Sentences with phrase «upon the realities of»

Few contemporary theologians would disagree with this statement, but we might well expect that many of Weisinger's brothers in arms, the literary critics, would raise a cry of protest against this seeming assault upon the reality of the individual mythical vision.

In so far as contemporary developments in science can shed light upon the reality of this universe, they should be taken into account in theological discourse.

A condemned criminal saw through the contradictions and gazed upon the reality of His God hanging on the cross next to Him.

We need an interpretation of the Christian faith which can guide moral effort and sustain the exercise of social intelligence while it strengthens our hold upon the reality of God's judgment and His mercy.

But the epistle is quite unlike the Fourth Gospel in the emphasis it places upon the reality of the humanity.

«Messiah,» «Son of Man» are human ways of thinking, historically developed, and at best can only point to, suggest, symbolize the final salvation, upon the reality of which faith and hope lay hold.

He is incarnate in the world, too, having taken upon himself the reality of manhood and human experience in his Son our Lord Jesus Christ; and elsewhere he also is present in what may rightly be styled «an incarnational manner,» since in, with, through, and by creaturely agents he is actively at work there.

The assumptions underlying our country's attitudes and strategies were based upon the realities of Stalinism.

We may go further: the other half of knowledge is no longer so radically relative, as certain philosophers say, if we can establish that it bears upon a reality of inverse order, a reality which we always express in mathematical laws, that is to say in relations that imply comparisons, but which lends itself to this work only because it is weighted with spatiality and consequently with geometry.

He creates giant collage - paintings that are growing increasingly sculptural, and that use abstraction to comment upon the realities of living in urban America.

Another influence is the popularity of drug use, and the religious importance that it places on an awareness of our environment and also upon the reality of natural processes and environment.

Not exact matches

Upon being served with a cease - and - desist letter for patent infringement, «your first response is this is ridiculous, this was such common sense, this was not patentable, and then the reality sinks in, and you have to fight this,» says Raghu Kulkarni, founder and chief executive of IDrive.

The tenth anniversary of the iPhone is upon us, and rumors are swirling about affordable augmented reality (AR) glasses coming out soon from several manufacturers.

Logical — This type of fear is based upon some reality.

Although hundreds upon hundreds of Making money over the internet industry professionals guarantee to surely have a top - secret procedure to earn quick bucks, the the reality is, there is no procedure you may turn out to be wealthy within hours through clicking a button or simply shopping a few ebook.

«The reality is that all biology and technology is built upon the concept of «copying.»

It's not just a type of ideology, it's a false ideology built upon lies, delusion, and irrational thinking and is nothing but a big con game, a sociopathic type of ideology that damages a person's ability to see reality clearly and to process it rationally.

Einstein, Heisenberg and Dirac proved that the nature of reality is, in many cases, illogical, and non-intuitive, thus the ONLY thing that can be relied upon is EVIDENCE.

But I still stand by my original post in which I quote Torrance, in agreement: «I find the presence and being of God bearing upon my experience and thought so powerfully that I can not but be convinced of His overwhelming reality and rationality».

What is missing is a recognition of the full sun upon reality, to be encountered only if one abandons the tunnel vision of the self trapped in the cave of self - awareness, the Cartesian curse.

The very language upon which it depends for articulating its moral and political ambition — e.g., equality, gender, humanity, rights, etc. — was predicated upon reality being more than a linguistic construct or the creation of individual egos.

The cosmology of a people, its common sense, is thus foundational for it, the solid ground upon which its meanings, its presumptions about reality and its sense of purpose, rest.

It is in reality 500 pages of pithy sermons upon the verses of the epistle taken in order.

The aesthetic character of reality also means that the importance which an occasion can have for itself and the future depends upon the importance that the past has for it.

The fact that Whitehead makes so little use of the consequent nature in most of Process and Reality can be explained by his assumption this was not a topic for general metaphysics (depending upon the special insights of religious experience) and so could not be employed in any purely metaphysical investigation.

The distinction between the two natures of God does not depend upon any of the intricacies of Whitehead's metaphysics as developed in Process and Reality and may well antedate it.

It seems to me that the real problem occurs between Phases 4 and 5, where — upon facing the reality of my actual life and my actual responsibilities — I not only abandon Shane Claiborne's way of following Jesus, I abandon following Jesus altogether.

Every advance in our knowledge of reality, every new truth discovered, impinges upon how we understand the truth given to us in Revelation.

Does it have its reality only in being remembered, that is, does the present act of remembering bestow reality upon it?

But the church is confronted also with the reality of the judgment of God upon unrepentant idolaters who subvert the will of God and oppress the neighbor.

Although this essentially methodological affinity has been duly recorded and commented upon (most notably by Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers2) there has, as yet, been no exploration of the extent to which Deleuze's metaphysics parallels that of Whitehead in terms of its content — the extent to which his own system of «descriptive notions» mirrors, departs from, or fractures, the categoreal scheme of Process and Reality.

Perhaps the quickest way to encapsulate that difference is as follows: while Process and Reality represents a systematic cosmology, Difference and Repetition develops a speculative «chaosmology» At its most simplistic, the distinction in play here is that between a cosmos in which order is imposed upon a primordial chaos «from outside,» or transcendently, (as when Form is imposed upon matter by the Platonic demiurge, or harmony established a priori by the Leibnizean deity), and a chaosmos in which order is generated «from within,» by a wholly immanent process of self - organization.

Sheldrake pictures morphogenetic fields as being the context in which forms (of life or physical reality) which arose in the past exercise their causal influence by a non-energetic «resonance» with subsequent similar systems13 Resonance of course is a physical analogy for something that is not physical: «A «resonant» effect of form upon form across space and time would resemble energetic resonance in its selectivity, but it could not be accounted for in terms of any of the known types of resonance, nor would it involve a transmission of energy «14 In order to distinguish it from energetic resonance, Sheldrake calls this process morphic resonance.

Recent speculations in physics resulting in theories of a finite world of space - time have however been taken by some philosophers as warrant for belief in some infinite reality «beyond» the finite world, upon which that world is dependent.

We need not feel tryannized by the present, for whether theology is a human projection or a reflection of divine realities depends upon one's initial assumptions about reality.

In addition to leading activism efforts in our local communities and providing pastoral care to those devastated by the verdict, we also took to Twitter, blogs, pulpits and conference podiums to call upon white Christians to wake up to the reality of racism in America.

To cite just one example, it is difficult to see how this synthesis, relying as it does upon a basically Aristotelian concept of nature or form as a static unchanging reality, can accommodate the discoveries of modern science.

Indeed, process thought maintains that the very reality of God's concrete nature is completely dependent upon what each actual occasion of experience contributes to it.

But my basic convictions about them were derived not from these philosophers but partly from my being surrounded from birth with the reality in question; partly from Emerson's essays and the works of James and Royce; partly from the poems of Shelley and Wordsworth (which similarly influenced Whitehead); and most of all from my own experience, reflected upon especially during my two years in the army medical corps, when I had considerable leisure to think about life and death and other fundamental questions.

But nothing less than the recovery of real Christianity, with its ineradicable emphasis upon human compassion, and its inexorable insistence upon the transience of this world and the reality of eternity, will ever put back into the disillusioned the faith, hope, courage and gaiety which are the marks of a human being cooperating with his Creator.

The first commandment is nothing less than a command to acknowledge the reality of God's total claim upon their lives.

For example, it is only too easy to imagine Christian living as a soft, meek - and - mild, head - in - the - clouds avoidance of reality, and therefore to pour scorn upon it.

From my Whiteheadian perspective I can usually understand why they adopt the view they hold, what factors in the whole of reality have so impressed themselves upon them that they allow their vision to be dominated by those factors.

But what we are trying to describe, by each of these abstract terms, is essentially dependent for its reality upon the continuous functioning of the total organism, with all its essential physical organs and biochemical processes.

Lotze, in placing emphasis upon the disclosure of the spiritual reality in its effects, cut a path between a mechanistic science and an abstract metaphysics and thus was more immediately available to the religiously motivated mind of the period, say from 1880 to the early nineteen twenties.

I do not mean that they had a knowledge of scientific evolution but that they looked upon reality as a process of growth.

is simply too ingrained, too much a part of what sin is all about, for us not to feel vexed when reminders come of the opposite reality, which it is precisely the office of religion to provide: «Accordingly, it has always been the office of Religion to protest against the sophistry of Satan, and to preserve the memory of those truths which the unbelieving heart corrupts: both the freedom and the responsibility of man, the sovereignty of the Creator, the supremacy of the law of conscience as His representative within us, and the irrelevancy of external circumstances in the judgment which is ultimately to be made upon our conduct and character.»

Moreover, if primacy is also or therefore given to the ultimate reality of the non-conscious, then it may thereby be placing its hope upon a reality which is indifferent to human affirmation and experience.

If we step back from this particular passage, and attend to our different hermeneutical strategies, we shall see that most of the continuity we discern between these books will depend upon the interpretative unit we select for Process and Reality.

But the theory of divine relativity assumes a finer and deeper knowledge of reality than that evidenced by human knowing with its dependence upon sense experience and abstract universals.