Beyond the music and beyond its performance, the future and
mode of existence of a city, and society as a whole, are in motion.
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.
Such an ontology formed the basis for the Enlightenment and now governs the completely profane
mode of existence of modern scientific man.
It is
this mode of existence of a society which justifies the disciplines of sociology and economics.
Not exact matches
The best way to avoid this «paycheck - to - paycheck»
mode of existence is to set up a saving's account
of ideas.
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.
There are, in fact, mutually exclusive, even contradictory,
modes of existence.
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.
This view defines Christian faith in terms
of continuity in a
mode of existence, while recognizing the constantly new intellectual task
of articulating doctrines required and supported by it.
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.
These represent the various facets
of the baptismal experience that liberate one from despair and thrust one into a new
mode of existence.
There is then no contradiction in supposing that a being whose
existence is necessary may nevertheless alter in some respects in the
mode of that
existence.
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.
Are we saying that, however mysterious and inexplicable the event may be, Jesus was actually made alive, in a new and glorious
mode of existence, although he had really died and been buried?
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.
They would track down evasion into its hidden ways, they would expose every attempt to simulate, they would bring the reader into the very inmost demands
of existence within the religious
mode.
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.
So in I Corinthians, having asked how the dead are raised, he attempts to answer the question by saying, on the one hand, that there is some kind
of real, though indefinable, continuity between our present bodily
mode of existence and the life beyond death, and, on the other, that there is discontinuity also.
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.
It does this by highlighting the peculiar nature
of God's
mode of existence.
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.
This, in turn, must mean that the being and the becoming
of an actual entity are two different
modes of its
existence.
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.
Through the latter
mode of existence every actual entity achieves «objective immortality.»
The book moves back to the judge's childhood and youth, marked by his dead mother's absence; his father's stroke, damaged speaking ability, and death; his courtship; and his professional advancement built on his father's political connections, while moving forward to encompass his wife's stroke and subsequent decline and his effort to sustain his self - sufficient
mode of existence while mourning her death.
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.»
«Hypostasis» is more than a mask or
mode of appearance; it points to the individual
existence of a particular nature.
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.
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.
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.
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.
God is alive, and Christ is alive in God, in whatever
mode or manner is appropriate to God's way
of remembering and treasuring the achievements wrought out in creation and among men and women in their concrete
existence.
So far removed is this
mode of existence from the natural man that it is quite literally worse for him than simply dying.
This situation in which the destiny
of man hangs in the balance is the ultimate call for new
modes of Christian
existence.
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?
Further, in the primitive church, in the Middle Ages, and today, there is great diversity
of modes of Christian
existence.
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.
The existentialists are describing the several
modes of existence among which modern man chooses, but the possibility
of choosing among just these
modes is itself the product
of a history.
The basic
modes of thought and
existence that even today compete for our attention and loyalty, he argues, arose in that period.
He believed this loyalty was to be found in the past, in the wilderness period, and in addition to theological orthodoxy he thus instituted an ascetic
mode of life (no drinking
of wine, no holding
of property, a nomadic
existence) in order to restore the conditions under which Israel lived in the desert, which were favorable to loyalty to the one God and which were also a witness to confidence in God.
But in the former
mode, where intrapsychic structures
of existence are in view, spiritual
existence can not be transcended.
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.
The sharp distinction
of Homeric and Socratic structures within the great diversity
of modes of existence in Greece is a gross, but hopefully helpful, simplification.
May I be forgiven for thinking that
mode of modern European
existence has been well assimilated by the arrested terrorists?