Sentences with phrase «possibilities of the fulfillment»

When faith was able to see no possibility of the fulfillment of Yahweh's historical purposes in the historical process, it was history, not faith, that was broken.

«Vampire Diaries, Twilight, and True Blood reveal mysterious and deceptive worlds where relationships, love, and sex are dangerous but still offer the best possibility of fulfillment,» says William Patrick Day, a professor of cinema at Oberlin University.

Illustrations, drawings and watercolor works suggest a mind filled with both doubt and idealism, on the possibility of fulfillment within one's earthly existence and a continual search for a higher spiritual being.

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It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling persons from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status, meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the ultimate goal of divine creation and human hope the kingdom of God in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»

That is, he can (and observably he often does) elect to live in self - contained ways, denying his drive towards fulfillment in manhood, failing to share in rich commonalty with his fellows, seeking satisfactions which are so partial, limited, and defective that they impede and damage his basic drive as a total personal organism — an organism which is on the way to realization of its richest and widest possibilities.

This may mean what through the influence of Professor C. H. Dodd has come to be called realized eschatology, the belief that Jesus had brought the Kingdom to fulfillment in his own person and he was thereby affirming his messiahship.4 It seems to me more probable that Jesus meant primarily though perhaps not solely to declare the possibility of entrance into the Kingdom here and now by repentance, the acceptance of God's forgiveness, and the assumption of the obligations of discipleship.

They were concerned to emphasize the fulfillment of human potentialities and the possibility of bringing into being a more Christian society.

Biology thus fosters a view of man as engaged in a continuing adventure, drawn on to new levels of fulfillment by the lure of future possibilities.

The openness to otherness is a condition of inestimable possibility for self - affirmation and self - realization and therefore also the fulfillment of human destiny.

Thus the issues which are being debated anew in the theological turmoil today center in the meaning of Christian love as it points on the one side to the possibilities of human existence, and as it points on the other side to a fulfillment of this life in an ultimate good which transcends the possibilities of this world.

Niebuhr analyzed man's highest possibilities by showing the relation of the second Adam to the first Adam (man's ultimate and original perfection), mutual love (the possibilities and limits of history), and the end of history (how the historical character of the perfection of history is preserved against attempts to surrender history to eternity in interpreting its fulfillment).

Put differently, whatsoever really exists, in whatsoever way it does exist, has and must have God, ipsum esse per se subsistens, for its cause — but in a radical way that extends even to its mode of being, its very mutability, its possibility for otherness, interaction, frustration, and fulfillment.

It is the same Word spoken in creation that addresses us now, for the same purpose, which is the evocation of ever - increasing fulfillment of creaturely possibility.

This aim at the fulfillment of the new occasion is highly variable in that it is always tailored to the unique possibilities which the past occasion poses for the new occasion within the framework of this specific relationship.

This allows, in turn, the composition of the subjective aim of the concrescing occasion at its own self - actualization being determined finally by its own modification or shaping of the various possibilities granted it through the aims at fulfillment for it of all the actual occasions in its past (CNT 96).

Emerson's perfectionism places too much faith in human capacities and fails to understand human limitations, according to Reinhold Niebuhr, who said that «the ultimate fulfillment of human life transcends the possibilities of history» (Beyond Tragedy).

From what we have already said about prayer, it is clear that the prayer - situation is one which is supremely relevant to the fulfillment of the highest human potentiality (e.g., envisaging of ideal possibilities) and which calls for the exercise of the distinctively human capacities (e.g., imagination, reflection, deep feeling).

In History and Hermeneutics, Carl E. Braaten criticizes Bultmann for not recognizing the «ontological priority of historical reality,» and for refusing to accept the fact that it is «the nature of faith to look to past fulfillment as well as future possibility.»

So far as the prophet himself is concerned, the contingent possibility of quiet salvation through repentance is an impossible possibility: Israel's redemption, and the ultimate fulfillment of Yahweh's covenant purpose — these lie now only beyond judgment.

The romantic stage is similar to the prehension of data from the past and the lure of the possibilities of the future; the stage of precision parallels the stage of the creative synthesis of these data and possibilities; the stage of generalization resembles the final stage of the becoming of a momentary experience, the culmination of an actuality's drive toward fulfillment, or in Whitehead's word, satisfaction.

We may ask whether the fulfillment and performance of these expectations will point the clergy in the direction of greatness, whether their fulfillment is even within the realm of possibility, and to what extent they are being met in the current models of ministry.

The possibilities which are presented are blessedness which comes from self - fulfillment and the acceptance by God of that self - fulfillment — all of this, of course, in relationship with others and not in any presumed human isolation of self hood — or the disintegration or failure which comes from self - destruction or rejection by God because there is nothing to be received by God in His consequent nature for the furthering of His purpose of good in the course of the process of creative advance.

Thus for each of us, the exacting and inescapable question, which must be faced and answered, is the question of our total mortal life as we are now living it, a question which arises from our mortality with the responsibility which that entails, which puts itself to us in the form of our measuring up to the possibility of becoming authentically ourselves, and which issues in our realization (not so much in thought as in deeply felt experience as existing men) of blessedness, as we know ourselves becoming what we truly are, or in destruction or damnation, as we know ourselves both frustrated men and failures in our human fulfillment.

Each occasion of experience is in touch with possibilities from which it selects a goal regarding its «self - fulfillment.»

It views progress as a step - by - step process in fulfillment of spiritual possibilities.

Since the initial aim is at the best possible fulfillment beyond man's powers to understand, and since man's exercise of freedom seems only to lead to a deviation away from this ideal possibility, there is some prima facie support for this view.

Erotic desire signifies the possibility of a self - generated fulfillment that satisfies personal need and rewards worldly accomplishment.9 Against this urge of the world Nygren pits the agape of Christ through whom God by divine initiative offers the free gift of salvation.

The principle is teleology, as in metaphysics, that what can be actualized ought to be, and that the fulfillment of possibilities is good.

Evolution, even of the galaxies and the stars and the planets, is nothing other than God's patient luring of all that is into newly emerging fulfillments of possibility.

The actualities of existence are seen as only partial fulfillment's of latent possibilities.

The fulfillment of the first part of the New York Agreement also dissipates the fear of the possibility that Bitcoin might split into two major chains; practically the entire network has agreed to a plan and stuck to it.

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Previous research has found that some men view women as offering the possibility of romantic fulfillment, but also competing with them in areas such as the workplace, where both vie for similar resources.

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