preexistence


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existing in a former state or previous to something else

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condemning it for erasing the preexistence Indigenous peoples and for
preexistence of the soul, but the sense of its mysterious origins is
23); I mention here only three of those reasons: (1) Gregory, in the aforementioned passage and in De anima, is attacking the preexistence of disembodied souls together with metensomatosis, which Origen explicitly rejected; thus, Gregory's target could not have been Origen.
In discussing the baptism of Jesus and the voice from heaven that anointed him for his vocation, the author addresses the problem of adop-tionism, preexistence, and humanness in Jesus as the incarnation of the Logos.
One could argue that the preexistence of a homophonous noun, a cue, might preclude an alternate spelling, but the letters B, C, G, I, O, P, R, T, U, and Y, despite being exactly homophonous to the common English words be, sea, ghee, aye/eye, oh/owe, pea, are, tea, you/ewe/yew, and why (sea, aye/eye, and ewe having the additional distinction of not even containing the letter with which they are homophones), are instead spelled with unrelated nonsense words or other English words.
La preexistence d'un defaut visuel non corrige augmentera aussi la frequence des symptomes oculaires.
Dans le chapitre consacre au contexte canadien, l'auteure--tout en montrant les differentes formes de coredaction et leurs avantages--souligne en quoi cette forme d'ecriture ne constitue en rien un contournement de la traduction et de ses difficultes puisqu'a terme, toute coredaction suppose d'une part l'existence prealable d'une idee ou d'un plan et d'autre part un processus ou l'experience a montre la preexistence recurrente de l'anglais, et donc du recours a la traduction.
One key factor was the preexistence of post-abortion care services--health care providers were already familiar with the main safe abortion methods.
All pagan religion and philosophy reposes immediately or ultimately on the doctrine of preexistence. The core of this doctrine is the notion that man imprisons an uncreated divine spark within his body and within his soul.
The establishment and practicing of democracy requires society's predisposition, fulfillment of certain prerequisites (adequate socio-economic, political and cultural developments) and preexistence of mechanisms, such as institutions, etc.
In other words, Jesus' divine sonship--his filial relationship to the Father--is defined in terms of his obedience to God and his role as the Suffering Servant, and not in terms of his eternal preexistence in God as the Logos.
Pharisees embraced the spiritual realm considered in the new philosophies including preexistence and transmigration: the idea that the soul went "elsewhere" after death.
He found the idea of preexistence a valuable literary device to underscore the unavoidable loneliness of all humans.
She tries hard to retrieve what now seems like a lush, fable-like preexistence. She interrogates family photographs and home movies in hopes of learning more.