Sentences with phrase «which ultimate meaning»

In some sense they become «less» religious if they no longer enjoy a monopoly in articulating the ideology by which ultimate meaning is bestowed.

In Christianity the primary symbol through which the ultimate meaning of the universe becomes transparent to the believer is a human personality, the man Jesus of Nazareth.

Not exact matches

All these new tools remain a means to the ultimate end, which is bringing co-workers together.

It does not mean settling for what's second best because a group of people, the majority of which are not willing to make the ultimate sacrifice of putting themselves in harm's way for others, are thinking about themselves as individuals and putting that ahead of the majority best interests.

The reasons for why in all three cases was so varied and nuanced, you'd almost have to say they were three different perspectives all leading to the same ultimate conclusion which really means 3 different unique answers.

If Grisez - Finnis mean to expand their influence out of that corner, they are going to have to persuade people to believe the assumptions about ultimate reality on which their enterprise rests.

It is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.

’25 Bloch believed that «the ultimate, enduring insight of Marx is that truth does not exist for its own sake but implies emancipation, and an interpretation of the world which has the transformation of the world as its goal and meaning, providing a key in theory and leverage in practice».26 Drawing on this tradition Moltmann writes that unless truth «contains initiative for the transformation of the world, it becomes a myth of the existing world.

But at least he has enough true light by which to live, and he has powerful and indeed exciting clues to the meaning and purpose of life and to man's ultimate destiny.

What we ought to be able to discover in this world picture, once the incredible science is gone, is a conception of the universe in which, under what are for us weird and frequently utterly impossible images, the whole creation is seen as dependent upon a loving and active God who is its ultimate meaning and its ground of being.

In contrast, Caldecott states in the first line of his preface: «The book is about Tolkien's spirituality, by which I mean his religious awareness and experience, the things he believed about life and death and ultimate truth» (p xi).

What's more, such people are not just to be a sign and foretaste of that ultimate salvation; they are to be part of the means by which God makes this happen both in the present and the future.»

By means of his participation in the ultimate, unmoving, unchanging reality, he is assured of that which is permanent in the midst of change.

For many other scientists, however, and for people of a modernistic bent of mind who saw in the sciences «a new messiah,» or at least a directive of life displacing both religion and philosophy, this preoccupation with the immediacies to the exclusion of ultimates meant frankly a secularizing of life, that is, a relinquishing of all ideal or transcendent aspects which hope and wonder might evoke.

To exalt them, including the most purely «religious» intuitions, to some kind of absolute status, or, which is to do the same thing, to assume that they are the means of access to the ultimate, is to be involved in ideology.

Although the proper attribution of necessary existence to God does not show that God exists (unless we are prepared to allow that reality must have some significant correspondence to what is presupposed in our attempt to find ultimate meaning in reality — an assumption which, as I have suggested, may not be easy to justify but is probably impossible to avoid in such metaphysical thought), it does show that God is either the ground of and compatible with all that is and all that is actually possible or is totally alien to all reality.

The concept of logos is accepted today as having affinity primarily with the world of the sciences, all of which, it is believed, give us a handle on ultimate reality and the meaning of human existence.

Because of the limited perspective from which every historical interpretation is carried out, no single event can be seen to embody or express the ultimate meaning or direction of history in a way that the historical interpreter can know with finality.

This is a travesty of Christian theology, which is not simply an answer system but is, instead, a way of connecting real life questions with fundamental and ultimate answers — which are by no means achieved or given overnight.

Humans have developed powerful brains which they use to threaten their own survival, to desire meaning where there is none, to speak of destiny when we can't define an ultimate good.

«Matter» /» God» can not be created or destroyed, is everything and everywhere which, means «His» one and only ultimate (key word) «encompassing characteristic» is best described as «infinitely perfect.»

(p. 99) «Nietzsche's atheism is thus a corollary of his basic commitment to question all premises and to reject them unless they are for some reason inescapable... To escape nihilism — which seems involved both in asserting the existence of God and thus robbing this world of ultimate significance, and also in denying God and thus robbing everything of meaning and value — that is Nietzsche's greatest and most persistent problem.»

To the thousands who were reached and electrified by his words it meant the difference between the suffering of a meaningless fate and the liberating insight into the ultimate triumph of Jewish spirit which knows no defeat....

Unlike other groups, a church fellowship participates in a century - spanning heritage which finds the ultimate meaning of existence in man's relationship with God.

All represent «links,» as Coleman calls them, by which persons may connect their «society's place in space, time, and history to the conditions of ultimate existence and meaning.

The ultimate reality upon which our hope depends is therefore the eternal truth and power of God, breaking into the flow of historical events, qualifying it, transforming it, yet always to be understood as giving meaning to life through its relation to that which is beyond the time form of the world process.

But we do know that it means to share in a victory of God over the world in the sense that through faith in Him and His ultimate mercy we are reconciled to the conflict in which we stand.

Personality, the most valuable thing in the universe, revealing the real nature of the Creative Power and the ultimate meaning of creation, the only eternal element in a world of change, the one thing worth investing in, and in terms of service to which all else must be judged — that is the essential Christian creed [As I See Religion (Harper & Brothers, 1932), P. 44].

Here's one definition of spirituality, but generally they all say some version of this: Spirituality can refer to an ultimate or immaterial reality; an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of their being; or the «deepest values and meanings by which people live.»

Societies need strong mediating communities through which traditions of personal virtue, common good and ultimate meaning are transmitted to new generations.

Might it be the means by which Hitchens comes to think more deeply about the ultimate meaning of things?

Harrington, who understands better than many Christians the meaning of a culture's decay, actively seeks the aid of the faithful, whose ultimate loyalty can not be to the movement or even to the world which that movement seeks to transform.

Full debate requires that the argument stretch to the ultimate ideal by which all activities of the state ought to be informed, and this means that citizens should be free to advance and defend any religion they find convincing.

But for its members it will fulfill the demands of being human: giving a sense of ultimate meaning, offering release from personal failure, creating a noble identity of integrity, fostering the richness of a caring community, and upholding a standard of perfection which will both judge and inspire.

Third, in our situation today, the specific requirements of these two criteria are such that no theology can be adequate unless it makes the assertion of the experience of God, by which I mean that it must assert, in some formulation or other, that the strictly ultimate reality termed «God» is the object as well as the subject of experience, and this in relation to others as well as to self.

One word is deeply revealing here, and that is the Pauline word kenosis (Philippians 2:5 - 8), a word which Hegel explicitly employs in many of the most crucial and difficult passages of the Phenomenology, and that calls forth the theological meaning of Aufhebung as a divine and ultimate self - emptying or self - negation.

Thus the issues which are being debated anew in the theological turmoil today center in the meaning of Christian love as it points on the one side to the possibilities of human existence, and as it points on the other side to a fulfillment of this life in an ultimate good which transcends the possibilities of this world.

This ultimate divestment (depouillement) disposes reflection to receive the meaning of events or perfectly contingent acts which would attest that the unjustifiable is overcome here and now.

«Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.»

In March 1985 the Pope wrote a letter to young people in which he stated, «Only God is the ultimate basis of all values; only He gives the definitive meaning to our human existence.»

«To be religious,» said theologian Paul Tillich, «is to be grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of the meaning of life.»

Gestalt therapy challenges the «aboutism» of endless intellectualizing (in theology and philosophy) concerning the «ultimate meaning of life» which so often becomes a substitute for the direct, enlivening experiencing of spiritual reality.

Referred to God, Spirit is that ultimate power and meaning which gives life to creatures and directs them toward fulfillment.

All forms of human identity are taken up and fulfilled in that higher union to which they point and in which they find their ultimate meaning.

The ultimate meaning of the narrative is revealed in the words by which Jesus justified his action.»

It can prepare people by exposing them to the ultimate questions about what is «really real», and by giving them insights which will help them live in their daily lives in such a way that those lives will have meaning, truth, and security.

Christ is therefore present in every person as the ultimate meaning and reality which leads to the fulfillment of God's will for life.

There is a security which comes to a person with this awareness of the way in which the person - regarding values in the family are supported by values in the universe, giving ultimate meaning to family life.

By spiritual intimacy is meant the sense of a vital relationship with that which transcends our brief, fragile existence — a relationship with the realm of values and meanings, with the flow of history and life about us, and with that «ultimate concern» (Tillich) which we call God.

But at the climax the stakes are raised to the ultimate choice of the whole of human society — either Man alone, which effectively means a Big Brother or anti-Christ who rules in the name of Man's self will, or it will be Man under the Father in Christ.»