Sentences with phrase «real evil which»

«21 There is real evil which destroys spirit, and much of it takes the form of destructive conflict.

Ivan presents real evil which we must not explain away.

Not exact matches

Christianity talks of sin, guilt, suffering, evil, disorder not because it is primary — which it is not — and not because it is fun — which it is not — but just because it is real.

The real world was a dualism, one part of which was evil and not subject to the influence of God.

But in pure logic it is not true that there is sheer contradiction between the joint admission of divine perfection of goodness and divine perfection of power, on the one hand, and the fact of real evil on the other, for the simple reason that the greatest possible power (which by definition is «perfect» power) may not be the same as «all the power that exists united into one individual power.»

Does this new emphasis on a «radical» and «substantive» evil mean that we can no longer place Buber in that middle position which regards evil as real but redeemable, thus refusing to ascribe to it an absolute and independent reality?

Hereafter, however Buber may change his philosophy, he never forsakes his belief in a redemption which accepts all the evil of real life and transforms it into the good.

Although shadings from the two extremes exist and are recognized, neither side recognizes the independent reality of the position between — the dialectical attitude toward evil which sees it as both real and redeemable.

The real question is, are there individuals in every ideological sphere who practice stupidity and evil, of which such practice has no bearing on the falsity or truthfulness of the ideology?

In fact, it is the consideration of evil which constrains us to make this new move; now, with the consideration of evil, it is the very question, of freedom, of the real freedom evoked by the postulates of the Critique of Practical Reason, which returns; the problematic of evil requires us to tie, more directly than we have so far been able to do, the actual reality of freedom to the regeneration which is the very content of hope.

It has held that there is real evil in this world and in man which must be overcome.

But there is an illumination and we can know that there is a patient, redemptive reality in and through all of life which transmutes real evil, real loss, real threats to the growth of human good into the deeper, more sensitive and more enduring goods of love and humility?

But the evil is in the tyranny, not in the coercion, In some human relations at least coercion is not only necessary, which Niebuhr of course admits, but also it is an essential element in the growth of the real good of mutuality among free and responsible persons.14

But God DOES give us real power which we can use to do evil.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

«Again, respect of persons, in uncovering the head and bowing the knee or body in salutation, was a practice I had been much in the use of; and this, being one of the vain customs of the world, introduced by the spirit of the world, instead of the true honor which this is a false representation of, and used in deceit as a token of respect by persons one to another, who bear no real respect one to another; and besides this, being a type and a proper emblem of that divine honor which all ought to pay to Almighty God, and which all of all sorts, who take upon them the Christian name, appear in when they offer their prayers to him, and therefore should not be given to men; - I found this to be one of those evils which I had been too long doing; therefore I was now required to put it away and cease from it.

Among the many advantages of Whitehead's solution to the problem of evil is his recommendation that the factuality of real evil be included in the assemblage of data which form the basis of philosophical investigation (MT 70f, 109f).

Yet Satan himself is a very real figure, and he is the measure of that insight into our human plight which is afforded by the conflict of Christ with the powers of evil.

For me the real evil of masturbation would be that it takes an appetite which, in lawful use, leads the individual out of himself to complete (and correct) his own personality in that of another (and finally in children and even grandchildren) and turns it back: sending the man back into the prison of himself, there to keep a harem of imaginary brides.

For Vedanta, like Sankhya, the problem was not real contamination or separateness or evil, but the misleading appearance from which true knowledge could free men.

If God had prevented World War I — a senseless war, the only real accomplishment of which was to plant the seeds for World War II — the overall balance of good and evil would have been greatly affected for the millions of people who lost sons, husbands, brothers, or friends in that war.

Evil only seems real because of our imperfect knowledge which causes us to fail to see the deep connections between happenings.

Hacking and releasing information (illegal), setting up real - ish looking news sites with phony stories that opportunistic partisans would link to as proof that their side was pure and the other evil, etc, and even probes of state and municipal voting systems, which was especially worrysome.

Late on Sunday a caller claiming to be from the Real IRA claimed responsibility for the attack, which has been condemned as «evil» by prime minister Gordon Brown and «barbaric» by Northern Ireland secretary Shaun Woodward.

What I really liked is that it presented the optimistic, and wealthy exterior of 1950s America, with the dark, dark underbelly of superiority / intolerance, which is the real hallmark of the 1950s, as evidenced by films such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Ace In The Hole (1951) and A Touch of Evil (1958).

The real story of the film has said slacker finally growing into a quasi-functional person and maturing by facing up to the past of the girl he so loves, which itself is given a LITERAL twist in the form of the League of Evil Exes.

His first real brush with international acclaim came with «Dead Alive» in 1992 (also known as «Braindead»), which was a gory zombie flick that included some of the most gruesome, outlandish and hilarious effects seen on film since Sam Raimi's «Evil Dead 2.»

But the lady I am watches Evil Dead twice — once to appreciate it, and then with audio commentary, Mr. Bruce Campbell (in whom I often reference as My Real Dad, which kind of makes my dad mad but also psyched that he knows me).

Unlike some other titles that tout morality systems, which amount to a binary choice between «good» or «evil,» The Banner Saga offer up real ethical quandaries.

The real stand out point (and sometimes weakness) is the voice acting which is definitely superb at many great times and the voice actors really helped to achieve the sense that this is a B - movie style experience similar to how Resident Evil started out with better voice acting.

Other Resident Evil games did have microtransactions before, such as Resident Evil Revelations 2, which allowed you to collect «life crystals» either through the game itself or with real money.

From that point onwards, Nintendo — like a joyous kid with a brand new toy — has a blast merging the unmovable staples of the Zelda franchise, such as dungeons, with the thrilling freedom of open - world gameplay, which — in its state here — is brilliantly dressed up with survival elements that make the exploration of Hyrule a constant search for the vital assets that allow a hero, who was originally almost naked and totally inept, to become a real threat to an unspeakable evil.

There's no way that Formula E cars are that evil - handling in real life, and the fact that Forza Motorsport 7 won't let you sell any cars on which you have expended hard - earned credits makes matters worse.

It does not address the real evil of zero hours contracts which is the lack of employment status; a concept which is frequently misunderstood by both employer and employee.

That extra real estate makes for some sharp detail, which I really appreciated as I played Evil Robot Traffic Jam.