Sentences with phrase «givenness of»

Her new book of essays, The Givenness of Things, is further proof that Pulitzer Prize — winning novelist Marilynne Robinson is writing with an entirely different level of intellectual and creative rigor.

(14) Raiser argues that the starting point has shifted from the givenness of unity to diversity, out of which unity «must be achieved, restored, preserved, or defended in face of opposing positions within the one church.»

There is no simple givenness of feeling, either for himself or for the public that will receive his work.

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.

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

The dative phase has to do with the givenness of data from the world.

Because God is loving, God always wants the best for us, so God's suggestions are always the ones that, within the givenness of the past and the natural laws, are the actions we can take that will lead to the best future possible.

Thus, it is difficult to construe Paul's statements as applicable to acts of committed love engaged in by persons for whom same - sex orientation is part of the givenness of their «nature.»

Simply to say that you can have a woman - plus - woman marriage or a man - plus - man marriage is radically to change that because of the givenness of maleness and femaleness.

Hartshorne's view is that the givenness of one's own personal experience and that of others is distinguished only by a difference of degree.

But suppose there are indeed aafeelings of harmonious connection» within which both the appreciation of categoreal obligation («principle») and the givenness of the data of others are abstractions.

«In a sense, all explanation must end in an ultimate arbitrariness» (Whitehead, Science 92), whether it is the givenness of Being, or the givenness of God and of his decisions, or the givenness of creativity: all explanation must come to an end, as Wittgenstein says.

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?

Maurice Merleau - Ponty applied the method to the problem of perception, wrestling with the complexities arising from the fact that we are embodied consciousness: we perceive and constitute the world through an instrument that is also a part of the givenness of that world.

His questioning of the physicists» acceptance of the sheer givenness of the underlying laws of astrophysics reminded me of Hawkings» dogmatic statement that «Because there is a law like gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing...» (The Grand Design, p. 180).

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

Let a preacher focus solely upon the givenness of the content and we have a Gospel that is forever theoretical and potential because it remains locked within inarticulate lips and hidden in confused speech.

Christian tries to solve this problem by bringing in God as the ground for the givenness of the past (IWM 322 - 30).

The givenness of the barrier between time now and time then yields for us banalities about anachronism, on the one side, and imposes upon us the requirement of mediating between historical fact and religious truth, on the other.

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

«31 Bonhoeffer criticizes religion but «presupposes the existence of the Christian fellowship and the givenness of the Bible.

I distinguish here the use of the term «epistemology»» from «phenomenology»» in the sense that phenomenology analyzes the givenness of objects to consciousness, an exercise that may be carried our «without particular metaphysical commitments (requiring only a hypothetical ontology), whereas epistemology seeks to analyze how we or any being can know what really is.

Heideggerians (and some Hegelians) would claim this is also a phenomenological question, but I reserve the term «phenomenology» for the narrower activity of the study of the givenness of experience to consciousness.

The givenness of peace and of our access to truth come together.

But now all the problems that clustered about the ontological ground of X when we thought of A prehending X come back to haunt us when we rise back up to the level of God and raise the question how it is possible for God to prehend X. Christian, as noted above, argues that it is not possible that the presently concrescing entity be the ground of the givenness of the past.

In the present instance God is the concrescing entity, so God can not be the ground of the givenness of X when God is prehending X. God is in unison of becoming with every occasion (cf. Christian, 333 - 334), but it is the definition of contemporary occasions, occasions in unison of becoming, that neither of them prehend the other (cf. Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 102).

Such a miracle would involve the suspension of the laws of nature at the level of primitive actual occasions, but if we accept the principle that God «speaks» to a given actual occasion in its own «language,» and if the «language» of primitive actual occasions in nature is such that the character of the data available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescence of such occasions admits only of absolutely miniscule contrasts with the givenness of the character of the past, then God has no leverage via subjective aims to introduce shifts in the social structures conditioning the possibilities available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescences of such primitive actual occasions.

Since we are agreed that God is not the ground of the givenness of the past, one might suggest that no further discussion is appropriate.

For God to function as the ground of the givenness of the past, he must either occupy a region coextensive with the regions occupied by his creatures or relate to them nonextensively.

According to Sherburne the «most reasonable reading of Whitehead's system» (PS 1:105) requires that God be the ground of the givenness of the past and Whitehead implies this doctrine.

The givenness of the established world as affecting the internal constitution of a developing being is not, of course, something extraneous to the Aristotelian metaphysics.

Sherburne explicitly discusses regional inclusion and noncontiguous efficacy as adjuncts of his basic argument that God can not be the ground of the givenness of the past.

I am not arguing against Sherburne in favor of the view that God is needed as the ground of the givenness of the past and can fulfill this function.

On the contrary, I am arguing in favor of Sherburne's view that God is not and can not be in Whitehead's system the ground of the givenness of the past.

Whitehead implies that God is the ground of the givenness of the past.

one's past self is not merely inferred but is given, &... this givenness of past in present is an essential aspect of what is meant by the endurance of the identical» self....

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 givenness of these data means that the vectorial quality is a feeling of causation, of being created by and continuous with the environment which is constitutive of the self.

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.

It is here assumed that judgments of worth in the esthetic, moral, and religious fields require a similar presupposition of the givenness of an order of value which is to be discovered and universally recognized and honored.

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.

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.

In our Gnostic culture, which devalues the givenness of things and the revelatory power built into that givenness, this Franciscan reminder to twenty - first - century Christians is of crucial importance.

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

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

The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson:: This is the first non-fiction book of Marilynne Robinson's that I've read and it's beautiful, eloquent, smart, and I pretty much underlined the entire book.

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.

Not exact matches

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.»

Part of the task of a faithful life is to learn to receive that givenness with thanksgiving and to be trustworthy in the duties it lays upon us.

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.