Sentences with phrase «in contemplation as»

The answer seems to be — persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called in question.

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It sounds crazy, but I spent three days at St. Bernard Abbey in Cullman, Alabama as part of my «biblical womanhood» project last year, and it was one of the most meaningful times of prayer and contemplation I've ever experienced.

Ideas, thoughts, as well as deeper emotional or «affective» states, are included in this category where the classical writers would place meditation, contemplation, and the various stages of «union with God» about which the mystics have given us reports.

Linder suggests that traditional pleasures, such as eating and contemplation and sex, will be given increasingly little time in the future as consumption time squeezes them out.

Next, looking back to the introduction of contemplation in the sport chapter, worship is understood as flowing from a response to the reality that is, and the Mass is seen as fulfilling the human search (evident in the history of religious rites) for the right way to worship.

He saw two main ways of kindling this ardour: one, as expressed eloquently in his Novo Millennio Ineunte, was through that contemplation of the face of Christ which the whole Church engaged in during the Millennium Jubilee.

Without further qualification, the capacities cultivated in theological schooling could just as well be capacities for «doing» contemplation or capacities for specific affections as they could be capacities for intentional bodily action and discursive reasoning.

For one who is capable of accomplishing something for others is not regarded by the edifying contemplation as in the strictest sense a sufferer.

They keep the five pillars of Islam but emphasize deep philosophical contemplation in prayer, fasting, and pilgrimage as did the Mu «tazilites with whom they agree in considering God far above having any limiting attributes.

The point for us is that for these two 20th century professors — as much as for any mystic wrapped in contemplation in some more remote ashram — the inevitability of death brought one face to face with the question of whether his existence had any point.

But what chance does the Father have to appear as a God of supreme loyalties and divine ideals in the souls of men who give little or no time to the thoughtful contemplation of such eternal realities?

My choral symphony, to which I've offered up His small soul in gratitude, that it might swell Larger, expanding into this darkness — Until he hangs, a shell as weightless As if he'd gone through the glass, transfigured Into the endless contemplation of my beinas weightless As if he'd gone through the glass, transfigured Into the endless contemplation of my beinAs if he'd gone through the glass, transfigured Into the endless contemplation of my being.

Raniero Cantalamessa depicts the transfiguration as a mystery in the life of Christ» that should lead us into an intellectual and mystical contemplation of his person and work.

Eckhart says that Mary is the one who's still learning, whereas Martha is the one who has learned perfectly because she combines contemplation and action — though Eckhart doesn't use those words — in an unselfish, detached way She can now operate as the soul «without a why» and be effective spontaneously without losing that contact with God.

It occurred to me that if (as Cornel West and others have argued) it was the Enlightenment that created the category of race (dividing «white» from «black» and subordinating the latter to the former), it was also the Enlightenment that repressed the epistemological and religious significance of contemplation in the mystical theology of premodern writers.

The great motive was love of neighbor and this was found to be in a certain tension with the love of God, since the latter prompted a servant of the Lord to shun worldly duties as well as distractions and to give his life to adoration and contemplation in monastic seclusion.

The hope of glory yet to come remains as a background of thought, but the foreground is more and more occupied by the contemplation of all the riches of divine grace enjoyed here and now by those who are in Christ Jesus.

As we enter into our deepest self through meditation, self purification and in contemplation we meet the divine in us and others in God.

In India, also, it is true, the holy power was finally conceived as transcending all sensory forms, but there it was recognized that the contemplation of Brahman in this ultimate way could only be the fruit of intense psychic discipline accompanied by highly abstruse metaphysical reflectioIn India, also, it is true, the holy power was finally conceived as transcending all sensory forms, but there it was recognized that the contemplation of Brahman in this ultimate way could only be the fruit of intense psychic discipline accompanied by highly abstruse metaphysical reflectioin this ultimate way could only be the fruit of intense psychic discipline accompanied by highly abstruse metaphysical reflection.

No longer was there a higher kind of life as there had been for the ancients, a life devoted either to theoretical contemplation or to participation in the public activities of a citizen.

«The Word... offers itself to contemplation, as visual theology, in the form of the icon.

In the last paragraph of the Third Meditation, one notices a direct reference to Catholic instruction: «For, as the faith teaches us, the supreme happiness of the other life consists in that single contemplation of the Divine Majesty, of which we already experience, albeit in a much less perfect contemplation, but that causes us nonetheless to rejoice of the greatest contentment of which we are capable of sensing in this life» (42In the last paragraph of the Third Meditation, one notices a direct reference to Catholic instruction: «For, as the faith teaches us, the supreme happiness of the other life consists in that single contemplation of the Divine Majesty, of which we already experience, albeit in a much less perfect contemplation, but that causes us nonetheless to rejoice of the greatest contentment of which we are capable of sensing in this life» (42in that single contemplation of the Divine Majesty, of which we already experience, albeit in a much less perfect contemplation, but that causes us nonetheless to rejoice of the greatest contentment of which we are capable of sensing in this life» (42in a much less perfect contemplation, but that causes us nonetheless to rejoice of the greatest contentment of which we are capable of sensing in this life» (42in this life» (42).

But if it should as objects for the contemplation of the intellect but its objectification in actions and deeds that become embodied in the flesh and blood life of the reader, it will in turn realize a new potentiality: the transformation of the reader's self and the world to which that self belongs.

It rejected liberationism as a path to holiness in favor of prayer and contemplation.

Details of that backstory emerge slowly during several days of sightseeing that include contemplation of Hieronymus Bosch's Last Judgment and Bruges's most important relic, a phial of the congealed blood of Christ brought back to Bruges from the Holy Land by a local 12th century crusader; as well as varieties of self - destructive behavior that betray in different ways Ray's internal anguish.

This is purported to be an improvement over the ancient Greek idea that to be ethical is to value as the only source of secure happiness that which can not be taken away from one, such as, for example, a simple, ordered, tranquil life, passed mainly in contemplation and the enjoyment of secure friendship — a life relatively immune to disaster.

I doubt if dispassionate intellectual contemplation of the universe, apart from inner unhappiness and need of deliverance on the one hand and mystical emotion on the other, would ever have resulted in religious philosophies such as we now possess.

In as far as thework of the demiurge is successful, it is completely transparent to contemplation for the essence of things allows for an exhaustive rational understanding, as they arise from a (finite) intelligence which has informed matter.

Contemporary modernists like Barth, Barthelme, Coover, Pynchon and Gass offer works that are, in Dillard's estimate, nearly completely artifactual, objects of wonder, amusement or contemplation, but not to be taken in any sense as mirroring reality «out there.»

Albert Schweitzer's «deed mysticism» (in contrast to a mysticism which regards contemplation as an end in itself) is an illustration of the needed balance.

As my friend Chris Heuertz says, «Through activism we confront toxicity in our world, but through contemplation we confront it in ourselves.»

(As quoted by J.T. Barclay: City of the Great King, p. 90) Hell itself, according to the teaching of the apocalyptic writings, was a great abyss full of fire, (The Book of Enoch 18:11 - 16) in the midst of the earth, and so vividly were its tortures imagined and the satisfaction of the righteous in the contemplation of them conceived that, according to Charles» understanding of the text, a notorious element in the later Christian doctrine of hell appears in a Jewish book, probably written during Jesus» lifetime:

Stevie7, I as - sumed she wrote it in contemplation of her death.

What I do not find in Whitehead is any account of knowing or awareness understood as pure contemplation or passive receptivity.

Only in Christ does man know himself as the creature of God... If he is to know himself as the creature of God, the old man must have died and the new arisen, whose essence it is to live in self - disregard, wholly in the contemplation of Christ.

In any event, the saints have known that «union,» in the supreme sense intended by the mystics, is not attained by human effort but is (as they say) always a «gift» of God; while contemplation, in the strictest meaning of that term, is only possible for the few who are called to it — although there is an element of contemplation in all prayer, not least in «vocal» prayer, as we shall seIn any event, the saints have known that «union,» in the supreme sense intended by the mystics, is not attained by human effort but is (as they say) always a «gift» of God; while contemplation, in the strictest meaning of that term, is only possible for the few who are called to it — although there is an element of contemplation in all prayer, not least in «vocal» prayer, as we shall sein the supreme sense intended by the mystics, is not attained by human effort but is (as they say) always a «gift» of God; while contemplation, in the strictest meaning of that term, is only possible for the few who are called to it — although there is an element of contemplation in all prayer, not least in «vocal» prayer, as we shall sein the strictest meaning of that term, is only possible for the few who are called to it — although there is an element of contemplation in all prayer, not least in «vocal» prayer, as we shall sein all prayer, not least in «vocal» prayer, as we shall sein «vocal» prayer, as we shall see.

As climax, it conveys the sure knowledge that the overt act in perversion of justice stems from the unseen recesses of mind and imagination, where in contemplation the perversion is already effected.

In the first two cases the subject matter on which one focuses contemplatively tends to be treated intellectualistically as the mind's guide to the contemplation of the structure that makes reality a harmonious whole.

It does not matter whether one is by God's providential decree placed in the role of politician, engaged in public action for the common good, or in the role of a lover of wisdom (philosopher), engaged as a private person in contemplation of eternal truths, or in some combination of the two: «A man can still lead a life of faith in any of these three lives and reach the eternal rewards.

[10] The Christian life, in short, is construed as mainly a life spent actively preparing by disciplined loving for a future fulfillment of our humanity in a perfect contemplation of the unchanging God.

In the last case the subject matter is treated more practically as a guide to how to order life so that contemplation is possible.

As early as the mid-third century Origen of Alexandria [9] had urged that the actions enjoined by scripture constitute a «practice» that begins a spiritual journey and comprises the Christian life of most people in time; it flowers into pure contemplation in the afterlife as the ultimate and certain reward of faithful practicAs early as the mid-third century Origen of Alexandria [9] had urged that the actions enjoined by scripture constitute a «practice» that begins a spiritual journey and comprises the Christian life of most people in time; it flowers into pure contemplation in the afterlife as the ultimate and certain reward of faithful practicas the mid-third century Origen of Alexandria [9] had urged that the actions enjoined by scripture constitute a «practice» that begins a spiritual journey and comprises the Christian life of most people in time; it flowers into pure contemplation in the afterlife as the ultimate and certain reward of faithful practicas the ultimate and certain reward of faithful practice.

The contrast to contemplation, or theoria, from which the English word «theory» is derived, was not (as it is in current English) action or praxis (cf. «practice»).

In the third century stress fell on defining action as ascetical practice, as «acts» ultimately directed at oneself to purify one of all engagements with the everyday world that distract from pure contemplation.

And it is the Scriptures that I am concerned with — not biblical texts as records of discrete historical times, but rather the Bible as a coherent unit, brought together under the auspices of the Holy Spirit and fitted in God's providence for leading Christians to the contemplation of the Triune God as revealed in the text, the Church, and the world.

Through contemplation one arrives not only at personal wholeness, but also, through the activation of the image of God within, at transcultural maturity, so that one can take humankind as the community in which one's membership matters most.

Even when we prevision an act, such as worship, and reflect on what we have not yet done, the act contemplated does not grow out of the contemplation; its sources in the complex human soul are more various.

As Holloway himself frequently said, theology is no arid discipline, but a meditation and contemplation of the fullness of the Mystery of God revealed most fully in Jesus Christ and living among us in the Church.

Particularly in the Protestant tradition, we have neglected this tradition of cosmic contemplation as a source of renewal.