Sentences with phrase «transcends history»

It's also a universal tradition that transcends history and politics.

Surely it can not mean that the self - giving of God revealed in Jesus Christ consisted in God's becoming «incarnate,» as an act of condescension, as though God as he is in himself is a being who basically exists apart from the world of process (and thereby fundamentally transcends history), and who out of mercy became immanent and took on human form.

If they are taken as completely timeless — in the sense of being immune to the conditional character of historical existence — they then become idols themselves instead of pointers to the mystery that transcends history and culture.

It is rather that they shall sooner or later die in history but that they shall yet live in an order which transcends history.

And the moral perfection, which the New Testament regards as normative, transcends history not as thought transcends action but as suffering love transcends mutual love.

Here eschatology transcends history, and, as Paul put it, «in that new creation there is neither Greek nor Jew» (Gal.

Belief and thought in general is always history - bound, while the real truth as such (if such there is) will be something that transcends history The unavoidable conclusion here is that we can not capture the truth as such.

It is only because God utterly transcends history that his free decision to become a human being in time is also a decision of grace: «Far from implying a distance between the Word and the world, the Word's distinct manner of transcending the world implies a distinct manner of intimacy with the world.»

Having established how, although God's action in its primary sense transcends history, we can still say that all historical events are acts of God, Ogden must now show how some events can be «special» acts of God.

His refusal to accept either an «objective» or a «subjective» art is equivalent to the rebel's search for a value that transcends history but which does not diminish human freedom and creativity.

«43 The ideal must transcend history since every norm that is found in history is too partial and incomplete.

They are meaningful for history, but they transcend history as spirit transcends nature.

Theology, we may have thought, is more like mathematics, like a word from above, transcending our histories, breaking into our times, so that it speaks of God clearly.

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Now Bamco need to move on, and go back and transcend the history by releasing Soul Calibur on PS4.

His minimal sculptures transcend history and connect him to many of Pace's great artists, including Joel Shapiro, Alexander Calder, Robert Irwin and Louise Nevelson.

Dr. Campbell said a new logo should «transcend history, tradition and culture, and embrace the future.»

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actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same with religion, thousands of years ago when there was no science yet, primitive people had a religion, of course man made faiths to conform with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But with the accelerated evolution, these faith again is threatend with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang

«Relation» is understood on the model of an event in time and space; that is, it has a reality which transcends man as well as involving him, and it occurs in the flux of history.

But a study of history, on the contrary, demonstrates that religion is not a purely subjective phenomenon; it is rather a historical phenomenon that shapes and transcends individual experience.

From this point of view history can not be understood as a purely immanent development, for it is partially a product of an encounter with a primary reality which transcends culture and gives rise to it.

The disputed elements center mainly in the bearing of the Kingdom on the ethical demands of the present life in relation to what lies beyond it in a realm that transcends human history — that is, in the relations of ethics to eschatology.

But the salvation that is the goal of this exclusive history is nevertheless defined, through the undercurrent in Matthew's thought, in a way that transcends this special history that achieves it.

Here he contends that just as Chuang - tzu tried to perceive the nature of reality from the perspective of fish or butterfly, so, too, should Christians seek to transcend the boundaries of history, religion and culture to develop deeper contacts with the mysterious ways in which God operates.

Both the corruption of earthly history by persistent sin and the grandeur of a vista that transcends it lend support to the view that the kingdom of God will fully come, not on earth, but beyond this world.

And so the concreta of history, viewed in an epistemic perspective, can in fact manage to transcend their space - time settings to instantiate general patterns.

Nevertheless, Whitehead's own writings on the history of society show that «peace» is unstable apart from justice and that the union of zest with peace accounts for the adventurous aim toward transcending the relative justice and injustice of any given social order.

Of course, the higher expressions of mysticism have always known a transcendence of images, but they transcend imagery by abolishing the profane consciousness, or by dissolving all that history lying between the present and the Beginning.

one timeless community running through history but transcending it.

In 1946 Niebuhr published his second book of sermonic essays (Discerning the Signs of the Times) elaborating the two facets of Christian hope — belief in the realization of God's will in human history and an understanding that the Christian hope transcends the limits of history.

The purpose rather is to call up Paul Ricoeur's reflection on why we pay attention when certain people speak and why we find what they say convincing: «The term testimony should be applied to words, works, actions, and to lives which attest to an intention, an inspiration, an idea at the heart of experience and history which nonetheless transcend experience and history.»

Bultmann, says Ogden, employs the terms myth and mythology in the sense of «a language objectifying the life of the gods,» or, as we might say, of objectifying the powers of Spirit into a supernaturalism, a super-history transcending or supervening our human history, thus forming a «double history.»

The study of history thus provides opportunities for the practice of freedom, by participating imaginatively in the decisions of persons who have acted in the past, thereby transcending the narrow confines of one's own existence, and by engaging in the activity of constructing and reconstructing a picture of the past, in the search for an ever more adequate account of the human drama.

Reinhold Niebuhr wrote, «The Biblical symbols can not be taken literally because it is not possible for finite minds to comprehend that which transcends and fulfils history.

The term testimony should be applied to words, works, actions, and to lives which attest to an intention, an inspiration, an idea at the heart of experience and history which nonetheless transcend experience and history.

Although sacrificial love transcends the realities of history (since it is grounded in the character of God), it is nevertheless validated in history where concern for others is manifest.

This is that thinking now giving birth to the new creation, and history is transcended for the first time by the death of death itself, in the absolute inconceivability of either a potential or an actual nothingness.

Although Marx and Engels accepted Darwinism in explaining the animal world, including human physiology and anatomy, they thought that human history manifested the uniquely human freedom to transcend nature.

Why is it necessary to transcend the language of history in this peculiar way?

To complicate matters, there are fans of rationalistic and speculative forms of process thought who dwell on how process metaphysics, including God, transcend any particular history, reading Whitehead and Hartshorne as though they were old historicists, like Paul Tillich.

For Wilson these roots and some of this knowledge are themselves guided by what he believes are the universal and eternal principles of Darwinian evolutionary theory Wilson never acknowledges that, by relying on that theory and by generalizing it, he subscribes to principles that transcend particular histories just as surely as do the ideas of the theological and philosophical transcendentalists.

He was not asking for «the whole» that transcends either history or the historical observer.

On the other hand, if you do not accept these qualities of history and are free to transcend the limitations of tradition and disregard the counsels of ancient wisdom, your social inventiveness is limited, if it is limited at all, by nothing but elemental common sense and common prudence.

Or, if we are to give the widest possible interpretation to the definition of the religious life by calling it the quest for the good life, we should surely include in a description of this quest, as it undoubtedly has accompanied man through his history, a reference to man's recognition of those factors and elements in his and nature's life which clearly transcend his or its making and control.

As the messianic events of liberation in the Old Testament were not a result of human efficacy but rather a gift, an act of power that transcended the given possibilities of history, the Christian communities saw in Jesus an act of God's freedom... the power that creates a new future is something new, it is freedom from beyond history that is freedom for history.

The judgment of God transcends our judgments in history.

In mythological language this means that he stems from eternity, his origin transcends both history and nature.»

Of the kernel of history which transcends the myth, Bultmann can speak only in negative terms: «Our interest in the events of his life, and above all in the cross, is more than an academic concern with the history of the past.

It should be clear at this point that these gains are not «liberal theology» or «liberalism» but deep, underlying ways of reflecting on history, man and nature which include both methodologies (e.g., historical criticism, phenomenology) and content (e.g., man as a self - transcending being who resists all heteronomous authority).

When I think I understand some piece of history (e.g. the Reformation), I thereby claim that my understanding of it transcends my subjectivity and temporality, and possesses supra - temporal validity.