Sentences with phrase «sickness unto»

Influenced early on by philosophy books ranging from Levi - Strauss's The Savage Mind to Marcell Mauss's The Gift, Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death, and Heidegger's Being and Time, artist Antony Gormley explores notions of the mind and body through delicate sculpture.

And he rightly recognizes in the young boy Michael [ecoterrorist] that we're all woken up in the middle of the night with a sickness unto death.

Toller's wife left him after their son was killed during his military service, and he has been living with despair for so long it's no longer clear, even to him, whether he's in a dark night of the soul or has passed through to the sickness unto death.

Among his many books are Training in Christianity, Sickness Unto Death, and Fear and Trembling.

Thus it is that despair, this sickness in the self, is the sickness unto death.

But in the Christian understanding of it death itself is a transition unto life In view of this, there is from the Christian standpoint no earthly, bodily sickness unto death.

It is in this last sense that despair is the sickness unto death, this agonizing contradiction, this sickness in the self, everlastingly to die, to die and yet not to die, to die the death.

In this sense despair can not be called the sickness unto death.

Only the Christian knows what is meant by the sickness unto death.

But the dreadful thing the Christian learned to know is «the sickness unto death.»

So then in the Christian understanding of it not even death is the sickness unto death, still less everything which is called earthly and temporal suffering: want, sickness, wretchedness, affliction, adversities, torments, mental sufferings, sorrow, grief.

But then in turn Christianity has discovered an evil which man as such does not know of; this misery is the sickness unto death.

Despair is «sickness unto death.»

Oh, but even if Christ had not awakened Lazarus from the dead, is it not true that this sickness, that death itself, was not a sickness unto death?

And even if such things are so painful and hard to bear that we men say, or at all events the sufferer says, «This is worse than death» — everything of the sort, which, if it is not a sickness, is comparable to a sickness, is nevertheless, in the Christian understanding of it, not the sickness unto death.

In The Concept of Anxiety and The Sickness Unto Death, his two main psychological works, he understands human beings as creatures of God who unavoidably exist in relation to their Creator.

And the rebellion against God that is human pride is ultimately in prophetism castigated in all men; for Israelite prophetism knows, if Israel forgets, that Israel's rotten, unholy pride, productive only of a sickness unto death, is fully shared by all men!

Kierkegaard's critique of Christendom is developed most decisively in his late works, The Sickness Unto Death, Practice in Christianity, For Self - Examination, Judge for Yourself!

In this task I will draw on The Concept of Anxiety [Dread], Philosophical Fragments, and The Sickness Unto Death.

The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening.

This is the central theme of The Concept of Anxiety, Purity of Heart, the essay on «The Crowd is Untruth,» The Sickness Unto Death, and Practice in Christianity.

In The Sickness Unto Death Kierkegaard describes the self which is coming into being as a synthesis of paradoxical elements: the infinite and the finite, the temporal and the eternal, freedom and necessity.

And if for meaninglessness and despair one wants to offer a gospel of purpose and hope, one has to experience — in one's person, and in the corporate person of the church — the «sickness unto death.»

As Kierkegaard insisted, it is the «sickness unto death» that can not be specified as to cause or character.

In Sickness Unto Death, he tells the story of a peasant who sought to put on a new self and new clothes.

However, there radiated from his work a penetrating insight into the human «sickness unto death,» which was put in a profound psychotheological context for me in Tillich's Courage to Be.

Yet this grace can not be realized or fulfilled until it culminates in the cessation of the very memory of sin: indeed, Kierkegaard underwent his second conversion or «metamorphosis» only when he finally came to realize that God had forgotten his sin, and then wrote The Sickness Unto Death, whose dialectical thesis is that sin is the opposite not of virtue but of faith.

Not exact matches

It's a diagnosis of our sickness - unto death that's older than Amos — the confusion of religion with riches, of doing good with doing well: «In their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.»

But even if Christ had not said these words — merely the fact that He, who is «the resurrection and the life» (11:25), comes to the grave, is not this a sufficient sign that this sickness is not unto death, does not the fact that Christ exists mean that this sickness is not unto death?

No, it is not because Lazarus was awakened from the dead, not for this can one say that this sickness is not unto death; but because He lives, therefore this sickness is not unto death.

«This sickness is not unto death» (John 11:4), and yet Lazarus died; for when the disciples misunderstood the words which Christ adjoined later, «Lazarus our friend is asleep, but I go to wake him out of his sleep» (11:11), He said plainly, «Lazarus is dead» (11:14).

When Christ comes to the grave and cries with a loud voice, «Lazarus, come forth» (11:43), it is evident enough that «this» sickness is not unto death.

So then Lazarus is dead, and yet this sickness was not unto death; he was dead, and yet this sickness is not unto death.

In any case, since Moses, near death, is physically unable to tolerate the rite, it is performed vicariously upon Moses» son, and this act of covenant - making effects the cure of Moses» sickness - unto - death.

This calls to mind, of course, other Covenant narratives (Genesis 15 and 17, for example) as well as the New Covenant sealed in Jesus Christ, to which millions upon millions have testified as the healing of their sickness - unto - death.