Sentences with phrase «ultimate meaning»

To summarize, the quest for ultimate meaning goes on, with the future of the liberal church resting on how well it can provide answers with ultimate appeal.

It would provide persons with ultimate meaning by locating them in their society, which in turn would be located in space and history.

Either we and the rest live for what transcends ourselves or we live without ultimate meaning and ultimate purpose.

At the same time, the definition of what it means to be «religious» or to have ultimate meaning expands, becoming in the process more a product of individual interpretation.

We find that we can still talk about a world view or metaphysics, even though language is a weak stem on which to build ultimate meanings.

The first constant I have already discussed; it is the need for ultimate meaning.

Mujerista theology encompasses the way grass - roots Hispanic women understand the divine and grapple with questions of ultimate meaning in their daily lives.

Susceptible to bouts of despair (at one point even welcoming visions of being run over by a bus), her love for philosophy rescued her: It reopened her interest in religion and questions about ultimate meaning and existence.

Jesus Christ calls us to find ultimate meaning in life through a personal relationship with our Creator.

Rather, it is a unity derived from principles of community and canon; from the memory of the community of Israel; and from Israel's understanding of its past and its present (and its future) as time and event given ultimate meaning only in terms of critical divine activity for critical divine purposes.

In some sense they become «less» religious if they no longer enjoy a monopoly in articulating the ideology by which ultimate meaning is bestowed.

Only through participation in a universe whose ultimate meaning is larger than my own life and life span can this psycho - spiritual problem be resolved.»

Reverence for tradition, respect for the biblical word, and reliance on the authority of the church embodied in its priests and scholars are finally idolatrous because we look to a human word or institution to express ultimate meaning for all time.

As I said earlier, Christianity, as a movement, was born from the ashes of late antiquity's social malaise, gobbling up the philosophical attitudes and cultic practices that were lying about, offering ultimate meaning to the Greeks, ultimate justice to the Jews, a City of God to the Romans.

But what ultimate meaning does personal existence possess if it exists for a mere three - score years — or perhaps by reason of modern medicine, four - score years — and then passes into sheer nothingness?

If ultimate meaning in life were nonexistent, then you would have no purpose in living other than to try to do some measure of good and perhaps pass on your genetic traits to the next generation.

For many other scientists, however, and for people of a modernistic bent of mind who saw in the sciences «a new messiah,» or at least a directive of life displacing both religion and philosophy, this preoccupation with the immediacies to the exclusion of ultimates meant frankly a secularizing of life, that is, a relinquishing of all ideal or transcendent aspects which hope and wonder might evoke.

We should consider in our time of theological ferment what price must be paid for the existential doctrine that ultimate meaning belongs only to the Moment, that is, to a time which is other than the time of the world - historical process.

The second proposition in which I suggest what the quest for theological method requires of preaching is this: the pace of historical reason, whereby ultimate meanings are disclosed, is not the pace at which problems of faith arise; and preaching must be a leading activity of that nurture of the church whereby this is acknowledged and dealt with.

Although eternity remains unknowable and ultimate meaning impossible, one can enjoy oneself in eating and drinking and toiling — for life is God's gift (cf. Eccles.

Through a specific set of narrative symbols ultimate meaning has already comprehended our consciousness and stimulated our reflection in the direction of conceiving the universe in a hierarchical fashion.

What I am most concerned with is the inference Klemke draws from his observations on the elusiveness of any hypothetical ultimate meaning: if it can not be comprehended, then its reality is in question.

At our hypothesized intersection of the level of human consciousness with that of ultimate meaning there can be no easy disentanglement of the two levels either.

Societies might be said to differ in whether they offer only one or more than one system for bestowing ultimate meaning.

I believe, this question of ultimate meaning looms with greater and greater importance as we delve even deeper into the mysteries of existence, including the theoretical implications of the Big Bang theory (cf. Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers, 1978).

So one could argue that the local elections were a legitimate democratic exercise with little ultimate meaning, given the debility of the elected bodies.

Neo-Platonism located ultimate meaning in a transcendent realm.

On the contrary, the human search for knowledge and love is essential to the human condition and takes on ultimate meaning in light of the communion of Trinitarian persons.

Martyrdom is an eschatological claim about ultimate meaning, Martyrs are those who do not fail to be faithful when the world revolts against Christian claims.

Far those who would become lost in the intoxication of creative work (for the doctor or professor or farmer who works joyously), the play of the Sabbath is a reminder that we can not find ultimate meaning by mastering life.

Until that time, the relationship between Jews and Christians, viewed from either side, was one whose ultimate meaning could be located only within the overall covenantal relationship between God and his people.

If liberal Christianity merely accommodates itself to contemporary culture, it will cease being a religion, for religion must offer ultimate meaning.

Whitehead presented a compelling portrait of his own search for ultimate meaning in the conclusion of the fifth chapter of Science and the Modern World.

Such interrelation or correlation is appropriate for religion since it is concerned with ultimate meaning of everything, but for some reason a vast number of clergy are lacking in the capacities for correlation.

«I can see no cosmic or ultimate meaning in human life.»

They are afraid of an existence with no ultimate meaning.

We shall know the ultimate meaning of the whole work of creation and of the entire economy of salvation and understand the marvelous ways by which his Providence led everything towards its final end.»

In his July, 1944, «Letter to a German Friend,» which many critics take to be definitive of Camus» final position, he states, «I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning.

The gnostic journey begins in bafflement and first looks for ultimate meaning in the wrong places.

If the Christian is called into an immediate and historical covenant before him, he must fully open himself to the ultimate meaning of his own time and place, and live the reality of his own destiny with the conviction that the Word is to be found here and nowhere else.