Sentences with phrase «perplexity in»

The defence is justified in its frustration and perplexity in not knowing, in any reliable way and after 13 years, the nature or extent of medical injuries suffered by the plaintiff.

«51 In consequence, therefore, of all these principles, one can not detect in Hartshorne's doctrine of man even the faintest traces of despair of life's ultimate meaning, fear or perplexity in the face of death, moral vertigo, or denigration of the enduring value of our transient earthly life.

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

Alongside this triumphant faith there has existed from the beginning a perplexity in Christian thought.

There are paradoxes and perplexities in the Franciscan way of life no less than in other Christian ways and most of them appear at some point in Francis» own career.

Before we go further we must look at one of the perplexities in all discussions of love, the problem of language.

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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.

As one believer explained, «To turn again to the cares, perplexities, and dangers of life, in full view of jeering and reviling unbelievers who scoffed as never before, was a terrible trial of faith and patience.

The cares and dangers of life were no longer minimized by the second coming looming large on the horizon and the perplexities that had been simplified by their clear and immediate end came crowding back in.

To the German people, stunned by the war and the consequences of defeat, their former optimism shattered and spent, shuddering to contemplate the debt - darkened years of the future, Barth in the phase of his dreadful insight into the futility of all search for security must seem a veritable Jeremiah, and his teaching an evilly perfect rationalization of their indigence and perplexity.

Dr. Cobb lends processes theological concepts to those who systematize the teaching of the Bible, to those who consider contemporary thought as normative and access the Bible in that context, to those who give simplistic traditional understanding of the Bible, and to those searching the perplexities and mysteries of quantum thought.

In perplexity, Sam goes to his pastor, who tells him to listen for the voice a second time.

«My point is that any summary conclusion jumping from our conviction of the existence of such an order of nature to the easy assumption that there is an ultimate reality which, in some unexplained way, is to be appealed to for the removal of the perplexity, constitutes the great refusal of rationality to assert its rights.»

But as with nephesh, so with its Greek rendering, the word ranges up into higher meanings which leave English translators in perplexity.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, writing from prison shortly before his death, addressed his godson, Dietrich Bethge, on the occasion of the infant's baptism, which he could not witness: «Music, as your parents understand and practice it, will help to dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibility, and in times of care and sorrow will keep a ground - base of joy alive in you.

By this — worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures, experiences and perplexities.

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 Old Testament, however, as we shall see, clearly reveals the inner perplexity and the outward conflict involved as religious thought and practice moved from primitive shrines toward the idea of Jesus: «Neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father....

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

In fact, Wesley was confused by the experience, but his perplexity was to lead to a period of soul searching and finally to one of the most famous and consequential conversions in church historIn fact, Wesley was confused by the experience, but his perplexity was to lead to a period of soul searching and finally to one of the most famous and consequential conversions in church historin church history.

By this event they are enabled, even compelled, radically to redefine their notion of his sovereign power as it affects their lives; but if they are allowed in that place to glimpse the ultimate secret of his ways, this would seem in part at least to be because there he made, in the person of his Son, their perplexity and their pain his own.

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.

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.

Some schools and some pastors are highly conscious of the problem; others are in a more difficult state because they have not realized the source of their perplexities.

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.

In the discourse itself (Luke 17:22 - 37), Jesus anticipates the early church's perplexity over the nonappearance of the supernatural Son of man, the divine being who will come and usher in the final days at the end of historIn the discourse itself (Luke 17:22 - 37), Jesus anticipates the early church's perplexity over the nonappearance of the supernatural Son of man, the divine being who will come and usher in the final days at the end of historin the final days at the end of history.

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?&raquIn 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?&raquin 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?&raquIn 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?&raquin 1859: «Are God and Nature then at strife, / That Nature lends such evil dreams?»

In the Lenten Gospel readings the church will make its progress by means of a series of dialogues — on temptation (with the devil), on perplexity (Nicodemus), on longing for what is real (the Samaritan woman), and on the true identity of Jesus (the man formerly blind).

ROBERT E. LEE: «In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.»

We are left therefore with the perplexity which we must examine in this chapter.

By this - worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures, experiences and perplexities.

By this - worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures, experiences and perplexities.

Here, and in the perplexity and anger at Jewish rejection of the apostolic mission, is the germinating seed of Christian anti-Semitism.

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.

The perplexity of this leader from the image — ridden West, standing in the presence of a mystery that still evaded him, is a true symbol of Israel's place in the ancient world: a place that might well be equally unique in the modern, save for our debt to Israel herself.

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.

But perhaps a better way to frame these perplexities lies in the linguistic philosophy of our own century.

The other is that we can find some way of life which involves no moral perplexities, and in which we can regard ourselves as free from sin.

In proving this sweeping statement we need not single out some one example of our moral plight, such as our perplexity of conscience in the killing and destruction of war, and treat it as an isolated probleIn proving this sweeping statement we need not single out some one example of our moral plight, such as our perplexity of conscience in the killing and destruction of war, and treat it as an isolated problein the killing and destruction of war, and treat it as an isolated problem.

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 PoweIn 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 Powein 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 Powein 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 Powein 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.

There the Church is required to identify itself with the world, not only in its perplexity and distress, its guilt and its sorrow, but also in its real acts of love and justice - acts by which it often puts the Churches to shame.

Perplexity and great regret are aroused by the fact that in the «Letter to the Churches» there is no significant reference - and primarily from the pastoral point of view - to that dimension of the process of salvation without which the very concept of salvation loses its implication.

He also warned: And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

In the Symposium, Plato depicts Socrates so caught up in wonder that he remains motionless in the midst of the commotion of everyday life; in the Hippias Major and the Hippias Minor, Socrates describes himself as suffering from a kind of seizure brought on by perplexitIn the Symposium, Plato depicts Socrates so caught up in wonder that he remains motionless in the midst of the commotion of everyday life; in the Hippias Major and the Hippias Minor, Socrates describes himself as suffering from a kind of seizure brought on by perplexitin wonder that he remains motionless in the midst of the commotion of everyday life; in the Hippias Major and the Hippias Minor, Socrates describes himself as suffering from a kind of seizure brought on by perplexitin the midst of the commotion of everyday life; in the Hippias Major and the Hippias Minor, Socrates describes himself as suffering from a kind of seizure brought on by perplexitin the Hippias Major and the Hippias Minor, Socrates describes himself as suffering from a kind of seizure brought on by perplexity.

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.

From Lear's interpretation of Socratic irony, we learn that the proper response to the insuperable limits of human knowledge, to the perplexities arising in the midst of what we thought we understood, is wonder.

Christianity in Jewish Terms is, quite simply, an indispensable volume for those who would, two thousand years after Paul's letter to the Romans, understand the continuing promise and perplexities of the mystery of living Judaism.

Something over a year ago I was for some weeks in the direst perplexity.