To find
an ultimate meaning in existence is also to look forward confidently to the ultimate fulfillment of existence.
The central emphases of classical prophetism are lacking — the passionate address to the contemporary life of the covenant nation; the cry for justice and righteousness in the theological ethic; and the consuming concern for
ultimate meaning in the events of history.
I feel that the term God itself is no longer useful; it has lost its power for contemporary people, or perhaps just for me, to express that element of
ultimate meaning in existence.
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.
Whitehead presents a revealing portrait of his own search for
ultimate meaning in the conclusion of the fifth chapter of Science and the Modern World.
Mujerista theology encompasses the way grass - roots Hispanic women understand the divine and grapple with questions of
ultimate meaning in their daily lives.
He wants to have free will and divinely inspired moral laws that last forever unchanged, and I suspect that be wants to have some kind of
ultimate meaning in life coupled with life after death.
Although the proper attribution of necessary existence to God does not show that God exists (unless we are prepared to allow that reality must have some significant correspondence to what is presupposed in our attempt to find
ultimate meaning in reality — an assumption which, as I have suggested, may not be easy to justify but is probably impossible to avoid in such metaphysical thought), it does show that God is either the ground of and compatible with all that is and all that is actually possible or is totally alien to all reality.
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.
Jesus Christ calls us to find
ultimate meaning in life through a personal relationship with our Creator.
The gnostic journey begins in bafflement and first looks for
ultimate meaning in the wrong places.
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.
«I can see no cosmic or
ultimate meaning in human life.»
Any Christian who can not decipher
the ultimate meanings in the old and new texts is called a fundamentalist.
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It does not
mean settling for what's second best because a group of people, the majority of which are not willing to make the
ultimate sacrifice of putting themselves
in harm's way for others, are thinking about themselves as individuals and putting that ahead of the majority best interests.
The reasons for why
in all three cases was so varied and nuanced, you'd almost have to say they were three different perspectives all leading to the same
ultimate conclusion which really
means 3 different unique answers.
The Arab spring is not a random event
in history, a
means to an end; the
ultimate aim being joining forces for the destruction of Israel.
In the end, Al - Khalili seems sympathetic to those who conclude that science and nature point beyond themselves to an
ultimate source of reason, purpose and
meaning.
Temporary
meaning in life is insufficient, for our accomplishments die with the death of the universe - there is no
ultimate purpose
in a universe void of God -.
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.»
This statement, incidentally, is repeated
in reference to Christ, the
ultimate example of what it
means to die to self (remember Philippians 2; Acts 5:30; 10:39; Gal 3:13).
It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling persons from submergence
in the social mass and giving to each one status,
meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the
ultimate goal of divine creation and human hope the kingdom of God
in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»
If religious belief is attained when reason makes a «total response of the total being to what is apprehended as the
ultimate reality,» such that
in this act reason is reborn, then it follows that those who totally accept a given world - view as
ultimate, whether it be theistic or non-theistic, naturalistic or supernaturalistic, immanentist or transcendentalist, as normative for their entire lives and as the supreme value
in their hierarchy of values, and hence not taken as a
means but as an end, belong to the religious dimension.
Likewise, sola Scriptura
meant that
ultimate authority is vested
in what God says, and not
in the words of men.
Sometimes that
means skipping out on momentary happiness and potentially hurt feelings, understanding that following God does not lead to disaster
in the long run but offers life and
ultimate blessing ahead.
Whether it is expressed
in religious terms or not, the
meaning of life, values, destiny —
ultimates — are matters of faith and therefore are religious concerns.
’25 Bloch believed that «the
ultimate, enduring insight of Marx is that truth does not exist for its own sake but implies emancipation, and an interpretation of the world which has the transformation of the world as its goal and
meaning, providing a key
in theory and leverage
in practice».26 Drawing on this tradition Moltmann writes that unless truth «contains initiative for the transformation of the world, it becomes a myth of the existing world.
What we ought to be able to discover
in this world picture, once the incredible science is gone, is a conception of the universe
in which, under what are for us weird and frequently utterly impossible images, the whole creation is seen as dependent upon a loving and active God who is its
ultimate meaning and its ground of being.
In contrast, Caldecott states in the first line of his preface: «The book is about Tolkien's spirituality, by which I mean his religious awareness and experience, the things he believed about life and death and ultimate truth» (p xi
In contrast, Caldecott states
in the first line of his preface: «The book is about Tolkien's spirituality, by which I mean his religious awareness and experience, the things he believed about life and death and ultimate truth» (p xi
in the first line of his preface: «The book is about Tolkien's spirituality, by which I
mean his religious awareness and experience, the things he believed about life and death and
ultimate truth» (p xi).
I would suggest, rather, that scholasticism apprehends the abstract potency of the Godhead, while a radical and dialectical theology is
in quest of the
meaning of the final actualization and realization of that potency, and therefore
in quest of the
meaning of the
ultimate victory of Christ.
What's more, such people are not just to be a sign and foretaste of that
ultimate salvation; they are to be part of the
means by which God makes this happen both
in the present and the future.»
By
means of his participation
in the
ultimate, unmoving, unchanging reality, he is assured of that which is permanent
in the midst of change.
Temporary
meaning in life is insufficient, for our accomplishments die with the death of the universe - there is no
ultimate purpose
in a universe void of God.
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.
If the fundamental human religious motivation is the desire to be
in harmony with
ultimate reality, with whatever is deemed divine, and if being
in harmony with the divine
means to imitate it, the divine that is imitated is a Cosmic Macho Male.
To exalt them, including the most purely «religious» intuitions, to some kind of absolute status, or, which is to do the same thing, to assume that they are the
means of access to the
ultimate, is to be involved
in ideology.
As given
in this formulation, the
ultimate meaning of the principle is far from clear.
This
means that
in the
ultimate and primary sense unity is the unity of substance per se (NPE 310).
What is unambiguously clear, however, is that African - American funeral rites reflect an unshakable religious conviction that
ultimate meaning and value rests «
in God's hands,» and that while we do not know the programmatic details, we remain certain the value of our past life can be entrusted to God's care.
That one can dare to maintain such hope depends on acceptance of the Christian faith's promise that precisely
in the relinquishing of concern for one's own security,
ultimate security and
meaning are found.
Because of the limited perspective from which every historical interpretation is carried out, no single event can be seen to embody or express the
ultimate meaning or direction of history
in a way that the historical interpreter can know with finality.
Since these «mixed» ventures may not always be the churches» most direct or effective way of fulfilling their central function of explaining the
ultimate meaning of life to their adherents — and certainly not if muffled by the requirements of public fisc — perhaps churches should be less eager to enter into what can at best be but a very unequal partnership with the public, and less tenacious
in clinging to «mixed» institutions rather than letting them spin off to nonsectarian auspices.
In developing their own thrust, churches should emphasize the spiritual dimension of mental health — the role of values,
meanings,
ultimate commitments, and relationship with God.
Furthermore, may we know that it is permissible to feel bereft of
meaning and hope and that we can express that
in our prayers, and, lastly, may we see God as the
ultimate role model and translate our verbal prayers into actualized transformative deeds.
(p. 99) «Nietzsche's atheism is thus a corollary of his basic commitment to question all premises and to reject them unless they are for some reason inescapable... To escape nihilism — which seems involved both
in asserting the existence of God and thus robbing this world of
ultimate significance, and also
in denying God and thus robbing everything of
meaning and value — that is Nietzsche's greatest and most persistent problem.»
And the notion of the future, inherent
in the notion of time, and the notion of
ultimate meaning come primarily from the dimension of anticipation
in a moment of experience.
There was,
in other words, an incremental and by no
means predetermined movement to the
ultimate evil.
To go back one step further we should of course say the
ultimate court of appeal is God
in se, since the functional
meaning of the word «God» is such ultimacy.