Sentences with phrase «grasp reality through»

This is clearly not a matter of rational knowledge; rather does the living consciousness grasp reality through the symbol, anterior to reflection.

Not exact matches

Jesus was able to «grasp the logos of reality as such and to re-present it through symbolic speech and action,» and this in a normative fashion.

Man is uniquely the creature of meaning, and thus is «able to grasp the logos of reality as such and to represent it through symbolic speech and action.

It is out of the question to try to grasp God through sight (which is the equivalent of reducing truth to reality), to claim that what one sees can be God (in this case one converts reality into truth), or to make a representation of something in the spiritual realm (which is the same as consecrating a religion, since religions always belong to the visual realm).

Reality is, in a sense, doubtless beyond language, as Plato felt so deeply, and can not be wholly grasped in its forms, but when, in order to grasp reality, we abandon linguistic forms, then reality, like quicksilver, runs through our finReality is, in a sense, doubtless beyond language, as Plato felt so deeply, and can not be wholly grasped in its forms, but when, in order to grasp reality, we abandon linguistic forms, then reality, like quicksilver, runs through our finreality, we abandon linguistic forms, then reality, like quicksilver, runs through our finreality, like quicksilver, runs through our fingers.24

Thus the preacher need have no hesitation in doing what he or she was exhorted to do at ordination: apply himself or herself to the study of Scripture, so that the deepest reality of the abiding gospel may be grasped and conveyed through proclamation to the men and women to whom that proclamation is addressed.

In this Biffi depicted Anselm's perspective as, contrary to much modern emphasis, grasping that «reality as a whole is much greater than we grasp through simple natural understanding, substantiated solely by sensory experience, inductive and deductive reasoning, mathematical calculation -LSB-...] faith not only is not separable from reason, and does not harm it, but is even the greatest and highest exercise of our intellectual faculty.»

You remind me of many of my students who really showed their intelligence through their grasp of reality and concern with things other than what is considered the norm for many your age.

The ever dependable Kyle Chandler's heart bleeds as Harge; the heterosexual husband who struggles to grasp this new reality through anger and his own needs.

- Neil Gaiman, from Reflections on Myth It is through fantasy that we have always sought to make sense of the world, not through reason... It is through the fictive projections of our imaginations based on personal experience that we have sought to grasp, explain, alter, and comment on reality.