Sentences with phrase «means depends upon one»

What this really means depends upon one's time frame.

Since meaning depends upon the assignment of relevant experiences, the five fundamentals of religious experience may be taken as providing basic meanings for the concept of deity in a universal religion.

Beyond a wink at the artist's own Swedish background, the turtleneck smartly recalls sculpture by Robert Morris, Donald Judd and Bruce Nauman in which perception and meaning depend upon the viewer's stature.

Not exact matches

Investing in the stock of the company upon which you also depend for your livelihood, means that if the company fails you likely lose both your investment in the stock as well as your wages.

At a meeting in the fall of 1996, it was determined that further progress depended upon firm agreement on the meaning of salvation, and especially the doctrine of justification.

The aesthetic character of reality also means that the importance which an occasion can have for itself and the future depends upon the importance that the past has for it.

The «meaning» of life depends primarily upon the immediate forms and values in existence, including the relationships in terms of which life is established in community.

Facts will never render decisions between ill - conceived alternatives; and the meaning of such terms as omnipotence or goodness depends in second - type theism upon a number of conceptions which have not been clearly considered in the classic discussions (such as the marvelous one in Hume's Dialogues) of the relations of such terms to the facts of evil.

Further, what did, for instance, the late Dom Gregory Dix, in the last and most permanently valuable chapter of his Shape of the Liturgy, (Dacre Press [1945]-RRB- mean when he said that «we depend upon God for our very dependence»?

I take the five (or four depending on how you understand the grammar) spiritual gifts in Ephesians 4:11 along with Paul's statement in Ephesians 2:20 as being the «foundational» spiritual gifts, meaning, they lay the foundation of Jesus Christ upon which the other spiritual gifts build.

Here, everything depends upon the meaning of an apocalyptic redemption.

When the divine meaning of the event is made to depend upon views of Jesus» divinity and when the presence of Christ in the church is made to depend upon a belief in the Resurrection, we cut the solid ground out from under the whole Christian position; we invest the purely speculative with an importance it does not possess and rely on it to perform a function it can not perform; and we open the door to discord and division.

Orthodoxy is a word, however, which no dictionary can define, there being several hundred meanings, depending upon which communion one is a member of.

But it may depend also upon our ability to separate from the image some kinds of meanings that may have become attached to it and which conflict with meanings of other important images that we wish to retain.

In this construal, the end of history — meaning, more or less, the globalization of our kind of political and economic order — depended neither upon social contracts nor upon the promise of covenantal purpose.

A corollary of client - centred therapy is the recognition that good interpersonal relationships depend upon the understanding and acceptance of the other as a separate person, «operating in terms of his own meanings, based on his own perceptual field.»

But it depends upon their giving up both their uncritical acceptance of the present ideology of modernization identifying it with Christianity and any revival of primalism in a militant and fundamentalist way in the name of their self - identity, and evaluating both modernity and tradition in the light of Christian personalism i.e. the idea of human beings as persons in community, and all natural and social functions as sacramental means of communion in the purpose of God.

The meanings of some of the sentences depended upon word order as well as the particular words used.

Less obvious to the extraordinary, they also depend upon the ordinary: the meaning of their thinking, the possibilities of imagination and of founding — these may soar far above the common, but they are launched from the common earth and never leave its orbit.

(Ephesians 4:32) Such precepts clearly depend for their full meaning upon the «proclamation» of what God has done for men through Christ.

But to do so means to impose an order upon them, and the type of order imposed depends upon the categories employed.

All I can do here is to suggest that there is a place today for a general concept of resurrection that sees permanent meaning and value in our lives without depending upon belief in individual life after death.

The ultimate reality upon which our hope depends is therefore the eternal truth and power of God, breaking into the flow of historical events, qualifying it, transforming it, yet always to be understood as giving meaning to life through its relation to that which is beyond the time form of the world process.

They do not depend upon the accidents of person, place, or epoch, but derive their meaning solely from the formal structures they are devised to express.

Whatever the specifics of their religious tradition, terrorists have often depended for their foot soldiers upon ecstatics who stand outside the ordinary, practical world of means and ends.

How far this creativity can go in creating the human level in the case of any one individual depends partly upon his innate capacity but most of all upon two other features: (1) how wide and deep is the volume of history that reaches him, that is, how abundant and coherent are the values that have been accumulated in the history he inherits and (2) how deep is the communion he is able to have with other persons who embody these meanings accumulated through a long sequence of generations.

It would appear that Hartshorne is here depending, in effect, if not in so many words, upon something like the distinction made in the Thomistic theory of analogy between what is meant by an analogical term (the res significata) and how the term means (its modus significandi)(Thomas Aquinas 1964, 56 - 59, 66 - 71).

These symbolic terms all cohere and relate together, depending upon one another for their full meaning and often being defined in terms of one another.

In other words, each man's understanding of what love means for him would depend upon his understanding of love in the abstract.

18:21 - 22) That means, if forgiveness is to be real, there is no question of commensurable achievements upon which the petitioner depends and bases a claim; the petition for forgiveness must be made by men who wholly renounce all claim.

The efficient causal influences provide the means whereby actualization occurs, but the way in which they may be integrated can vary, depending upon the complexity of the situation.

Depending upon the context of the passage however, the authors either use the word «rhinoceros» if the intent was to speak of two horns, or «unicornis» if the intent was to mean a singular horn.

God is God — and by God we mean no mere stream of tendency, no evolutionary influence, no compendious noun to describe the sum of human good will, but the one almighty and eternal Reality upon whom we depend both for our being and our continued existence, whether or not we are believers in Him, worshipers of Him, or doers of His Will.

The very meaning of simultaneity is made to depend upon them.

It seeks to answer the question, «What is the meaning and truth of the Christian assertions that God is love, that love to God and the neighbor are the two great commandments, that the fulfillment of human love depends upon God's action of reconciliation, and that the love of God is the ground of all hope?»

The nature of the process depends upon the nature of the beings who communicate and the means of transmission employed.

He wrote, «I can not understand what meaning can be assigned to the distance of the sun from Sirius if the very nature of space depends upon causal intervening objects which we know nothing about» (R 58).

But the meanings of things depend upon people and their relationship to other people and things.

The vulnerability of God [189] means that the issue of His love as triumph or tragedy depends upon His creation.

When the religious thought of the ancient world from Mesopotamia to Palestine, and from Palestine to Egypt, required terms to express that ultimate unity of direction in the universe, upon which all order depends, and which gives meaning to importance, they could find no better way to express themselves than by borrowing the characteristics of the touchy, vain, imperious tyrants who ruled the empires of the world.

The answer will depend upon what is meant by «harm» and «communicate.»

In that case the outcome of an occasion would be prior to its origin, even though the origin is temporally earlier, since like all other phases the initial phase depends upon the completed occasion But if this is not so, what is the additional meaning assigned to prior and subsequent which is not discoverable in the concept of an order of dependence?

Phases depend upon the completed occasion in the sense that they can not come into being apart from the whole, but this does not mean that the phases are constituted as to their nature by their relationship to the satisfaction.

The laity's participation in the church's preaching will depend both upon the meanings they find in their lives and upon their ability to live in the world reflectively.

The values that we cherish and that give our lives whatever meaning they may have seem to depend for their precarious existence upon the sensitivity of evaluators.

It is possible because the extended meaning depends, not upon the original environment presupposed for the original meaning, but upon a different environment presupposed for the stretched meaning.

Hence the role of metaphor in explanation depends not only upon analogy, but also upon the more detailed specification of the presupposed environment brought about in the stretching of meaning by the metaphorical use of language.

The concepts «morality» and «moral development,» however much meaning and justification they may have in other connections, are excluded for Jesus, because he sees man in the crisis of decision, and because for him the concepts «good» and «bad» depend upon the will of God.

The weight to be assigned to this consideration depends upon what is meant by «the fact» of the resurrection.

The meaning of this reported remark depends upon what one understands by «orthodoxy».