Sentences with phrase «ultimate origin»

Their question is not limited to temporal time and place; it's a question about ultimate origins.

It's surprising to me what a powerful an interest we have in our origins, surprising because we all have the same ultimate origin in fact (the African genesis of all people seems to be holding up), and surprising, too, because the sorts of things that concern us don't make any difference.

This means not only that we are approaching the texts as fully human productions — I point out that statements of divine inspiration are statements concerning ultimate origin and authority, not method of composition - but even more that we take seriously that aspect of literature of most interest to cultural anthropologists: how it gives symbolic expression to human experience.

Many Gnostic Christians believed that, because of his divine origins, Jesus did not suffer on the cross, that the heavens were populated by all sorts of entities including a lower Creator God and a superior God of Light — and that knowledge of one's ultimate origins from the latter was the key to salvation.

«High leverage is the ultimate origin of macro financial vulnerability,» wrote Zhou, who has indicated he is serving his last term in office after 15 years at the helm of the People's Bank of China (PBOC).

Although I had reached a point where I wasn't sure I believed in the God I had been taught about, I still had lingering questions about the ultimate origins of the universe and the meaning of life, and I soon discovered I was at a crossroads of empirical belief and experiential belief.

As the Dalai Lama suggests, truly to appreciate an organism in its intrinsic value is to recognize that it is important on its own terms and for its own sake, regardless of what metaphysical substances it may or may not express, and regardless of its ultimate origins, divine or otherwise.

I am unaware of any scientific theories that claim «we arrive here from nothingness» There is speculation and hypotheses on the ultimate origin of this universe, but I know of no accepted scientific theory that answers that question.

In its intuitive, poetic way, saga communicates truths about the ultimate origins of things, just as the narrative history in the Bible presents truth in a different way, stories with a moral lesson like the good Samaritan in another, and the poetry of the Psalms in yet another.

To Kierkegaard the ultimate origin of sin was mysterious; but he argued that the psychological conditions under which it took place could be investigated.

Holy Mother Church has never had any doubts about the ultimate origin of evil, so it is here, in this new context that we must look for a possible reason why, as we now know, some degree of «groaning» was built into God's chosen method of creation from the start.

Sometimes the suffering caused in this fashion (as with malignant cancerous growth) has its ultimate origin in some human misuse, bad diet or infection or lack, again without malicious intent on the part of the agent that causes it.

Enns clarifies the fact that myth is an ancient, pre-modern, pre-scientific way of addressing questions of ultimate origins and meaning in the form of stories.

Philosophy and theology might make an important contribution to this fundamentally epistemological question by, for example, helping the empirical sciences to recognize a difference between... evolution as the origin of a succession in space and time, and creation as the ultimate origin of participated being in essential Being.»

How could the ultimate origin not Know Himself?

The author, and perhaps Jewish thought in general at that time, recognized the intimate relationship of the age - old speculation of the Orient to that of Greece; both had come to express in differing terms but in essential unity the conviction that human life is infused with a pervasive entity which is more than human, finding its ultimate origin and nature in the being of the universe.

In particular, tracing the ultimate origin of leprosy through the parasitic adaptive evolution of the leprosy bacteria is rather insightful, not only for this single disease but also for our better understanding of the mechanism behind other human infections.

Pushing nature's envelope could also shed light on the ultimate origins of matter in the Big Bang and stellar furnaces, how particles self - organize into discrete elements and more.

It's the ultimate origins question.

Thus, the question of ultimate origins is not a purely scientific matter.

Dr. Péault is internationally recognized principally for his work on the prospective identification and characterization of human hematopoietic (blood) stem cells, of which his laboratory has also deciphered the ultimate origin during embryonic life.

«But it's central to our understanding of humanity's ultimate origin.»

The same shaggy sheen appears to mark his latest, the ultimate origin of the human race, and I'm betting it'll be packed with the same charm.

Skyward Sword came into things with the baggage of being the «first» game in the series, the ultimate origin story.

The year referenced in the title of her acrylic and oil stick collage «Seated Woman: 1974,» 2013, points to the ultimate origin of the piece: The Los Angeles — based artist was born in 1974 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The mere fact that such an exercise of public authority has its ultimate origin in Union law is not of itself sufficient for a finding that there is a situation involving the implementation of Union law.