, it also shows certain Christian assumptions about what it means to be human.

And after finishing the article — «OK, never - mind, we basically agree on the most important ideas, he just approaches thinks with a philosophical framework so incongruous from mine that even the things we agree on are going to sound totally different.»

metaphysics demands «not a random flexibility, a mere looseness in the application of a method nowhere quite appropriate; it is a uniform or methodical flexibility, in which the method changes from one topic to another because form and content are changing pari passu as thought, traversing its scale of forms, gradually approximates to the ideal of a perfectly philosophical subject - matter treated by a perfectly philosophical method» (EPM 192).

A general review of the endnotes from Gunter's paper reveals a fair number of sources who will corroborate the claim that Bergson's scientific views are nor only not outdated, but go very» much to the heart of current scientific methods and insights, but particularly, see A. C. Papanicolaou and Pete A. N. Gunter, eds., Bergson in Modern Thought Towards a Unified Science (New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1987), and for important background on how Bergson came to be seen as dated when he was not, see also, Milic Capek, Bergson and Modern Physics, (cited above) and The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics (Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1961), and the volume edited by Gunter, Bergson and the Evolution of Physics (cited above).

The poet and artist, as well as the psychologist, sometimes make use of an association of symbols quite different from that of controlled scientific and philosophical thought.

Although many philosophers in history have written from a process perspective, the term today is reserved for a particular school of thought centered around the works of Alfred North Whitehead, whose philosophical writings spanned the two decades of the 1920's and 1930's and the two countries of England and the United States.

Having quoted the same passage from Hume as did Sandel, Sacks writes of Jimmie: «In some sense, he had been reduced to a «Humean» being — I could not help thinking how fascinated Hume would have been at seeing in Jimmie his own philosophical chimaera incarnate, a gruesome reduction of a man to mere disconnected, incoherent flux and change.»

No doubt there are many other insights that can be generated from it, but most importantly, we have a philosophical basis for theological thought.

We have already emphasized that in the refusal to separate primary from secondary qualities process - thought has reversed the over-rationalizing philosophical tendency of western man.

2) You can maintain your position from a faith perspective, and say this, but then I'd have to seriously question [a] your historical integrity (for example, the historical position of Revelations as canon, although more of a debate than the other texts, was still NOWHERE NEAR contestable enough for you to draw this sort of conclusion) and [b] your philosophical integrity (for example, if you dismiss Revelations because it doesn't support your position, i'm going to ask: by what authority do you think you have the right to discern this?

It is only slight exaggeration to state that he feels the traditional Western religious and philosophical understanding of God to be such a mass of errors and inconsistencies as to require removal in toto from the body of metaphysical thought.

From a philosophical viewpoint «Cogito ergo sum / I think therefore I am» might be considered a self - proof I guess.

For Adamson, the result was an immense contribution to Western thought, primarily through the work of Augustine, whose influence is felt in everything from the literary tradition of autobiography to philosophical examinations of the will.

«No one has ever touched Zeno without refuting him,» he writes in a short essay commenting on the fundamental line of thought in his chief philosophical work, Process and Reality.16 In the same essay he explicitly distinguishes his theory from two other opposed positions: on the one hand from the view that interprets the character of becoming as illusory and becoming itself as simply empty and nonexistent in comparison with beings and their being.

For from the time of the church fathers onward, the reflections of theologians have been shaped by philosophical concepts and ways of thought — sometimes for good, sometimes for ill.

The brute fact of this inconsistency pinpoints how extremely dangerous Ford's hypothesis really is; for it leads to a basic interpretative strategy that is diametrically opposed to the one required by Whitehead's many statements to the effect that his books are intended to supplement one another's omissions and compressions and that, consequently, his system of thought, including his basic metaphysical system, must be carefully gleaned from all his philosophical works.

In the last ten years of his life, Wach was often mistakenly thought to be in the camp of the second approach to comparative religion at Chicago, which necessitated his stating repeatedly that while the philosophy of religion applies an abstract philosophical idea of what religion is to the data of empirical, historical studies, the history of religions begins with the investigation of religious phenomena, from which, it is hoped, a pattern of «meaning» will emerge.

That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.

The underlying philosophical position of traditional theology and its difference from the presuppositions of process thought can perhaps best be illustrated when we analyze the meaning of «perfect» and see its application to the Christian idea of God.

The Universe, known and unknown, is possibly not the most used definition of God, at least in the western world... but it is the Pantheistic version that jives so much more with science and is not a misappropriation of the smaller definitions of God, merely an unfamiliar definition to those with less knowledge of various more advanced religious and philosophic thought, within and outside those religions... The idea of Pantheism also thoughtfully considers why there is, rather than ridiculing, such a wide range of philosophical and ritual beliefs from a scientific perspective... without having to classify large groups of people, as senseless idiots from one end or destined for hell from the other.

The following mediation of the knowledge of this philosophical development enables us to understand why Whitehead, in a series of theoretical starting points, their rejections, and theoretical improvements, reluctantly abandons both hitherto plausible starting points from commonsensical thought and the dominant conventional forms of thought in philosophy.

12 I take the notion of «metaphysical reduction» from Gerd Buchdahl, «Reduction - Realization: a Key to the Structure of Kant's Thought», Philosophical Topics, vol.

Although Hartshorne's line of thought has been quite separate from the dominant philosophical currents of the century his life has spanned, he has not been personally separate from the leading actors.

The universal moral imperatives of scholastic thought, which were inferred from the uniquely spiritual nature of man, were attacked as unreasonable by materialistic humanism, and modern Catholic thought was no longer sure of its own philosophical ground.

Apart from these conclusions which are important in themselves, we are continuously presented with great philosophical and theological thought.

1, p. 9) No amount of ingenious accommodation can disguise the fact that Holloway was fully aware that his philosophical thought at points diverged significantly from the Thomistic tradition.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Two vital things to know about Dave Gettleman is why he thinks the Giants disintegrated into a 2 - 13 team and his philosophical similarities and differences from his predecessor, Jerry Reese.

From a philosophical point of view, I like drafting BPA, but think this is the year to draft for need with our 1st and 2nd round picks.

The prose is so lively, the thinking so lucid, and the use of such devices so artful, one might not notice it all adds up to a 500 - page systematic analysis of a massive, dry, sometime jumbled philosophical corpus from a profoundly alien society.

This age - old philosophical question still reverberates through cultural thought, from the writings of William S. Burrows to the cinematic mind games of The Matrix.

I think academic philosophy is helpful only in a negative sense — that is, sometimes physicists get impressed with philosophical ideas, so that it can be helpful to hear from experts that those ideas have been challenged within the philosophical community.

«We think that intelligent design is not, for this reason, a scientific proposal, and also — from a theological and philosophical point of view — is a wrong answer.»

This is partly caused by the way that many academics think of educational research; they defend it from attempts to make it more scientific on philosophical grounds.

From the country's philosophical position on high - stakes testing, to the methods of efficiently implementing policies, Ng answered questions about the thought process behind education reform in Singapore over the previous decades, and the secrets to its success.

Although Descartes thought that his philosophical and scientific doctrines subverted Aristotelianism and scholasticism, he was at heart a scholastic or Aristotelian because he drew from his own mind propositions about the nature of being and reality.

From their backgrounds (Protestant) to their spiritual and philosophical affinities (in both Eastern and Western thought); in their idealism, which became increasingly dogmatic; even in their pictorial evolutions these two artists traveled parallel paths.

Be it drama or comedy alike, exploring existential philosophical or simply very personal ideas and thoughts on the human condition and working from deep down my own emotional pipeline.»

It does not come directly from isolated philosophical or religious thinking of feeling.

A few weeks ago at the gallery, where his show is on view through March 25, Mack held forth in conversation that careened between the beginning and the end of Zero, the philosophical thoughts of Seneca, recurring patterns in the «microcosmos,» and an enduring restlessness that has driven his art from the start.