Civilized values are derived from
the necessity of cooperation between individuals in order for cultures to survive.
Still, it's hard not to wish to be delivered from
this necessity of choice.
But it is this experience, too, which probably caused Buber to reject his earlier monistic formulations of an already existing unity which only needs to be discovered for a later emphasis on
the necessity of realizing unity in the world through genuine and fulfilled life.
From this finding, he adduces that Weber was probably wrong in assuming
the necessity of rationalized religion for establishing a uniform hierarchy of values that challenged traditionalism and supplied motivation for the pursuit of rational economic activities.
Whatever the variations, it seems true that when a clear idea of the ministry prevailed there was also a clear idea of what constituted a call to the ministry and for the most part such a clear idea took into account
the necessity of all four calls and ordered their relations.
And, indeed, apart from
this necessity of doing so, I am interested in defending that position.
It apprehends it in the way appropriate to it — that is, it investigates the possibility and
necessity of it in the strict sense, and leaves it for faith to affirm in action this possibility as the ultimate truth.
Modern theology has been largely concerned with reconciling competing commitments: the value of human freedom with obedience to divine commands; the scientific account of the natural world with the doctrine of creation;
the necessity of critical inquiry with the authority of revelation.
Given what Pete speaks of
the necessity of the unsubstainability of our entitlement problems, this lackadaisical stance of our president and various contenders may not be enough.
It upholds core doctrines such as the Incarnation, God as Trinity, Christ's physical resurrection, and
the necessity of Christ for salvation.
They repeatedly requested the Massachusetts General Court, for example, to establish a constitution so that the people of the commonwealth would not be left «in a state of nature,» by which they meant, with Jonathan Edwards, «Hobbs state of war,» where men «would act as the wild beast of the desert; prey upon and destroy one another, «35 We are not surprised to learn that Alexander Hamilton said, «We may preach till we are tired of the theme
the necessity of disinterestedness in republics, without making a single proselyte.»
Whitehead maintained
the necessity of a doctrine of internal relations for evolution in the continuation of the passage quoted by Birch:
It is an awful hour when the first
necessity of hiding anything comes....
It has to struggle to combine creation by a free act of will with the absence of alternative possibilities for God, and to combine the contingency of the world with
the necessity of God's act of creation and with
the necessity of God's knowledge of that world.
In Kierkegaard's earlier works are found the germ of some of Buber's most important early and later ideas: the direct relation between the individual and God in which the individual addresses God as «Thou,» the insecure and exposed state of every individual as an individual, the concept of the «knight of faith» who can not take shelter in the universal but must constantly risk all in the concrete uniqueness of each new situation,
the necessity of becoming a true person before going out to relation, and the importance of realizing one's belief in one's life.
Again, there is the curious self - contradiction of a society with ingenious and industrious people expending great productive efforts to avoid
the necessity of expending efforts.
About
the necessity of reconstituting ourselves a holy community?
Inasmuch as the sociologist of religion is confronted with
the necessity of accounting for apparently identical or similar patterns in religious behavior, ideas, and forms of organizations on different cultural levels, he is interested in a constructive solution of the apparent dilemma.
What he had to insist on, against this wholly bodily account, was the psychic aspect.2 Whitehead, on the other hand, in the wake of Cartesian dualism, was faced with
the necessity of bringing his readers» attention back to the bodily implications in perception.
And having done so without
the necessity of altering to any degree their social economic patterns, they saw no reason for changing their traditional notions of the federal character of the national government, the benefits of Negro slavery, or the superiority of a rural - agricultural way of life.
Covenantal Realism: The Self - Referential Incoherency of Conventional Social Contract Theory and
the Necessity of Consent Paul R. Dehart
For those who understand
the necessity of my writing, it's positive.
She is adamant about
the necessity of core creeds — the deity of Christ, his virgin birth and bodily resurrection.
Thus, once more we return to
the necessity of God's prehending the temporal world in order to carry out a function attributed to the primordial nature.
Luther, Koerner reminds us, appreciated the power and even
necessity of embodied communication.
The fertilization of the soul is the reason for
the necessity of art.
(2) Since the members of the nonsocial nexus can not all be contiguous, and since Sherburne stresses
the necessity of contiguity for inheritance, definite patterns of succession must exist such that, for example, between a moment of seeing and a moment of hearing one might have to have a moment of awareness of his big toe.
By «orthodoxy» I mean any political - philosophical approach that admits the possibility and
necessity of theoretical metaphysics and philosophical ethics rooted in a reflection on the «nature» of things.
Even in his stories for children, Lewis does not hesitate to emphasize the appropriateness and
necessity of suffering.
If some development of quantum theory should lead to the positing of causal efficacy between noncontiguous quanta, we might be glad that Whitehead had not been so rigid as to affirm a metaphysical
necessity of contiguity.
While we likely disagree on
the necessity of a marriage to have a long term relationship, I agree that the risks of casual se.x outside of relationships are significant.
Even if violence - employing radicals fail by not seeing
the necessity of the corollary shared by pacifisms 1 and 2, do they not «have their hearts in the right place?»
He did speak, unendingly, about the moral
necessity of taking care of the poor.
This distinction is not explicit in the correspondence, perhaps because Brightman had not recognized
the necessity of making it until after Hartshorne had shown him the difficulty.
By the same token, to affirm
the necessity of exercising human responsibility is not to express a naive confidence in our ability to solve all our problems if we simply put our minds to it.
The necessity of struggle against oppression can also be described through the use of neoclassical resources.8 According to such resources, it is inevitable that the oppressed will struggle for liberation.
The Garden of Eden story, for instance, opens a whole potential discussion for the responsibility involved in the act of eating -
the necessity of taking life in order to live - and how that act should then be approached.
In reality, this discovery calls into question
the necessity of dark matter, for one.
The necessity of solitude arises from our fallenness.
The process theist's best strategy with respect to Craig is to argue for
the necessity of time, as I have done and as does Hartshorne (MVG 233f.
The recognition that the abstract / concrete distinction is formal suggests that the problem of
the necessity of the divine reality does not lie in the fact that it implies that «an abstract part of the antecedent divine event» must necessitate and so be normative over» all subsequent divine events and therefore can not be» «contained» in any concrete divine event» (p. 60).
Jesus affirms their feelings about
the necessity of obeying the law, but puts the law of love above the law of of man.
But again, I do see
the necessity of moving beyond this, to continually evolve, and unpack what is yet another experience.
If you read closely, you'll see that I suggested an «un-caused cause» is the typical solution offered by theists who, after inferring
the necessity of causation for all events, must then answer the question of what caused their proffered «cause.»
No permanent improvement to mankind can result from the attempt by government to remove
the necessity of the struggle for existence.»
Is it possible for a film to capture the horror of the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church while at the same time presenting a case for
the necessity of the institutional priesthood?
On the most immediate, practical level, these men saw
the necessity of protecting the free conscience from its own tyrannical tendencies, which protection they achieved by separating the power of religious establishments from the power of the state.
He also criticized his Republican opponents for their alleged isolationist tendencies, affirming
the necessity of a strong American presence in a dangerous world.
Biblical universalists acknowledge
the necessity of the lake of fire, but the difference from everyone else is that the judgment comes to an end.
It is a condition that recognizes
the necessity of suffering, of a suffering in both partners, man and God, man and woman, that understands that it can not «morally... exist for itself without the other.»