Sentences with phrase «in ordinary existence»

Even before the axial period, archaic or primal religions already had an at least embryonic sense of a sacral dimension that could interrupt life and bestow on it a wider significance than that given in ordinary existence.

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As much as we want to be like Peter, it's often incredibly tempting in the midst of our mundane and rather ordinary existence to be like Paul.

Then we will see that our actual existence is, from the viewpoint of the inherited ontology of nature and grace, «mixed» from its origin and at every step, «a pilgrimage in which the miracle of divine love... is the most ordinary of events.»

On a lonely two - hour walk home from my piano lesson, seeing an otherwise ordinary sunset, I was suddenly flooded by light and absorbed in a sea of light which, although it did not extinguish the humble awareness of my finite existence, overflowed the barriers that normally separate us from the surrounding world.

The univocal and equivocal imaginations deny metaphor, deny that any new insight can come through the ordinary — the one flattens it to sameness, the other escapes from it — but what Lynch calls the analogical imagination delves into the mundane, for it is precisely in and through the complexities of historical, limited existence that insight comes, if it comes at all.

For Auden, our ordinary existence is lived out in a post-Christmas world where «The Christmas Feast is already becoming a memory....

man's special place in the cosmos, his connexion with destiny, his relation to the world of things, his understanding of his fellowmen, his existence as a being that knows it must die, his attitude in the ordinary and extraordinary encounters with the mystery with which his life is shot through.

Instead, we shall pass from the first to the fifth way, showing in each case how the existence of God can be known with certainty by reflecting on ordinary human experience.

As many people know, St Thomas Aquinas stated that one could demonstrate the existence of God in five different ways, starting from five different features of the ordinary world around us.

For in the very generality that determines executive office there is a power that disengages from the common table of parish existence, from the direct and pathetic book of the common life, and from the moments of sudden truth that stun and depress and exalt the minister on his ordinary round.

Christian communication needs to find its rootage, its raw stuff, from within the experiences of daily life, and then attempt to show in what way this ordinary, day - by - day existence has ultimate meaning.

Limit - experiences are those happenings in our lives that shock us into a recognition that our ordinary existence is encompassed by a previously unacknowledged realm of the unknown.

This alienation is a natural part of existence; that is, it belongs in the typically expectable repertoire of ordinary people in everyday life.

Just as the world of poetic texts opens its way across the ruins of the intraworldly objects of everyday existence and of science, so too the new being projected by the biblical text opens its way across the world of ordinary experience and in spite of the closed nature of that experience.

So Whitehead's reply to Berkeley is, in effect, that matter really does matter in the ordinary sense of the word, since whatever acquires material existence is always capable of influencing by means of signs the becomings of subsequent «things.»

What has here been said applies to the historical in the direct and ordinary sense, whose only contradiction is that it has come into existence, which contradiction is implicit in all coming into existence.3 Here again one must guard against the illusion of supposing that it is easier to understand after the event than before the event.

In the course of human existence it has been the role of «religion» to provide the «answers» to our limit questions and to illuminate our boundary experiences by placing them in a larger than ordinary contexIn the course of human existence it has been the role of «religion» to provide the «answers» to our limit questions and to illuminate our boundary experiences by placing them in a larger than ordinary contexin a larger than ordinary context.

Evangelicals have been able to capture the imagination of ordinary people and provide them with a concrete understanding of the transcendent in daily existence.

In autobiographies, finally, intermediary theology has a source for understanding how language and belief move into a life, how a life can itself be a parable, a deformation of ordinary existence by its placement in an extraordinary contexIn autobiographies, finally, intermediary theology has a source for understanding how language and belief move into a life, how a life can itself be a parable, a deformation of ordinary existence by its placement in an extraordinary contexin an extraordinary context.

GENEVA — The two largest collaborations of physicists in history Tuesday presented intriguing but tentative clues to the existence of the Higgs boson, the elementary particle thought to endow ordinary matter with mass.

One of the further possibilities opened up by advanced computing in this laser research is the creation of antimatter — the mirror nemesis of the ordinary matter that makes our existence.

Several astronomical measurements have corroborated the existence of dark matter, leading to a world - wide effort to observe directly dark matter particle interactions with ordinary matter in extremely sensitive detectors, which would confirm its existence and shed light on its properties.

Positive typically means that there were findings (which would be bad), and negative means that there were no findings (that nothing out of the ordinary was in existence).

Questlove has become the go - to guy for pop - music perspective in music documentaries for a reason he proves once again here: He brings a musician's knowledge of why a piece of music is special (his analysis here of «Don't Stop «Til You Get Enough» is a mini-music class) as well as a fan's appreciation for what that music meant to millions of ordinary people — how Jackson's music during this era not only defined the time, but made the world a better place simply by its existence.

The extraordinary and thrilling true story of four friends (Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, and Jared Abrahamson) living an ordinary existence who brazenly attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in US history.

Leigh and his typically brilliant cast create, with extraordinary sensitivity and craft, a vivid, lived - in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams — such as the father's desire to open a food truck — carry enormous weight.

Farrell is in fact too good at being ordinary — the long introduction that establishes Quaid's boring workaday existence is arguably the best thing about the whole thing.

In the extraordinary and thrilling true story, the 31 - year - old American Horror Story actor plays one of four friends living an ordinary existence who brazenly attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in U.S. historIn the extraordinary and thrilling true story, the 31 - year - old American Horror Story actor plays one of four friends living an ordinary existence who brazenly attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in U.S. historin U.S. history.

Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore star as the upper - middle - class couple whose «ordinary» existence is irrevocably shattered by the death of their oldest son in a boating accident.

Quiet, mousy young Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) leads a drab, seemingly ordinary existence, holding down a temporary job in the doll section at a Manhattan department store.

But the more our daily toil and struggle in the sloughs of ordinary human existence and human suffering increased, and the more our journey within in the fearful paradoxicality of everyday life contrasted with the neat and seemless principles of neoliberal logic of privatization, the more rational Marxism sounded to me.

The art critic Toshiaki Minemura has said of Otake's work that while it «She seems to have dropped her anchor in the mystery of existence, the central issue of sculpture, with a precision that can not be achieved through ordinary abstract sculpture.»

Fictional and autobiographical, her photographs find the captivating in the mundane and the aesthetically stunning at the heart of normality, giving life and imagination to ordinary existence.

In a process of welding the artist's vision to technical necessities, industrial materials are transformed from ordinary «workaday» existence into lyrical multi-dimensional expanses that immerse the viewer in vibrant fields of coloIn a process of welding the artist's vision to technical necessities, industrial materials are transformed from ordinary «workaday» existence into lyrical multi-dimensional expanses that immerse the viewer in vibrant fields of coloin vibrant fields of color.

Thus, Hansen's evidence that global warming had started in 1988 consisted of calling the existence of an ordinary El Nino peak a sign that global warming had started.

«uncertainty» equals no consensus but consensus is not proof this is just one classic example of just more humans trying to justify their existence and no the IPCC Judith Curry and everyone else involved continue dancing on the head of a pin whilst Mr Ordinary gets his wealth sequestrated in order to pay for these guys to indulge in their pet hobby when the person who is making their life possible derives no benefit whatsoever except higher and higher energy bills, more restrictions on their ability to travel whilst again the lauded few get to travel across the planet 1st class to tout their jaded theories of how what and where and all I hope and pray is that we get another five years of flat temperatures then you are all toast and in a great need of having to work for a living or get another hobby.

Our law is prepared, according to Clerk & Lindsell, to apply the remedy of conversion to «any document which is specially prepared in the ordinary course of business as evidence of a debt or obligation»... The reliance on a document or some other tangible token of the existence of the obligation may be understandable as a relic of the history, but it is not principled.

Thus a fundamental distinction between the acquisition of ordinary interests in land and the existence of interests giving rise to native title in Australia is the special spiritual relationship that exists between the native title owners in the land... [75]

The Court stated» «reason to know» means that the actor has knowledge of facts from which a reasonable man of ordinary intelligence or one of the superior intelligence of the actor in question would either infer the existence of the fact in question or would regard its existence as so highly probable that his conduct would be predicated upon the assumption that the fact did exist.»

It wasn't originally supposed to be anything out of the ordinary, but about three weeks ago, one of the other Angel House mamas - in - waiting typed this into existence: -LSB-...]