Sentences with phrase «of supernatural»

Luther denied the natural order to the benefit of the supernatural, but grace became completely alien to the human creature.

In short, nothing in history of human endeavor can make otherwise smart, functioning people believe the most implausible of supernatural absurdities the way religion can.

And now we come to that rediscovered doctrine of our day: the mystical Body of Christ in which we, by Baptism, are incorporate so that «in Christ» we live divinely human lives, as members of the order of supernatural charity which permeates and penetrates this order of relative justice which we call the secular world.

And there is nothing that the Halakhah loathes and despises as much as the idea of cultic mediation or the choosing of individuals, on the basis of supernatural considerations, to be intercessors for the community.»

The fatal flaw in Gregory's metaphysics is not his otherworldliness but his inability to conceive of the worldliness of the supernatural.

It is just one more harsh, glaring spotlight on the falsity of the supernatural fantasies of that book.

RB, This is a problem for us in a discussion if you allow questions to considered evidence, things that have perfectly good natural explanations as evidence of supernatural things, etc..

Atheism need not make any positive claims about the possible existence of a supernatural agent.

Can you give any evidence of supernatural intervention from that era that DOES N'T come from the Bible?

Instead of being fearful of the supernatural because of what I experienced, Christ has enabled me to help people going through that and even cleanse their homes in the name of Jesus.

We consider ghosts to be part of the supernatural, but if we found evidence for ghosts, then we would simply redefine what we understand as being «natural» to include them, right?

I'll go so far to include any of the supernatural such as ghosts, spirits, demons, Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, and such.

Peter Berger, in his extraordinary little book, Rumor of Angels, notes that «the theological surrender to the alleged demise of the supernatural defeats itself in precisely the measure of its success.

Since the gospels tell differing versions of the same story, you pretty much have to pick and choose what version to accept or just say it is not reasonable to believe any of the supernatural mumbo jumbo.

There is not a single bit of factual, objective, independent or verifiable evidence to support any of the supernatural claims in The Babble.

In Modern Fantasy: Five Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1975), C. N. Manlove has argued that the use of the supernatural — and I would include magic — is not simply a possibility in the fantasy tale; it is a driving force in the story and takes a central role in the development and shaping of characters as well as plot.

Dr. Maudsley is perhaps the cleverest of the rebutters of supernatural religion on grounds of origin.

Jesus was original not only in taking the Suffering Servant as a type of the Messiah but also in combining this conception with that of the supernatural Son of Man.

There is no suggestion that the soul is some kind of supernatural element which in some way marks off man from nature and provides a special point of contact for divine activity.

This was not a recondite debate of supernatural theology.

He probably is, but he has gotten thousands, maybe millions, following his teachings in the truth of a supernatural being without any evidence at all.

Perhaps Rossano's hypothesis is asnear as a materialist gets to appreciating religion without conceding the reality of the supernatural order.

The only relevant question for the theologian is the basic assumption on which the adoption of a biological as of every other Weltanschauung rests, and that assumption is the view of the world which has been molded by modern science and the modern conception of human nature as a self - subsistent unity immune from the interference of supernatural powers.

As an educated person, I can not believe that these types of supernatural belief systems hold any relevance in today's society.

This analysis of faith means that intellect is intimately involved in the perception of supernatural truth.

Well - meaning interpreters have sometimes gone too far in trying to defend the accuracy of the Bible by natural explanations of supernatural events.

It is the scene of the supernatural activity of God and his angels on the one hand, and of Satan and his demons on the other.

[15] De Lubac, The Mystery of the Supernatural, 136 - 137.

[7] Henri de Lubac, The Mystery of the Supernatural, trans.

Everything turns upon how precisely we abandon natural causation in favor of supernatural explanations — i.e. whether by the «nevertheless» of faith (cf. Glauben und Verstehen, pp. 214ff.)

But religious love is only man's natural emotion of love directed to a religious object; religious fear is only the ordinary fear of commerce, so to speak, the common quaking of the human breast, in so far as the notion of divine retribution may arouse it; religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge; only this time it comes over us at the thought of our supernatural relations; and similarly of all the various sentiments which may be called into play in the lives of religious persons.

The integration of the supernatural and natural worlds suggests to Pepler that «the whole universe» is seen «from the divine angle» so that «a unified view in which everything that is created forms a single whole.»

Faith, sin, heaven, hell, God and grace» these are throwback ideas to a dark age of supernatural mumbo jumbo and witch burnings, doomed to the dustbin of history.

[8] De Lubac, The Mystery of the Supernatural, 76.

It has been the irritating grain of sand in the oyster, around which the Catholic ages deposited the priceless pearl of supernatural, otherworldly piety; but for the modern church it has remained an impossible ideal of asceticism, an ideal whose very first precondition of fulfillment is lacking, namely, the eschatological outlook upon the world, the belief in the impending Judgment and the Age to Come.

We are expected to prove God's existence by pointing to the natural world and inferring from it, without the possibility of error, the presence in the background of a supernatural Coefficient; or rather, Efficient.

A miracle is the performance of a supernatural deed which is related to the claim of the right to prophesy, a deed which ordinary people can not perform.

Free, also, of supernatural hocus - pocus here is a genuine Friend who does everything divine power can do to defeat the world's pain and suffering.

Herb, you have no proof of the supernatural.

Eventually it came to be expressed almost exclusively in the mythological terms of a supernatural unseen world.

The proof that it was here was found in the actual presence of the Spirit, that is, of the supernatural in the experience of men.

The fact that places mentioned in the Bible have been verified archeologically has no bearing on the veracity of the supernatural stories put forth in that book.

There is not one shred of proof for any of the supernatural aspects of the bible.

Dione seems under a compulsion to translate everything in our religious tradition which hints of the supernatural into naturalistic terms.

11:19), Jesus is apparently referring to himself in some sense as a special messenger of God, but there is no suggestion here of a supernatural and apocalyptic second coming.

You can post quotes from and references to this book all year long and it will not change the fact that: Yes, there are some practical words of wisdom for peaceful human behavior in it (as there are in most religious texts), but just because this is true it does not make all of the supernatural fantasies in it true.

The fact that places or people mentioned in the Bible have been verified archeologically has no bearing on the veracity of the supernatural stories put forth in that book.

Do they have science classes devoted to finding evidence of a supernatural being.

Unless you have really delved deeply into other religions, and I mean as deeply as you claim others must delve into your belief before they can understand, then any and all creation stories must be considered serious contenders in a belief of a supernatural cause for everything.

I mean look how much is contained in those writings — the miracles, Jesus» life, what he said along with what the Apostle's said — so there's really a lot riding on the validity of the gospels in terms of the supernatural Jesus versus Jesus, the plain man, wouldn't you agree?