Sentences with phrase «general truth»

He can never regard them as pictorial symbols of general truths, existential experiences or emotions.
They have just enough general truth about life to convince the simple minded of their authenticity, which has then allowed the leaders of these religions to maintain control of the populace.
It looks for the pearl of general truth in the oyster of experience.
The essence of the Christian faith is not general truths that can be contained within respectable parameters, but its particularity: it speaks of the revelation of God in a particular person at a particular time with a particular answer to questions of human meaning and existence.
Between the false alternatives of «just general truths» or «explicit claims to messianic titles» there lies in Jesus» public ministry a whole area of eschatological action accompanied by theological commentary which Diem overlooked, and wherein resides both the historical and the theological point of departure for the Church's kerygma, and thus the crucial area of research for a new quest of the historical Jesus.
Since II.9.4 first discusses general truths in terms of metaphysical propositions, and II.9.5 - 6 induction, we infer that this chapter was the next in order of composition and that later Whitehead rearranged them in the present order.
When we apply this position to Diem's original criticism of Käsemann, that the latter presented Jesus as only teaching general truths rather than the kerygma, it becomes clear that Diem has overlooked the crucial point: Käsemann went beyond the view that Jesus taught God's fatherhood and man's freedom, to the assertion that «God has drawn near man in grace and requirement,» and Jesus «brought and lived the freedom of the children of God».
When contemplating such universals, the mind thinks directly about what it knows, in the fundamental manner of its knowledge, pondering upon sensations until it assimilates them into general truths.
The orienting man wants security and security once for all: he wants to know his way about, and he wants a solid general truth that will not overturn him.
Traditional deductive preaching, bringing general truths to bear upon the lives of the hearers, has therefore been marked by a lack of humor.
If this is perhaps unfair to the scientific community, it points to a more general truth: A heavily mechanized, technologized society is permanently at risk of forgetting those things which can not be produced or consumed, only delighted in.
Lindbeck is read as if he is saying that somehow the general truth that Jesus is Christ and Lord somehow depends on how we individually conduct ourselves in light of that truth.
The first three sentences of II.3.2 belong with the inserted 3.1 (h), but 3.2 probably initially began with the first three sentences of 3.1 These sentences indicate that the «next chapter» will consider such problems as «induction» and «general truths» (PR 83 / 127).
However this is a purely formal use of Jesus» teachings, just as many «general truths» can be used in concrete proclamation.
This is not to make us less grateful for the events which occasioned the discovery, but it does suggest that our major concerns should be for the general truths.
The student's mind responds to the richness of illustration and general truth of the Precision stage and in response to a «natural» progression it seeks fruition of the effort in the Freedom stage.
Therefore, genuine faith in God is not a general truth which I acknowledge, of which I dispose, and which I apply.
Nevertheless, like the sacraments (which would otherwise become bare symbols), the kerygma necessarily assumes the form of tradition, for it is more than a summary of general truths, and is itself part of the eschatological event.
In induction, thought moves from the particulars of experience that have a familiar ring in the listener's ear to a general truth or conclusion.
Perhaps equally sincere but no more worthy of the popularity they enjoy are the exegetical methods common today: selection, elimination, reduction to general truths, modernizing Biblical characters through popular jargon, or archaizing the present by calling upon congregations to «go back to old Jericho for a few minutes this morning».
The bottom, the apex, represents «General truth or conclusion.»
Simply stated, deductive movement is from the general truth to the particular application or experience while induction is the reverse.
If the time comes, and it has, when men are either uninterested in those major premises of universal and general truth (i.e., «all men are unrighteous») or they question the authority of their source (i.e., church or scripture), then those whose mission it is to convince others must go into the marketplace prepared to reason inductively.
The top represents the «General truth», the bottom «Particular applications.»
Jesus speaks of God not in terms of general truths, in dogmas, but only in terms of what God is for man, how He deals with man.
For the belief in God as the Creator is thereby made a theoretical idea, a general truth, which is used as an established presupposition.
Of course, he reached an epistemology, a cosmology, and a pragmatic test, and he tried to show their general truth.
On the principle that all general truths form a coherent system, metaphysics suggests how the general principles of a given science might be reformulated so as to be compatible with the even wider generalities of metaphysics, and hence not to be in conflict with the general principles of the other special areas of interest (PR 15).
Here once more is a human application of a general truth.
We can not ignore this general truth when we come to the issue of AIDS.
Henry Ward Beecher, one of the most popular preachers of his day, was quite in line with Protestant thought when he declared, «Looking comprehensively through city and town and village and country, the general truth will stand, that no man in this land suffers from poverty unless it be more than his fault — unless it be his sin.»
A concrete occasion often best illumines a general truth.
At the best such a system will remain only an approximation to the general truths which are sought.»
But in studying the teaching there is again danger of misunderstanding, of supposing such teaching to be a system of general truths, a system of propositions which have validity apart from the concrete life situation of the speaker.
Of course it is not said as general truth, but with reference to the Kingdom of God; hence the question, «How shall we liken the Kingdom of God?
etc.), by his excessively elated descriptions of everyday Yankee catches, by his strangling compulsion to qualify, modify and amplify nearly every general truth he utters.
This is a general truth, usually applicable to every team, but always to one team in particular every spring.
But for all its singular nature it illuminates some general truths about the state of politics.
Although there is some general truth in this, do you have evidence that this is what the conflict in the Austrian Greens was about?
This correlation is cross-cultural and appears to be a general truth for all of humankind.
First off, I don't think there is a general truth about European fashion.
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