Sentences with phrase «means of experiencing personal»

Although they may choose such acts as means of experiencing personal intimacy, the resulting experience is not and can not be the experience of any real unity between them; it is not and can not be the experiencing of a common good attained in and through an act of bodily union.

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They may have achieved this position from a variety of means including a greater knowledge or experience base, exclusivity in a particular market, lower product pricing, better service options or even superior personal relationships — with special emphasis on the word «personal.»

The appointment of even one SEC Commissioner with significant experience as a state securities regulator would dramatically improve coordination between state and federal securities authorities and bring a perspective informed by experiences from Main Street America where investor protection is personal and capital formation means real jobs.

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That means that each of us has to find out personally for ourselves and make our conclusions based on our own personal findings and our own personal experiences.

Making education contextual means recognizing that 1) theology involves responding to the living God in diverse human situations; 2) theology involves specific practices as much as it does religious concepts and experiences; and 3) theological education requires attention to personal formation and not simply the learning of specialized lore and skills.

@If horses... You might not believe the evidence for God's existence is compelling - e.g., the existence of the universe; the beginning of the universe; the fine tuning of the universe for life; the realm of objective moral value; the facts surrounding Jesus of Nazareth; personal experience of God; etc - but that does not mean there is «no evidence.»

It is this kind of experience which perhaps best explains the meaning of the traditional term «eternal life» — which is now not conceived as an extension in time of our personal existence but as a new dimension of existence into which one can enter during his natural life.

As I am aware that many are promoting a popular view that has been rationalized by whatever means, however you have failed to provide a shred of the emperical proof you claim, and as far as personal experiences, my point exactly has been that they exist in the realm of feeling and emotion, which any rational person would willingly admit is often self - deceptive.....

By «personal existence» Cobb means a certain way of experiencing.

I approach the Bible in all three connections as the communication of doctrine from God; as the instrument of Jesus Christ's personal authority over Christians (which is part of what I mean in calling it canonical; as the criterion of truth and error regarding God and godliness; as wisdom for the ordering of life and food for spiritual growth; and, thus, as the mystery - that is, the transcendent supernatural reahty - whereby encounter and fellowship with the Father and the Son become realities of experience.

Our clue is that if the atonement means God doing what needs to be done to reconcile the world to himself, then the human experiences which may reflect this work of God must be those of personal reconciliation.

Like Berger, Bellah has in mind the need for an overarching sense of meaning, but the symbols Bellah discusses seem not so exclusively to consist of «theoretical traditions,» as Berger describes them, but of anecdotes, images, pictures, connotatively rich names and places, rituals, and personal experiences.

(But when people start telling us why they think being gay is harmful, I'm not sure that will end the yelling — it's much more personal and could be even more heated as we feel slurred by people who have no first, and sometimes even no second - hand, experience of what it means and what it is like to be gay.)

So questions that impinge upon our contemporary personal experience of selfhood, community, racism, sexuality, good and evil, and meaning may form the structure for films of great religious power.

Thus does John Updike report on Wilmot's abrupt and irreversible deconversion experience at the outset of In the Beauty of the Lilies, a four - generation saga which is partly a fictional version of Updike's family history, partly an account of the decline of religious faith in America, and partly a reflection of Updike's own angry, personal struggle to find religious meaning.

They may not have personal experience of what other Christians mean when they talk about «friendship with God,» or of «intimacy through mutual ministry in the church.»

About God there is considerable doubt and uncertainty, not only in the secular world but in Christian circles as well, with various attempts to preserve the meaning and value of God for human experience without the personal God of historic Christian faith.

I have personal knowledge of God... that is something Yo ucannot take away from me... you can not disprove... just cause You cant find proof doesn't mean I cant either... God is consistent... as I said it is a personal experience... I can tell when it is satan..

But when Hartshorne says that «reality is the succession of units» (b), meaning thereby the succession of actual entities or «experient occasions,» I must ask whether this statement can be rendered coherent with personal self - conscious experience.

In the Old Testament's treatment of the problem of suffering are some of the most notable expressions in literature of ethical insight into the meaning of retribution, profound faith in the ultimate justice of God, personal courage in accepting trouble as self - discipline, spiritual understanding of vicarious sacrifice, and religious experience of a trustworthy God; and, accompanying all these, the refrain of the disillusioned also, «Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.»

Great to have people dedicating their lives to seeking God and sharing their experiences with the rest of us, but a long tradition of seeing those people as either infallible, or personal servants is going to mean that people expect, and demand, far more than that... or else.

Here's how I understand the meanings of those terms: Scripture: writing, usually pertaining to religion The Bible: anthology of specifically Christian - oriented religious scripture The Word of God: 1) words actually spoken or written by God 2) God's spirit, consciousness, creative will and / or «being» («Logos,» as used in the Gospel of John) God - inspired: 1) resulting from a consideration of God 2) resulting from a personal experience of God.

In the loose interface between physical data and vivid personal experience — that «space» identified as mind (Gordon Rattrey Taylor, The Natural History of the Mind [Dutton, 19791)-- we find clues to the human meaning of human presence.

Taking personal experiences, seeing social injustice, wondering about the meaning of life and what happens after death and writing about it with villains and hero's and moral conclusions as per their specific cultures.

Such a strong emphasis on personal experience alarms some religious thinkers, but for you such experience seems to mean more to the person of our time than it ever did before.

Of course, they need to have experience in relevant kinds of «doing,» whether in personal living or in church activities, in order to have at hand the «doing» whose meaning is to be examined critically and theoreticallOf course, they need to have experience in relevant kinds of «doing,» whether in personal living or in church activities, in order to have at hand the «doing» whose meaning is to be examined critically and theoreticallof «doing,» whether in personal living or in church activities, in order to have at hand the «doing» whose meaning is to be examined critically and theoretically.

If the aborted child seems forgotten in Nathanson's focus on her own suffering, that is only a temporary lapse; the child is, after all, another means to self - actualization: motherhood envisioned as an «unparalleled peak of the mountain» of personal experience.

It suggests that we use the poor stuff of that which is closest to us — our personal and social experience — in order to express the meaning of our encounter with that which is holy.

First, it would seem to need to use some body of critical social theory as a tool to help unmask and analyze unjust distributions of power; and second, it would seem to need rigorous and critical reflection, such as is found in the second position, to examine what it means to say that we experience God in experiences of personal relationship and indeed how that could be possible.

And just as (to use a very coarse figure) the stubs remain in a check - book whenever a check is used, to register the transaction, so these impressions on the transcendent self might constitute so many vouchers of the finite experiences of which the brain had been the mediator; and ultimately they might form that collection within the larger self of memories of our earthly passage, which is all that, since Locke's day, the continuance of our personal identity beyond the grave has by psychology been recognized to mean.

But giving no place to the notion of prehending God's consequent nature means, I think, leaving unused good opportunities offered by Whitehead's system, not only for understanding the personal experiences mentioned above, but also expressly for the understanding of certain crucial experiences which transcend personality.47

It means that all that I have lived, experienced, and done «in my body» — and that is everything I do, experience, and live — is so much a part of my total self that in the re-creation of that self by God there is some continuing instrument or organ of experience which makes possible for me both personal existence and also participation with other men and life in a world which is more than just personality.

and the next experience a serious bout of teeth chattering because you are way under dressed (this is by no means based on personal experience).

«It was my first Duck game at Autzen Stadium my freshman year, which meant it was the first time I walked the footbridge from campus to the stadium and the first time I experienced the wall of Autzen sound when Joey Harrington led a comeback win against the Trojans late in the fourth to seal a win, ultimately leading me down my personal and professional college football path.»

And because so much of it is personally skewed to the anecdotal — which means the stories are often played out in case - by - case scenarios — our personal experiences often seem trumped by the assumption that they are, in fact, universal.

While online petitions can at times be an effective means of gathering support for some issues, Mass Audubon's experience is that emailing and calling legislators and the Governor's office is a more personal, timely, and direct method of requesting action.

Greater information and research on what can make for an easier labor and pain management experience also means women are more in control than ever of their personal comforts during childbirth.

Although I TOTALLY agree that you need to make sure to enjoy the celebration of You as a Mother on Mother's Day, and not just cater to all those other Mothers, I can tell you from personal experience that these hustle bustle busy Mother's days with all the Mother participants are the ones that mean the most — When they are someday gone, and you get Mother's day all to yourself it will not be like these Mother's days, where the strength of love and connections are so gloriously present in the chaos!

By means of her education, life - changing personal experiences, and sincere desire to share her message, Karen has been able to guide thousands toward developing excellent health.

Whether you are Jamie Oliver trying to show support for breastfeeding and rightly recognising a genuine problem — that women who want to breastfeed in this country often face barriers that mean they can't — or a new mother just blogging or tweeting about her personal experiences, speaking out puts you in the direct path of the opinion juggernaut which careers headlong into anyone who dares to take a stand on either side of the polarised infant feeding debate.

I can attest from personal experience that he could be one mean SOB, but that kind of behavior is permitted under the rules of the game in New York.»

As a result of your personal experience in closing down a corruption investigation known as the Moreland Commission and your experience in hiring a criminal defense attorney, you know what it means to be accused of possibly being in violation of the law.

«The counterintuitive finding that extremely difficult experiences can sometimes also be very meaningful experiences is consistent with what we see in our studies with psilocybin — that resolution of a difficult experience, sometimes described as catharsis, often results in positive personal meaning or spiritual significance,» Griffiths says.

«Excessive stimulation of 5 - HT2A receptors seems to underlay the experience of loosening of self / ego boundaries, disrupted self - referential processing and thus the related impairment of making meaning and attributing personal relevance to percepts and experiences seen in various psychiatric disorders,» she says.

«We found that personal meaning attribution and its modulation by LSD is mediated by the 5 - HT2A receptors and cortical midline structures that are also crucially involved in enabling the experience of a sense of self.»

While many of the posts focus on her family's personal experiences (meaning they may not be right for everyone), this is a great place to read about their journey and find out what has and has not worked for Jennifer's children.

I am not a self - proclaimed authority by any means on this topic but I can say from the personal experience of drastically altering my diet from very animal based to plant based I have seen incredible results.

Sometimes I think people write about weight loss and yet have no personal experience with what it means to try and eat less (starve yourself) and exercise more for the sole purpose of losing weight.

Some call these problems «gut issues», and others «a weak stomach», but regardless of the nomenclature, my personal experience was a loud and clear reminder: arriving at a starting line ready to race at 100 % of your capabilities means taking care of your gut, especially during race week.