Sentences with phrase «encounters with nature»

However, the show's scale, Long's formal diversity, and his perspicuous responses to encounters with nature and culture should allow for that reading to be countered, suggesting a far wider reach and relevance to his practice.

Through human consciousness, sublime encounters with nature uncover individual subjective processes.

Frankenthaler was often inspired by encounters with nature, referencing landscapes through rich color and dynamic brushstrokes.

If sometimes the works remain resistant to interpretation, the artist's gestural marks, vibrant colours and evocative titles such as Storm Cloud and Sundown, invite contemplation about encounters with nature.

The participating artists in Embodying have been influenced by issues of identity and community, literature, pop culture, and encounters with nature.

In is in the memories of her encounters with nature that Ducommun's work originates.

There are multiple options for all kinds of visitors: from family oriented experiences to spend some quality time, to action - packed, water - splashing activities for adrenaline addicts and sports lovers; close encounters with nature and St. Maarten's magical flora & fauna (including underwater sightseeing!)

This may include bare - foot walking, close encounters with nature, and sensory exploration.

Even our most seemingly direct encounters with nature can not be excluded: that peculiar red in the sunset is neither part of the permanent outer» fixtures of the world nor a product of rule - governed «inner» constructions.

Dillard re-enacts the journey of many 19th - century English and American romantics who sought to construct a poetry of nature that was actually a record of their own interior lives stimulated or prompted by encounters with nature.

The human encounter with nature is far too ambiguous and complex to be subsumed under the single emotion of fear.

Fuller's is the kind of notion that attracts Dillard in all her work, from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek to Teaching: a metaphor to describe the human encounter with nature.

The concerns expressed throughout this book are not derived from any nakedly unhistorical encounter with nature, since this is not a possibility in any case.

As we lurched up and down the bumpy wooded ruts following our close encounter with nature, the new off - road aids performed well.

No matter which one (or all) of these activities one chooses to do, trip to Belize provides an exciting opportunity to have a close encounter with nature.

Snorkellers can also enjoy this encounter with nature.

An eco-friendly and carbon neutral resort, Tabacon places a big emphasis on turning the guest experience a close encounter with nature.

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Tenzing gives us a very personal encounter with nature without being disruptive to the marine environment.

Combine the thrill of a ride aboard the Ocean Raft, with an unforgettable encounter with nature on the dolphin watching tour.

Rejecting tradition, they favored bold, abstracted forms that broke free from the illusion of depth, creating simplified and stylized landscapes that expressed their personal, subjective encounter with nature and response to the region, rather than trying to imitate the exact visual appearance of a location.

Chae's works accompany the encounter with nature and life, like the delight of meeting a flower in a tranquil place, while walking through a forest.

Yellowstone Hike (Clear Lake Trail) captures the essence of the artist's encounter with nature through a unique narration comprised of each visual component of the trail — rocks, mud, sky, moss, bridge — and its corresponding Pantone swatch of color.

Not exact matches

Over the last few years, GoPro's users have captured, uploaded, and viewed a vast library of previously impossible footage containing everything from record - breaking BMX jumps to back - breaking encounters with Mother Nature to the flight of a seagull.

He also is encountering, appreciating, and enjoying nature, but in a much different way, for a much different purpose, with a much different result.

The early encounter of the Christian witness with prevailing Hellenistic philosophical notions about the nature of God was of crucial importance in establishing the universal relevance of the Judeo - Christian story about God's dealings with humanity.

Here, of course, we encounter the formidable element of human freedom of action, of which it is endlessly repeated that its unpredictable interference with the established proceedings of Nature threatens constantly to disrupt and frustrate them.

At first they may be taken merely as aesthetic moments, such as communing with nature, savouring memories andimages, meeting mysteries, the heightened sensing of musical sounds, odours, colours, the thrill of acute poetic expression, or moving encounters with other human beings; but on further reflection people often cite such experiences as having a spiritual quality and as hints of the divine.

It is not enough to receive it as the occasion of an encounter with God (although it is) or as an invitation to join up with God's plan for human liberation (also true) or a host of other redefinitions of the nature of biblical authority.

By «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name of love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows of his relationship to human beings in history, and especially in the recorded utterances of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this life, by virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Rom.

We may say with orthodoxy that in encountering the person of Jesus we encounter also his nature as deity, but then we have no basis for affirming God as Person.

The discussion of the nature and relevance of the Christian faith therefore always plays some part in bringing us into encounter with that deepest reality in life we call God.

15.13), a God with «future as his essential nature» (as E. Bloch puts it), as made known in Exodus and in Israelite prophecy, the God whom we therefore can not really have in us or over us but always only before us, who encounters us in his promises for the future, and whom we therefore can not «have» either, but can only await in active hope.»

The chief reason for this criticism was that Niebuhr considered myth to be the primary language of the Bible in its description of the dynamic nature of history (both its beginning and its end) and the encounter of the self with God in freedom.

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

11 In God's covenant with Moses and, through Moses, with the people of the exodus, the being of God acquired «an explicitly personal character» 12 that countered anthropomorphizing tendencies «primarily through the experience of the infinite superiority of the divine nature to all merely human attributes and capacities — an experience which marks every encounter with the divine in the Old Testament.»

Referring to the relatively stable, common or garden «sense - data» which certain forms of minding produce (in their encounters with «nature - in - the - raw»), Whitehead observes that «We enjoy the symbol, but we also penetrate to the meaning.

Using examples from mythology, Scripture, theology, and philosophy, Rollins shows how mankind has long been interested in speaking of God in these terms, to the point that «instead of thinking about our understanding of God as a poetic utterance arising from an encounter with God, it was thought that our understanding of God directly matched up with the very nature of God.

It is as simple as that», while perhaps the most substantial of the offerings is «The Spiritual Senses», a series of reflections on the nature of interior apprehension which contains a comment on Saint Bonaventure neatly summing up Dom Hugh's whole approach: «For him the recovery of the spiritual sense is part of the re-ordering of the human person that comes through the encounter with Christ.»

A first point seems to me to be this: to overcome [the] false idea of man's autonomy as an «I» complete in himself, whereas the «I» is fulfilled in the encounter with the «you» and «we»... It is fundamental to recover a true concept of Nature as the Creation of God that speaks to us... and also of Revelation: recognising that the book of Creation, in which God gives us our fundamental orientation, is deciphered in Revelation, which is endorsed in cultural and religious history, not without mistakes, but in a substantially valid manner, to be further developed and purified anew -LSB-... fostering] openness of the «I» to the «you», to the «we» and to the «You» of God.

Citing Solzhenitsyn's prose poems, Mahoney shows that Solzhenitsyn's loftiest theme is the soul's encounter with eternity in experiencing the grandeur of Nature (a reflection of Solzhenitsyn's «green» side) and in listening to the haunting beauty of church bells ringing in the countryside, reminding mortal men of their heavenly home.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

In the encounter with the world and with sin it can take on certain values that are dissonant with its real nature; the substance asserts itself and slowly discerns the alien character of these things and as necessary rejects them or modifies them so as to adopt them purified.

The little book under review here contains an account of Cobb's encounter with the limits of nature and history, and of his pilgrimage into a new activist, pro-ecological stance.

A few weeks ago, I corresponded with Jonathon Colman, the associate director of digital marketing at The Nature Conservancy (and possibly the most intense user of social media that I have ever encountered).

There are many companies that offer whale watching tours during this time, so pick one that suits your fancy, and prepare yourself for your first encounter with one of nature's most majestic creatures.

Much more complex than what Realism mainstreamed as «human nature», insights from neurobiology inform us differently about the building blocks with which human beings encounter whatever environment they are brought into.

«President Buhari recalls, with fond memory, his many encounters with the former Vice President over the years, and his lovingkindness, peaceful nature and deep commitment in seeing Nigeria become one of the greatest countries on earth.

In a study whose results were published in Nature last July, physicist Ali Yazdani used a powerful microscope to track electrons as they encountered stairlike barriers on the surface of antimony, a material that shares several characteristics with topological insulators such as bismuth telluride.