Sentences with phrase «ultimate mystery»

Early on, having admitted the difficulty of speaking of ultimate mystery at all, he adds, «This does not mean that it is not worth saying, that it is just empty talk... I do have some things to say, but... I want it understood from the outset how problematic all of this is, how uncertain; but however uncertain, these are matters worth attending to, worth trying to understand as well as we can.»

Life and death are concerned with the eternal process of becoming, the process of growth, transition, regression, transformation: a process where the unexpected is forever breaking through the pattern of the seemingly established, and at every turn of the river of life new vistas may be opened enabling the soul to glimpse the country where ultimate mysteries, unknown and unknowable, abide [The Inner World of Childhood (New American Library, 1968)-RSB-.

So the use of this convention also expresses the ultimate mystery of God, and acknowledges that our language and symbols can never adequately grasp the being and will of God.

As long as love and loyalty, aspiration and hope, faith and dedication remain among men, so long will there remain an ultimate mystery in the divine - human encounter.

Creativity in the universe, ultimate mystery, the divine — all are symbolized by the distant father - god, ruling in transcendence far above Earth's realm of blood.

No man, not even the most brilliant scientist, has penetrated life's ultimate mystery.

The ultimate mystery is that God desired to create a being like himself, capable of exercising choice and moral responsibility.

So while Kaufman thinks that God isn't a «cosmic person out there somewhere» and that Bultmann didn't go far enough because he posited an «other world» to which myths point, nevertheless the universe isn't quite the only reality: there is an «underlying reality» or «ultimate mystery» that «expresses itself» throughout the universe.

That accepted, «the course of biological evolution on earth, including the emergence of our own human historical mode of being, could properly be regarded as a significant clue to the ultimate mystery of things.»

For religions die when their lights fail, when they lose the power to connect people's current experience of the world with the ultimate mystery of God.

Obviously this truth applies to religion, where we are dealing with the ultimate mysteries of the universe and the profoundest experiences of the soul.

What we are saying is that our experience of discovering love mediated through the human experience of forgiveness and renewal is a condition of our participation in the ultimate mystery of God and his grace.

Here Pope John Paul II understands the human body as a means by which the mystery and plan of God for man are revealed, a mystery which signifies the ultimate mystery of Trinitarian life and love.

What is revealed is not anything knowable; what is revealed is the ultimate mystery.

An ultimate mystery surrounds the way in which the human situation becomes a sinful situation.

A sense of the ultimate mystery of all life and all relationships should remind church groups that there are no psychological answers to the deepest dimensions of any human problems.

And the life that he has now with us in the Spirit is our access to the ultimate mystery he called «abba.»

They attempt to describe the human situation and to prescribe for its betterment without regard for the worshipful orientation of man towards the ultimate Mystery.

Rather, he would have given this status only to that ultimate mystery he referred to as «abba.»

The ultimate mystery of evil is that man in becoming human denies that which makes him human, his freedom in communion.

The ultimate mystery of life is death.

Last evening Barth reached out, in gratitude and respect, toward the ultimate mystery of Mozart, working alternately on the Requiem and the Magic Flute as the shadows of early death visibly closed in about him, but the great theologian did not attempt by some intellectual incision to penetrate the great musician's uttermost secret.

To Christian faith Jesus is the decisive symbolic revelation of the ultimate mystery of the universe and history.

Within the broad domain of symbolic consciousness there have been countless representations of the ultimate mystery in which history, society and the cosmos are seemingly embedded.

At death each person experiences the ultimate mystery in the form he or she most deeply desires and expects.

They believe, however, that the ultimate mystery that underlies and transcends the world is made decisively manifest in the person of Jesus the Christ.

So central was this event, since it made the difference between extinction and survival for them, that their idea of ultimate mystery could never again be divorced from the experience and the story of being set free.

Do we still experience the ultimate mystery of our lives fundamentally as liberation?

In the history of Israel, as we saw earlier, the ultimate mystery of the universe is grasped primarily by way of the narration of historical events that promise future fulfillment.

The inquiry is difficult enough, and it does lead us into the ultimate mysteries.

Neuroscientists think they might open a window into the ultimate mystery of human consciousness.

Neuroscientists think people with synesthesia might open a window into the ultimate mystery of human consciousness.

It's the ultimate mystery because we can't observe quantum behavior.»

Time is a mystery, perhaps the ultimate mystery.

Recommended for those fascinated by life's ultimate mystery, and the complications that may arise should one such theory ever come to pass.

However, when the synopsis of the top - secret Prometheus finally arrived, it merely consisted of 70 words that ultimately told us what we already knew — Ridley Scott is directing a film about scientists that are stranded on a distant planet and learn things about «life's ultimate mystery,» whatever that is.

Although working separately, both paths converge and they find themselves working together to solve the ultimate mystery as to why, but in the meantime the killer is still on the loose and committing more murders.