Sentences with phrase «of affirmation so»

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If so, it would be the highest - profile entry into the market and a huge affirmation of its potential.

Though this idea has been soundly refuted by Father John McCloskey, among other proponents of orthodoxy, and though Francis has strongly upheld the indissolubility of marriage, stating that Catholic divorce «doesn't exist,» it is not so clear to many of the pope's critics, who no longer trust Francis, and who dismiss his affirmations of orthodoxy.

Saying what you so is just an affirmation of self..

With respect to the problem of natural time, we have already cited Heidegger's affirmation that «only so long as Dasein is, «is there» Being.»

But the whole question is to know whether such factors are also primary, or whether they are merely the secondary effects of an originary movement of «disjunctive synthesis,» that is, a synthesis which somehow holds incompossibles together; but does so without limitation, opposition, or negation — i.e., a synthesis of «total affirmation.»

When they spoke of God's eternal bliss and immutability, they weren't surrendering to a static, Greek conception of God so much as they were seeking to understand the implications of Scriptural affirmations such as «I Am That I Am» (Exodus 3:14).

From a Whiteheadian point of view, both are correct in their affirmations, and these need to be formulated so as to complement one another.

But if so, then are we not engaged in a fascinating and difficult game rather than in grounding our affirmations of faith?

Whereas the genius of the Greeks — so his story goes — was to gaze without illusion into the chaos and terror of the world, and respond not with fear or resignation but with affirmation and supreme artistry, they were able to do this only on account of their nobility, which means their ruthless willingness to discriminate between the «good» — that is, the strength, exuberance, bravery, generosity, and harshness of the aristocratic spirit — and the «bad» — the weakness, debility, timorousness, and vindictive resentfulness of the slavish mind.

On the other hand, there is no God of a religious tradition cut off from critical reflection so that «it is wrong for religion's advocate to confound the object of this affirmation with the modalities of the affirmation; it is wrong for him to believe that the transcendence of the divine mystery is extended to the materiality of the expressions that it takes on in human consciousness; with greater reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendence.

The only creative God we recognize is the creative event itself, So also we ignore the transcendental affirmation in the Greek tradition of the reality of Forms of value, uncreated and eternal, having causal efficacy to constrain the shape of things without themselves being events at all.

I ask myself if it has not been this affirmation of personal destiny and purpose that has historically allowed native American spirituality to be so receptive to Christian religion in accommodating and creative ways.

Personally, one of the most moving and lifting experiences of my life was to hear the late Bishop Paul Bentley Kern read these great affirmations, so simply stated, so profoundly true, and so compelling in their witness to the ground on which we as Christians must stand.

Yet its universal affirmations and imperatives so far transcend its problems that for centuries hosts of Christians, most of them not theologians or professional moralists, have been guided and nourished by it.

But before we come to that discussion, it will be useful for us to turn our attention to the question of «resurrection» — first, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, about which so much of the earliest Christian writing found in the New Testament, and so much of the Christian experience of discipleship, turns; and second, to consider the point of the continuing Christian affirmation that those who have responded to the event of Christ are themselves made «sharers in Christ's resurrection».

Suffice it to say that it reached its culmination, so far as scriptural witness is concerned, in the affirmation that in Christ the Word (the self - expressive creative Activity which is divine in nature) «became flesh and dwelt among us,» while in formal theological statement the climax was the declaration that in him there is a genuine union of divine Activity («true God») and human activity like our own («true human being»).

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

According to Matthew the reply was, «The words are yours» (literally, «You have said»; there is no sufficient evidence that this was an accepted form of affirmation, either in Greek or in Hebrew or Aramaic; we might paraphrase it, «you may have it so if you choose»).

But the discussion so far suggests the possibility that a new Christian perspective on history may be emerging which will hold together the truth in the liberal doctrine of progress and the truth in the neo-orthodox affirmation of the judgment of God upon all existing things.

Kappen wrote «The essence of Marxian atheism lies not so much in his denunciation of religion as in his affirmation of the radical autonomy and self - sufficiency of man.

However, where it expresses an affirmation of the earthly and the historical, the reality it discloses can encompass all things only if the actualities of the world so shape and condition its being that their full significance is preserved in the divine life.

I suspect the author of Proverbs 6:26 did not have it quite right when he said that the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but as surely as a dalliance with a married woman will cost a man his very life, so also the pursuit of affirmation, recognition and acceptance through organized «Christianity» will cost a man all that he has.

He will always refuse in the last resort (provisionally it is a different matter) to regard the Church as an affirmation which stands in contradiction to what is really meant in the very depths of the affirmations of others, so that ultimately there has to be a choice.

Even so brief a survey of the affirmations of Christian faith in contrast with the assumptions of naturalism should make it apparent that the viewpoint from which the Christian looks at life is different.

So it remained in the third and final statement, but with a more extended, vital, and moving affirmation of the kingdom that now is, of having and hoping, and of the kingdom that is to come.

In the course of time resurrection was increasingly orientated to the interests of the individual person, so that it became the Christian form of the hope of personal immortality, guaranteed by the affirmation of the Easter proclamation.

I wish to gather together what so far has been said and relate it to this basic Christian affirmation of God as love, «pure unbounded love», and nothing but that sheer love - in - action.

For as God is love, so that the affirmation of His love is no afterthought or addendum to a series of propositions about His omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, transcendence, etc.; in similar manner in respect to human nature and activity, to human becoming, to human existence as such, love is no addendum, no afterthought, no extra, but the central reality itself.

The affirmation of the apostles appearing before the Sanhedrin echoes this fact: «And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him» (Acts 5:32).

From our discussion so far one thing is clear: the crucial point and the very essence of Marx's critique of religion is not its denial of God, but the affirmation and acknowledgment of human autonomy.

So let me share something of what I see as the affirmations, and the signs of hope that Americans are an integral part of this struggle to manifest total humanness and to acknowledge God's ownership and care of the whole of creation of which human beings are a part.

The Acts account of the primitive preaching (at least as regards the lordship of Jesus) is not so much a theological interpretation of Jesus as the affirmation of what the early church had found him to be.

So far as the affirmation of Jesus» lordship is concerned, the barest minimum of interpretation is involved.

How the powers of the Christian past are to be related to the living moment so as to help such a central affirmation as the Resurrection of Jesus Christ to bloom in the mind to its indeterminate dimension, I do not clearly know.

So it follows that the notion of God's revelation, as Christians believe it, must be understood always through the great Hebrew affirmations — this, in fact, is why the early Church refused to cut the Gospel of Jesus Christ loose from its moorings in the Old Testament, and why such thinkers as sought to do this, like Marcion and other Gnostic writers, were condemned as perverters of the faith.

And yet it is precisely this confidence which seems so unrealistic, even fantastic, to many modern people, who nevertheless long for some ultimate justice, some ultimate affirmation of life over death.

It's just a small incarnational moment, hardly worth noticing for most of the world, but for me, this was a metaphor moment of life in the Kingdom, life in the glorious truth of worship in spirit and truth, Jesus - shaped leadership as servanthood, and so our family's lighting of another candle within community, with their affirmation and prayers and participation, pushed back just a bit more of the darkness, and then we scattered back out again.

Crucially however this is to say more than the affirmation of Pieper, Sartre and Aquinas that «things only have an essential nature only in so far as they are fashioned by thought.»

In doing so we shall bear in mind that such instruction, both in the literature and in the established practice of the primitive church, was made to depend upon the affirmations of the kerygma.

But we may profit from still another brief summary of the relevant affirmations of process thought, about which so much has been said in preceding chapters.

Between the Testaments the affirmations of it became convinced and unequivocal: «Sheol also shall give back that which it has received»; (The book of Enoch 51:1) «The earth shall restore those that are asleep in her, and so shall the dust those that dwell therein in silence.»

Lots of expectation and very little affirmation... ------ I surely can't speak for anyone but me, but yes, tough job [but then Jesus made it clear it wasn't going to be easy, so no surprise there].

Even in the Easter affirmation of the Resurrection of Jesus, so important for Christianity, we can now point to no firm historical evidence to show that there occurred there a miracle which involved suspension or reversal of natural laws — in this case, the normal processes of decay into which the physical body enters after the point of death.

Third, she reflects the amorality of so much rock music in its affirmation of any and every experience, regardless of the personal cost, since the point of the singer's giving is not only the recipient's pleasure but also the perverse pleasure she experiences in the excess of her gesture.

Out of their respective experiences, both traditional and contemporary, and influenced by their education and their vocational commitments, they bring to their listening, consciously and unconsciously, meaning in the form of questions, hypotheses, affirmations, doubts, fears, and so on.

Such an acceptance and affirmation is possible only if man will give all of the energy which he once directed to a transcendent beyond to the immediate moment, thus releasing every source of energy so as to effect a total engagement with the actual present before him.

These affirmations are a fragile minority report when they come to embodiment in Jesus of Nazareth who had so little power.

The current life - style of so many teenage girls suggests a contempt for virginity — in which a girl should naturally see an affirmation of her own sense of self - worth, the surrender of which signifies the total gift of self and as such is to be kept for the man she marries.

The attitudes that infuse so much of section 3 of the book are hinted at in countless dubious affirmations, suggestions and examples.

The affirmations of the latter are certainly meant to be timeless truths, and in so far as they are adequate, they may pass as such.