Sentences with phrase «only kind of existence»

Because of their belief in this gospel of reconciliation and their experience of its power, Christians can never accept, as the only kind of existence open to nations, a state of perpetual tension leading to «inevitable» war.

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«And I think that trend will continue [among millennials] not only because of the attitudinal shift [on freelance medical work] but also because the existence of technology actually makes it possible to do this kind of work.»

There is something literally death - defying about the contemporary opposition to cigarettes, a kind of rage that anyone would not choose 2.2 years of «healthy» life over a somewhat shortened and pleasurable existence, a resolute resistance to the intimations of death with which our ancestors knew how to live, and not only when they lit up.

One of Hart's most striking dismissals of the conflation of God and the gods is where he defines belief in «a personal God» or «theistic personalism» as a kind of «monopolytheism,» which «differs from polytheism... solely in that it posits the existence of only one such being.»

Not only is the mutable world separated from its divine principle — the One — by intervals of emanation that descend in ever greater alienation from their source, but because the highest truth is the secret identity between the human mind and the One, the labor of philosophy is one of escape: all multiplicity, change, particularity, every feature of the living world, is not only accidental to this formless identity, but a kind of falsehood, and to recover the truth that dwells within, one must detach oneself from what lies without, including the sundry incidentals of one's individual existence; truth is oblivion of the flesh, a pure nothingness, to attain which one must sacrifice the world.

If existence is identified with process, which is the questionable move in all «process philosophies,» all existents can only be analyzed in terms of the consequences of this temporal direction as applied to each particular kind of existent.

«This well - preserved item is the only one of its kind, and one of just two surviving fragments from this medieval Caxton book in existence.

Not only does His imagelessness not prevent Him from manifesting Himself in the visible world, but it is just this imagelessness which makes His manifestation possible: «He is the history God which He is, only when He is not localized in Nature; and precisely because He makes use of everything potentially visible in Nature, every kind of natural existence, for His manifestation.»

Selfhood results from implicit or explicit commitment to a kind of existence, and is to be understood only in terms of that commitment, i.e by laying hold of the understanding of existence in terms of which the self is constituted.

12 Even on the assumption of a Vitalism of essentially higher principles of that kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a new living being came into existence, if we excluded creation in this case in the way it is exemplified in the human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that in the generation of new life below the human level what happens is only the extension of the entelechial function of one and the same vital principle to a new position in space and time within inorganic matter.

That is the contradiction of mutuality and is the kind of belonging in which other persons are taken to be only adjectival to one's own existence.

god is only an idea for none have proof nor anything suggesting existence of any kind of all powerful being.

Many Americans today evidence the same kind of fatalism — that deterioration of their quality of life is somehow inevitable, a given part of existence, and that the only solution is to get as much security as possible before it is too late.

Rather, it resides in the relationship with God which such existence may and does enjoy, whether this is realized or actualized in a vivid manner or is present only as a kind of Leitmotif which runs through the whole history of the human race and the personal history of each and every human person as a member of the society of men and women.

Fact of the matter is 100 percent online dating sites for Christian singles do exist out there, but there are not many truly 100 percent free sites, and those that are in existence, have member databases of single Christians that are either extremely low, or the available singles who are members live so far away the only kind of relationship you could enter is a long distance dating arrangement.

The genuine existence of different kinds of ability has been transmuted into breezy assertions that different children learn in different but equally valid ways and that everything will work out if only we tap the special abilities that reside in every child.

Only a year into its existence, the Genesis Coupe has been given the kind of interior makeover we wouldn't expect to see until a mid-cycle refresh.

But other books may only be read thanks to the different kind of support, of enabling, that comes with the traditional publishing infrastructure; if someone other than the author is able to produce them, which might mean needing the existence of a publisher able to back the book's production

In 2007, an original Crying Girl by Roy Lichtenstein sold at auction for $ 78,400, and in 2011, Sturtevant's canvas reworking of Crying Girl, the only Sturtevant painting of its kind in existence, sold for $ 710,500.