Sentences with phrase «prepersonal modes of existence»

The best way to avoid this «paycheck - to - paycheck» mode of existence is to set up a saving's account of ideas.

It is this mode of existence of a society which justifies the disciplines of sociology and economics.

There are, in fact, mutually exclusive, even contradictory, modes of existence.

Such an ontology formed the basis for the Enlightenment and now governs the completely profane mode of existence of modern scientific man.

This view defines Christian faith in terms of continuity in a mode of existence, while recognizing the constantly new intellectual task of articulating doctrines required and supported by it.

Glorious Lord Christ: the divine influence secretly diffused and active in the depths of matter, and the dazzling centre where all the innumerable fibres of the manifold meet; power as implacable as the world and as warm as life; you whose forehead is of the whiteness of snow, whose eyes are of fire, and whose feet are brighter than molten gold; you whose hands imprison the stars; you who are the first and the last, the living and the dead and the risen again; you who gather into your exuberant unity every beauty, every affinity, every energy, every mode of existence; it is you to whom my being cried out with a desire as vast as the universe, «In truth you are my Lord and my God.»

Nevertheless, the modern artist, by inverting or reversing our mythical traditions, has disclosed a totally immanent mode of existence banished even from the memory of transcendence, and created a comprehensive vision of a new and total nothingness which Blake named as Ulro, or Hell.

These represent the various facets of the baptismal experience that liberate one from despair and thrust one into a new mode of existence.

There is then no contradiction in supposing that a being whose existence is necessary may nevertheless alter in some respects in the mode of that existence.

For as «forms of definiteness,» «eternal objects» are, by their very mode of existence, «Pure Potentials for the Specific Determination of Fact.»

Are we saying that, however mysterious and inexplicable the event may be, Jesus was actually made alive, in a new and glorious mode of existence, although he had really died and been buried?

For it is demonstrable that our bodies of flesh and blood will be dissolved, and that in whatever mode of existence we may be raised from death it will not be by either the resuscitation of this mortal body or its transformation — unless, indeed, we follow the speculations of some of the Fathers concerning the reassembling, by God, of the dispersed molecules of the flesh, which I am not inclined to do.

If we ask what he means by «it», he can not precisely tell us; but he is evidently groping after the idea that «we», that is our personalities, will be re-made by God for a different mode of existence from that of the flesh - and - blood body, and yet that in some way we shall retain our identity and be the same personalities as those which now live in the mode of physical beings.

So in I Corinthians, having asked how the dead are raised, he attempts to answer the question by saying, on the one hand, that there is some kind of real, though indefinable, continuity between our present bodily mode of existence and the life beyond death, and, on the other, that there is discontinuity also.

It does this by highlighting the peculiar nature of God's mode of existence.

The problem that is raised by Hartshorne's understanding of God's mode of existence, granting his view that God is not (as with Whitehead) a single occasion but a series of occasions, seems to be rather the question of what makes this series necessary and so unending.

This, in turn, must mean that the being and the becoming of an actual entity are two different modes of its existence.

Personhood is God's mode of existence, and since God's mode of existence, in Hartshorne's view, encompasses all possible and actual modes of existence, 19 one would think that this commitment fairly well establishes Hartshorne as a personalist, at least in his metaphysics.

Through the latter mode of existence every actual entity achieves «objective immortality.»

The book moves back to the judge's childhood and youth, marked by his dead mother's absence; his father's stroke, damaged speaking ability, and death; his courtship; and his professional advancement built on his father's political connections, while moving forward to encompass his wife's stroke and subsequent decline and his effort to sustain his self - sufficient mode of existence while mourning her death.

The essence of the demoniac mode of existence is anxiety before the good, a shrinking back from the redemption which God offers in the person of Jesus Christ.

Quoting an ancient Christian hymn in Philippians 2:5 - 8, Paul describes Jesus» mode of existence as a self - emptying and calls Christians to embrace this lifestyle.

One may understand the personality of God as His act — it is, indeed, even permissible for the believer to believe that God became a person for love of him, because in our human mode of existence the only reciprocal relation with us that exists is a personal one.

So far removed is this mode of existence from the natural man that it is quite literally worse for him than simply dying.

Concluding the study with Christian existence implies the judgment that despite the great variety of modes of existence that have appeared, and despite the great distance that separates us from primitive Christianity, a single structure is expressed in the whole of Christian history.

The existentialists are describing the several modes of existence among which modern man chooses, but the possibility of choosing among just these modes is itself the product of a history.

Not only are the stages of preaxial development treated only formally and the axial cultures of China and Persia wholly omitted, but also developments in Greece and Palestine have been dealt with schematically in such a way as to ignore other modes of existence which took shape within them.

The sharp distinction of Homeric and Socratic structures within the great diversity of modes of existence in Greece is a gross, but hopefully helpful, simplification.

It would simply be going on and on, in some continuing mode of existence that would have no attraction.

But they appear to think that just this range of modes of existence is that within which man as man has always operated.

The conviction that there is a diversity of structures of existence as well as a diversity of modes of existence within each structure is partly a function of reflection on human differences and partly a function of a priori considerations.

But just as there are many modes of existence in which Buddhist, Homeric, Socratic, and prophetic existence have been embodied, so also there have been many modes of existence in which Christian existence has been embodied.

They analyze with great sensitivity the different modes of existence that are chosen, especially in man's innumerable attempts to evade a full and responsible acceptance of his situation.

It needs to be noted that two distinct claims have been made here: First, that God is a conscious and self - conscious being; and second, that there is an aspect of God that relates to us in our mode of existence as conscious personal beings, and that we can appropriately relate back to God only in this same way.

We can never know whether others may not have been called before Jesus to more or less similar modes of existence.

He would say this on the ground that the reason we would not make the same statement about any particular being, e.g., elephants or unicorns, is precisely because it is contradictory to assert of any particular being that it has the necessary mode of existence.

Man (Adam) and Woman (Eve) chose rather to disobey God by eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, thus changing the «perfect» mode of existence of man to the «flawed» mode of existence of man.

This contextuality also means that the divine nature has adapted itself to our mode of existence.

For it is demonstrable that our bodies of flesh and blood will be dissolved, and that in whatever mode of existence we may be raised from death it will not be by either the resuscitation of this mortal body or its transformation.»

Rather it is the opening of the universe to the very possibility of a truly historical mode of existence.

He surrendered his deity and entered upon an altogether different mode of existence.

And so any mode of existence or consciousness that assists us toward truthfulness about ourselves must be functioning in the interests of that desire and of the truth it seeks.

Having reduced my perception of God and his purpose to the bare essence without any theosophical definition and having renounced any expectation of an eternal reward with any connection to my current mode of existence, is my affirmation of a supreme being and a supreme purpose meaningful?

To affirm the humanocentric predicament is to assert that we approach being only through the mode of our existence.

History now becomes the Son's mode of existence; historical destiny becomes His destiny.

For Bultmann, one must cut himself off from all past forms of religious security before a truly Christian mode of existence can be realized.

For Bultmann the Christ event is something that must happen ever anew; the past forms of faith can not give us spiritual sustenance or lead us to an eschatological mode of existence.

In that same interview, Percy says, «Binx Bolling lived out the various Kierkegaardian modes of existence: aesthetic, ethical, and religious»» how «schematic» can one get?

It is not an optional mode of existence but is integral to the human status.

Rather, it is sort of existence continuous with our life in this world and in the physical body, but not identical with either of these — it is a mode of existence appropriate to «the heavenly places», although the level or degree of its continuation is to be determined by what has been done «in the flesh».