Sentences with phrase «immortality by»

Mining sites like eBay for 19th - and 20th - century photo portraits of everyday African Americans, Jefferson gives their forgotten sitters a shot at immortality by painting their formal portraits, emphasizing the importance of Sunday finery to people who toiled in the service industry six days a week during and after the days of slavery.

Flemeth, lest we forget, was discovered to have achieved a form of immortality by periodically appropiating the bodies of numerous «daughters» throughout her history.

The thousand - year old Viking warrior was given immortality by an advanced race of beings who literally snatched him from the brink of death on a battlefield in Norway centuries ago.

Fun fact: Actor Robert Englund, who achieved horror immortality by playing Freddy Krueger in every Nightmare except the re-do, was instrumental in getting Mark Hamill his own career - making part.

Though his life - long fight against his frail body, he's developed a relentless drive to attain immortality by any means necessary.

In a story from Greek mythology, Tithonus is granted the gift of immortality by the gods, yet he spends the rest of eternity yearning that he might die.

It is subsumed in the counsels of God and enters the mystery of immortality by personal relation to the divine.

After reviewing the theories of Malinowski, Freud, Girard and others on the role of fatherhood, Steinmetz uses the story of Oedipus to illustrate the problem; a father wants to insure immortality by passing on all of his «self» (both material and cultural) to an heir, but in so doing insures his own mortality and displacement.

The Physics of Immortality by Frank J. Tipler.

This aspect of her book is often downplayed, as when commentators celebrate her literary immortality by citing her prophetic line, «I want to go on living even after my death!»

The superjective nature, then, is God exercising his objective immortality by laying down a datum which conditions the form of all subsequent creative acts.

Not exact matches

As I have written here, transhumanism is a materialistic quasi-religion that seeks to conquer death by harnessing technology, helping believers to attain immortality, say, by uploading their minds into computers.

We can become gods, but» as the Church Fathers put it» only by the grace of adoption, for divine immortality does not belong to us by nature.

7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: (Romans 2:7) shows immortality and eternal life.

I realize that non-literal nuances are difficult for those who NEED to only think in simplistic childish term, but that doesn't change the fact, the Hebrews did not believe in immortality the way it's thought of today... «By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.»

It is this sentiment expressed by a number of non theists that eternal life, immortality, perpetual existence, however you choose to define it, is something that holds little appeal.

«Our Messiah, who came to us in the form of a mortal man, but who by his suffering and crucifixion attained immortality.

2 Timothy 1:10 «10 but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,»

«He was an artist and she would bear his children and wash his clothes and care for him because there lay her immortality, there lay her own contribution to the great effort to speak the truth, to shape words, to write the novel that by existing would justify the human endeavor, an endeavor so clearly in need of justification,» she writes observing Doc Humes» wife.

Paul is telling them in verse 7» To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life».

Ro 2 6 He will render to each one according to his works: 7 to those who by patience in well - doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; 8 but for those who are self - seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.

God said they would die, or even, literally, «be put to death» I think they went from a state of immortality to a state of being put to death, a state they could only be released from by dying.

By it Christ abolished death and brought life and immortality to light (2 Tim.

By such a course of milk nourishment we become accustomed to eat and drink the Word of God and may be able also to contain in ourselves the Bread of immortality, which is the Spirit of the Father».

The ideas of God, Man, Right and Wrong, Suffering, Fellowship with God, and Immortality have been traced, each by itself, as each progresses through the two Testaments.

The most powerful, self - sacrificing love is revealed in the Bible as God Himself became a man to die for the sins off the world.The Bible alone reveals the plan of salvation and the conditions that must be met by all to have immortality aand a life that measures with that of Gods.

The principle of our immortality, if we may call it that, is God's relationship to us which he has established by grace.

There can be no vicarious immortality imputed by parenthood.

Hartshorne states that one contribution of Whitehead to his own thinking was to show him that «what is usually meant by «personal immortality» is probably beside the point, since the divine immortality, and our oneness (in some sense) with God, is the proper solution to the problem of the transitoriness of life.

Whitehead's lecture on «Immortality» is seen as an example of the kind of cosmic view that comes from the generalization provided by a realistic system of education.

This thrust toward immortality can be expressed in, a variety of ways — biologically by living on through one's sons or daughters or one's community or nation, theologically through resurrection or eternal life, or culturally through works and contributions which persist beyond ones death.

Nowhere does Bingham give careful attention to how soul and immortality have actually been used by religious communities, nor does he admit explicitly that Churchland's remarks on germs versus demons and the pitting of Ptolemy against Galileo amounts to saying that religious terms are comparable to pre-Copernican astronomical theories.

Another area where I have had some difficulties with Hartshorne's philosophy is his interpretation of human immortality in terms of «being remembered by God.»

Hartshorne's analysis in Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes is defective insofar as it recognizes only three possibilities — the two identified by classical theism and the third which is Whitehead's doctrine of the objective immortality of the past.

Hartshorne understands classical theism to be characterized by mistaken conceptions of (1) divine perfection, (2) divine omnipotence, (3) divine omniscience, (4) divine sympathy, (5) immortality, and (6) revelation.

This last fundamental religious conviction is, to my knowledge, as much as black theology in North America has ever affirmed, and there is nothing essential in this which is overturned by preferring objective immortality to personal immortality and immortal souls.

Mithra Was born of a virgin on December 25th, in a cave, attended by shepherds Was considered a great traveling teacher and master Had 12 companions or disciples Promised his followers immortality Performed miracles Sacrificed himself for world peace Was buried in a tomb and after three days rose again Was celebrated each year at the time of His resurrection (later to become Easter) Was called «the Good Shepherd» Was identified with both the Lamb and the Lion Was considered to be the «Way, the Truth and the Light,» and the «Logos,» «Redeemer,» «Savior» and «Messiah.»

The real task is to explain the immortality of the whole person without minimizing the value of the body dimension by postponing its inclusion or presenting it as an eventual addition to the real person, the soul.

«Foreword,» The Father Shore: An Anthology of World Opinion on the Immortality of the Soul, edited by Nathaniel Edward Griffin and Lawrence Hunt (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1934), xvii.

5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; Romans 2:1 - 9 (KJV)

... and (God) gives eternal life to those who by patient continuance in DOING GOOD seek for glory, honour and immortality».

It is prehended by succeeding creations, incorporated into them, and therefore achieves what Whitehead refers to as «objective immortality» (PR 327).

To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.

Ford believes that subjective immortality, were it metaphysically possible and religiously desirable, would be actualized by divine power, but he wonders about both of these conditions.

The instrument may perish but the tune survives and, as it is often argued by those who would attempt to bring «immortality of the soul» and some residual meaning of «resurrection'together into a single conception, that tune might very well be played on another instrument if one does not accept the idea that tunes can exist, so to say, without any expression through some instrumentality.

In this particular context, Whitehead is presenting his own resolution to the problem posed by the fluency and transience of the world, so subjective immortality of the soul takes on the guise of a discarded alternative.

Our lives become all jumbled, and we push consideration of death and immortality aside, as if by doing so we can avoid facing these negative feelings.

And by doing so, we achieve both self - esteem and a symbolic immortality.

The important consideration here is that primitive Christianity interpreted the rising again of Jesus Christ in this fashion, and not by a conception of the soul's immortality.

God's perfect love and goodness is perfectly compatible with those persons who refuse the gift of salvation and immortality, but whose ongoing existence is defined by an ongoing rejection of the very God of love in whom they continue to «live and move and have their being.»