Sentences with word «imminence»

However, approaching the attachment figure that is also neglectful, abusive, or otherwise frightening, yields an increasing degree of imminence of threat, and therefore evokes a succession of defensive subsystems (flight, freeze, fight, submission).

Jonathan Walls's essay «Riddled with Bullets,» reminds us «our sinful world... [is] much in need of miracles,» stimulating us to meditate upon divine imminence and intervention.

I do however take comfort in that Jesus demonstrates Gods imminence.

Nonetheless, the very imminence of this coming great event exerts tremendous power over the present moment, endowing it with extreme urgency.

Within behavioral ecology, a key component of defensive switching is the «predatory imminence continuum» where distinct threat states are configured according to whether a predator is distal or proximal to the prey (1 — 5).

We investigated spatial imminence of threat by developing an active avoidance paradigm in which volunteers were pursued through a maze by a virtual predator endowed with an ability to chase, capture, and inflict pain.

S2 for images of the PAG activity for the AI imminence.

The site - specific intervention of Landscape X plays with the conditions of anticipation and imminence by appropriating the visual vocabulary of construction sites.

Turner creates imminence and movement through his use of thick painterly brushwork that leaps off of the canvass and engages the viewer.

These artworks, which emphasize imminence over transcendence, demonstrate how to look closely at and engage with our lived experience.

They interfered only when they apprehended imminence of violence.

Despite bitcoin's immense growth last year, speculation regarding the potential imminence of a «flippening» has pervaded heading into 2018.

Of course, one must also consider the prospective imminence of a OnePlus 4 or 5, not to mention fresh benchmark - cheating suspicions, before pulling the trigger on this bad boy.

In my NYC therapy practice, I see how a collective sense of imminence leaves us stressed, anxious and disengaged from our relationships.

What's different now is the growing number of trends suggesting its imminence.

For example, some believe that the imminence of a debt deal between Greece and its creditors has encouraged investors to abandon perceived safe - haven bonds.

Most significant, the imminence of the final coming of the Kingdom of God dominated the thinking of many in the early church and lowered the priority accorded to worldly goods, economic systems and attempts at social transformation.

As with apocalyptic literature, it seeks to interpret life in light of the end and its imminence.

The imminence of death has a way of making things clear — the uncertainties of life, the importance of love, the startling discontinuities and continuities between this life and eternity.

They were more moderate than the fundamentalists, and did not put so much emphasis on the imminence of Christ's Second Coming.

Fortified by their belief in biblical inerrancy and convinced by Identity hermeneutics of the imminence of the Apocalypse, the Weavers retreated to the isolation of a distant mountain cabin at Ruby Ridge in rural Idaho.

Jesus» proclamation of the immediacy of God took the form of the proclamation of the imminence of his Kingdom, which meant the apocalyptic end.

I am very glad I did NOT heed Paul's advice on the imminence of Christ's return.

For Jesus, the belief in the imminence of the Kingdom was a function of the experiential knowledge of the immediacy of God.

Hence our judgments can and must be made in the context of this ongoingness rather than in that of the imminence of the end of history.

While it was not news then that pervasive change was afoot, it has taken the traumas of the past ten years — an immoral and lost war, racial and sexual conflict, the imminence of economic and ecologic collapse — to persuade us of...

Our impulse is to resist it, to deny its imminence, to question it.

In fact, in the apocalypse in Mark 13, he both declares the imminence of the consummation and his own ignorance of its exact time.

«I have defined apocalyptic as a sense of imminence,» he explains.

There is a strong sense of imminence in Seventh Day Adventism.

A point of much importance in the apocalyptic passages attributed to Jesus is the imminence of the end.

However decidedly he refused the demand to prove his claim by a miracle (Mark 8: 11, 12) he obviously himself understood his miracles as a sign of the imminence of the Kingdom of God (Luke 11:20, Mark 3:27, Matt.11: 5), exactly as his church was later convinced that it possessed the powers of the Messianic age to work miracles (Acts 2:43, 4:9 - 12, etc.), and as his disciples believed that they performed miracles in his name.

The strenuous and absolute character of Jesus» ethic is explained as owing to his belief in the imminence of the great catastrophe: it was an «interim ethic.»

Sanders's Jesus, after all, was wrong about the imminence of the new temple.

(Oddly enough, it can actually be seen as a strong statement in support of the death penalty since it is through the confluence of the nun's care to the murderer, along with the imminence of his death, that De Rocher is finally brought to the self «recognition that, in turn, makes his redemption possible.)

I also recall supposing that the fabrication «information you requested» had to do with the imminence of my seventy - fifth birthday and the senders» assumption that old people often don't remember whether they requested information or not.

Since Lewis published Abolition in 1947, the locus and imminence of the threat to the world has shifted radically.

For those suddenly awakened to the imminence of the end of the twentieth century, this is an «eschatological» time.

In this and later books he prophesied the imminence of the battle of Armageddon, which would start in a war between Israel and the Arab peoples and end with the destruction of all the major cities before the Advent of Christ and the coming of a new world.