Sentences with word «unfallen»

The need, even in unfallen society, for humans to structure their common interaction is not limited to the economic realm.

When the Incarnation is understood as a descent into the concrete, or as a movement from a primordial and unfallen sacred to an actually fallen profane, then it can not be conceived as not affecting a supposedly eternal Godhead, or as being a static or unchanging extension of the God who is the transcendence of Being.

He affirms that the personal subject is the second person of the Trinity, who unites to his divine nature an impersonal and unfallen human nature consisting of both body and soul.

Government itself is a necessary good, whether in a fallen or unfallen world.

Instead, he presents us with unfallen aliens who all live in peace under a single otherworldly ruler.

His idea about unfallen aliens would appear again in 1958 in the essay «Will we Lose God in Outer Space?»

And Leeming does indeed argue that unfallen man would have come to know spiritual truths not by discursive instruction and reasoning but by direct divine illumination — no need for Scripture or for the Church then?

In this book it leads to this affirmation: «This is the uncreated and unfallen element in man which makes it possible for him to be united with God in his own ground.

Only a sacred that negates its own unfallen or primordial form can become incarnate in the reality of the profane.

The sense that each young man is a new unfallen Adam is deep in 19th - century American consciousness, abhorrent as this is to religious orthodoxy.

Apparently it is an eschaton or an end that will reverse the Fall and return humanity to its pristine and unfallen state.

Civil authority would need only to announce «drive on the right side of the road,» and unfallen folk would follow the direction.

There was some laughter, but it barely broke the din of a milder - than - normal fall breeze ruffling unfallen leaves and a wood chipper operating intermittently down the block.

In an unfallen human order, where this outcome were in doubt, sexual union would not be engaged in.

The «unfallen» reminds one of the semi-Pelagian affirmation opposed by Augustine, but one needs to remember that de Lubac tried to rescue some aspect of this heretical anthropology.

When religion is conceived as a dialectical movement that culminates in an abolition of the opposites, i.e., as a return to an unfallen and primordial Beginning, then its movement may be understood by means of Kierkegaard's category of «recollection.»

An unfallen Beginning can express itself in symbolic form only to the extent that it is known as the opposite of a fallen present.

Nor for that matter can a faith accepting the reality of the Fall seek an unfallen sacred or a primordial moment of time.

Whether we conceive of religion as a quest for original participation, or as a repetition of an unfallen Beginning which abolishes the opposites by negating the reality of the profane, it is clear that Christianity can not be judged in this sense to be a religion, or at the very least that the Christian faith is finally directed to a non-religious goal.

When the profane is understood as the opposite of the sacred in a wholly negative sense, then the movement of religion must be conceived as an eternal repetition of an unfallen sacred, and the profane reality must be judged to be an illusory mask or veil of the sacred.

In an unfallen world it would always have been welcomed with joy, but the reality of sin means that it is most often heard either with a sadness borne of honesty that leads to repentance and peace, or else by a shrug of dismissive indifference and then by bitter and angry rejection — well, the Lord spoke frankly about the lethal danger that lay down that road!

Even in an unfallen society, there is need for civil authority to minimize the cost of informational asymmetries and to minimize decision costs.

Secondly, civil authority would allow individuals even in an unfallen society to economize on decision costs.

One projects onto the world of human artifacts one's sense of frustrated alienation, then imagines that an escape from this system is by means of a retreat into an unfallen paradise of «nature.»

You will now be able to jump onto the unfallen overpass, do so.