Sentences with phrase «immediate reality of»

Whenever a tree incarnates the World Tree or when a spade is associated with the phallus and agricultural work with the act of generation, for example, one could say that the immediate reality of these objects or actions «bursts» or «explodes» under the irruptive force of a more profound reality.

Only by recognizing the antithetical relationship that radical faith posits between the primordial and transcendent reality of God and the kenotic and immediate reality of Christ, can we understand the violent attack which the radical Christian launches upon the Christian God.

We do not simply face a choice between «the primordial and transcendent reality of God and the kenotic and immediate reality of Christ.»

A sacred that annuls or transcends the reality of the profane can never become incarnate in a fallen form, and thus it could never affect or transform the given or immediate reality of a fallen world.

Not exact matches

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While investors» immediate reaction to the court ruling was of the unsurprising knee - jerk variety, reality started to set in over the last few days and solar stocks took a nosedive as sharp as the rally they enjoyed last week.

In a twist of great irony, the reason so many of us embrace the «It Can't Happen to Me» syndrome is because from a psychological standpoint, it preserves our immediate to short - term feeling of well - being by disassociating ourselves from reality and encouraging inaction, even though from a long - term perspective, it is very likely to destroy our self - preservation abilities.

It's to the point with some Christian posters here that any criticism of their actions and religious beliefs garners the immediate judgment that the person doing so is being hateful when, in reality, they are only fulfilling that very same Bible observation made by Jesus.

If I have accepted the variety of usage and am looking to find or create a use to support metaphysical generalization, I can rely on the uniquely intimate and immediate revelation of my own experience — intuitively grasped from within — to authorize an insider's judgment about what reality is like at its heart.

We are impelled again, at the least, to recognize that the complete reality of things is richer and more profound than their immediate, contemporary aspect makes them appear to be.

I also believe that it is an inescapable historical truth for us that the proclamation of Jesus and hence the original ground of the Christian faith announced the immediate dawning of total liberation, a liberation that is inseparable from the abolition of reality.

Now we must say Yes to the being of the immediate moment, for it is the only reality we know.

Our view is to be extraordinarily invested in the immediate concerns of this present reality.

Since God is internally related to the world, divine knowledge is an immediate, sympathetic awareness (see, e.g., Hartshorne, «Philosophical and Religious Uses of «God» «in Process Theology: Basic Writings, edited by Ewert Cousins, page 109; also see Schubert Ogden, «The Reality of God,» p. 123 of the same volume and Jantzen 1984, 81 ff.).

Fundamentally, the purer forms of mysticism effect an interior dissolution of that experience which has accrued to man in the course of his history, abolishing thereby both man's autonomous selfhood and his attachment to all exterior reality, and leading simultaneously to a total identification with and immediate participation in an all - encompassing ultimate Rreality, and leading simultaneously to a total identification with and immediate participation in an all - encompassing ultimate RealityReality.

I shall answer this question by means of Whitehead's discussion in Process and Reality of our «cosmic epoch»: «that widest society of actual entities whose immediate relevance to ourselves is traceable» (91).

As we have earlier remarked, the characters in Genesis speak their own lines, lines in immediate contact with the realities of their own existence, as well as the lines of the theological drama of God's concern in love to reconcile man and himself.

Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 345 - 346 and 435 imply clearly that (b) is the alternative Whitehead had in mind, for in each passage he presents a situation where a given occasion, X, inherits from another occasion, Y, in its past, which in turn inherits from Z, which is in its past — the point of each passage is to say that X inherits doubly from Z, both immediately and as mediated by Y. Z is not in the immediate past of X, and yet X is exhibited as prehending Z directly.

The point for us in this context, however, is that the New Testament material as a whole enables us to see that the first Christians, or their immediate successors, did not rest content with affirming that Jesus, in himself, was risen; they went on to say that the activity of God in his self - expression, above all in that self - expression in Jesus, was an abiding reality in the creation.

The reality and the power of our call to ministry are more immediate than that: we should care for them not because they «are Christ» but because they are human, and because they need us.

The point is not that we decide or act blindly, but that we find ourselves claimed by the reality disclosed in a certain set of happenings — perhaps because of its manifest relevance to issues which are of immediate concern to us — before we have begun to grasp all that it means or implies.

We may recall that Christianity is in the first instance a gospel, a proclamation, in which it is declared that the eternal Reality whom men call God has crowned His endless work of self - revelation to His human children by a uniquely direct and immediate action: He has come to us in one of our own kind, the Man of Nazareth, uniting to Himself the life which, through His purpose, was conceived and born of Mary, and through this life in its wholeness establishing a new relationship to Himself into which the children of men may enter.

These mythical terms are the most adequate symbols of reality because the reality we experience constantly suggests a center and source of reality, which not only transcends immediate experience, but also finally transcends the rational forms and categories by which we seek to apprehend and describe it.

The understanding of «reality» vs. «fantasy» and the complex interweaving of perceptions of possibilities (far - fetched to immediate) with reality, which produces consciousness, will be teased apart and discussed at length.

Rather, time is more of an «empty container,» an independent reality, providing the spacious room in which immediate becoming takes place.

Epistemological dualism was unheard of; man could and did know reality by immediate contact.

Regarding human beings he says,»... the final decision of the immediate subject - superject, constituting the ultimate modification of subjective aim, is the foundation of our experience of responsibility» (Process and Reality, Corrected Edition, ed.

As well as creating a spirit of love, the church can create an attitude of trust and faith toward other human beings, thus stressing the potentialities of man rather than the immediate realities.

The ideal of the private dwelling and the normativeness of the nuclear family embody, cut off from those outside the immediate household and deliberately limited in the opportunity to interact with others, reflects the substantialist view of reality as composed of discrete, isolated substances.

But that certain sayings of Oriental wisdom and of the psalms make an immediate appeal to the modern man is due to the fact that this religion has recognized clearly and taken account of a reality which modern thinking gladly ignores or seeks to evade with various theories — the reality of death, of mortality.

The axial religions, on the other hand, initiated a more explicit longing for a perfect reality beyond the immediate world of social and natural existence.

For Bergson, each tension yields a problem that is also the mark of apparently irreconcilable views of what is vital to the place of human beings in the world: (1) Time is measurable according to length and brevity, but immeasurable in reality, because it is qualitative, felt, and immediate; (2) Psychological life is divided into a self awareness of deeper, dynamic layers of human beings and what is superficial and fixed; (3) There is an inner consciousness and an independent world apart from inner consciousness.

While transcendentalism represented an intellectual effort to overcome the base material world with all its ugliness, meanness, and disorder, another movement arose among the uneducated which attempted to overcome the sinful reality of life by preaching the immediate coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and the end of the world.

Now the connections between discrete phenomena can be apprehended only as metaphor — for once they were perceived as immediate realities — and it is the function of the poet to see these connections as immediate realities, and to make others see them, «again» (my italics).

Although the immediate past of an occasion of experience is felt or experienced with more intensity than the remote past, still in a dim way the whole universe and its past is synthesized into each of the moments of experience that taken together make up reality.

Of course, if a government punishes sexual promiscuity in a certain segment of the population with death the people will become less promiscuous since it focuses everyone's attention on the reality that aside from the immediate pleasure, there can be serious negative consequenceOf course, if a government punishes sexual promiscuity in a certain segment of the population with death the people will become less promiscuous since it focuses everyone's attention on the reality that aside from the immediate pleasure, there can be serious negative consequenceof the population with death the people will become less promiscuous since it focuses everyone's attention on the reality that aside from the immediate pleasure, there can be serious negative consequences.

For the perfected actuality passes back into the temporal world, and qualifies this world so that each temporal actuality includes it as an immediate fact of relevant experience» (351) 3 Some interpreters refer also to Whitehead's reference to the «superjective nature» of God in Process and Reality: «The «superjective» nature of God is the character of the pragmatic value of his specific satisfaction qualifying the transcendent creativity in the various temporal instances» (88).4 In this case, however, the actual warrant lies again on page 351, as it is under the light of that particular passage that the «superjective character» on page 88 is interpreted as a reference to the objectification of the consequent nature.

The immediate consequence of this was that the Law became the greatest reality in the religion of Israel.

Input as input is simply the brute reaction of experience; its contact with reality is immediate, for existence simply consists in reaction.

If we are able to attain this intuition of our own duration, and this puts us in immediate contact with the durational current that is running through all reality, why isn't our philosophy complete?

Whitehead risks this double crisis in scientific study by presuming from this point on that our experience of reality issues concretely in a flow of «perceptions, sensations, and emotions,» and that we are induced only by the forms of order in our thought to fancy that we have an immediate experience of a «neat, trim, tidy, exact world» (OT 109, 110).

But the people have past memories and future imagination as well as immediate experiences of perceiving, knowing and acting out the present reality.

One can pass through a Symplegade insofar as one is able to act «spiritually,» insofar as one proves that one possesses imagination and intelligence and, consequently, is capable of detaching oneself from immediate reality.

And last but not least, Suchocki expressly states that God's consequent nature is not prehended, while Whitehead not only claims in the last page of Process and Reality that «the perfected actuality passes back into the temporal world, and qualifies this world so that each temporal actuality includes it as an immediate fact of relevant experience» (PR 351), but also speaks in more exact language of» [t] he objective immortality of his [God's] consequent nature» (PR 32).

But he voiced a message and a complaint which found an immediate and extraordinary response at every level of society, from that of the deepest spiritual experience to that of the most practical economic and political realities.

The Incarnation is the source of man's understanding of this added transcendent dimension, for it points to a reality beyond the immediate grasp of the noosphere: the union of God with his creation.

One meaning of the story is that our immediate world is a gift freely given by ultimate reality (Yahweh), and that our response to this gift should be one of gratitude and stewardship.

There are a range of actions that you could be taking in the immediate future that will make positive changes to your safeguarding services — we're here to help you make them a reality.

But in reality, throughout his speech, he could not break away from his most immediate challenge, particularly in coalition ahead of 2015 — striving on a day to day basis to rescue the economy from its failings.

Archaeology deals with the mundane realities of life, so its data primarily reflect a population, of varying size, living in one place, and exploiting a similar range of immediate environmental resources, quite independently of conventional historical chronology.