Competing narratives shift the ground from under our feet, and laughter collapses our familiar world, reaffirming
the ultimate mystery of life.2
The ultimate mystery of life is death.
Do we still experience
the ultimate mystery of our lives fundamentally as liberation?
Not exact matches
Fifth, Christians choose to use «God» as the symbol for the
ultimate mystery of this creative process, so that «
life must at all points be
lived in awe and respect before the
ultimate mystery of things.
Perhaps he may even violate the
ultimate dignity
of both daily
life and research because he refuses to let them reach into the sacred sphere
of mystery which surrounds them.
In its focus on Jesus Christ as the revelation
of God, Christianity claims that the
ultimate mystery of reality becomes incarnate in the
life of a particular human being at a particular time in the history
of the world.
Religions require for the sake
of religious authenticity that our
lives not be embedded too comfortably in any domain short
of the inexhaustible
mystery that is the
ultimate goal and horizon
of our existence.
Scheidt says that efforts to downplay the theological interrelationships
of paternity (God the father) and maternity (mother Church embodied in Mary) have «taught the seminarian to be insecure and embarrassed — or even suspicious and hostile — toward facets
of the divine
mysteries that give
ultimate meaning to his
life as a man and, one day, as a «Father.
Christ's perfect union
of divinity and humanity is the central
mystery of the Incarnation, and, as de Lubac pointed out a generation ago, the abjuring
of this paradox marked the heretics
of the early Church, not her faithful adherents: the Adoptionists and Docetists were the ones who refused to
live with the
ultimate inscrutability
of the God - Man.
It is significant that Vatican II (and also the Uppsala Assembly
of the World Council
of Churches) defines the church as the sacramental sign
of the unity
of all humanity, and also speaks
of the presence
of the Paschal
Mystery among all peoples (see Decree on the Church, and the document on the Pastoral Constitution
of the Church in the Modern World) This approach assumes that in Christianity, acknowledgment
of Salvation (understood as the transcendent
ultimate destiny
of human beings) finds expression and witness in the universal struggle for Humanization (understood as the penultimate human destiny) in world history which is shaped not only by the forces
of goodness and
life, but also by the forces
of evil and death.
Of all the mysteries of life and the universe, none resist the sleuthing of science's best private eyes more obstinately than the ultimate nature of space and tim
Of all the
mysteries of life and the universe, none resist the sleuthing of science's best private eyes more obstinately than the ultimate nature of space and tim
of life and the universe, none resist the sleuthing
of science's best private eyes more obstinately than the ultimate nature of space and tim
of science's best private eyes more obstinately than the
ultimate nature
of space and tim
of space and time.
Mixing recollections from his childhood and family
life that inspired his work as a scientist, he goes in search
of the
ultimate mystery: the theory
of everything.