Sentences with phrase «mode of existence as»

It needs to be noted that two distinct claims have been made here: First, that God is a conscious and self - conscious being; and second, that there is an aspect of God that relates to us in our mode of existence as conscious personal beings, and that we can appropriately relate back to God only in this same way.

Quoting an ancient Christian hymn in Philippians 2:5 - 8, Paul describes Jesus» mode of existence as a self - emptying and calls Christians to embrace this lifestyle.

Not exact matches

They say then that it is more simple to believe at once in the eternal pre-existence of the world, as it is now going on, and may for ever go on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness, than to believe in the eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause, or Creator of the world, a being whom we see not, and know not, of whose form substance and mode or place of existence, or of action no sense informs us, no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend.

Every people has its culture, whether primitive or advanced, and this culture is discerned in the folkways and moral standards, forms of family life, economic enterprises, laws and modes of dealing with lawbreakers, forms of recreation, religion, art, education, science, and philosophy that constitute the social aspects of human existence as contrasted with the bare biological fact of living.

One response to this situation is to understand Christianity as the creation in history of a new and in some sense final mode of human existence.

Glorious Lord Christ: the divine influence secretly diffused and active in the depths of matter, and the dazzling centre where all the innumerable fibres of the manifold meet; power as implacable as the world and as warm as life; you whose forehead is of the whiteness of snow, whose eyes are of fire, and whose feet are brighter than molten gold; you whose hands imprison the stars; you who are the first and the last, the living and the dead and the risen again; you who gather into your exuberant unity every beauty, every affinity, every energy, every mode of existence; it is you to whom my being cried out with a desire as vast as the universe, «In truth you are my Lord and my God.»

In Romans, Barth said that the Word of God can be uttered only when the predicate Deus revelatus has as its subject Deus absconditus31 The vast ocean of so - called reality that is the profane world of a completely autonomous mode of human existence has left the island of the sacred completely submerged.

Nevertheless, the modern artist, by inverting or reversing our mythical traditions, has disclosed a totally immanent mode of existence banished even from the memory of transcendence, and created a comprehensive vision of a new and total nothingness which Blake named as Ulro, or Hell.

For as «forms of definiteness,» «eternal objects» are, by their very mode of existence, «Pure Potentials for the Specific Determination of Fact.»

It is not merely some one part of our make - up which will be brought to life again: naked, as it were, and without any mode of self - identification and self - expression corresponding, in a spiritual existence, to the physical body in our earthly existence.

It must be said, of course, in order not to blur the fallacy in Bergson's method, that he chose intuition as being a mode of apprehension most appropriate to a concern with internal relations precisely because he failed to note or to acknowledge the structural or contextual character of such relations as an external pattern of existence as well.

Insofar as one partakes of this deepened mode of modern consciousness, one is made aware of depths and nuances in the complexities of man's existence which at once sober one with the limits of man's reason and perceptive powers, and awaken one to the very dimensions of experience to which the themes of the Christian faith bear witness.

If we ask what he means by «it», he can not precisely tell us; but he is evidently groping after the idea that «we», that is our personalities, will be re-made by God for a different mode of existence from that of the flesh - and - blood body, and yet that in some way we shall retain our identity and be the same personalities as those which now live in the mode of physical beings.

Time - space existence, therefore, as the arena of man's contact with the divine, is not a deficient mode of being, it is not illusory.

The problem that is raised by Hartshorne's understanding of God's mode of existence, granting his view that God is not (as with Whitehead) a single occasion but a series of occasions, seems to be rather the question of what makes this series necessary and so unending.

Personhood is God's mode of existence, and since God's mode of existence, in Hartshorne's view, encompasses all possible and actual modes of existence, 19 one would think that this commitment fairly well establishes Hartshorne as a personalist, at least in his metaphysics.

In contrast stands the more basic perception in the mode of causal efficacy; which «is our general sense of existence, as one item among others in an efficacious external world» and «of derivation from an immediate past, and of passage to an immediate future»; its data «are vague, not to be controlled, heavy with emotion.»

In the most complete way possible, we may dare to say, we have the assurance of life in and with God, in the mode which preserves both the integrity of the divine nature as Love and also the value and worth of our finite human existence.

One may understand the personality of God as His act — it is, indeed, even permissible for the believer to believe that God became a person for love of him, because in our human mode of existence the only reciprocal relation with us that exists is a personal one.

And if there is no metaphysical necessity in the process by which intellect came into concrete existence, and none in the story one tells about that process, then how can any of the features or modes of the intellect (e.g., that it distorts reality) be treated as having any greater necessity?

Not only are the stages of preaxial development treated only formally and the axial cultures of China and Persia wholly omitted, but also developments in Greece and Palestine have been dealt with schematically in such a way as to ignore other modes of existence which took shape within them.

But they appear to think that just this range of modes of existence is that within which man as man has always operated.

The conviction that there is a diversity of structures of existence as well as a diversity of modes of existence within each structure is partly a function of reflection on human differences and partly a function of a priori considerations.

But just as there are many modes of existence in which Buddhist, Homeric, Socratic, and prophetic existence have been embodied, so also there have been many modes of existence in which Christian existence has been embodied.

Science and metaphysics too, providing the latter is viewed as a natural mode of cognition and is not unconsciously supplemented by theological knowledge about God's saving action in the history of redemption, can each from their own angle quite well think of God as the transcendent ground of all reality, of its existence and of its becoming, as the primordial reality comprising everything, supporting everything, but precisely for that reason can not regard him as a partial factor and component in the reality with which we are confronted, nor as a member of its causal series.

Insofar as it is practical, reason demands completeness; but it believes in the mode of expectation, of hope, in the existence of an order where the completeness can be actual.

What distinguishes the structure of existence in Jesus» situation from that of the contemporary Christian can best be broached, Cobb suggests, through an analysis of the pronoun «I.» This «I,» we are told, is to be identified with both reason and the passions as the two dominant modes which have always characterized human psychic activity.

Hartshomne hails as Anselm's great discovery the ideas that God's mode of being is utterly unique in his perfection or unsurpassability and that contingent existence is inferior to necessary existence.72

The infinite mystery takes on the definiteness of finitude as its mode of actual existence.

But «we do not analyse cosmology from the perspective of an explicitly theistic stance based on some dogmatic propositions of God's existence; rather we proceed cautiously from what we call theological commitment as an existential, experiential mode of communion with God» (p. 24).

this sense the universe as articulated reality has existence and sense only in a mode of personhood, which is a divine gift» (p. 25).

Perception in the mode of causal efficacy understood as the interrelatedness of the universe as it impinges upon the individual without the specificity and clarity of presentational immediacy could yield an experience of an unqualifiable unity at the base of all existence as one perceived the actuality of concrescence.

Technology is, in essence, a mode of human existence...» [xvii] «It remains true, nonetheless, that man in the technological age is, in a particularly striking way, challenged forth into revealing» to the degree that such revealing «reveals the real as standing - reserve.»

Perhaps, it is best understood as that pneumopathology, that infection of the spirit, that inhibits and interrupts and acts on the transition of the modes of being from potentiality to actuality revealed in the mode of «time and temporal existence.»

Paul Tillich has described the new being as that mode of existence in which to participate is to have faith.

Second, Hartshorne, with the aid of his neoclassical metaphysics, was able to show the need for real modes of Being in which the distinctive type of Being in question makes a real difference, especially in relation to divinity, in opposition to Kant, for instance, who thoroughly disconnected modality from the content of the concept, and thus found himself left with but one mode, that of spatio - temporal existence, as the matter for knowledge.

That said, if the non-dust B - mode signal is as large as the BICEP2 researchers claim, it requires the existence of large - field inflation at an energy scale that unites the realms of quantum mechanics and general relativity.

The advert sees the True Detective actor in Rustin Cohle mode as he stares down a bull and philosophises over the nature of existence.

Their stable, idyllic existence, however, takes a major hit when Brooks (Chandler) drops in with Max's dream car, a cherry - red Corvette Stingray as his mode of operation.

Beyond the music and beyond its performance, the future and mode of existence of a city, and society as a whole, are in motion.

The other big draw in Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite is its Story mode, which follows an all - star cast of characters as they travel across around the amalgamation of universes to collect the Infinity Stones and stop the villainous Ultron Sigma, who is attempting to remake all of existence in his own image.

Multiplayer wise we know that you play as two Aperture science robots and you have to solve the puzzles as a team, both armed with portal devices, this could shape up to be one of the best co-op modes in existence.

Works such as Starling's that address the Anthropocene without leaning back on the clichéd shock imagery of disaster porn, planetary crisis, and dystopian tech - filled landscapes can begin to articulate, in quieter, more nuanced, and ultimately more effective modes, the racial politics, colonial histories, capitalist superstructures and Western notions of progress that underpin its entire existence.

Since we initially covered the existence of this feature, some users have been speculating that always on display mode may only ship with the second generation Google devices next month (though not with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 836 as initially reported).