Sentences with phrase «ultimate meaningfulness»
It is especially difficult to maintain this priority in questions of death because death so directly affects, threatens, confronts us with our own ultimate meaningfulness or lack of it.
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«Whatever functions to unify life, to assure its meaningfulness, to provide what Tillich called an ultimate concern,»» Keen writes.
Religious faith at its best is an attempt to define the meaningfulness of life and give life ultimate nobility in facing death.
It shows, that is, that certain (and perhaps all) attempts to attain metaphysical understanding of reality presuppose a final unity and meaningfulness of reality and that this presupposition may only make sense in terms of God as an ontologically, valuatively, and rationally ultimate and unifying reality.
We would not know what religious symbols were themselves pointing to did we not already have a primal sense of confidence in the ultimate goodness and meaningfulness of reality.
To me it appears that the struggle to restore the meaningfulness of the word» God,» which means to justify the horizon in which this word can have its appropriate reference, is a matter of ultimate importance for the health, even for the survival, of Christian faith.