Sentences with word «givenness»

But if our fixation on a particular imagery is too exclusivist, then our sense of the future decays into a restrictive obsession with the sheer givenness of things.

The sheer phenomenal flux and the sheer givenness of separate existence were rationally unintelligible as well as existentially unendurable.

When my mama opens up this new book of words, The Way of Abundance, and reads how all the pages are dedicated to her, I cup her face and I read to her the story that she's written with her days, a story different from being a Mud Swallower or Mud Slinger or Mud Runner, a story of surrendered givenness that has let the Potter shape and transform her into the beauty of cruciform.

Your First Things article «A Stubborn Givenness» (April 12, 2016) sought to explain Pope Francis and Amoris Laetitia in terms of his being a Jesuit, following the trajectory you began in the article «Francis, Our Jesuit Pope» (September 23, 2013).

Why has our species been so ineradicably religious, so sensitive to a dimension of mystery summoning us to move beyond any absolute contentment with the mere givenness of things?

And still others maintain that mystery has no reality at all, that «mystery» is a notion made up by those who are fleeing from the immediate givenness of the natural, secular or empirical world and that science will eventually eliminate mystery altogether.

Whitehead says here (PR 127, for instance, the» «order» in the actual world is differentiated from mere givenness by introduction of adaption for the attainment of an end.»

This environing world is ordered only insofar as it provides the «givenness which is compatible with the dominant ideal» of the society.

It may be that in the course of history certain dimensions of saving truth become obscured and must be recovered but it is impossible for a theologian to stand apart from tradition and begin his work ab initio; to do so would be to cut himself off from the Church, which is the source sine qua non of theology, and to deny the historical givenness of Revelation.

The charism of celibacy is not essential to the priestly vocation, though there is a full givenness to the calling and ministry when that is present.

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The case for the objective givenness of the past is so strong that the question arises as to why the denial is so persistent.

With the loss of the word the moments in which life is known in its goodness and givenness pass by unnamed.

Because their prehensions are limited to a narrow range of signals, low - grade occasions are radically constrained in their potential for integrating the rich givenness of the world.

Education for democracy, therefore, should encourage the habit of sustained inquiry and the arts of sincere persuasion, and above all should confirm and celebrate faith in the priority and ultimate givenness of truth and goodness, in which the moral enterprise is grounded.

The causal efficacy of the object, therefore, is its character of givenness exacting conformity.

On the one hand, the objectified sheer matter - of - factness of actual entities is lifted, leaving a sufficient quality of concrete givenness to allow the latter to function now as «indicators.»

A creative solution is required for overcoming the brute givenness of the past.

On my interpretation, the first subphase is one of pure givenness and does not yet involve elimination.

Oneness, in this tradition, is therefore not an ontic, static givenness but a dynamic mutuality that is glimpsed and struggled towards in the honest encounter of Creator with creature, and creature with creature.

The logical subjects of a proposition supply the element of givenness requisite for truth and falsehood» (PR 258f.

At the outset sociology as criticism was aimed against traditional notions of the absolute givenness of social life which were legitimated by religious orthodoxy.

But we need help from philosophers to get back to the bare givenness and then to be far more self - conscious about when we are abstracting and how we are abstracting.

Most importantly, he helped me to think about «doctrinal development» not as a change in the «faith delivered once for all,» but as the intra-systematic unfolding of the very givenness of supernaturally revealed truth.

Does biological givenness (the law of nature) dictate the structure of human action, or does the equally God - given human ability to reason (confusingly called «natural law» by Aquinas and Roman Catholic tradition) direct human beings to establish sometimes quite novel goals and discern new ways of achieving them?

Able to respond with gratitude, able to respond with surrendered givenness, able to respond with kindness, because no amount of brokenness gets to break our kindness.

Instead, it is a momentary glimpse of the sheer givenness of the world and the subsequent intuition that the world can not account for itself.

Dear Dr. Reno: Your First Things article «A Stubborn Givenness» (April 12, 2016) sought to explain Pope Francis and Amoris Laetitia in terms of his being a Jesuit, following the trajectory you began in the article «Francis, Our Jesuit Pope» (September 23, 2013).

There remains a powerful tension between what man knows himself to be in his immediate givenness to himself and what he is taught conceptually about himself.

At the same time, however, Jesus» imagining of the kingdom pulls us and our world beyond the mere givenness of the present.

The meaningfulness of life may gradually shape itself around the sheer givenness of these opposites, without the pressure to resolve one in favor of the other.

Lost amidst so much experimentation and emphasis on creativity has been the «givenness» of liturgy, the sense that «one can not do with it what one will.»

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The healing the soul seeks is found through The Body --- the given body of Christ, and the givenness of the Body of Christ.

Feel the heaving breath of His surrendered givenness.