Sentences with phrase «sense of his absence»

the same year in which Moltmann published The Theology of Hope, she published her first book, Christ the Representative: an Essay in Theology after the «Death of God», 32 She was impressed, like Metz, with the secularization of modem experience and recognized that this entailed a sense of the absence or «death» of God.

Like few before him, Graham had a knack for tying salvation to emotional need, putting language to that universally felt need of some vague sense of absence.

The quality of the screen with the punchiness of its yellow color creates this incredible sense of absence, anguish, and mortality.

They imply a sense of absence, but they are far from empty and the human presence is visible and felt.

As paintings which emphasize a sense of absence they qualify, moreover, as fetish objects.

Thus these shambling relics embody the stories of their own ghosts (see my London report of July / August 2006), though the simplicity of the idea of using photographic documents to this end does not have the resonance of his usual «narratives,» despite his intent to «create a sense of absence and space.»

One comes away from the exhibition with a Neruda-esque sense of absence, desire, and hope, as well as the poet's love for the sea and all things maritime (as though one has just returned from Casa de Isla Negra itself), mingled with lightness of spirit imported from the Far East.

In 1970, he exhibited his first «Delocazioni», using powder, smoke and fire to make shadows and imprints on paper and board, combined with the subtle interplay of the architecture of the space created a sense of absence and uncertainty.

I was overcome by a feeling of fragility, loss, a sense of absence all in this one moment.

The title of the exhibition related to the sense of absence that Jafa observes as haunting Black life.

The title of the exhibition relates to the sense of absence that Jafa observes as haunting Black life.

Not exact matches

Detractors of paper money have always been fixated by the absence of gold to back it up, but they fail to recognize what really makes a currency accepted and secure — the government guarantee and the good sense of the sovereign not to abuse its franchise.

In a sense, an absence of poor reviews counts as a good review.

In this sense, Kierkegaard is like Plato, who almost never puts himself in his own writing, except once to tell us of his presence (at Socrates» trial) and once to tell us of his absence (at Socrates» death).

At several junctures I have pointed to the absence of any framework by which the Oliners can distinguish qualitative differences in the ways persons are religious, the ways they make sense of the claims of care, and the ways they interpret what is their duty or obligation.

God as we know it was definitely black but not in any physical human sense God was Zero the absence of ligh (Hence black) matter and self.

It is «foundationally wrong» to associating the presence or absence of an ethical sense of right and wrong with ANY organized religion.

This act is free in the sense that there is a certain incommensurability, hence absence of determination, between the act itself in its emotional intensity and the conceptual adjustment of possibilities which it includes.

Yet, somehow the space between absence of purpose is filled with purpose and that somehow makes sense?

As CNN's readers struggled to make sense of God's presence (or absence) in the Aurora, Colorado, massacre, I counted seven different answers to this question:

Hence, the absence of the Christian understanding of God in preChristian religion indicates that the vision of things as finite existents was virtually absent for common sense as well as for philosophy until the impact of Biblical thought caused it to prevail.

Presence in the first sense is opposed to total absence or absolute nothingness, while in the second sense, it is opposed to partial or provisional absence of a present reality.

Shalom does not really mean prosperity or wealth; it means peace — peace in a positive sense and not just an absence of war or conflict.

TIGGY SAID: Shalom does not really mean prosperity or wealth; it means peace — peace in a positive sense and not just an absence of war or conflict.

But the bonds are separable in the sense that some may survive in the absence of others.

The absence of a «sense of the church» deprives many congregations and their leaders of the information and guidance that are foundational to effective Christian witness.

Those who do not believe in any absolute can not believe in this sense in the self, but the absence of restraint is accompanied by the natural ability and perfected readiness to avoid that reflection on oneself that would make one's own emptiness apparent.

A notable result of this is the prevalence among church people of moralism and the absence of a sense of dependence on forgiveness.

There was indeed eirene in the Greek sense: the absence of large - scale war (except far away on the empire's borders).

Interesting questions surrounding modes of influence could be addressed here, but the real difficulty in addressing a problem of «influence» in my sense of the word would lie in trying to account for the absence of such influence in a given case.

Our notions of location are a case where, in the absence of that criticism, common sense may lead us into mistaken and disastrous ideas and plans involving space and time.

While conflict is seldom fun, its absence may be less an indication of health than of an insufficient sense of urgency or challenge about being the...

Hence, in later Greek thought, apathy, which included the absence of love in all these senses, was a much approved state of mind.

In a philosophical sense, faith, love, justice, mercy and truth can not exist in the absence of a second party.

If other options than this one should be opened to us, arbitrarily to reject them would be to absolutize the very relative sense of God's absence.

Thinking about these and many other questions, I have the sense that the community of reflection is now diminished by the absence of Oscar Cullman.

We are not aware of him, in any vivid sense or perhaps in any sense at all; he is present to us in the very fact of our feeling of his absence.

The wager in this sense is what one does in the absence of belief, a set of practical steps one can do by force of will alone, which do not require one to believe in order to perform.

It involves, not belief in the sense of personal opinions, but rather a set of actions (saying certain things, going to services, doing good works, etc.) that can be done in the absence of belief — indeed the nature of a wager makes it such that you fully admit you don't know, which is actually an agnostic atti.tude toward the idea of God's existence.

It may not amount to a metaphysics in the fullest sense, since strictly speaking it possesses no rational content — it is, after all, a belief that all things rest upon something like an original moment of magic — but it is certainly far more than the mere absence of faith.

But Pat's continued insistence that the exurb is some cesspool of narcissism because of the absence of any sense of «place» or «memory» is a big - time exaggeration that couldn't be confirmed by anyone with «local knowledge» in the South.

It might be described as the absence of a sense of dedication to an intellectual apostolate.

In a society based on kinship, especially under circumstances of severe inter-tribal rivalry for the means of subsistence, one finds high ideals of just conduct within the group combined with the absence of the sense of moral obligation beyond the group.

Insofar as prayer is rooted in our situation and in our sensibility, it is rooted not in our sense of God's presence but in our sense of God's absence.

Their presence, and their absence, enabled Luther's parents and Martin himself to feel a sense of rightness and of satisfaction in their religious life, and equally distress and revulsion at its exploitation and corruption.

The sense of power and control over one's life remains, however, when they also are endowed with something Antonovski (1979) calls «lawfulness,» that is, when meaning is attributed as much to a miracle as to the absence of one, and people believe that «things will be how they should be.»

For many it might make sense to buy gluten - free products but it has nothing to do with their absence of gluten.

He reminds me a bit of Cazorla in the sense that I thought Caz would be wasted further back, but it's such an important position for a team that likes to play the passing game, can't overestimate how important as we've seen with Cazorla absence.

Belgium are now a little bit too good to be considered dark horses in the traditional sense, and so have to be taken seriously as competitors even in the absence of half their first choice defence.

So far, Alexis has primarily played on the left hand side, but with the balance of the side shifting in his absence, it might also make sense to tweak his role in the side.