Sentences with phrase «in immortality seem»

In this regard the indirect results of the rising faith in immortality seem at times as important as the substance of the faith itself.

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At one point Whitehead seems to suggest that the primordial and consequent natures exercise their objective immortality separately: «Thus God has objective immortality in respect to his primordial nature and his consequent nature.

The persuasiveness of faith in immortality will no doubt always seem greater to those who stand within the Christian heritage than to those who view it critically from without.

And so I come to the second point: it seems to me that Hartshorne, while using the terminology of objective immortality to speak of occasions in God, nonetheless lays the groundwork for subjective immortality in God.

As far as I know, this last is not an explicit doctrine in Whitehead's system, but it seems to be a possible implication of the theory of «objective immortality.»

Marjorie Suchocki attacks Ogden but the attack seems misdirected since she primarily argues for subjective immortality in the first sense of retaining the immediacy of the entity.

«12 If the boundaries of personality are gone, it seems that there is no personal immortality in the sense of a continuing self.

Like the general description of immortality in chapter three, heaven as it is usually imaged seems uneventful, abstract, unappealing, boring.

This remarkable agreement seems to me to show how widespread is the mistake of attributing to primitive Christianity the Greek belief in the immortality of the soul.

JK: You seem to argue very strongly that it's the idea of an infinite future in terms of immortality that you would criticize.

As with social regimentation and behavioristic concepts of human nature, so too with the denial of immortality, what seems to many people a modern conclusion was, in fact, the primitive beginning.

Many people seem to think that we believers in immortality are victims of self - importance, and that we want to live on because we egotistically can not endure facing our own extinction.

For Hartshorne, much of the usual argument for personal immortality seems to reduce to a sort of «dog - in - the - manger attitude to the universe; and since the basic drive through the entire created order is unselfish action towards fuller good, this attitude appears to him to be in flat contradiction to the purpose of creation.

As we noted earlier, the story of the Garden of Eden almost certainly had a prototype in ancient mythology, where its original theme seems likely to have been man's search for immortality.

Though I've been slowly tempted come to your worst, It seems I've been preemptive in my bid for immortality.