Sentences with phrase «search for the truth which»

Then I started searching for truth which led me to prayer and back to Christianity.

The Bible's life - giving, liberalizing force should encourage the Christian to search for the truth which does indeed make him or her free.

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«Conscience» is not a matter of determining what I want to do and then doing it; «conscience» is my search for truths that can be known to be true and then binding myself to those truths, which stand in judgment on me and on society: «If, in keeping with the prevailing modern idea, conscience is reduced to the subjective field to which religion and morality have been banished, then the crisis of the West has no remedy and Europe is destined to collapse upon itself.

The Rortyan vision of heaven on earth, in which people merely tell enlightening tales and abjure the search for truth, sounds like a gathering of tipsy old sea dogs swapping dimly remembered stories of past voyages of discovery.

This affirmation, which Commonweal offers as representative of its editorial posture, calls for a tentative, timorous search for truth in the understanding that truth — truth for sure — is not to be found.

In the other model are seven «liberal - free» characteristics in the philosophers» tradition, which Kimball summarizes thus:» (1) Epistemological skepticism underlies (2) the free and (3) intellectual search for truth, which is forever elusive, and so all possible views must be (4) tolerated and given (5) equal hearing (6) with the final decision left to each individual, (7) who pursues truth for its own sake.

If you feel like you have been condemned or judged by this method, then maybe you need to search your heart for the truth, chances are pretty good you are being convicted by the Holy Spirit for the life in which you are choosing to live.

In his latest encyclical and numerous other addresses, the Holy Father has determinedly proposed to the world - to scientists, university professors, muslims, atheists, secularists - an invitation to embark on a common search for the truth, which

By approaching the question of mind and nature in this way Whitehead is able to provide us with an aesthetically rich understanding of nature, which at the same time preserves a necessary role for reason and the search for truth as an indispensable element in the determination of conscious experience, the enhancement of our aesthetic sensibilities, and the general advancement of civilization as such.

What we do argue is that the human search for knowledge of the ultimate metaphysical truths, that is, for the reality on which all things depend for their being, and the Christian attempt to clarify what we have found disclosed to us in Christ, are two complementary sides of the same story, the story of God's self - disclosure to the mind of man.

You all remember his half - pagan, half - Christian bringing up at Carthage, his emigration to Rome and Milan, his adoption of Manicheism and subsequent skepticism, and his restless search for truth and purity of life; and finally how, distracted by the struggle between the two souls in his breast, and ashamed of his own weakness of will, when so many others whom he knew and knew of had thrown off the shackles of sensuality and dedicated themselves to chastity and the higher life, he heard a voice in the garden say, «Sume, lege» (take and read), and opening the Bible at random, saw the text, «not in chambering and wantonness,» etc., which seemed directly sent to his address, and laid the inner storm to rest forever.

You see that at bottom we are thrown back upon the general principles by which the empirical philosophy has always contended that we must be guided in our search for truth.

In «My Search for Truth,» the moving autobiographical sketch which he contributed to a volume entitled Religion in Transition (1937), he reports how the challenge by Christian critics of Hinduism, his own faith, impelled him at the time of his student - days at Madras to «make a study of Hinduism and find out what is living and what is dead in it.

Accordingly, Hartshorne defines metaphysics as «the search for necessary and categorial truth» and describes metaphysical truths as those which no experience can contradict and which any experience must illustrate.4 In a helpful article on this subject, Hartshorne elaborates: «Metaphysics, in an old phrase, explores «being qua being,» or reality qua reality, meaning by this, the strictly universal features of existential possibility, those which can not be unexemplified»; and he gives as an example of such a necessary truth the affirmation that «experience as creative process occurs.

And in truth just this demand for complete obedience which involves the whole man takes a heavy burden from man, however paradoxical this sounds; for he is now set free from the endless and useless task of searching for commands and prohibitions which he must know in order to act rightly; from the fear of having failed here and there because he did not know the scriptural precept or its right interpretation; from the contempt which was felt for the people who did not know the Law.

Nicene Christianity, in contrast, has insisted that the search for truth is a profoundly communal enterprise, in which each person remains a lifelong pupil of the Holy Spirit.

All, in one way or another, devote lives to the search for what I have called the «being values,» the ultimate values which... can not be reduced to anything more ultimate... including the truth and beauty and goodness of the ancients.5

For if the church would search its faith and history it would relearn those truths about community which we most need to hear.

CAT, I mean YOU, among other posters here who show a genuine distaste for * gasp * actually reading and learning and exploring the teachings of your faith... Which, btw, is contrary to the spirit of faith, which is a search of divine TWhich, btw, is contrary to the spirit of faith, which is a search of divine Twhich is a search of divine TRUTH.

To be consonant with the Word of God, philosophy needs first of all to recover its sapiential dimension as a search for... the ultimate framework of the unity of human knowledge and action, leading them to converge towards a final goal and meaning (para. 81)... to verify the human capacity... to come to a knowledge which can reach objective truth (para. 82)... Hence we face a great challenge at the end of this millennium to move from phenomenon to foundation, a step as necessary as it is urgent.

We are all on the same way, searching for the whole truth in which the Holy Spirit will surely lead us.

It is this amazing capacity of experience to suggest new questions at every stage of inquiry which makes the «search for truth» a permanent pursuit.

There's a lot of truth in Gerwig's film, which is her first solo effort as a director, and there's also a sense of searching for that truth, amidst the confusion and chaos of Lady Bird's final year at an all - girls Catholic high school.

«Savannah Bay» tells the story of a young woman's search for the truth about her mother's death through a long conversation with an elderly woman, during which memory mingles with fiction.

In scenes alive with emotional truth, River, Cross My Heart weighs the effect of Clara's absence on the people she has left behind: her parents, Alice and Willie Bynum, torn between the old world of their rural North Carolina home and the new world of the city, to which they have moved in search of a better life for themselves and their children; the friends and relatives of the Bynum family in the Georgetown neighborhood they now call home; and, most especially, Clara's sister, twelve - year - old Johnnie Mae, who must come to terms with the powerful and confused emotions sparked by her sister's death as she struggles to decide and discover the kind of woman she will become.

At the conference, Piñeiro and her colleagues leveraged the experience of that energy, however, searching for how romance can «find a place at the table» for people who aren't served by what Nielsen is tracking as heavily white and heterosexual, which mirrors the overwhelming truth about overall publishing today.

To prove herself, Lara and Jonah Maiava, a returning character from the preceding game, begin their investigation in the dangerous and icy lands of Siberia, in search for the ancient city of Kitezh, which Lara believes to hold some truth about immortality.

Collaboration is central to Thomas» artistic practice; works like In Search of the Truth (Truth Booth), which the Museum hosted in 2016, and a new project by Thomas's artist - run political action committee For Freedoms will take his work into direct contact with Portlanders in 2018.

Collaboration is central to Thomas» artistic practice; works like In Search of the Truth (Truth Booth), which the Museum hosted last summer, and a new project by Thomas's artist - run political action committee For Freedoms will take the exhibition out of the Museum and into direct contact with Portlanders.

The law, however, which is purportedly a search for truth and justice, and which has immediate, material consequences, has often, for many Americans, gone wildly astray.

You've sort of gently placed the gauntlet, rather than tossing it down... but I do think it's worth pointing out that the searching for truth - in - practice which you describe isn't exactly opposed to the heroic narrative you dismiss.

Sarraute's main concern is a search for «the unknown, the invisible,» which assumes that plots and characters are composed of microscopic and parceled truths.

There have been a couple of posts which address the difference between the «debate» in the newspapers, and the «noble search for truth» that scientists like to think we indulge in (slightly tongue in cheek there)-- For instance, What If... the «Hockey Stick» Were Wrofor truth» that scientists like to think we indulge in (slightly tongue in cheek there)-- For instance, What If... the «Hockey Stick» Were WroFor instance, What If... the «Hockey Stick» Were Wrong?

Oreskes had published a book a year earlier, in 2010, titled, Merchants of Doubt; How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, which appears to have provided the template for the Search and Destroy Workshop.

This site is simply a personal search for the truth about a part of the natural world that has absorbed me for the whole of my life to date and which does not seem to be adequately described by current climate science.

On paleo data, I think the real problem is two-fold: first of all, there is the flimsy and dicey nature of the proxy data being used and the tiny GH effect that's being read in, which you mention, but then there is the more basic problem that these studies have almost exclusively been «searches for proof» (that «CO2 is the climate control knob», as Richard Alley puts it), rather than objective «searches for the truth».

Science like philosophy, is ether the search for truth, or it is commerce, which is the search for utility.

There has been quite a bit of controversy in the past few years about the use of experts in court, the appropriate role of experts in assisting judges, the subject matters upon which experts may testify and the ever - present problem of experts being hired by parties yet having to remain neutral in the search for the truth.

I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.

It's necessary, then, to reiterate the following first principles: a criminal trial is a search for truth via the adversarial process in which evidence is presented and tested.

Chicago truck injury lawyers know all too well of the catastrophic injuries and deaths involved in commercial truck speeding accidents and will search for the truth to determine which parties are at fault in the crash.