Sentences with phrase «not dialectical»

«Revealing to Mere Children»: Not a Dialectical Tension Authoritative propositional revelation has an inherent and privileged place in this vision of God as the personal «Environer» who takes flesh in order to «environ» us.

Their use of dialectic, says Altizer, was limited to an attack on secular expressions of faith, and thus it could not offer any new vision of the sacred.1 For Altizer, any dialectical method that is not fully dialectical is not dialectical at all.

My own suspicion is that the forms of Protestantism flourishing in Latin America are not dialectical but have co-opted the Catholic strategy of co-optation.

Is not the dialectical nature of the Christian community and separation really not dialectical, thus not reaching the core of ultimate reality?

The conditions of synthesis are not the dialectical antagonism of opposites, but aesthetic contrast among ideal forms, and between these forms and the occasion's inheritance.

This is, however, not at all to say that there is not a dialectical element to be found in Whitehead's philosophy.

I will argue in what follows that these metaphysical characters do not necessarily follow upon the adoption of a logic that is not dialectical, i.e., modern mathematical logic.

Dogmatic theology is dogmatic precisely insofar as it's not dialectical, or not in response to the pressing or fashionable questions of the day.

The saving presence of God is not dialectical or ambiguous in the least.

Not exact matches

But I do argue that even if we each had privileged and direct access to, and guaranteed inventory of, our own individual human experience, only a complex dialectical examination could, if anything could, reasonably and nonarbitrarily determine which features of our own experience — individual and human — are essential to experience as such, which are essential to human experience but not to experience as such, and perhaps which are essential to one's own experience but not to human experience as such.

To that assessment this essay will contribute modestly by arguing (1) that an account of experience must be compatible with the fact that there is no one thing which is what experience is or is the essence of experience, (2) that no philosophically adequate account of what experience is can be established merely by appeal to direct, personal, intuitive experience of one's own experience, (3) that generalization from features found in human experience is not sufficient to justify the claim that temporality is essential to experience, but (4) that dialectical argument rather than intuition or generalization is necessary to support the claim that experience is essentially temporal.

For in spite of its prima facie attraction, and even if there is such a «primal» experience, that experience would not be accessible in any philosophically helpful way, could not be exploited without reliance upon the very analyses and arguments whose lack of immediacy and authority the appeal is seeking to escape, could not (even for oneself) sustain translation into the discursive and dialectical combat zone of philosophy, and could not by itself alone provide a nonarbitrary basis for determining what in it is essential to experience merely as such.

There is a dialectical opposition, but one that is not at all logical, but emotional, having to do with feeling.

The meaning of Paul's Romans «can not be released save by a creative straining of the sinews, by a relentless, elastic application of the «dialectical» method 30 I would suggest that Altizer's method is continuous with, and a fulfillment of, the dialectical method of Barth's Romans.

Here, cogito and credo are antithetical acts: modern or «objective» knowledge is not religiously neutral, as so many theologians have imagined; rather, it is grounded in a dialectical negation of faith.

We need not conceive such a reversal of consciousness as purely imaginative or visionary, as witness Marx's dialectical understanding of the integral and necessary relationship between consciousness and society, and Marx's revolutionary understanding of society was a consistent enlargement — if reversal — of Hegel's dialectical method.

Functionality, and the extensional view of classes, afford modern logic a greatly increased flexibility not available to traditional logic, and throw a whole new light on both the problems we have isolated, and against which Hegel directed his dialectical logic.

«We may hold that the existence of God can not be directly established by any logical argument, dialectical or otherwise; but we can insist that some objective principle of order and value is immanent in rational thought in particular, and in the cosmos as a whole.»

The Christian is not to plan strategies for salvaging or reviving what is dying, but rather to learn to see the new as the dialectical continuation, through transformation, of the old.

Yet this grace can not be realized or fulfilled until it culminates in the cessation of the very memory of sin: indeed, Kierkegaard underwent his second conversion or «metamorphosis» only when he finally came to realize that God had forgotten his sin, and then wrote The Sickness Unto Death, whose dialectical thesis is that sin is the opposite not of virtue but of faith.

Despite this apparent shift, a more dialectical appraisal of contemporary Judaism suggests not the destruction of peoplehood but a realignment of its position in Jewish life.

«It must be apparent to anyone with even a little dialectical skill, that one can not attack the (Hegelian) system from within.

Such an apocalyptic and dialectical understanding of the atonement, however, demands a new conception of atonement or reconciliation: a conception revealing not simply that God is the author and the agent of atonement but is himself the subject of reconciliation as well.

The point of Romans is reached not in chapters 7 - 8 but in chapters 9 - 11, where Paul works out the dialectical relation of Jew and gentile in God's plan.

everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

This gift of God in which he communicates himself to sinful man is the «event» (not simply a constant dialectical state) through which the sinner becomes a justified man.

Gregory's dialectical balance is exquisite: «The highest good is to be so praised that the good in little things is not discarded.

No doubt my way of seeking it is very different from process thought, such as that expressed in the writings of John B. Cobb, Jr., but this does not preclude the possibility that Cobb's di - polar theological understanding can not only challenge but also enrich a quest for total dialectical understanding and vision.

There continues to be much to learn from Kierkegaard, a man who not only arrived at a radical and dialectical understanding of faith, but who did so in the context of the advent of a world that is totally profane.

Hartshorne does not often comment on the dialectical and almost contradictory nature of his di - polar God even when clearly evident as in the following: «God, on the other hand, in his actual or relative aspect, unqualifiedly or with full effectiveness has or contains us; while in his absolute aspect he is the least inclusive of all individuals» (DR 92).

Tillich, like Hartshorne, does not realize the dialectical, contradictory nature of what is being said.

atheists are given a very significant role in this dialectical process in the evolution towards Panthrotheism, the belief that God give to humanity the privilige or responsibilty of charting human history.since you are not indoctrinated to specific dogma and doctrines, your open mindedness enables you percieve a deeper understanding of reality, simple logic but more profound scientific knowlege will lead you to God.religious humanism through science is your guiding spirit.

In general it means the dialectical (not dualistic) movement of God's total being into his «opposite,» the world of flesh - in - history, or historical being in flesh.

The logical and dialectical God of the theologians — the God who can be put into a system, enclosed in an idea, or thought about philosophically as «a state of being in which all ideas are absorbed» — is not the God who can be met in the lived concrete.

Nonetheless, Altizer's thesis that Eliade has given us our only Christian and dialectical modern understanding of religion is not to be taken lightly.

For those who hold the dialectical attitude toward evil, good can not exist in solitary splendour, nor is it opposed by a radically separate evil with which it has nothing to do.

2:5 - 7), then a dialectical understanding of the Incarnation must go beyond the New Testament and recognize that a kenotic Christ can not be known as an exalted Lord or cosmic Logos.

For not only do the priestly and institutional forms of Christianity submit to the heteronomous authority of a series of events that are irrevocably past, but the thought of the Christian theologian himself has been closed to a truly dialectical meaning of the sacred.

Those philosophers and theologians who have followed Martin Buber in the «I - Thou» philosophy have usually not seen that this dialectical attitude toward evil is inseparable from it as he understands it.

On the contrary, one who without affectation says that he is in despair is after all a little bit nearer, a dialectical step nearer to being cured than all those who are not regarded and do not regard themselves as being in despair.

So long as one does not regard man as spirit (in which case we can not talk about despair) but only as a synthesis of soul and body, health is an «immediate» determinant, and only the sickness of soul or body is a dialectical determinant.

Nevertheless, inasmuch as each articulated one side of a basic religious polarity, they are necessarily complementary visions the solution to such historical oppositions and antagonisms is, therefore, a dialectical one — not in the Hegelian or Marxian sense of dialectic, but through a dialectic which acknowledges both sides of those paradoxes intrinsic to the religious situation.

It is not obviously true that Whitehead's categorical scheme is dialectical, or exhibits explicitly the «dialectical struggle of opposites» (ANW 92).

Among them is this: «All dialectical knowing that is also always a not - knowing, is precisely in its not - knowing not to give God the glory.»

The Phenomenology of Spirit is the work in which Hegel first fully realized his most fundamental and original thinking, one centered in a radically new philosophical method of pure dialectical negation (Aufhebung), a negation which is negation, preservation, and transcendence simultaneously, and which is the deepest driving power not only of consciousness and history but of absolute Spirit itself.

Each statement about the beginning which is not an immediate datum but which is aetiologically deduced from a later phase of the process of change, is by nature dialectical.

But evolutionary or dialectical thinking is not essentially Marxistic; it is intrinsic to the Bible.

The dialectical formula asserting that it is by being above it that the orienting term is in the dynamic tendency as one of the factors that constitute it, is a formula that is both complex and single, and can not be resolved without detriment to the phenomenon in question.

The importance of this is that interpretation is not external to testimony but implied by its initial dialectical structure.

Thus, according to Jeffery, the people of Damascus and Homs followed the Codex of Miqdad b. al - Aswad, those of Kufa that of Ibn Masud, etc. 7 The recension of Othman then becomes not simply a recopying of Abu Bekr's edition with the removal of its dialectical variants, but a strategical canonization of the collection current in Medina, and requiring that all others be destroyed.