Sentences with phrase «givenness which»

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rather than fighting over which side of Barth's dialectic to emphasize — the givenness or the nongivenness of the dynamic gift of grace — we should be seeking to proclaim the gift itself to a world that finds it increasingly hard to believe in such things.

(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.»