Sentences with phrase «sense of potency»

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11 Note also that, as in the usage of later classical prophetism, the Word here conveys the sense of a formula, a known formula, the content, nature, and potency of which are widely familiar now.

«Christianity,» says Sanneh, «came into Africa equally as fulfillment and challenge, but in either case as reinforcement of the religious worldview of Africans concerning spiritual and divine agency, the sacramental sense of community, the ties between the living and the dead, the potency of dreams, prayers and invocations.»

Sensing, therefore, for Aristotle, is an activity that presupposes passivity or being acted upon and physically altered — the passivity of matter — and the passivity of pure receptivity — the passivity of a psychic potency, the actuality of which is a psychic activity.

The confidence has many roots: the steady decline of models of theology in which «critical appraisal» is the dominant task; receptiveness toward and fresh engagement with classical thinkers, patristic, medieval and Reformation; a sense that the Enlightenment is only one episode in the history of one (Western) culture and not a turning point in the history of humankind; the work of a number of gifted and independent - minded theologians now at the height of their powers who have shown the potency of constructive doctrinal work.

If you look in the team we currently have four good headers of the ball who also happen to have good positional sense during set - pieces, Kos, Giro, Ramsey and (but minus) podolski who happens to be seriously hated for his potency by our coach.

What also struck me is that there are no borders between countries, and this humbling perspective thankfully extends to the research field of satellite sensing where national boundaries lose their potency.

Yet if the origins of Hofmann's grasp of space - making and his sense of the emotional potency of color can be connected with his experience of the French avant garde, his unmistakable palette and equally unmistakable ways of handling paint forcibly remind us that he was a Northern European, specifically a German.

Its potency derives from a sense of the special, of objects beyond the everyday, charged with power.