Sentences with phrase «heavenly bodies as»

This is no small feat, as Bronowski and Mazlish point out (WIT 111), in that the four - element tradition did not recognize the heavenly bodies as material.

For we have seen his star... These people studied what was written and since they studied heavenly bodies as well, they practically followed the star to get confirmation of the birth of Christ

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The bronze age people believed the heavenly bodies were about the size as they appear in the sky.

The resistance to Galileo was in part that his theories showed that the heavenly bodies had the same imperfect character as earthly ones.

The issue focused on Einstein's claim that the curvature of light as it passed around heavenly bodies was based on the curvature of space.

I hope that when my earth - body dies and my eternal soul is uploaded into the heavens via God's Galactic Internet that my file folder is judged as appropriate for download into a mansion that is more heavenly than this one, but that does not change that life in this mansion is what it is.

There are places where he resorts to the imagery of myth and speaks of Christ as if he were living an unseen life with God in a heavenly realm above, from which he would descend to appear on the earth at the imminent end - time.38 At other times Paul could speak of the church as the body of Christ, of which the Christian believers formed «the limbs and organs».39 He exhorted the Galatians to «put on Christ as a garment», 40 he said to the Romans, «Let Christ Jesus himself be the armor that you wear», 41 and he told the Galatians how he was in travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.»

Some Jewish thinkers became so Hellenised that they came to regard the heavenly bliss of a spiritual soul as a much more worthy expression of human destiny than the thought of an endless life in a material body.

While Paul's thought is by no means always clear, and perhaps from letter to letter not always exactly the same, it is nevertheless certain that his concept of resurrection can be clearly distinguished from that of the traditional «bodily resurrection».27 Paul does not speak in terms of the «same body» but rather in terms of a new body, whether it be a «spiritual body», 28 «the likeness of the heavenly man», 29 «a house not made by human hands, eternal and in heaven», 30 or, a «new body put on» over the old.31 In using various figures of speech to distinguish between the present body of flesh and blood and the future resurrection body, he seems to be thinking of both bodies as the externals which clothe the spirit and without which we should «find ourselves naked».32 But he freely confesses that the «earthly frame that houses us today ’33 may, like the seed, and man of dust, be destroyed, but the «heavenly habitation», which the believer longs to put on, is already waiting in the heavenly realm, for it is eternal by nature.

So, what Our Lord is saying when he uses that one word «Woman» is: «You who were destined to be essential to the plan to save mankind,... you who were kept free from sin so you could freely consent,... you who did say «Yes»,... you who will watch over My Mystical Body,... you who I will bring into my heavenly kingdom as soon as your role on earth is complete,... you who have enabled me to help the Father solve the problem of man's sinfulness»!

It began with the human life of Jesus, but culminates in his being «raised up,» both as the living Head of the body and as «seated in heavenly place» at the right hand of God, thus becoming a privileged means of interaction and mediation between God and man.

Like a heavenly body that heats as it contracts, such, and in a twofold respect, is the Noosphere: first in intensity, the degree in which its tension and psychic temperature are heightened by the coming together and mutual stimulation of thinking centers throughout its extent; and also quantitatively through the growing number of people able to use their brains because they are freed from the need to labor with their hands.

And as for the pre-existence of Christ, with its corollary of man's translation into a celestial realm of light, and the clothing of the human personality in heavenly robes and a spiritual body — all this is not only irrational but utterly meaningless.

As ancient man surveyed his world, he found himself surrounded on all sides with movement and change, not only in fellow - humans, animals and birds, but in running water, scudding clouds, heavenly bodies traveling across the sky, rising dust - storms, the occasionally quaking earth and the vegetation which sprang up, flowered, fruited and died.

Known as the Oscars of the fashion industry, the «Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination», is expected in usual fashion to attract a wide range of stars.

Second, the emphasis on identity tends to conflict with the original Christian expression of resurrection in 1 Corinthians: Paul's image of the earthly body as the seed of the heavenly body.

This is an understandable survival of the earlier mythology in which the sky above, with its fascinating heavenly bodies, to some extent visible yet always beyond the reach of man, was regarded as the domain of the gods.

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As Isaac Newton once said, I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

As LSST scans the same cosmic turf again and again, it will statistically analyze the bending and arcing of light from distant heavenly bodies, making it possible to render intricate maps that may include dark - matter structures as large as 500 million light - years acrosAs LSST scans the same cosmic turf again and again, it will statistically analyze the bending and arcing of light from distant heavenly bodies, making it possible to render intricate maps that may include dark - matter structures as large as 500 million light - years acrosas large as 500 million light - years acrosas 500 million light - years across.

The word «astronomy» implies a quest to understand the heavens: to measure heavenly bodies and use them for practical purposes such as navigation or timekeeping.

As the number of confirmed and cataloged heavenly bodies has swelled in the past twenty one years, we have sought to learn more about the conditions on these planets: the temperatures, the atmospheres, their core composition, how they orbit their respective stars, and ultimately, whether any are capable of sustaining life.

Staff from the observatories as well as volunteers are at each tent, prepared with information and activities to educate their interplanetary visitors about that particular heavenly body.

Perhaps the king of this sleazy genre was Russ Meyer a purveyor of low - budget smut with suggestive titles such as «Eve and the Handyman,» «Naked Camera,» «Wild Gals of the Naked West,» «Heavenly Bodies,» and «Faster Pussycat!

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This is from the Tetrabiblos of Ptolemy, chapter II «The Moon, being of all the heavenly bodies the nearest to the Earth, also dispenses much influence;... By the changes of her illumination (that is as she waxes and wanes), rivers swell and are reduced; the tides of the sea are ruled by her rising and setting;...» < / blockquote.

This is from the Tetrabiblos of Ptolemy, chapter II «The Moon, being of all the heavenly bodies the nearest to the Earth, also dispenses much influence;... By the changes of her illumination (that is as she waxes and wanes), rivers swell and are reduced; the tides of the sea are ruled by her rising and setting;...»