Sentences with phrase «which modern existence»

But after everyone had a good laugh about the extent to which modern existence is dependent on coffee and run through a few specifics about the bacterium, there was still one question left unanswered.

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Faith, in our time, appears to be opposed to the very existence and reality of modern man; the reality — or illusion — of faith is wholly other than the reality which we know.

Nevertheless, the modern artist, by inverting or reversing our mythical traditions, has disclosed a totally immanent mode of existence banished even from the memory of transcendence, and created a comprehensive vision of a new and total nothingness which Blake named as Ulro, or Hell.

This may be partly because the moderns had some success in undermining confidence in the classic proofs by their criticism without winning any lasting confidence in their own, but the main cause is not any defect in the proofs for the existence of God, at least in the classic proofs, but the general discredit which has fallen upon all systems of thought which ante-date the last century.

Insofar as one partakes of this deepened mode of modern consciousness, one is made aware of depths and nuances in the complexities of man's existence which at once sober one with the limits of man's reason and perceptive powers, and awaken one to the very dimensions of experience to which the themes of the Christian faith bear witness.

William Lane Craig has authored a well - informed historical account and sophisticated modern defense of the cosmological argument for God's existence which has its origin in the medieval Arabic practitioners of kalam (sometimes translated «scholastic theology»).

to devin, at this point of our existence or civilization, our consciousness has reach a point of complexity that God in His will, wanted us humans now to implement it through our evolved modern wisdom.that we have to all unite and focus our concern and attention to the greatest challenge of our existence, which is survival, Its not the rituals or praising Him, or outwardly expressing our belief or love for Him, but our positve contribution to the good of humanity.

The existentialists are describing the several modes of existence among which modern man chooses, but the possibility of choosing among just these modes is itself the product of a history.

Entry into the modern world can not be simply the acceptance of technology but must also involve acceptance of aspects of that structure of existence which has nurtured it.

By failing to see the place of mind in nature as well as nature in mind, modern philosophy has been unable to put forth an adequate account of the relation between the two, one which would assign to each its due importance as a constitutive element in our experience and in existence as such.

So we have to take from the traditions as well as from modern developments certain values which do justice to the wholeness of human existence and find a new way of going forward fighting against both the traditional and modern injustices.

Yet from all sides today modern knowledge of the human creature and his world is forcing us to face up to the finiteness of human existence, to which, in so many ways, Israel pioneered the road.

It seems logical, this being so, to postulate the osteological existence, at the beginning of anthropogenesis, of a prehominid fossil stage represented by crania decidedly less curved upon themselves (less «globular») than is the case with modern man: a presumption which is borne out by the very significant fact that at this pre-hominid stage Mankind seems to have been made up of a more or less divergent sheaf of ethnic shoots («sub-phyla»?)

But the clear insight into its meaning which is given by modern scientific philosophy shows that by its inherent nature and definitions it is but an abstraction and that, with all its great and ever - growing power, it can never represent the whole of existence.9

And the fact is that two Catholic priests, Gregor Mendel, O.S.A., and Georges Lemaitre, were pivotal figures in creating two of the most important scientific enterprises of the twenty - first century: modern genetics, which is giving humanity previously unimaginable powers over the human future; and modern cosmology, which is giving us glimpses of the universe in the first moments of its existence.

If that typical product of the modern age, the newspaper, can be considered an adequate mirror of the life of modern society, the world of religion has now been relegated to an insignificant corner in the existence of man, which is otherwise determined by the events and decisions in the fields of politics, business, sport and art.

Alone among Western nations, the United States has shown itself capable of joining Christian piety with economic prosperity, modern political freedoms, and a civic culture of tolerance (the limits rather than existence of which define our current political battles over social issues).

(For a speculative account of a variety of emergent stages in human pre-history and history among which the rise of modern self - consciousness is one, see my The Structure of Christian Existence, Westminster Press, 1967.)

In today's intellectual climate, where so many who invoke science in support of Christianity seem to do so in more or less veiled forms of creationism (for example, in the «Intelligent Design» school of thought), and where the prevailing mindset is a complacent presumption that science has disproved religion, it is a matter of pressing urgency to proclaim from the housetops how the magnificent success of modern science points unambiguously to the existence of the supreme Mind of the Creator, and how the trajectory of thought which begins there leads convincingly to Jesus Christ as Lord of the Cosmos.

First, it requires exploring with people what theologian Paul Tillich called the «boundary situations,» those points at which modern men and women reach the limits of their human existence, where they sense a lack of personal meaning, or fear being useless and worthless.

Bergman's depth and popularity make his work a key juncture at which the meaning of modern existence and religious thought converge.

The denial of eternal life which is so common among modern Christians is not, as its adherents often claim, a nonegoistic, mature, realistic willingness to face the brutal limitations of finitude; rather, it amounts to a tragically unbelieving denial of God's honor — and thus of God's very existence.

Yet from antiquity to modern existentialism we find warnings that such a «gnostic» move away from our historicity is regressive, that it is a backward retreat which conflicts with authentic human existence.

The extraordinary phenomenon of the sustained birth of modern science in Western culture, however, is linked with meticulous investigation to the cultural influence of monotheism and the Christian doctrine of creation exnihilo - a doctrine which both upheld the contingent, linear development of creation and its rationality through the existence of the physical laws of nature, or «secondary causes», without thereby undermining God's omnipotence.

At all events, whether rightly or wrongly, modern New Testament scholarship has almost unanimously agreed on the existence of at least one «Q» and perhaps others as well, upon which the gospel writers drew for much of the material of the gospels.

With his «Changing Lives» motto, President Mahama, will in the coming days, commission other major projects in Accra, including the new Ridge Hospital, inauguration of the James Town - Bukom ultra modern boxing arena, inaugurate the new liquid waste treatment plant, to make way for the eternal closure of lavender hill, which has been in existence for the past 60 years.

Homo habilis is argued out of existence altogether; the famous East African skull, ER 1470 (which some, but nowadays by no means all, authorities class with Homo habilis) somehow becomes a modern human representative.

The Kanapoi elbow, dated at 4.5 million, is «fully human», so all these australopithecines and whatnot can not be ancestral to us because a modern human was already in existence; his thorough - or, let us say, thoroughly selective - combing of the literature has overlooked a paper by Marc R. Feldesman (1982, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 59:73 - 95) which finds that Kanapoi is very far from being modern human.

There have been pitifully few films about the Ottoman Turks» genocide of 1.5 million Armenians in World War One, surely thanks to the strategic usefulness of a modern Turkey which denies the genocide's existence.

In spite of the faint praise with which it has generally been greeted, The Weather Man struck me as an insightful exploration of dissatisfaction despite the relative comfort of our modern existence.

The letters themselves are potentially priceless as they appear to contain contemporary references to Shakespeare (about whom so little is known that some modern - day scholars question whether he existed at all or was simply an elaborate pseudonym); but the ultimate prize is the play itself which, if found and proved genuine, would be worth a very large fortune; because there are virtually no examples of Shakespeare's writing in existence - only a half dozen questionable signatures on various legal documents, not even a sonnet in his own writing, let alone a complete play.

Our older brain structures that evolved to serve us well in the era of early human existence are essentially designed for fight or flight functions, which served us very well for thousands of years, and still do for some aspects of modern day life.

I believe that it is the very unwillingness to acknowledge and recognize the existence and contribution of the Lyrical Abstractionists that undermines the foundation and topples the tower in which modern and post modern art history reside.

This is the fifth Pollock work to enter the DMA's modern and contemporary holdings, which also include the highly regarded paintings Cathedral (1947) and Portrait and a Dream (1953), as well as Untitled (1956), one of only six of the artist's sculptures in existence.

This unique mix has provoked a wonderfully rich and diverse strand of art production in which spiritual themes, like mysticism, life, death, life after death, the question of God's existence, form a key focus for colonial art and continues to influence modern and contemporary art.

«Still, the vanishing upward trend over the last 250 years questions the existence of a modern «Grand Maximum» in the 20th century (Solanki et al. 2004, Abreu et al. 2008, Usoskin et al. 2012, 2014), which resulted primarily from the erroneous transition between Wolf and Wolfer in the Hoyt and Schatten GN time series.

It is a fairly reasonable assumption, possibly even the modern usage of Occam's razor (but not the original formulation which was a «proof» of the existence of God) that anybody screaming about «THE TRUTH» is probably no closer to «the truth» than could be achieved by me and a dart board (or any other high - entropy randomisation method).

And finally, you're probably glad to have access to all the nifty products delivered to you by modern corporations (which need lawyers to come into existence) through the mechanisms of global trade made possible by international business transaction law.