Spirituality and religiosity for us Asians are not just matters of personal option but inbuilt in
the very essence of our nature: rich or poor, educatedor not.
The very essence of nature's yin - yang is now at her wrist as she couples the formalism of landscape plein air painting with evocative abstraction.
Not exact matches
My question boils down to: Why would a perfect all loving, all powerful, all knowing god CREATE the
VERY ESSENCE of evil, and would that not indicate that god is evil in
nature?
Jesus is the imago Dei uncorrupted, so that John's Gospel can insist that, for Jesus, «Whoever has seen me has seen the Father» (14:9).4 In light
of this realization, three provocatively new foci will occupy our immediate attention: the proclamation
of the impending arrival
of the basileia tou theou; the significance
of the crucifixion (and resurrection)
of Jesus for understanding the
nature of divine power; and the Johannine conviction that love characterizes the
very essence of God.
On the face
of it Santayana rejects all three
of these departures from the tradition, since (1) he makes no
very explicit move from a continuant to an event ontology, (2) regards the inherent
nature of an object as a matter
of the individual eternal
essence which it actualizes and (3) regards the distinction between matter and form as at least a virtually inevitable way
of expressing the obscure manner in which one state
of things takes over from another (see RB 278 - 284).
Very differently, The
Essence of Religion locates the subjective source
of religion in human dependence on
nature.
«Pure conservatism» would be a violation
of the
very essence of the universe.6 Thus if we are to speak
of a cosmic aim or
of natures purpose we must recognize that its realization would occur only along the exciting but treacherous pathway
of adventure.
Because
of the
nature of homeschooling or home education it is in
essence very personal and up to the family to decide what course they will take.
It works perfectly with the
nature of the film and carries the
essence of Hammer
very well.
Vegetation Ceremonies by Carol Rubin, on display at the Studio Gallery now until February 28th, distills the
very essence of all vegetation in its various
natures and plants the abstraction onto canvas for viewers to experience.
This is the
very essence of Ueda's practice, and suggests his attitude and awe towards
nature and world, as he himself mentions that he «takes photographs with the pleasure
of being taught by them».
In a press statement, Schoonmaker provides some context: «This history
of creolization and cross-cultural fertilization... is central to the
very essence of New Orleans, as is evidenced in the hybrid
nature of the city's customs and celebrations, foodways, religions, architecture, language, and numerous genres
of music and the people themselves.
«It is strange that The News should accuse me
of trying to hide scientific uncertainty through this quote, when by the
very nature of explaining the dilemma I am being unusually forthright in trying to show how all scientists face a bind when forced to communicate in short sound bites in the media what the
essence of a controversial complex problem is.
My own career was undoubtedly determined, not by my own will but by various factors over which I have no control — primarily those mysterious glands in which
Nature prepares the
very essence of life, our internal secretions.