Sentences with phrase «of the spiritual nature of»

The understanding of the form is important, I believe, because authors of fantasy are often visionaries of the spiritual nature of man.

Not exact matches

She says that Winfrey's strong «spiritual nature» and deep faith helped her keep a sense of perspective through the worst times

Moreover, it is a truth accessible to reason unaided by divine revelation that human beings have a spiritual nature, in the sense of being rational and free and having a soul that is not reducible to matter.

But the idea of personhood and a rational (i.e. spiritual) nature that qualitatively distinguishes us from lower forms of life is, as I noted above, a truth accessible to «the natural light of reason.»

We all get angry form time to time, but I find those with no spiritual aspect to their natures are angry much of the time.

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It was the spiritual guide, the moral and legal code, the political system, the sustenance of life, whether that meant endurance of hardship, the endless struggle against nature, battle with enemies, or the inevitable processes of life and death.

The AA program seeks to reverse this catastrophic farrago by rewriting the mental pathways of the addict using his residual spiritual notions to restore God as the ultimate witness to his behavior, coaxing him to live again in harmony with his given nature and natural limits.

Your education's spiritual significance is not measured by the amount of formal ministry that accompanies it, because it is already spiritual by nature.

So that the marriage union betwixt Christ and you is more than a bare notion or apprehension of your mind; for it is a special, spiritual, and real union: it is an union betwixt the nature of Christ, God and man, and you; it is a knitting and closing, not only of your apprehension with a Saviour, but also of your soul with a Saviour.

I'm in a season of rethinking church & I'd appreciate links to the blog posts & books you would recommend that best unpack & support the idea that the western, institutional church wineskin is, by nature, prone to spiritual abuse.

It is our free, human intelligence that is part of our spiritual nature.

And would you have him nearer to you than to be in the same nature, united to you by a spiritual union, so close as to be fitly represented by the union of the wife to the husband, of the branch to the vine, of the member to the head; yea, so as to be one spirit?

The first expression of gnosticism hid in the spiritual nature of the human person and focused on meditation and sacrifice.

Perfect civil righteousness does not undo the basically sinful nature of man; only spiritual righteousness does that, and spiritual righteousness is nothing else than faith in Christ.

Explicitly identifying himself with the position of historical idealism, Polak maintains that it is precisely the spiritual nature of the values widely held in a society that gives them their power.

Thus, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, show that man's nature and nurture in their relational as in their universal aspects, must be conceived with due regard for the inextricable interdependence of physical, mental, and spiritual factors.

So a fundamental part of education is to expose such hidden or explicit purposes and presuppositions and critically examine them and transform them to a conscious commitment to a world - view which sees nature, humanity and cosmos within an organic life system working within an ultimate framework of a spiritual movement of self - determining selves towards a community of justice and love.

AA's twelve steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole [quoted from the forward to the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions].

Today, however, with greater awareness of the psychosomatic nature of much illness, there is renewed interest in spiritual healing.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

The phenomenon of language nicely illustrates the synthesis of physical, mental, and spiritual aspects in human nature.

For those who are less initiated, like the poor Japanese Christians, a religion of outward practices is permissible, but that too tends of its nature towards an ever less visible and more spiritual mode of being.

In the same way man's secret is to be sought not in the long - outgrown stages of his embryonic life, whether individual or racial, but in the spiritual nature of his soul.

That is also the fruit of any ideology which denies the spiritual nature and supernatural vocation of Man.

Underlying this erroneous tendency, as Faith has pointed out many times over the last forty years, is the implicit or explicit denial of the transcendence of God, the Divinity of Christ, the historical objectivity of revelation and the authority of the Church in matters of faith and morals, and also the denial of the spiritual soul as a principle of existence that is distinct from yet integrates the material within the unity of our human nature.

For, as Caldecott highlights, the Catholic tendency, from Thomas Aquinas through to the contemporary Catechism (one might also add St Augustine and the 14th - century papal Encyclical Benedictus Deus) has been to emphasise that the human soul is not physical, but rather spiritual, in the image of God's divine nature, and directly created at conception.

Tracey Rowland, in Catholic World Report's «round table» discussion (not reported in its print edition) argues that the Pope is affirming that «When cultures no longer serve the deepest needs of human nature and actually narrow the spiritual horizons of people, people don't know who they are and feel depressed.

Since the mid-seventies, Charlene Spretnak says, a movement of spiritual renewal that honors nature, the female and the body has flourished.

Worse than just the threat of «extinction», this threatens the eternal frustration of human nature - spiritual as well as physical death.

They are tired of having their spiritual natures squelched or denied.

Accordingly the «other world,» the Kingdom of God, is not conceived as a universal metaphysical entity, as a finer, higher, more spiritual nature over against the earthly nature.

At first they may be taken merely as aesthetic moments, such as communing with nature, savouring memories andimages, meeting mysteries, the heightened sensing of musical sounds, odours, colours, the thrill of acute poetic expression, or moving encounters with other human beings; but on further reflection people often cite such experiences as having a spiritual quality and as hints of the divine.

However, unlike the environment of purely material creatures, this relationship of growth to fulfilment is based on freedom of response, because that is the condition of existence as spiritual personality, and it is the very nature of God who is Love.

The undeniable fact that Jesus loves ALL mankind seems to be lost upon many who profess to follow Him, while the fact that He came to deliver us from the bondage of «natural» desires, those carnal impulses which contradict the spiritual nature for which we were created, seems lost on many others without regard to any principles of character which conflict with the principle «if it feels good, it must be right».

Last year our family joined a small group that focuses on sharing real life together, while being intentionally vague in defining the spiritual nature of our gatherings.

There is no justification, no spiritual reason, why forces of nature such as hurricanes and viruses hurt us or why some of us get hit by cars or lost when planes crash.

Feuerbach further offended the people of his day by suggesting that the ancient nature religions remained superior to Christianity since they were sensuously in touch with the earth and with nature, whereas Christianity had become separated from nature, and had made of God a separate, sexless, spiritual being.

In that case, if they were in the nature of visions (which does not imply unreality) or manifestations of a spiritual body, the old artists» picture of a material body emerging from the tomb is altogether incongruous.

While the mind is not the seat of the spiritual nature, it is indeed the gateway thereto.

The church therefore would seem to have much to offer the New Urbanist enterprise out of its own long intellectual and spiritual traditions — not least a serious and sophisticated view of human nature and human community, a pastoral mandate to serve rich and poor, and a long history of urban and architectural patronage.

Most Christians overlook the fact that Jesus was a spiritual genius and understood the intertwining of spiritual law and the laws of nature.

He contended in Fides et Ratio that anthropology is the nexus of the two Thomisms: «Metaphysics should not be seen as an alternative to anthropology, since it is metaphysics which makes it possible to ground the concept of personal dignity in virtue of their spiritual nature.

Much ecotheology, process theology and creation spirituality go even further by arguing against the traditional split between inert, value - free nature and a transcendent God, and by arguing that God acts in and through the processes of nature, which are reconceived as sacred or spiritual.

Yes, religious liberals have accepted evolution pretty much from the time Charles Darwin first proposed it, but in contrast to Darwin many of them believe that evolution is purposeful and that nature has a spiritual dimension.

(However, I believe that our spiritual nature, unsullied, is substantially the same as the spiritual nature of God, which we refer to in terms such as the Logos, the Christ, the Word, or the Glory of God.)

Like Calvin, Edwards «emphasizes the sinful nature of children, [but] he also believes that they have rich spiritual lives... and he claims that Christ loved even the poorest, humblest child.»

Again: «The great transitions are due to a coincidence of forces derived from both sides of the world, its physical and its spiritual natures» (AI 18; cf. 18f, 26f, 44f, 46f, 67 - 69, 70, and 76).

The primacy of the spiritual can, many have argued, be retained in the emergentist perspective without incurring the unacceptable dualism of matter and spirit that seems implicit in so many attempts to wall off the human spirit from the domain of nature and the sciences of nature.

The American revolution produced heroic symbols that explicated the existential nature of man in the order of existence as both immanent and transcendent, and consequently a spiritual catastrophe was averted if not a political one.