Sentences with phrase «nature of appearances»

What follows is a short summary of the nature of these appearances.

One such theme is painting's continuous affinity toward representing the changing nature of appearances.

Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss star in this psychological drama about a couple who spend a weekend at a getaway recommended by their therapist, which emerges as a unnerving and sincere examination of marital loyalty and the deceptive nature of appearances.

Whatever the nature of the appearances of Jesus to Peter and Paul, they did not so much initiate the Easter message as confirm it, and thus cause the Easter message to bring forth the response of Easter faith.

We do not learn much more about the real nature of the appearances of Jesus when we turn to Paul, for he nowhere spells out for us the nature of the experience in which he saw Jesus.

15: 8) he is alluding to a difference in his own condition as compared with the first disciples, not to any difference in the nature of the appearance).

Although we have only a few clues about the nature of the appearance of Jesus to Paul, we must not assume that it was necessarily a vision of the historical Jesus standing before him.

If we grant that Paul meant to claim a similarity in the nature of the appearance, and that he was correct in doing so — both of which are far from certain — then we have here the first evidence that addresses the nature of the resurrection appearances, aside from the unbelievability of the Gospel accounts themselves.

This could mean calling bookstores, libraries, and schools and attempting to arrange public engagements, while notifying your local newspaper and radio station that you will be appearing at these events and the purpose and nature of your appearance.

It's nice information, but not critical — and easily trained, since we know roughly the number of hurricanes each year due to the cyclic nature of their appearance.

Not exact matches

add nature and the laws that govern our world and the incredible appearance of human beings

The heresy is that of limiting Christ's character, nature or power by circumscribing his appearance.

This is not a question of going back to the fight for survival, to «nature red in tooth and claw,» but the appearance of something infinitely more radical and sinister.

implies an evernew historical synthesis between the constant nature of the Church and her concrete historical appearance, between ins divinum and ins humanum, between human and divine characteristics.

If the appearances to the apostles were private manifestations, in the sense that a casual bystander would have seen nothing: if; that is to say, they were in the nature of visions rather than of bodily seeing, this does not imply that these men were not confronted with the Lord's presence as an external reality.

Nature has many examples of things that have the appearance of an intelligence designing them... that were not actually designed by an intelligence.

The hypothesis of a definitive halt in terrestrial evolution is, to my mind, suggested less by the apparently unchanging nature of present forms than by a certain general aspect of the world coinciding with this appearance of cessation.

«Hypostasis» is more than a mask or mode of appearance; it points to the individual existence of a particular nature.

The effect of the new method of philosophy instituted by Descartes and Locke was to make human mental operations and their contents the sole object of study, with the rest of nature the «unknown something» behind the veil of appearances.

Although unconscious feeling is the stuff of nature for Whitehead, his theory of «appearance» is one of the things which brings home the splendor of his philosophy — and that even as this theory emphasizes the fusion of conceptual feeling with physical nature.

Some argue that God's rationality makes events occur in predictable sequences, giving the appearance of efficient causality in nature.

Thus while it may be true that Hegel does leave nature alone in some real sense, he does this by relegating nature to the status of mere appearance, whose real value is as a means rather than an end.

The opening pages must have included a notice about Jesus» appearance and questions introducing a dialogue on the nature of matter and sin.

«God's purpose through Jesus Christ is to deify the nature of man and thus forever make him like unto Christ, not only in outward appearance or habits of life but in nature and substance and content; in spirit and soul, and body like the Son of God.»

Nature has been «groaning» since the first appearance of biological species unless we suppose it was allowed for some reason in anticipation of the fall.

On the contrary, what goes on in the world is a genuine manifestation of the living process which is his own nature; and it also makes a difference to him, for it makes possible the novelty of adaptation, the emergence of new actualities, and the appearance of real possibilities, which otherwise would not be available to him.

King's portrait of Zen particularity makes manifest how Zen can affirm the immediately real even while dissolving all apprehension or awareness of a differentiated real — thus the disappearance of the distinctive or differentiated categories of nature, deity, and selfhood goes hand in hand with the appearance of the immediately real.

A strong case can be made for the view that the original resurrection appearances were in the nature of visions, and that the physical resuscitation accounts were developed for the purpose of convincing the doubtful, who thought the disciples had only seen a ghost.

Despite all appearances to the contrary and misunderstandings about the nature of the church, members are looking for God.

The artistic nature of the scene is clear: the setting of the questions to build up to a climax; the representative role of Peter; the post-Easter confession; the sudden appearance of the crowd when the time comes for general instruction, as so often in Mark; the reflection of the situation of a Church facing the possibility of persecution; and the way in which the whole pencope moves to its climax in the last two verses.

Viewed in this light, any appearance of inferiority of the Son and Spirit to the Father merely reflects our limited human condition and does not take into account the eternal nature of God.

Revelation is comparable to the surprising appearance in science of imaginative models that, all in a flash, illuminate the world of nature and tie together previously unexplained enigmas in a fresh way.

The «event horizons» of varyingly sized black holes are rudimentary in appearances found to be physical in their natures thusly being as the skin so to say of the black holes.

But in the story of human religiousness, especially in its post-axial forms, we find perhaps the most stirring manifestation of discontent with mere appearances, and nature's grasping for the seemingly unreachable.

Nature «is complete in any of its appearances, but is not exhausted by any of them» (N 160), and nature not perceived serves as «a sort of source - existence» (NNature «is complete in any of its appearances, but is not exhausted by any of them» (N 160), and nature not perceived serves as «a sort of source - existence» (Nnature not perceived serves as «a sort of source - existence» (N 164).

«Emergent» evolutionism (a term first popularized by C. Lloyd Morgan) is a special case of the former, in which it is asserted that evolutionary progress is, on occasion, discontinuous — exhibiting entirely novel features whose appearance on Nature's stage can not be explained merely in terms of some novel rearrangement of previously - existing natural components.

By understanding presence as something more than «mere appearances,» Dillenberger has come to consider abstraction the pictorial procedure by which artists penetrate beneath the visible surfaces of nature in search of a subject's «essence» or deeper truth.

Marx begins his account of the relationship of the two philosophers with a paradox: Epicurus held all appearances to be objectively real but at the same time, since he wished to conserve freedom of the will, denied that the world was governed by immutable laws and thus in fact seemed to decry the objective reality of nature.

Similarly, the framework of nature and history is profane, and it is only in the light of the word of proclamation that nature and history become for the believer, contrary to all appearance, the field of the divine activity.

In determining the nature and status of Whitehead's thought in the history of modern philosophy one must refer to F. H. Bradley's Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay.

In conclusion, then, while there may have been some early Christologies that interpreted the Easter experience as «exaltation» instead of «resurrection», this would not be a surprising response to «appearances» of Jesus after the crucifixion, and so does not address the nature or the probability of these appearances nor the question of whether the exaltation interpretation somehow evolved separately from the appearance traditions.

Polkinghorne's scientific background is everywhere evident; often he uses examples from the laboratory: the historical appearance of Jesus in the world is seen in terms of the apparently undramatic discovery of penicillin on a windowsill; the two natures in Christ find a possible parallel in the wave / particle duality of light, and Dirac's equation concerning quantum mechanics is used in reference to the doctrine of the Trinity.

Some would maintain that these accounts point to after - death appearances of Jesus to the disciples, the precise nature of which is lost to history.

There's no question that Hanky Pankies will be served at my appetizer - heavy Christmas celebration with the fam — we all know the nature of the Hanky Panky, and we forgive its less than glamorous appearance — but it got me thinking about how to make it a little more appealing.

In terms of appearance the Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature bottle can be either seen as stylish or awkward depending on your personal sense of aesthetics.

appearance, with fabrics inspired from nature and ranging from the texture of jute, the lightness of linen to the softness of the melange jersey.

The appearance of Trump dominance has been created by the artificial nature of polling coverage.

The typical Nigerian personality is open to a burning desire to view a white human being as fully positive in nature and precious in appearance followed by a sense of negativity to his or her own blackness.

It also would end the redacting of information about lawmakers» outside income and require greater detail on the nature of the outside employment, including information about business and appearances before state agencies.

An epidemic disease of identical nature made its appearance in northern Germany shortly after World War II.