Sentences with phrase «peculiar forms»

We must become sensitive to the peculiar forms which temptation takes in this sphere if we are helpfully to interpret an understanding of Christian vocation in this same sphere.

Moreover, the illumination of the peculiar forms of temptation is the necessary corollary for the illumination of the peculiar forms of vocation pertinent to a homosexual life style.

While, as McGraw reminds us, «a movie is not a driver's manual for the road of life,» Tarantino and Theology has opened up to its readers several concrete ways of appreciating Tarantino's peculiar form of religious devotion.

Vitality, Completeness, Fulfillment — these are not to be found among the immediate commonplaces of life, but in transcending them, or escaping from them, or in that peculiar form of excess: exceeding them.

This is his peculiar form of salvation.

Now it is entirely possible, as I have said earlier, that the appearance of the human species with its peculiar form of consciousness is by no means the end of evolution.

But before we confront it in general terms, we must address ourselves to the unpleasant task of hearing what the sick souls, as we may call them in contrast to the healthy - minded, have to say of the secrets of their prison - house, their own peculiar form of consciousness.

For they neither inhabit cities of their own, nor employ a peculiar form of speech, nor lead a life which is marked out by any singularity.

It is MacIntyre's contention that, in modernity, particularly in that peculiar form of modernity called liberalism, the stock of descriptions has become inadequate for our ability to act in a manner that can be intelligible to others as well to ourselves.

Theology is a peculiar form of cognitive reflection, for its goal is not simply the expansion of knowledge.

It is most obviously a «peculiar form of detachment from the social pretense.»

The intensity of physical energy embodied by actual occasions is a function of the subjective species of eternal objects, while the peculiar form of the flux of energy refers to the objective species, the mathematical forms.

Only a complex God could take up this radical form of relation with us (becoming one of the creatures within God's own creation) and offer this peculiar form for our relation with God (communion with God and others through Christ).

Let me suggest a few questions about the peculiar form of temptation to which a homosexual life style may be open.

Is there a peculiar form of a temptation toward relational irresponsibility here?

Is there a peculiar form of a temptation toward irresponsibility concerning oneself here — the temptation to blame one's genes, one's parents, one's culture for one's choices?

We now know that this peculiar form of consciousness is crucial to making us who we are.

For example, he is using data from AFLOWlib to study why some alloys can form metallic glass — a peculiar form of metal with a disordered microscopic structure that gives it special electric and magnetic properties.

The alleged wastefulness of sex is really a question of why the peculiar form of sex tied to multicellular reproduction persists in a few outliers.

A peculiar form of diabetes in cats, due to a tumor in the pet's pituitary gland (adenoma - induced acromegaly) can also cause high blood triglyceride levels in cats due to over production of growth hormone.

And in the hey day of Modernism, critics like Clement Greenberg pursued a narrative which saw Modernist painting as a «peculiar form of tunnel vision leading away from pictorial depth and compositional complexity towards flatness, all - overness and the absence of association.»

«Holen's is a peculiar form of cultural anthropology.

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The exhibition focuses on the unfurnished interior of contemporary housing by celebrating a peculiar form of architectural representation — the «house tour».

It's a peculiar form of trying to maintain a «civil conversation».

Some view the European integration as a supranational entity shaped by the agglomeration of its continental nation States, a peculiar form of a federative State, similar to the idea of a United (Nation --RRB- States of Europe.

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But apart from all this, and in spite of the fact that «work» and the satisfaction of wants has usually engaged the greater part of the attention of mankind, there is another form of activity, peculiar to human beings, that does not suffer from the defects inherent in «work» and the satisfaction of wants: «play.»

The loss of this form of worship among resulted, not from a preference for something else on Wesley's part, but from a peculiar history.

These stories that are peculiar to Luke seem clearly (with the exception of the appearance to Peter) to embody in the form of myth the experience of the post-Easter Church.

I have taken as my primary task to locate the «specificity» of the Christian life — that is, the peculiar images that should form and shape the character of Christians.

Each sense has its peculiar object, but the sense of being affected by the object is an integral and basic part of sensing in general — at least in its more basic forms.

Thus the individual essence of turquoise blue is quite aloof from the relational essence of turquoise blue and can characterize the specific definiteness of a particular actual entity without involving necessarily the specific individual essence of any particular geometrical shape, though through its relational essence it does specify the range, and the «how» relationship, of all possible geometrical figures, x1, x2,... x11, which have the requisite status to possibly merge with that individual essence turquoise blue in constituting the complex synthesis of forms which is the peculiar, concrete definiteness of an individual actual entity.

The Jews who formed the dominant part of its population were a peculiar and a stubborn people.

It is true that in the majority of the Thirteen Colonies one form or another of Christianity enjoyed the peculiar favor of the colonial government.

He was writing, not for a group within a group, the Palestinian church living on under the shadow of the Jewish synagogue and a part, though a somewhat segregated part, of Jewish society, observing its own peculiar Halakak; Mark was writing for a martyr church in the world's metropolis, under the darkening shadow of a tyrant's throne and in the midst of a corrupt society of which the church could not possibly form a part.

In other words, the teaching that the death of Christ was (a) for sin and (b) in accordance with the scriptures was derived by both Mark and Paul from the primitive church; the doctrine of the Atonement is not Paul's unique and distinctive contribution to Christian thought, for it is really pre-Pauline; further, it is not at all the central, cardinal doctrine in «Paulinism,» but a subsidiary one; (Indeed, it is a component one — it forms part of the doctrine of the new creation in Christ) finally, the conception of the way in which Christ's death becomes effective, as Paul conceived it, is peculiar to Paul and finds no trace in Mark or indeed elsewhere in the New Testament (Save in passages demonstrable dependent on Paul)-- Paul thinks of it as a conquest of the demonic powers in the very hour of their greatest aggression and apparent triumph.

Whereupon Lucas concludes: «the inheritance of a common form in a living regnant society consists in the serial coordination of the successive subjective aims of the actual entities (i.e., the complete and peculiar «summation» of the series by each succeeding term) toward a final end or «satisfaction» of the society as a whole» (TVF 44).

New information This unbalanced exposition includes a peculiar and rather controversial division of the different forms of religious life into three main strands: monastic, apostolic and evangelical.

We historians of the ancient Greeks» democracy need to keep banging on not only about the virtues of their peculiar political form, but also about the key differences — theoretical, ideological, and pragmatic — between any modern versions of «democracy» and theirs.

There is a peculiar fitness of certain forms for the production of religious awareness.

At most, such study so interpreted shows us that one corner of nature is in some respects absolutely peculiar, revealing the introduction of unprecedented forms of reality not to be explained by anything found in the rest of nature.

The conceptions which the saints have of the loveliness of God, and that kind of delight which they experience in it, are quite peculiar, and entirely different from anything which a natural man can possess, or of which he can form any proper notion.»

The result was a new and peculiar literary form, apocalyptic, which sought to unravel the secrets of the divine plan for the world, to recognize the signs of the end, to calculate the time of its arrival, and to invent fantastic elaborations of the heavenly glory.

What makes moral feelings peculiar is the logical point behind Kant's thrust — we owe dignity and respect to other persons as persons regardless of our other feelings about them, and in a moral crisis we may feel urgently the not always so gentle persuasion of God in the form of conscience.

In the tradition of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas worked out precisely how every appetition is directed by a form as by its determining principle, whether this form really belong to a [235] being or be acquired in the act of knowing.8 Thus the kind of appetition peculiar to cognizant beings could be explained as an effect of their cognition.

Saul's jealousy takes form at once and in extreme degree, not only because of David's great popularity (18:7) but also because Saul recognizes that David now possesses the charismatic quality, the peculiar endowment of Yahweh which Saul himself had previously possessed.

Form for Leclerc is neither act taken as the static first act of the scholastics, nor even act taken as activity, the scholastic second act, but rather the specific character and structure of an activity — for example, the character of the activity which gives rise to the peculiar geometrical shapes characteristic of different molecules (PN 142 - 49).

The subject is no longer thought of as a being which is first fully actualized in the satisfaction, but as something present throughout the concrescence in the form of a feeling aiming at an ideal goal peculiar to that occasion.

In this unchanging form it must be indifferent to how this beauty is attained.16 But if God's aim at beauty explains the limitation by which individual occasions achieve definiteness, then in its continual adaptation to changing circumstances it must involve propositional feelings of each of the becoming occasions as realizing some peculiar satisfaction.

But it is no accident that those who would bury the family altogether take peculiar pleasure in this form of doomsaying; they are anxious to pronounce the body cold and to list the cause of death as suicide.