Sentences with phrase «occasion of the death of»

And, on the extraordinary and sad occasion of the death of his father, former governor Mario Cuomo, there was a self - deprecating and introspective - sounding Cuomo, delivering one of his best speeches ever.

May 26, 2017 • On the occasion of the death of writer Denis Johnson, we share a 2007 reflection on Johnson's book Jesus» Son, from novelist Nathan Englander.

A Funeral Sermon, on Occasion of the Death of Mrs. Katherine Penny.

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The proximate cause of death for virtually every defaulting junk bond is a liquidity crisis occasioned by either an inability to generate enough cash to service debt, or an inability to refinance maturing debt.

Black and white and Persian and Korean they come, not to mark the occasion of death, but to get where they are going — to pick up bulgogi from a nearby street cart, or fill a prescription at the Shoppers Drug Mart, or to make it to an appointment with the dentist whose office sits under the image of a broad smile just down the block.

First, death is not a rare occasion but moving forward... Did the Chruch allow the funeral to proceed and graciously receive the responsibility of burial for the mother?

The publication of an expanded and revised version of Leslie Farber's The Ways of the Will nearly twenty years after his death and almost a quarter century since the appearance of his last book is an occasion of both interest and pleasure.

The reviewer can tell the reader that in Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions he is to think along with the author about what it means to seek God, how the «resolution of duty» that ought to be present in marriage transforms romantic love into love that conquers everything, and how the awareness of one's mortality, of the certainty of death, of «death's decision» enhances earnestness in life.

Engaging subjects: childhood, faith, love, death, aging, failure — the small and large occasions of human life.

It may need to be done on occasion» there are such things as just wars, after all, and the state's obligation to defend the social order may necessitate an execution» but Pennington's sort of blithe assumption of justice done in the death of another human being makes me tremble.

The principle was set forth that the elders of the city may, on such an occasion, wash their hands of responsibility for the death in the blood of a slain heifer.

Even the Eucharist, despite the words of the Great Thanksgiving, is rarely the thankful, joyous foretaste of the Great Banquet with the One who triumphed over Death, but mostly a mournful occasion for introspection.

Through Nietzsche's vision of Eternal Recurrence we can sense the ecstatic liberation occasioned by the collapse of the transcendence of Being, by the death of God — and we may witness a similar ecstasy in Rilke and Proust; and, from Nietzsche's portrait of Jesus, theology must learn of the power of an eschatological faith that can liberate the contemporary believer from the inescapable reality of history.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, writing from prison shortly before his death, addressed his godson, Dietrich Bethge, on the occasion of the infant's baptism, which he could not witness: «Music, as your parents understand and practice it, will help to dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibility, and in times of care and sorrow will keep a ground - base of joy alive in you.

This is one of Nietzsche's more famous obiter dicta, and Allan Bloom finds the occasion to cite it more than once in this, his last book, finished shortly before his death in 1992.

It is occasioned by the presence of that nothingness which has followed in the wake of the death of God.

Once we grasp the radical Christian truth that a radically profane history is the inevitable consummation of an actual movement of the sacred into the profane, then we can be liberated from every preincarnate form of Spirit, and accept our destiny as an occasion for the realization in the immediacy of experience of the self - emptying or self - annihilation of the transcendent and primordial God in the passion and death of Christ.

Sigmund Freud commented on the death of his father: «He had passed his time when he died, but inside me the occasion of his death has reawakened all my early feelings.

(c) Soteriological movement: God, who for Whitehead is the beginning of each event (PR 244) and the original power of novelty (PR 67), is also the release from the repetition of the past, i.e., the repetition of evil, guilt, and death.33 On this basis, theology can follow its soteriological function; namely, «to show how the World is founded on something beyond mere transient fact, and how it issues into something beyond the perishing of occasions» (AI 172).

When applying the 10 steps to a life of atheism stop on occasion and ask does this bring life or death, does this bring light or darkness into my life and the world.

To an alien life form living on another planet billions of light years from us the death of an 8 year old human, while tragic to us, might be linked by what Einstein called «s p o o k y action at a distance» to an alien birth making it one of their most joyous occasions.

On the present occasion, a journal issue devoted to exhibiting the implications for theology of post-Whiteheadian metaphysics, it is my function to point out that post-Whiteheadian metaphysics, in one of its developments, points towards a radical theology in the sense made popular by the Death of God movement.

Occasioned by the death from AIDS of his friend (not his lover) Patrick, Sullivan reflects on the meaning of friendship as something very different from - and, he suggests, much more rare and elevated than -» being in love,» not to mention having sex.

In this view, death is interpreted positively as the completion of a process or occasion that began for the sake of coming to completion.

Death as the completion of discrete occasions of becoming is occurring constantly, a phenomenon Whitehead referred to as «perpetual perishing.»

The motive was the public rendering of thanksgiving / praise to God by the person commissioning the ritual in the presence of relatives and friends for God's signal intervention in saving the man (and his family, if the occasion called forit) from death in war or in some similar grave danger such as famine.

When the believing community begins to produce realists on the subject of death, people who take it seriously on their own terms, their act occasions surprise.

Before his death Wesley mourned the loss of the truly evangelical spirit of early Methodism occasioned by the accumulation of property by its members.

In general, the Christian feeling for the solidarity of believers and the expressions of this in prayer and devotion can stimulate relational theology to maximize the social - organic character of its reflection, and thus present death as less of an atomistic event and more as an occasion in a society of events that share a real union through internal relations.

Of course he thought about death more than most people have occasion to think about death.

The absentees who appear on those occasions probably are present to acknowledge less the calendar of the church than their family's own cycle of birth, childhood, life, and death.

If death were always preceded, however, as unfortunately on rare occasions it sometimes is, by a period of slow decay, as long in years as the original period of growth to physical maturity, until any kind of personal communion had been rendered virtually impossible, then we would not only welcome death, as a merciful release, but be less inclined to assume the survival of the deceased in an «after - life».

After death, there would be a quite new set of occasions, numerically different from those which had occurred before death.

The fact that personal identity in this life depends so little upon the relation to a common body and so much upon unmediated hybrid prehensions of past occasions of the soul's life strengthens the plausibility of the claim that continuity may occur after bodily death.

He has trained and fought with a mighty band of warriors (geborim), some of whom on occasion have saved his life (21:15 - 17) or tilted with Philistine giants (21:18 - 21); and once, in a moving episode of mutual loyalty and admiration between men and leader, three of their number risked seemingly probable death to answer David's longing for the cool water of Bethlehem's well (23:13 - 17).

When the wheels hit the runway, everyone applauded and it occurred to me in that moment that maybe human beings just weren't meant to fly; maybe we're pushing the limits of what God designed us to do; maybe it's not a good idea to live in such a way that not falling from the sky to your death is an occasion for celebration.

What one can infer from Jesus» resurrection is that the fountain of life and being is not necessarily frustrated by death, and therefore that we may take courage and hope regarding the deaths of others and of ourselves that we may in like manner be the occasion for some of the creative - death - defeating power which was so magnificently poured out in the case of Jesus.

This message speaks clearly on this occasion, the commemoration of the death of Martin Luther King, Jr..

When death comes, appraisal must also be made in the same way, for the total pattern of a given human life, made up as it is of a particular «routing» of occasions bound together in the fashion we indicated earlier, has also contributed, or failed to contribute, in its very totality, to the creative advance in good.

In the biblical tradition, our resurrection is a participation in Christ's resurrection, construed as an historical event which contravenes the historical reality of his death, and thus — in Whiteheadian terms — interrupts the perpetual perishing of occasions.

These bishops are convinced that they can bring people the gospel of life in some mysterious, inner way, even as their words and actions tell the world that the choice of death should occasion «dialogue,» not a clear statement of moral truth.

But it is clear that Matthew at the same time preserves in full strength the conception of the Galilean location of the expected Parousia, though now the delay is occasioned not only by the episode of Jesus» death at Jerusalem but also by the whole Gentile mission.

I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father's house.

Hence, death can be understood as the detachment of that dominant series of actual occasions we recognize as the self from the many supportive material series which constitute the human body.

Each occasion is influenced by many factors, only one of which is the group of preceding occasions of human experience that conjointly with successor occasions constitutes the human soul from birth to death.

The church has found ways of liturgizing other major life and death events, but, aside from the wedding ceremony and infant baptism, it is typically silent about other important sexual occasions of our lives.

Despite my disagreements with Lindbeck, I feel only enormous gratitude to him on the occasion of his death.

24 - 26), surely reaching back in its present form to a time not far removed from the Mosaic era itself, Moses» brush with death - by illness or by accident - is recounted; and it is the verdict of the earliest strand of the record that Moses» serious condition was the occasion for the performance of the rite of circumcision as the outward sign of commitment to the Lord's promise and purpose so that commitment was sealed, as it were, in blood.

Pierce lists (pp. 2 - 20) three main views (each with varying nuances) that have been advanced over the centuries concerning the subject, object, occasion, and message of Christ's announcement (ekeryxen, 3:19) in connection with his death, resurrection, ascension to heaven, and elevation to God's right hand.

Note that it is the death of the other, not one's own impending or imagined death, which is the occasion.