The diversity of belief among the Jews upon the subjects of
the ultimate destiny of man in general, and of the resurrection in particular, was such that we must devote the next chapter to it.
Not exact matches
When we understand these two bookends
of the Bible as framing the whole Christian mystery, the marriage
of man and woman takes on its true nature as an image that points us towards our
ultimate destiny marriage to God.
But at least he has enough true light by which to live, and he has powerful and indeed exciting clues to the meaning and purpose
of life and to
man's
ultimate destiny.
Reason must attain the dimension
of faith to seek answers to questions
of ultimate import and which will not go away, such as the reality
of God, the origin and
destiny of man, the
ultimate worth
of human life, etc..
It is by faith that
man is led to fulfillment and
ultimate destiny, and God is the ground
of his faith.
Therefore, for Altizer, secularization is good insofar as it destroys that God who is different from
man, but bad insofar as it also eliminates the religious instinct, the awareness
of the Sacred, that divine dimension
of experience which is intuited as identical with
man's own
ultimate being and
destiny.
This situation in which the
destiny of man hangs in the balance is the
ultimate call for new modes
of Christian existence.
The question
of man's
ultimate destiny is another aspect
of the doctrine
of man.
In speculating on the earthly
destiny of Man we are accustomed to say that in the
ultimate future nothing is certain, except that a day must come when our planet will be uninhabitable.
It rather appears to be the degree to which, in and through the experiences to which these statements point, there is effected an actual deepening and widening
of spiritual insight into the nature
of ultimate reality,
of human existence and
of the
destiny of man.
In this sense he is an existentialist in that he reflects on
man's situation in the whole
of reality and his
ultimate destiny.
None
of the conference participants could be accused
of thinking small, whether the discussion is about a 100,000 - kilometer tether made
of carbon nanotubes, space - based solar power, or
man's
ultimate destiny to seed the galaxy.