Sentences with phrase «present existence»
Many examples could be discussed, but I would like to consider one from that group whose present existence is perhaps the most damning testimony against the course of American history: the American Indian.
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It determines the present because it now compels man to decision; he is determined thereby either in this direction or in that, as chosen or as rejected, in his entire present existence.
Only through the man who devotes himself is the original power saved for further present existence.
Haha... When are we going to stop presenting the existence of a god as given, and then ask a ridiculous question on top of it?
It is not sufficient to argue, in objection to what I have just stated, that the full reality of Darwin's life and experience depends now, for whatever present existence it has, on our own thinking about or remembering it.
I'd say rather than try to invent wish fulfillment with myth and fairy tales about the way we'd like things to be, why not just find our contentment in our present existence, make ours the best lives we can live and just enjoy the ride we have, rather than invent one to dream about.
That said, I have found the strongest peace in my own heart on my own eternally secure life to be the new birth and union with Christ (His life now my own life — indistinguishable), the present existence God views me in (sanctified, glorified, seated, etc) and simply that I am purchased and no longer my own.
Yet, methodologically speaking, the historical Jesus I encounter via historiography is just as really a possible understanding of my present existence as is the kerygma of the New Testament, whose «contemporaneity» is equally problematic.
Ultimate happiness is deferred to an afterlife «on the other side» of present existence.
Most of the Anglo - Catholic clergy who stayed in their ghetto did so because of their refusal to leave their people behind: asone Anglican priest who had attempted to take his Parish to Rome and had been repulsed by his local Catholic bishop put it to me, the essential was that «Rome has got to have a more creative view of the corporate nature of our present existence».
This view, at any rate, is the only one compatible with saying, as Whitehead does say, that an entity which is actual, is actual regardless of whether its present existence is that of a subject enjoying the universe from which it arises or that of a superject functioning objectively in subsequent processes.
They're satisfied enough with their present existence that they have no ambition to make history; they can't even imagine a social or political world better than the one they inhabit.
This final phase includes the occasion's anticipatory feeling of the future as necessarily embodying this present existence.
Further, it considers such past forces and individuals as praiseworthy on whose work our present existence and relative welfare are based.
The whole idea of God is hence endangered; for it has lost its meaning, if God is not thought of as the Power which determines man in his present existence.
Jesus speaks of God only to affirm that man is claimed by the will of God and determined in his present existence through God's demand, His judgment, His grace.
But how far the God of the future actually rules man's present, in such a way that man in his present existence is determined by the God of the future — this does not often appear clearly.
We have evolved along with all of nature into our present existence.
It is especially those compelled to wait for this future who open our present existence to the Good News of history's promise.
For almost the whole of Indian thought, the pain of the human situation was accentuated by the view that present existence is only a small part of the whole.
But there is a reason we can not see God directly in our present existence because the Law of Blasphemy exists (this takes the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ to understand, which again is an answer too big for mankind alone to fathom).
The historical fact of Jesus, who lived, taught, died, and triumphed not only stands at the remote beginning of any congregation but also concretizes the hope that the congregation finds in its present existence.
There is more of the legendary and mythological in the Majjhima, some quite interesting stories occurring as, for example, that of the conversion of a terrible bandit who thus attained Arhantship, i.e., who attained to Nirvana in this present existence (number 86).
He rightly says that the divine in Christ is something transcendent, something affirmed by faith, something we should not affirm unless it came home to us in our present existence.
Humanity must let the independence from its self blow out of the universal mind ovum; and make an evolution from the present existence, body,..
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Find out why our planet owes its present existence to these organisms.
This collection of oil paintings explores people re-defining their identity in order to recreate their worlds, expanding beyond their present existence.
You see this reach for something beyond the body, beyond our present existence.