Sentences with phrase «terms as a soul»

The meaning then was not that personality, conceived somehow in metaphysical terms as a soul, had sensations and experiences mediated through or associated with its physical organism.

Not exact matches

If godliness is defined as the state of having freed one's soul from karmas and the attainment of enlightenment and a God as one who exists in such a state, then those who have achieved such a state can be termed gods.

So that Krauthammer is precisely correct when he says that the question of whether some being is a person can be «restated in theological terms» as whether he has a spiritual soul.

In Philippians Paul defines excellence in terms of justice, honor, truth, purity and graciousness (4:8) He suggests that these virtues, as the «soul» of excellence, yield the peace of God for humankind.

A man to them was primarily a body, animated, to be sure, with a breath - soul, but still basically a body, and all his experiences, intellectual and emotional as well as physical, were conceived in bodily terms.

He never thought, after the Greek fashion, of soul as pure being, capable of disembodiment, but spoke, as his Jewish contemporaries did, of future life in terms of bodily resurrection, and on that basis he discussed life after death with the skeptical Sadducees, protesting only against the popular, contemporary ways of conceiving the raised body and its uses in the next world.

Building on the Platonic understanding of hell as the place where unpunished violations of justice are requited, Schall argues it is the consequence of our free will («the other side of human dignity») and of the significance of human action, opening up trains of thought in the direction of the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body - and finding this all pleasurable, «even amusing» (p. 121) in terms of logic and reason.

Regarding salvation, Wright says, «as long as we see salvation in terms of going to heaven when we die, the main work of the church is bound to be seen in terms of saving souls for that future.

But before we confront it in general terms, we must address ourselves to the unpleasant task of hearing what the sick souls, as we may call them in contrast to the healthy - minded, have to say of the secrets of their prison - house, their own peculiar form of consciousness.

So the point of Whitehead's example in the above passage would be that in talking about the membership of the complex structured society which is a total man, in the ordinary sense of the term, one is referring not to a subordinate society, such as the enduring object which is the life, or soul, of the man, but to all the individual actual occasions in all the subordinate societies and subordinate nexus which make up the man.

He is, rather, a very complex structured society which sustains, among many other societies, a regnant, personally ordered, subordinate society (an enduring object) which Whitehead refers to as «the soul of which Plato spoke» (Adventures of Ideas 267 — see also pp. 263 - 264 for a clear statement of the distinction between «the ordinary meaning of the term «man,» which includes the total bodily man, and the narrow sense of «man,» where «man» is considered a person in Whitehead's technical sense, i.e., as the regnant, personally ordered society which he identifies as his equivalent of Descartes» thinking substance and Plato's soul).

I have always assumed that «soul» and «heart», as we use the terms today, in a religious discussion, have religious connotations.

In these terms, the proposition that Jesus lives on subjectively is the supreme instance of some more general proposition as to individual survival after death: to reach a decision as to this supreme instance one would first have to investigate the general concept of resurrection, which lies beyond our present task.25 It must here suffice to answer that these proposals neither affirm nor deny the doctrine that both Jesus and the «souls of the righteous» live on subjectively.

The dark night of the soul has become commonplace in the culture and in Christian circles, but the origins of the term and the experience it's trying to name are not as well known.

Since the Greeks (as indeed most of the ancient world though often in vague and undefined ways) were accustomed to think of death in terms of the survival of an immaterial soul, the Jewish emphasis on the resurrection of the fleshly body seemed not only unnecessary, but unspiritual and even repellent.

Some rejected all forms of life after death, including the possibility of resurrection; some recognized man's mortality but looked for a physical resurrection as man's only hope, and then only for some; for some the resurrection hope was to be understood more universally and in varying spiritual forms; some thought in terms of the immortality of the soul and then could dispense with resurrection talk altogether.

What we term man's spiritual soul is not a mere mode or manifestation of what we designate as his materiality and corporeality (Denzinger 738, 1802, 1910 ff., 2327).

By the following century Lutheran theology had returned to the medieval tradition in which it was thought that the souls of the departed already live in blessedness with Christ in a bodiless condition, and where, for this reason, the significance of the general resurrection was considerably lessened.56 It was left to extremist Christian groups, such as the Anabaptists, to affirm the doctrine of soul - sleep and to describe human destiny solely in terms of a fleshly resurrection at the end - time.

Some speak in individual terms of the cultivation of the Christian life or the salvation of souls; others state their goal to be the building up of the corporate life of the Church or of some part of it; again the goal is defined as the «communication of the vital and redeeming doctrines of Scriptures,» or it is otherwise described by reference to the Bible as the ultimate source of all that is to be taught and preached.

The story of sin is the course which the soul runs as it turns away from life with God and his love, and seeks life on terms of its own making.

Do I expect to experience God's presence on my own terms, as a kind of tourniquet for my injured soul, without ever turning towards him?

In terms of the distinction Whitehead draws between a subordinate nexus and a subordinate society, I would classify the soul as a subordinate nexus.

So they were unable to think in terms of personal health - or living well as a mortal with an embodied soul.

As Gioia observed, «What absorbs the Catholic intellectual media is politics, conducted mostly in secular terms — a dreary battle of right versus left for the soul of the American Church.»

«22 He acknowledges that the term is somewhat misleading, because the ultimate unit - experiences are not the same as the traditional concept of the human soul; but he is content to employ it because of some analogy of feeling - experience between human souls and the actual entities.

It is not logical or reasonable to assume without any evidence whatsoever that this «eternal soul» (not making a claim just can not think of a better term for self awareness without time or space constraints) is constrained to our time line or space as it did not originate from there.

In the relation between two, the relation is the third term as a negative unity, and the two relate themselves to the relation, and in the relation to the relation; such a relation is that between soul and body, when man is regarded as soul.

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

The idea that cannabis (which you might better knows as «marijuana,» but that term has issues) is good for body and soul goes as far back as at least 2900 B.C. when the Chinese emperor Fu Hsi wrote about it as a «popular medicine that possessed both yin and yang.»

More measured souls, such as former Chancellor Norman Lamont, point out that in cash terms spending is actually set to rise over the next four years.

This is a shame, as in terms of its mechanics, its design and its graphical output Dark Souls 2 is above and beyond most other examples of the genre.

The classically trained pianist was termed a jazz singer and a soul diva, but she's been most identified as a folk singer.

As their relationship blooms, they wonder if being best friends means they could also be soul mates, even if she is already a part of a long - term relationship.

To call writer and director Elaine Constantine's look at Northern England's»70s soul - scene a passion project is to redefine the term as we know it.

This lesson can work as an introduction or a revision lesson and will introduce to students key terms such as dualism and monism, while analysing teachings from the Bible such as St. Paul on the soul

But in terms of efficiency, it's near the back of the pack: With EPA ratings of 120 MPGe city, 92 MPGe highway, and 105 MPGe combined, the Soul is in the same ballpark as the Ford Focus EV (110 / 99/105) but well behind the Nissan Leaf, Fiat 500e, and Chevrolet Spark EV.

Kia Motors America is focusing on the all - new Soul, Forte and Forte Koup for its 2009 SEMA Show project - vehicle program, and plans to make 5 — 10 prototypes available for use as long - term Show projects and in other 2009/2010 promotional opportunities.

«Winning for the second consecutive year, both the Kia Soul and Sorento continue to be class leaders when it comes to offering buyers a smart balance of quality features, utility, comfort and performance, as well as long - term value,» said Jamie Page Deaton, managing editor, U.S. News & World Report.

One night Farouq and me, we'd drunk a lot of bhang, about enough to get you on first name terms with god, we were ogling women in Naya Bazaar, as I looked at passersby their faces vanished, just disappeared, I could see their souls.

If it helps to get more of a sense what the series was like, and maybe what Monster Hunter World will be like, Monster Hunter is similar to the Dark Souls series / Bloodborne in terms of combat and «movement» strategy, mechanics such as item usage, etc..

In terms of the single player storyline, there is no fat left to trim — no half - finished, underdeveloped areas, as was the case with Dark Souls, nor the horizontal, meandering sprawl of Dark Souls 2.

She named an early solo exhibition The Battle of Faith and Doubt, and even if you don't think those terms are a binary, still her reference to the dark night of the soul, as a metaphor for artistic creation, is reminiscent of lines by the poet from Soho and Lambeth — which sounds a lot like Lambent, come to think of it.

Lest there be confusion about the usage of the word «avatar» in an internet - happy era of sci - fi movies and video games, Oxford Dictionaries defines it as a Hindu term meaning «a manifestation of a deity or released soul in bodily form on earth; an incarnate divine teacher; an incarnation, embodiment, or manifestation of a person or idea.»

DeFeo later wrote: «I may have done a lot of rotten paintings [for her], but... I was able to understand what she was really talking about... in terms of getting to the core of an idea, visually and psychologically at once... That sounds pretentious as hell... in fact it blew the ribbon on the soul of the Remington Noiseless [12].»

Wróblewski's practice can be characterised as a unique language of figuration, with some abstract or surreal tendencies, relying on what has been termed the «eye of the soul»; not drawn or painted from life, but experienced even if not seen.