Sentences with phrase «ultimate unity»

Of these modes of heightened creative expression, religion most explicitly seeks to realize the ideal of ultimate unity in its claims.

It follows that there is a genuine purality of propositions to be made about man, and despite ultimate unity of a systematic doctrine of man (anthropology in that sense), there are in principle several sciences that can and must treat of man.

y) Plato's Timaeus is the nearest counterpart to Buddhism in the ancient West; for Plato's cosmos consisted of the universal and elusive «receptacle» and its momentary qualifications, thus allowing for both mysterious ultimate unity and radical empirical plurality.

The product of the combination provided the central theme for the Upanishadic literature — what is the ultimate unity in terms of which all reality might be explained?

In other words, he must affirm both the ultimate unity of brahman and the plurality of the attributes which define God and the soul Neither unity nor plurality may be allowed ultimacy at the expense of the other.

Ramanuja's dilemma is this: how can one philosophically justify theism and argue against Shankara for real and eternal distinctions between God and individuals and between brahman and God, while at the same time maintaining the ultimate unity of brahman?

But this can be done in love and knowing in faith that even we in our arguments possess that ultimate unity, through the Church, in what is the Church's real nature.

(Colossians 2: 1,12; Galatians 3:28) For Paul, the union of those irreconcilables — Jew and Gentile — in the one body was a sure pledge of the ultimate unity of all mankind in the fulfillment of God's eternal purpose.

Two articles that Professor Esolen wrote, which proposed that «diversity» (which the professor welcomed) be located within a biblical vision of the ultimate unity of all humanity in God: a vision that would, he suggested, deepen Providence College's Catholic identity and distinguish it from competitors.

Mysticism, as we are using the term here, perceives more explicitly than sacramentalism the presence of an ultimate unity of mystery beyond finite realities and seeks to enter into this unity immediately and intensely, at times with little apparent need for sacramental mediation.

Newman thinks that to become liberally educated is to learn to order things in the intellectual world, to rank them, to understand their interrelations, their ultimate unity, so that a kind of cosmos emerges in the realm of the spirit analogous to the ordered world of perception in the realm of the senses.

It is true that in accordance with the Aristotelian position the individuals are the primary substances and as such they are the ultimate unities constituting reality.

Accordingly, more than any of the others, it is capable of heightening the sense of «importance» by giving some concrete form of expression to the ideal of the ultimate unity of creativity (MT 28).

Christian mystics have at times made statements (viewed as heretical) expressing the ultimate unity of God and man and, in mediated form, the unity of God and man through Christ is an orthodox belief.

But the church might yet learn to deal with its secondary differences in the context of its ultimate unity.

Although quite considerable differences exist between the mystic religions of redemption and the prophetic religions of revelation (and even among the latter there are great differences between the closely related Judaism, Zoroastrian Mazdaism, Islam, and Christianity)-- important as these differences may be, they are overarched by an ultimate unity.

The ultimate unity of the twelve tribes is imposed upon traditions relating originally to the separate tribes; and most strikingly, the Yahweh - faith which dominates confederation and monarchy appears to have been historically the moving, cohesive quality in the long process.

It seemed ironical to me that a Christian theologian who took seriously the ultimate unity of all things in God was regarded in the popular imagination as a Godless iconoclast.

The environmental focus in this kind of scientific enquiry demonstrates the ultimate unity of the subject matter of science.