Sentences with phrase «supernaturalism by»

It's easy to like True Blood, because Ball's episodic smarts are primal, not at a remove, and he approaches supernaturalism by emphasizing the natural over the super.

Tillich presents us with a God that tries to go beyond naturalism and supernaturalism by showing God as «self - transcendent» and as the ground of being of whatever exists.3 But Tillich is still very much bound by the categories of classical metaphysics, especially that of «being.»

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Whatever one's beliefs, we are starting to recogize that supernaturalism in any form is not a reliable means to build a universal consensus.Any proposition that relies on faith can and will be twisted by unscrupulous individuals for their own gain.

The supernaturalism is ingredient in the story; the manners convey the mystery, a mystery which is worked into the story, is the story, by means of the manners.

«Supernaturalism,» in the sense of God's making known the divine only by divine intrusions from outside in occasional miraculous acts, is rejected; a picture of deity as remote and inaccessible is refuted; and the condemnation of secular activities as a blasphemous denial of the divine prerogative is entirely ruled out.

However, we must remind ourselves of a vital historical fact, which is that many of these forms of supernaturalism were attacked, and at least partially overthrown, by biblical religion long before the advent of modern science.

Ogden, while paying tribute to the constructive efforts of Bultmann, Bonhoeffer and Tillich in the fight against supernaturalism, nevertheless notes a fundamental weakness in them, namely, that «the conceptuality these theologians employ is insufficiently developed, so that what they mean when they speak of God is left obscure or uncertain or else their conception of God is still determined by the same metaphysical - theological premises by which the supernaturalism they seek to transcend is itself determined.

By clearing faith of its archaic supernaturalism, Bultmann argued in Jesus Christ and Mythology, «demythologization will eliminate a false stumbling block and bring into sharp focus the real stumbling block, the word of the cross.»

The use of supernaturalism to manipulate and control people is the world's oldest confidence scheme, it relies on the ritual abuse of children at their most impressionable stage by adults who have themselves been made childish for life by artifacts of the primitive mind.

Sherburne proposes naturalizing Whitehead's metaphysics by exorcising the concept «God» and all supernaturalism, and by attacking inconsistencies in the ontological arguments of Hartshorne and Cobb.

If the extreme realists would already have had reservations about a middle - of - the - road understanding which was only colored by supernaturalism, as perhaps reflected in the Lokottaravadin, then extremely supernatural conceptions such as those found in the writings of the Mahayana teachers must have aroused their deepest displeasure.

This point is affirmed not only by panexperientialism's insistence on the «ontological principle,» according to which only actualities can act (PR 19, 24, 43), but also by its rejection of both dualism and supernaturalism.

All too commonly today supernaturalism means splitting the universe in two — on one side nature, run by natural laws, on the other side the supernatural that ever and again breaks into the natural, disturbs its regular procedures, and suspends its laws.

If, whenever personal will steps in to do something that nature by itself would not do, we call that supernatural, we obviously can not get supernaturalism out of religion, because we can not get it out of life.

But furthermore — and this is perhaps Darwin's greatest contribution — he developed a set of new principles that influence the thinking of every person: the living world, through evolution, can be explained without recourse to supernaturalism; essentialism or typology is invalid, and we must adopt population thinking, in which all individuals are unique (vital for education and the refutation of racism); natural selection, applied to social groups, is indeed sufficient to account for the origin and maintenance of altruistic ethical systems; cosmic teleology, an intrinsic process leading life automatically to ever greater perfection, is fallacious, with all seemingly teleological phenomena explicable by purely material processes; and determinism is thus repudiated, which places our fate squarely in our own evolved hands.

Within one century the world has seen traditional religion fail, to be replaced by «rationalist» ideologies that often proved more weird and sinister than the most arcane supernaturalism.

When a one has naturally achieved, by one's natural capacity of reason, a metaphysical / epistemological system that has determined that to live a life of reason then one by necessity must exclusively exercise one's natural free volition to exclusively use man's natural capacity for reason exclusively on the natural world then one does not even reject religion's supernaturalism / superstitionism... one then has achieved the capability to say religion's supernaturalism and superstitionism is irrelevant to their metaphysical / epistemological system.