Sentences with phrase «by human movement»

Ceramic bugs dance inside glass bulbs that light up and are triggered by human movement to create a macabre symphony.

«Having an accurate overview of how different regions of countries are connected by human movement aids effective disease control planning and helps target resources, such as treated bed nets or community health workers, in the right places.

Not exact matches

The latter is a subtle, supremist dogmatic domineering movement dressed in religious garb while the amazing former is the recognition and practice of Spirit, Love, heavenliness, harmony, Principle, human rights and the positive healing reform of finite human nature and its suffering experience by establishing the fact that «now are we the sons of God.»

Consequently one feels less inclined to reject as unscientific the idea that the critical point of planetary reflective consciousness which is the result of the forming of humanity into an organized society, far from being a mere spark in the darkness, corresponds on the contrary to our passage (by a movement of reversal or dematerialization) to another face of the universe: not an ending of the ultra-human but its arrival at something trans - human at the very heart of reality.

However, if the subjects of study are concrete networks of human practices by which communities of faith attempt to respond to God faithfully, and if they are practices which mediate an understanding of God, then the movement of theological schooling is more like an engaged meditative gaze than it is like problem solving.

The law was given not only to outline human existence by a revealed set of dos and don'ts, but also to turn the people Godward in every movement and moment of their lives.

Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and other human afflictions.

It's a movement led by and for women, women who aren't asking for some sort of paternalistic «protection» because they are fragile females, but rather to be treated with the dignity and respect they deserve simply because they are human beings.

As I have wrestled recently with this problem, I have been helped by some comments of a friend, Lauren Ekroth, who is deeply involved in several forms of the human potential movement.

That's because Piper and many in the fundamentalist neo-Reformed movement are working off of a perversion of the doctrine of total depravity that not only teaches that human beings are depraved — that is, that our humanity is marred by sin — but that this depravity renders the world's men, women, and children into valueless objects of god's wrath, worthy of nothing more than eternal torture, pain, violence, and abuse.

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

He says that the human rights movement is in trouble because, by its manipulation of the UN and other international organizations, it has lost touch with any constituency that gives it democratic legitimacy.

It involves a common movement into a technological culture but it also entails correcting the inhumanities like State totalitarianism, increasing impoverishment and marginalisation of the majority of the people, destruction of the ecological basis of life and above all the general mechanization of human life already brought about by the misdirected technological advance.

Movements such as de-colonization, the rise of Communism — especially the expulsion of missionaries from China by the Communists — and the attempt to vindicate Human Rights culminating in the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) have direct and indirect impact on mission understanding.

Although many of those concerned for environmental protection are thinking about the natural world simply as it relates to human beings, the leaders of the environmental movement have been moved to perception and action by deeper changes.

As a Communication Act: The Birth of a Performance, by Richard F. Ward Performance is a resource for homiletics because it addresses this problem of integrating language, sound and movement in an oral, interpretive act in human communication.

Less than a decade ago, during the national debate on ENDA (The federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act), a major beach - head in the gay movement, 68 percent of respondents in a poll of gays and lesbians commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) said it was acceptable to exclude their T colleagues from the protections sought in this legislation.

«Good» is the movement in the direction of home, «evil» is the aimless whirl of human potentialities without which nothing can be achieved and by which, if they take no direction but remain trapped in themselves, everything goes awry.

To talk in that fashion is not to speak of a kind of meaningless re-enactment of what went on in the creation; it is to speak of a vital, living, and ongoing movement, where God knows and experiences (if that word is, as I believe, appropriate to the divine life) that which has taken place, but knows it and experiences it with a continuing freshness and delight — and, if what has taken place has been evil, with a continuing tinge of sadness and regret — such as must be proper to the chief creative and chief receptive agency who is worshiped and served by God's human children.

The covenant which the Absolute enters into with the concrete, not heeding the general, the «idea,»... chooses movements made by the human figure....

This movement, founded by Norwegian social critic Arne Naess, rejects as» anthropocentric» the notion that humans have greater inherent worth than other life forms.

Inspired by the New Testament's vision of human community, they argued that Christianity is a fundamentally social movement, and the job of theology is to purify the Christian tradition of its interest in heaven above.

A counter-culture that truly respects humans and nature needs to be fostered by the people's movements and alternative mass media.

The movements for human liberation inspired by secular ideals can also contribute to this common cause and religious forces can link with them for their mutual purification and benefit.

Have you ever noticed that three of the biggest movements in human intellectual development, the Enlightenment, the Reformation and the Renaissance, are all defined by their movement AWAY from religion and supersti.tion.

Kierkegaard describes this movement toward God, or this being met by God, in terms which remove it from any recognizable human experience.

Indeed, most cultures in human history have generated no such marvel as the modern scientific movement, and even in our own culture, scientifically oriented as it is supposed to be, most people accept the benefits of technology and use the vocabulary of science but do not in fact choose to abide by the disciplines that alone make scientific productivity possible.

In fact, looking around the world today, the most hopeful sign I see is the human rights movement, which operates from the unprovable and, on its face, improbable moral conviction that all humans are equal and that no human should be abused by any other for any reason whatsoever.

Our understanding of the Spirit - illuminated Word must arise from the «mystery of the sovereign freedom of the substance,» the subject matter, which invites us through human words and the movement of the Spirit to «investigate the humanity of the word by which it is told.»

I mean by «the Christian church» a particular type of community, a distinctive kind of human fellowship, an easily recognizable spiritual movement within our total historical life.

civil rights movement — actual actions by human beings that have helped for the most part in black empowerment.

But the next thing astonishes me, it makes my head swim, for after having made the movement of resignation, then by virtue of the absurd to get everything, to get the wish whole and uncurtailed — that is beyond human power, it is a prodigy.

Out of the infinite mystery by which our tiny human lives are surrounded have come intimations of the inner quality of the creative Reality upon whom we depend; He moves in upon us to awaken and then to deepen our returning movement towards Him.

If he could say this by virtue of human calculation, Iphigenia would surely understand him, but from that it would follow that Agamemnon had not made the infinite movement of resignation, and so he is not a hero, and so the utterance of the seer is a sea - captain's tale and the whole occurrence a vaudeville.

The idea that physics by itself could predict, or even causally explain, all the movements of living human bodies is a pure pipedream.

From the early days of human history we have seen one ideological movement after another rise, inspire, become corrupted by political and other power brokers, attract huge numbers of mindless followers who are trying to fill the empty hole in their pointless lives, and then ultimately disappear in a corrupt mess.

The natural law is a body of unchanging moral principles known not from revelation (though parallel to it) but by reason, principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct: to speak in this way of «the humanisation of sexuality» is simply the understanding of the natural law in particular human circumstances: there is no movement away from natural law - say, to revelation or ecclesial authority; we are stillwithin its ambit.

This movement between human experience and bodily events is rendered plausible only by emphasizing the primacy of events.

It saw the publication of Reinhold Niebuhr's Moral Man and Immoral Society, which contains basic diagnoses of tendencies in human history that are still true: One can not escape from sin by refusing to relate oneself to movements that seek to develop the power of self - defense among the powerless.

It has been replaced by a variety of frameworks, among them a «vital movement in the social sciences which construes and explicates human reality in terms of the theatre and dramaturgy.»

This is particularly effective when such movements for human rights are inspired by Christians, who are accused of «extra-territorial «loyalties, and whose religion is considered «foreign `.

Resentment is a withdrawal from the possibility of life and movement, a negative reaction to the painfulness of the human condition whereby we submit to guilt and alienation by condemning every possibility of accepting and affirming life.

We can identify a human agent by his body, even if we distinguish actions from bodily movements.

Hegel started from the belief that, as he said of the French Revolution, mans existence centres in his head, i.e., in thought, inspired by which he builds up the world of reality».2 In his greatest work, the Phenomenology of Mind, Hegel traces the development of mind or spirit (Geist), reintroducing historical movement into philosophy and asserting that the human mind can attain to absolute knowledge.

«The contemporary pope - hunting springs from a secularist movement which feels incapable of asserting a sense of purpose or meaning in any positive, human - centred way - as the great atheists of old such as Marx or Darwin might have done - and which instead can only assert itself negatively, in contrast to the «evil» of religion, by posturing against the alleged wickedness of institutionalised faith.

«The pro-life movement advances by calling out to consciences with the truth of what unborn human life is and matching that call with real ministry to women in crisis.

He did not merely copy Democritus» physics, as was commonly thought, but introduced the idea of spontaneity into the movement of the atoms, and to the Democritus world of inanimate nature ruled by mechanical laws he added a world of animate nature in which the human will operated.9 Marx thus favours the views of Epicurus for two reasons: firstly, his emphasis on absolute autonomy of the human spirit has freed human beings from all superstitions of transcendent objects; secondly, the emphasis on «free individual self - consciousness» shows one way of going beyond the system of a «total philosophy».

But this magical solution, one not affirmed by either the pro-choice or pro-life movements as presently constituted, is not likely to develop without a deep collective conversion to the principle that even the developing pre-born person is part of the human family and deserves our welcome.

These movements were criticized in the further development of theology for their naive identification of Christianity with a social programme and their failure to recognize the limits set by sin to any human accomplishment.

As churchmen we should rejoice that the mental health movement is a growing, concerted effort by person - serving agencies and professions to give human values greater priority.