It encompasses those aspects of human life and culture that are concerned
with the ultimate meaning and destiny of human nature and the relationship of the individual and of society with the supernatural.
Kappen says «paradoxically, in spite of his avowed atheism, Marx's philosophical concern has much in common
with the ultimate meaning of human existence.
Not exact matches
The five steps are designed to help facilitate a unified vision and establish realistic steps to providing team members
with a clear purpose and
means to accomplishing the
ultimate common goal.
[05:50] Do it for passion, not for money [06:10] The importance of innovation and marketing [06:30] Start
with a mission and finding how to add value [06:50] Joe Gebbia's trajectory over a decade [07:10] Culture is the
ultimate element to building your brand [07:40] Namale Resort [08:00] Finding a way to do more for others than anyone else [08:45] The beauty of competition [09:15] Don't just advertise, become the expert [09:25] Value - added marketing [09:40] It takes 16 impressions to inspire buying behavior [10:10] Do something where marketing isn't marketing [10:30] The 17 - year old kid in real estate [11:35] Find a way to stand out from the crowd — the trash strike example [14:10] Authenticity plays a critical role [16:00] Building reciprocity
with your customers [17:00] Double the value you add [17:20] Bringing innovation and marketing to the forefront [18:35] Innovation can
mean raising your price [18:55] What innovation really
means [19:25] Changing the way something is perceived [20:55] The man who was copying Tony constantly [22:00] Does change happen in a second?
Temporary
meaning in life is insufficient, for our accomplishments die
with the death of the universe - there is no
ultimate purpose in a universe void of God -.
It reaffirms the core
meaning of individualism
with its insistence upon the
ultimate value of the individual human being.
Temporary
meaning in life is insufficient, for our accomplishments die
with the death of the universe - there is no
ultimate purpose in a universe void of God.
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.
If the fundamental human religious motivation is the desire to be in harmony
with ultimate reality,
with whatever is deemed divine, and if being in harmony
with the divine
means to imitate it, the divine that is imitated is a Cosmic Macho Male.
Unlike others before and after him who assimilate church history to secular history, Williams defined his own vocation as that of one standing committedly within the historic community of faith, charged
with telling and interpreting the story of that community against the background of
ultimate meanings.
Jesus Christ calls us to find
ultimate meaning in life through a personal relationship
with our Creator.
I
mean the idolatry that successfully tempts so many religious people into thinking that they possess the
ultimate truth of God — the idolatry of the evangelical tradition that equates the words of Holy Scripture (usually the King James Version)
with the eternal, life - giving Word of God.
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.
Since these «mixed» ventures may not always be the churches» most direct or effective way of fulfilling their central function of explaining the
ultimate meaning of life to their adherents — and certainly not if muffled by the requirements of public fisc — perhaps churches should be less eager to enter into what can at best be but a very unequal partnership
with the public, and less tenacious in clinging to «mixed» institutions rather than letting them spin off to nonsectarian auspices.
In developing their own thrust, churches should emphasize the spiritual dimension of mental health — the role of values,
meanings,
ultimate commitments, and relationship
with God.
This chapter deals
with religion as a particular facet of education in a democracy, but more significant is the fact that all of the preceding chapters set forth a religious point of view by demonstrating what the life of
ultimate devotion
means in a wide range of human concerns.
Nothing is impossible
with God, He is the beginning and the end, the author and the finisher,
Meaning he is the
ultimate scientist that is much older than when you think life came into being.
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.
The once - for - all aspect, the
ultimate decisiveness of Jesus» death,
means that this experience remains unsurpassable and always present as an operative part of God's relationship
with us.
As far as it goes her position is the same as that of process theology, but it does not seem to wrestle
with the eschatological question of
ultimate meaning.
I do take issue, however,
with Hancock when he states that the natural sciences are «for the most part... safely insulated from the questions of
ultimate purpose that condition our understanding of the
meaning of education.»
For, if faith is «trust in God's love alone for the
ultimate meaning of our lives and loyalty to this same love and to all to whom it is loyal as the only final cause that our lives are to serve,» then a concern for justice, including political justice (the creation of a more humane and just social order), clearly follows from an attitude of faith without being identical
with it.
He wants to have free will and divinely inspired moral laws that last forever unchanged, and I suspect that be wants to have some kind of
ultimate meaning in life coupled
with life after death.
Hartshorne also rejects personal immortality because «Immortality is a divine trait...» and»... immortality puts us in rivalry
with deity in one respect... «27 God is not the
means to our
ultimate fulfillment (contra Kant and John Hick), but rather our fulfillment is a
means to God's
ultimate fulfilment.
It
means basically the sense of harmonious union of life
with life and of life
with its
ultimate Source.
In the first place such education, now as always, is concerned
with the nurture of men and women whose business in life it will be to help men to see their immediate perplexities, joys and sufferings in the light of an
ultimate meaning, to live as citizens of the inclusive society of being, and to relate their present choices to first and last decisions made about them in the totality of human history by Sovereign Power.
Temporary
meaning in life is insufficient, for our accomplishments die
with the death of the universe — there is no
ultimate purpose in a universe void of God.
Temporary
meaning in life is insufficient, for our accomplishments die
with the death of the universe — there is no
ultimate purpose in a universe void of God - What are these eternal, unchanging truths that you refer to?
The primary concern of Christian mission is
with the salvation of human spirituality,
with the human being's right choice of structures of
ultimate meaning and sacredness.31
The oppressed struggle for participation at all levels of life, for a just and egalitarian sharing while respecting the differences between persons and groups; they seek communion
with other cultures and other values, and
with God as the
ultimate meaning of history and of their own hearts.
I
mean, wasn't all the law fulfilled in the New Testament
with Jesus Christ being the
ultimate sacrifice for all?
Mujerista theology encompasses the way grass - roots Hispanic women understand the divine and grapple
with questions of
ultimate meaning in their daily lives.
Be does not intend to channel universal movement by
means of universal concepts and categories (quantity, quality) into the form of various kinds of movement (local motion, change) or various patterns of movement (for instance, circular motion),
with the
ultimate aim of utilizing the constant diversity of these kinds and patterns of movement, and hence the essence of identity, to make a case for the truth of a timeless and imperishable being belonging to things.
May we attend to humanity again, and witness to the Lordship of God again, and know of His grace and mercy... may we go away from Christmas Eve
with the consolation that we
mean so much to God that no external distress can rob us of this
ultimate consolation.
A religious approach can provide the alcoholic
with a
means of handling his
ultimate anxiety.
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.
For Christians,
ultimate meaning — God — is understood in the person of Jesus Christ, in his life, death and resurrection, and in the Holy Spirit which allows us to see God present
with us today.
Scientific method, though, can not reconcile itself to teleological perspectives and, therefore, must reject any such facile covenants of man
with a world that is alien to his longings for
ultimate meaning.2 Monod's position is reminiscent of innumerable others that see the reading of purpose into nature as analogous to our subjectively superimposing colorful secondary qualities onto starkly colorless «objective» and neutral primary qualities.
Is the religious reference to an
ultimate ground of
meaning compatible
with what science tells us about our world?
In any case, we are concerned here
with the presuppositions of Old Testament law in its developed, codified form; and by creation faith we
mean not merely the explanation of
ultimate origins.
If we participate in such «games» not to discover some
ultimate meaning, but because we love to play, we will be provided
with laughter and joy.
Instead of thinking out the full metaphysical implications of the basic understanding to which they have come in reflecting on the
meaning of faith and justice for our self - understanding and praxis, they have either settled for talking merely about the
meaning of
ultimate reality for us or else taken over traditional metaphysical ways of talking about the structure of
ultimate reality in itself that are doubtfully consistent
with their own basic understanding.
They are profoundly concerned
with the visible structure of the event precisely because they regard the
ultimate function of historical writing to be the communication of
meaning in history.
So when something upsetting happens to them against their will, rather than get consciously angry,
mean, manipulative or deceitful, they drive these unpleasant thoughts and feelings deep underground and cover it all in a sentimental spirituality laced
with ultimate concern for the church, God's will, and mission.
In accord
with its concern for ends rather than
means alone such a revolutionary culture would have affirm commitment to the quest for
ultimate reality But it would not imagine that any one set of religious or philosophical symbols or beliefs can adequately express that reality.
I do not believe we Christians are obliged» or even allowed» to look upon the devastation visited upon the coasts of the Indian Ocean and to console ourselves
with vacuous cant about the mysterious course taken by God's goodness in this world, or to assure others that some
ultimate meaning or purpose resides in so much misery.