Sentences with word «perplexity»

«Those who faced his lucid and mercurial brilliance from the pew will surely agree that their deepest impression has been that of an enormously shrewd and worldly intelligence whose overriding interest centers in the special kind of illumination that is cast by the Christian faith upon the major perplexities of modern man,» says Nathan A. Scott, Jr..6

Growth in ethical sensitivity often increases perplexity in the tragic choices of life.

It was perfect for him: the idea of an art of deception and concealment, forms dissolved or overlaid with perplexities for a greater good.

In 1850, in In Memoriam, Tennyson expressed perplexity about the ancient earth and evolution, before On the Origin of Species was published in 1859: «Are God and Nature then at strife, / That Nature lends such evil dreams?»

It's almost as if the open - world nature of Monster Hunter: World and it's cooperative multiplayer — you know, the two things that would appeal most to newcomers — are not endemic to the very DNA of the series, and it's in these instances where Monster Hunter's reputation for perplexity carries over to World.

At the risk of oversimplification, the interlocutors argue for God's temporal as well as eternal justice, while Job expresses perplexity over their claim for his temporal justice.

This situation in which moral perplexity and reflection arises is rooted in fundamental metaphysical categories.

Some express perplexity about the sacerdotal aspects of the Jesuit calling.

I have much the same thrill and perplexity at the architectural violence of Gordon Matta - Clark — or those trashing the gallery today.

But Whitehead upholds such perplexities by his conviction that recognition of a thing as a composite and also as a unity are required modes of understanding, that these two modes are reciprocal, that they presuppose each other, and that the perspective emphasizing the composite exhibits an outcome and the perspective emphasizing the unity exhibits a causal factor (MT 63).

The jury is out on whether or not this qualifies him as a communist, but his claim does provide a source of perplexity when evaluating the inspiration for his ongoing Kandor sculpture and installation series — the newest of which being currently displayed at Gagosian Gallery (Beverly Hills) alongside the latest chapters of his filmic project, Extracurricular -LSB-.....]

The concept of tragedy seems indispensable to refer to certain fundamental aspects of human moral experience, and yet it poses many perplexities for theological and ethical thought.

In a position as a school leader, I have acknowledged perplexities surrounding students that fall within this category including, student identity, priorities, and the role of the school itself.

When, therefore, Ted Brown began to take shape in my imagination and I started writing letters, designed to help him in his religious perplexities, I found myself very much at home, and this book is the consequence.

The deep brushstrokes and vibrant colours are immersive; the deep perplexity of the canvas seemingly entangling itself around the viewer.

From perplexity to fantasy.

Caught in the middle we face a spiritual perplexity without parallel in all history.

So don't feel bad reacting with utter perplexity to the film's storyline.

The Hebrew scripture bequeath to us «two major perplexities about the love of God» (SFL 25).

But all our ideas will be in a wrong perspective if we think that this recurring perplexity was confined to contradictions between religion and science; and that in these controversies religion was always wrong, and that science was always right.

Charley is, in poet John Banville's words, «all inwardness, gazing out in ever intensifying perplexity upon a world in which nothing is exactly plausible, nothing is exactly what it is,» a boy without a past or a foreseeable future.

While calling to mind seascapes by 19th - century American Luminists, his near - Photorealist pictures convey an infectious, distinctly contemporary mood of existential perplexity.

On this analogy, what the women saw brought only perplexity; then, by a leap beyond the evidence of the senses, they knew what it meant.

Let me begin by noting my early perplexity (to put it mildly) regarding the Obama - Kmiec....

He wrote, «Jeremiah, throughout all his doubts and difficulties, was able to be carried forward by the secret assurance that this business was not his business but God's business, and this alone supported him under the most pressing perplexities and loneliness.»

What better form could a theologian give to the confounding perplexities of deconstruction and the metaphysical obfuscations of postmodernism?

It is not that some are all right and others are all wrong: all are bound to seek in honest perplexity.

Negative arousals make people out to be less positive therefore the dumbing down of the species becomes the pragmatic venues of damning perplexity's dissonances.

Israel becoming a nation again Israel will be in possession of Jerusalem when Israel is surrounded by armies no time is near Earthquakes Seas roaring nations in distress with perplexity wars and terrorism days of Noah and lot the generation at the end 2 Timothy 3:1 - 5, 7 «Difficult Times Will Come» 1But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

Of course no minister ought to claim that he has the complete answer to this ancient and most persistent perplexity of the human spirit.

Whereas Wesley came to his theology chiefly out of his study of the Bible and his personal experience, Whitehead was a mathematical physicist trying to make coherent sense of deep perplexities created by new discoveries in the early part of this century.

Covenant and Commitments is scholarly in substance, accessible in style, and always wise in its engagement with the everyday perplexities of living Christianly in the world.

He is one of the wisest guides in trying to understand the history and contemporary perplexities of Islam.

In dwelling thus upon our ethical perplexities we must not obscure the fact that our deepest problem is to find the strength to do the right as we see it.

Insofar as theology does address the other perennial perplexities, it tends to relate them to historical suffering and the hope for a historical resolution.

In the first place such education, now as always, is concerned with the nurture of men and women whose business in life it will be to help men to see their immediate perplexities, joys and sufferings in the light of an ultimate meaning, to live as citizens of the inclusive society of being, and to relate their present choices to first and last decisions made about them in the totality of human history by Sovereign Power.

This process, which is the inner history of every man whose life in the whole weight of its problematic character and its ambiguous self - consciousness has been lived within the sound of the voice of the Christian tradition, has a pace that is slower than the urgent haste of individual perplexities.

Theology's failure to take seriously this most shocking and yet so simple of revelatory images (a revelation so startling and surprising that we are immediately compelled to doubt that we could ever have thought it up all by ourselves) leads only toward further perplexities and incoherences in our experience of each of the four circles.

It has taken on the forms and styles of the people who have become engaged with it, and not just the forms and styles but the deepest convictions and perplexities too.