Sentences with phrase «pure act of»

Hockney's intense occupation with the genre of still - life painting enabled him to focus on the pure act of painting and the pleasure inherent to it.

The pure act of Typing is just materializing of what has been thought.

The campaign drives home the ubiquitous social message that adopting a child is an invariably pure act of selflessness.

Barcella says about National Adoption Month that, «The campaign drives home the ubiquitous social message that adopting a child is an invariably pure act of selflessness.

«It becomes a pure act of consciousness, and leads to a spirituality which is just as bare of content as the hypothetical absolute» (Civilization, p. 302).

Monopolar theism, whether it be the pure act of Aristotle's gods, or the One of Plotinus, is based upon a logical absurdity.

It lies in the reality that God is Uncreated, utterly Necessary, Infinite and pure Act of Being.

The loop at the heart of Sea of Thieves may be disappointingly simple, at times, but it's also both just enough of a nudge in the right direction to spark the player - driven adventures at the heart of this game, and a glowing endorsement of Rare's purest act of game design to date.

enough of a nudge in the right direction to spark the player - driven adventures at the heart of this game, and a glowing endorsement of Rare's purest act of game design to date.

In images that Sisto, in the tradition of Philip Guston, originates from pure acts of painting, her self - critical perseverance has produced work that is unique, psychologically complex, and moving.»

Not exact matches

Not everyone will benefit: now that Republicans have swept the US government for the first time since 1928, it means Obamacare is over - just a matter of time - and Affordable Care Act - vulnerable stocks such as Universal Health Services, AmSurg and Mednax will likely plunge; on the other hand pure pharma stocks like MCK and ABC will benefit as rhetoric on drug pricing will diminish significantly, leading to more stable earnings if / when changes in drug pricing become more stable.

EMLP is not as much a pure - play infrastructure MLP approach as it is a diversified, complex basket that goes beyond MLPs in order to meet 1940 Act restrictions on the amount of MLP exposure an ETF can have.

First principle, Being's pure act, Infinite cause Of finite fact, Essential being, Beyond our sight, Without which, nothing, Neither love nor light, Only through You Love's infinite power Brings into being Atom and flower.

The parallel theme plays out in saying the act of sex is wicked outside of marriage and can only be made pure by the institution of marriage as defined and administered by the church.

In this prophetic and symbolic act, Ravasi writes, Jesus draws a sharp contrast between a religion of superficiality and self - absorption and a pure faith, centered on his person.

In ordinary language when we speak of man's aim in life or in a particular act, we sometimes mean a pure possibility he strives to actualize.

The complex substance is a unity of being because a «thing» is what God knows it to be -LSB-... T] he Being of God -LSB-...] as Pure Act is the only sufficient reason for the unity and entity of every form of being, and the overall unity... of Nature.»

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

Since God is He Who Is, that is, pure being, every attribute of God is only a way of speaking of his one act of existing.

His love is pure act without shadow of passivity.

Two and a half centuries later the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, in the «Preface to the Second Edition» of his Critique of Pure Reason (1787), appropriated this «Copernican Revolution» in thought for his own shift from the presumed objectivity of what we know to the act of conscious knowing itself.2 It remains a contestable assessment because the movement is precisely in the opposite direction: After Copernicus, we humans are no longer understood to be in the center of the universe, whereas Kant concentrated precisely on the subjectivity of individual knowing.

Whereas earlier theology spoke of God as Goodness as such, whose every act (by virtue of divine simplicity) expresses His nature, the spectre that haunts late Scholastic thought is a God whose will precedes His nature, and whose acts then are feats of pure spontaneity.

The German philosopher further elaborated that this unnecessitated act of love is «pure beginning... and found only in the self - revelation of God.»

Speaking at his alma mater, the Angelicum, on the anniversary of Aeterni Patris in 1979, he said that «the philosophy of St. Thomas is a philosophy of being, that is, of the «act of existing» (actus essendi) whose transcendental value paves the most direct way to rise to the knowledge of subsisting Being and pure Act, namely to God.&raqact of existing» (actus essendi) whose transcendental value paves the most direct way to rise to the knowledge of subsisting Being and pure Act, namely to God.&raqAct, namely to God.»

As an act of pure love he created a world and he «founded the earth to endure» (Ps.

Sensing, therefore, for Aristotle, is an activity that presupposes passivity or being acted upon and physically altered — the passivity of matter — and the passivity of pure receptivity — the passivity of a psychic potency, the actuality of which is a psychic activity.

God the Holy Spirit — The spiritual state of being and acting in pure love (and / or peace, harmony, wisdom, knowledge — insert your favorite divine adjective here)

It is stated that mankind exists in two sexes from the pure untarnished beginning, and that both sexes owe their origin to God's primordial will, are made «of the same stuff», both equally close to God's creative act and equally distant from all that is merely animal.

Is there recognition of the advantage of locating the act of compassion historically, or are most Pure Land Buddhists content with a mythical account recognized as mythical?

The assumption hidden in this procedure is that pure and true thought about reality can occur only when it is removed from act and practice follow theory: doing is an extension of knowing.

On the one hand, man ought to have a pure heart, to act only from love of God and neighbor.

In his view faith understands itself as the pure gift of God, a God who is imaged as acting from above and may be thought of by analogy with human persons.

That is to say, man is not, as pure naturalism would have it, merely an object in nature which is acted upon and reacts according to fixed general laws, a passive receiver of prior causes and a non-willing, non-responsible transmitter of future effects, whose consciousness and action are completely caught up in the causal nexus of matter and time.

The question, therefore, is whether such a concept of a cause to which the infinite reality of pure act belongs as a factor constituting it without becoming an intrinsic constituent of the entity of the finite cause itself, but in some way remains free, detached from the process of becoming, but provides the real ground of the self - transcending operation of the finite agent itself, is a valid and demonstrable concept, or only a paradoxical and intrinsically self - contradictory construction which can only conceal the fact that our thought has reached an impasse.

The Reformers, in their turn, sought to purify the act of religion by an appeal to faith alone, sola fides, in the assurance that faith was somehow better, more spiritual and pure, when uncoupled from the limits and demands of rational investigation.

We will do better to keep to the old categories of almighty God and eternal God, because, as God is utterly and totally Being, «pure act», and the transcendental source of all dependent reality, these ancient categories of natural theology are going to be true.

I've come to believe that in the very midst of the burning dumpster fire of the Not - Yet the practice of cultivating joy and happiness, noticing the good and the beautiful and the true and the pure isn't an act of betrayal of our solidarity but instead a very real act of prophesy and invitation to the Soon - Coming - And - Right - Now - Already of the Kingdom of God.

As St. Thomas had taught her, God is pure act, the first and final cause of everything.

I firmly believe that giving out of guilt is better than not giving at all, and that sometimes our acts of faithfulness must precede (or do without) our pure motives.]

Even before he finished his comprehensive Summa Theologica (1265 — 72), Aquinas articulated his key understanding of God as actus purus, «pure act.»

Aquinas concentrated his attention on the doctrine of divine immutability in Question 9, repeating there that God is «first being» and «pure act, without the admixture of any potentiality.»

10 In On the Power of God (Quaestiones disputatae de potentia, 1266), he argued that God's existence and essence are identical, 11 wherefore there can be no admixture in God of both action and potentiality.12 Equally, as pure act, God can not be «composite» but must be «utterly simple.»

Jesus was setting the standard for all of us — If a prostitute caught in the act could repent and live a pure life, so can we.

Thus it seems that the notions «act of God,» «word of God,» and «future of God» are statements of pure faith and derive their entire meaning from the surrender of our will when it renounces self - determination.

The unfortunate lot of the responsible Christian politician in this life is to act in the world of power politics with all its messiness and moral impurity, while looking to the morally pure life of the Christian pacifist for a reminder of how man should treat» and, God willing, in the life to come will treat» his fellow man.

But such an abstraction or formlessness of energy and life is the equivalent of the «Pure Act» concept of God, an actuality that has realized every possible form.

Though Lot and his family probably deserved to be destroyed along with everybody else, God rescued Lot and his daughters through an act of pure mercy toward Lot, and in response to the intercession of Abraham.

In that concept, God was devoid of any physical dimension, being rather an entirely conceptual act of valuation of pure eternal objects, that is, of eternal objects in themselves, rather than as actualized in temporal actual entities.

Ultimately, as he states, the God creative enough «to make the entire observable universe in a dense dot of pure energy is incomprehensible, beyond human imagining,» but still «we can see the consequences of this unimaginably powerful creative act: a universe congenial to the ultimate formation of life, life giving rise to intelligence that can ask questions science can not answer.

And just as in human contacts the new understanding created by encountering another in love and trust is kept pure only when it permanently retains its connection with the other who is encountered, so too the self - understanding granted by faith never becomes a possession, but is kept pure only as a response to the repeated encounter of the Word of God, which proclaims the act of God in Christ in such a way as continually to represent it.