Sentences with phrase «modes of existence which»

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.

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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.

It is this mode of existence of a society which justifies the disciplines of sociology and economics.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

One of the «four factors which decisively govern the fate of social groups» according to his analysis, is «the iron compulsion of nature that the bodily necessities of food, clothing and shelter be provided».20 Whitehead continues: «The rigid limits which are thereby set to modes of social existence can only be mitigated by the growth of an understanding by which the interplay between man and the rest of nature can be adjusted.»

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.

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.

Existence is the mode of being which consists in interaction with other things in a class.

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

Change in the historical situation may give to an enduring theoretical doctrine a mode of real existence and features which can render pointless the effective objections to it, which were directed against the actual reality rather than the abstract proposition.

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.

Everything works together to lead «the called - one» to this understanding: earthly and heavenly powers, the natural and physical modes of existence, the driving psychical powers, the inner impulse and outer guidance, the perception of the world and its experiences, the secret revelation which lies in the consciousness of his own being.

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.

By the course of trade, by the existence and technology of trade, and by the mode in which

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.

The power of transformation - or, the very point at which one entity shifts its mode of existence and becomes another - is the underlying theme in this exhibition.

He collaborates with communities connected to places of production to generate site - specific performances to camera which explore the role sound plays in creating a sense of collectivity, highlighting alternative modes of human existence, work and action.

What these complaints seem to relate to is the existence of a mode of communication between climate sceptics, through which pointless and made up stories are passed, published, and, by repetition, the profile of these stories is raised in the public mind.