Sentences with phrase «only through»

Contrary to this evidence of reality as seen, God continues to act toward human beings only through the word; that is, through proposal and discretion.

Roland Bainton offers this contextual perspective: «The terror of the Holy, the horror of Infinitude, smites him like a new lightning bolt, and only through a fearful restraint could he hold himself at the altar to the end.»

The growth and development of thisprocess of coming to be of the complex entity can be initiated and maintained only through inter-action and movement - in - relativity» [10].

God imbues our being — our thoughts, emotions, choices, and actions — only through our invitation and practice.

That happens, however, only through God's reaching out to the poor and oppressed whom no one wants to save.

We can care for every living thing everywhere only through God, and perhaps only through a God who has dwelt among us.

He writes that the «inner poisoning of life extends not only through poor societies but through rich societies as well.

It is disappointing to note that many critiques of Bonhoeffer see him only through the eyes of the so - called «radical theologians» who have misrepresented his thoughts.

Taylor traces the development of this last feature of the modern identity not only through philosophical writings but also in literature and, especially, the arts.

But only through an openness to Biblical scholarship and a willingness to undertake fresh exegesis can that authoritative message be heard in our day.

Edwards concludes: «True freedom is attainable only through relations with others, since in an interconnected world I can never be safe until you are secure; nor can one person be whole unless others are fulfilled.

Wright represents the pole which claims that historical accuracy about Jesus can be grasped only through the premises of faith and theology; Borg, at the other end, is convinced that historical testimony is valid only insofar as it can be cleansed of distorting confessions of post «Easter faith.

Our discussion has dealt with this only through the counseling of couples and the potentiality of small groups.

Unfortunately, for the next half - century it is only through occasional glimpses given us by the later books of the New Testament and a few other Christian writings that we can conjecture the processes of development.

Yet I also see, if only through a glass darkly, that not all the reasons for the changes can be so summarily pinpointed.

You have yet to actually admit your wrong, which is a shame, because only through acceptance does learning actually occur.

Some passages in Process and Reality suggest that there is prehension of the distant past only through the mediation of intervening contiguous occasions.

Luke Timothy Johnson's basic response to scholarly research on the historical Jesus is embarrassment on behalf of the Church: embarrassment that Christ's own followers would treat him as a dead figure of history who can be understood only through strictly rational methods of inquiry, barring faith and hope from having their say.

From within our human history God's vision of cosmic destiny can be grasped only through the relatively limited and time - conditioned stories of promise that serve as the foundation of our biblical tradition.

What the Reformation ends up with is not a God whose very Nature is Unconditional Love; but a Father God whose Love can never be immediately experienced by the believer; but only through a scape - goated Son cruelly sacrificed in our stead — Calvin's Cosmic Bully!

A familiar medium is chosen as the channel to convey an unfamiliar or even abstract message, since the abstract could be known only through the concrete, as noted by Lonergan.87 The imageries used in the parables of Jesus are derived from common, everyday life experiences.

Only through Jesus Christ can I go to heaven and have a right relationship with God.

A child can experience the meaning of secure love only through being dependent on persons who supply authoritative direction for his life.

We know also that at times it has been only through a relentless insistence upon such convictions contra mundum that the truth has been saved.

Only through sharing its anguish are we able to pray for revival and work for reformation.

The destiny of immortality - in the second stage is possible only through the rational functioning of the human being in this age.

Our experience becomes intelligible only through the formation of concepts, and concepts are kinds or classes of things.

Many do not agree with Barth that salvation is effective only through this one historical event, but they then typically argue that God works salvifically outside of Christianity as well as within.

The WOTM style really opens up the Scriptures to show that when held to God's perfect standard, we are not considered «good», and only through Christ alone can we be considered righteous.

The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and can not understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

This opinion is perverted not because there is no divine becoming in the immanence, but because only through the primal certainty of divine being can we come into contact with the mysterious meaning of divine becoming, the self - division of God in creation and His participation in the destiny of its freedom.

This can happen authentically only through continuous rethinking and reappropriation of its heritage.

It's both naive and close - minded a notion that religion and morality are the same thing, and that only through religion can someone have a strong and good character.

We become able to love, and to deny our intrinsic selfishness only through the redemption which is in Jesus Christ.

Only through becoming as creation of new presents, i.e., new items in a partly new total past which is adequately preserved for all the future, in God, can there be the mixture of contingency and conditional necessity (necessary conditions but no fully necessary consequences) which is reality.

Bible, says specifically, ONLY THROUGH ME < meaning the FATHER.

And our nature being thus rooted in failure, is it any wonder that theologians should have held it to be essential, and thought that only through the personal experience of humiliation which it engenders the deeper sense of life's significance is reached?

Only through this final step has he reached the understanding that, though the external form changes, the essence of theophany — the meeting between man and God — remains the same.

These are questions that can be approached only through a careful analysis of the nature and uses of classification.

The directness of the relationship is established not only through the mediation of the senses, e.g. the concrete meeting of real living persons, but also through the mediation of the «word,» i.e. the mediation of those technical means and those fields of symbolic communication, such as language, music, art, and ritual, which enable men ever again to enter into relation with that which is over against them.

Only through this ever - new insertion of his personality can the doctor bring his capacities to full realization in his relation with his patient.

«Only through personal responsibility can man find faith in the truth as independent of him and enter into a real relation with it.»

Today history is increasingly understood as essentially the unique and creative, whose reality would not be apart from the event in which it becomes, and whose truth could not be known by Platonic recollection or inference from a rational principle, but only through historical encounter.

The dominance of the social principle over the political can not be achieved through any rearrangement of existing relations but only through really changed relations within and between communities.

It can thus mislead one to the opinion that God is an «idea» which only through men becomes «reality» and further to the hopelessly perverted conception that God is not, but rather becomes — in man or in mankind.

We were together only through years of blood, sweat and tears.

It is only through death that resurrection to new life is possible.

Only through genuine dialogue between them in which each of the partners, even when he stands in opposition to the other, attends to, affirms, and confirms him as this existing other, «can the opposition, certainly not be removed from the world, but be humanly arbitrated and led toward its overcoming.»

If here and now I am myself a personal identity only through my living with, by, towards, and from other personal identities — and indeed by my contacts with the entire natural order from which I am an emergent but of which I still remain as a part — then those others and that order must have their place in the picture.

Journals devoted to semigroups do exist and manage to fill their pages with interesting mathematics, but only through examination of special subclasses.