Sentences with phrase «grasp at faith»

Sometimes we must grasp at faith however it comes.

Not exact matches

Barr's essay addresses at some length the question of design in biology, but does not clearly affirm that reason can grasp the reality of design without the aid of faith.

Yet such Christian existentialism can not and must not bypass the need for assent to the truths of the Catholic faith and to grasp their meaning at the appropriate level of the believer.

Of course these laws can be grasped only by intuitive faith — which is why ecology has become a religion, and why the battle over mundane issues like dams or highways is at bottom a holy war.

Wright represents the pole which claims that historical accuracy about Jesus can be grasped only through the premises of faith and theology; Borg, at the other end, is convinced that historical testimony is valid only insofar as it can be cleansed of distorting confessions of post «Easter faith.

We may need to look at the world through the eyes of the shared expectations of a tradition and community of faith and hope if we are to be grasped by the substance of revelation.

But at least for today - Egypt's first Independence Day - Islam has taken a back seat to a very different sort of religion: faith in the power of an oppressed people to grasp after freedom and feel it fresh in their own shaking hands.

seems to me that we should be wiser if we did not here use the term «orthodoxy» at all; rather, we should speak of the truth which Christian faith grasps and by which the Christian believer is grasped.

But in an emergent, hierarchical universe faith is the kind of knowing whereby we at the human level of evolution leave ourselves open to being grasped by a more encompassing field of influence.13 In the cosmic hierarchy the lower can not comprehend the higher.

It comes and goes like the tide, breaking over us, threatening to sweep us away into the murky waters, barely releasing its grip long enough for us to grasp at the sandy shore of faith.

It is a term used by people grasping at straws to continue dismissing evolution even as the evidence builds faster than ever at the gene sequencing level (ie, most of you agree that drug resistant bacteria have evolved but the term MACRO evolution is misused intentionally so you could continue to dismiss science to save faith; pun intended).

But as I said in my earlier I am interested in listening from people who don't share my opinion but not blind faith statements but more concrete grasps through the season and at the end of it rather than saying let's wait for end of season.

Of course he hadn't written anything quite as captivating in recent years, but still, I will miss the chance to once again see his unique combination of faith in humanity, superb imagination, and grasp of fundamental constraints of physics and technology that made his stories seem so real, while at the same time so far beyond our experience.

Obviously you missed that point whilst grasping at any blog article that supports your faith based approach to science.