Sentences with phrase «present immediacy»

(96) 18:36 --[In addition to the three main strands of thought about God there is in the Galilean origin of Christianity a strand which] «finds purpose in the present immediacy of a kingdom not of this world» (PR 520).

But Jesus also spoke of the present immediacy of this future kingdom, for this future reality exerted its power upon present actions.

Whereas for postexilic Judaism and Pharisaism, «God was silent and remote,» the «central and decisive fact in the appearance of Jesus was the renewal of the sense of the present immediacy of God» (SCE 110f).

For concrescence was seen to be inherently temporal, and the contrast between subjectivity and objectivity could be understood as the contrast between present immediacy and past determinateness.

Here, we find no awareness of the Fall (except as a means of affirming total personal responsibility), no doctrine of sin as opposed to evil, no past or future eschaton, no atonement (except as a moral example), and no Incarnation (except as a «renewal» of the sense of the present immediacy of God).

A present, actual occasion contains or houses its past occasions as its data, and thus, the subjectivity or present immediacy of a present actual occasion has those past occasions as its objects.

It dwells upon the tender elements in the world, which slowly and in quietness operate by love; and it finds purpose in the present immediacy of a kingdom not of this world.

«Resurrection» is a term taken from the apocalyptic tradition, a [244] tradition that Jesus had more than passing familiarity with but which he persistently transformed, as we have observed — emphasizing God's present immediacy and intimacy.

All enjoy subjectivity in their present immediacy, with varying degrees of physicality and mentality, depending upon how they repeat, or revise, their inherited past.

They suggest that what we mean by subjectivity is simply present immediacy.

Whitehead argues that if subjectivity is really another way of talking about the felt sense of present immediacy, as opposed to what is past to us, then this is a feature of all events.

«33 He characterizes personal identity: «A whole sequence of actual occasions, each with its own present immediacy, is such that each occasion embodies in its own being the antecedent members of that sequence with an emphatic experience of the self - identity of the past in the immediacy of the present.

The ever - growing, character - filled past is experientially gathered into the crookedly advancing, cutting edge of present immediacy (PR 237 / 363).

Thus, the transition from subject to object is the transition from present immediacy to past determinateness.

All events have a felt sense of present immediacy.

Subjectivity is the felt sense of present immediacy which is a feature of all events.

Whitehead's «present immediacy» is put in quite personal terms by Cobb (1983):

It dwells upon the tender elements in the world, which slowly and in quietness operate by love; and finds purpose in the present immediacy of a kingdom not of this world» (p. 343).

The central and decisive fact in the appearance of Jesus was the renewal of the sense of the present immediacy of God.

By perishing in its subjective, present immediacy the actual occasion becomes objectively immortal, as the process of becoming unified terminates in a unified being capable of causally influencing those processes of becoming which supersede it.

In this encounter the reality which the teacher and writer present to him comes alive for him: it is transformed from the potential, the abstract, and the unrelated to the actual, concrete, and present immediacy of a personal and even, in a sense, a reciprocal relationship.

Something like present immediacy of enjoyment, memory and anticipation enters into each of the events that organically compose physical reality.

«36 By contrast, Whitehead's natural theology «dwells on the tender elements in the world, which slowly and in quietness operates by love; and finds purpose in the present immediacy of a kingdom not of this world.

If God always enjoys present immediacy, then she is everlastingly becoming and never in being.

Present immediacy... is a unified subject which modifies its data.

Not exact matches

Awareness of death gives to life immediacy and depth, and makes life so intense that its totality is summed up in the present moment.

Not just verbally but systematically, it would be difficult to find a closer English definition of Heidegger's Vorhandenheit than this discussion of «present (Or subjective) immediacy.»

In spite of its being spatiotemporally somewhat remote, it is present to me subjectively with an immediacy and effectiveness lacking to the presence of even the contiguous occasions in the brain.

Whitehead writes that the body as a whole is the organ of sensation: «There may be some further specialization into a particular organ of sensation, but in any case the «withness of the body» is an ever - present, though elusive, element in our perceptions of presentational immediacy» (PR 474f).

Using human experience as a model to depict the nature of reality, Whitehead argues that every actuality (i.e., every actual event) has both a present subjective immediacy and a past objectivity.

That an event moves toward its final cause (which is its subjective aim)... means that it has a «vector character,» that it is a passage from immediacy of the present into the future.

The specious present is a product of this primary memory which holds for a time the images of passing consciousness in a felt immediacy.

Perception in the mode of presentational immediacy objectifies the actual entities «within one particular duration»: «the «presented duration»» (Process 321).

Therefore, the past relational data which are felt vectorially and conformably exist in contexts which are always «more» than the energies which we are able to include in our own present subjective immediacy.

This a priori leads rather directly to an immediacy and absoluteness of inspiration which, despite Lindsell's protests to the contrary, result in a «dictation» view of inspiration and ultimately to a «docetic» view of Scripture in which the human element is present (supposedly!)

Our present concern was dismissed rather cavalierly: Subjective immediacy, to be sure, is inevitably lost [in God], but that is all» (p. 67, n. 40).

That is why, for several years, I have been coming out of bisexuality, coming out of utopic vision in order to focus my sight on the urgency and immediacy of the concrete present.

«It is enveloped in the immediacy of its immediate present (PR 354).

In Adventures of Ideas 233 he writes: «The present moment is constituted by the influx of the other into that self - identity which is the continued life of the immediate past within the immediacy of the present.»

Hence all the parts of an actual entity are present to each other in a felt immediacy.

«Mutual immediacy» may be read as simply referring to God's feelings, namely, that God experiences every event objectively, but that experiencing is now still going on in the divine present, no matter how distantly past an event may have come into beings.

The lesson of the transmutation of causal efficacy into presentational immediacy is that great ends are reached by life in the present; life novel and immediate, but deriving its richness by its full inheritance from the rightly organized animal body.

Metaphysics for Bergson strives to minimize the mediation of all symbols (like words and concepts), and although metaphysics «claims to dispense with symbols,» it can not dispense with them entirely.13 Hence, since it requires reflection and articulation (in spite of being based on intuition) metaphysics will always be required to genuflect at the door to the sanctuary of the intellect (even though the immediacy of Being, analogous to the Holy Spirit in a Christian sanctuary is supposed to be present in intuition), and it is in the moment of genuflection that the idea of logical necessity infiltrates metaphysics and becomes an unhappy resident alien.

The way in which the reflexive verb is presented in the French suggests a tighter, internal immediacy than what we may be tempted to read into the English... «s» influencent» sounds much less like an actual multiplicity than does the phrase «influence each other.

Furthermore, we may point out that Rudolph Bultmann, the distinguished German form - critic, was accustomed to urge that whenever the gospel was faithfully preached there was also a bringing of the past event of the crucifixion into the immediacy of the present.

It is precisely to this encounter with God in Jesus that the Holy Spirit testifies in the immediacy of present experience.

The sense in which this is true must be explored; it will suffice at the moment if we repeat once again that «memorial» here does not indicate mental reverie but rather a genuine and vital re-call of the past into the immediacy of present experience.

In a phrase, the modern rite in its present form fails to deliver in quite the same way and with the same immediacy that was conveyed by the old.

There must also be a liberation from the immediacy of the concrete present.

The concrete, unique present, the episodic immediacy of a novel actuality, perishes with final concretion.