Sentences with phrase «very nature of existence»

But make no mistake about it, the very nature of its existence is setting a dangerous precedent in our politics: That Congressmen, lacking any formal expertise, may find it in their province to directly refute scientific findings they deem inconvenient for political gain.

This monumental projection depicts the five stages of awakening through a series of violent transformations, exploring the very nature of our existence: life, death, birth, and rebirth.

Through painting, sculpture, and animation, Houshiary plays with opposing ideas and states of being, including transparency and opacity, presence and absence, materiality and intangibility, and light and darkness, exploring the very nature of existence and metaphysical thought.

Houshiary's work explores the very nature of existence.

Mystical and metaphysical, Shirazeh Houshiary's sculptures, paintings, and animations explore the very nature of existence

Now, these unlikely allies must band together with a pair of Native American deities and a dead man to fight off a threat from outside the universe, a threat that intends to not only conquer, but change the very nature of existence.

It breaks the mold and part of the reason it achieves that is by mocking the very nature of its existence.

(1) Evil is part of the very nature of existence itself, including human nature.

Not exact matches

All are dislocated by the very nature of human existence which necessitates one's being a wayfarer.

The «traditionalist,» unless he can ground his position more firmly than in a history or a nature so taken, hasn't moved very far toward the mystery of his own existence, toward discovering a Mystery engulfing the limits of his ordering mind.»

In turn, in the technological West, it all undermines the important traditional emphasis upon the holistic form, human nature, natural law and the very existence of the divine designer.

For the Bishop of Hippo, the capacity for friendship and the social dimension of man's existence are goods written into his very nature.

He will not require not merely that the new knowledge be used as the foundation of the proof, but that the very spirit and atmosphere of the new knowledge enter in such a way into thedemonstration of God's existence, that the complexities and confusions of human thought engendered by the new knowledge shall be resolved in harmonious unity in the postulate of God's existence, nature, and relation to created being.

However, unlike the environment of purely material creatures, this relationship of growth to fulfilment is based on freedom of response, because that is the condition of existence as spiritual personality, and it is the very nature of God who is Love.

If it is true, as Holloway argues, that the very foundations of matter and the identity of human nature are aligned upon the coming of the Word made flesh, then a society which is uncertain about the existence of God and whether Man has any meaning or purpose must be subject to crisis, alienation and chaos even more inevitably than CiV is able to show.

Certainly, similar to secular society the Church, too, rests on certain presuppositions which are not produced by the free decision of her members and their free association as such, but are the very conditions of her existence, namely human nature, the saving will of God, redemption through Jesus Christ, the general call of all men to the Church and the resulting «duty» to belong to her.

We rarely get such reasoned, thoughtful, and well - researched theses on the nature of naturalistic existence and it is very much appreciated.

«Work,» the authors write, «is much more than just a need to keep busy or bring home a paycheck... [It] is a fundamental dimension of human existence, an expression of our very nature.»

Very true Capitalist, they won't provide any argument because their is no actual way to know whether or not there is a god or the nature of existence after death.

How does this qualify the nature of existence under God in the very present time?

Very true Capitalist, the believers won't provide any argument because their is no actual way to know whether or not there is a god or the nature of existence after death.

And it contradicts the very nature of human existence with its essential orientation to the future.

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

What is necessary is a philosophical analysis of nature in which the very existence of equational fields of force in the material universe is linked to a metaphysical view of what an object is and how it is related to other objects.

Of all the ways that the laws of nature, constants of physics and initial conditions of the universe could have been, only a very small subset permits the existence of intelligent life.&raquOf all the ways that the laws of nature, constants of physics and initial conditions of the universe could have been, only a very small subset permits the existence of intelligent life.&raquof nature, constants of physics and initial conditions of the universe could have been, only a very small subset permits the existence of intelligent life.&raquof physics and initial conditions of the universe could have been, only a very small subset permits the existence of intelligent life.&raquof the universe could have been, only a very small subset permits the existence of intelligent life.&raquof intelligent life.»

Instead, they argue that the very nature and origin of the universe point to the existence of an intelligent creator, much like writing in the sand would point Robinson Crusoe to the existence of another person on the island.

She is convinced in all her childish naïveté and innocence, this conviction also ennobles her nature and imparts to her a preternatural greatness, so that like a thaumaturge she is able to conjure the finite powers of existence and make the very stones weep, while on the other hand in her flurry she may just as well run to Herod as to Pilate and move the whole world by her tears.

It lies in the very nature of Christian faith to claim for itself — or for its Lord — the whole truth about man's existence before God.

It requires also that one resign oneself to an ultimate irrationalism: For the one reality that naturalism can never logically encompass is the very existence of nature (nature being, by definition, that which already exists); it is a philosophy, therefore, surrounded, permeated, and exceeded by a truth that is always already super naturam, and yet a philosophy that one can not seriously entertain except by scrupulously refusing to recognize this.

There are Pythagorean enigmas here, occult and imponderable: mystic proportions written into the very fabric of nature of which we were once as ignorant as of the existence of other galaxies.

It arises from the very nature of human existence.

Quite apart from preventable and temporary loneliness, there is man's existential loneliness — the loneliness that is inherent in the very nature of human existence.

One must investigate the theological significance of the very fact of the existence of the synoptic tradition, and the significance of its essential nature, in order to throw light on the problem of the historical Jesus.

But the thought of sacrifice is so intimately merged with the very nature of the master's existence, it hardly seems possible that the decisive «Yes» could not emerge, sealing the master's sacrificial path.

There are a number of the inquiry considerations that they'll be very interested in, such as: the nature of competition between processors for both acquisition of raw milk and supply of processed milk and dairy products; the nature of the commercial relationship between dairy producers and acquirers of raw milk; the terms on which raw milk is acquired from dairy producers and the means by which such terms are agreed; and the existence of, or potential for, anticompetitive conduct and the possible impacts of any such conduct on businesses in the supply and dairy chain.

Will Beuche sees it this way: «I won't call abduction a spiritual experience, but by its very nature it casts you into reflection about your existence... you feel you're behind the scenes of a theater, of an incredible play... this play we're all in.»

This detection has, in a single stroke and for the first time, validated Einstein's theory of general relativity for very strong fields, established the nature of gravitational waves, demonstrated the existence of black holes with masses 30 times that of our sun, and opened a new window on the universe.

Perhaps with a screenwriter more in tune with the nature of the Los Angeles lifestyle, the vernacular, and the prevalent attitudes among the melting pot existence that is Southern California living, the authenticity could have pushed Freedom Writers from a watchable, likeable semi-fantasy into something truly substantial and worthwhile (a la Half Nelson, perhaps), even if it comes at the expense of the very clean, linear narrative.

Moreover, these films ask us to consider the very nature and purpose of our existence in a fragmentary, superficial and transient universe.

While a world away from the lifestyles and routines of many of my friends, clients and family members in the USA, our lives are still filled with responsibilities, school, exams, work schedules and many of the other routines which by their very nature become dominant aspects of our day to day existence.

In my view, the essential nature of painting is that being flat, and also, very importantly, being bounded so that it consists of necessarily mutually defining relationships, it succeeds in embodying so many feelings and experiences, many of which we would never have but for the existence of the paintings which convey them.

«I am attempting to create an entropic «spectacle» that consists of very unstable and short lived conglomerates of images that assume their temporary stability only in the context of walls of an exhibition space inadvertently pointing towards the fragile and fleeting nature of existence»

«These exhibitions and their ilk call attention to the insecurities of painting by their very nature, but in their execution declare the evolution of painting more than a primacy of painting's original existence.»

The existence of the Knowledge Engine, now known as «Wikimedia Discovery,» was news to the Wikipedia editors» community, who claimed the project's covert nature and very existence are fundamentally at odds with Wikimedia's transparent ethos.

I think that such a «configuration» or «delineation» of the Community interest is not near (although authors like Townley may disagree), since the requirement seems to me to be more of a threshold nature (that is, closer to a de minimis rule) or a screening device (such as a fumus mali iuris, or existence of sufficient indicia of infringement) than of a justificatory nature (as you indicate in your very interesting comment).