Sentences with phrase «mystery in relation»

In contrast, other scientists experience a sense of awe and mystery in relation to the known as much as to the unknown.

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If we take Father Schall's pointed jest and explore it in relation to Walker Percy's own long journey, we see the heart of Percy's concern, a concern central to his fascination with the mystery of sign, of language, in relation to the reality we experience either by a deportment through ordinate sentiment to reality or a deportment of sentimentality, that is, a manner divorced from reality.

Nor does it help much to give an accounting of one's debt to particular thinkers, since such an attention to one's relation to other minds in the intellectual community, whose life is continuous in time and beyond discrete place through the mystery of sign itself, violates the reality necessary to that community.

The mystery of love in its relation to the lostness of men remains, and there is the long and dreary history of Christian theology on the theme of predestination.

He can not grasp the nature of this continuity, for it is a mystery; but it seems to him that there is an analogy in the relation of the grain that is sown to the corn that grows up.

man's special place in the cosmos, his connexion with destiny, his relation to the world of things, his understanding of his fellowmen, his existence as a being that knows it must die, his attitude in the ordinary and extraordinary encounters with the mystery with which his life is shot through.

«A historical mystery always means a relation between a super-personal fate and a person, and particularly that which is atypical in a person; that by which the person does not belong to his type.»

The Old as well as the New Testament has the astonishing power to speak of the divine in such a way that the I - thou character of the relation never darkens the transpersonal power and mystery of the divine, and vice versa.29

Typological exegesis differs from allegorical and anagogical exegesis in that it is controlled by the analogy of faith, which views the events and discourses of the Old Testament in indissoluble relation to Jesus Christ, to the mystery of his incarnation and the miracle of his saving work (cf. Acts 26:22; I Peter 1:10 - 12).

What is the relation, if any, between the human sense of mystery and the Christian's belief in a special historical revelation?

What does «revelation» mean in relation to our pervasive human sense of mystery?

In our relation to this betrayed, forsaken, destroyed and powerful Jesus Christ we are enabled to qualify our distrust of the Ground of Being so that we pray to the mystery out of which we come and to which we return, «Our Father who art in heaven.&raquIn our relation to this betrayed, forsaken, destroyed and powerful Jesus Christ we are enabled to qualify our distrust of the Ground of Being so that we pray to the mystery out of which we come and to which we return, «Our Father who art in heaven.&raquin heaven.»

It senses mystery only in relation to concrete objects, persons, and events.

Between the cultures, as in the mystery of the Trinity, the same principle has to be ruling: the radical being - in - relation between the three divine persons.

But in our relation to others, to ourselves, to the totality of the world and the mystery that embraces it, the fact of self - deception certainly frustrates our desire to know.

There is less focus on the deeper mysteries of God's actions and messages in relation to our lives, which might be of more interest to readers of this magazine.

According to Henri De Lubac, the dominance of such an impersonal ecclesiology leads to the following problems in ecclesial life: a dry practice of the faith; an abstract theology which is expressed in objective rather than personalist categories; and a danger of reducing theological mysteries, as well as ecclesial relations, to the impersonal.8

Yet there are individuals with a real passion for the matter, men and women for whom a life hereafter is a pungent craving, and the thought of it an obsession; and in whom keenness of interest has bred an insight into the relations of the subject that no one less penetrated with the mystery of it can attain.

For him the goal of universal knowledge is truth, which he defines as «facts and their relations, which stand towards each other pretty much as subjects and predicates in logic,... [from] internal mysteries of the Divine Essence down to our own sensations and consciousness,... from the most glorious seraph to the vilest and most noxious of reptiles.»

Followers of Christ have experienced in their relation to him an unsurpassable encounter with mystery.

It is subsumed in the counsels of God and enters the mystery of immortality by personal relation to the divine.

In this community, with its scriptures, traditions and rituals, Christians find a further extension of the liberating mystery that came to light especially in Christ, and they are aware that a close relation to the community facilitates encounter with the incarnate God who is mediated through the lives of otherIn this community, with its scriptures, traditions and rituals, Christians find a further extension of the liberating mystery that came to light especially in Christ, and they are aware that a close relation to the community facilitates encounter with the incarnate God who is mediated through the lives of otherin Christ, and they are aware that a close relation to the community facilitates encounter with the incarnate God who is mediated through the lives of others.

It's no mystery that the topic of race relations is a hot topic in today's society, to the point where many would wonder what more this documentary could have to tell us.

Why Fiona (the voice of Cameron Diaz: The Holiday, In Her Shoes) can't take the throne is a huge mystery: she's the actual daughter of the king, not a relation by marriage.

4:15 am (20th)-- TCM — Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941) No relation to the 2005 Pitt - Jolie vehicle, this Mr. and Mrs. Smith is one of Hitchcock's only straight comedies, no suspense or mystery plot in sight.

Most people know Emma Donoghue (no relation, unless you go way back to the roots buried in the bog) as the author of Room, but she has been a prolific novelist and writer of short stories, mysteries, literary history and much more.

Deon Meyer's engrossing South African thriller pits Detective Benny Griessel against a mystery that unravels like the threads of a complex tapestry... Because the novel is set in contemporary South Africa, race relations and the legacy of apartheid are an inevitable topic, and Meyer works his social commentary into the story while remaining true to his characters... Thirteen Hours draws to a satisfying conclusion, with answers that prove surprising.

Mid 1870's and relations were extremely stressful between France and England with both sides spying on the other and it is this time period that is covered in this entertaining mystery.

Narrated in her utterly captivating prose style and with exquisite insight, humor, empathy, nuance, and at great personal cost, Norah uses her intimate firsthand experience to explore the many remarkable mysteries of gender identity as well as who men are apart from and in relation to women.

Barbara Diener's video work uses mystery and language as ways of luring the viewer into questioning the legitimacy of the spiritual world in relation to our own fantasies and desires.

But most of all I need the mystery of existence to be what I pursue, not obviously with words but with what I find in myself and my relation with nature.

Martínez Celaya's work examines the complexities and mysteries of individual experience, particularly in its relation to nature and time, and explores the question of authenticity revealed in the friction between personal imperatives, social conditions, and universal circumstances.