Sentences with phrase «questions about our human existence»

At any rate, Bultmann always emphasized that it was his task as a Christian theologian to offer answers, whereas the task of a philosopher was only to sharpen the questions (and particularly the question about human existence).

It uses the tenets of the genre to pose difficult questions about our human existence.

In such an empty landscape, one wonders what topics are left for students to explore and discuss — certainly, all too few that raise interesting and worthwhile questions about human existence.

Abortion is one of the most controversial and emotive of all ethical issues, raising fundamental questions about human existence.

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Assuming it was Christianity, it ameliorated many of the harsh realities of human existence, such as your own death, the death of a loved one, injustice, feelings of being at the mercy of the forces of nature, and so on, gave you answers to questions about life, and so on.

How much the CES actually cares about «the most profound metaphysical questions concerning human existence and the nature of reality» within any recognisably Catholic perspective is, however, to put it as mildly as possible, perhaps in some doubt.

As soon as one begins to think about the basic issues of human existence, one is faced with the question of where to turn to find a trustworthy guide.

In speaking about his views of eternity on Wednesday, answering a question from a caller based in Atlanta, Romney was echoing Mormon beliefs about the eternal nature of human existence.

They recovered the classical experience of reason as the potential infinity of human questions, showing how this dynamic «ratio» as a desire for understanding is healed and transformed by the paschal - metanoetic experience of faith in the Sophia - Cod of compassion and love.4 Aquinas, for example, understood God as «intimately present within everything that exists since God is existence» and that Cod's omnipotence — Aquinas wrote very little about it — regards not actualities but possibilities, and is best manifested in forgiveness and compassionate mercy.5

So far our comments have been largely a contrast of stances toward human existence: a plea for a more truly dialectical, less dualistic understanding of the relation between form and energy, a plea for a similar openness toward the past, a question about the future to the effect that the incompleteness of the present ought not to frustrate Dr. Altizer into insisting that the total reversal promised by the glimpsed eschatological future be the only standard or norm of faith.

Noted Neuro - Buddhist Sam Harris has this to say about the President's choice to head the NIH: Dr. Collins has written that «science offers no answers to the most pressing questions of human existence» and that «the claims of atheistic materialism must be steadfastly....

Such a non-utilitarian faith does not undertake to show that in the Christian gospel we can find the solution to all the problems of human existence any more than that we can find in the Scriptures answers to all the questions we raise about the world of nature.

Historically and theologically we are dealing here with devout yet aberrant forms of faith that are unable to illuminate the more profound problems of human existence, suffering, guilt and destiny or to answer questions about human history in its wholeness.

In discovering the biblical definition of church, you will also discover answers the most basic questions all humans have about their own existence and identity.

I shall then say something again about human existence in the light of Christology; and I shall conclude with the question of human destiny.

My own writing about religion grew out of the fundamental question raised by the new situation: Is religion something that may or may not be very important to humans, or must it in some way integrate all other aspects of existence?

If the notion of revelation is to be of any real consequence to us, it must offer some response to our questions about the purpose of human existence on this planet.

Even civilized peoples ask and answer questions about the meaning of human life, the reality of their existence, the nature of the world and the calamities they undergo.

The fact of evil in the world and in human experience raises serious questions for any Christian discussion, as much about human existence as about the reality and activity of God who in Christian faith is affirmed to be nothing other than «pure unbounded love.»

«When it comes to «suffering for no reason,»» the book of Job «seems intent on reminding us that questions about the world, human existence, and God necessarily remain open.»

The book concludes that questions about the world, human existence, and God necessarily remain open.

The indications are that many of them came to theological study with a religion so sentimental or so narrowly Christ - centered that it had left them without answers to their deepest questions about the reason for their existence, about the meaning of human tragedy, and the significance of mankind's history.

It struck Muller that many philosophical questions about the meaning of human existence are based on the fundamental assumption that life is finite.

In particular, water is an important recurring element in the artist's oeurve, a charged symbol of perpetual transformation that allows her to approach larger questions about existence and the human condition.