Sentences with phrase «mystery of their existence in»

In this sense «tolerance» is not tactics, but an essential demand of the Church because with - out it she can not achieve her end, namely the free self - realization of man, who entrusts himself to God, the ultimate mystery of his existence in faith, hope and love, a God who wants to give himself to man as his fulfilment and his absolute future in forgiveness and sanctification.

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The «traditionalist,» unless he can ground his position more firmly than in a history or a nature so taken, hasn't moved very far toward the mystery of his own existence, toward discovering a Mystery engulfing the limits of his ordering mind.mystery of his own existence, toward discovering a Mystery engulfing the limits of his ordering mind.Mystery engulfing the limits of his ordering mind.»

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»..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»..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»....

It presents ever - new facets when in the course of the intellectual history of mankind it is confronted with ever - new human experiences, because it points to the infinite mystery of God as the centre of our own existence.

The real danger affecting both liturgical and private prayer is the apparent or real lack of religious experience, of the courageous belief that we may prayerfully invoke the profound mystery of our existence and in doing so not only project ourselves and our needs.

The fourth step goes a bit further, to see «the trajectory eventuating in the creation of human historical existence» not «as a metaphysical surd but rather as grounded in the ultimate nature of things, in the ultimate mystery.»

But just as her salvation gospels can not be entirely dismissed, his critique of her can not be written off merely as rooted in his personal bitterness and his misogynist jealousy of her «boundless female strength,» There is something smug in her existence on a «special plane reserved for women with a privileged emotional life and a happier, more mundane adjustment to the mysteries of life.»

Such an identity appears to be possible because, as Walsh claims (most clearly and emphatically in The Third Millennium: Reflections on Faith and Reason), following Heidegger and Voegelin, the transcendent must be utterly «differentiated» from our worldly or secular existence: the withdrawal of the divine into utterly transcendent mystery relieves existential - theological practice of any ends «higher» than humanity.

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.

The child knows the Thou before it knows the separated I. «But on the height of personal existence one must truly be able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.»

Does anyone on this blog truly believe that we can understand and explain the mystery of billions of years of the cosmos and the natural world in our pathetic 100 years of existence?

In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence — as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.&raquIn this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence — as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.&raquin nature.»

The metaphorical response to the saving act of God in history, that subtle and complex instance of attending to ultimacy in our immediacies, to the mystery of the Kingdom in the midst of historical circumstances, is thus seen to be a persisting and unexpendable witness to the very realities that inform and sustain our authentic existence.

It may be insight into the divine mysteries, the nature of Ultimate Reality, and of the laws governing the existence of the cosmos, of society, and of individual lives; or the gift of restoring into wholeness broken physical or spiritual health; or the ability to develop, by teaching and in other ways, the hidden possibilities in one's fellow men, and to give direction and purpose to their lives.

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.

It is to devote oneself to working towards a fully humane world within the ecological restraints here on planet Earth, while standing in piety and awe before the profound mysteries of existence.»

In any event, The Mystery of Existence is not about the clash between classical and modern / personal forms of theism («theistic personalism»), a distinction that is anyway not directly on point in explicating Nothing (our limited mission again), since in either case, classical or modern / personal, God can be in some sense necessarIn any event, The Mystery of Existence is not about the clash between classical and modern / personal forms of theism («theistic personalism»), a distinction that is anyway not directly on point in explicating Nothing (our limited mission again), since in either case, classical or modern / personal, God can be in some sense necessarin explicating Nothing (our limited mission again), since in either case, classical or modern / personal, God can be in some sense necessarin either case, classical or modern / personal, God can be in some sense necessarin some sense necessary.

In The Mystery of Existence, he has added a classification of nine «Levels of Nothing,» a response to contemporary confusion.

The libertine guardians of the sexual revolution brook no dissent from the idea, so famously articulated in Casey vs. Planned Parenthood, 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.»

The problem of man is how to love the One on whom he is completely, absolutely dependent; who is the Mystery behind the mystery of human existence in the fatefulness of its selfhood, of being this man among these men, in this time and all time, in the thus and so - ness of the strange actualMystery behind the mystery of human existence in the fatefulness of its selfhood, of being this man among these men, in this time and all time, in the thus and so - ness of the strange actualmystery of human existence in the fatefulness of its selfhood, of being this man among these men, in this time and all time, in the thus and so - ness of the strange actual world.

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 Mystery of Mind arises in all forms of existence, everywhere at once.

The mystery of God's love and promise is always, ontologically speaking, fully present to the world, but in terms of our historical existence, it takes on the character of surprise and unpredictability.)

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.

In our human awareness of the mystery that enshrouds our existence, there is already a manifestation of God's being that we may appropriately call by the name «revelation.»

If they are taken as completely timeless — in the sense of being immune to the conditional character of historical existence — they then become idols themselves instead of pointers to the mystery that transcends history and culture.

For them, the approach to sacred mystery is inseparable from a transformative praxis in the world of political, social, and economic existence.

In faith's response to its kenotic image of God there lies a surprising way of bringing new meaning to our normally confused sense of mystery, to our puzzlement about evolution and other recent discoveries about the physical universe, to our perplexity at the broken state of social existence, and finally to our own individual longings and sufferings.

The realms of mystery, nature, history, and personal existence can take on deeper coherence and significance as we view them in the light of the vulnerability of God.

Informed by contemporary experience of the apparent eclipse of mystery, by the sorrow and oppression in much social existence, by the horrors of genocide, and by the modern threat of meaninglessness to the individual's existence, we now seem to be noticing more explicitly than ever before the image of God's self - emptying, or kenosis, that has always been present in Christian tradition.

The deepest mystery of love is not simply the power of self - denial but the capacity in every love to learn self - giving and thus within the vital impulses of creaturely existence to prepare for the claim of God upon the spirit.

Percy conveys the postmodern, post-Christian Tupperware partygoer's disappointment in the randomness of a world «lacking mystery and substance» as he employs a playful literary technique involving human «looniness» to explore the dilemma of man's uncertainty about the nature of existence.

Kennedy is the same justice who gave out in Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) 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.»

Religions require for the sake of religious authenticity that our lives not be embedded too comfortably in any domain short of the inexhaustible mystery that is the ultimate goal and horizon of our existence.

«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»).

As to their presuming to set their destination, surely the editors can not complain about that, since they so strongly agree with the Supreme Court dictum in Casey that there is no higher truth than «the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.»

And the question of God, thus understood, is one that is ineradicably present in the mystery of existence itself, or of consciousness, or of truth, goodness, and beauty.

Because it constantly portrays mystery in the form of a gracious promise, the Bible forbids our searching for meaning, salvation, or fulfillment completely apart from historical existence.

Catholicism presumes, in effect, that modern efforts to find a genuinely universal mode of social existence are legitimate, but argues that the Church in her grace and mystery is capable of doing what they have failed to accomplish.

In «placing myself at the other's service, even to the point of self - denial,» is «a dynamism that refers beyond the self; it is the experience of a good that leads to being drawn out and finding oneself before the mystery that encompasses the whole of existence.»

If Christians truly believe the ineffable» mystery of God» took on human flesh, became the definitive translation» living Word» of this mystery so beyond us, yet present to us in the living Word and» translation» of Jesus Christ, then our knowing or not knowing is never an endless seeking, but a finding not exhausted of its meaning during our time of earthly existence.

Judge Miner, writing for the majority in the Second Circuit, asked: «What concern prompts the state to interfere with a mentally competent patient's «right to define [his] own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life,» when the patient seeks to have drugs prescribed to end life during the final stages of a terminal illness?»

The philosophical concept of emergence,» for example, can be employed to illuminate what theology has sought to witness to in its talk about «revelation,» namely, «what it means to have an innovating mystery break forth from a given structure of existence» (FFS 133).

It took the Supreme Court a mere twenty - five years to make this premise explicit, in the famous «Mystery Passage» of the 1992 Casey decision: «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.Mystery Passage» of the 1992 Casey decision: «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.mystery of human life.»

The promising mystery holds out a new vision of creation's possibilities and thereby sabotages our instincts for securing our existence only in the predictability of natural recurrences.

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?

Maritain read all of history in the light of this mystery — including, in his later writings, the existence of the new state of Israel.

The battle cry is this war was notoriously formulated by Justice Kennedy in the Casey decision upholding the abortion license in America: «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.»

Let us consider antiquity: Did not the Greeks know about Chiron, the wise centaur, who instructed Achilles in playing the lyre; who introduced the mortal son of the immortal gods to the knowledge of the mysteries, guiding him out of the darkness of the Dionysian natural existence into the Apollonian kingdom of light; who showed him the way of transitoriness to immortal existence, himself a delivered deliverer?