Sentences with phrase «in ultimate sense»

AND OF COURSE... That doesn't mean truth in the ultimate sense isn't important, it's critical, and I'm sure you wouldn't want some «mystical» heart surgeon working on your heart (as one example of many).

Juicy Excerpt: I don't think that those of us who follow valuation - informed investing strategies are better in any ultimate sense than those who do not.

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Stylist, trendsetter, outfit - inspirer... and now a new mom, lifestyle icon, and beauty authority (you may have seen her recent videos with Estée Lauder), Lim is an influencer in the ultimate sense of the word — which is exactly why we're thrilled to have her on board as a Byrdie contributor.

But since Christian apparently understands the satisfaction in an ultimate sense to be a satisfaction of God's primordial aim, he must deny that God's satisfaction is finalized.

We are forced to face the sobering fact that in any ultimate sense «the World - Spirit and world events remain to us incomprehensible» (Indian Thought, p. 263).

What I need is a faith that sustains me in an ultimate sense, even if my concrete struggle fails me.

«I often wonder if coming to understand and believe that God does, indeed desire us,» he writes, «and that we are invited to return his desire might be the «remedy» in some ultimate sense, for the loneliness and craving for love that I and other homosexual Christians experience on a regular basis.

Personal religion, then, is not in any ultimate sense personal, but is the product of a certain kind of society, which, like all other kinds of society, imposes itself on individuals.

This leads Christian anthropology to a Moral Realism which recognizes the Human Community in the ultimate sense, like the human experience of friendship and love, is a gift of Divine Grace, and that therefore there is no final path towards it through technological, political or legal organization.

I say it... In an ultimate sense I can not know what I do in this place — yet I do ultimate things.

Further, in the ultimate sense of ownership Israel Is a tenant, not an owner: «The land is mine — with me you are but aliens and tenants» (Lev.

And they have faith, that impractical heritage from the Jews, in the ultimate sense of things, even if the immediate meaning of things now eludes them here.

But that is not the end of the story in an ultimate sense.

The Gospel in the ultimate sense is a mystery and we can not exhaust it by our response and interpretation.

The longing to belong in some ultimate sense, to feel an at - homeness in the universe is satisfied for many in worship which reawakens the awareness of «the mystical unity which underlies all human life» (Cyril Richardson) This experience is energizing, feeding, and healing; it overcomes the sense of cosmic loneliness, the feeling expressed by a mental hospital patient: «I'm an orphan in the universe.»

In an ultimate sense he does.

It does not matter in any ultimate sense who controls the House or the Senate, who sits in the White House, or what confected micro-identity votes en masse for which candidate.

More sophisticated theologians have qualified this outrageous notion by saying that God can do nothing which is irrational, such as make square circles, or which is contrary to God's own nature and purpose, which are assumed to be good in some ultimate sense, and therefore that God can not engage in genuinely evil acts.

Well, in the ultimate sense, we don't know.

He took into account the audience's ability to perceive in the ultimate sense — by flinging aside his deity and becoming the Word, one of us, living in our cramped planet within the limitations of a human body.

Not exact matches

«There are the doubts on Trump — which is causing a sense of befuddlement among international investors about the dollar as the ultimate store of value and America's place in the global economy — and there is a growing sense of unease about the economy's ongoing resilience.

In this sense, index investors are the ultimate long - term investors — providing patient capital for companies to grow and prosper.

Finally, GM's quick repayment of the loans has whetted the appetite of some commentators (including DeCloet) for the ultimate repayment of the full government contribution. That would occur through the issuance of public equity by GM and Chrysler, creating a market for those stocks into which the government would presumably sell its shares. There is even some nefarious language in the rescue packages requiring the government to sell off its shares within specified, relatively aggressive timelines. The more I think about it, the less this makes sense — neither for the auto industry, nor for taxpayers. Why not hang onto the equity stake? If the companies recover and the equity gains market value, then the government will be able to claim that on its balance sheet (hence officially recouping the cost of its written - off contributions and creating a budgetary gain).

It seems to make more sense for Republicans to focus policy proposals on parental rights and restrictions on late - term abortion while noting that - whatever their ultimate beliefs - some abortion restrictions are very unlikely to happen in any foreseeable future while third trimester abortion on - demand is a reality.

These have been formulated in different ways, but a typical list would cite life (including health, safety, and procreation); knowledge (including appreciation of beauty); holiness or religion (in the sense of harmony with ultimate reality); self - integration, justice, friendship (including marriage); and the kind of exercise of skill in work or play that enriches human life.

In a sense, the entire cosmic process depends on him and the question arises of whether he or creativity is more ultimate in these causal termIn a sense, the entire cosmic process depends on him and the question arises of whether he or creativity is more ultimate in these causal termin these causal terms.

«In a sense all explanation must end in an ultimate arbitrarinesIn a sense all explanation must end in an ultimate arbitrarinesin an ultimate arbitrariness.

Indirect cosmic events, while God's ultimate design, can hardly be considered murder or killing in a direct sense.

For example, there are persons to whom it is wholly self - evident that sense data are the ultimate givens in terms of which all thought develops and who are equally convinced that the only acceptable explanation of the way things happen follows mechanical models.

Also, if he claims for statements about Jesus» ultimate significance a self - evidence or demonstration in no way dependent upon participation in the community of faith, he would not intend his statements to be theological in the sense of my definition.

In this sense God is the ultimate irrationality: the principle of limitation and the ground of rationality.

Here in the core of the I is a center from which choice springs, from which responsibility for one's acts springs, from which the ultimate sense of uneasiness and weariness with anything that is short of the highest of all in reality ultimately issues, from which remorse and repentance arises.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

Further, these experiences are of central concern by being in some sense ultimate.

The sacrament stimulates a value response to an object other than itself — in this sense being a kind of instrumental value — by virtue of a three - way congruence of some sort involving person, sacrament, an ultimate faith - object.

Thus, the principle of creativity is ultimate in one sense, and the principle of relativity is basic in another; thus, too, what is indefinable in one notion is presupposed by, or is relevant to, what is indefinable in the other.

In this way the ontological argument, by drawing out the presupposition of metaphysical understanding, indicates that the choice before us is between holding that there is a God and that «reality» makes sense in some metaphysical manner, whether or not we can ever grasp what that sense is, and holding that there is no God and that any apparent metaphysical understanding of reality can only be an illusion which does not significantly correspond to the ultimate nature of things — unless this «nihilism» be regarded as a kind of metaphysical understanding instead of its blank negatioIn this way the ontological argument, by drawing out the presupposition of metaphysical understanding, indicates that the choice before us is between holding that there is a God and that «reality» makes sense in some metaphysical manner, whether or not we can ever grasp what that sense is, and holding that there is no God and that any apparent metaphysical understanding of reality can only be an illusion which does not significantly correspond to the ultimate nature of things — unless this «nihilism» be regarded as a kind of metaphysical understanding instead of its blank negatioin some metaphysical manner, whether or not we can ever grasp what that sense is, and holding that there is no God and that any apparent metaphysical understanding of reality can only be an illusion which does not significantly correspond to the ultimate nature of things — unless this «nihilism» be regarded as a kind of metaphysical understanding instead of its blank negation.

It shows, that is, that certain (and perhaps all) attempts to attain metaphysical understanding of reality presuppose a final unity and meaningfulness of reality and that this presupposition may only make sense in terms of God as an ontologically, valuatively, and rationally ultimate and unifying reality.

This means that in the ultimate and primary sense unity is the unity of substance per se (NPE 310).

In the final chapter it will be shown how the whole range of topics exemplify a religious point of view, provided religion is understood as ultimate devotion and is not restricted to the conventional sectarian sense.

Civil religion portrays a divine order of things, giving us a sense of worth and direction in relation to ultimate purposes.

That is, what I am maintaining is that the ultimate basis upon which Whitehead has distinguished the different «kinds» or «types» of entities is the different senses in which they «are.»

The ultimate canon within the canon must in the end, however, be the person of Jesus and, in a broader sense, the narration of the saving acts of God.

It apprehends it in the way appropriate to it — that is, it investigates the possibility and necessity of it in the strict sense, and leaves it for faith to affirm in action this possibility as the ultimate truth.

The ultimate goal of control of the mass media is to educate the public in self - regulation — to develop in all the people, whether producers or recipients, a reliable sense of what is worthy and what is not worthy of being made public.

We are «secular» in the sense that we pursue the immediate goals of life, without asking too many ultimate questions about the meaning of life and without being too disturbed by the tragedies and antinomies of life.78

85 But characteristically he went on to praise America for its democracy: «Democracy is an ultimate norm of political organization in the sense that no better way has been found to check the inordinacy of the powerful on the one hand and the confusion of the multitude on the other than by making every center of power responsible to the people whom it affects.»

In a sense, they express what is really real, what is ultimate reality — and that is another term for religion.

A truly wonderful sense of the appropriate has guided the inventors of the most terrifying weapons to choose names that evoke ultimate violence in the most effective way: names taken from the direst divinities in Greek mythology, like Titan, Poseidon, and Saturn, the god who devoured his own children.