Sentence examples for spiritual conception from inspiring English sources

Our suicidal obsession with scientific progress will not be replaced by a more humane or spiritual conception of the universe.

In its time, that rabbinic reading of the story of Abraham and his visitors was challenging a very common spiritual conception in which human beings existed at a fixed point on a continuum ranging upward from inanimate objects to animals to people to angels to God.

The moral philosophy and spiritual conceptions of men and nations should hold their own amid these formidable scientific evolutions..

For medieval and early modern contemporaries, vision extended beyond mere sense perception and included extrasensory realms (terrestrial and spiritual conceptions and ideologies) of the world.

It was accepted that the search for the meaning of all immediate sensory perceptions had to be extended to a variety of extrasensory realms and had to take into account all manner of spiritual conceptions and ideologies as well as unlimited analogies and interdependencies between the two cosmoses.

It also implied a spiritual instability, a powerful conception that reached across three centuries into the world of "Moby-Dick".

Hardy's story is that of a headstrong, dramatic dreamer who grew up wanting much more for herself than the marriage and children her church deemed necessary for eternal life, and yet remained wary of defying her faith's conception of spiritual fulfillment.

The similarity between Wyclif's conception of spiritual poverty as the ideal state for Christians and the Franciscan ideal is noteworthy.

Most of these conceptions of spiritual development equate spiritual progress with letting go of who we once thought ourselves to be.

To many the Pope's spiritual sovereignty is a mystical conception that is violated by any temporal sovereignty, however small the realm over which it is exercised.

As a theologian, he based the revival of the order on his conception of the spiritual life, which he expounded in mystical treatises manifesting his Franciscan experience of contemplation as a perfection of the Christian life.