Sentences with phrase «mystery aspect of»

The sometimes conflicting accounts of the facts sustain a great deal of interest, as do the unsolved mystery aspect of the case and the abundant use of evidence photos, location visits, and archival video clips.

The mystery aspect of the picture prevents me from going into specifics — except to say Kingsley has simply transcendent moments.

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Your company has invented and brought to market countless amazing things: life - changing medicines, new technologies that make virtually every aspect of our daily lives easier to manage, and even tools to probe the great mysteries of nature and human life.

I have never been a Calvinist but prefer to say that certain aspects of God's sovereignty and man's free will are mysteries to us here on earth.

He purposely left aspects of Donnie Darko a mystery, allowing viewers to fill in the blanks.

The more I ponder this mystery the more it assumes in my dreams the aspect of a «turning inward» of consciousness, an eruption of interior life, an ecstasy.

Rather the paper looks at one aspect only, that of symbolising mystery, though one might want to argue that it is too much neglected.

Unfortunately, he and / or his followers, notably including Luke and John, also threw in a few aspects of the Roman, Greek and Egyptian «mystery religions» so prevalent among the Gentiles of the day, who were his target audience.

There are indeed many intelligent, sincere, well - meaning people who say such things as: «Whatever the controversy, and however strong the scholarly arguments against it, I choose to believe in the supernatural aspects of my faith, simply because it is very important for me in the life of my faith to be radically aware of sacred mysteries.»

It is worth asking whether Mr. Davies stops short of revealed truth or is in fact pondering aspects of the mystery for which biblical faith provides a name.

I like the way Alan Hirsch describe the «message» of the Bible as being «simplex» simple because it can be understood by a child and an illiterate peasant complex, because we'll spend our entire life always discovering new aspects of it, and struggling to know more and more God and Jesus, and «the mystery» which Paul was running after (Phil 3)

They are aspects of a total life the mystery of which lies beyond our powers of analysis.

Religiousness in this broad sense of an encounter with «mystery» seems to be a most durable aspect of our human situation.

But if philosophical inquiry thus discovers contingent aspects in God's full actuality, it also discovers the intrinsic limits of its own inquiry into the mystery of God, for no amount of ingenious argument can deduce the concrete, historical character of that which happens to be, but which could have been otherwise.

One of the ironies of our situation is the fact that at the very time the church seems to have given up on its hope, an extraordinary resurgence of interest in religion, particularly in the non-rational aspects of religion, is being observed in groups as diverse as Marxists interested in eschatology and «cultured despisers» interested in the mystery of faith.

Silence prevents our anticipations of revelation from being dominated by our own predictions and keeps open to us the surprising aspects of mystery's promise.

And this is in great measure because the reality of an encompassing and incomprehensible mystery, which would be the only «whence» of revelation, is no longer an obvious aspect of everyone's experience.

Perhaps aspects of them, such as their ethical implications, may be compared, but as total approaches to mystery, to human existence, and to the world, it makes little sense to say that one is clearly better than another.

The religious motif of silence (the apophatic aspect of religions) has had the precise purpose of discouraging us from clinging to our religious symbols in so possessive a way that they no longer disclose the mystery of reality.

The character of mystery is mediated to human beings only by way of concrete aspects of the world.

You do come across as if you have no questions concerning the mystery and hidden aspect of Jesus» teachings of the Kingdom of God.

[9] The earlier Fathers typically wrote in response to current controversies, emphasizing whatever aspect of the Christian mystery seemed appropriate to the moment.

A theology which seeks to explain the Incarnation in terms of «from below to above» merits from Pope John Paul the withering criticism «inadequate, reductive and superficial» (Fides et Ratio 97) because it tries to view the Incarnation from a human philosophical perspective without taking into consideration the aspect of divine mystery which is essentially «from above».

(Revelation 21:1) While their minds worked upon the problem of suffering — exploring its retributive and disciplinary aspects, its saving power in the form of self - sacrifice, its future solutions in the eternal realm, and its inexplicable residue of mystery — their practical devotion was given to the kind of world where man's monstrous cruelty to man would end.

What is good then is to cure the noetic aspect of the soul, and of course whoever does not turn to the mystery of the Gospel word is ignorant of how to cure it.

In a recent survey of research in this area, John Searle suggests that the task of banishing mystery from consciousness depends on finding a way to explain that aspect of subjective experience that he calls «qualitative feels.»

Some of these have affinities with Jewish proselyte baptism, others with the practice of circumcision, and still others with certain aspects of the «mystery religions `.

Others have argued for a «pluralist» approach, suggesting that no religion can claim a preferential position, but that the Divine Mystery, who is revealed in each religious tradition, is never fully apprehended and that each faith tradition witnesses to aspects of the divine glory.

All of these can be revelatory of mystery, even though psychology, operating from within a scientific framework, may totally overlook this aspect of symbols.

In accepting his presence in the world, precisely as man found himself before the «cipher» or «word» of the world, he came to encounter the mystery of the contradictory aspects of a reality or of a «sacrality» that he was led to consider compact and homogeneous.

Even in those cases where the idea of God is absent (as in Theravada Buddhism) each religious expression has the potential for disclosing in a unique and unrepeatable way an aspect of the universal mystery.

These include YouTube channels and instructional movies to help a person understand some of the aspects of giving birth that may otherwise be a mystery.

The nature of radiation is in many respects a mystery, but we know enough about it to understand that we may talk of it in many of its important aspects as waves in some medium which we call the ether.

Many aspects of these illnesses remain something of a mystery, despite the progress made in understanding them by researchers studying these disorders in the last half century.

The eye is an exquisitely sensitive system with many aspects that remain somewhat of a mystery — both in the laboratory and in the clinic.

«We've solved a mystery, revealing a new aspect of our innate immune system and what flu has to do to get around it,» says Nicholas Meyerson, a postdoctoral researcher in the BioFrontiers Institute and lead author of a paper published in the Nov. 8 issue of Cell Host and Microbe.

In a paper published today in Science, a team led by CSHL Professor and HHMI Investigator Robert Martienssen and Professor Jean - François Couture of the University of Ottawa announces that they have solved the mystery, exploiting unique aspects of plant genomes.

To some neuroscientists, however, the phenomenon is of profound interest, and they are using lucid dreamers to explore some of the weirder aspects of the brain's behaviour during the dream state (see «Dream mysteries»).

She also alludes to one aspect of biological iron that remains a mystery: how nature deals with rust.

Why these men felt the need to post fake profiles depicting themselves as beautiful women is a bizarre mystery to which only they could provide the answer and perhaps Kinrys might like to take a look into this aspect of the male psyche for her next book.

The best aspects of Zombies in Spaceland are its colorful setting, sense of humor, and wealth of secrets and mysteries.

Alternately humorous and grotesque — and always surreal — the film mingles aspects of Burroughs's novel with incidents from the writer's own life, resulting in an evocative paranoid fantasy and a self - reflexive investigation into the mysteries of the creative process.

One aspect of AB that seemed very contrived stemmed from its attempts to be a murder mystery.

Whereas the typically black and white hard - boiled detective mysteries of Hollywood's Golden Age had to adhere to production code decency standards, Polanski's movie would employ color, a widescreen aspect ratio, and content that previously had to be merely suggested: profanity, sex, violence, indiscretion, and sordid secrets.

Housed in a regular plastic Amaray case in turn stored in a cardboard slipcover, this «Mystery in the Mist» special edition DVD release of The Great Mouse Detective tweaks its original 1.66:1 aspect ratio; instead, both full screen and 1.78:1 widescreen versions are available here, along with a Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound audio tracks in English, French and Spanish, as well as optional English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles.

Ricky Church reviews Doomsday Clock # 3... One of the best aspects of the original Watchmen series is that it is a slow burn, taking its time to advance the story or get to an action sequence and instead focusing on the characters» complexities as well as the deepening mystery.

Melville is quite simply France's master of crime dramas (no disrespect to Chabrol or Clouzot, who tended a bit more toward the mystery / thriller aspect anyway), and this film combines elements of crime drama, police procedural, and heist film together perfectly into an intricate slow burn building to its inevitable climax.

Well, that aspect of this elliptical mystery would be unfair to divulge.

The author does not shy away from some very interesting aspects of Krishnamurti's personality and life, which constitute what is sometimes referred to as «the mystery of K».

Such a fundamental aspect of our educational system — stagnation at the high school level — should not remain a mystery forever.