Along
with common human experience, the behavioral sciences provide much data that can only be explained in terms of the individual's fundamental desire to be valued.
Using
common human experience as a base, Niebuhr sought to show that the secular view of life is inadequate: the secular analysis of man made less sense than the biblical one.
If we take Heinrich «s analysis as a starting point and at the same time accept the requirement that theology must at all times take into account the meanings present
in common human experience, then for Christians the aim of communication is to help people interpret their existence in the light of what God has done for them as manifest in Jesus Christ.
Or, to generalize the point, I deny that
common human experience does not furnish us with a perfectly acceptable basis for understanding what it means to say that some entities are totally devoid of any power of self - determination and, thus, deny that we can not justifiably categorize certain objects in this way.
First, is a religious interpretation of
our common human experience meaningful and rue?
My own way of attempting to «come to terms» with this claim is to insist that any Christian theological statement must show its adequacy to
our common human experience.
But even
our commonest human experience tells us that the things which most pervade our experience — the love of those about us, the deepest hopes which lure us, the all - embracing order of nature — these just because they are ever present can remain mysteriously hidden, even forgotten.
Process theologians argue for a «public» theology, not limiting truth claims to a confessional stance with its own internal criteria, but open to the public criteria of
common human experience and rational inquiry.
However, Law contends that
our common human experience of a moral framework is not one that requires God as its author.
Because of its dominating concern with
this common human experience, it is difficult to support the notion that the Bible is too foreign for us to understand it.
Up to this point, I have spoken of theology's concern with the credibility of the Christian witness, which concern arises from the fact that Christian faith itself claims to be credible in terms of
common human experience.
He is convinced that the language about God does not really add anything important to our understanding of
common human experience.
One must insist on this because, as Cobb himself recognizes, no philosophy is to be taken seriously as philosophy unless its warrants are those of
our common human experience, rather than of the uncommon experience of some special religious tradition.
And here again Whiteheadian philosophy follows closely
the common human experience.
Common human experience and Christian fact must both be reflected on theologically.
I have found their ideas to be faithful not only to important religious intuitions of ultimacy but also to the demands of
common human experience, logic and, most importantly for our purposes, modern science.
It is a good description of
the common human experience, even for believers.
the fullest possible understanding of Christian faith (which is necessarily an understanding of the «witness» of scriptures and
our common human experience) is inherently dialogical and «dipolar.»
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have induced this all - too -
common human experience — or a close version of it — permanently in rats and from what is observed perhaps derive clues about why strokes and Alzheimer's disease can destroy a person's sense of direction.
The Nightmare is more effective than the esoteric «Room 237» because it represents a full immersion into
a common human experience.
Does this form allow us to make any generalizations about
the common human experience?
A «eureka moment» refers to
the common human experience of suddenly understanding a previously incomprehensible problem or concept.
Conceptually, however, the sculptures speak to the artist's pursuit to reveal
the common human experience as communicated through the origins of language.