Sentences with phrase «rather than a mystery»

But the deeper I delved, the more I realized that science approached environment as a problem to solve rather than a Mystery to revere.

Yet, approaching the truth affirmed by Christianity as some abstract, objective assertion to be tested, simply demonstrates that the questioner is approaching this query as a problem to be pondered, dissected, and solved, rather than a mystery to inhabit and be transformed by.»

A secret mission conducted by secret agents in secret locations builds up a sense of annoyance rather than mystery or adventure.

And in reality, you have to be in it for character interactions and the world of Pokémon, rather than a mystery adventure.

And in reality, you have to be in it for character interactions and the world of Pokémon, rather than a mystery adventure.

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The mystery, however, lies less with Merkel than the German public — or, rather, with Merkel's assessment of what the public wants and expects from politics.

But the papers themselves tend to dispel mysteries rather than raise them, and that's assuming that the contents are genuine.

I am reading a book called Mystery of Emptiness & Love by Domo Geshe Rinpoche, and in the first chapter it says «The purpose of this book is to help you uncover the view that is holding you, rather than the view you are holding».

To think that the mystery of a person could be contained in a binder is a scary thought to me; just another example of the corporate culture's tendency to see people as impersonal «human resources» rather than employees, workers, personnel or even «human capital.»

Mar. 12, 2013 — A century old mystery as to why, for some animals, it's the father rather than the mother that takes care of their young has been cracked by researchers at the University of Sheffield.

At first the ritual was doubtless figurative, a ceremonial cleansing in water, which was regarded as symbolizing, rather than effecting, the purification of the inner life, and the origin of which lay in the baptism of John and kindred customs rather than in the sacraments of the mystery religions.

However, the mystery of the Cross tells us that in God's Wisdom, which is the ultimate wisdom, evil and suffering are conquered in a way that goes against our natural instincts and expectations - not by miraculous intervention, but by humble acceptance; or at least, that the miraculous triumph follows on from sacrifice rather than preceding it.

and he argues that the doctrines about him «name a mystery which is felt rather than thought; and people may very well feel differently about different ways of phrasing the mystery».

Throughout, Weinandy imaginatively engages the Christian tradition in a way that respects the truths of faith as a «mystery» to be explored rather than as «problems» to be solved, thus giving to his entire work the character of intelligently believing humility.

It allows the Word of God to remain alive rather than shrouding it in the binder of the most read, but yet the most misinterpreted book ever written — because many of those who read it, read it through the eyes and mind of an ancient civilization that was only beginning to understand the mysteries of creation.

I totally deplore the approach that opts for perceiving «evil» as some kind of mystery rather than seeking to understand its causes.

If science and technology are ever to be liberated from tutelage to the dominative powers of history, if the drama is to be «interrupted» redemptively rather than destructively, then Christian theology, which has itself been enticed time and again to legitimate dominative power, can contribute to that future by mediating more dialectically to the present the subversive memories of God's identification with the struggles of victims everywhere in the mystery and message of Christ Jesus.

Although Luther was most captive to this form of thinking, it also affected the other 16th century Reformers; Instead of seeing the Eucharist as a time mystery, they treated it as a space mystery, and probed the static problem of locating the body of Christ rather than the dynamic one of making contact with a saving event.

Mystery that transforms rather than simply informs?

Revelation, we shall see, is the symbol - laden unfolding of the encompassing presence of mystery rather than a magical response to specific sets of problems.

Apparently, within our finite temporal context, the infinite mystery we call God can be received only indirectly as promise, rather than directly as knowledge.

In our dialogue with other traditions, the key to sustaining conversation (rather than cutting it short by claims that others will interpret as arrogant) is to keep before ourselves the possibility that in some way or other all religions may be relative, culturally specific ways of looking toward an ineffable mystery.

The fact that sacramental religion employs a multitude of symbols, rather than just one, already implies a wholesome conviction that no single concrete object, personality, or event can all by itself correspond completely to the unknown and unnamable mystery.

Natural law is far from unproblematic itself, and communitarianism is often regarded as a maneuver for getting around its mysteries rather than entering into them.

According to Henri De Lubac, the dominance of such an impersonal ecclesiology leads to the following problems in ecclesial life: a dry practice of the faith; an abstract theology which is expressed in objective rather than personalist categories; and a danger of reducing theological mysteries, as well as ecclesial relations, to the impersonal.8

Rather than explain the mystery of suffering by such a method, they left it a mystery.

Although Bultmann agrees fully with Bousset that the concepts Paul used in his christology were taken over from the mystery religions rather than handed down from Jesus, he is not misled by this fact into ignoring the decisive role Jesus» historicity plays in the theology of Paul: «The historical person of Jesus makes Paul's preaching gospel.»

Christian theology, for example, continues to locate the arena of mystery primarily in the areas of history or existential subjectivity rather than nature.

The church's witness to the reign of God is crucial but also provisional, for the mystery of God is beyond all domestication, as evidenced in Barth's radical rethinking of baptism and the Lord's Supper as witness to something from on high rather than as the established «sacraments» of Christendom.

Because this mystery retained an ontological and psychological prominence, its objectivity seemed to subdue rather than fulfill subjectivity.

They are celebrating the most serious element of their human lives in forms that trivialize the mystery rather than support and expand it into ever - widening horizons both personal and cosmic.

Once again, though, we must ask ourselves how we know when our visions are simply projections of childish wishing, rather than images more truly revelatory of mystery.

But as I became a pew - worshiper rather than the preacher, I had some doubts about the ability of us preachers to explicate and symbolize this majesty and mystery.

That is to say, the more one is aware of one's own involvement in a scientific enterprise, the more one understands it as participation in a mystery, rather than as a conquest of exterior and objective territory.

But Underwood found his spiritual authority more in the academic ideology of rationalism than in the dark mystery of a crucified Messiah; his final vision is a rather flat social idealism in which the academic world is adulated.

I prefer something all natural and made with whole ingredients rather than a long list of mystery items.

The mystery was why Hodgson should use him, a flanker, as a substitute for Wilshere rather than bring on an experienced midfielder in Michael Carrick.

With the goal markets looking like a mystery as well I will take a watch on this one rather than investing.

Interestingly, a very different approach to pre-season has been announced with the focus on training camps rather than a magical mystery tour of exhibition games; apart, that is, from a proposed morale sapping drubbing by Manchester City in Iceland the week before the season opens.

Indeed, with the capacity to keep milk fresh for days rather than hours, America plunged into a near - obsession with milk - drinking that came to be part of the national character: Three glasses of milk a day turned into a staple of the diet for city dwellers along with farm families already close to the source; kids with red - and - white milk cartons became as common in school cafeterias as mystery meat.

The mystery of not knowing, the playing with the entire book of baby names, rather than just one - half, is something that many parents actually enjoy.

Researchers feel that this is more likely due to a failure to investigate the deaths, rather than a medical mystery.

There is some truth in this argument, although it remains a mystery why it is better to cut social benefits rather than military spending at a time when the United States spend more money on defense than the next 10 military powers — such as China, Russia, France, England, Germany and Japan — combined.

Some political mysteries are solved by logic rather than leaks.

A 52 - million - year - old ankle bone hints at first primates jumping rather than clambering from tree to tree — but what drove them to evolve this way is a mystery

The discovery of the magnetar's former companion elsewhere in the cluster helps solve the mystery of how a star that started off so massive could become a magnetar, rather than collapse into a black hole.

Researchers using the BaBar Detector at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in California have spent the past four years smashing together electrons and their antimatter counterparts — positrons — to explore one of the greatest mysteries in the universe: Why is everything made from matter, rather than antimatter?

mystery, as they make it possible to examine all the synaptic pathways that contribute to memory, rather than focusing on whether it is the synapsis or the neuron that activates the other.

Some young single people today would rather have information than mystery.

Rather than collecting a bunch of funny people together on a set and just letting them riff, the film establishes coherent characters and drops them into a twisty mystery plot that's tightly crafted enough to generate some real narrative momentum while never getting too bogged down in its own plot that it forgets to be funny.