Sentences with phrase «own essential nature»

For Evangelical Christians, worshipping God in spirit and truth would surely require accepting his essential nature as one undivided God revealed in three persons, including the Son of God.

You began talking about the essential nature of God, how God's relationship to us is mirrored more in (any) man than (any) woman, regardless of the gender of the person in question.

A different view, and my own, is that liberal intolerance represents not the self - undermining of liberalism, but a fulfillment of its essential nature.

I was «a person who held that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.»

Secondly, both shared the idea of the Roman Empire and of the essential nature of the Church, and therefore of law and legal instruments.

By taking this eschatological turn Jones sidesteps the sticky feminist problem of hypothesizing about woman's essential nature or else about an original gender harmony from which humanity once fell.

«Both Catholic and Secular Ethics are in broad agreement as to the essential nature of donor consent, and the acceptability of next - of - kin consent.

Thus, instead of emphasizing aseity, or self - containedness as well as sheer self - existence, as God's essential nature, such theologians give the central place to love - in - action, which presupposes and entails relationships.

But he was given no name, which in biblical understanding signified that he still lacked his essential nature.

This is utterly contrary to the essential nature and obvious purpose of Jesus» parables.

In sum, even without making explicit reference to liturgical orientation, Pope Benedict's study of the Holy Week mysteries provides evidence for and confirmation of his insistence upon the essential nature of the ad orientem position during the Eucharistic liturgy.

It usually refers to the real substance or essential nature of something (though what those terms precisely mean is a matter of philosophical discussion); so Hebrews 11:1 is more getting at faith as providing substance to a future we hope for — that their hope for the future, through faith, becomes a present reality to affect their actions.

It could be that no explanation of these questions is possible, that this is just the essential nature of reality.

a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.

It denotes the essential nature common to Socrates and all other men.

Yet for Aristotle this direction is completely determined in advance by the essential nature of the object, whereas for Whitehead the direction is a function of several variables: the object in relation to its environment (PW 187/206).

Whitehead's teleology is then descriptive of the event's process of actualization; it says nothing about the event as striving to give rise to a specific character determined beforehand by its essential nature (PW 188/207), nor is it in conflict with physical determinism (PW 206/226).

Parallel with this great fact concerning the wholeness of Christian experience in its essential nature is our approach to it and our certainty of it.

I believe that the basic meaning is that human existence reflects, or is believed to reflect, the essential nature of God.

But there are others for whom evil is no mere relation of the subject to particular outer things, but something more radical and general, a wrongness or vice in his essential nature, which no alteration of the environment, or any superficial rearrangement of the inner self, can cure, and which requires a supernatural remedy.

But taken at face value, they are alienating insofar as they betray us into placing our own possibilities outside of us as attributes of God and not of humanity, viewing ourselves as unworthy objects of a projected image of our own essential nature.

It was in Greece that reason came to be most closely identified with man's essential nature.

Once they are unmasked, shown for what they really are, religious belief and the idea of God can be useful instruments of human self - understanding, revealing to us our essential nature and worth.

Clearly, with such a division of the realms of knowledge no conflicts about the essential nature of man such as arise from the usual body - mind - spirit trichotomy need occur.

15.13), a God with «future as his essential nature» (as E. Bloch puts it), as made known in Exodus and in Israelite prophecy, the God whom we therefore can not really have in us or over us but always only before us, who encounters us in his promises for the future, and whom we therefore can not «have» either, but can only await in active hope.»

Biblical revelation culminates in the Christ who reveals the essential nature of man.

There have been suggestions that their success has lain simply in their having out - hustled the mainline broadcasters, while others have suggested that their success lies in having grasped the essential nature of the medium — more clearly than the mainline broadcasters — and communicating within those terms.

What underpins the entire body of this text is the desire of the Holy Father to communicate the essential nature of the love of God.

Inquiry is governed, not, as in the «Athens» type, by an interest thereby indirectly to come to know God, but by an interest to discover as directly as possible the truth about the origin, effects, and essential nature of «Christian» phenomena.

I am using the word «person» in its ordinary sense to designate an individual possessed of self - consciousness and will [whatever be the essential nature of personality].

Rather the future is unrelated to the present, something which might possibly not be, and its not being would make no change in the present; something which is coming some time, but which so far as its essential nature is concerned could already have been some time; indeed the speculation is widespread that the blessings of salvation pre-exist and are already present in heaven.

The lines can not be sharply drawn, however: one could not believe that God had accomplished so much in and through Jesus and had exalted him to so supreme a status without soon asking, «What then was the essential nature of this Jesus that he can have become the agent of God's redemptive purpose?»

Jonathan Edwards uses the analogy of the way the sun brings about light and warmth by its essential nature, but brings about dark and cold by dropping below the horizon.

Differences exist between matter and mind, but in their essential nature they remain the same.

This is just a sample, the bible is saturated from front to back extoling the essential nature of pursuing knowledge.

Sin is violation of our essential nature, therefore it always results in a state of inner dividedness.

But it is in her chapter «Ideology and Terror» that she probes the essential nature of totalitarianism.

Since His love - in - operation is His essential nature — He is love, which is His «root - attribute», not aseity, as the older theology claimed — the other things said about Him (transcendence, immanence, omnipotence, omniscience, omni - presence, righteousness, etc.) are to be understood, as I have already argued earlier, as adverbially descriptive of His mode of being love rather than set up as separate or even as distinct attributions.

Crucially however this is to say more than the affirmation of Pieper, Sartre and Aquinas that «things only have an essential nature only in so far as they are fashioned by thought.»

DE: So it becomes a matter of logical definition, and you get the problems about «essential natures» and so on.

In terms of such process thinking (about which I have written in Process Thought and Christian Faith, Macmillan, 1968), God is not thought to be simply the absolute, self - existent, unconditioned reality; there is a sense in which these terms are applicable as adverbs qualifying God's essential nature — but that essential nature is God's concrete love, his unfailing relationship with the world, his self - giving and willingness to receive from that world, his openness to «affects» from the world and from what goes on in it.

This Love is man's essential nature.

Our intention here is not to settle this controversy on the meaning and function of specific moral precepts as between a Catholic universal ethics based on essential natures and a situation ethics given a Protestant interpretation.

The God of process thought is not immutable and independent, but changing and never completed, even though his essential nature does not change.

This Jewish category of Messiahship was not primarily metaphysical; it did not so much concern the essential nature of the divine missioner as his vocation; it could be applied on different levels — to one conceived as a «son of David» specially anointed to fulfil the divine purpose, or to one conceived as a preexistent being, come at last to earth to achieve God's will.

If, however, the Catholic now sees that despite, and in addition to, his ethics based on essential natures, he must develop an individual ethics of concrete moral decision which goes beyond mere casuistry, and if the Protestant ethical theorist perhaps realizes that in the new and dangerous situation he must perhaps be less carefree in simply leaving the Christian to his «conscience», then perhaps the new situation will bring about a new climate in which, even theoretically, people will be compelled more readily to think towards one another rather than away from one another, and in which people will understand one another more easily and even gradually unite.

He will also reject a situation ethics given a Christian interpretation, as being the denial of a genuine philosophy of essential natures and even more as being unbiblical.

This is the basis on which Paul says that pagans were judged originally — God revealed his essential nature in what he created but they were neither thankful nor did they worship him.

He proposes that if they were both reduced to «syllogistic form, one would realise that both start with the same «major premise», namely from this principle: things have an essential nature only in so far as they are fashioned by thought».

1) Consider what a «missional» church might look like, i.e., a church that recognizes «the essential nature and vocation of the church as God's called and sent people»....