Sentences with phrase «philosophical category of»

A discussion of the proper use of the philosophical category of ontology would take us too far afield here, but for now let us consider humans at the three basic levels of being.

This is the philosophical category of hope.

I guess that belongs in the traditional moral - philosophical category of «the good life».

As earlier with regard to poetic discourse on the objective side of the idea of revelation, so too on the subjective side, the experience of testimony can only provide the horizon for a specifically religious and biblical experience of revelation, without our ever being able to derive that experience from the purely philosophical categories of truth as manifestation and reflection as testimony.

Medieval Latin / Western theology, formulated in the static philosophical categories of Plato and Aristotle (Greek Essentialism), rather than the dynamic philosophical categories of Heraclitus, often failed to adequately express the complexity of God's relationship with his people and the transformational affects of an immanent, usually mediated, Divine Presence had on them.

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«The term can refer to theological accounts of the world as God's creation; or to philosophical reflection on the categories of space and time; or to observational and theoretical study of the structure and evolution of the physical universe; or, finally, to «world views»: unified imaginative perceptions of how the world seems and where we stand in it» (Tracy and Lash, vii).

It is precisely on issues of this sort that the limits of historical reasoning become obvious and the need for more sophisticated philosophical and theological categories becomes apparent.

By systematic we mean not that some traditional set of problems has been covered, but rather that the philosophical product is the deliberate and methodic interrelation of its constituents, viz., its concepts, categories, and principles in a structure...

Fourth, as used in most evangelical discussion, the term is a philosophical judgment controlled by categories alien to Scripture; it is a slogan based on «how God ought to have inspired the Word» which has been substituted for careful patient analysis of what the Bible does teach about itself.

In his other writings, models of God serve mainly religious functions, but in his systematic doctrine of God models serve mainly metaphysical functions and are greatly influenced by a philosophical ontology in which impersonal categories predominate.

This requires, on the one hand, the use of philosophical categories such as those I developed in A Christian Natural Theology and, on the other hand, reflection on the relation of the way God was present in Jesus to the way he is present elsewhere.

Hartshorne offers a closely reasoned philosophical argument for a doctrine of God based, not on the classical metaphysical categories of traditional theology, but on process philosophy that allows some non-absolute aspects of God.

Categories such as «process» [or «evolution»] and «organism,» categories which were present in a number of dynamic philosophies similar in many respects to Whitehead's, 7 were seen as the philosophical basis for a new Christian theism consistent with moderCategories such as «process» [or «evolution»] and «organism,» categories which were present in a number of dynamic philosophies similar in many respects to Whitehead's, 7 were seen as the philosophical basis for a new Christian theism consistent with modercategories which were present in a number of dynamic philosophies similar in many respects to Whitehead's, 7 were seen as the philosophical basis for a new Christian theism consistent with modern science.

Johnson says that «philosophical naturalism,» by which he means conventional science, has been imposed on this nation «by skillful manipulation of categories and definitions.»

Having stated his thesis that one must begin with Whitehead's diagnosis, Rorty quotes him as follows: «The difficulties of all schools of modern philosophy lie in the fact that having accepted the subjectivist principle, they continue to use philosophical categories derived from another point of view» (PR 253; WEP 134; italics mine).

By skillful manipulation of categories and definitions, the Darwinists have established philosophical naturalism as educational orthodoxy in a nation in which the overwhelming majority of people express some form of theistic belief inconsistent with naturalism.

Unfortunately, the philosophical categories, existential, personalistic, linguistic and other empirical ones, are inadequate for the task of showing the relevance of religion and theology to evolution.

Staffner includes Brahmabandhab Upadhyaya (1861 - 1907), a close friend of Swami Vivekananda, who tried to interpret Christianity in Indian philosophical categories, Narayan Vaman Tilak (1861 - 1919), who is loved throughout Maharashtra as «the poet of children and flowers», and Pandita Ramabai (1858 - 1922), who saw in Jesus Christ the hope and salvation of Indian womanhood.

Here, the primal events of our history are reenacted philosophically, and now we can understand them as being absolutely necessary to and in the evolution of absolute Spirit, which is modern idealism's philosophical renaming of the most primal of all New Testament categories, the Kingdom of God.

If for no other reason, the universality of the Christian proclamation of salvation for all requires that the particularity of historical categories be replaced by the universality of philosophical concepts.

Process philosophers complain that the dominant philosophical models used in Christian theology employ static metaphysical categories like «being,» «substance» and «attribute» rather than a more dynamic conceptual structure that captures the dynamic character of the Bible's revelation of God.

Thus the fundamental category of ontology, that of something, is a philosophical category insofar as it brings into play a relationship both of sameness and of difference with respect to knowledge of what it denotes.

Editor's Reply We would simply note that at a question and answer session with representatives of the new movements held at Pentecost Pope Francis made the following comment, which seems to dovetail with the emphasis Mr Keeffe places on devotion to the Real Presence: For us Christians, poverty is not a sociological, philosophical or cultural category.

It is precisely the function of the category of testimony — the central category of this second phase of our philosophical inquiry — to dismantle a little further the fortress of consciousness.

In effect, under the category of poetics, philosophical analysis encounters those traits of revelation which may correspond with or respond to the nonviolent appeal of biblical revelation.

The author evolves a hermeneutics of Revelation by entering into a dialectic between the concept of biblical revelation as seen in various types of biblical discourse, and the concept of philosophical reason that engages classical and contemporary philosophy in their own categories.

But before undertaking a properly philosophical reflection on the category of testimony, I will again call on some preparatory concepts which I have explicated at greater length in my other work on hermeneutics

Omission of this precaution too often, leads to confusion of existential philosophical categories with those of Christian theology.)

By systematic we mean not that some traditional set of problems has been covered, but rather that the philosophical product is the deliberate and methodic interrelation of its constituents, viz., its concepts, categories, and principles in a structure which supports broad inferences and extensions or applications of the conceptual scheme.

He is described in philosophical and ontological categories, rather than the historical and personal categories of the Bible.

But this criticism is less impressive if we look at the theological use of these philosophical categories in the interpretation of the experiences which the paradigm community considers most significant.

But there has been a tradition of philosophical naturalism in this century, stressing organic and processive categories, which seems to have the potential for fruitful interaction with the work of reflective biologists.

Much of Biblical theology, especially when it stresses the difference between Biblical modes of thought and Greek philosophical categories.

Furthermore, the fact that Whitehead's theory of perception provides a philosophical context and categories which are consistent with these aspects of experience makes it more likely that women's experience will be credited with contributing important and unique insights about experience which have heretofore been overlooked or regarded as insignificant.

If Hochschild's categories are a fair description of the state of New Testament interpretation, one can see that Meeks's «sociology» is largely of the social - philosophical kind, as opposed to the large majority of New Testament scholars who belong to the social - kerygmatic kind, (A significant minority is devoted to social - scientific exegesis.)

This defines a very broad category of communication including philosophical and religious discourse.

Your categories help clarify that the obvious philosophical difference is the emergence of republicanism as a third term between liberalism and communitarianism For me, many of the attractions of republicanism stem from how it helps us avoid the undesirable extremes of the liberal - communitarian debate.

My second concern is that, increasingly, what at first blush appears to be a category - one contribution (a discussion of policy and practice designed to improve chartering) is just strident philosophical opposition in disguise.

With that philosophical basis, the initial practical step is to obtain The Green Book of Songs by Subject, which classifies over 35,000 popular tunes into some 1800 categories.

Several months ago, around the time I moved West and decided to try my hand at blogging and travel hacking for a living, I made a sort of philosophical decision that I would only manufacture spend in bonus categories, except for the few very, very cheap options still available, where I would continue to manufacture non-bonused (but hopefully valuable!)

The category of political uncertainty, philosophical uncertainty, uncertainty of images is much closer to how the world is,» says South African artist William Kentridge in this video presenting his work.

The artworks in Cloud Nine are visual interpretations of the concept of ecstasy and generally fall into the three categories: religious (or spiritual), philosophical, and personal.

In 1972 he turned to words and their immateriality to explore the relationship between abstract categories of thought, such as general and particular, finite and infinite, culture and nature, the passing of historical time and the hypothesis of the eternity of universal physical laws, the routine of experience and the abstraction of philosophical principles.