Sentences with phrase «perplexity about»

These questions expressed his perplexity about the suffocating nature of an all - too - familiar world.

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

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?»

In any perplexity about how to respond to this or that, his many friends would at the drop of a hat telephone him for counsel.

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

Fox's energetic research has resolved one of the perplexities about that prayer.

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Another answer to the perplexity surrounding rejected funding came from a revelation in the study about owners» understanding of credit issues.

Whatever may be said about the assurance and certainties of faith, it is no stranger to perplexity and conflict.

The evidence that perplexity and vagueness continue to afflict thought about the ministry is to be found today in the theological schools and among ministers themselves.

At about the age of fifty, Tolstoy relates that he began to have moments of perplexity, of what he calls arrest, as if he knew not «how to live,» or what to do.

As the disciples and their friends lived through the first weeks and months after the crucifixion of Jesus it is most unlikely that they abandoned the Bible, and if; from it, they sought illumination for their perplexity, then the methods of interpretation12 we have here briefly outlined throw some light on how they would have gone about it.

the possibility and necessity of living in a dimension of meaning in which the urgencies of the struggle are subordinated to a sense of awe before the vastness of the historical drama in which we are jointly involved; to a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom, and power available to us for the resolution of its perplexities; to a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of... our vanities; and to a sense of gratitude for the divine mercies which are promised to those who humble themselves.

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.

Lear uses the example of a teacher who is suddenly and inexplicably struck with perplexity, not just about this or that aspect of teaching but about the very meaning of teaching.

In faith's response to its kenotic image of God there lies a surprising way of bringing new meaning to our normally confused sense of mystery, to our puzzlement about evolution and other recent discoveries about the physical universe, to our perplexity at the broken state of social existence, and finally to our own individual longings and sufferings.

So, there I was, pondering, with an old familiar feeling of perplexity (about which more anon), certain reactions to my reaction to various reactions to the pope's last encyclical, when it occurred to me that the one thing on which Hegelians of every stripe — right or left, theological or....

How can you be passionate about perplexity?

But all this perplexity is unnecessary — the fact that a lot of people haven't known «what» they were talking about for centuries is important, but it is not grounds for assuming they were talking of nothing!

There are men who would suffer a very syncope if you should pay all their debts, bring it about that their engagements had been kept, their letters answered, their perplexities relieved, and their duties fulfilled, down to one which lay on a clean table under their eyes with nothing to interfere with its immediate performance.

Besides the game's main pull of throwing over 650 puzzles your way, the island's perplexities also gave you an incentive to discover more about its past.

He had just left the Chelsea School of Art after an unsatisfactory period as a figurative painter in an institution that overvalued abstract expressionism, and was «thrashing about as an artist» attempting to express his perplexity and anger at the dismal political situation facing the left at the time.

I started painting approximately four years ago, where members from both DS and OWN crew were kind enough to let me tag along and teach me about the perplexity that is graffiti.

That perplexity makes me wonder (1) is the author talking about driving?