Sentences with phrase «in nature of»

In his concept of wisdom as the vitalizing power in man's restless urge toward better things, which yet was with God before creation and by him was implanted in the nature of things, there is, we have noted, the clear implication that in such wisdom man gains his truest insight into the essential nature of God.

A second equally or more important reason why theological study must be set in the context of the Church's whole activity if it is to be genuine theology, lies in the nature of theoretical activity.

Then (2) in face of the varieties of Christian proclamation and in view of the claim inherent in the nature of the synoptic gospel material (earthly Jesus = risen Lord), we may and we must use such historical knowledge of Jesus as we possess to test the validity of the claim of any given form of the Church's proclamation to be Christian proclamation.

It is in the nature of things that ideals are not all compatible.

And we suspect, too, that it is more in the nature of fiction than history (observe the typological meaning of the names: Mahlon, «sickness»; Chilion, «wasting»; Orpah «stiff - necked»; Naomi, «my sweetness»; and Ruth, a shortened form of a word meaning «companion»).

(The brief narrative of Jehoiachin's release from prison in Babylon some years later, 1125:27 - 30, appears to be in the nature of a subsequent postscript to Kings.)

God's presence is much more in the nature of a dwelling in God's creation.

If we grant that Paul meant to claim a similarity in the nature of the appearance, and that he was correct in doing so — both of which are far from certain — then we have here the first evidence that addresses the nature of the resurrection appearances, aside from the unbelievability of the Gospel accounts themselves.

He was a mystic, or, at least, the mystical elements in his nature were more pronounced than in the nature of the other three evangelists.

It lies in the nature of the case.

Then (3) in view of the further claim inherent in the nature of the synoptic gospel material (situation in earthly ministry of Jesus = situation in early Church's experience) we may apply historical knowledge of the teaching of Jesus directly to the situation of the believer in any age, always providing, of course, that we can solve the practical problems involved in crossing the barrier of two millennia and radically different Weltanschauungen necessary to do this.

Followed to their conclusion the two paths must certainly end by coming together: for in the nature of things everything that is faith must rise, and everything that rises must converge.

concern for the defenseless in society is not a command designed simply to promote social harmony, but is rooted in the nature of Yahweh himself who is defender of the oppressed....

The difference is that religion is the longing of the spirit that the facts of existence should find their justification in the nature of existence.

For Bradley maintains that in the nature of the case the non-relational whole of feeling can not be «reconstituted (ETR 231) by its ideal or relational differentiation.

There's something deep in the nature of boys that almost always requires the books they like to contain a how - to element: how to sail a boat, or how to build a treehouse, or how to send Morse code» or how to rob a bank, for that matter.

We recognize its source in the nature of God and God's will for humanity.

As we read into the New Testament, Paul writes to the church in Rome in the letter to the Romans ch 1 where he explains how we can not pretend to believe that there is no God for HE HIMSELF left us clues in nature of his eternal power and divine nature which leaves no room for excuses.

In the nature of the case no general rule can be given, because each thing is judged in its concrete individuality.

The presence of entropic trends, of chance and indeterminacy in physical reality is too obvious for us to hold that nature is the deterministic implementation of some blue - print rigidly inscribed in the nature of things by God or any other imaginable cosmic principle.

And hence altruism is as directly grounded in the nature of the self as is self - interest.

But the ideology that says it is uncivil and thus makes possible the coexistence of many ideologies — when conceived as in the nature of things and not just as a matter of etiquette — is itself then a civil religion.

But it is in the nature of belief to admit doubt.

The American model is peculiar especially in the nature of its pluralism.

But about the meaning that the system has for those of faith, an outsider can not in the nature of the case go beyond the believer; for their piety is the faith, and if they can not recognize his portrayal, then it is not their faith that he is portraying.

9 - 19) must also reflect the later Temple pattern, since in the nature of a simple sanctuary such an elaborate and sharply defined area is improbable.

The Fascist regime itself, whatever its negative features, probably contributed to that «passive revolution» in another of the senses in which Gramsci used the term, in which important social changes can go on even under reactionary and repressive regimes — the gradual erosion of particularistic and traditional authority structures and the development of more egalitarian social forms — though it may be in the nature of the less effective Italian Fascist regime to have served more as a guardian for such structures and less as a corrosive to them than in the more efficient fascist regimes in Germany and Japan.

These verses supply the logical and necessary prelude to the remaking of the Covenant, and repeat the basis of the relationship between God and man in the nature of God himself.

You shall not follow a multitude to do evil [all of this is in the nature of general admonition against damaging words: and now the same passage turns to formal legal consideration; nor shall you bear witness in a suit, turning aside after a multitude, so as to pervert justice; nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his suit [if formal false witness may not damage the innocent it must also refrain from endorsing the guilty]» (Exod.

Changes in the nature of one's audience can be brought about, therefore, by appropriate changes in program content and broadcast time.

Of course, process theology is associated with the work of Whitehead, and Whitehead has been severely criticized by Buchler for his arbitrary use of a principle of ontological priority.4 Yet there seems to be nothing in the nature of process theology which requires that some entities be considered «more real» than others.

If contingency is real in the nature of things, and if human beings are free to make selective choices which fix the future course of events, God's power can not be unlimited and his knowledge can not be complete.

They are clearly different from those related to Objective A, since there has been a qualitative change in the nature of its causal connections.

Where an effect may be taking place, it is more likely to be in the nature of channelling members of churches away from those churches that are not rep - resented on television toward those that are.

His ultimate metaphysical reason for this is that if this were not the case, no source of action could be found: «If nothing is active by its own nature, there will be nothing active at all, for what reason for activity can there be, if not in the nature of the thing?»

External constraint upon the rational self - direction of conduct is, indeed, inextricably interwoven in the nature of things.

Both the categorical system and the structure of thought of each specialized inquiry are variables, although the former is usually more constant than the latter in the nature of the relationship.

The answer, it seems to me, lies in the nature of experience itself.

° (42) 42:22 — «Religion is the longing of the spirit that the facts of existence should find their justification in the nature of existence: «My soul thirsteth...»» (RM 85).

Perhaps best known for his text on the sociology of religion, The Sacred Canopy, Berger has also shown a keen interest in issues of development and public policy and in the nature of religious belief in the modern world, as evident in A Far Glory: The Question of Faith in an Age of Credulity (1992) and in his most recent book, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience.

There is a further psychological factor in the nature of human sexual love.

The explanation for this inadequacy is inherent in the nature of the philosophic enterprise itself.

These are inevitable in the nature of the story and were certainly evident to those involved in its development.

Evil is in the nature of man.

It affirmed that the locus of missionary obligation is found in the nature of the Triune God, revealed in the work of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

But maturity demands sexual behavior that is motivated by respect for persons, even in psychoanalytic terms, a significant testimony to the purpose of sex as it is rooted in the nature of man, which is in turn grounded in the reality of creation.10

He believed that it was in the will, that is, in the nature of electricity to produce this steady light.

All this, however, is in the nature of sheer speculation.

It is in the nature of technological reason to maximize results and minimize costs.4 The decision - makers who are in charge of a given organization or task may specify boundary conditions which forbid certain means.

Such a «social constructionist» conception of science might seem as menacing to Hawking as it would to Wordsworth, both of whom need to believe that, whatever ontological affinities must be conceded, the distinction between daffodils and stinkweeds is grounded not only in the human intuition about the world but in the nature of things.