Sentences with phrase «philosophical concepts of»

-- Research group: Quantum Phenomenology and Intersubjectivity in which seeks to extend the philosophical concepts of quantum theory for the humanities sciences.

Inequality will still exist so long as we keep religious / philosophical concepts of marriage alive in our laws.

So what is at work here in insisting on applying abstract philosophical concepts of immutability and impassibility to the Christian's God?

Wolfhart Pannenberg concluded his incisive overview of the period with the observation that one must «spare the Christian doctrine of God from the gap between the incomprehensible essence and the historical action of God, by virtue of which each threatens to make the other impossible,» and went on to state that «in the recasting of the philosophical concept of God by early Christian theology considerable remnants were left out, which have become a burden in the history of Christian thought.»

So what I thought was this crazy philosophical concept of love, was nothing more that a choice to be present and connected.

He rightly considers it a «temptation» that a philosophical concept of God could determine the distinctly theological discussion of trinitarian doctrine.

«Structure» is thereby understood as the scientific parallel to the philosophical concept of form or of essence (S 7).

And the philosophical concept of revelation leads us back to this primacy of what is said over the inspiration of the narrator by means of a second analogy that is no longer that of inspiration, but that of manifestation.

The Devil will readily help theologians to «elevate» the zealous, fighting, wrathful, loving God of Israel into the philosophical concept of an «Omnipotent Being.»

The philosophical concept of creation, therefore, aids us in making sense of revelation.

The philosophical concept of emergence,» for example, can be employed to illuminate what theology has sought to witness to in its talk about «revelation,» namely, «what it means to have an innovating mystery break forth from a given structure of existence» (FFS 133).

The complexity of motherhood and the philosophical concept of reincarnation.

The main philosophical concept of the book is that the worst human happenings, such as exploitation, wars, slavery, dictatorship, have the same root, in common.

Not exact matches

I asked the question to understand how (and if) it is possible to separate science from atheism in the minds of believers so we can truly discuss the concepts based on their evidentiary merits, not necessarily their philosophical implications if indeed there are any to be had.

Because Greek philosophical concepts had to be translated into Latin legal concepts, theology in the West took on the character of codified law after the West lost Greek.

Although at times Hartshorne has spoken as though his account of experience rested on some intuition of its essence as exhibited in his own experience, 2 his predominant view and his philosophical practice advance a concept of experience that is generated by dialectical argument rather than by appeal to direct introspection or intuition: «The philosopher, as Whitehead says, is the «critic of abstractions.»

For a detailed examination of some other aspects of Hartshorne's concept of experience, see my «The Epistemic Availability of Hartshorne's «Experience»: A Critical Analysis,» International Philosophical Quarterly 21 (1981) 29 - 49.

She specializes in philosophy of religion and is the editor of Concepts of the Ultimate: Philosophical Perspectives on the Nature of the Divine.

3 The concept of synoptic judgment was developed by Louis O. Mink, «The Autonomy of Historical Understanding,» in Philosophical Analysis and History, ed.

But we may, I think, conclude with Errol Harris (AT 74) that from the Hegelian perspective, the philosophical shortcomings of classical logic extend to mathematical logic as well, and that as logic of the understanding, both deal with the «abstract concept of class or aggregate,» and are both inextricably connected with a metaphysics of externally related particulars that lose themselves in a «spurious infinite,» and with a concomitant mechanical cosmology.

There can be no doubt that what he takes over in his letter from a great philosophical tradition and from other pagan sources is included by him in this comprehensive concept of divine paideia, for if it were not so, he could not have used it for his purpose in order to convince the people of Corinth of the truth of his teachings.»

The language of mythology, or, as I myself prefer to say, metaphor, is the language which religion speaks; it can do no other, for religious faith is neither scientific formulae nor philosophical concepts, but a dramatic, poetic, symbolical way of speaking of the deepest realities and our apprehension of them.

The problem then becomes how to reconcile a philosophical anthropology of individualism with the mutuality and interrelatedness of society, and the concept of civil society is that synthesis by which these theses have been bridged.

So they transferred the concept of infinity from matter to the divine, which laid the foundation for most of the philosophical moves that have come to be associated with classical theism.

Rather, the primary issue at stake among the churches is a philosophical question what is the nature of human life and which philosophical concepts most adequately depict it?

Whitehead» s religiously - guided education might have been unsuited for modern times, yet it is fair to say that his profound philosophical development had its beginning in some very early insights, for example, the concept of the consequent nature of God and the evidence of God's presence in the pattern of beauty in mathematics.

Thus it was that «person» began its long ascent to the head of philosophical concepts.

Thus Santayana's earlier work consists in philosophical comment on human life rather than constructive metaphysics or ontology, while Whitehead's is devoted to the foundations of mathematics and the analysis of scientific concepts.

I am not speaking here of what church people usually mean by faith; I am referring to the history of philosophical concepts and language.

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...

Recently Western modern theologies heavily dependent upon modern philosophical (epistemological or other) concepts for theological interpretations; and this trend, too, neglected the religio - cultural and intellectual life of Asian peoples for theology, while claiming universality of Western theologies.

I pointed out to him that in his earlier philosophical work he argued that the mere concept of God was incoherent, so if he was now a theist, he must reject huge chunks of his old philosophy.

«2 The larger issue raised by Kaplan's transnaturalism and Whiteheadian process theology is the coherence of the idea of a non-absolute God, within the framework of religious naturalism, as a theological and philosophical concept.

If they felt themselves forced to express this «intentionality» in terms of a philosophical concept which for us is incredible, this must not suggest that the between the deepest instinct and desire which was theirs and «intentionality» in and of itself was wrong.

Beyond the linguistic prerequisite, the researcher needs philosophical training to help him understand both the entire way of looking at things and the individual concepts.

This idea is indefensible, and it is no use saying «the metaphysical and the modern / scientific concepts of matter are not the same» (his italics): the modern / scientific concept is what a metaphysicianworth his salt should be discussing, not some chimera known only to his philosophical allies.

«On Mathematical Concepts of the Material World,» Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1906), reprinted in Alfred North Whitehead: An Anthology, edited by F. S. C. Northrop and Mason W. Gross.

Truth is a philosophical concept outside the scope of science with the exception of maybe psychology.

That theism has existed in some form since the earliest human civilizations, it appears evident that a concept of God has been a necessary part our philosophical understanding of the world and our relationships to it.

The third section, fifty percent longer than the first two together, considers several theological and philosophical questions raised by the relation between sacred theology and contemporary evolutionary theory, They include the distinction between spirit and matter, the unity of spirit and matter, the concepts of becoming, of cause and of operation, the creation of the spiritual soul, the insights of Aristotelian scholasticism, and the biblical narrative of man's origin as it relates to the theory of evolution.

Whitehead's view of reality expressed in his concept of the self is the most important philosophical defense of freedom and creativity in the twentieth century.

The Kantian concept of the transcendental illusion, applied to the religious object par excellence, is one of inexhaustible philosophical fecundity; it grounds a critique that is radically different from that of Feuerbach or Nietzsche.

It can not be said that this particular interpretation of the general Christian philosophical doctrine that all that exists whether material or spiritual, must be brought under the same concept of being and conceived as subject to the same metaphysical norms, is the interpretation favoured by all philosophical schools.

Then there are questions regarding the nature of mind and matter as such, the concepts of becoming, and of unchanging natures, the philosophical question of the nature of the substantial soul and its relation to the body.

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.

Theology today must be articulated by means of philosophical concepts, and these should be evaluated according to purely philosophical criteria of consistency, coherence, adequacy, and applicability.

The funding for this style of theological reflection is, then, from the imaginative genres of Scripture (parables, stories, confessions, prayers, and so on) rather than from philosophical concepts, the other major source for Western theology.

While his letters are not models of philosophical precision, they are reflection of the highest order and in their own way are as precise (in the way that metaphors and images are precise) as are any philosophical concepts.

Others, however, such as Justin Martyr and Clement of Alexandria, endeavored to articulate the message of the gospel using Hellenistic terminology and philosophical concepts.

It is also not sufficient to say that Jesus» concept of God was no philosophical theory (true as that is), and that his belief in God as the cause of all that happens did not, in Jesus» undeveloped thought, untrained in logical consistency, exclude the assumption of other active causes of world events; that the strength of Jesus» faith in God is shown precisely in his holding fast, in spite of the belief in Satan, to the thought of God as the final cause of all events.