Sentences with phrase «in dualistic»

The problem with many of our understandings of psychological phenomena, not least in the field of addiction, is that we are mired in a dualistic understanding of the world.

As a cacophony of longing, the video exemplifies Dee's search for meaning in artifice; as opposites illuminate one another in our dualistic universe.

Their conjunction remains so puzzling that many who operate in dualistic terms refuse to acknowledge their real assumptions.

God and Satan are locked in a cosmic battle in a dualistic universe.

A Christian theology that continues to operate in dualistic and anthropocentric ways is part of the problem and not part of the solution.

We can mean simply that God does not separate himself from the darkness as he does in the dualistic schemes which linger on in Western spirituality.

Gnostic ideas are also found in the dualistic tendencies of some churches to emphasize the spiritual realm over the physical.

But more refined questions suggest that a sizable number of Americans still express their faith in dualistic terms.

Whereas reality was once perceived in dualistic terms, it now takes on a «multiplex» character.

An absolute phenomenism, not believing such a dualism to be ultimate, may possibly end by solving some of the problems that are insoluble when pro- pounded in dualistic terms.

Christian theology has operated in dualistic and exclusivistic categories, and many Christians continue to subscribe to these.

But with his theory of monads Leibniz stands in the dualistic line of Descartes inasmuch as he contrasts the monadic, subsistent soul not with a single body but rather with a multiplicity of equally subsistent monads.

It lies in the dualistic alienation by which females are kept from claiming their assertiveness and males kept from claiming their vulnerability.

Horace Bushnell was typical of almost all Victorian social theorists and pastors.8 They described human nature in dualistic terms by misconstruing the meaning of the New Testament concerning «spirit and flesh.»

«We seek an understanding that does not divide power and compassionate love in a dualistic framework that identifies love with a resignation of power and the exercise of power with a denial of love.

The giving up of the metaphysical, in this dualistic context, would necessarily entail the giving up of religion and God.5

The deepest divisions of our world have their philosophical roots just here — in dualistic thinking.

In dualistic philosophies reality is perceived as individualized, independent.

This division is obviously rooted in the dualistic expulsion of experience from nature.

I am not being naive — it wasn't around in Jewish writing, at least as expressed in that dualistic way, until after the captivity.

In this dualistic view, how they are related, or whether they are related at all does not matter.

My main reason for giving up the traditional arguments is that I no longer believe in a dualistic framework in which these arguments were derived.

Not exact matches

If we also keep in mind Isaiah 45:7, this divergence in theology becomes explainable and the contradiction is exposed for what it probably is; a shift in the theology of the Hebrews, influenced by the dualistic Persian religion at the time of the Persian's conquest of Babylon in around 539 BCE.

A large part of the problemvwhen discussing issues like this is that we utilize aristotalian language constructs that are dualistic and a major sign of this would be the use of the word «is,» when to be linguistically scientifically correct everything should be stated as «it appears so to me,» or some variation of this as it takes into account the many errors possible in how people perceive everything.

The structure of Christian belief received its normative character in centuries dominated by two intellectual movements that were radically dualistic and distrusted the materiality of humankind.

Also the oppositions to a dualistic separation of mind and body or «mane and nature are comparable in the two movements.10 Process theology and feminist theology today overlap in a healthy way, and there is every indication that feminists will play leading roles in the further development of process theology.

The first step in bringing back to modem man the possibility of belief is a negative one — the destruction of the hellenic legacy of a dualistic reality.

Since he retains his dualistic position throughout his works, his statements in The Myth of Sisyphus, which reveal the mind - matter dichotomy at the heart of his position, may be taken as definitive.

Only the dualistic form of the modern Western consciousness, which is grounded in an absolute distinction between the subject and the object of consciousness, instills us with the seemingly irrevocable sense that the world or reality stands wholly outside of consciousness itself.

The hierarchical, dualistic pattern is so widespread in Western thought that it is often not perceived to be a pattern, but is felt to be simply the way things are.

I decided that rather than be boxed in by the dualistic question «Do I believe in God?

It is possible to speculate that if Christianity had begun in a culture less dualistic and antiphysical than that of the first - century Mediterranean world, it might have been willing, given the more holistic anthropology and theology of its Hebraic roots, to extend its body metaphor to God?

Universalism is the dualistic positive determinism of predestination to * heaven * in opposition to the negative determinism of predestination to hell.

Modern thought was dualistic, and this has been reflected in economic policies with respect to nature.

They live and think in terms of the dualistic world view of heaven and earth which is embedded in their respective Holy Scriptures.

It might be contended that temporalism also is «dualistic,» in that it postulates space - time distances between actual occasions and the absence of space - time distances between concrescing prehensions.

Partly to provide a way of conceptualizing God's transcendence over evil, and in part for other systemic reasons which we need not cover now, Hartshorne is forced to introduce a dualistic account of the divine nature.

Nontemporalism is «dualistic,» in that it postulates a temporal order of actual occasions and a nontemporal order of concrescing prehensions.

The key may lie in understanding Brightman's statement that «My heart is dualistic, yours monistic.

It rejects dualistic thinking in all its forms.

To develop a sensibility that will guide appropriate action requires deep - seated change, especially in overcoming these dualistic habits.

Obviously this is a little dualistic, but it's a perception of dualism that makes fasting or «in vino veritas» work.

Zoroastrianism is strongly dualistic in its developed form.

Such a feminist strategy needs to abandon both the dualistic conceptualization of women as mere victims of patriarchal religion and the submissive collaboration of women in patriarchal religion and church.

This sort of hyper - spirituality led them to make a dualistic division between the physical realm and the spiritual realm, so that anything they did in the flesh did not affect their spirit, and vice versa.

I will note here that Catherine Keller's analysis of hetero - reality in terms of the separate self - hood of men and the soluble selfhood of women corroborates the stunted character of relations within the dominant patriarchal worldview, which diminishes both relationality and individuality with its dualistic patterning of subject - object in male - female relationships.

And don't forget the Persian Empire ruled Palestine from 500 something BC to Alexander around 330 BC with their dualistic religion Zoroastrianism, withe their God and bad (satan - Angra mainyu) gods with angels and Sun / Son Mithras, the haloed one, retaining influence in the area years after they were chased out.

A Christian and a member of a Buddhist family, she was in a double bind: as a Christian she had to prove to her people that she was not «the instrument of foreign aggressors,» and as a Chinese woman she was concerned about Christianity's «dualistic tendency and patriarchal bias.»

This leads to a dualistic view that many still espouse, according to which the material and spiritual, body and soul, are seen as separate and unequal elements, temporarily joined together (during our lifetime) but separated in death so that the soul can assume its rightful, higher place.

We Christians are repenting of having succumbed to dualistic thinking through the influence of Greek thought and, especially, in extreme form, the effects of Enlightenment thought on Protestantism.