Sentences with phrase «reflection on the nature»

A theology of nature is needed when the guiding images at the center of theology as such are not informed by what needs to be learned in reflection on nature.

My reflections on the nature of evolutionary time show that it is not essentially contingent and that it is possible to speak of God's eternity as the Fullness of Time without implying that God becomes or is contingent.

17 Linguistic analysis can not develop as a discipline by ignoring ontology, i.e., a reflection on the nature of reality.

Scattered references may be found in the writings of Professor Whitehead and these have been collected in a small volume called Alfred North Whitehead: His Reflections on Nature and Man.

Packed full of inspiring stories and insightful reflection on the nature of mission, kingdom, gospel, church and life, this is a valuable handbook for...

The essential task of theological education at Candler is to intensify a student's reflection on the nature of that commitment to Christian life and to the practice of Christian ministry.

Where the taboos were simply pushed aside by reason, as in India and Greece, rational reflection on the nature of the good life became possible, but the sense of ought, expressed so powerfully in the taboos, remained unrationalized, whereas among the Hebrews the question of what one ought to do preoccupied rational attention.

Reflection on the nature of God apart from this relationship falls outside the scope that relational theology can address.

His judgment seems to be that, even though some kind of faith or intuition is a formal requisite for critical reflection on the nature of God, the specific content or character that faith has as a concrete, historically conditioned phenomenon does not materially affect the reasoning process which is both possible and appropriate in such reflection.

But further reflection on the nature of the evolutionary future is required.

While following Augustine's lead, new threads were woven into the fabric of his tapestry, including both a refined understanding of the character of God's power and fresh reflections on the nature of God's love.

Even so, his reflections on the nature of love and what that implies for the nature of God are truly trailblazing.

But within the past few decades, we have seen an important new opening for science - based reflection on the nature of God.

On occasions while I was scraping militarily critical specimens from various cage bottoms, George would offer terse reflections on the nature of Man and Monkey.

His reflections on the nature of religion and the rise of this new spirituality could have been written without any such participation.

It is as simple as that», while perhaps the most substantial of the offerings is «The Spiritual Senses», a series of reflections on the nature of interior apprehension which contains a comment on Saint Bonaventure neatly summing up Dom Hugh's whole approach: «For him the recovery of the spiritual sense is part of the re-ordering of the human person that comes through the encounter with Christ.»

Our reflections on the nature of a theological school and on its methods of study have emphasized the theoretical character of its work.

Driven by an interest and insight into «the way that the world is constituted», as well as what he describes as «the pure joy of seeing», Gursky makes photographs that are not just depictions of places or situations, but reflections on the nature of image - making and the limits of human perception.

In the process, they transformed the genre into a reflection on the nature of artistic representation itself.

Erdos» overwhelming visual experiences weave together reflections on nature, culture, technology, science and religion.

In short, he was very much attuned to the mid-19th century world, to its economic and technological development, to its concerns with the lessons of history and the nation's future prospects, to its debates about the contribution of art to civil society and to reflections on the nature of painting.

His intense reflections on the nature of materials, textures and surfaces lead to the creation of some of his most important works: the sand paintings.

So — whether your philosophical reflections on the nature of big business have any relevance here, I can not tell.

I think that we should all be very concerned that solicitor - client privilege has been granted for agent - client communications without any apparent basis for not applying an ordinary class privilege and without apparent reflection on the nature and rationale in Canada for solicitor - client privilege.

Not exact matches

Types of Moral Argumentation Regarding Homosexuality by Pim Pronk Eerdmans, 350 pages, $ 24.99 paper An interesting book not so much for the position it advances (approval of homosexual relations) as for the claim that any position on homosexuality (or anything else) must be reached on the basis of moral reflection independent of nature, science, or theology.

(Romans 8:22,23) The bloody horror of nature's ways, the destruction and tragedy, the manifest injustices and problems of theodicy — all these must be given full scope in any adequate Christian reflection on the world reality in which we are situated.

In this particular theological reflection I intend to concentrate first on the nature of the relationship between Judaism and Christianity during much of the premodern period of the parallel history of the two communities.

In fact, Whitehead's doctrine of the causal immanence of the past in the present provides for the kind of mutual «acting on» and «relating» that Leclerc's own reflections on the philosophy of nature lead him to demand (The Nature of Physical Existence, p.nature lead him to demand (The Nature of Physical Existence, p.Nature of Physical Existence, p. 309).

One thinks of his reflections on the Second World War, on pacifism and belligerency, on laws regarding obscenity, and on the nature of criminal punishment.

At first they may be taken merely as aesthetic moments, such as communing with nature, savouring memories andimages, meeting mysteries, the heightened sensing of musical sounds, odours, colours, the thrill of acute poetic expression, or moving encounters with other human beings; but on further reflection people often cite such experiences as having a spiritual quality and as hints of the divine.

It deserves examination in detail, for it may very well suggest some reflections by Wieman on the consequent nature of God.

The reflection on this scriptural self - witness and our continuing experience with the text lead to our confession of the nature of Scripture.

By «orthodoxy» I mean any political - philosophical approach that admits the possibility and necessity of theoretical metaphysics and philosophical ethics rooted in a reflection on the «nature» of things.

In Christian history, reflection on Jesus of Nazareth led to a distinction between nature and person.

It is in their reflections on human nature, sin and grace, that Western and Eastern theologians parted company.

The distinctive features of Antiochenes were in their interpretation of the scriptures, in their Christology and in their reflections on human nature.

It is my thesis that, in conjunction with his profound reflections on the good and the thought about the nature of man bound up with it, Socrates entered into a new structure of existence.

Intentional reflection on the «foundation, motives and aim, and the nature of mission» has not been an integral component of modern missions.1 Now, at the turn of the twenty - first century, we are aware of the need to navigate a complex...

The Church has manifold facets and is a perpetual enigma to itself despite all theoretical reflection on its own nature.

Most of what is known of human nature from mathematics and the physical sciences is based on reflection on those disciplines and hence is not normally thought to be part of their proper subject matter, but to belong more to the philosophy of science and mathematics.

This semi-autobiographical work, subti - tled «Non-Religious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality,» is a collection of essays and personal reflections chronicling the author's growing understanding of the nature of God and Jesus, and the need and responsibility for an authentic personal response to that understanding.

When Dorothee Sölle wrote in 1971 of the indivisible salvation of the whole world, she and her readers assumed without reflection that the whole world is the world of human beings.1 But as the seventies progressed and the environmental crisis forced itself on public attention, more and more Christians became troubled about the separation of humanity from the rest of nature.

Third, scientific reflection (in the form of observation and much speculation) on the nature of time itself also has profound implications on how man conceives of his reality as a succession of events (how man connects events in his reality)- interpreted as the passage of time - and whether those events are intrinsically connected, and, if so, whether or not such a connection is changeable.

Whether and how far these reflections concerning a positive relation between spirit and matter may be significant when it is a question of asking in philosophical and theological terms whether an ontological connection between man and the animal kingdom asserted by the natural sciences to be a fact, is open to an explanatory interpretation on the basis of the nature of spirit and matter, can only be judged after we have examined some aspects of «becoming» in general.

Only the Power which raised Jesus Christ from the dead can, and will, raise us from our old nature and begin to form in us the new (Belden, Reflections on Moral Re-Armament, p. 28).

And that «return» (often called ressourcement theology) was not a matter of pious nostalgia but of intellectual adventure: a movement that sought to enrich the Church's reflection on her own nature and mission at a moment when theology risked falling into a sub-discipline of logic — something dry and abstract, detached from the explosive good news of the Gospel.

For the modern problem really lies in the fact that so many Enlightenment thinkers relied on a concept of «natural» that was anything but a reflection of human nature as it actually exists.

It has been a hallmark of genuine natural law theories that through rational reflection on human nature they arrive at the precise place where Scripture reports a firm commandment (against killing the innocent, for example, or violating marriage vows).

These reflections on the general nature of responsibility have partly defined the form of the Church's accountability.

Careful reflection on the relation between God's nature and God's will by both sides can prove fruitful, but the priority of God's nature appears necessary in order to resolve contemporary questions about what God is doing in the world.