Sentences with phrase «of ultimate answers»

That monument has come under fierce attack these days — from postmodernists (to whom truth is subjective and cultural), from creationists (to whom truth is biblical), and from religion in general (where faith is often seen to compete with reason as the fount of ultimate answers).

But the most significant incidence of the ultimate answer in Alice's adventures is that it is the key to solving the ultimate riddle as to who Alice is.

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In this talk, «the online humorist offers a list of simple — and often brutally honest — questions that will help you answer the ultimate question, «Am I human?»»

Be your most vulnerable self as you answer the ultimate question of «why.»

The ultimate answer is replacement — replace yourself and step up to a new set of opportunities and responsibilities.

For people who think that retirement will be the ultimate doom of their well - established lifestyle, this loan is the answer to their problems.

Still, he says that he doesn't want to be part of a party (i.e., the Republican party) that upholds what he describes as unreason, but he also doesn't claim that such alleged scientific truth regarding ultimate questions of human destiny provides answers for public policy.

If the answer is yes, then I must say in firm admonition that you have completely and utterly dismissed God's ultimate act of love and dismissed it for some eartly mush that ends at the persona last breath.

It would seem, Follow of Christ, that the creator has a lot more to answer for than simply «having faith» in his so - called grand plan when his ultimate creation has already been made.

In these days of rival grand theories» superstrings, the inflationary model, et al.» competing on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal for the status of last word on the ultimate, Davies» book might appear to be just another technician's confident assertion that science will soon have all the answers.

For the followers of the serial podcast produced by Sarah Koenig: I will make my self available for one interview: 1st, to answer the question of the the people who I hope are concerned with the death of Hae Min Lee (the person who's paid the ultimate price for Entertainment).

But there began a period of craving to understand the meaning of life, and since philosophy did not seem to offer the ultimate answers to such a quest, I finally decided to probe the Christian tradition more seriously than I had considered worthwhile before.

The more we peel back the layers of the onion that is «existence», the more we realize that the ultimate answers lie outside the capabilities of the intellect.

It is a great help in facing life to believe that the final answers, the ultimate outcome, can never be settled in this particular phase of our existence.

But the cross of Jesus Christ is the ultimate answer to that question.

without implying the answer, so the very structure of reason, its very meaning and drive toward ultimate truth, implies the existence of God as Absolute Truth, as the very Ground of reason.

Reason must attain the dimension of faith to seek answers to questions of ultimate import and which will not go away, such as the reality of God, the origin and destiny of man, the ultimate worth of human life, etc..

The sure and ultimate answer to what Benedict XVI called a «materialist vision of human events» is Christianity.

The answer is very simple and yet touches the ultimate depth of our life: by true private confession and by divine forgiveness of all my sins.

For the first time he was free to question his own serene faith in science, to seek the ultimate answers which three years of psychoanalysis had not provided, and even to decide whether to pursue the medical career he had begun.

House churches are not the ultimate answer - that answer is recovering a right understanding of what the church is.

If he says that it's all a matter of honesty, the answer is: Fine; but it's also a question of what your ultimate passion is.

They know what happens after death, they know the origins of all life, the Universe and everything — the ultimate answer for anything they don't understand is «Goddidit».

This is a travesty of Christian theology, which is not simply an answer system but is, instead, a way of connecting real life questions with fundamental and ultimate answers — which are by no means achieved or given overnight.

The answer, I think, is found in the education of these people, their revulsion with imperial order, and the event of the Great Awakening where the American colonials concurred with Lebniz's comment, «The ultimate reason for things is called God.»

Their boldness, firmness in the face of trial and how they answered to the judges in the name of their faith is very touching: Their well being is not the ultimate satisfaction but seeing others in painful situation caused them pain; they were willing to undergo difficulties and were totally oriented to others.

The question is where the ultimate questions about the significance of life and one «s moral responsibility are going to be asked, and from what source will come the proposed answers.

In those answers there has always been indirect reference to the ultimate power that lies behind all human authority, but the defined source of authority has been some mediate principle.

I don't know if your ultimate storehouse of knowledge [the atheist film] re the Hebrew religion includes the answer to my next question, but can you tell us what opinion Moses and the prophets of the Old Testament had regarding Asherah, Baal, et al?

Why don't I just google «meaning of life» and trust that the ultimate and correct answer will be in the top ten hits?

This is, of course, an opportunity for the Church to show by word, sacrament and service that there are answers to ultimate human questions that are not, and can not be, answered by the current scientism.

Pointing to the ultimate from the standpoint of the conditioned, these symbols give an answer of assurance to counteract the threat and peril of meaninglessness.

«To be religious,» said theologian Paul Tillich, «is to be grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of the meaning of life.»

Bultmann's answer is this: «This ultimate meaning of the mythological language is that it is an attempt to express the meaning of the historical figure of Jesus... viz., what God is saying to each one of us through it.»

They may tell us that in dealing with such phenomena as «religiosity» or «humanism» it is irrelevant and out of order to inquire about the «something» that lies behind them, and thereby protest against the conclusion that the only answer to all ultimate questions is the Nihil.

The reintegration of science, metaphysics and theology lies in the direction of showing that observation gives rise to questions that science answers, but that these themselves raise questions that call for metaphysical responses, and that these in turn point to a different kind of explanation which, though ultimate, is also personal.

We are all on a journey and while all the arguments and discussions will aid us to our ultimate destination we need to acknowledge that if we stop moving forward and get stuck on one of many difficult questions where we have not received an acceptable answer, we are never going to get there.

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has felt sometimes the WCC has not placed its thinking on the social content of salvation solidly within the perspective of the ultimate goal of salvation... the eternal life in God, «with the result that appropriation of eternal life is made to depend on social conditions rather than social conditions on the appropriation of eternal life»; and the Ecumenical Patriarchate has warned us that in «turning towards the anguish of the man today», the WCC must not forget the basic truth that man sees himself as hungering for an answer to a basic question over and beyond his acute interest in the most vital socio - political problems of the day.»

Maybe he's busy getting his beliefs strengthened as his local house of stupidity, errrr, worship... Maybe he's busy praying to his imaginary friend, asking it to stop those pesky atheists from asking simple questions he can't answer... Maybe he's huddling with the likes of Adelina, HeavenScent and the rest of that ilk on the ultimate proof of their god (s)... Maybe He's realized the only way not to look like an even bigger fool is to remain silent...

In short, instead of seeking the ultimate reasons for things and events, the modern mind has sought to understand in more limited spheres, and it is satisfied with less ultimate answers.

Hartshorne claims that «only through a relation to the Everlasting Itself, it seems evident, can the query concerning the aim of life have an answer which avoids giving rise to a still more ultimate query» (LP 132).

Here and there the quest of man for the ultimate answers has given rise to a certain resurgence of religion, both Christian and non-Christian, both orthodox, and more often, unorthodox.

If we ask now for the material content of this self - understanding, the only adequate answer is that it is an understanding of ourselves and all others as alike objects of the unbounded love of God, which is to say, of the inclusive whole of ultimate reality of which both the self and others are parts.

Or does your claim of ultimate powers of an «eternal» creator mean you don't have to answer this question?

Ultimately, as he states, the God creative enough «to make the entire observable universe in a dense dot of pure energy is incomprehensible, beyond human imagining,» but still «we can see the consequences of this unimaginably powerful creative act: a universe congenial to the ultimate formation of life, life giving rise to intelligence that can ask questions science can not answer.

Whitehead's fault then, according to Neville, lies in his adopting a «rationalist» answer on the ultimate issue or trying to achieve a final explanation in terms of first principles which are themselves determinate but not in need of explanation.

Elsewhere I have argued that Whitehead's notion of creativity answers only to some cosmological questions about the world, leaving the more ultimate ontological ones untouched (6).

It seems to exhaust the theoretical options to say that such an answer must be achieved by reference to either: 1) the categories themselves; 2) the noncategorial aspects of events; 3) both categorial and non categorial aspects of events; 4) some alleged factor (e.g., a God, Platonic Forms, «nothing») other than the categorial aspects of events; or 5) by nothing (i.e., by no alleged factor at all, including «nothing»), so that the ultimate issue is meaningless or at least unanswerable in principle.

Another slobbering under educated evangelical who in hisl world of psychosis thinks he has the ultimate answer.

It seems, moreover, that the most satisfactory philosophy for the masses of humanity will be the one that affords the most adequate, comprehensive, and convincing answers to these four fundamental questions concerning the ultimate characteristics of being, nature, man, and God.