Sentences with phrase «view of human existence»

This «whole» view of human existence — I use the adjective whole to indicate an inclusive understanding of human nature — has become increasingly attractive to those working in the many different branches of science that have a bearing on human existence.

And now we meet Paul's question: If we are all involved in the sin of humankind and even saints are sinners too, if godly perfection does indeed totally escape us, and if our only hope lies in the sheer unmerited grace of God, then isn't the whole Christian view of human existence reducible to some pathetic farce?

Aristotle had a tragic view of human existence.

The connection was somewhat tenuous, it veered away from strictly «religious» issues, and only in the last chapter of the book did I venture a few comments suggesting a more «intrinsic» connection between the Christian view of human existence and the nature of human life manifest in Western literature.

The view that history is the encompassing horizon can be combined with a view of human existence which does not center in the city or even civilization.

And in this simple and harmonious view of human existence worldly success is clear evidence of moral virtue and religious salvation.

Not exact matches

It is a fundamental fact of human existence: communicating with others while respecting differing views is a necessary life skill.

Unfortunately, some defenders of theism in the eighteenth century wedded themselves to this view of the complex machine and its maker and associated it with the view that such special forms of the machine as the human body came into existence fully formed in an aboriginal creation.

suffering, true sociality, as qualities of the divine, along with radical differences (as we shall see) in the meanings ascribed to creation, the universe, human freedom, and in the arguments for the existence of God, those inclined to think that any view that is intimately connected with theological traditions must have been disposed of by this time should also beware lest they commit a non sequitur.

He offers a view of transcendence which is not identical with a particular metaphysic, but which leaves the human being in free play within the reality of his historical existence.

In this view, God has placed all human beings in particular structures of life such as nationality, race, sexual identity, family, work, or government that in some form or other are simply givens of creaturely existence.

That is so, so short of saying that essentially all human intellectual endeavour for the past 3000 years directly supports not only the existence of a God, but your particular views on the nature of that God and the truth of the bible.

Furthermore, despite the emphasis by such theologians as Augustine, Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, and Reinhold Niebuhr (with whom Schlesinger enjoyed a personal association) on the need to distinguish between divine and human authority, it is a gross distortion of all of their views for Schlesinger to impute to them the kind of relativism which makes the existence of God and the reality of revelation (the basis of all western religious traditions) so utterly irrelevant for public life.

«Every single human being who walks on the face of the earth has a lense that they view the world through... Since Evolution / Atheism denies the existence of God and the biblical account of creation, they have to make sense of the fossil record and geologic formations somehow.»

When all of existence is discovered to be sacred and one's life is viewed as a trust to be invested in enhancing human values, motive - power for significant involvement is created.

And what he seems concerned to emphasize in this recent article is that (assuming the truth of the Christian understanding of existence) the Christian revelation embodies a view of life that objectively represents the meaning of human existence, so that if a person is indeed to grasp in a reflective way what the meaning of life in fact is he or she must understand it precisely in the way represented by the Christian witness.

While both men sought to implement a dynamic view of experience, Whitehead chose to focus on the microcosmic level which resulted in his philosophy of organism, whereas Sullivan devoted his efforts to the particular realm of human existence which yielded his interpersonal theory of psychiatry.

According to the view of God and human existence in history sketched above, it is clear that human beings are responsible for the condition of the world.

The first effect of the modern view of history and human existence upon New Testament study was, as we have seen, to focus attention upon the kerygma as the New Testament statement of Jesus» history and selfhood.

As a result it has become a completely open question, as to whether a kind of history or biography of Jesus, consistent with the contemporary view of history and human existence, is possible.

It appears in a different form partly because the problem of social continuity has become as great for us as the problem of change and reform, but even more because the historical, cultural character of human existence has come into fuller view.

If it is the interaction between man and man which makes possible authentic human existence, it follows that the precondition of such authentic existence is that each overcomes the tendency toward appearance, that each means the other in his personal existence and makes him present as such, and that neither attempts to impose his own truth or view on the other.

On the other hand the Church developed another view of God and human life in which original sin was the all enveloping condition of human existence, and the ministrations of the Church were essential for salvation and sanctification.

This point of view is not compatible with the Jewish way of understanding human existence, and it is in flat contradiction to what we now know about ourselves as human.

He offered a forceful «Christian» view of man, comparing this view with others that fail to take into account all the facts of human existence — Greek classical views in the ancient world, and naturalism in the modern world.

In my view, only individuals are actual, and for our purposes that means that the final real entities with which we are dealing are momentary embodiments of human existence.

In contrast to the views of the Barthian and biblical theologians, Hartshorne holds that the existence of God can be known and proved by means of human reason.

In speaking about his views of eternity on Wednesday, answering a question from a caller based in Atlanta, Romney was echoing Mormon beliefs about the eternal nature of human existence.

The Bible is viewed not only as an historical or canonical document, but as a description of the individual soul's journey of spiritual development and commentary on what happens when different states of consciousness interact with one another in the collective drama of human existence.

In another sense, it is also true to say that existence precedes essence, and the metaphysical view is consequently wrong in denying it, for essence in this case is defined within the world of interpersonal relationships, within the world of history and human society, within the world of reason itself which Teilhard would call the noosphere.

All other gods and human religions regardless of the nature attempt to express what it is to live in view of that knowledge that points to purpose for our existence.

Finally, the mainstream Christian view of existence is one of rigid hierarchy, in which a male creator - god occupies the top link in the chain of being, human beings next, and nature — animals, plants, rocks — the bottom.

Focussing on the notion of prehension as the basis of a concept of «shared existence,» Cobb stresses the possibility» of an «ecological theology» to counter the Kantian overemphasis on the human point of view.8 A fuller discussion of Whitehead's ecological dimension is to be found in an article by John B. Bennet.9 Bennet suggests three possible sources of Whitehead's value to ecological thinking.

Atomistic views of man will no longer serve, not because we dislike them but because they are not accurate statements of a truth which is known to us in our deepest human existence.

Amusingly, Gregory focuses on the nose, metaphorically viewed: if it is too small, the counselor may not discern the stenches of human existence, but if too large, even as big as a «tower of Lebanon overlooking Damascus» (Cant.

Whichever of these traditional positions we take, we see that our view of the place of love in human existence is at stake.

This doctrine exactly reverses Jean - Paul Sartre's view that what marks human existence is the impossibility of breaking through to the other or being reached by the other.

Existentialist theology has resigned itself to an inexorable dualism of nature and freedom, thus implicitly endorsing the view that the core of human existence subsists in a domain completely different from the world of nature.

As necessary as its analysis of the self as existence still seems to me to be to any anthropological reflection, the value of this analysis as well as its limitations are more likely to be justly appreciated when it is viewed together with the other post-Hegelian philosophies of human activity that Richard J. Bernstein has so ably discussed in his book, Praxis and Action.

Our subconscious understanding of the laws of physics and the natural laws He has set forth to allow our existence to come about can not be observed, and to say that He is flawed because we see disease is viewing things from a very limited point of view, that being a living human being with an aversion to disease and loss of health.

On the contrary, he finds it useful to ponder an array of reductionist attempts to explain the existence of religion, from that which seeks to pinpoint the area of the human brain or the specific genes connected to religiosity to that which sees religion as a malfunction of the human mind or a vestigial remnant from a primitive stage of human development suitable only for whimpering, immature dullards (a point of view championed by the new atheists).

One's view of the later - term fetus, however, is more a matter of what might be called sympathetic identification — seeing the image of a recognizable human infant and, now, hearing from the experts exactly what it takes to «terminate» its existence.

For almost the whole of Indian thought, the pain of the human situation was accentuated by the view that present existence is only a small part of the whole.

If they acknowledge the existence of subjective states of human experience, they can only view them epiphenomenal.

We may prefer to view images of life after death as metaphors for the transcendent dimension of human existence.

In March 2004, Redfield was honored by the Wisdom Media Group with the World View Award for engaging the discussion on the nature of human existence and for his ongoing efforts and contributions to the bettering of humanity.

By foregrounding rocks, clouds and trees, Epstein inverts people's usual view of the city, so that human existence becomes secondary to nature.

We forthrightly deny the existence of human limits and Earth's limitations and dare anyone to question these views.

Inasmuch as it is the IPCC brief and raison d'être to ascertain the impact and negative consequences of human - induced climate change and identify actions to mitigate against these, it is not at all surprising that IPCC would present a view that leans toward exaggerated negative impacts and consequences, in order to assure the continued need for its very existence.