poses existential
questions of destiny, chance and the consequences of free will.
The Adjustment Bureau poses existential
questions of destiny, chance and the consequences of free will.
To
questions of destiny, questions of nature adhere.
But if, as cosmologists expect, the acceleration turns out to be a recent phenomenon, researchers may be able to determine its cause — and perhaps answer the larger
question of the destiny of the universe — by learning when and how the expansion began picking up speed.
Not exact matches
And some
of us are troubled by the shallow reasoning that has dominated the political discussions surrounding this move, as though the threadbare idea
of equality were enough to settle every
question concerning the long - term
destiny of mankind and as though the writings
of the anthropologists (not to mention the poets, the philosophers, the theologians, the novelists, the sociologists) counted for nothing beside the slogans
of Stonewall.
Still, he says that he doesn't want to be part
of a party (i.e., the Republican party) that upholds what he describes as unreason, but he also doesn't claim that such alleged scientific truth regarding ultimate
questions of human
destiny provides answers for public policy.
This book probably won't answer your
questions though regarding what I believe about the eternal
destiny of unbelievers.
Only my realisation in that year that the whole human race was on a collision course with disaster shook me out
of this dualism and forced me to rethink my theology in light
of this most inclusive
question of human
destiny.
«The supernatural» is the answer given to the
question concerning the source
of the new and the
destiny of the old.
The doctrine
of reincarnation is interesting because it attempts to provide an answer not only to the
question of human
destiny but also
of human origin.
He often turns to the church, especially if encouraged to do so, to explore fundamental
questions related to the nature and
destiny of man and his ever - present existential anxiety and guilt.
Reason must attain the dimension
of faith to seek answers to
questions of ultimate import and which will not go away, such as the reality
of God, the origin and
destiny of man, the ultimate worth
of human life, etc..
If you've read Evolving in Monkey Town you know that some
of my most serious doubts about Christianity were triggered by
questions related to religious pluralism and the
destiny of the un-evangelized.
Thus, the
question arises, will they incarnate more historically than before their own belief in the «mystical body»
of Christ, and the collective
destiny of the fully redeemed or «liberated» human race?
The
question of purpose intersects that
of nature and
destiny.
Then this straightforward statement: «Confronted with these deeper
questions concerning the origin and
destiny of mankind, Christianity proposes Jesus
of Nazareth.
Rather, I argue that the profound and seemingly unmanageable pressures which marriage faces are a spiritual and not a psychosocial matter, one having to do with
questions of human
destiny: are we to live for ourselves, or for others, or for both in some yet undiscovered dialectic
of being?
The church can aid the married and the unmarried only by refusing the victim posture and by incarnationally addressing the
questions of nature, purpose and
destiny.
I wish only to state that despite Macquarrie's fine presentation
of the major themes in Heidegger's work, and despite his often engaging if not always successful argument that those themes «can be interpreted in a way that is compatible with Christian faith,» there remains the nagging
question whether a God who is thrown into the rough mix
of human
destiny is enough to prevent us from repeating the horrors
of the Holocaust and Hiroshima.
If we can hold to the
question about who we are and what our
destiny is — perennial human
questions — and if we refuse to accept answers from the world, we will discover that the
question is not one we ask, but one that is asked
of us.
But one thing we may say with reasonable certainty: quite apart from the
question of time authenticity or the verbal accuracy
of this or that reported saying, the idea
of new life through death,
of victory coming out
of defeat, is an inseparable part
of the thought
of Jesus about his
destiny.
The
question of man's ultimate
destiny is another aspect
of the doctrine
of man.
No discussion
of human
destiny is adequate which is content to ignore such
questions.
I hear this all the time, whenever I have
questions about creationism or Calvinism, the Problem
of Evil or the
destiny of the un-evangelized.
In part 2, I ask more
questions about who some
of those inspired people might be, the eternal
destiny of non-Christians, and more.
Eschatology and ethics meet in this basic issue, for it involves not only the scope
of God's love and favor and
of our responsibility but the
question of eternal
destiny.
Therefore, immortality in posterity appears to be a completely unsatisfactory answer to the
question of human
destiny — unless, as Hartshorne advocates, God as the divine survivor
of all deaths is included among one's posterity.42
Some kind
of interim solution would seem called for if these acts are neither to be simply dismissed (which would call into
question how responsible / accountable we really are) nor to deny us our
destiny forever.
Man's intelligence raises the
question of the long - range
destiny of human life and values, and the honest humanist can only answer that all alike are destined for oblivion.
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 the Gospels, the
question of human
destiny is still largely framed in collective terms.
This raises important
questions about the unity
of the human
destiny and about the Church's task
of evangelization.
Begging the
question of whether an animal has a right to life in the face
of a «necessity» that is neither economically nor medically established, it can most surely be argued that if an animal's
destiny is to be slaughtered, this should be carried out with some respect for the creature.
I shall then say something again about human existence in the light
of Christology; and I shall conclude with the
question of human
destiny.
The more the glorious reign
of God on earth was believed in and the more vividly its splendors were imagined, the more surely the
question of individual
destiny was pushed to the fore: Should the beneficiaries
of this divine consummation be only the fortunate persons who happened to be alive on the surface
of the earth when the great day arrived?
He shows that «For each age, the life and teachings
of Jesus represented an answer (or, more often the answer) to the most fundamental
questions of human existence and
of human
destiny, and it was to the figure
of Jesus as set forth in the gospels that those
questions were addressed.»
National affairs and international affairs constituted the raw material for theological thought about the
questions of human
destiny.
The
destiny of reason will be determined by how we in the modern West answer these
questions.
I struggled with
questions about religious pluralism, the
destiny of the un-evangelized, the Problem
of Evil, the inerrancy
of the Bible, and much more.
I think, therefore, that however particular
questions connected with our individual
destinies may be answered, it is only by acknowledging them as genuine
questions, and living in the sphere
of thought which they open up, that we become profound.
There was in the years from perhaps the seventh century B.C. the beginning
of reflection by non-Brahmins and in particular by men and women
of the Kshatriya or warrior - ruler caste concerning the great
questions of God, the world, and man's origin and final
destiny, and Gautama himself was, according to tradition,
of that class, and was not out
of character in seeking the way out
of the round
of rebirth, which by his time had become a matter
of common belief.
He promised that «there is no
question of Britain losing essential sovereignty... [but] we have all come to recognize our common European heritage, our mutual interests and our European
destiny.»
Fitzpatrick said a police office at
Destiny would «have plenty
of business» in response to a
question about increased crime at Syracuse's mall.
Surprisingly, the answers to these
questions are not overwhelmingly complicated and in a relatively short amount
of time, any person can begin dedicating his or her time and energy towards attaining personal
destiny.
Tasked with finding a reincarnated lama, Buddhist acolyte Kaaya journeys to find him, while
questioning the nature
of destiny, duty, and sin.
The larger
question is, If Gray and his (great) actors see
destiny where I see cliché, will the strength
of their belief make a difference to the finished product — give it a core
of authenticity that lifts it out
of the B - movie gutter?
An under - seen gem
of a film, TiMER is a film that asks the hard
questions about whether soulmates really exist, if there's a chance you can have more than one and if
destiny is a fabrication we make up as a comfort to when life goes wrong.
Backed by the songs
of Radiohead, I Origins is a thought - provoking look at
questions of faith,
destiny, and what might lie beyond death.
If you own an Xbox One, then the answer to that
question could be any number
of things with this week's Deal with Gold that includes new titles like
Destiny and PvZ: Garden Warfare 2 as well as number
of backwards compatible titles like Borderlands 2 and Castle Crashers.
Even devoted fans
of filmmaker Richard Linklater might
question the need for Louis Black and Karen Bernstein's bio-doc Richard Linklater: Dream Is
Destiny.