Sentences with phrase «of philosophical speculations»

While Jewish Christians often erred in the direction of legalism, Gentile Christians often erred in the direction of philosophical speculations which sundered Christianity from its historical roots» (God's Festivals in Scripture and The Catholic theologian Augustine lived A.D. 354 - 430.

Grant, Lord, that your descent into the universal Species may not be for me just something loved and cherished, like the fruit of some philosophical speculation, but may become for me truly a real Presence.

If he accepts other norms besides this, then he must return to some identification of revealed propositional truth, admit some other encounter with God than that which occurs in Jesus Christ, or allow authority to the conclusions of philosophical speculation.

Now for Hegel, as for most of the philosophers of the tradition, the end of philosophical speculation is the attainment of truth (usually taken in some absolutist sense), and we reach such truth through the proper employment of reason.

[49] All this leads to the inescapable conclusion that the rarefied atmosphere of philosophical speculation can often cause the feet - on - the ground dimension to be lost sight of.

Although the concepts of polarity and of the coincidentia oppositorum have been used in a systematic fashion since the beginnings of philosophical speculation, the symbols that dimly revealed them were not the result of critical reflection, but of an existential tension.

If revelation has sought to teach us of the mysteries of the Trinity transcending human reason, we must remember that its reflection began in the effort to understand just how God and the person of Jesus are to be related, and must make allowance for the partial or total eclipse of specific revelational content by the overlay of philosophical speculation.

Keith Arnatt's I Have Decided to Go to the Tate Gallery Next Friday, typifies the tone: a photograph of the artist in his Seventies flares walking up the entry steps to Tate Britain is accompanied by two panels of philosophical speculation on the meaning of the work's title.

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The biggest of philosophical and theological questions such as life after death can only be answered with faith or educated speculation.

Then, abruptly abandoning the autobiographical narrative, Augustine embarks on a series of theological and philosophical speculations about time, memory, and the opening chapters of Genesis.

I have attempted to show that Hartshorne overestimates the argumentative power of his rationalistic principles in the process of eliminating other philosophical positions, and that genuine empirical criteria are inevitable if metaphysics is going to be something more than pure speculation.

Pacioni himself tells us that throughout his book he has «tried to reconstruct the framework of Augustine's speculation in all of its most original philosophical traits, following philosophical and logical - linguistic suggestions performing a point by point analysis of the texts not only from a philological but also a historiographical, cultural and logical - formal point of view» (p. xix).

Only in the light of this his central task can Kierkegaard's attacks upon the philosophical speculation of Hegel or upon the social, political and ecclesiastical life of his day be understood.

Ideal first with the need for speculation to fulfill the twin ideals of adequacy and coherence with regard to philosophical theology, or «natural» theology, meaning theology insofar as it deals with data that are in principle universally accessible.

First of all, then, the gospel is not philosophical or religious speculation.

In every age, people naturally form World Pictures that are syntheses of ideas derived from various sources - prevailing scientific theories, philosophical speculation, revealed truth, widely accepted notions, and «common sense».

This decisiveness and completeness of acceptance is prevented when we become entangled with questions about how it is related to scientific knowledge and philosophical speculations.

And it is conjectured that much of the impulse to the profound religious and philosophical speculation which forms the basis of the Upanishads was from the non-Brahmin ranks.

Historically, there have been three routes taken to explore that possibility: the philosophical examination of the idea of immortality; various religious beliefs and speculations on an eternal life; and, most recently, a reinvigorated scientific dream of overcoming aging and death.

True, the historic creeds — Apostles» and Nicene — are presupposed in all our discussions, but there is profound significance in the fact that when a modern ecumenical conference goes in search of a conception which will set forth the essential content of historic Christianity, it does not expect to find it in a philosophical speculation about God, but in a revelation of his character and his disposition toward man.

What this essay claims to offer is not philosophical speculation but an extension of our biological perspective — no more, and no less.

It is a hastily planned sea voyage, a metaphoric exchange of solid ground for the unsteady, highly volatile seas of philosophical and aesthetic speculation and, as such, an apt metaphor for German Romanticism's precarious explorations as a whole.

The Church did not accept every philosophical speculation Augustine suggested, sometimes tentatively, to explain the «how» of it.

the unchecked speculations of the human mind, an essentially practical instrument, inevitably lead to philosophical problems which are and will remain insoluble because they are presented backwards.

If God is not like what we have been taught, then when we declare, «God does not exist,» we are not denying the God who does truly exist, but the god who is nothing more than a figment of human imagination, philosophical speculation, sociological superstition, and religious wish - fulfillment.

Philosophy should take the results of science as given, as data from which philosophical speculation begins.

The Hellenic material which was transmitted to Islam was used for the advancement of philosophical and scientific speculations and for many practical applications.

Perhaps the most important function of religious symbolism — important above all because of the role which it will play in later philosophical speculations — is its capacity for expressing paradoxical situations, or certain structures of ultimate reality, otherwise quite inexpressible.

The so - called indeterminacy of the quantum world is thus the consequence of an unproved philosophical view and so provides no firm basis for theological speculations.

Alex Garland's screenplay is pretty lean in terms of story (in the way that Jaws can be described as lean) and is more concerned with psychological suspense as opposed to philosophical speculation.

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The Collective's work addresses connectedness, temporality and plenitude, and places them at the intersection of art, historical enquiry and philosophical speculation.

Their work, which has been exhibited widely in major international spaces, locates them in the intersections of contemporary art, historical enquiry, philosophical speculation, research, and theory.

The novel's central character, whose name also evokes that of a famous observatory, continuously makes philosophical observations and speculations about the world around him — a wave, the rays of the sun, a pair of turtles, a sand garden — all leading to ruminations on the nature of things and Being towards the universal.

Their work, which has been exhibited widely in major international spaces, locates them in the intersections of contemporary art, historical enquiry, philosophical speculation, research and theory — often taking the form of installations, online and offline media objects, performances and encounters.