The infestation is deadly, but it also offers visions of deceased loved ones to the infected, hinting at the reality of an afterlife, or at least
a new kind of existence that is beyond human comprehension.»
Indeed it is much easier to imagine the souls of the dead living on in
some new kind of existence than it is to accept as fact that they have really died.
Not exact matches
It is this
kind of experience which perhaps best explains the meaning
of the traditional term «eternal life» — which is now not conceived as an extension in time
of our personal
existence but as a
new dimension
of existence into which one can enter during his natural life.
If theology is tested by its ability to shape
new kinds of personal and corporate
existence in the times in which it lives, then it would seem that radical theology may be able to pass such a test.
The Church's vocation is to employ its historical teachings «to shape
new kinds of personal and corporate
existence,» as Hamilton put it.
12 Even on the assumption
of a Vitalism
of essentially higher principles
of that
kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level
of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a
new living being came into
existence, if we excluded creation in this case in the way it is exemplified in the human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that in the generation
of new life below the human level what happens is only the extension
of the entelechial function
of one and the same vital principle to a
new position in space and time within inorganic matter.
I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples
of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects
of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human
existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift
of shalom, the followers
of Jesus are rallied for a
new kind of holy war.
However, this «
new kind of reality,» who is Jesus, is an emergent manifestation
of God in human life emanating from within creation: «a unique manifestation
of apossibility always inherently there for human beings by virtue
of their potential nature being created by God... a
new mode
of human
existence emerged through Jesus» openness to God making him a God informed human being» (ibid).
But in order to define God, the Something which underlies human
existence and welfare, a
new kind of science is needed.
We need not go so far as to say with the author whom I lately quoted that any persistent enthusiasm is, as such, religion, nor need we call mere laughter a religious exercise; but we must admit that any persistent enjoyment may produce the sort
of religion which consists in a grateful admiration
of the gift
of so happy an
existence; and we must also acknowledge that the more complex ways
of experiencing religion are
new manners
of producing happiness, wonderful inner paths to a supernatural
kind of happiness, when the first gift
of natural
existence is unhappy, as it so often proves itself to be.
BLINK ends its report by saying that the
existence of the dossier undermines Gordon Brown's professed commitment to a
new kind of politics.
In the most extravagant leap
of possibility, this
new kind of dark matter might even allow the
existence of dark life.
Last year, Harvard University physicist Howard Georgi proposed the
existence of a strange
new kind of matter he dubbed «unparticle stuff.»
The pattern
of these decays should help us to better understand why matter is so much more prevalent in the universe than antimatter, and could provide indirect evidence for the
existence of new kinds of fundamental particle.
From a purely biological standpoint, the
existence of the male sex is
kind of perplexing: When it's time to create a
new generation, the males
of a species often contribute nothing but genetic material to the mix.
Researchers demonstrate the
existence of a
new kind of magnetoresistance involving topological insulators.
The 10 - episode drama stars Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Robert Ford, the brilliant and complicated founder and chief programmer
of Westworld; Ed Harris as the Man in Black, characterized as» the distillation
of pure villainy into one man»; Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores Abernathy, a provincial and
kind rancher's daughter who begins to discover her entire
existence is an elaborately constructed lie; James Marsden as Teddy Flood, a
new arrival to a small frontier town; Thandie Newton as the razor - sharp madam Maeve Millay; Jeffrey Wright as Bernard Lowe, the brilliant and quixotic head
of the park's programming division; and Tessa Thompson as Charlotte Hale, a mysterious and savvy provocateur.
He infiltrates a tanker to document the
existence of a
new Metal Gear, a
kind of giant robot.
Science Discovers
New Earth Scientists made a first -
of - its -
kind discovery when they confirmed the
existence of an Earth - like planet.
A CRACK IN TIMEThe title says it all: Some
Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce's spellbinding
new novel, is a genre - bending book built around a provocative proposal — that there are other realms
of existence besides the one we inhabit.
It's the best
kind of nostalgia: fresh and
new with nods to the games that lead to its
existence.
I've seen the CalCars idea evolve to the point where it now provides an achievable strategy to bring a
new kind of car into
existence.