Sentences with phrase «transcendent realm»

In expressing his naturalism Piaget kept his theory on a level of pure immanence, unlike Whitehead, who appealed to a timeless transcendent realm of ideas («eternal objects»), Piaget saw «forms» only as the constructions of natural subjects, and he wanted to explain this construction as a process of self - regulation.

At times, Whitehead's consequent God seems to refer to some completely transcendent realm where all evil is transmuted into good in spite of the enduring stubbornness of evil in the concrete world.

Dare we bet that the Christian God is dead, that the ultimate ground of guilt and resentment is broken, and that our guilty condition is created by our clinging to the wholly alien power of a now emptied transcendent realm?

Simply to raise these questions in the context of our time and situation is to recognize the possibility that the death of God — i.e., the dissolution of all images and symbols of an original sacred, and the collapse of a sacred or transcendent realm underlying this dissolution — is a culminating expression of the forward movement of the Incarnation.

However, it is far from obvious that the ordinary sense of self - transcendence counts as evidence of an ontological transcendent realm or that self - transcendence provides «pointers» to or «signals» of such a realm, as Berger would have it (A Rumor of Angels [Doubleday Anchor, 1969], pp. 55 ff.).

Buddhism has never known any form of a truly transcendent realm or deity, hence I concur with the common judgment that from the Christian point of view Buddhism is atheistic.

In proposing then a description of the essential structures present in human love we are doing something akin to What Plato did without being committed to projecting these forms of experience into some absolutely transcendent realm.

They bring to mind a sense of enchantment and transcendent realms where magical, otherworldly beings like fairies, elves, trolls, sylphs and nymphs reside.

Although the sacred must remain completely autonomous and incommensurable with the profane, it is nonetheless inevitably found in the midst of the profane and not in some transcendent realm.

The Christ who appears in the form of a transcendent Lord is inseparable from the actual presence of the transcendent Creator, and with the collapse of the transcendent realm the Word itself can no longer appear in the form of transcendence.

Isolated from both the natural and the transcendent realms, the human creature has become its own creator, an autonomous consciousness existing for itself, despite the fact that in our own time the human consciousness has become a solitary subjectivity progressively dissolving itself.

It raises ethical questions about norms in respect to the transcendent realm.

Rawls» original position adopts this «kingdom of ends» scheme but interprets it as the key to a model procedure (the social contract), thereby rescuing Kant from his entrapment in a transcendent realm.

Another matter that poses an interesting problem for those who obscure the distinction between self - transcendence and ontological transcendence is the fact that inference (a self - transcending act) intervenes between the primary self - transcending acts of, the mind and the final conclusion that such «signals» or «pointers» are valid indicators that there is a transcendent realm.

Once God is dead, the transcendent realm is emptied, and it is no longer possible to find life or hope in the beyond.

Neo-Platonism located ultimate meaning in a transcendent realm.

«3 Ludwig Feuerbach described the essence of religion as a reflection of human desires into a transcendent realm, and proposed therefore to change men «from friends of God to friends of men, from believers to thinkers, from worshipers to workers, from candidates for the «Yonder» «to students of the «Here,» from Christians, who, according to their own confession, arc partly animals and partly angels, to men, whole men.»

Some believe that Jesus preached its coming on earth and taught us to labor and pray for it; while others place it either at the end of earthly history or totally beyond it in a transcendent realm.

Instead of fleeing the impurity of the mundane world for a supernal region of pure spirit, Rabbi Soloveitchik's «halakhic man» attempts to bring the sanctity and purity of the transcendent realm into the material world.

By this he meant that people no longer believed in a transcendent realm and did not require God as an explanation of what happened in the world.

in India, for example, the Upanishads began to point more explicitly to a transcendent realm of meaning known as Brahman.

«Classical» natural theology sought to demonstrate the existence of a transcendent realm from a neutral examination of nature: a mode of thought which reached its zenith in Enlightenment England with such characters as William Paley.

If a contemporary epiphany of Christ has abolished all images of transcendence, and emptied the transcendent realm, then we can meet that epiphany only by totally embracing the world.

Our chaos becomes manifest as a uniquely modern chaos when it is ever more comprehensively present in response to the emptying of the transcendent realm, as its darkness fills every pocket of light, and night falls throughout the whole gamut of experience.

To the extent that we attempt to cling to a transcendent realm, a realm that has become ever darker and emptier in the actuality of our experience, we must be closed to the actual presence of the living Christ, and alienated from the contemporary movement of the divine process.

Without rooting their celebration of earthly festivities and food in a transcendent realm where real truth provides standards for behavior and gives meaning to gatherings around tables, I fear they will remain as atomized as ever — and that their resolve to have ever more dinner parties in hopes of slowing the evaporating of modernity will do little to help.

If we could grasp what Lent calls elsewhere «liology», we would attribute our ultimate sources of value not to «a transcendent realm», or to our «moral rationality», but to «humanity's intrinsic connection with the natural world».

The thinness of the paint application in Rothko's work is a further expression of the hovering atmospherics that remind one more of transcendent realms than of the psychic human dramas enacted by the painterly abstractionists.

Like the early Abstract Expressionists, her work transports the viewer to this transcendent realm of color and light, where anyone can serve as witness to the patterns in time.