Sentences with word «solitariness»

Let us then provisionally define religion as the totality of an individual's sincere attitudes and predispositions toward that which serves as the final expression of that individual's particular primary interest or goal — which in fact is very much the same as saying, with Whitehead: «Religion is what the individual does with his [or her] own solitariness» (TIM 16).

People experience solitariness when the chilling, scary, desolating truth bursts upon them that they are not like anybody else.

To mark the end of solitariness as a theological posture, of obsessive senses of sin, of crying out to God, absent or present, is to mark the end, in Protestant circles at least, of the existentialist mood.

Or it may take on the expansive qualities of insatiable demands, frantic intensity, and encroaching suffocation of others, in which case solitariness is resisted and the inevitable restraints imposed by the totality are felt with the inimical and threatening qualities of an enemy.

Under the impact of such perceptions, solitariness loses its sensitivity to the relational matrix of existence from which religious experience emerges.

Santayana implicitly agrees with Whitehead about solitariness, for the love of life in the consciousness of impotence is an utterly solitary experience — as solitary as death, to which it has some other dismal similarities.

With one companion — even a child who could do nothing as a protector but who needs to be protected — one intuitively feels safer than in complete solitariness.

Reflecting on her aerial vantage point, one of the defining aspects of her work, John Yau writes in the exhibition catalogue, «In her carefully chosen views, Jacquette synthesizes solitariness and specificity, the anonymous and the particular, as well as further inflects this postmodern condition by making us feel as if we have lost our basic connection to the earth, and are floating or hanging somewhere in the air.»

But perversions of the instinct to worship God do not in the long run rescue man either from his own solitariness or from the closed - system of materialism.

It arises for the church today as for individuals in all times — not in solitariness but within the social nexus.

The expression of belief «is the return from solitariness to society.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.

«The great religious conceptions which haunt the imagination are scenes of solitariness: Prometheus chained to his rock, Mahomet brooding in the desert, the meditations of the Buddha, and the solitary Man on the Cross.

(RM 16f) The «It» in this context may refer equally to religion and to solitariness.

Solitariness is not solitude, nor privacy, nor loneliness, nor spiritual solipsism, nor aloneness.

For the aim of solitariness is the satisfaction of a religious striving, a completion found in such complex, unified, subjective forms as karuna, agape, and jen.

The full realization of God as companion ends our impotence and solitariness, and thus ends religion — and begins that life which is eternal in both quality and scope because it is the life of God animating our human being.

Solitariness is the doom of each.

In it is this now - famous definition: «Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.

Insofar as Whitehead defines religion as what one person does with individual solitariness, and insofar as specialized study is a solitary pursuit for the most part, we can say that the aspect of education that is dutiful refers to the education of the expert.

The secret call, the summons and decision that occurred in solitariness, usually came after the public or church call.