Sentences with phrase «nature of the continuity»

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.

What is Berkouwer's answer to the question he raises regarding the nature of continuity, between that which is unalterable and that which is alterable?

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Nobody will accuse Whitehead of irresponsible Hegelianism when he speaks of «self - diversity of actual occasions»; by this term he obviously tries to express the synthesis of unity and diversity, of continuity and difference, which constitutes the very nature of succession.

This does not mean that Whitehead abandoned the temporal continuity expressed in the infinite divisibility of events in the writings on the philosophy of nature, but rather that this infinite divisibility was relegated to the domain of the potential in terms of the extensive continuum.

Wright begins with a painfully short analysis of the early church and the assembling of the canon, noting that the emergence of Gnosticism and other heresies led to an emphasis among early Christians on the historical nature of the church as rooted in the Jewish story, stressing «the continuity from Jesus» day to their own, and indeed on the continuity of the people of Abraham, transformed through Jesus the Messiah but still obedient to the same world - transforming call.»

And yet there is no logical incoherence in thinking of nature as a hierarchy of distinct dimensions integrating a continuous, unbroken chain of physico - chemical occurrences, (just as the architect's designs do not interrupt the continuity of the brick laying process, but simply impose a determinate structure onto it.)

What we can say is that any such development would have to be a true development, an outgrowth that is in real continuity with the nature of relating as we now experience it.

Our faith in the continuity of life is grounded in nature.

It is Whitehead's merit to have described the fundamental continuity running all through the world of nature, from its most rudimentary forms to it most complicated and highest development known to us in the mental life of human beings.

If we are to be faithful to nature and our continuity with it, we may now accept the universe s own inherent instability as the precondition of the biblical, historical revelation.

The succession of theories of the atom, for example, exhibits no «convergence» in descriptions of the nature of fundamental particles, but oscillates between continuity and discontinuity, field conceptions and particle conceptions, and even speculatively among different topologies of space.39

If «nature» means only that part of God's creation that is not human, then it is important to emphasize the continuity between the natural and the human.

In continuity, then, with the developmental, religious nature of man, it is reasonable to expect God to reveal himself in an evolving, purposeful manner.

The nature of such misery is not hard to understand, indeed, there is a profound continuity between such misery and the misery evil naturally produces in this life.

Agapastic evolution is open to free development, neither heedlessly nor blindly, but «by the immediate attraction for the idea itself, whose nature is divined before the mind possesses it, by the power of sympathy, that is, by virtue of the continuity of mind» (6.307).

Christian concludes that the continuity of nature ultimately rests upon this two - way functioning of eternal objects.

«2 The retention of subjective immediacy within the everlastingness of God's nature is seen then as subjective immortality.3 Some argue that subjective immortality is necessary for the religious need of continuity between present hope and future fulfillment, redemption and fulfillment, and the overcoming of evil.4

There continued to be some diversity of opinion on the exact nature of the resurrection body, and although all wanted to affirm the essential continuity of the person, by referring to the «same body», some allowed more room than others for some kind of spiritual transformation of the body.

God's immutability has been disputed by the preferability of a divine nature that is open to, and responsive to, new developments, in continuity with the biblical witness.

For both Kukai and Whiteheadian thought, nature's continuity extends internal relatedness — a metaphysical relatedness in which individuals and societies are constituted by relationships of interdependence — to organic and inorganic nature.

This does not mean that differences are unimportant; even degrees of difference affirm the continuity of all nature (PR 109; 179).

Now what I want to know is, What other sort of nature is there beside human nature, and how does this connect with the age - old Christian belief that there is a personal destiny, a continuity of some kind between this life and the life hereafter?

A contribution not yet so well recognized is that of the Native Americans, bringing profound identification with nature, deep appreciation of the continuity of all things, and a connectedness with ancestors that has greatly enriched religion in North America.

But, I would insist, as long as the person is able to maintain its unity - continuity at all, it affects and is affected in accordance with the quality of its own knowing - caring - active nature, which is not identical with the society deemed to be its body or the ambient world.

Third, man's agency is dependent on sufficient continuity in the order of nature so that he can make inductions on the probable course of nature and then act with some confidence that a consequence remote in time will occur.

In the sixth of these Wellesley lectures, as it turns out, there is a mildly negative assessment of the concept of evolutionary emergence and «upward progress, arguing in favor of the greater significance of continuity with the «lower orders» of nature (MT 153).

That includes an appreciation of the continuity between humanity and the rest of nature while at the same time emphasizing the distinctiveness of the human.

This and other evidence leads process theology to argue for a continuity in nature of all natural entities from the electron type to humans.

But it is reasonable to infer from the fact of nature's intrinsic continuity with our own mental experience that there must be at least a rudimentary type of feeling that binds all things to one another.

Evolution may have organized the universe, but our life is nothing but CHAOS, with NO guide line, NO purpose whatsoever, except the one that we give ourselves as members of a society, as we have to live together which is engraved in our nature, thus making us social animals, perhaps, and necessiciated for the continuity of the our species.

Novelties did occur, but they occurred within the wider continuities of nature.

As a contemporary commentator noted as early as 1865, Mill's anti-Hamiltonian view of feeling as a neutral stuff prior to the correlation of Ego and Non-Ego, and his confession that the continuity of feeling, though as real as the sequence, was a «final inexplicability» 4 — both positions impelled British philosophy in the direction of some kind of original unity.5 To this end, Bradley will conflate the «feeling» of Hegel and of Mill in order to transform it from a psychological into a metaphysical category that can accomplish the reconciliation of nature and spirit.

Not only does process thought theorize no such fundamental conflict or contradiction, but also it promotes a different model of understanding the nature - culture relation as one of continuity, or discontinuity - within - continuity.

Further, there is direct continuity between what is said of God in Science and the Modern World and what is said of the primordial nature of God in Process and Reality.5 In the latter book it is explicitly recognized that the primordial nature of God is an abstraction from God as actual entity, 6 yet most of the references to God in that book are references to this abstraction.

But the subsequent discussion showed that Bultmann was concerned to minimize this element of continuity for the following reasons: (1) he was fearful that historical research might come to be used to legitimate the kerygma, which would be a denial of its nature as kerygma; and (2) he insisted that there can be no real material continuity, because the kerygma lays major emphasis upon a particular understanding of the death of Jesus, whereas we can never know how the historical Jesus understood his own death, and must always face the possibility that he simply broke down before it.

If grace were constitutive of human nature, then all of the effects of grace would lie in strict and essential continuity with human nature's intrinsic powers.

Chain these sliding scales together across the three dimensions of space and that tricky thing we call time, and we have a language for expressing the continuities and relations of nature that extends far outside our common experience.

Now, the way Justin Theroux «s screenplay juggles too many characters and an overly complicated continuity is actually quite true to the nature of comic book storytelling.

That's the nature of an exploration of continuity and research; we must keep making adjustments.

Our curriculum helps them to understand the nature of cause and consequence, continuity and change, as well as similarity and difference.

While she understands that publishers sometimes struggle to respond to this shifting marketplace, she warns of the impermanent nature of eCollections and sees it as a major obstacle in shifting from ownership to subscription, adding: «continuity of access is important for a number of reasons, and there are significant logistical and workflow issues if e-textbooks are added to, and subsequently removed from, catalogs.»

I had no complaint with continuities or such because of the nature of Halo.

In addition the surprise and continuity of color systems in nature teach you how to move from color to color - how to organize tones and the key of a painting.

While the work may be perceived as tough on the one hand, simply because its immediate subject matter is death — it is in fact about beauty, continuity, reconciliation and the resilience of being; because of and in spite of the fragile nature of the body.

Characteristic of Dawson's practice, these works present an exploration of the continuities of nature and civilization, and a belief in the enduring vitality of beauty and painting as a primary form of visceral and visual communication.

On the one side, we have the centuries - long continuity of work that is primarily pictorial in nature, and on the other, the growing body of work that is more presentational in attitude — that is, art that privileges intentionality and the delivery system, the context in which art appears.

He saw the creative process as the logical, human extension of Nature's own creativity, of its endless mobility, continuity, order and beauty.

Jessica Stockholder: Hollow Places Court in Ash - Tree Wood Sculptor Jessica Stockholder has collaborated with cabinetmaker Clifford Moran and screenprinter Gary Lichtenstein to utilize wood from a tree on The Aldrich's grounds for a project that combines her ongoing interest in ephemeral abstraction with the continuity of place and sense of time found in nature.

His work expresses a long - held interest in charting the continuities of human nature and culture and the perpetuation of methods of timekeeping through oral and visual traditions.