Sentences with phrase «mystery of existence which»

By the grace of God this human freedom is delivered from man's selfish isolation so that it can enter into the infinite, self - communicating mystery of existence which we call God.

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In 1992, in the Casey opinion which confirmed America's unlimited abortion licence, Kennedy wrote that «at the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life»....

Although, according to Keen, we can not claim any sure knowledge of God, theology can nevertheless use the word God to serve an indispensable function 36 We need to remain hopeful if we are to maintain our sanity, Keen asserts.37 Thus the idea of God can function to unify our needful affirmations about this unknown source - affirmations of «the trustworthiness of the mystery which surrounds [our] existence.»

The Messianic mystery is based on a real hiddenness which penetrates to the innermost existence and is essential to the servant's work of suffering.

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.

Suffering and mystery, to which Feuerbach attributed the existence of religion, are now seen more precisely as the sorrows brought about by enforced, unreasonable, incomprehensible and alien conditions of life (social structure).

Even in this sense transcendence may have all the depth and richness I at least could ask: mystery, ineffability, ecstasy, reunion and reconciliation, worlds upon worlds of various sorts and stages of existence, an ideal order of which our experiences of truth, beauty and goodness are fragmentary glimpses.

Whereas the latter aimed at guiding us through the liturgical seasons of the year, this second publication encourages greater awareness in our daily lives of the mysteries we already share, making explicit that which is so often obscured by sheer day - to - day existence.

If we are not bored by the message of the incarnation as it is presented to us in helpless words from the pulpit, but meet it with a longing heart hoping to confront the ultimate question of existence, then we shall be able to celebrate the feast of the advent of the Son in which the mystery we call God (often imagining that this word has explained the mystery) is truly protectively near, on earth and in the flesh where we are.

The constant presence of this mystery to the world and to human existence is equivalent to what the Christian theological tradition has variously called original, universal, natural or general revelation, which it distinguishes from the special or decisive revelation given in Christ.

While Catholics and Protestants alike typically read Aquinas first for his natural law doctrine and next for his proofs of God's existence, topics which seem to stress the human capability of discovering God's truth, these volumes portray an Aquinas far more focused on the mystery of God.

«The belief that the soul continues its existence after the dissolution of the body is... nowhere expressly taught in Holy Scripture... The belief in the immortality of the soul came to the Jews from contact with Greek thought and chiefly through the philosophy of Plato its principle exponent, who was led to it, through Orphic and Eleusinian mysteries in which Babylonian and Egyptian views were strangely blended» (The Jewish Encyclopedia, article, «Immortality of the Soul»).

Through the great religions of the world man is trying to find some clue to the mystery of life and to find some expression of those longings within himself which transcend the confines of ordinary material existence.

What can the Christian belief in «special revelation» possibly mean when it is articulated in terms of the penumbra of mystery that constitutes the widest context of our existence and which is testified to universally in human religious experience and symbolism?

In the hour of his calling he experiences the mystery that from now on raises his existence to the tragic level, which makes it lonely.

For Binion, abstraction is not a fixed code, but an immensely mutable system in which questions of identity, birth, and existence can be examined and resolved, or left open to mystery.