So far removed is
this mode of existence from the natural man that it is quite literally worse for him than simply dying.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
These represent the various facets
of the baptismal experience that liberate one
from despair and thrust one into a new
mode of existence.
For it is demonstrable that our bodies
of flesh and blood will be dissolved, and that in whatever
mode of existence we may be raised
from death it will not be by either the resuscitation
of this mortal body or its transformation — unless, indeed, we follow the speculations
of some
of the Fathers concerning the reassembling, by God,
of the dispersed molecules
of the flesh, which I am not inclined to do.
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.»
The essence
of the demoniac
mode of existence is anxiety before the good, a shrinking back
from the redemption which God offers in the person
of Jesus Christ.
Concluding the study with Christian
existence implies the judgment that despite the great variety
of modes of existence that have appeared, and despite the great distance that separates us
from primitive Christianity, a single structure is expressed in the whole
of Christian history.
Man (Adam) and Woman (Eve) chose rather to disobey God by eating
from the Tree
of Knowledge
of Good and Evil, thus changing the «perfect»
mode of existence of man to the «flawed»
mode of existence of man.
Yet this pure
mode's very
existence is denied often and, at the same time, its characteristics become «bad»
from the culture's point
of view.
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.
For it is demonstrable that our bodies
of flesh and blood will be dissolved, and that in whatever
mode of existence we may be raised
from death it will not be by either the resuscitation
of this mortal body or its transformation.»
However, this «new kind
of reality,» who is Jesus, is an emergent manifestation
of God in human life emanating
from within creation: «a unique manifestation
of apossibility always inherently there for human beings by virtue
of their potential nature being created by God... a new
mode of human
existence emerged through Jesus» openness to God making him a God informed human being» (ibid).
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.
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).
It is «the task
of hermeneutics to disentangle
from the «world»
of the texts their implicit «project» for
existence, their indirect «proposition»
of new
modes of being... Hermeneutics has finished its job when it has opened the eyes and the ears, i.e., when it has displayed before our imagination the figures
of our authentic
existence.
For Bultmann, one must cut himself off
from all past forms
of religious security before a truly Christian
mode of existence can be realized.
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.»
For him, symbols and concepts do not represent two parallel lines
of approach which ought to criticize each other, one arising
from existence and the other
from reason, but they are two stages
of a hierarchy whose levels express successive
modes through which the mind seeks to grasp the transcendent One.
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.
This is also the spirituality
of the poor, derived
from their closeness to the earth and the sea, and their communication
mode of existence.
In fact, at the final metaphysical level, one should want the richest ontology possible, because each thing that is omitted
from the ontology is a thing whose possible
mode of existence is no longer subject to inquiry.
Initially operating in «stealth
mode» — without announcement
of its
existence — Moderna's team screened mRNA assembled
from various modified nucleosides and hit on one called 1 - methylpseudouridine.
Apart
from new
modes and content, the game's very
existence does raise further questions about just what we will be getting thus Autumn. Considering Microsoft published the sequel on the 360, just how much
of Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 will be a port
of the original and how much will be a complete remake based on proprietary PS3 code?