Sentences with phrase «unchanging idea»

Intelligence has traditionally been considered as a one - dimensional, unchanging idea.

Time is but the moving imitation of eternity.15 Things in time are impermanent because they are mere shadows and copies of the unchanging ideas.

Not exact matches

However, when you cut through all the noise, one idea is unchanging: content is king.

That can readily be discerned in Plato's notion of the eternal Forms or Ideas, which come to be varyingly embodied in passing moments but which themselves are unchanging and unaffected by how the world momentarily incarnates them.

Personally I think an awful lot is explained by simply giving up the idea that God is unchanging.

But I think it is a grave mistake to confine all your ideas to a single source which believers say is unchanging.

One might have expected that a course in moral reasoning based on the teachings of Jesus would include an introduction to the idea of natural law and some discussion of traditional moral teachings, but Cox disagrees with many of the basic tenets of orthodox Christianity and doubts our ability to identify unchanging and absolute truth in religion or morality.

Thus the Old Testament is not to be read as an odd collection of curious stories and ideas from a remote and primitive world, any more than it should be taken, on all its levels indiscriminately, as a definitive statement of unchanging truth.

It is the idea of God as an unchanging absolute for whom no act of men could possibly make any difference that is inconsistent with religious relevance and availability.

We've spent the last 2000 + years trying to square our progressive ideas on what is morally right with the unchanging dogma of the texts.

Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 104) David Hume attacked the idea of the unchanging self, but because he saw no alternative, concluded that the self is only a series of momentary perceptions.

Both Manning and Newman were unwilling to take him up on this, because at that time they could not accept the idea of organic development as it was seen to contradict the unchanging role of Scripture which was part of Anglican faith and enshrined in the Articles.

But the essence of the Hellenistic idea of God is that deity is by nature all that men by nature can not be: God is uncompounded, absolutely simple, hence static (a state identified with perfection), unchanging, subject to no variation, eternal, impassible, unmoved.

Hence they are not quite satisfactory as fulfilling the metaphysical idea of substances as the unchanging reality underlying the changing attributes.

Staupitz, in his reply months later from his southern hideout, was warm but guarded: «My love to you is unchanging, passing the love of women, always unbroken... But as I do not grasp all your ideas, I keep silence about them... It seems to me that you condemn many things which are merely indifferent... but we owe much to you, Martin, for having led us back from the husks which the swine did eat to the pastures of life and the words of salvation.»

That cloud represents the Aristotelian idea that all the elements are circumscribed by the moon's sphere, with everything beyond uncorruptible and unchanging, even in movement.

We have long since abandoned Einstein's idea of a static, unchanging cosmos in favour of a universe that is not only constantly expanding, but whose expansion is continually accelerating, at the mercies of the mysterious agent called dark energy.

Archaeologists tend to think these sort of cultural shifts reflect the spread of new ideas through an unchanging population.

The overall science fiction idea hangs over the entire movie like a dark cloud; it has no beginning or ending, or center, and it's unchanging.

''... There is what I call the American idea... This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy, that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government after the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness» sake, I will call it the idea of Freedom...»

As much as I love the overall idea of the games (and their many wonderful creatures), I've often felt it's the most unchanging of Nintendo's major franchises (which is particularly ironic, given its emphasis on evolving creatures).

And maybe this idea of normality as a sort of false state of grace helps explain the George & Gilbert persona: the unchanging look; the well - practiced routines; the crisp, clean art that makes chaos graphically readable.

Torok / CSIRO: -LSB-...] idea of looking at the implications of climate change for what he termed «global icons» -LSB-...] One of these suggested icons was the Great Barrier Reef -LSB-...] It also became apparent that there was always a local «reason» for the destruction — cyclones, starfish, fertilizers -LSB-...] A perception of an «unchanging» environment leads people to generate local explanations for coral loss based on transient phenomena, while not acknowledging the possibility of systematic damage from long - term climatic / environmental change -LSB-...] Such a project could do a lot to raise awareness of threats to the reef from climate change