Sentences with phrase «view of the supernatural is»

The element of truth in this view of the supernatural is the obvious fact that religious experience is only possible to beings with mental or spiritual capacities, i.e., to human beings.

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However, the common intelligent design promoter actually believes that it was a supernatural force or godlike being outside of natural processes that did the «designing» and that view is not compatible with science.

The concept of the supernatural is culturally derived from an innate cognitive schema...» The scientific evidence for his position comes from an analysis of studies done on children that show that their innate way of viewing the world is in terms of «design, function and purpose» - making them, in effect, «intuitive theists.»

Perhaps you simply can't understand, or don't want to understand, because your world view is so entrenched in belief of the supernatural.

Regarding such a view of the supernatural two things should be said.

But that doesn't really negate the general view that none of us have ever witnessed a supernatural phenomenon, hence, belief in a supernatural phenomenon is a leap of faith.

The orthodox view is that they are direct evidence of supernatural intervention and must be believed without question.

Viewed in its «supernatural» aspect this endeavour expresses itself and culminates in a sort of participation in the divine life, whereby each individual will find, by conscious union with a Supreme Being, the consummation of his own personality.

A theological and supernatural view of exegesis is then automatically dismissed, thought unworthy of serious scholarship, or easily reduced to a footnote in the history of ideas.

Indeed, if one takes a more supernatural view of things, there is much to admire in the crusading spirit.

The vast majority of atheists * take the view that there's no reason at all to believe in an afterlife, any more than in gods, ghosts, vampires, leprechauns, miracles, or any other aspect of the supernatural.

The integration of the supernatural and natural worlds suggests to Pepler that «the whole universe» is seen «from the divine angle» so that «a unified view in which everything that is created forms a single whole.»

After all, it is not to be doubted that the Old Testament, as also the popular view in the New Testament, regards the Spirit as a supernatural power, a kind of mysterious fluid, a «mana», to which it attributes all abnormal phenomena, including those of art and warfare.

The only relevant question for the theologian is the basic assumption on which the adoption of a biological as of every other Weltanschauung rests, and that assumption is the view of the world which has been molded by modern science and the modern conception of human nature as a self - subsistent unity immune from the interference of supernatural powers.

From this point of view there developed the further attitude that this «call» to «supernatural life» was actually «unnatural,» i.e. some kind of contortion of human life which should be rejected.

The new world view of space made it steadily clearer that this supernatural world could not be located any more in some distant space area of the universe.

In fact, I am more intolerant of those who from some limited 19th century view of science preclude the supernatural than I am of those who say that on the basis of their experience in the Christian community they affirm the miraculous.

In rejecting the notion of «the supernatural» as meaning that which «in itself» is wholly prior or other in being than «the natural,» a naturalistic view does not necessarily deny that there is a being such as God, but only that way of categorizing such a being.

Certainly the Bible bears witness to the wonderful works of God, the signs and miracles of His grace, but it is anachronistic to read into these affirmations a much later understanding of miracle, one which belongs particularly to the medieval view of the interpenetration of the two worlds — the natural and supernatural.

On the other hand, if the Enlightenment is correct and we ought to adopt a deistic view of God, then it would be theologically inappropriate to think of supernatural intervention.

This personalist view of the universe is not only derived from supernatural faith.

In the case of the primitive Christian community, the coming events were viewed as entirely supernatural.

And since the human mind or soul can not be viewed as part of this machine, it belongs to a supernatural sphere not affected by the laws of nature.

What I think you, and most mystics, feel is that we, the naturalists (ie / those who believe that we live in a natural world governed by the forces of nature VS. a supernatural world governed by supernatural forces), should just be quiet b / c you disagree with our rational world - view.

In a strange kind ofa way, Rahner's view of man being dynamically constituted in a permanent existential of supernatural life is actually rather static and in the end a-historical, despite his insistence on the need for categorical instances that open this existential up.

Upon first viewing, I thought the movie broke its own set of supernatural rules because all throughout, we're supposed to believe that what Nina sees, feels, and does are figments of her imagination - sprouting swan wings, shanking a bitch.

We can definitely expect a new upgrade system and an eagle for a bird's eye view of the maps, while hints of gladiatorial combat and supernatural creatures were teased in the trailer.

Comfy - couch home viewing is the best way to enjoy this amiable, goofy supernatural laffer; 20 - something basement - dwellers and die - hard fans of stars Jon Heder and Justin Long will find enough chemistry between the committed cast and the occasionally spooky moment to make the investment of a whopping 84 minutes worthwhile.

Marginalized because of it's supernatural and excessive elements, Possession is ripe for a retrospective viewing: almost 40 years on it remains a modern thriller / horror that was way, way ahead of it's time.

HERNAN BAS It's Supernatural Installation view Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami March 15 - June 30, 2002

Taking its cue from the multifaceted term «vision» and emphasizing its physical - perceptive, political, supernatural, and mystical aspects, VISION (S): explores the strategies that artists and scholars employ to re-configure our view of the world.

Weber viewed charisma as a certain quality of an individual's personality, by virtue of which he is set apart from ordinary men and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least exceptional powers or qualities.