Sentences with phrase «social immortality»

But there is a dimension of human personality that is not acknowledged in these forms of social immortality.

How could they fail to see that the idea of social immortality acquires new dimensions through belief in God?

Second, each moment of our lives makes its positive or negative contribution to God immediately upon its occurrence, as well as through the cumulative reality we call the «I.» Third, since God's consequent nature «passes back into the temporal world and qualifies this world, «157 our lives, being elements in God, also «reach back to influence the world» even apart from our direct social immortality.

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If we view the soul as an effective social system for the procurement of intense experience, we can legitimately apply to it Whitehead's statement in «Immortality» that «the more effective social systems involve a large infusion of various soils of personalities as subordinate elements in their make - up — for example, an animal body, or a society of animals, such as human beings» (IMM 690).

Schubert Ogden has said that the immortality of the soul idea has been a way in which personal reality has traditionally been given value idea and the resurrection a way in which social reality has been given value.

As with social regimentation and behavioristic concepts of human nature, so too with the denial of immortality, what seems to many people a modern conclusion was, in fact, the primitive beginning.

When, for example, Jeremiah, thrown back on God amid the social disintegration of his time, entered into a trustful reliance on Yahweh — «my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction» (Jeremiah 16:19)-- he was unwittingly blazing a trail toward faith in immortality.

The special genius of Omega immortality is that it never lets us forget that beatitude must be both individual and social, both theocentric and anthropocentric.

Eminent theologians like Jürgen Moltmann, Johan Baptist Metz, and Eberhard Jüngel, who envisioned eschatological hope as embodied in social and political praxis, were calling on Christians to close their ears to the siren song of immortality - language.

I don't think it's the greatest of the 25 titles listed here, but it's an inarguably fine film that embodies the restless spirit of mid-1990s Britain from its whip - smart dialogue to its mega-selling soundtrack: its lightning - in - a-bottle blend of thrilling cinema and social document assures immortality.

Although he focused mainly on social and political outcomes like war, torture, and genocide, he was increasingly aware that materialism, denial of nature, and immortality - striving efforts to control, rather than sanctify, the natural world were problems whose severity was increasing.

Analysis of immortality projects as one of the proximate barriers to addressing climate change is both cautionary and hopeful, providing insights that should be included in the cross-disciplinary quest to uncover new pathways toward rational, social change.

I propose that Becker's cross-disciplinary «science of man,» and the predictions it generates for proximate - level determinants of social behavior, add significantly to our understanding of and potential for managing the people paradox, i.e., that the very things that bring us symbolic immortality often conflict with our prospects for survival.