Sentences with phrase «by human imagination»

You might think of this cultural web as an «ethnosphere» — the sum total of all thoughts, dreams, myths, ideas inspirations and intuitions brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness.

«The beauty of natural countryside is never surpassed by anything created by the human imagination.»

His discovery was guided by the human imagination, and arcane mathematics.

The rest is nothing but fantasy, created and manipulated by human imagination fit their needs.

He must decide what is the kernel of the gospel, and what is merely the outward husk which has been shaped by human imagination, by traditional interpretation, by the tendency to produce credal formulae, by the subsequent historical consolidation of the truths of faith.

Try as you might, you can never reconcile fundamental human biology and the abstract ideals created by the human imagination.

No more fantastic peg on which to hang the future of Christianity was ever invented by the human imagination.

For in the reality constructed by human imagination, the reality of a thousand national identities, foundational myths, bogus perceptions of «our» innocence and «their» wickedness, who could ever be a judge whose impartiality would be recognized and whose arbitration would be accepted?

Not exact matches

What is required by the criterion of human integrity is that occupations be so defined that manual work is also a rational pursuit and an opportunity for constructive imagination, that symbolic skills may be exercised in clear relation to material necessities and in the light of moral responsibilities, and that creative professional activities will be conducted with a vivid sense of the realities of nature and the canons of reason.

Human imagination as a whole provides the particular idiomatic and narrative construction of a congregation; its members communicate by a code derived from the totality of forms and stories by which societies cohere.

The human imagination, battered and torn by our fears and limitations, comes from a God who asks us to see ourselves and our world in a new way.

By one account, the demons, the false chimeras, and the rest were real creatures banished by the coming of the Word; by the other, they were fantasms that had existed only in the human imagination, and were now banished by a new philosophy, a better way of seeinBy one account, the demons, the false chimeras, and the rest were real creatures banished by the coming of the Word; by the other, they were fantasms that had existed only in the human imagination, and were now banished by a new philosophy, a better way of seeinby the coming of the Word; by the other, they were fantasms that had existed only in the human imagination, and were now banished by a new philosophy, a better way of seeinby the other, they were fantasms that had existed only in the human imagination, and were now banished by a new philosophy, a better way of seeinby a new philosophy, a better way of seeing.

Yet once granted that a genuine form of the mythical vision remains a possibility for civilized or historical man, and that myth itself is a creation of the human imagination, then it follows that a private myth is not only a possibility but is indeed the inevitable form by which a new or revolutionary myth will first appear in history.

It is notoriously hard to make goodness compelling, whereas the human imagination is gripped by stories of evil.

The dark side is only the madness of the imaginations, misgivings, and assumptions of humans, fueled by the deceiving lies of the demonic adversary.

A story sustains the precariousness and openness of the situation until it reaches its end, and does so by virtue of that power of imagination, or what I called memory that penetrates the future, to envisage a stretch of time as both sequentially related and also developing through human opportunity, intention, decision, and being acted upon.

Human solidarity is to be achieved «not by inquiry but by imagination, the imaginative ability to see strange people as fellow sufferers.

Secondly, by linking «art» with «communication», performance studies helps homiletics resist those impulses in the church and / or seminary cultures to devalue the human imagination in favor of «practicalities» and overemphasis on affect and affectation.

Not by any stretch of the human imagination.

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

The third danger to preaching caused by an overwhelmed imagination is that of allowing the mind and therefore the sermons to dwell on the more spectacular, the more newsworthy images of the human condition.

The symbol of the Father God, spawned in the human imagination and sustained as plausible by patriarchy, has in turn rendered service to this type of society by making its mechanisms for the oppression of women appear right and fitting.

The exceptional powers of sympathetic imagination and of literary expression possessed by this evangelist make his work the most effective of all as a human and, so to speak, secular approach to the «Jesus of History,» but it does not lie on the main classical line of development from the apostolic Preaching.

The human imagination, unconditioned by the Christian faith, invariably reflects the dominant social forces in which the individual is interested.

The first one is that since God is our Father, by which we mean that He cares for us after the fashion of our concern for our children but with an intensity altogether beyond our human imagination, He would wish that we should tell Him, although already He knows, all that we think we need, all that we want to have.

That imagination — fired, at least during the great middle years, by intense moral and religious perception — made Greene's fiction the best - realized portrayal in its time of the drama of the human soul.

Does the order of the timeless universe and your part in it reflective of the unfathomable Mind which makes and sustains it in ways human mentation can not perceive have any relevance to you or are you so bland and blah, so gray in your imagination that you are blocked by your senses from seeing and knowing the real nature of the present and the beyond which are One?

So that Christ combines the imagination, spontaneity, and richness of experience which were God's aims in drawing forth human beings, with the free obedience and loving communion with God which in a «fallen» world are otherwise approximated only by creatures of a «lower» order.

Richard Viladesau tries to break away from this philosophical impasse by proposing a fundamental theology of the human imagination based on the Logos, the Son of God as Creator.

Humans are «game - players» who by means of their imagination make rules, set boundaries, and occasionally give a pep talk or two.

The mass of suffering alone experienced by God derivatively appalls and staggers the human imagination.

As such it is always subject to errors that can be controlled but not governed entirely by practical and / or socially established evaluative or critical methods.18 The indispensable factor of interpretation in the dynamic processes of semiosis even leads to the idea that there is a generic form of imagination in physical becoming, in addition to a primary or radical form in human perception, a consideration that would indeed justify calling creativity the category of the ultimate, just as Whitehead maintains.

It almost seem as if he's human, or created by an active imagination.

Guided by intelligence and imagination, the human search for the good life is a reflection of the visionary reason of God.

As for Jesus himself, his human power of imagination was fully alive and in harmony with what we may by analogy call his divine imagination or creativity.

Isn't it easier by far to conclude that David is a mythical King Arthur type than it is to believe that the human religious imagination would dream up a crucified Messiah?

The atheist stakes all on the proposition that God is just a figment of the human imagination, a name invented by prescientific man to explain what he could not understand.

In theory, the answer should only be bounded by the limits of human physicality, imagination, and cruelty, and as such not really fit for publication on a family website.

Obviously this is a pretty broad question, and I don't care if these are primary sources, to collaborative works by modern historians, to historical fictions (as I'm sure much of this detail will be left to the imagination as not much evidence will remain), but I'm looking for how humans ran societies, and the issue they dealt with, on a day to day basis, because people live on a day to day basis, and don't, like historians, summarize a decade in a couple of pages of writing.

One of the most cinematically compelling recent films in any genre, the enigmatic horror story by director Konstantinos Koutsoliotas, The Winter, depicts the porous boundary in the human imagination between fantasy and reality, past and pre...

One of the most cinematically compelling recent films in any genre, the enigmatic horror story by director Konstantinos Koutsoliotas, The Winter, depicts the porous boundary in the human imagination between fantasy and reality, past and pre... more

Directed by Lee Unkrich with some of the warmth and imagination he brought to «Toy Story 3» (and co-directed by Adrian Molina, who wrote the script with Matthew Aldrich), «Coco» is the first of Pixar's 19 features to feature a non-white human protagonist, diversifying a company slate that has already proven a model of inclusivity with regard to talking fish, sentient toys and anthropomorphic cars.

A lifeguard (Justin Timberlake) tells us a story that just might be filtered through his vivid imagination: a middle - aged carousel operator (James Belushi) and his beleaguered wife (Kate Winslet), who eke out a living on the boardwalk, are visited by his estranged daughter (Juno Temple)-- a situation from which layer upon layer of all - too - human complications develop.

For both precursors of the Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, the philosopher of the Vth century Dignana and the logician of the VIIth, Dharmakarti, the words of the language are abstract constructions created by the imagination and the human intellect.

, the words of the language are abstract constructions created by the imagination and the human intellect.

And Roald Dahl's imagination seems to have given us a glimpse into the future early - on, by delving into the human mind and withdrawing its capabilities in terms of a story.

Unlike most dog sports in which the dog and human perform a prescribed set of exercises or run a set course, musical freestyle is limited only by the imagination and abilities of the human / dog team.

Art, by definition, is the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.

More recently Cindy Sherman has constructed scenes and photographs showing herself as characters from the grotesque and horror imagination, surrounded by discarded food, human body parts and rubbish.

Utilizing the connection between cumulative action and endurance, Sandrine's work addresses the shared human experience of fitting in, offers pause for contemplation, and is inspired by the promise of collaborative imagination.