Sentences with phrase «sub specie aeternitatis»

Father Joe is a memoir, to be sure, but in the midst of his other obiter dicta on politics and humor, it would have been gratifying to see Hendra begin to forge a few more barbs tipped with a little sub specie aeternitatis, even if they were tossed from left of center.

No, Tony dear, contemptus mundi means «detachment from the world,» seeing everything sub specie aeternitatis.»

I can never look at anything sub specie aeternitatis.

Seen sub specie aeternitatis, encouraging someone to believe that we don't really know what God thinks about sexuality, and that each of us must work it out for ourselves, and anyway it doesn't matter much as long as we do our recycling and volunteer at a homeless shelter, is as serious an error as telling them that God hates them because they have homosexual feelings.

When I consider baseball sub specie aeternitatis, I find it impossible not to conclude that its essential metaphysical structure is thoroughly idealist.

But in the face of the Gospel, sub specie aeternitatis (and the Gospel points us toward eternity), these distinctions and judgments are quite unimportant, indeed irrelevant.

Is there a sense in which sub specie aeternitatis Hosea's acceptance of Gomer depends upon the work of God in Christ?

No one can translate four dimensions into two — or imagine what individuals look like sub specie aeternitatis, as they must appear in the eyes of God.