Sentences with phrase «heart of ambiguity»

In its enormous vital complexity, sexuality may draw us as close as we will ever get to the heart of ambiguity.

Not exact matches

The rupture in the Catholic liturgical tradition engineered by Thomas Cranmer resulted in «a maddening ambiguity at the heart of Anglican Eucharistic theology.»

However, Rice also notes that there was, and always has been, another side both to Calvin and the Reformed tradition — a side that was less confident in the intellect's ability to answer all questions — a side that could acknowledge ambiguity and be open to mystery at the heart of the faith — and that understood God to be immanent as well as transcendent, and one whose «dependability came not from being unchanging, but from being loving.»

With all the ambiguities that surround the records of his teaching regarding the Kingdom, it is clear that it embodies the goal of God's reign over the hearts and lives of men, and thus sets forth the great hope of a better world both now and in the world to come.

Another way of looking at this question of the evolution of religious thought is to note that any verbal form of statement which has been before the world for some time discloses ambiguities; and that often such ambiguities strike at the very heart of the meaning.

Perhaps the ambiguity of death is strongest in The Heart of the Matter.

That ambiguity could indicate a lack of focus at the heart of the game (maybe someone at developer 5th Cell drives a Hybrid car?).

The third act is a labyrinth of past transgressions coming to light and shady character motivations, but co - writer / director Ben Affleck, in his directorial debut, somehow manages to let the heart of Lehane's theme rise out of the murky plotting and allows the moral ambiguity of its characters and scenario to have an impact.

At the end, that ambiguity turns out to have been at the heart of the director's intentions.

Students often have a difficult time grasping the ambiguity in Heart of Darkness and why Conrad would use this style when writing.

It is this ambiguity that is at the heart of this provocative novel.

In works by James Brooks, we feel nature in the phenomenology of his flowing, ever flooding - out plains of color; and even the non-gestural Rothko is still dealing with the dichotomy (and resultant ambiguity) between what the eye sees and derives from landscape (the horizon) and what the heart feels before a field of color.

Where the literary proposals of the original mirrors for princes contemplate the divisions between self and other, male and female, sacred and profane, Slavs and Tatars» turn to everyday ritual casts governance as self - governance, a universe of ambiguities, or in their own words: «the heart and art of politics.»

Conducted by her father Larry Walker who was himself a painter, there was never any ambiguity in Walker's heart — ever since she was three years of age, she knew what to anticipate from the future as she craved to someday be an artist herself.