Sentences with phrase «of alienation which»

All of this alienation which we see day to day?

Religion is often described as the healing of an alienation which has opened between man and his world: this is true; but we may not forget that it is religion which has brought about that alienation.

An acknowledged feature of our world is the sense of alienation which many feel.

Not exact matches

You may even at times feel degrees of alienation from the group of which you are a part.

Nevertheless, and here we continue to have much to learn from the radical Christian, we can not neglect the possibility that it is precisely our alienation from the religious world of primitive Christianity which can make possible our realization of the fundamental if underlying meaning of the earliest expressions of the Christian faith.

The issue in Romans, in Jewett's reading, is not humanity's alienation from God because of sin and the ways in which sin is revealed through boasting over others and in which the law becomes implicated through the deep urges of the flesh.

The alienation from God which results from this idolatry is at the very root of man's aloneness and anxiety.

If it is true, as Holloway argues, that the very foundations of matter and the identity of human nature are aligned upon the coming of the Word made flesh, then a society which is uncertain about the existence of God and whether Man has any meaning or purpose must be subject to crisis, alienation and chaos even more inevitably than CiV is able to show.

Not only is the mutable world separated from its divine principle — the One — by intervals of emanation that descend in ever greater alienation from their source, but because the highest truth is the secret identity between the human mind and the One, the labor of philosophy is one of escape: all multiplicity, change, particularity, every feature of the living world, is not only accidental to this formless identity, but a kind of falsehood, and to recover the truth that dwells within, one must detach oneself from what lies without, including the sundry incidentals of one's individual existence; truth is oblivion of the flesh, a pure nothingness, to attain which one must sacrifice the world.

The reform of canon law is still far away... in short, there is nothing like a new Pentecost to be noticed, but rather quarrels and alienation among Catholics themselves, new unsolved questions in theology as well as in Christian living on which we had seemed to be agreed before the Council, the continuing silent apostasy of the masses, the rejection of faith, Christian morality and conviction in public life.

We need to recognise our alienation from our sexuality and to lay bold claim to the gospel's promise of reconciliation to our embodiment, and then to explore some of the ways in which sexuality enters into our experience of Christian faith.

Lack of self - acceptance may have the retrogressive appearance of alienation from others, in which solitariness is felt as an intolerable burden and the totality is perceived as a void.

The basic ideas in the meaning of hell are alienation and separation from God by persistent rejection of him, the tighter forging of the chains of sin as we misuse our freedom, and the loneliness, remorse, and inner turmoil which are sin's worst punishment.

According to the opening chapters of Genesis, humanity and all the world are created good — but humans repeatedly choose, as they are free to do, a course which yields disruption, alienation and chaos.

This led some to identification with radical campus movements (which ultimately risked profound alienation from judicatories) or to identification with the central administration (which obviously translated the campus minister into a member of the university administration).

• After three months of cruel interrogation and torture of approximately seven hundred people arrested in connection with the July 20, 1944 plot on Hitler's life, the Gestapo concluded in its final report: «The entire inner alienation from the ideas of National Socialism which characterized the men of the reactionary conspiratorial circle expresses itself above all in their position on the Jewish question.

Gayness is one of many sins, which proves alienation from God, but inside the Church should only be people, which are reconciled with God.

That is what is behind the sense of alienation and estrangement, along with the feeling of unacceptability, about which Tillich wrote.

The opposite of estrangement and alienation is at - onement, which is a oneness with self, with one's neighbors, with nature and with God (see also Chapter 6).

I said that gayness is only one of many sins, which prove our alienation from God.

... The immediate task of philosophy, which is at the service of history, once the saintly form of human self - alienation has been unmasked, is to unmask self - alienation in its unholy forms.

Given free will, a man must strive for an occupation in which he can do the greatest good for the greatest number, and he gravely points out the dangers of alienation and self - deception.

He «found a woman with whom he felt able to be completely open about himself» — and this not long after the Narnia stories, in which Lewis finally made his peace with the loss of his mother and his alienation from his father.

They do not even think about the fact that their being scandalized by alienation, oppression, and repression does not spring from the French revolution in 1789 and the eighteenth - century philosophers, nor from Greek thought (which is completely foreign to freedom, in spite of what has been said on the subject!)

The ego mode, which correlates with the mode of presentational immediacy, is engaged with the given, actively seeking to create a solution to the problem, defining the self through identifications and alienations (self vs. not - self).

Alienation is first and foremost the awareness of a fact without which religion and its interpretations could not exist.

Indeed, religion stands so badly in need of that preliminary feeling of alienation that one may well wonder whether it does not itself create the very condition which it wants to remedy.

Private property should be suppressed not by making it common property, but by abolishing the alienation itself of which it is the expression.

Men and women through the ages have also spoken of a reorientation of one's life in which, at least partially, anxiety and internal conflict can be replaced by an inner unity and sense of direction; self - defensiveness and pretense by the ability to look at oneself honestly; self - centeredness and alienation from other people by a new capacity for genuine concern; and guilt and insecurity by a sense of God's forgiveness and acceptance.

I believe it is a misplaced enthusiasm which has yielded very little in the way of desired results and which has caused a great deal of alienation and hurt.

The basic Christian doctrine of sin, which stressed that humanity exists in a tragic state of alienation from the God who created it in his own image, is being replaced by the discovery that humanity is currently in a state of war with the planet which has brought it forth.

Ambiguity can be partially transcended most of the time, and fully transcended in certain ecstatic moments in which the awareness of being in loving union with all life blots out all alienation.

Between the naivete of uncritical fusion with the horizon of one's own heritage and the sundering of that unity by the distance of objectification lies a moment of negativity which can be variously described as suspicion, alienation, doubt, detachment, temptation, or death.

Theological anthropology would agree with this but would add that it is too superficial to interpret the self - centredness in human beings as a mechanical disorder or as an organic maladjustment easily corrected by the mechanical or organic processes to come; and that the condition of rational objectivity also requires overcoming of the spiritual alienation of the self from God which is behind all psychic and social alienations.

Israel's alienation from Yahweh is willful and complete, the shocking betrayal of her pride and arrogance which appear all the more reprehensible against the background of such relationships as father - son (Isa.

Actually, Christian theology at its best has recognized that sin is not fundamentally an act but rather the condition of alienation or estrangement out of which harmful acts may arise.

The resulting alienations affect the church by eliminating its essential dipolarity of faith and world — that intersection which is the focal point of ministry.

To renounce this idea, Kim says, «would render our moral and cognitive life wholly unintelligible to us, plunging us into a state of self - alienation in which we could no longer understand, or care, why we do what we do, or how our norms and beliefs regulate our deliberations and decisions» (SM xv).

The result is a fragmentation of culture which is mirrored in the self - alienation and dis - integration of persons.

(1) There is the (partial) estrangement of humankind from the world (or nature), evidenced by (a) enmity between serpent and woman; (b) partial alienation of man from the earth, upon which he must now toil for his food; and (c) pain of childbirth, implying conflict even within the (female) human body.

In different ways they seek to overcome the domination - submission - alienation syndrome of which religious language in the past has been a vehicle.

But because the fall is man's alienation from life and his illness, which is also his death, the noetic part of his soul needs to be cured so that it may see the Light and attain participation with God.

Our alienation from the earth, from ourselves, and from a truly creative man - woman relationship in an overly masculine mode of being, demands a reciprocal historical period in which not only a balance will be achieved but even, perhaps, a period of feminine emphasis.

While there are tributes to the earth in the scriptures and in Christian liturgy, there is a tendency to see the earth as a seductive reality, which brought about alienation from God in the agricultural peoples of the Near East.

It is a radical perversion from God, disloyalty to the Creator who has given us so much and remains so loyal, an insulting alienation from Him, in which all of us, without exception, have shared.

It is a manifest indication of the extent to which, in our so - called postmodern context, alienation is still «in.»

Love is not realizable until the social alienation of human beings in a class society is overcome and classless society emerges, for which, of course, the ethics of power - politics of class - struggle with its denials of love is to be followed.

Most damning of all, America has become the very embodiment of that alienation, anomie, and dehumanization which is the curse of existence in a highly technological and urban society (Heidegger has remarked that, metaphysically speaking, America and Russia are the same, for here «time as history» has vanished from human life).

Thus in biblical thought, there are two divine covenants with humanity operating in the face of evil created by human self - alienation from God — one, the covenant of redemptive grace with Abraham which ends in the Messianic Kingdom of Love and the other, the covenant with Noah of protective law of reverence for life and later with Moses of the Ten Commandments for the preservation of rough justice in society.

The resulting alienation is perforce responded to by Yahweh, since the conditions of creation have in any case already been altered; or perhaps there is a sense in which the ensuing alienation is itself the positive judgment of God.