Sentences with phrase «sense by the existence»

They are not diminished in any practical material sense by the existence of lower quality games that happen to be part of the same franchise.

Not exact matches

No reference to soaking anyone in sacred solution, in person or by proxy; the obvious, common sense meaning is a transcendence of the mind over mere physical existence.

They say then that it is more simple to believe at once in the eternal pre-existence of the world, as it is now going on, and may for ever go on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness, than to believe in the eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause, or Creator of the world, a being whom we see not, and know not, of whose form substance and mode or place of existence, or of action no sense informs us, no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend.

It has been an attempt to suggest that the Western novel is haunted by the story of Jesus, in the sense that like the hiddenness of God in that human life, the image of human life in the Western novel is one in which human beings grapple with the transcendent through the inexorable limitations of historical existence.

2.9 - 11); he is made «Lord and Christ» as the inauguration of eschatological existence at Pentecost (Acts 2.36); in this sense he is «appointed Son of God according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection of the dead» (Rom.

We need only recall those moments in time of war when, wrested out of ourselves by the force of a collective passion, we have a sense of rising to a higher level of human existence.

If we all came by evolution, do you think our existence makes any sense?

Whitehead's approach here is crystallized in his «ontological principle,» that «whatever things there are in any sense of «existence,» are derived by abstraction from actual occasions» (PR 73).

Here is what Whitehead said in 1911 about the theory of types: «All the contradictions can be avoided, and yet the use of classes and relations can be preserved as required by mathematics, and indeed by common sense, by a theory which denies to a class — or relation — existence or being in any sense in which the entities composing it — or related by it — exist» (MAT 293).

Unconsciousness of despair is like unconsciousness of dread (cf.. The Concept of Dread by Vigilius Haufniensis): the dread characteristic of spiritlessness is recognizable precisely by the spiritless sense of security; but nevertheless dread is at the bottom of it, and when the enchantment of illusion is broken, when existence begins to totter, then too does despair manifest itself as that which was at the bottom.

We must begin, though, with a confession that the idea of a designing and controlling deity whose existence is rightly denied by many skeptics is also problematic from the point of view of a kenotic theology.If God is all - powerful in the sense of being able to manipulate things at will, then the facts of evolution do indeed cast doubt on the plausibility of theism.

In the preface to the book, Niebuhr wrote that our age, confronted by so many hopes and frustrations, «is in particular need of the Christian gospel; and requires both the relative - historical, and the final - and - absolute facets of the Christian hope to maintain its sanity and its sense of the meaning of existence.»

That is to say that the visible portrayal of these powers, which is perceived by the senses, has no value, no consistency, and no existence.

Life soured by impotence created superterrestrial gods, theologies, and metaphysics of being which place the value of existence «elsewhere» and ideologically rob man of his sense of power, creativity, and worth (TSZ 59, 110).

Although its real use is the existential or metaphysical use of clarifying our original confidence in the worth of life, the terms and categories in which it speaks are not derived from our inner awareness of our existence in relation to totality, but from our external perception of the world by means of our senses.

The rebirth of the Sense of Species, rendered virtually inevitable by the phase of compressive and totalizing socialization which we have now entered, affords a first indication of the existence of such a field of unanimisation and a clue to its nature.

I can agree with most of what you said, but still believe in the existence of God and an afterlife... because it makes sense to me, not because I was am «indoctrinated» by organized religion.

Just as secular art in one sense gives glory to God by virtue of its very existence as it contributes to the manifold wonder and glory of creation — even if the artist does not acknowledge the creator — so also Christian art which intentionally points to God contributes to the beauty of creation and can be perceived as beautiful even to unbelief.

20This is not, however, to say that all interest is «biased» or «ideological» in the sense that it expresses, in Ogden's words, «a more or less comprehensive understanding of human existence, or how to exist and act as a human being, that functions to justify the interests of a particular group or individual by representing these interests as the demands of disinterested justice» (The Point of Christology [San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982], p. 94).

By restoring to us the sense of our intrinsic value, revelation frees us from the need to justify our existence and therefore from the accompanying inclination to evade the truth about ourselves.

For in one sense God is «intervening» constantly — if by that we mean that God is perpetually sustaining us, loving us into existence, pouring God» s self into every secret crack and joint of the created process, and inviting the human will, in the lure of the Spirit, into an ever - deepening engagement with the implications of the Incarnation, its «groanings» (Romans 8), for the sake of redemption.

The more they are able to sense and to be moved by what Humboldt calls das Menschliche, the greater will be their capacity to comprehend and to interpret human existence, past and present.

By spiritual intimacy is meant the sense of a vital relationship with that which transcends our brief, fragile existence — a relationship with the realm of values and meanings, with the flow of history and life about us, and with that «ultimate concern» (Tillich) which we call God.

If the question of retribution is so acute here, it is so to the extent that the discordance between justice and happiness, so cruelly emphasized by the triumph of the wicked, brings to light the overwhelming question of the sense or nonsense of existence.

In a subtler sense, on the other hand, even the most trivial item of actuality, let us say a rock, is «more» than all the PN put together, simply by virtue of its existence and actuality.

But by repenting, though not of sin, for he is righteous, but by repenting for his supposition that existence does not make sense, Job presupposes an unsuspected meaning which can not be transcribed by speech or logos a human being may have at his disposal.

So Whitehead's reply to Berkeley is, in effect, that matter really does matter in the ordinary sense of the word, since whatever acquires material existence is always capable of influencing by means of signs the becomings of subsequent «things.»

Thus, if an anthropology were to advert to the fact that the self is existence and, therefore, can and must understand itself, all the while ignoring the fact that the self's possibilities are also always limited by social and cultural structures, it would so understand the self that the demand for justice in the specifically political sense could not be understood as a demand of faith itself.

The ability to love implies, thirdly, that we risk our existence in a relationship where predestination, in the sense of determination by something less than person will, would destroy the meaning of love.

If that be so, then all other senses of existence» will accordingly also have reference to process, for, by the ontological principle, all other forms of existence are derivative from «actual» existence.

Structural facts (e.g., about genetics or cosmology) do not disclose their own meaning, and no amount of scientific combination of the data in one area of existence will directly yield a vision of the whole by means of which we can begin to make sense out of all existence.

Although Hasker concludes this argument by pointing out that for it too «it is God who is responsible for the existence of creatures who have the freedom and power to bring about great evils,» I had explicitly said that «God is responsible for [the distinctively human forms of evil on our planet] in the sense of having encouraged the world in the direction that made these evils possible» (Process 75; cf. God 308 - 09).

Guadalupe provides the spark which will allow the people to rise out of the realm of death like the Phoenix rising out of the ashes of the past — not just a return to the past but the emergence of a spectacular newness.10 In sharp contrast to the total rupture with the past which was initiated by the conquest - evangelization enterprise, Guadalupe provided the necessary sense of continuity which is basic to human existence.

The existence of substance must be discovered by means of its attributes available to sense - perception.

I am referring to the fact that the fervent effort to please the powers we rely on for our sense of self - esteem may cause us to deny those aspects of our existence that seem to conflict with the conditions of worth held out to us by family, school, fraternity, sorority, church, government, place of employment, etc..

From very early in life we sense the annihilating implications of our bodily existence, and we are understandably terrorized and overwhelmed by this awareness.

On his own terms, Anselm is said to have shown that as long as «the fool» continues to conceive God he can not consistently withhold assent to the necessity of the divine existence, unless he is using the term «God» in a sense different from what the self - understanding believer means by the term.

«In the indeterminate and apparent freedom of an existence in which everything was possible but nothing made sense, he was enslaved by an illusory image of freedom: banished from his true self and unfree in an utter lack of relationship that was founded on being distanced from his own self, on separation from the truth of his own self.»

In her book The Bonds of Love, Jessica Benjamin talks about the struggle the mother has while dealing with the constant willfulness, the clinging, or the tyrannical demands typical of the rapprochement: «What the mother feels during rapprochement and how she works this out will be colored by her ability to deal straightforwardly with aggression and dependence, her sense of herself as entitled to a separate existence, and her confidence in her child's ability to survive conflict, loss, and imperfection.»

We began modest, having been imagined into existence by young journalist Helena Horton, who decided that sitting on our hands was not an option and the sense of powerlessness ought not seduce us into idleness.

Locating her American characters as visitors to Tokyo, Coppola is able to depict a sense of alienation that is highlighted by existence in a «foreign» land.

The film stars Emmy - nominated Dutch actor Robert de Hoog (Skin) and Pollyanna McIntosh (The Woman), and based on the Japanese novel In Love with the Dead from acclaimed author Kei Oishi (Apartment 1303, The Last Supper) and centres on an isolated and death - fixated young man who tries to make sense of the world, and his existence, in the only way he knows how... by getting closer to death.

Unshackle yourself from the burdens of your modern existence and truly awaken your senses by choosing to undertake a silent meditation retreat in a forest refuge in southern Thailand.

Each piece in these various bodies of works is designed to guide the viewer to a different experience inspired by how various cultures make sense of our existence.

She was moving forward steadily toward a special and structural grasp of a sense of existence shared by such dualities as «I» and «someone else,» «great» and «small,» «share» and «there,» «the world you see» and «the world you have seen before.»

I hope that the viewer senses a discovery, beyond words, and is touched by the mystery of human existence that my work explores.

What's interesting is how it's not site - specific in the sense that its existence is not determined by the site.

The sense of one's being in the world is confirmed by the existence of things and others in the world.»

The sense that Freud gives of human existence as essentially lonely, and spiritually if not physically painful, is something shared by his great contemporaries, Francis Bacon and the sculptor Alberto Giacometti.

The unifying sense of moral superiority in the AGW believers is what infuses this attack dog brand of suicide environmentalism with the sort of magic that the AGW faithful now seem to crave — a sort of enviro - whackpot mentality where the least secure among us wield control over the most uncertain element of our existence — the weather — by simply denying easily attainable truths about nature and adopting a fantasy to replace their denial of Christ.