Without such symbolic abstractions the rational organization of behavior would be impossible; by virtue of them a
cognitive relation to the world is established.
These common symbolic patterns not only make possible intelligible
relations to the world of things, but more significantly, they enable people to be in effective relationship to one another.
Indeed, he is correct, but I suspect that the ramifications extend to liturgical questions, doctrinal opinions, devotional practices, attitudes toward ecumenism, ecclesiological models, understandings of authority, and the general understanding of how Catholics are in
relation to the world at large.
In this way, through God and others, the wife experiences herself anew; she has a radically
new relation to the world; and she becomes immortal because God constantly reenacts her life experience even if others do not.
The grandmother, for example, shaped to some degree God's actual
relation to the world through the unique and perfect relation God established with her.
From a feminist perspective the denial of
divine relation to the world codified in the highly specialized scholastic language reflects the disparagement of reciprocal relation characteristic of patriarchy in its social and intellectual expressions.
In other words, an occasion and its
concrete relation to the world stand — logically — in the essential relation of substance and attribute, not in the accidental relation of thing and property.
Because of God's general
ontological relation to the world, what one becomes free to discern in Jesus Christ has an empirical validity which can transcend the biblical witness.
You may recall that the latter was recently questioned in
relation to the World Cup bidding scandals, while the former was reprimanded by the International Olympics Committee following allegations of corruption relating to the sale of World Cup television rights.
Timothy explores the natural history of a particular animal by adopting the animal's own sensibility and his deeply
empathetic relation to the world around him.
They have spoken of God not only as the metaphysical Absolute, whose
only relation to the world is wholly external, but also as the loving heavenly Father revealed in Christ, who freely creates the world and guides it toward its fulfilment with tender care.
Gadamer singles out human dialogue only by way of analogy» because that is the paradigm we know best, the model that will teach us our
proper relation to the world.
And if prayer is to be validated by its fruits, it must rest on foundations that cohere with what may reasonably be believed about God and his
total relation to the world.
The part played by Satan as the Lord of this world must therefore be limited in a peculiar way, or else, if he is the lord or god of world, «this world» must stand in a peculiar
dialectical relation to the world as the creation of God.
In a way, this could be interpreted as a kind of vindication or reward at the end of their lives, even if it is not the end of the world as such, If taken this way, their reward does not mean a separation from the world but a more God -
like relation to the world.
The church's posture demonstrates its belief that God's
relation to the world no longer entails God's covenant with the Jewish people.
Where our concern is with the concrete actualization of these qualities in
relation to the world process, our attention is directed to the sense in which God's perfection is relative to each stage of process, for God continually surpasses previous states of his being, as new developments in the world become a part of his concrete actuality.9
As part of its agricultural reform, the EU is in the process of adjusting its subsidies for agricultural products in
relation to world market prices.
«My politics was of the more communitarian sort, and it was based on a sort of philosophical position in
relation to the world rather than, even though I'd sort of toyed with Marxism, as everyone did at the time.
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