Sentences with phrase «alienation syndrome]»

In this case personal suffering or social alienation has already provided distance from normative cultural interpretations (the state of fusion).

I can resonate to Sam Keen's description of his experience of body - alienation: «I had organized my body around the mirror, the opponent and the job.

The Cult Awareness Network (CAN), a Chicago - based clearinghouse of information on cults, identifies the following seven characteristics of «destructive cults»: mind control, charismatic leadership, deception, exclusivity, alienation, exploitation, and totalitarian worldview.

Private property should be suppressed not by making it common property, but by abolishing the alienation itself of which it is the expression.

A prime function of religion throughout history has been to help people move from centers to suburbs without alienation or anomie.

Of course I recognize that each of us speaks from a particular and limited point of view, and we know that the experience of alienation from the past is widespread today.

I haven't been for a few weeks because I've had some stress and I didn't feel I could cope with any conflict there might be between what I believe and what people there believe — though I'm sure that isn't homogenous — and didn't want to feel any subsequent alienation.

Hence «private property» is considered here as an expression of human self - alienation.

Thus understood, the doctrine of radical evil can furnish a receptive structure for new figures of alienation besides the speculative illusion or even the desire for consolation — of alienation in the cultural powers, such as the church and the state; it is indeed at the heart of these powers that a falsified expression of the synthesis can take place; when Kant speaks of «servile faith,» of «false cult,» of a «false Church,» he completes at the same time his theory of radical evil.

Researchers David and Amber Lapp have written convincingly of the need to address the alienation felt by working - class American families: «There's no substitute for the service of being a good neighbor.»

At the same time, only with intelligent life can there be any sense of alienation from divine creativity, any awareness of our capacity to thwart the divine purpose by self - centered activities randomly conflicting with one another.

At the close of two weeks of daily growth group sessions, participants in one workshop could identify these biblical themes in their shared experiences: bondage and liberation, salvation by grace, judgment, death and rebirth, alienation and reconciliation, mutual caring, the transforming power of love, becoming a spiritual unity, growth.

People's anguish is not over the alienation between the soul and God but rather over the estrangement between black and white, rich and poor, male and female, East and West.

The good news is that we might conscious enough to bring History under our control and alienation to an end.

For a logic and rhetoric based on a logical model, testimony can only be an alienation of meaning or, to speak the language of Aristotle in the Rhetoric, a means of non-technical proof, that is, external to all the arguments that the orator can invent.

Our cultural pantheon practically requires marginality and alienation as an entrance requirement» (Edward Rothstein, New York Times, February 4).

Is it contributing to the alienation and privatization of our physical lives?

Indeed, religion stands so badly in need of that preliminary feeling of alienation that one may well wonder whether it does not itself create the very condition which it wants to remedy.

This attitude, I believe, has its roots in the profound religious concept of human alienation.

Communism's war on property filled the streets of Prague with a profound sense of loneliness and alienation.

With a priori alienation (Verfremdung) from the text as the starting point, the intelligibility of mind, laboring in and through methodology, would transport the interpreter into the realm of another time and place and by the determination of meaning in relation to a specific historical context would illuminate the obscure text.

Alienation is first and foremost the awareness of a fact without which religion and its interpretations could not exist.

There has been, from earliest times, a tendency toward alienation.

They are social surds having no intrinsic intelligibility and so can be adequately understood only in the dialectical efforts to transcend their destructive necromorphic alienation (I 229 - 32, 628 - 29, 689 - 90).

Our public housing creates desert communities, filing cases for live bodies, alienation and delinquency.

This is possibly not yet so profound in USA, but it is dramatic in the UK and Europe — and has always been so in Australia: even if now seen more (eg in the alienation from church life of those seeking Baptisms and Weddings).

I thought it was just based in fear and ignorance, but that planted a seed of alienation.

The ill of mind represent the alienation of all of humanity, symbolizing the human condition in its fundamental need for redemption.

This sense of alienation and longing is hinted at in other religious traditions: in Buddhism's attempt to escape the cycle of suffering, for example, or in Islam's description of paradise, where the righteous «shall have all that they desire.»

But human greed, pride, selfishness, self - centeredness, and alienation make it necessary for Christian theology to combine faith and reason in the quest for transformation and reconciliation.

Only when I started confessing my alienation to others did I discover my experience was pretty normal.

Religion is often described as the healing of an alienation which has opened between man and his world: this is true; but we may not forget that it is religion which has brought about that alienation.

She befriended Lewis in the weeks before he was sent to France, at a time when his alienation from his father, who did not come to see him before his departure for the front lines, was very great.

All faiths share a close interest in the various forms of self - alienation.

Anomie, alienation, violence and loneliness overshadow the liberation that urban life was to promise.

Integration meant alienation from what was distinctive in the African American culture and heritage.

Yes, we will experience a period of alienation.

Maillot shows admirably that in Deuteronomy «there is a coming together of the «sight» one can have of other gods (their portrayal) and of religious alienation; making a god, drawing or sculpting a god means immediately bowing down to it and becoming a slave.

The essence of Christian faith is even consistent with unqualified commitment to revolutionary struggle in the name of human beings against the forces of alienation.

Alienation from the political process should be reduced.

Regardless of sin and man's alienation in the primal state, God's purpose for man is in the church.24 The isolation of man from man and from God is nullified in the life and death of Christ.

Instead of alienation there is the loving bondage of service and sacrifice.

They do not even think about the fact that their being scandalized by alienation, oppression, and repression does not spring from the French revolution in 1789 and the eighteenth - century philosophers, nor from Greek thought (which is completely foreign to freedom, in spite of what has been said on the subject!)

His doctoral thesis submitted to the Gregorian University in Rome, in the year 1961 was «Praxis and Religious Alienation According to the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of Karl Marx.»

He would agree with Marx that to be responsible to God without at the same time being responsible for the real means alienation.

It can not therefore be overcome simply by victory over economic need, political oppression, cultural alienation and the ecological crisis.

Merely recognizing the fact that man is alienated from himself does no good as long as man is not emancipated from the underlying causes of alienation found in the economic order.

It offers, in one easy, habit - forming activity, both participation and alienation in our own lives and those of others.

He «found a woman with whom he felt able to be completely open about himself» — and this not long after the Narnia stories, in which Lewis finally made his peace with the loss of his mother and his alienation from his father.

Since Marx directs his attacks on religion in the name of man, against the alienation of man from his own potentialities and purposes, it constitutes, for that reason, the greatest challenge to Christianity in our time.