Sentences with phrase «embodiment of human»

Whether as a scarred or just nervous exile in The English Patient and The Constant Gardener, respectively, or as the noseless ghoul of the Harry Potter movies, he's served as the embodiment of human refuse for a long stretch of his career — the English go - to for wanderers, burn victims, and miscellaneous banished men.

The book provides no ready answers, but suggests that technology can only be understood and used to best advantage when seen as the embodiment of human behaviour.

The Islamic scholar who described Governor Aregbesola as an embodiment of human character, said his life has impacted greatly in the lives of humanity.

For Whitehead, writing is an artificial and modern development while speech is the embodiment of human nature (MT 37).

Hitler figured out a way to exterminate people based purely on a choice they made by free will (their religious affiliation), he only killed a few million people and he is considered the embodiment of human evil.

In my view, only individuals are actual, and for our purposes that means that the final real entities with which we are dealing are momentary embodiments of human existence.

Not exact matches

One of the problems, I suspect, is that contemporary Christians do not take as seriously as we should our human embodiment and our hope for the resurrection of the body.

3000 years of religious psychosis and pandering falsehood is a mere syllable of a fart when compared to majesty of the Universe (which is not in any way the embodiment of some pathetic humans» imagined deity).

When the holiness of the land (a divine proclamation) becomes the holiness of the state (a human creation) we all too easily move in the direction of theocracy veiled as statism (in which the state is the embodiment of divine will).

When combined with his «theology of the body» — a celebratory presentation of human embodiment and sexuality — John Paul's promotion of Vatican II's reforms provides crucial resources for responding to the American sexual - abuse crisis — a crisis, Wills argues, rooted in defective conceptions of the Catholic Church and its sexual teaching.

A thought, a harmony, the achievement of a perfection in material things, some special nuance in human love, the exquisite complexity of a smile or a glance, every new embodiment of beauty appearing in me or around me on the human face of the earth: I cherish them all like children whose flesh I can not believe destined to complete extinction.

The human imagination needs to be set free among all ages, all races, all classes, all nations to dream dreams of things that never have been but which could be — dreams so real that they stir up passionate commitment that strives for their embodiment sometime, somewhere, somehow.

The Wrestler and Black Swan both explored embodiment, and painfully, graphically exposed what happens when we objectify and abstract bodies (male and female) from their connection to the rest of the human.

To say that there is a process in the world which operates to increase the structure of value, and to that degree is the embodiment of this structure, does not necessarily imply that the process is teleological in the ordinary human sense of the word.

From another perspective, Christine E. Gudorf, in a chapter on «Regrounding Spirituality in Embodiment», (35) observes that contemporary Christians are creating new forms of spirituality based in reflection on embodied human experience.

An international team of scientists calling themselves the Virtual Embodiment and Re-Embodiment Project (of course) have invented a robot controlled entirely by human thought.

And there are some very good theological reflections on human sexuality in the light of Christian revelation; see James Nelson's, Embodiment: An Approach to Sexuality, and Christian Theology (Pilgrim, 1978) and Between Two Gardens: Reflections on Sexuality and Religious Experience.

«The human world,» Buber wrote in 1952, «is today, as never before, split into two camps, each of which understands the other as the embodiment of falsehood and itself as the embodiment of truth.»

We battle against the shadow of the future or against the shadow of the past, turning our fellow human beings into the embodiment of that against which we are struggling.

Crucially important to Meland's enterprise is a recognition of myth as the felt expression of the depths of human culture, In his view, religious faith, and more particularly Christian faith, finds embodiment and expression not only in religious institutions and individual religious experience, but in the midst of secular cultures as well, The Judeo - Christian mythos underlies and is formative of the cultural sensibilities of Western men.

A congregation's appreciation of its own labor of embodiment, its recognition of its own attempt to fuse its many actions, can also, as I have said, deepen its sense of commonality with efforts of human societies throughout the world to gain their own shalom.

Their principles of human rights and their restraints upon royal misconduct had found embodiment in the nation's constitution.

Because of this, Jesus as Lord is the norm by which everyone else is judged, for we are all meant to be as fully the embodiment, the fulfillment, the perfection of God's relationship in our human life as Jesus was in his.

But to be of full value for all people in all ages these insights must be understood as illustrations and particular embodiments of general aspects of universal human experience.

I look at Jesus as more of a human embodiment of God, as if God took human form in order to show us how we are to live.

By enabling new flows of money, information and power on a world scale, the multinationals have succeeded in insulating themselves from both political and social constraints on their economic power, and thus have become an embodiment of the supreme value of economic efficiency over human values.

This is because the Church is the social embodiment of the relationship between God and Man that arises from the spiritual / physical / social constitution of human nature itself.

For the church as authority it should be said that the church at the heart of its being is the embodiment of the eternal purpose of God in human history.

Nonetheless, there is a difference between these uses of body and the world seen as God's body: the latter is not limited to Christians or to human beings and it suggests, as the others do not, that embodiment in some fashion be extended to God.

Several themes stand out in Mayernik's accounts of these cities: the persistence of a humanist sensibility grounded in sacred order (including what can only be regarded as a sacramental sense of the relationships among the human body, the city, and the cosmos); the role of memory in the life of traditional cities; the relationship between memory and artistic action; and the city as the physical embodiment of shared aspirations rather than «reality.»

He, the embodiment of the unique and final presence of God among men, plumbs to its depths the distress of our human life.

Most damning of all, America has become the very embodiment of that alienation, anomie, and dehumanization which is the curse of existence in a highly technological and urban society (Heidegger has remarked that, metaphysically speaking, America and Russia are the same, for here «time as history» has vanished from human life).

As John Paul often noted, the women saints are the very embodiment of this «feminine genius» for radical openness to God and the human person.

But we may still conclude that in the case of God's self - embodiment in the world there is a risk of tragedy because of the precariousness of the web of human relationships that would constitute at least one of the subsidiary levels of the divine indwelling.

Among those who shared this general analysis there was a division between those who placed emphasis on overthrowing the present system as a necessary precondition for the realization of a more human society and those who emphasized the present embodiment of a new style of life «in the pores,» so to speak, of the old society.

Admittedly, there is a rhetorical problem in our contemporary setting when Christians ground their sexual morality exclusively in a biblical understanding of human embodiment.

To put it even more «heretically»: If we understand that each of us is the embodiment of the Christ, the human aspect of God, then we can begin to realize that through us, some part of God must be just as tormented as unenlightened perpetrator, as «He» is as suffering victim.

Constitutionalism serves both as a conduit for shared international and local human rights and political values and the embodiment of those values.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

It is, in essence, a biblical reflection on the meaning and experience of human embodiment and erotic desire.

Most important, we have the human capital any top - tier global business is looking for; with 90 spoken languages, Brooklyn is the living embodiment of the United Nations.

this are the question that needs an answer from the police, i think is high time where all the State should prevent this Abokis from entering any of there state, Because some of them are Embodiment of evil, they don't need to be in the midst of humans.

In prior work, they identified several, previously unknown facial expressions produced though unique patterns of muscle movements, including the «not face,» a frown that they determined to be a universal embodiment of negation in human communication.

This film was a delicious slice of Americana kick - ass and Joe Don Baker is amazingly effective as the human embodiment of a Timex watch, playing a real dude Bufford Pusser.

Not a human, or a woman, D'Arcy Carden plays Janet as a living embodiment of a Siri assistant that appears whenever someone needs an answer, a jalapeño popper, or a catalog of their Earthly misdeeds.

Wahlberg stars as Boston cop Tommy Saunders, and I'm pretty sure he's really just playing the human embodiment of the City of Boston.

All hail Aubrey Plaza, an actress who's been proving she's far more than human embodiment of a deadpan glare — and someone isn't afraid to take things far, far out there.

At one point, she literally hurls Molotov cocktails at the police station, the simplified symbol of all that is noxious in bureaucratic inertia; in human terms, the decent - but - ineffective Willoughy is the embodiment of the police's laziness and contentment with itself, while the violent, hateful, and moronic Dixon embodies its corruption.

Thanos is perhaps best known for his lust and desire to please his dark mistress, the human embodiment of Death.

Ultimo and Vice are Karakuri Dôji, the mechanical embodiment of pure good and pure evil, devoid of human emotions that can cloud one's judgment.