Sentences with phrase «which apprehends»

Even scientific knowledge, which apprehends a thing exactly as it is in all its causes, depends for its truth entirely upon the primary premises given to it by experience (cf. Posterior Analytics 2.19).

Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.

The sacramental principle, in which created matter and form can be apprehended in some authentic way as images of God, and as ways towards union with Him, is fundamental to the Catholic and Orthodox attitude to art, whereas the Protestant theological system relies on the priority of the word over the image as the medium through which God communicates Himself to us, and by means of which we apprehend Him.

The epochal occasion which we apprehend as the present is one occasion, but it might have been twenty epochal occasions.

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He was reportedly apprehended on a business trip in Bogotá, Colombia by Colombian officials, which had been sent to arrest Tuzman at the behest of the US government.

A stolen Tesla Model S 85D was tracked down using a smartphone app, which allowed the authorities to apprehend the thief and return the vehicle to its owners.

Some of us «born - again» Christians can't «fathom» cigarettes... «That which is born of the flesh is flesh; that which is born of the Spirit is spirit»... CPT Roy G. Moore was my commanding officer in Vietnam in the 504th MP Bn, 188 MP Co. at Camp David Land, near DaNang over 40 years ago and single - handedly apprehended a buddy of mine who had just tried to kill the 1SG.

I don't think that we can realize that potential apart from Grace / faith, but I also believe that everyone has been given Grace which can be intutively apprehended without having a formal theological belief system.

Earlier we had occasion to note the relationship between Jewish faith as portrayed for us in the Old Testament and the Christian event which is the subject matter of the New Testament; and how it was indeed inevitable and right that the primitive Christian community should see their Lord and apprehend his significance for men, against the background of the whole history of the people into whom humanly speaking he was born.

As Ambrose, the fourth - century bishop of Milan, told the recently initiated: «You must not trust, then, wholly to your bodily eyes; that which is not seen is more really seen, for the object of sight is temporal, but that other eternal, which is not apprehended by the eye, but is discerned by the mind and spirit» (Ambrose of Milan, De mysteriis, III, 15).

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

Precisely that portion of Ezekiel which she can not immediately imagine for herself — it can not be consigned to something like a prairie fire — is that which breaks into her consciousness and offers her new ways to apprehend her loneliness — and to apprehend both the absurdity and undeniability of her felt connection to John Ames.

But there are ways of apprehending some kinds of truth which are quite independent of the scientific method.

On this second view, insofar as persons have apprehended God through the medium of Christian myths, symbols, and rites, their subjectivity will be shaped by a distinctive dynamic and structure which then dictates the proper movement and structure of theological study.

A philosopher notes three areas in which linguistic philosophy could broaden itself: 16 (1) broaden the verifiability principle so as to make other experiences besides sense experience possible, (2) abandon the viewpoint that would reduce all meaning of things to present or actual fact, and (3) pay more attention to conceptual frameworks through which we seek to apprehend the world.

Indeed, the very nature of Catholic teaching has occasioned this type of challenge, for the church maintains that its teaching is based on the natural law, which in principle can be rationally apprehended by all human beings.

However, as the lucidity of the communal «I» deepens, it is able to apprehend universes in which this crisis is avoided, at least for a time.

Such views, however, not only invariably devalue the terrestrial, but what's worse is that in their very devaluation they fail to apprehend the magnitude and universal scope of God's redemptive and re-creative work in the incarnation, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, a truly cosmic work to which Scripture bears testimony.

It is a field of feeling in which other beings are simultaneously apprehended and gathered together into a single whole.

For Whitehead evidently supposes that it is the value which God apprehends an eternal object as possessing, or its suitability for ingression in a particular context, which makes it a lure for action.

It grows instead out of that which is most particular and concrete, not the pseudo-concreteness of the «empirically verifiable» but the actual present concreteness of the unique direction toward God which one apprehends and realizes in the meeting with the everyday.

The incongruities themselves illustrate the manner in which through trial and error men came to apprehend the truth; and the defects and limitations of which we are aware serve as background to the growing light which, as if evoked by them, shone upon the human scene.

The tendency nowadays, Kaplan asserts, «is to enlarge the concept of the natural so that it might include that plus aspect of reality which the traditional outlook did indeed sense but not altogether apprehend» (JC 315).

The fundamental intuition through which the Spirit of the World is apprehended is not a mere emotion, it is a response of the whole person to God.

If Aristotle insisted not only on the objectivity of truth but on the ability of the intellect of man to apprehend it, the French philosophe Jacques Rousseau denied this objectivity by ushering in what Cardinal Ratzinger called the «tyranny of relativism,» which gives the rationalization of homosexuality so much of its philosophical underpinning by arguing that natural law is merely a human construct and, as such, susceptible of subjective definition.

However, the truth apprehended by faith is not that of a static objective order to which the mind of man responds.

These mythical terms are the most adequate symbols of reality because the reality we experience constantly suggests a center and source of reality, which not only transcends immediate experience, but also finally transcends the rational forms and categories by which we seek to apprehend and describe it.

So, for instance, if it is not clear to the readers of my work that my writing is done by an Episcopalian Christian, I will have failed to practice this virtue — which, of course, includes my making clear at which points the materials I study or engage seem to me false, noxious, or incomplete; just as it includes my making clear when and in what ways it seems to me that the materials I engage are true, have taught me something I didn't know before, or may be of use to me and my community in its search to apprehend and incarnate the gospel.

Because the exaltation of Jesus to be the Lord of men is a conviction which can be apprehended only by faith, it is hard to see how such a conviction could have grown in their minds except in the same way as similar convictions about God had always emerged in the past.

Perhaps too it is only a slight overemphasis to claim that all answers are the same answer, and that through the centuries man has merely sublimated and refined the answers which his most remote ancestors first vaguely apprehended.

However, this modified sense is completely required by the sort of judgment in which the reflexive act apprehends itself when undertaking to itemize the meaning of its act of divestment (depouillement) by submitting it to the grille of a criteriology of the divine.

Freedom, however, is always apprehended before such an objective experience as a transcendental experience in which the subject knows himself to be free.

The Christian revelation has always been apprehended as the Word of God, not merely a word about life, but the entry into human history of a new meaning which has become operative in shaping the course of history.

He expressed it this way: «My point is simply that when we deal with aspects of reality which exhibit a freedom above and beyond structures, we must resort to the Hebraic dramatic and historical way of apprehending reality.

That personal attitude which the individual finds himself impelled to take up towards what he apprehends to be the divine — and you will remember that this was our definition — will prove to be both a helpless and a sacrificial attitude.

The stories and rituals in which they were apprehended were the language of a consciousness enslaved to these unconscious meanings.

(2) The resolve by which the gift is apprehended is identical with the abandonment of control of one's own life.

Niebuhr's affinities with Edwards are clear in the final lecture, «Toward the Recovery of Feeling,» which points to the importance of religious emotions for apprehending God.

Science tries to do the same thing indirectly, by taking a detached view of the world in which man finds himself, to apprehend that world as a unity and thus to make it a tool for the use of man.

Inevitably, as a natural consequence, this awakening must enhance in us, from all sides, a generalized sense of the organic, through which the entire complex of inter-human and inter-cosmic relations will become charged with an immediacy, an intimacy and a realism such as has long been dreamed of and apprehended by certain spirits particularly endowed with the «sense of the universal», but which has never yet been collectively applied.

Edward Farley has come up with the best characterization of Schleiermacher's picture of «practical theology»: the «normative field which critically apprehends the rules for carrying out the tasks of ministry» (Theologia, p. 91).

Certainly one of the indisputable offices of theology is to open the mind of the present community to the way in which the primitive Church apprehended the event that became the focus of its self - understanding.

But behind this word, even though the world is unaware of it, there is hidden a profound truth which faith can apprehend because it descries God's intention.

As a university preacher one is obliged to declare the thus mauled but persistent message at the very place where the forces which make it difficult to communicate, to hear, and to apprehend, enjoy the most open field, inform the most esteemed disciplines, and have access to the most mobile minds.

Narrative can be a means by which the congregation apprehends its vocation.

According to Roger Ames (NAT 117), an «aesthetic order» is a paradigm that: (1) proposes plurality as prior to unity and disjunction to conjunction, so that all particulars possess real and unique individuality; (2) focuses on the unique perspective of concrete particulars as the source of emergent harmony and unity in all interrelationships; (3) entails movement away from any universal characteristic to concrete particular detail; (4) apprehends movement and change in the natural order as a processive act of «disclosure» — and hence describable in qualitative language; (5) perceives that nothing is predetermined by preassigned principles, so that creativity is apprehended in the natural order, in contrast to being determined by God or chance; and (6) understands «rightness» to mean the degree to which a thing or event expresses, in its emergence toward novelty as this exists in tension with the unity of nature, an aesthetically pleasing order.

Without this implicit awareness, I see no way they could apprehend the movement to which they must penetrate.

So one surely can talk about Abraham, for the great can never do harm when it is apprehended in its greatness; it is like a two - edged sword which slays and saves.

There has been one event in my life in which I came close to apprehending the wonder of Pentecost.

Barfield's conception of the incarnation as a freeing of man, in the course of time, to say the Divine Name («I am...») here coalesces with Altizer's idea that the death of God frees us to see the contemporary reality of a continuing incarnational kenosis leading to a nonhubristic apotheosis of man.15 Barfield has achieved with his metaphorical sensitivity a pre-view of a «final participation» which is the coincidentia oppositorum Altizer was insufficiently able to apprehend with his dialectical method.