But for the pantheist this is a goal in itself, a this-worldly happiness. From Wordnik.com. [Pantheism] Reference
The general Japanese religious orientation is this-worldly in its concerns. From Wordnik.com. [The ADPAS Categories] Reference
God's presence and blessings can be found in the form of this-worldly 'goods.'. From Wordnik.com. [Mary J. Loftus: Top 10 Things Religious Leaders Say about Happiness] Reference
And she is sympathetic to "temporalized," or this-worldly, notions of providence. From Wordnik.com. [Dangerous Illusions] Reference
De immortalitate animae (1516), Pomponazzi ordains men morally toward this-worldly virtue. From Wordnik.com. [IDEA OF GOD, 1400-1800] Reference
He was torn between the vision of America bearing a “sacred fire” and the need for a this-worldly state. From Wordnik.com. [The Chosen Peoples] Reference
It transforms these events from secular, this-worldly occurences to generative symbols of mythic proportions. From Wordnik.com. [getting right down to it at salon.com] Reference
Music is henceforth based solely on this-worldly principles, its origin lies in the human heart or within itself. From Wordnik.com. [MUSIC AS A DEMONIC ART] Reference
If the former is individualistic, magical, and salvationist, the latter is collective, technical, and this-worldly. From Wordnik.com. [Planet-x.com.au » Why Jews Write Science Fiction and Christians Write Fantasy …] Reference
Pantheism involves a this-worldly utopian vision based on individual's relations to, and identification with, the Unity. From Wordnik.com. [Pantheism] Reference
And besides, our finite this-worldly existence is just a prelude to the eternal happiness to be enjoyed in the next world. From Wordnik.com. [Robert D. Stolorow: Health Care Reform, Climate Change, and the Evasion of Our Mortality] Reference
By the time of the Mishnah, the this-worldly badness of Gei Hinom had become transformed into a site of otherworldy badness, that is to say: Gehennom. From Wordnik.com. [Hell is Other Places - Danya Ruttenberg] Reference
In Lucretius 'poem, On the Nature of Things, we see how central to the Epicurean this-worldly outlook in ethics is their general view of nature and man. From Wordnik.com. [HAPPINESS AND PLEASURE] Reference
The result was an almost frantic wish to dispense with all inherited or traditional beliefs which could not be so validated or which had no immediate, this-worldly, utility. From Wordnik.com. [IDEA OF GOD SINCE 1800] Reference
Bradford Greeley, briefly describes our movement for An Encyclopedia of Religions in the United States 1992: Unitarian Universalism is a faith whose focus is this-worldly. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: Unitarian Universalism: In search of a definition] Reference
Such phrasing typifies the practical, this-worldly element of Moulsworth's character -- an element that makes both her poem and her persona seem so completely balanced and sound. From Wordnik.com. [My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem] Reference
It does relate the "this-worldly" enterprise of politics to a. From Wordnik.com. [Claremont.org] Reference
Secularism precisely means that secular, this-worldly, issues should be the base of politics. From Wordnik.com. [Countercurrents.org] Reference
But radicals think that the solution for suffering lies in this-worldly practical activities. From Wordnik.com. [Anarkismo.net] Reference
His poem speaks of "usurping tyranny" and has a this-worldly, and even slightly militaristic, flavor to it. From Wordnik.com. [MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory] Reference
For a man so committed to this-worldly political transformation, a lot of the time he seemed to live in another world. From Wordnik.com. [Latest education news, including the university guide 2010, RAE results, higher and schools news, schools tables and further education | guardian.co.uk] Reference
And it is all as tranquil and reposeful as dreamland, and has nothing this-worldly about it -- nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon. From Wordnik.com. [Life on the Mississippi] Reference
In a genre less committed than most to the this-worldly, there will always be messiahs to save the world from evil robots or invading aliens. From Wordnik.com. [City Journal] Reference
But radicals think that the solution for suffering lies in this-worldly practical activities by masses of people to change the actual social system. From Wordnik.com. [Anarkismo.net] Reference
There were points to Agatha, earnestness and high principle; but something morally narrow and over-Anglican slightly offended the practical, this-worldly temper of. From Wordnik.com. [The Patrician] Reference
“this-worldly” interpretation of the messianic future harmonize well with modern ideas of progress. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Rodney is thoroughly and comfortably this-worldly; Michael is -- other-worldly!. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Journeys On] Reference
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