Sentences with phrase «human encounters with»

Currently living and working in Beijing, the spirit of his work resonates with a new generation of emerging Chinese artists using photography as an instrument to capture human encounters with a rapidly developing China.

The Nova Scotia SPCA shares the concern of the wider community regarding human encounters with coyotes and, although rare, reports of aggressive coyote behaviour.

Mack is the author of Abduction: Human Encounters With Aliens and Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters.

A simple and humane technique may be an effective strategy to reduce human encounters with sharks without harming populations of threatened shark species.

The human encounter with nature is far too ambiguous and complex to be subsumed under the single emotion of fear.

Fuller's is the kind of notion that attracts Dillard in all her work, from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek to Teaching: a metaphor to describe the human encounter with nature.

And his spare, often brutal depictions of the human encounter with God have also puzzled Christian readers, sometimes offending their sense of propriety and orthodoxy.

Not exact matches

Yet having encountered this fantastic tree with human features, readers can no longer look upon real trees as mere objects meant only for our manipulation.

I find meditation, and compassion for self to be conducive to what you talk of with loving God and mankind — sometimes in mysterious, unfathomable and transcendent ways, encountering the power to open up men and women to each other and God in love peace justice and human dignity.

On the plus side, he makes clear that Christian worship is an encounter in Word and Sacrament with the living Christ, who is present to the church by his Spirit and who forms the church as a divine and human communion.

Of course, we are engaging a Mystery in the deepest sense when we seek a direct encounter with God and existentialism has its serious limitations as do all human attempts at understanding; but I am drawn to Kierkegaard's insight into prayer:

They bring students into «the company of great souls» (TRL 11), confront them with «the questions that are central to human existence» (TRL 29), and so by the universality of that encounter provide them with a common heritage that serves as «the glue that binds together our pluralistic nation» (TRL 30).

Evolution and the Fall is a collection of essays from a multi-disciplinary and ecumenical group of authors, which sets out to address «a set of problems that arise from the encounter of traditional biblical views of human origins with contemporary scientific theories» (p. xv)-- not, one might add, in general, to answer them.

A person's voluntary encounter with human suffering should always be viewed as a cry of protest and a testimony of hope against the overwhelming evil that one experiences.

It covers over the conflicted ambivalent character of human personality with a seamless robe, and gives us authentic security in the encounter with God.

The significance of this chapter (III) lies in its attempt to describe the human impression Jesus made upon people in a way clearly suggestive of the meaning Jesus has for faith, as if a human contact with Jesus were — at least potentially — an encounter with the kerygma.

So abstract and general a statement, however, not only oversimplifies the long and complicated process it endeavors to describe but, in particular, neglects the natural human opposition which so high an estimate of personality encountered — the endless doubts, cynicisms, and denials with which this emerging estimate of man's value was inevitably met.

Once upon a time there were many almost - human species whom our ancestors encountered with mingled fear and wonder.

These fundamental needs can only be truly fulfilled through a rich and living encounter with the deepest truths about God and the human person.»

Sam — I do not intend to draw this out... but just wanted to briefly share that I am a retired ELCA pastor who has done a great deal in Human Relations / Encounter Group / T - group training and more recently with Emotional Intelligence - Human Relations Institute (EQ - HR).

Here, of course, we encounter the formidable element of human freedom of action, of which it is endlessly repeated that its unpredictable interference with the established proceedings of Nature threatens constantly to disrupt and frustrate them.

At first they may be taken merely as aesthetic moments, such as communing with nature, savouring memories andimages, meeting mysteries, the heightened sensing of musical sounds, odours, colours, the thrill of acute poetic expression, or moving encounters with other human beings; but on further reflection people often cite such experiences as having a spiritual quality and as hints of the divine.

Rather, in my view, they are most faithfully engaged with as a collection of books written by fallible human beings whose work bears the hallmarks of the limitations and preconceptions of the times and the cultures they lived in, but also of the transformational experience of their encounters with God.

As other denominations retreated from activism to a more pietistic inwardness, the UUs were already feeling disenchantment with encounter, sensitivity and human potential movements.

It is not enough to receive it as the occasion of an encounter with God (although it is) or as an invitation to join up with God's plan for human liberation (also true) or a host of other redefinitions of the nature of biblical authority.

In ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, as also in encounters with those of no religion, all participants are of equal human dignity but their beliefs are not equally true.

But they reveal perhaps more clearly than the Graham preaching that, even with sophistication updated, there has been no change from the nineteenth century's revivalistic attitudes that are out to make sales and are intensely suspicious of genuine human encounter.

By «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name of love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows of his relationship to human beings in history, and especially in the recorded utterances of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this life, by virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Rom.

As the gospels present him, Jesus conveys an astonishing empathy with the broken human beings whom he encounters; and it is only through this compassionate identification with their brokenness that he is able to become their healer.

Fifth conviction: I must be ready to give account of my interpretative encounters with Scripture not just to my human and academic peers but to God himself, who will one day require this of every theologian and of me among them.

See Between Man and Man (London: Regan Paul 1947), p. 89) Such communication by a teacher who has a deep feeling for a religious tradition often leads students to an encounter with the meanings which speak to human needs from that tradition.

Yet it is precisely because of this complete openness to all that is human, that the historian must open himself to encounter with humans who understand their existence as lived out of transcendence.

«Pastors often feel they can't be human with their own churches,» Keel laments as he shows me a thank - you card from a minister who said he had been ready to leave the ministry before encountering JW.

The implied polemic in this humanistic approach to preservation is against nostalgia, antiquarianism, idolatry of the past; against mere prettiness and artificiality; against restoration that ignores contexts and the human stories that were worked out in past encounters with the holy.

The human mind is not a blank page on which the record of encounters with reality is written nor, on the other hand, is our knowledge the result of purely internal processes of rational reflection.

But in all humility and sincerity Christians can join with others in seeking solutions to human problems, trusting in the lord of the world whom they encounter in Jesus Christ and in their fellow human beings.

Our faith becomes more meaningful only when we live in encounter with fellow human beings.

That's what enabled him to be fair toward believers, to write of odd encounters with something sacred, and actually to enter into real human dialogue, which we rarely see anymore among our much more brittle public non-believers.

God freely and completely bestows the Godself in the encounter with humans, yet remains ineffable because we creatures are incapable of fully receiving or understanding the one who is imparted.

One of the ways to enter the human race, to be ready for encounters with enemies, is to have survived having friends.

Religiousness in this broad sense of an encounter with «mystery» seems to be a most durable aspect of our human situation.

His destiny was bound up with that of the whole human race, though of course its universal significance can be realized only through encounter with the kerygma and the response of faith.

MacIntyre's position is, I think, similar to his characterization of Rosenzweig's in Edith Stein: «We do not begin with some adequate grasp of the concepts of knowledge and truth and in the light of these pass judgment on whether or not we know something of God or whether or not it is true God exists, but rather it is from our encounters with God — and with the world and with human beings — that we learn what it is to have knowledge of what truth is.»

This does not present us with facts of the past in their bare actuality, nor does it lead to encounter with human existence and its interpretation, but, as a sacramental event, it re-presents the events of the past in such a way that it renews them, and thus becomes a personal encounter for me.

Be quite certain, therefore, that when you truly encounter another human being and look with the eyes of wisdom and love you are not only seeing them in truth, you are truly seeing and meeting God in them.

These are the elements of our dilemma: whose chief feature, in my view, is that we have been left with far too shallow and flimsy an idea of human personality [«Against Dryness,» Encounter, January 1961, p. 16].

Encounter with other visions of reality, religious and secular, and their correlative modes of human existence, introduces attention to other elements of common reality and their increased effectiveness in one's life and thought.

Panikkar's lifelong effort is to call people, with human words that will always remain frail, to the encounter of religions in that depth, grounded in mystical experience; to invite them to a conversion towards the Cosmotheandric Reality.

In virtue of its comprehensiveness as a metaphysical category, therefore, the term society is much more suitable than the term substance to describe the various ontological totalities encountered in human experience.4 Yet this key insight into the ontological actuality of Whiteheadian societies is easily lost from view unless one ponders what Hegel was trying to express with the somewhat elusive notion of Spirit.

Do not our congregations expect from their own ministers that they wrestle honestly and immediately with the Christian faith and the issues of human life, and preach from that inner encounter rather than give a digest of what other ministers have said?