Sentences with phrase «ultimate unity of»

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

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 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.

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).

When the religious thought of the ancient world from Mesopotamia to Palestine, and from Palestine to Egypt, required terms to express that ultimate unity of direction in the universe, upon which all order depends, and which gives meaning to importance, they could find no better way to express themselves than by borrowing the characteristics of the touchy, vain, imperious tyrants who ruled the empires of the world.

Even if one does not want to go so far, one can more modestly hold such an ultimate unity of all with all as possible but not as certain.

I indeed share with Boff the hope for an ultimate unity of humanity in God.

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.

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.

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.

(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.

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.

It has something to do with acknowledging that, in its very essence, all reasoning involves a venture of trust in an original orientation of truth to the mind and of the mind to truth, and in the ultimate unity of the two; and that, therefore, any attempt to argue from rational premises to rational conclusions that resolutely refuses to invoke what is and has always been revealed — in the mind's most primordial encounter with reality — is not really a process of reasoning at all, but a journey toward absurdity.

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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?

So the knowledge imparted was at different levels, - technical rationality, critical rationality to evaluate ends, universal human values, and the humanism of the person of Jesus - but with search for the unity of their inter-relationship realized in the renewal of personal and community life as the ultimate goal.

We have to expect the universe to converge in the eschatological future; there has to be a critical threshold of radical transformation in which all the complexifying personal centers of consciousness are unified in an ultimate center of unity, if we are to be faithful to the mechanics and laws of the evolutionary process.

In analyzing the category of the ultimate, with its basic rhythm of the one and the many, Whitehead can only finally conclude: «It lies in the nature of things that the many enter into complex unity» (PR 211 31).

He shifted «entity» to ultimate event - unities that constitute only a minimal [216] «event» within what Aristotle, operating on the plane of the everyday world, accepts, and ontologically interprets, as one entity.

But Whitehead means something else by a «whole» (as an ultimate unit of reality) when he says it is «the singularity of an entity» (Process 21), or the unity of a subject (Category of Subjective Unity.

In perceiving theology as a science, Pannenberg suggests that if God is ultimate truth, then the God hypothesis — the claim that God is the unity of all reality — must include within itself the current debate over God's existence.

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.

This means that in the ultimate and primary sense unity is the unity of substance per se (NPE 310).

The longing to belong in some ultimate sense, to feel an at - homeness in the universe is satisfied for many in worship which reawakens the awareness of «the mystical unity which underlies all human life» (Cyril Richardson) This experience is energizing, feeding, and healing; it overcomes the sense of cosmic loneliness, the feeling expressed by a mental hospital patient: «I'm an orphan in the universe.»

Wilson's notion of the connectedness of things and their ultimate unity, as well as the enormous intellectual challenge of formulating consilience, feeds his «religious hunger.»

Marxist socialism can not remedy this poverty of structure because its means — unity and centralization — are entirely unlike and can not possibly lead to its ultimate ends — multiplicity and freedom.

Tillich suggests several criteria for evaluating religious symbols, in addition to this capacity for self - negation.30 A symbol of the ultimate must transcend the subject - object division, for the characteristics of being - itself are equally present in human life and beyond it; the symbol must express the basic unity of all things, of which man is aware in the depths of his own being.

The Catholic Vision: Based on the Holy Trinity The ultimate reason for the unity of what we hand on is found in what God has said about Himself in Divine Revelation.

For Whitehead, Creativity is the ultimate presupposition or given operation which describes the universe as a harmonizing of data into a novel unity.

Since each of the constituent human beings of a civilized society is itself more ultimate metaphysically than is the larger social whole, it follows that a civilized society is really only a relational unity composed of many individuals related as one socially.

Monotheism depends upon the discovery of certain ultimate experiences all of which have an inner relatedness that welds them into a unity.

Since no essence grounds its existence, all affirmations of their unity imply God, the ultimate ground of knowing, in whom essence and existence are one.

Nevertheless, even attempted unity, especially through recognition of diversity, reflects the ultimate reality of God's restored creation: Jesus says in Luke 13:29, «People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God.»

The liberal arts, he recognized, made pathways by which the mind journeys to God — who, as the ultimate source of unity, cohesion, and interconnection in everything that exists, is also the ultimate subject of inquiry.

Revelation is the disclosure of the self - humbling of God and with it the promise of ultimate reconciliation and unity that arises out of the unbrokenness of the love that gives itself away completely and by doing so manifests itself as the ground of all life and relationship.

The animal body, containing everything from the ultimate elements to the highest perfection of material entity as a unity in itself, sums up in itself all that the material Universe is.

In his perspective it is necessary to leave the plane of experience and go back to the ultimate microcosmic event - units, since it is only in the microcosm that the desired concept of an «actual entity» as an organic unity of process can find a place.

The rigid adherence to microcosmic ultimate event - units as the sole actual entities seems to us to be not only inadequate with respect to the [254] higher forms of unity, but also to introduce an inconsistency in Whitehead's thinking.

Being set free, liberated, through oneness with Jesus Christ, so that through him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, we might worship the Father is our ultimate end.

And surely it is this kind of attraction, the necessary condition of our unity, which must be linked at its root with the radiations of some ultimate Center (at once transcendent and immanent) of psychic congregation: the same Center as that whose existence, opening for human endeavor a door to the Irreversible, seems indispensable (the supreme condition of the future!)

Rather, it is a unity derived from principles of community and canon; from the memory of the community of Israel; and from Israel's understanding of its past and its present (and its future) as time and event given ultimate meaning only in terms of critical divine activity for critical divine purposes.

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 the unity that Whitehead calls, in Modes of Thought, the «Universe,» and upon which the ultimate sense of «importance» is based.

Here it saw four problems: uncertainty about the ultimate «goal or end of theological education..., the overloading of the curriculum, the extension of requirements, and the loss of unity among so many specialized courses».

Theistic imagery can «suggest patterns and unity in the totality of things» by virtue of «an appeal to personal purpose, volitional power, and moral principle as the ultimate explanatory categories».

In order for theological education to overcome its self - contradictions and recover unity it needs to repent its placing ultimate love and loyalty in these proximate purposes and convert to placing all its proximate goals within the context of faith in the One beyond the many.

There Mill argues that the primary source of utilitarianism's strength as a guide to action (its «ultimate sanction») is to be found in «the social feelings of mankind — the desire to be in unity with our fellow creatures» (U 40).

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.

If we now suppose this feeling of unity to be taught as a religion, and the whole force of education, of institutions, and of opinion directed, as it once was in the case of religion, to make every person grow up from infancy surrounded on all sides both by the profession and the practice of it, I think that no one who can realize this conception will feel any misgiving about the sufficiency of the ultimate sanction for the happiness morality.

Thus there is an ultimate and most profound unity of all high religions, including ancient Buddhism, which, in spite of its apparent antimetaphysical agnosticism, reveals a mystic religion of redemption equal to the noblest forms of mysticism of all times and all religions.

This means that in the ultimate and primary sense unity is the unity of substance per se.