Sentences with phrase «phenomenon of»

We would argue that the phenomenon of human minds self - consciously observing the physical is the source of science, and with and through thisthe source of metaphysics.

But at the human level a radical change, seemingly due to the spiritual phenomenon of Reflection, overtook this law of development.

We are confronted by the strange phenomenon of a self - styled «Christian atheism,» which maintains that the witness to God's reality has to be surrendered if there is to be anything like a tenable contemporary theology.

Perhaps the first to grasp the full significance of globalization, and to experience global consciousness intensively, was the Jesuit priest - scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 - 1955), whose seminal book The Phenomenon of Man was written before 1940 but not published until after his death.

Also, mainline denominations needs to become aware of the phenomenon of church planting among Protestants.

The convergence of the phyla both ensues from, and of itself leads to, the coming together of individuals within the peculiarly «attaching» atmosphere created by the phenomenon of Reflexion.

This review concentrates on how some of the authors apply this supposed «universal phenomenon of emergence» to anthropology and theology, Christology especially.

Devices like Google Glass — which projects images and data onto the lens of actual glasses like Arnold Schwarzenegger's terminator eye — had long been released, but nothing caught on like the phenomenon of «Pokemon Go,» which became one of the most successful apps of all time.

So far, then, from running away from Historie and taking refuge in Geschichte, I am deliberately renouncing any form of encounter with a phenomenon of past history, including an encounter with the Christ after the flesh, in order to encounter the Christ proclaimed in the kerygma, which confronts me in my historic situation.

What McLemee leaves unmentioned is the fact that West is a phenomenon of a now passing era.

In it he meditates on the fascinating phenomenon of self - deception, and lists a variety of ways we manage our beliefs to avoid the unpleasant consequences of truth.

In the wake of the Anthony Weiner scandal, the Washington Post's calls attention to the modern phenomenon of the «e-fair.»

Theological expressions of a new consciousness are found in Sam Keen, To a Dancing God (New York: Harper & Row, 1969); Harvey Cox, The Feast of Fools (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969), and, of course, Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man.

While some cults orient themselves around ideology and some around theology (and some around self - discovery, and some around psychoanalysis), and they can thus appear to resemble religious or political organizations, cults actually constitute a phenomenon of their own.

For far from being a deviation from biblical truth, this setting of man over against the sum total of things, his subject - status and the object - status and mutual externality of things themselves, are posited in the very idea of creation and of man's position vis - a-vis nature determined by it: it is the condition of man meant in the Bible, imposed by his createdness, to be accepted, acted through... In short, there are degrees of objectification... the question is not how to devise an adequate language for theology, but how to keep its necessary inadequacy transparent for what is to be indicated by it...» Hans Jonas, Phenomenon of Life, pp. 258 - 59; cf. also Schubert Ogden's helpful discussion on «Theology and Objectivity,» Journal of Religion 45 (1965): 175 - 95; Ian G. Barbour, Issues in Science and Religion (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1966), pp. 175 - 206; and Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).

(Cf. the phenomenon of the «runners» at first connected with the mother plant and then separated from it; the fluid transition between various plants and animals which appear to be one; the germ - cell inside and outside the parent organism, etc.) Living forms which present what are apparently very great differences in space and time can ontologically have the same morphological principle, so that enormous differences of external form can derive from the material substratum and chance patterns of circumstance without change of substantial form (caterpillar - chrysalis butterfly).

The completeness of the phenomenon of death is something that it is not at all easy for us to accept.

Urging clergy and men of religion to renew or revive the practice of prayer, particularly meditation; (2) Distinguishing between the use of alcohol which does not produce a chronic alcoholic and that in which there is «the allergic nature of true alcoholism»; (3) Stressing that «elimination of the phenomenon of craving that follows the treatment does not constitute a cure [but that] the final cure rests with themselves [alcoholics in the second phase of alcoholism]»; (4) Advocating «moral psychology» in achieving entire recovery from alcoholism; (5) Describing the success of the AA.

Resurrection is an idiom which acknowledges the fact of death but does not allow death to have the last word, for it is pointing to the way in which, even in the natural world, death is being followed again and again by a fresh manifestation of life, which has been possible only because of the phenomenon of death.

The first thing to be emphasized here is that the very use of the idiom of resurrection implies that the phenomenon of death is real for the whole person and not just for his physical body.

See The Phenomenon of Man, p. 169.

Whereas resuscitation refers to the elimination or reversal of death, resurrection acknowledges the phenomenon of death in all its completeness and then goes on to become the idiom of hope, not so much by ignoring death as by accepting it.

Nowhere is Nietzsche's observation about the death of transcendent art more verified than in the phenomenon of religious kitsch.

The invisible relationship which has grown up in the course of a long experience is so strong and real that it does survive the phenomenon of death, for a longer or shorter period, and continues to bring to us a sense of the «livingness» of the deceased.

Perhaps we can explain also a second phenomenon of the recent unpleasantness: the agreement by all parties that sexual misconduct is a private matter.

A thoughtful man with a deliberate manner, he said: «We're all very interested in the phenomenon of Vilcabamba and want to make it available for anyone in the world who needs it.

Bozarth - Campbell explains what happens when texts are transferred from surface structures to oral space: Through dialogue the phenomenon of interpretation may come to reveal what was hidden in itself, to show its own processes of rendering what was invisible and inaudible in literature both visible and audible in a dynamic presence (3).

Instead, Austen, like Shakespeare, explores the phenomenon of individualism using the trope of «acting.»

Projection: The psychological phenomenon of seeing in others what actually abides in ourselves.

The modern phenomenon of «depression» has religious, not purely contextual, origins.

They point to aspects of the phenomenon of creativity in a way — a metaphorical way, perhaps — that more technical terms in a longer discussion would not.

Refusing to take the leap that metaphysics indicates to him is a failing: a failing to take the phenomenon of science - including scientific desire - seriously and to follow its lead to whatever explanation it ultimately offers.

7 The phenomenon of death marks the end of the historical existence of a conscious living being.

But the phenomenon of death not only cuts off the individual from conscious existence, but also cuts him off from any such ultimate solution.

He dedicated his Critique of Pure Reason to Bacon seemingly in recognition of the need to look carefully at the phenomenon of human experience.

It still has the manual feel about it — which will commend it to many — but Fr Joseph can't resist forays into private revelations (such as St Faustina's on hell) and the phenomenon of incorruptibility of beati.

But the phenomenon of scientific observation discovers (not presumes) the nature of matter, its «rational structures», and the phenomenon of observation itself reveals the spirit - nature inter-related «correspondence».

The idiom of resurrection can be genuinely used as an expression of hope for man only at the same time as one recognizes the finality of the phenomenon of death.

Students may still be encouraged to come to their judgments as to what is the best way to study the phenomenon of religion, the solution of certain historical puzzles, the relation of religion to other aspects of culture, and so forth.

Bacon thus begun the inexorable uncovering of the dynamic and relational aspects of the phenomenon of formality.

The meaning of the life of any individual is chiefly threatened by the phenomenon of death.

(See Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, trans.

The phenomenon of Scripture demands more than simply a theory developed by the Princeton boys in the 19th century.

Rapid population growth is a pervasive fact of life in less - developed countries today — a form of social change so typical, and at the same time so profound, that it may spuriously be associated with almost any other social phenomenon of the present generation.

Large sections portray contemporary anti-Semitism as a phenomenon of the right, with a full chapter given to a vicious caricature of «the religious right,» when in fact anti-Israel and overtly anti-Jewish passions today are more than equally on the left.

Our first question must be to what extent the recurrence of the phenomenon of the Spirit implies a return to archaic patterns of religion.

Feuerbach was too good an interpreter of religion to overlook the phenomenon of self - abnegation, which he read as a subtle form of self - love.

The phenomenon of divorce has long been an embarrassment to the Christian church.

But despair is a phenomenon of the spirit, is related to the eternal, and therefore has something of the eternal in its dialectic.

It's easy to write transhumanism off as a fringe phenomenon of science fantasy.