Sentences with phrase «more on the immortality»

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint - Germain collection focuses less on the blood - drinking and more on the immortality of her vampire as he moves through time in a series which could easily double as historical fantasy.

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Still, as we get into the Phaedo, particularly its claim for the soul's immortality, it dawns on several of my more thoughtful students that the body is merely the temporary repository of a soul that may go on to inhabit any number of other beings (even donkeys!)

Nothing Paul wrote shows his great gifts as a pastor more clearly than these letters, and his words on spiritual gifts in I Corinthians 12 and 13 and his ode to immortality in I Corinthians 15 are among the finest things in all literature.

McCabe had already said in an earlier talk on «The Immortality of the Soul» that «the subsistence of the soul has no more content» for Aquinas than that «a man has an operation by his soul which is not an operation of the body».

At the time Thornton had closely read The Concept of Nature (1920) and Principles of Natural Knowledge (2d edition, 1925), tended to interpret Science and the Modern World (1925) in line with these earlier works, and was acquainted with Religion in the Making (1926) though somewhat unsure what to make of its doctrine of God.2 He took comfort in Whitehead's remark concerning the immortality of the soul, and evidently wanted to apply it to all theological issues: «There is no reason why such a question should not be decided on more special evidence, religious or otherwise, provided that it is trustworthy.

Without denying this objective immortality, David Griffin has examined the possibility of subjective survival more positively, 4 and John Cobb has speculated about the possible interpenetration of such souls in the hereafter in ways that overcome their possible self - centeredness.5 Marjorie Suchocki has also explored ways in which we may live on in God which are quite different from these conceptions of the immortality of the soul.6

In a poem written in 1912 (when I was 14), I presuppose a conventional idea of heaven, but after encountering Whitehead on objective immortality I felt that nothing more was needed.

The latter involves believing in supernatural beings and one's own immortality in one form or another, based on nothing more than old books and one's fear of their own death.

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Struggling with its immortality, a discarded plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) ventures on an epic journey through the environmentally barren remains of America where it encounters strange creatures, brief love in the sky, a colony of prophetic torn bags on a fence and more as it searches for its maker.

«Pocket God Comics issue No. 1 «The Gem of Life — Part One» starts with Ooga questioning the Gods and their relentless Pygmy pounding, but the gods strike back, taking away the gift of immortality bestowed upon the islanders and forcing Ooga and the gang on a dangerous mission to recharge the Gem of Life, which fades a little more with each new Pygmy death,» stated a press release issued by the comic creators.

Bestselling author and Scientific American columnist Michael Shermer does a fine job of it — and much more — in his absorbing 15th book, Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia.

More than a dozen classic games passed this first test on their way to video game immortality, which were selected from thousands of nominations that poured in from gamers all across the world.

Even more emphatic on this issue is the Immortality of Writers (end of the 19th dynasty, ~ 1190BC).

Lara Croft becomes more than a survivor as she embarks on her first Tomb Raiding expedition to the most treacherous regions of Siberia, in search of the secret of immortality.

That is, they score higher on questions like, «It is important for me to write, create, or build something that will exist after my death;» insecure people do not show this tendency.6 In the fictional wizarding world, immortality is a bit more literal (ghosts and living portraits of the deceased), whereas in our world, we leave inanimate remnants behind (like diaries or photographs) to symbolize an eternal existence.