Sentences with phrase «meaning apprehended»

In Jesus Christ, prepared for through the long preceding development of Jewish religion, and His meaning apprehended through the long centuries of subsequent Christian experience, man is given a vivid and striking disclosure of the eternal Reality; and given it not through the retailing of information but through the whole content of a Life.

What happens when this assumption is made is that what was once known as metaphor and as an approximation to meanings apprehended, yet deeper than our recognition of them, become manageable concepts and categories within the human framework of thought.

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There was an absurd element to the movie moment: The idea that the suspect was aided in evading arrest by following the information put out by his pursuers meant to apprehend him.

As we explore the meaning of Christ, we need to remember that no category of thought, no picture of Jesus, no doctrine of Christ can fully apprehend him.

If religious belief is attained when reason makes a «total response of the total being to what is apprehended as the ultimate reality,» such that in this act reason is reborn, then it follows that those who totally accept a given world - view as ultimate, whether it be theistic or non-theistic, naturalistic or supernaturalistic, immanentist or transcendentalist, as normative for their entire lives and as the supreme value in their hierarchy of values, and hence not taken as a means but as an end, belong to the religious dimension.

Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.

To believe means not to have apprehended but to have been apprehended.

The fact that interest in God's idiosyncratic reality and peculiar ways of being present are situated means, in short, that the conceptual growth they guide is always open to the suspicion of being in bad faith, of being more of an interest in using God for our own purposes than an interest in apprehending God for the sake of apprehending God.

I would suggest, rather, that scholasticism apprehends the abstract potency of the Godhead, while a radical and dialectical theology is in quest of the meaning of the final actualization and realization of that potency, and therefore in quest of the meaning of the ultimate victory of Christ.

A philosopher notes three areas in which linguistic philosophy could broaden itself: 16 (1) broaden the verifiability principle so as to make other experiences besides sense experience possible, (2) abandon the viewpoint that would reduce all meaning of things to present or actual fact, and (3) pay more attention to conceptual frameworks through which we seek to apprehend the world.

Bergson's view does not call for this intimate connection between conceptual structure and intuitively apprehended meaning (140n - 141n.).

Direction is apprehended through one's inner awareness of what one is meant to be, for it is this that enables one to make a genuine decision.

To believe aright means, then to receive the crucified Christ, to apprehend in his cross the end of all our self - redeeming activity, and the beginning of God's creative redemption.

But it does mean that he apprehends reality in a new way.

However, this modified sense is completely required by the sort of judgment in which the reflexive act apprehends itself when undertaking to itemize the meaning of its act of divestment (depouillement) by submitting it to the grille of a criteriology of the divine.

The Christian revelation has always been apprehended as the Word of God, not merely a word about life, but the entry into human history of a new meaning which has become operative in shaping the course of history.

The stories and rituals in which they were apprehended were the language of a consciousness enslaved to these unconscious meanings.

Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine.

On the contrary, miracle as such means the activity of God; therefore the understanding of an event as a miracle is not a conclusion from what is perceived, but the perception itself apprehends the miracle.

Now such meanings can not be apprehended with the same kind and degree of objectivity as formal facts can be.

Narrative can be a means by which the congregation apprehends its vocation.

According to Roger Ames (NAT 117), an «aesthetic order» is a paradigm that: (1) proposes plurality as prior to unity and disjunction to conjunction, so that all particulars possess real and unique individuality; (2) focuses on the unique perspective of concrete particulars as the source of emergent harmony and unity in all interrelationships; (3) entails movement away from any universal characteristic to concrete particular detail; (4) apprehends movement and change in the natural order as a processive act of «disclosure» — and hence describable in qualitative language; (5) perceives that nothing is predetermined by preassigned principles, so that creativity is apprehended in the natural order, in contrast to being determined by God or chance; and (6) understands «rightness» to mean the degree to which a thing or event expresses, in its emergence toward novelty as this exists in tension with the unity of nature, an aesthetically pleasing order.

For my part I can in a way understand Abraham, but at the same time I apprehend that I have not the courage to speak, and still less to act as he did — but by this I do not by any means intend to say that what he did was insignificant, for on the contrary it is the one only marvel.

The sacramental principle, in which created matter and form can be apprehended in some authentic way as images of God, and as ways towards union with Him, is fundamental to the Catholic and Orthodox attitude to art, whereas the Protestant theological system relies on the priority of the word over the image as the medium through which God communicates Himself to us, and by means of which we apprehend Him.

Necessary existential truth (metaphysical truth) means to be capable, in principle, of being apprehended by any knower.

But it is so reported as to convey, not only the sounds uttered or the meaning then apprehended, but the meaning which, always there, has been disclosed by lifelong meditation.

Although it might require sagacity to express this objectively, what he meant was that insofar as a person apprehends the value of something, he apprehends it as satisfying «principle,» that is as being a means to the end of incorporating the categoreal obligations in the process of making an actual thing out of initial data.

This does not mean that it supplies outward and visible proofs; the evidence is still the spiritual things «which are spiritually apprehended.»

In the constant reiteration of such phrases as «the likeness of,» «the appearance of,» «as it were,» and the variety of similes introduced by «like,» the prophet is insisting that he knows full well that this is a vision only, that this kind of ultimate reality can not be apprehended in substance, but only — and only in part — in meaning.

Now if this is true, it in fact enhances the importance of the Decalogue, for what is given is the deeply pondered, concentrated meaning of life under Covenant, as that meaning is apprehended in faith.

But they were trapped in the morass of polytheism; one of the reasons for this was that the traditional associations of various deities with particular phenomena — the sun, the moon, the stars, storms, vegetation, the sea, and so on — meant that the obvious multiplicity of nature kept getting in the way of their struggles to apprehend the unity of the divine.

Humanity shares to some extent in the capacity to apprehend the transcendent in the now — shares, as the Bantus believe, in the capacity to give meaning and to apprehend meaning.

A true work of art is coherent with other instances and modes of apprehending what is and what ought to be; that is to say, it illuminates the meaning of life.

The proclamation of the good news of divine love, of the forgiveness of sin and the deliverance from evil; exhortation to lead the Christian life; instruction of young and old in the Christian faith — these evidently require not only that the minister have heard and apprehended the gospel, comprehended the law and learned the creed, but that he have gained insight into the ways of God and men and that he grow continually in his understanding of them; that further he have grasped the meaning of preaching and teaching in relation to all the other activities he and the Church carry on.

«We urge the communities and well - meaning Nigerians to cooperate with the security agencies in their bid to apprehend the perpetrators.

I am down to earth... many people say this but do not apprehend what it truly means in this day and age... I am understanding and kind... strong minded with a soft heart.

To counter this, an elite LAPD squad headed by Nick O'Brien (Gerard Butler) tries to foil the crime and apprehend the suspects — by any means necessary.

This mythical tale of retribution and redemption unfolds in Fort Smith, Arkansas in the 1870s, where we find the film's young narrator, Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), eager to hire the meanest bounty hunter around to apprehend the man (Josh Brolin) who murdered her father in cold blood.

This mythical tale of retribution and redemption unfolds in Fort Smith, Arkansas in the 1870s, where we find the film's young narrator, Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), eager to hire the meanest bounty hunter around to apprehend Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), the killer who has just murdered her father in cold blood.

That means one in 40 retail workers at those establishments was apprehended for theft.

It is the visitors» presence and their own experience of apprehending my works which gives the works meaning.

This project offers a new means of apprehending the work of this young artist who has continuously questioned his own artistic practice as well as his means of production.

Strange Attractor creates an opportunity for audiences to apprehend meaning in an increasingly complex reality.

Extrapolating a whole from parts — the CO2 in the stratosphere as Earth incubator being one of them — means that the parts REALLY have to be nailed AND COMPLETELY AND CORRECTLY UNDERSTOOD in order for the whole to eventually be apprehended.

Our group of modelers is 99.99 % made up of people who are very careful and very respectful of others.We have to be that way in order to take the time to build our models.It takes a great deal of patience to assemble our models to install the engines, electronics, control surfaces and then after all that hard work we risk it all by taking it outside and flying it.So we have to be very very careful or we risk losing something we have put a lot of time and money into.We are never going to do anything to risk our model ourselves or anyone else because doing so would ruin the entire hobby.The.001 % who don't go thru this or who just don't have any respect for anyone in the first place are dangerous and should by all means be apprehended and punished for their actions.But for those of us who have been flying for years and years in what was a safe and fun hobby have been grouped together with the few and we are all being punished for their actions.I find this reaction by the government to be barbaric, unjust, cruel, and just plain idiotic.

77 Second, it is important to point out that provisions on conferring powers of public authority on border guards — such as the powers conferred in the contested decision, which include stopping persons apprehended, seizing vessels and conducting persons apprehended to a specific location — mean that the fundamental rights of the persons concerned may be interfered with to such an extent that the involvement of the European Union legislature is required.

If a judge decides that you meant to cause death or grievous bodily harm, the force you used to defend yourself will only be justified in situations where you reasonably apprehended that death or grievous bodily harm to yourself would otherwise result.

When necessarily committed in attempting, by lawful ways and means, to apprehend any person for any felony committed, or in lawfully suppressing any riot, or in lawfully keeping and preserving the peace.

The police's duty was to investigate fearlessly, to robustly apprehend criminals, and to preserve / uphold the law — like social workers protecting children from suspected abuse from parents — the end justifies the means, albeit that the enormous collateral damage to victims / witnesses, or here parents, is disregarded and downplayed.