Sentences with phrase «mode of thinking from»

But whereas Hartshorne approached the problems of spanning these two modes of thought from a background in philosophy, I come to them from a background in science.

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«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

Borrowing from the work of sociologist Donald Miller, Wells sees «postmodern spirituality» at work in emerging, extra-denominational «new paradigm churches» characterized by three modes of thinking» the therapeutic, the individualistic, and the anti-establishmentarian.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

Perspectival analysis has had the concern to open us to the truth and value of modes of thought and expression that differ from our own.

Again, we may notice that the model used to picture God in much popular religious talk, and in some theological talk too, was borrowed, as Whitehead noted in his Modes of Thought (Free Press, 1968, p. 49), from «the characteristics of the touchy, vain, imperious tyrants who ruled the empires of the world.»

One can not understand Edward Irving's turn to premillennialism, in my view, apart from an effort to interpret the world in light of Coleridge's use of symbolic modes of thinking.

Is not this whole mode of thought simply part of the evil legacy from deism, in which God was conceived as being absent from his world, and in which therefore he must be thought to «intrude» into his world, to «intervene» in it, whenever he would act in any distinctive and particular way?

Although the mode of thinking here is radically different from that of modern metaphysics, by following the lead of the new physics, it converges toward the latter in countering the positivism and the practically oriented modernism following from Darwinian evolution, with its stress upon «environmentalism» and «functionalism» as modes of adaptation within a secularized immediacy, an immediacy shorn of depth and ultimacy.

It would be misleading to say that the challenge of the unknown was wholly absent from this modernistic mode of thought.

To focus entirely on paradigmatic modes of thought is to pull away from attending to consciousness, and therefore, to the human act of sense - making.

First, it is trying to articulate how contemporary rock seems to be in a pattern of Perpetual Repetition, but how that mode is different from the Retro Rock and Roll stance that arose in the late 70s / early 80s — this is very much a response to, or a working out of my own thinking in the light of, Simon Reynolds» fine book Retromania.

Nevertheless, influenced by more atomistic modes of thinking inherited from the Greeks, many Christians came to think of the self as a soul isolated from the body and cut off from the world by the boundaries of the skin, an immortal substance in a perishable body.

It would appear from the reactions of these two highly competent philosophers that Whitehead's attempt to return to a pre-Kantian, even pre-Cartesian, mode of thought was obviously not compatible with Husserl's desire to develop a fully consistent transcendental philosophy on the basis of Descartes and Kant.

Although he does not speak specifically of prototaxic, parataxic, and syntaxic modes of experience, the same sequential patterns are reflected in his description of the first cycle of intellectual progress, which runs «from the achievement of perception to the acquirement of language, and from the acquirement of language to classified thought and keener perception» (AE 31).

From the perspective of process modes of thought, there is but one fundamental datum on which religious experience is based: the generic contrast between the individual and the community, or, more metaphysically, the one and the many.

Given such a diagnosis, the field of natural (or «foundational») theology assumes an inescapable importance, especially when approached from the perspective of process modes of thought.

The split between rational and mythic discourse which has characterized our recent cultural history is very dangerous for it impoverishes both modes of thought.13 It is one of the possible benefits of the current new appreciation of the meaning and function of myth that we may be able to rescue it from the realm of unconscious fantasy where it always continues to operate, often in dark and devious ways, and restore it once again to its creative role in human consciousness.

Our most venerable doctrinal formulations contain elements derived not only from Judaism, but also from Gnosticism, Platonism, Stoicism, Aristotelianism, and other modes of thought, most of them unfamiliar to Jesus and his immediate disciples.

Perhaps it was inevitable that the first major departure from neo-orthodoxy was a drastic swing in the opposite direction, an acquiescence to contemporary modes of thought and a denial of transcendence and revelation.

A careful reading of the many passages in which Whitehead criticizes the substance - quality mode of thought leads one inevitably to his thesis that it is derived (at least in part) from a «misapprehension» of the true status of «presentational immediacy» (PR 95f.

The sensationalist principle, like the substance - quality mode of thought, is derivative from a misapprehension of the status of presentational immediacy (PR 119 ff., 179, 240, 263 - 66, 383, 387 - 89; AI, chapter 14, section IV; see IWE, chapters 1 and 2).

Recall, also from Modes of Thought, that Whitehead lamented the fact that there are traps in the pursuit of learning.

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.

By working out a neoclassical theory of nonliteral religious discourse consistent with his neoclassical theism generally, he has not only overcome the notorious contradictions involved in classical theism's use of analogy and other modes of nonliteral language, he has also given good reasons for thinking that our distinctively modern reflection about God results from two movements of thought, not simply from one.

It is because there is a legitimate thought of the unconditioned that the transcendental illusion is possible; this latter does not proceed from the projection of the human into the divine but, on the contrary, from the filling - in of the thought of the unconditioned according to the mode of the empirical object.

But apart from the teaching about sheol, borrowed or inherited from more primitive modes of religious thought, the Jew at least was prepared to recognize the full reality of death.

From the beginning, Christians have been called upon to give an account of their faith in terms of contemporary modes of thought (for example, 1 Peter 3:15).

For a believer thinking in a process - relational mode, Christ is both act of God and emergent from the evolutionary process.

Whether these efforts provided the centripetal force for a new «school» per se is open to various modes of interpretation, but the attention to the Whiteheadian system and its many implications, to interdisciplinary routes of inquiry, to the latest insights from the emerging sciences, and to process - relational modes of thinking identified Chicago with a progressivism and excitement in theological study which many found appealing.

Nothing is further from the spirit of the sages than the idea of an autonomy of thinking, a humanism of the good life; in short, of a wisdom in the Stoic or Epicurean mode founded on the self - sufficiency of thought.

It is possible in the mood of worship to enter into the «feel» of the words, and without compromise of mental integrity find in them not only a reservoir of truth from the past but a challenge to discover more acceptable modes of thought.

We are shifting from an ontology of «substance,» he says, to one of «event,» and this moves the postmodern West away from authoritarian modes of thinking and guides us toward those that encourage freedom.

If this is so, then the issue becomes not one of distinguishing those modes of human thought and experience which are «aesthetic» in character from those which are not, but one of evaluating and comparing (insofar as this can be done) different experiences with diverse textures and degrees of aesthetic intensity.

This complacency, which Cobb acknowledges with his typical candor (supra), was being encouraged by Ford, albeit unconsciously, even before my use of the systematic approach had produced a significantly new interpretation of Whitehead's metaphysics — one gleaned from all of Whitehead's books from The Principles of Natural Knowledge to Modes of Thought, and one which, whatever its merits are finally judged to be, constitutes a strong, thoroughly argued, and well - documented challenge to the whole range of traditional interpretations.

The transition from archaic to axial modes of thought had occurred in India without a sharp break.

In both relativity theory and quantum theory, modes of thought are required that are totally different from those appropriate to everyday affairs.

He introduces a change of direction in his theoretical development, which distances him from the dualistic modes of thought of the Continental tradition and from the conventional common sense feeling of plausibility.

Theology differs from such modes of thinking about God and man because it is a pure science, disinterested as all pure science is disinterested, seeking to put aside all extraneous, private and personal interests while it concentrates on its objects for their own sake only.

The manner in which religious consciousness expresses its intimation of such an ultimate context of meaning is primarily through symbolic and mythic modes of thought and language which differ from culture to culture.

Part of me still thinks I am in recovering mode from last season.

FYI — those «ordinary» players: Dennis Bergkamp (already hailed as one of the best players to come from Holland in the Cryuff mode, a UEFA cup winner and current Dutch international), Campbell (England international and one of the top CBs in the country — whilst at Spurs), Jens Lehmann (German international), Robin van Persie (Bergkamps hier apparent whist at Feynoord), Frederick Ljunberg (established Swedish internation — actually playing more as a # 10 i think), Gilberto Silva (Ever heard of the World Cup?

Adults who are veterans of youth sports can also learn from the training programs, which help to rid sports programs of outdated and unhealthy modes of thinking.

So it's time end this «Phil and Teds Dot Stroller Review» & you can get everything you expect in a stroller for your baby, I know there are few things to think about which is not up to the mark but according to me the priority features are good enough like weight, safety, durability, double mode options, luxuries look & Phil and Teds has 1 - year warranty from the original date of purchase and you have to be the original owner.

«For many high school students, especially in the City of Buffalo, that's the only mode of transportation to and from school, and to have them exposed to such a product, even though it's legal... I think it's unfortunate,» Grant told WBFO News.

Anytime you are considering moving from one mode of thinking to another, especially one as radically different from the problem - solving mode as this classical one is, it helps to have a few ideas that will get you thinking in this new way.

You must put yourself into the kind of creative thinking mode that you'll need to «start from zero.»

Now stop and think about how different this chain of events is from the traditional Web mode of following simple links between static pages.

«In our culture, we're always encouraged to practice concentrating,» she tells me, «but we're discouraged from the wide - ranging modes of thought we experience in solitude.»

The construct mode requires being able to think in generalities, or to imagine events from another's point of view.