Sentences with phrase «by human encounters»

Every day the conversion continues as I am changed by human encounters, the natural world and countless experiences that provide new insights into the nature of God.

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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.

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).

It's obvious by reading this article you have never expirenced nor have you encountered «evil» are a possessed human being..

(Two important theological books bear these titles, I and Thou by Martin Buber and The Divine - Human Encounter by Emil Brunner.)

«The excessive segmentation of knowledge, the rejection of metaphysics by the human sciences, the difficulties encountered by dialogue between science and theology are damaging not only to the development of knowledge, but also to the development of peoples, because these things make it harder to see the integral good of man in its various dimensions.

«1 In fact, the idea of God is not invented by the philosopher but encountered in human history so that it can not be sustained by merely logical construction.

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.

And, he explicitly argues that this «traditional conservatism,» which is by the way, not an ideology, has the potential to address the age - old problems related to political science, while implicitly suggesting the possibility of recapturing man's tensional existence in the Platonic Metaxy, thereby restoring the order necessary to illuminate the divine - 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» (RoBy «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» (Roby virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Rom.

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.

The scene in which the divine - human encounter takes place is not, to be sure, a flat earth canopied by a heavenly tent; the scene has become stranger and vaster.

Nowadays this worry is often expressed by speaking of Barth's supposed «extrinsicism,» that is, his presentation of the Christian faith in terms of an encounter (or collision) of divine and human wills in which creatures are kept separate from God's being.

But this takes place not by his reproducing the events of the past in memory, but by his encountering in those events of the past (as his own history) human existence and its interpretation.

That is so because in the context of the politics of human liberation man encounters a God who remains open, who has not yet arrived, who is determined and helped by human activity.

So it is here on the historical Jesus, as he is presented to me by the texts and encounters me as a person through historical reconstruction, that the decision of faith is made, not on the risen Christ as I would have liked him to be, or as, for example, he is accessible archetypally to all human beings as a symbol of the self.

It can mean, then, the development of those principles which most adequately express what we experience and know, in the full range of our human encounters; and the result is a «vision» which can be tested by reference back to experience and to the world experienced.

Kaplan has not time for what he calls mysticism (he mentioned Heschel and Buber by name in his reproach), because to him it is inimical to an ultimate reality which is constantly becoming, constantly encountered in the midst of responsible human action.

Instead, the film would be about a clown who comes riding into town on a donkey; he's with a rather motley circus; he experiences the human failings of the circus people; he encounters Magnus, who wants to dominate and control; he substitutes himself for a poor human - puppet and is killed by Magnus.

They would insist, as the Bible insists, as the life of faith continues to insist, that this epoch in Israelite history witnessed an intense series of divine - human encounters, initiated by God himself and effected by his Word.

When they encounter the actuality of suffering and injustice, the impurity of even the best motives, and the mutual destructiveness even of a relatively virtuous people, and when they discover also the depths of sin which erupt on a massive scale in human history from time to time, they are overwhelmed by the incongruity between what is and what, at some deep level, they feel should be the case.

St John's account of the resurrection and encounter of Jesus with Mary of Magdala in the garden where Jesus calls Mary by name becomes for Vanier a sign of hope for us all, and when the disciples react with disbelief and ridicule at Mary's good news Vanier is reminded of the tensions in all human communities that can only be transformed by living in the Spirit who is sent by Jesus as a sign of his undying love for his followers.

And just as in human contacts the new understanding created by encountering another in love and trust is kept pure only when it permanently retains its connection with the other who is encountered, so too the self - understanding granted by faith never becomes a possession, but is kept pure only as a response to the repeated encounter of the Word of God, which proclaims the act of God in Christ in such a way as continually to represent it.

In both we have clearly exhibited the sinful condition of human beings — which human beings in this condition are encountered in a shattering and redeeming way by God's gracious will.

In the encounter with Jesus, one is confronted `... with the skandalon of recognizing in this all - too - human Jewish eschatological message the eternal word of God», which means that in the encounter with Jesus, «one is confronted by the same existential decision as that posed by the kerygma».

The field of PTSD growth potential, stemming from positive psychology, offers a much needed perspective of the resiliency of the human spirit to not only survive trauma, but to somehow transform the adversity encountered by the event, into self - growth.

This paper examines the types of conflict concerning human rights that are encountered by geoscientists involved in mineral exploration and development and suggests approaches for positive engagement.

«If the differing dietary strategies were already established by the time of the encounter, then modern humans might have had the advantage,» says Sireen El Zaatari.

«Only once before in human history have we encountered a similar process: in the early modern era, when the counterbalance that had been establish at a local level in the Middle Ages was surpassed by the increasing political and economic scale.

In one early trial, they fouled up their courtship by swarming together near the release site instead of lying in wait where they were likely to encounter mates (i.e., around human feet).

It is also possible that sleep problems encountered by humans may not necessarily be an inevitable side effect of aging and may even be reversible.

AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and is spread through the exchange of body fluids (sexual encounters, sharing needles, blood transfusions).

Using a combination of human or specially engineered mouse cells in vitro and in vivo animal models, study senior investigator Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD; study lead investigator Farokh Dotiwala, PhD, with a team lead by the Brazilian parasitologist Ricardo Gazzinelli, DSc, DVM, found that when an immune killer cell, such as a T - cell or natural killer (NK) cell, encounters a cell infected with any of three intracellular parasites (Trypanosoma cruzi, Toxoplasma gondii or Leishmania major), it releases three proteins that together kill both the parasite and the infected cell:

Reprinted from Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain, by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga.

ALMOST everywhere you go on Earth, you encounter alien species that were introduced — often inadvertently — by humans.

In humans, deafness is most often caused by damage to inner ear hair cells — so named because they sport hairlike cilia that bend when they encounter vibrations from sound waves — or by damage to the neurons that transmit that information to the brain.

However, incorrectly identified ES cell clones are occasionally encountered, either because of human error or because a thawed ES cell line gets overgrown by a contaminating ES cell line.

Products made from modern wheat contain forms of gliadin proteins, glutenins, wheat germ ag - glutinin, and other proteins never before encountered by humans.

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Unfortunately, that's at the expense of humans, and there are some seriously gnarly encounters as team members are picked off by animal hybrids, like a nightmarish bear whose roar is imbued with the screams of its previous victims.

Rohingya fleeing on land have encountered mines planted by soldiers, according to a report by Human Rights Watch.

I don't think every game needs to be Dark Souls, but when it seems like any encounter with a pack of human - sized jackal minions is best solved by button - mashing and hoping I'm hitting dodge and attack with the right ratio to do damage while not getting hit too often, each fight starts to feel more like a chore than a rewarding challenge.

Things go bad when they encounter the last human holdouts in this post-apocalyptic world: a nervy survivalist community led by Dreyfus (Gary Oldman) whose instinct is to get tough with the monkeys: but Malcolm (Jason Clarke) wants to reach out and generally make nice with the apes.

Solitary and germ - phobic, he encounters a young woman still more terrified of human contact (Sylvia Hoeks), who hides in a secret room of her Versailles - scale villa, unwilling to be seen even by her own caretaker.

What a microcosm for the good cinephile's experience in 2017 — amidst a struggle to keep away the viruses carried by powerful liars and to dodge the slings & arrows brandished by savages, occasionally we go to the theatre and encounter something sublime, something numinous that reminds us why life is maybe worth sharing with our fellow humans.

When you encounter other living humans, it's a real relief (often swiftly followed by other emotions), but poring over records of their lives is almost more absorbing.

And the many technical, logistical, and human problems Laurel Springs encountered in linking home and school by technology are far from unique to that school.