Sentences with phrase «of ideas of perfection»

is as rigorous a division of the theological problem as can be given if any use at all is to be made of the idea of perfection — and what theology has avoided its use?

In the past year or so, I signed up for so many projects and had so many deadlines that I was forced to let go of my idea of perfection, and surprisingly, my art got better, not worse, and I was able to accomplish so much and put so much of myself into the world.

Her writing invites us to believe in ourselves, to be brave and kind, to let go of the idea of perfection, and to stop making motherhood, marriage, and friendship harder by pretending they're not hard.

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The pursuit of perfection can be the greatest threat to market success for your brilliant business idea.

Under Armour's «I Will What I Want» ad leverages the insight that women are pushing back against the idea of perfection and embracing themselves.

Leonardo once explained to a Duke, who was complaining a painting was not progressing, «Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work the least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.»

At the roots of the physical world, therefore, one does not find mere inchoate slime or dust but instead a richness and perfection of form based on profound, subtle, and beautiful mathematical ideas.

I'm not going to say perfection is impossible, though it seems to be ruled out by 1 John 1:8, but the idea of a whole church of people thinking they are perfect kind of blows my mind.

The idea seems to be that Millennials are so cynically resistant to truth claims and so hostile towards claims of moral perfection that somehow the arresting power of religious or even purely artistic beauty might be the principle means to, as it were, lower their guard, and enable them to glimpse something of the workings of the creator.

At the very essence of a utopia is the idea of progressive movement toward a not - yet - achieved perfection.

Once we establish the idea that Eden was perfect, rather than it being Good and at best, Very Good, we begin a frantic journey of a restoration of perfection and salvation is finding a way to forgive fallen broken creation for its lapse from perfection so we can be loved by «God» again.

If theology is capable of rejuvenation, its hope lies, I believe, in a re-examination of the idea of infinity or perfection.

First, he believes that in the modern era, the Church Fathers» ideas about divine attributes, traditionally dear to Catholics and Protestants alike — such as divine perfection, simplicity, eternity, and immutability — have to be evaluated anew in light of a narrative reading of the Gospel.

Foss, Martin, The Idea of Perfection in the Western World.

By describing this place as perfect, you're allowed to fill it with whatever you want as your idea of «perfection» because its impo.ssible for you to be «let down» by a heaven waiting for you that doesn't conform to perfection.

He can not distinguish questions regarding the existence of the universe from questions regarding its physical origin; he does not grasp how assertions regarding the absolute must logically differ from assertions regarding contingent beings; he does not know the differences between truths of reason and empirical facts; he has no concept of ontology, in contradistinction to, say, physics or evolutionary biology; he does not understand how assertions regarding transcendental perfections differ from assertions regarding maximum magnitude; he clumsily imagines that the idea of God is susceptible to the same argument from infinite regress traditionally advanced against materialism; he does not understand what the metaphysical concept of simplicity entails; and on and on.

One was the classical idea of the perfection of God, which held that since God was perfect God must be unchangeable (and therefore unaffected in any real sense by the affairs of this world).

Existence is a positive quality of perfection, and if we have an idea of the Perfect Being, that Perfect Being must exist, or our idea would be self - contradictory.

Though there are many links in the chain, the theology of Scotus eventually leads to Feuerbach's progressive history of religion, according to which our successive ideas of the divine are simply projections of human possibilities of perfection onto a large screen that we call God.

In Man's Vision of God, Hartshorne's classification is made with sole reference to the idea of perfection.

The classical idea of God's perfection is indeed problematic.

To be the latter, however, the idea of perfection must be self - contradictory.

But process philosophy can elaborate a neoclassical idea of perfection free from self - contradiction.

In this scheme the quantifiers «all,» «some,» and «none» are combined with the ideas of «absolute perfection,» «relative perfection,» and «imperfection'to produce seven different conceptions of deity which are conveniently grouped into three broad types of theism: classical theism, within which God is conceived as absolutely perfect in all respects and in no way surpassable; atheistic views, in which there is no being which is in any respect perfect or unsurpassable; and the «new theism,» in which God is in some respects perfect and unsurpassable by others but is surpassable by himself.

Within the context of this discussion, including the redefinition of perfection and the divine attributes of omnipotence and omniscience, the idea of God is important because God is the supreme exemplification of character and virtue, the One that empowers growth in character and virtue, the One humans are called to imitate.

In Adventures of Ideas Whitehead offers another description of harmony: perfection of harmony is defined in terms of perfection of the subjective form of the satisfaction of an actual entity; and perfection of subjective form is defined in terms of strength, which has two components, massiveness and intensity (AI 253).

Furthermore, the notion of perfection refers to a being that is unsurpassable, which does not preclude the idea that this being can not surpass itself.

5 The word (Greek) which is usually translated «perfect» occurs fairly frequently in Paul's letters.6 The problem of the various forms of perfectionism in Christianity has been thoroughly analyzed in such works as Dr. Sangster's Path to Perfection, a study of John Wesley, and R. Newton Flews» The Idea of Perfection in Christian Theology.7 The meaning of this doctrine of perfection is one problem for ChristPerfection, a study of John Wesley, and R. Newton Flews» The Idea of Perfection in Christian Theology.7 The meaning of this doctrine of perfection is one problem for ChristPerfection in Christian Theology.7 The meaning of this doctrine of perfection is one problem for Christperfection is one problem for Christian faith.

(Adventures of Ideas, New York: The Free Press, 1967, 257) These discordant feelings, in themselves destructive and evil, make a contribution by producing «the positive feeling of a quick shift of aim from the tameness of outworn perfection to some other ideal with its freshness still upon it.»

The perfection of the subjective aim of an actual occasion is «the absence from it of component feelings which mutually inhibit each other...» (Adventures of Ideas, New York: The Free Press, 1967, 256) One form of inhibition, complete inhibition, is finiteness and does not derogate from perfection.

We can expect of our elected officials (and ourselves) integrity — the idea that we can act as honorably in the locker room as we would from the stage of the political rally or the seat in the Oval Office — without requiring perfection.

In the closing chapter of Adventures of Ideas, Whitehead discusses the final ideal requisite for the perfection of life, «Peace.»

Hartshomne hails as Anselm's great discovery the ideas that God's mode of being is utterly unique in his perfection or unsurpassability and that contingent existence is inferior to necessary existence.72

The bigger danger is puritanism — the idea that somehow you can expel all unrighteousness from your ranks by making your standards for righteousness ever tighter and your acceptance of anything but perfection less and less likely.

This assumes a definite idea of perfection.

But the essence of the Hellenistic idea of God is that deity is by nature all that men by nature can not be: God is uncompounded, absolutely simple, hence static (a state identified with perfection), unchanging, subject to no variation, eternal, impassible, unmoved.

Against the parching certitudes of Marxism - Leninism, Solzhenitsyn sets the sort of thinking that gives life — the affirmation, not of the idea of humanity and its destined perfection, nor of endless and irremediable brutality, but of the reality of the human individual with his simultaneous weakness and dignity.

However, in order to understand the saying we must consider — on the assumption that it is genuine, and therefore spoken not in Greek but in Aramaic — that it is not allowable to introduce here the Greek idea of perfection.

The very idea of perfection has become alien to us.

This must be one of the reasons why Whitehead devotes so much space to questions concerning the methods and principles of applying mathematical ideas to the phenomena of nature, and why he sees himself obliged to write that «all science as it grows to perfection becomes mathematical in its ideas» (IM 6).

The reason is clear: the discussion about existence as a perfection, as if that were all that is involved, does not make explicit the far more important point that, in the case of «God,» properly understood, nonexistence was never a real possibility, a consideration entirely overlooked by those who blithely say that, of course, we all know that no existence can be derived from «mere» ideas.

However, lest you get the idea that Mother's Day at our house was all unicorn glittery Hallmark magical perfection, let me reassure you that time has most definitely and conveniently smoothed over the rough edges of my memories.

Adapted from the one and only Martha Stewart, this pie crust is my idea of buttery, flaky perfection.

I am in love with both coconut and cherries so this is my idea of perfection!

Oyako donburi is my idea of Japanese comfort food: tender to perfection, flavorful, with lots of yummy sauce over fresh hot steamy rice.

I'm crazy obsessed with the nut butter, honey, and grain combo, so these are definitely idea of perfection.

But the idea of perfection has been taken to a whole new level with women.

Let go worrying about what others think of me, let go of the idea of «perfection» and the worry that I'm doing it «right» — whatever «right» is (dinner every night, a clean house, crafting with the kids, looking «blog» worthy all of the time...).

Geber, who tried to create gold by removing sulfur and adding mercury, pooh - poohed this idea in The Sum of Perfection.

I think it's definitely worth including, you can always restate your idea of perfection, but being «spacious» will certainly help people (me) relax with your ideas, while not putting them off, while giving them time to get into your ideas more fully.