Sentences with phrase «dominated human thought»

Before language dominated human thought, primitive humans related to the world through image.

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An inevitable temptation of Christian theology, and particularly so in our own time, has been to think that the idea or symbol of an actual end of the world was no part of the original proclamation of Jesus, and rather derived either from the apocalyptic religious world that so dominated Jesus» disciples or from the all - too - human or fleshy component of their minds and hearts, which was impervious to the higher call of the Spirit.

Within the extremely narrow sliver of time when human beings have occupied centre - stage on world history, why is it that this issue has come to dominate our thoughts and actions?

A pure human invention used to dominate and kill others that don't think or believe like us.

For those societies, on the other hand, that make up the higher forms of life, and in particular for the human being, Whitehead thinks of this «defining characteristic» or common form as a ground of unity that dominates the occasions.

An interesting study of christological models has been written by John McIntyre.4 The «two - natures model» (which he takes as a single complex model involving both divine and human natures) has dominated Christian thought, but it has a number of limitations; it is tied to the Aristotelian categories of substance and attribute, and it tends to view the incarnation as the assumption of an abstract human nature rather than the personal individuality of a particular man.

If love as normal human concern dominates our lives, all too often it will be ourselves who are its object, and the long and tortuous process, whereby ethical thought and feeling have led us beyond preoccupation with ourselves, may be undone.

In a structure of thought dominated, as secular humanism's is, by the strict opposition of «human intelligence» to «divine guidance» and by the insistence that any reference to a transcendent reality is meaningless, obviously most traditional religious terms are going to be missing from respectable discourse (or mentioned only to be demeaned)....

The Internet of Us explores how information technology has come to dominate our abilities to think, communicate, reason and remember and provides a slightly chilling look at what that means for us as independent thinkers and human beings.

Eventually the human factor stops mattering entirely as the film becomes dominated by CGI airships, Da Vinci - derived weaponry, and other additions Dumas would no doubt regret not thinking up himself, none of them particularly thrilling or imaginatively rendered.

Ben: If we think natural causes will dominate, then — simplifying — a relentlessly increasing human effect would only produce a relentlessly increasing overall effect, if the natural factors proceed to vary around an average of where they happen to be right now, ie — not if natural factors are headed downwards.

It is happening earlier and stronger than most thought, and it will be the dominating factor in the human story.