Sentences with phrase «grasp of all»

So we move directly from a consideration of the death of God overall to inquiries into the demise of a God of strictly male qualities, whose obituaries point the way forward to a more encompassing grasp of the fullness of Who God Is.

We should stop here and remind ourselves that this grasp of ordered complexity is not some intellectual framework imposed as a result of faith but a result of the application of scientific deduction and induction.

My own grasp of this dawning consciousness is impressionistic, vague, partial, biased.

You can stay in that Glen Beck chat room with the other people who don't have a very good grasp of how the world works.

Inversely, even if we knowhuman nature from within, does not its complexity and freedom impede any simple grasp of it in a concept?

MacIntyre's position is, I think, similar to his characterization of Rosenzweig's in Edith Stein: «We do not begin with some adequate grasp of the concepts of knowledge and truth and in the light of these pass judgment on whether or not we know something of God or whether or not it is true God exists, but rather it is from our encounters with God — and with the world and with human beings — that we learn what it is to have knowledge of what truth is.»

But a recent book by international economist Branko Milanovic, Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization, has helped me grasp some of the underlying forces that are driving the leaders away from the led.

I suggest that you read the following list to get a grasp of the immense variety and range of possibilities for marriage enrichment groups.

It is just here that we are confronted with the — in the best sense of the word — simple desire for truth on the part of our hearers, and nothing is so damaging to the reputation of the theologian as when his utterances produce the effect of parrot - cries which have ceased to be relevant to the hearer's grasp of truth or reality, and therefore so utterly irrelevant to his daily life.

A fuller grasp of the interactive, community dimension of faith will make it possible and necessary to retain ethics in its traditional proximity to theology.

That Robert Benne wonders («The Neo-Augustinian Temptation,» March) why Stanley Hauerwas and friends write so glowingly about «ecclesial realities» is likely due to Mr. Benne's deficient grasp of ecclesiology, which he characterizes as «that formerly unexciting branch of systematic theology.»

Acknowledging God's providential hand in all things, the late Pope commented that the entire Galileo affair has helped the Church come «to a more mature attitude and a more accurate grasp of the authority proper to her,» enabling her better to distinguish between «essentials of the faith» and the «scientific systems of a given age.»

It was so sure of its grasp of truth that it quickly became the Pharisees praying, «God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers,» and continuing with drunkards, card players, or dancers.

In the first place, God is infinitely greater, more complex, more hidden, more beyond the grasp of our minds than any or all of His creatures.

Each of the pair of concepts mentioned represents an antinomy which had been developed in Tillich's analysis of the inner conflict in socialism due to its dependence on bourgeois presuppositions, and which is now resolved through a better grasp of the socialist principle.

You should gain a grasp of the meaning of the cross then speak and not be so ignorant.

Can the truly enlightened person concerned with a critical, objective grasp of truth honestly accept a unique historical revelation?

@ Bill — I'd say we have a pretty good grasp of the concept of bread and wine.

An attempt has to be made to attain an accurate grasp of the mutual relation between spirit and matter.

Drugs admit one to a haven of light and life, the momentary grasp of which is preferred by the addict to the boredom of ordinary self - centered existence, despite the darkness and death which are the price of the fleeting ecstasy.

But if you have the Story firmly in your head, with a good grasp of various biblical ways of telling it, what you teach by opportunity will, over time, exhibit a visible coherence that it wouldn't otherwise have.

I am having a look forward in your subsequent put up, I'll try to get the grasp of it!

Concretely, he must never be satisfied to cease asking â $ ˜but why?â $ ™ until he has driven his understanding to the point where he has an immediate, human grasp of what a given position meant, such that every nuance in the data is accounted for and withal, given the total of presuppositions and circumstances, he could feel himself doing the sameâ $ (p. 290).

Levi steps in to defend her and rebuke Peter, Peter remains in the grasp of anger, which his soul must overcome before it enters the heavenly realm, according to the vision - report.

So, there are a few people out there whose grasp of biology might be charitably described as «outdated.»

Their practical grasp of the ways of things enabled people to carry out the necessary affairs of everyday life in a tolerable fashion.

The degree of decisiveness with which our grasp of these conditions permeates our understanding, and the manner in which we deal with them, define and shape the limits of our creative advance.

What is missing is a broader grasp of the basic human problem of gluttony and a more historical analysis of the symbolic and ritualistic aspects of eating.

Jesus, while inarticulate and a bit clumsy in general, had an excellent grasp of the fundamentals...

We have a humility born of our knowledge that original sin limits our grasp of truth and taints our motives for public engagement.

David, I read your entire post this morning and was very impressed — you have a profound grasp of the dynamics embedded both inside the United Church of Canada (might have to change that given the discussions underway with the United Church of Christ, which is a US phenomenon) and Gretta Vosper herself.

While he... obviously does not lack a uniform grasp of the whole, he does not build it up from abstract terms in the form of our modern scientific systematics, but everywhere in terms of the concrete and real conditions he has to deal with;... nowhere does he present an overview systematically summarized [Luthers Theologie, by Theodosius Harnack]

Walker seems to have a firm grasp of the opinions and priorities of the median Wisconsin voter on state - level issues, but has seemed terribly confused about....

What a culture gains in therapy it may lose in its grasp of soul.

Then it is no longer enough to say that Jesus Christ is the interpretative key for our understanding of the totality of experience; our understanding of worldly actualities also enriches and completes our grasp of who he is.

Instead of understanding, as James le Fanu writes, that «the implications of mortality are intrinsic to a proper grasp of the human experience», we choose to sanitise the things of death, including the language we use to describe it (in Last Things, Tablet, 29 November 2014, p. 28).

These first two sections, in which Redford not only demonstrates his historical grasp of the situation but his own scholarly expertise, are particularly coherent and engaging.

Please bow your heads in a moment of silence to signify the retaking of man's future from the grasp of organized religion and all of it's flawed reasoning.»

No minister deliberately limits it congregation to his or her own grasp of Scripture, but most do so unintentionally.

To do this required, Hodgson made plain, that one must have a profound grasp of what in the past was taken to be the right way of seeing Christian faith and the gospel which is its grounding.

My experience has been that others who have explored other religions (I mean truly explored them as good for their spiritual path, not just learned about them to show how they are wrong) have a much better grasp of Christianity, especially the scholarship around it.

While the muslim countries need to read their own history and get a better grasp of their religion the non-muslims countries should try not to meddle with the affairs of others unless it takes pitfalls like these

One of the tasks of a preacher is to bring to those who hear him exactly this understanding of the human predicament: a genuine sense of value in human life but yet an accompanying grasp of its incompleteness, frustration, and inadequacy.

But the parable induces an imaginative grasp of the one by the way in which it presents the other.

I'm not sure you have a grasp of the scientific method.

The gospel, of course, doesn't permit this kind of grasp of God.

The quantitative aspect of intensity, whereby pattern is the primitive feature of existents, receives elaboration in regard to perception by Alexander and Bergson, in a manner that may certainly have influenced Whitehead, inspiring him at the same time to devise a revisionist scheme in which unnecessary distinctions between quantitative and qualitative patterns could be maintained by a firmer metaphysical grasp of the nature of intensity per se (particularly its ontological rescuability from infection by the notion of measurable extensive quanta).24

His status as a spiritual writer is assured both because of his profound grasp of the Western tradition of spirituality and because of his ability to convey that tradition to an audience of contemporary people.

There is no reason to assume that uniformity and sameness are required; the event of God in Jesus Christ is so «many - colored», as used to be said, that staleness is likely only when the preacher himself is stale and the preacher's grasp of the essential proclamation has become tired and hackneyed.

A double entendre or just a poor grasp of word meanings?