Sentences with phrase «complex human realities»

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In so doing, I wonder if we've veered too far from the reality that human sexuality is indeed very complex.

If the totality of reality is far more complex than we have ever recognized, then it may be that profound human experience in different times and places has brought to light many of the important patterns that are to be found within it.

One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not in the first instance as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but as the gradual erosion, in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness with the human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found at all.

Lumen gentium teaches that «Christ... has founded... his Holy Church»; «has made her visible framework... the dispenser of grace and truth»; «she is a society equipped with hierarchical organs and the Mystical Body of Christ, a visible assembly and a spiritual fellowship»; «we must not think of the Church as two substances, but a single, complex reality, the compound of a human and a divine element» (n. 8).

The reality of power is complex; and its use and misuse in all human, social and political relations and interactions has been a question of utmost importance for all peoples.

Nor is it an ideology, but rather the accurate formulation of the results of a careful reflection on the complex realities of human existence, in society and in the international order, in the light of faith and of the Church's tradition.

Or as he puts it, there is no such thing as entirely uninterpreted fact, any more than there is any such thing as an «action» in the world which has no valuation judgement attached to it in the complex reality of human experience.

His descriptions evoke the complex relationship between their respective processional paths, the architecture encountered along the way, the recollection of Rome's Imperial and Christian history, the reality of Rome itself as a Christian reliquary and pilgrimage destination, and the analogy between the human body and the city.

The basic pattern of God's self - revelation as life and grace, on the one hand, and the response in human freedom through faith and deeds to the same revelation on the other, is such a complex and multifaceted reality that it can never be imprisoned in any one single mould.

And in reality the human body is MUCH more complex than those statues.

In reality man is complex, and human freedom a composite affair.

Of course, reality is a lot more complicated than this rough caricature — biology is NOT destiny for animals with a complex brain, and human instincts are filtered through layer upon layer of culture and other learned behavior.

Andrew has been asking questions about reality, truth, and God since he was very young, and he has long been fascinated by the human mind and its complex workings.

It is only after hacker cult figure Morpheus agrees to show Tom «how deep the rabbit hole goes» that Tom, and we, learn The Ugly Truth: the surface of the earth has been uninhabitable for centuries, and all humans are spending their lives in a virtual reality construct, while a complex network of machines uses the electrical energy and body heat from their real bodies, which are stored in individual pods, as a fuel source.

The Wind Rises grounds a human, personal story in a complex period of Japanese history and balances the tone well between nostalgic whimsy and harsh historical reality.

Schools and their systems find themselves without human capital and resources to meet the complex academic, emotional and economic realities of vulnerable youth, particularly those in urban and poverty areas.

Some landscape painters convey reality in compellingly quotidian detail, reflecting or critiquing the complex relationship between humans and nature; others construct neo-byzantine visions of the future that may thrill or terrify; some work intuitively to give form to the ephemeral, conveying that which can not be spoken; and many bend or break accepted rules of vision, reminding us that perception itself is both a privilege and a discipline.

This year promises to be no exception with «Still Human», featuring 25 contemporary artists who are using media such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, surveillance and virtual reality to grapple with the complex consequences of recent technological advances and the digital revolution.

Such feelings are very difficult to express with words alone; the artists in the exhibition have elected abstract visual expression as the best medium of representation for these complex and uniquely human realities.

The duo's work span around the complex relationship of materiality, technology, economy, and how technology shapes economy and physical reality, including the human body.

Published to accompany a major exhibition at Tate Britain in London, All Too Human not only demonstrates how this spirit was passed down by artists of the previous generation, such as Walter Sickert and David Bomberg, but also explores how contemporary artists continue to express the complex intangible realities of life in paint today.

The images visualise a reality in which human physiognomy has transformed, reflecting the current complex social and political landscape through unsettling aesthetics.

Both extreme positions ignore the more complex reality that human choices interact with natural constraints.

Those catastrophic climate predictions of doomsday that proponents of human - made global warming rely are based on massive, complex, costly computer climate models - also know as simulations and virtual climate reality.