Sentences with phrase «even primitive»

So, even this primitive model was successful, and newer ones have not deviated much in sensitivity since then.

Douglas Max Utter reports in The Cleveland Free Times: «Chilton's six crisp, introspective oil on canvas paintings are engaged in a search for some word, some clue, trapped between paint, canvas, and simple, even primitive formal ideas.

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Comprised of brusquely rendered abstract and representational pictographs, the expressive, even primitive appearance of A.R. Penck's pictorial language belies the paintings» deeply conceptual underpinnings.

Using the beginner programming language Scratch, a little grown - up help and a purpose - built kit (sold separately), adolescents can create their own games, music composition programs and even primitive robots.

The electro - mechanical device may look simple, even primitive compared to today's technologies.

They may, instead, be a symbolic restraint, even a primitive form of courtship.

The report «provides hope that even primitive tissues made from stem cells will one day restore the function of dead or diseased organs in patients,» he adds.

That, too, is unusual, especially given that on the tree of life, even primitive anaerobic fungi, like the three that underwent genome sequencing in this study, are evolutionarily much closer to humans than to bacteria.

Cloth diapers have been around for centuries (even primitive ones made of animal skin!)

The uniquely Christian Revelation in theTrinitarian and Christological Mysteries provide the spiritual paths that speak most deeply to me although I find many valid insights in other spiritual traditions, especially the Eastern Religions and even primitive shamanism.

Even primitive societies were aware of it, and it inspired not only feelings of religious awe (many expressions of which are found in the Bible itself) but also the earliest attempts at mathematical science.

It is simple murder and would not have been allowed by even primitive biblical justice.

Knowing there exist a divine, supernatural God (even if not monotheistic), is something even primitive ethnic groups know that they know.

Not exact matches

«It is safe to say that most are reluctant to even consider eating insects and, moreover, that they perceive the practice to be associated with primitive behaviour,» the report concluded glumly.

For lobsters, it's less clear if their primitive nervous systems and brains even know what pain is.

AR, even in primitive forms such as the mobile phone game Pokemon Go, has had much broader adoption, pointing to even bigger potential as hardware advances.

Even the most eccentric reconstruction of presumably primitive myths can provide the avant garde with a place to stand in opposition to Christianity and Western culture, which are, at the same time, declared to be both thoroughly discredited and powerfully holding humanity in thrall.

Even at this primitive stage of humanity's relationship with God, Abraham learns that God does not want his son to die, but rather it is God who will provide the sacrifice Himself.

Primitive minds can't even understand the creations they have created in their own minds and here we are in the modern age and these nuts still carry no clue on how to even associate the «why» of giving a name onto their magical friends.

It is noteworthy that Luke omits the whole pericope, also that the outlook of the pericope is the same as that of the passion announcements, and even agrees with them in style: the Son of Man is to «rise,» not — as elsewhere in the primitive tradition — to «be raised»; but first he is to «suffer many things» — a5 in 8:31.

Certainly primitive Christianity can not be perfectly understood without taking full account of all these items, and one may fairly question the legitimacy of any interpretation which does not make them even «essential» to Christianity's existence in the first century.4

A contemporary faith that opens itself to the actuality of the death of God in our history as the historical realization of the dawning of the Kingdom of God can know the spiritual emptiness of our time as the consequence in human experience of God's self - annihilation in Christ, even while recovering in a new and universal form the apocalyptic faith of the primitive Christian.

(Genesis 22:1 - 18) «Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt - offering» — such is the command, representative of ages of primitive custom, which Yahweh lays on Abraham.

actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same with religion, thousands of years ago when there was no science yet, primitive people had a religion, of course man made faiths to conform with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But with the accelerated evolution, these faith again is threatend with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang

Earlier Christians could greet the world as the creation, as a contingent realm deriving its ultimate meaning and reality from a transcendent Creator, even though the primitive Christians looked upon the world as the old creation, an Old Aeon that even now is coming to an end.

Nor are the figurative modes of expression simply to be explained as didactic devices designed to assist a primitive hearer's comprehension, for even to him much could have been differently said without prejudice to his understanding.

Even in the work of harmonization, however, there may be found the influence of a primitive unity, preserved in the memory of generations in spite of different editorial tendencies.

Intuitively, they seem to know that God and that mountain are connected; perhaps they even assume in a primitive way that God dwells on that mountain.

But even more Important, the direction in which this «historical section» is interpreted is in terms of the Sitz im Leben of the historian, rather thanin terms of the Sitz im Leben of the primitive Christian.

They try to be whole - hearted cavemen, to give loose rein to their primitive instincts, but even if they do not encounter the laws of man they face that higher half of themselves, their Dr. Jekyll who regards their Mr. Hyde with ashamed contempt.

This is because these shared values are a necessary component of society, even in its most primitive form.

He supposed that our mental phenomena are derivative modifications of primitive elements and that even elementary particles have a certain mental quality.

He chases a chimera, so it is said, because even if it should be deemed desirable, it is not possible to penetrate beyond the amassing of facts and data, into the «secrets» of primitive or oriental religions.

Unless we are to suppose that there is little or no correlation between the initial aim and the final form of the subjective aim — a very strange supposition — we must assume vast differences in the initial aims derived from God by a primitive man and by an Einstein, or for that matter, between myself as I drop off to sleep in the evening and as I write these words.

It's really, really, really not just primitive voodoo, even though it resembles it in sooooo many ways.

The primitives had no clocks and may not have even had the sense of time passing in the way that we experience it so their account wouldn't indicate the passage of time in a way that we would recognize.

Otherwise, I'll assume that no one here has even a mildly curious hypothesis about how and why different prehistoric people all came up with creation stories that are crude and primitive narratives of the multi-billion year creation theories that we bandy about today.

The rationale of sacrifice in general may of course throw some light on the theory of the atonement, but even so, what a primitive mythology it is, that a divine Being should become incarnate, and atone for the sins of men through his own blood!

Some sayings of such a character are indeed attributed to him in the gospels, but they originated in the faith of the church — and none of them even in the primitive church, but in Hellenistic Christianity.

Over the course of three seasons, the crew also questioned American Imperialism when the crew arms a group of vulnerable primitive aliens with flintlock rifles, possibly sparking generations of conflict, and one cast member even references botched foreign policy «of the early 20th century.»

Modern critics have made us aware of the difficulty of identifying in the Gospels the primitive and presumably authentic reports of Jesus» words and of the uncertainty which must attach to any particular finding even when the most expert and careful scholarship.

For if anything is clear to the average modern Christian with even a casual knowledge of the New Testament, it is, first, that «radiant» is hardly the word he would think of to describe his own religious life or that of his contemporaries, and secondly, that no other term characterizes so well the life of the primitive church.

As Professor A. F. Taylor has insisted in The Faith of a Moralist, all «working» religions which hold sway over the great multitude of men tend to be «revealed»; and even in primitive expressions of the religious impulse something of the idea of «revelation» is to be found.

Many people call themselves athiests, but they are wrongly interpreted: Atheists think the bible and religion is highly fallible, and given that extreme volatility it is silly, maybe even dangerous (as has been shown) to believe in the unclear texts of primitive corruptable people who had no knowledge of the universe.

What we have in Paul is a further, and very distinctive, development of the primitive Christology, partly on the basis of pre-Christian Jewish and even syncretistic — that is, partly pagan — speculations (Paul's contact with the pagan world of his time is recognized in most modern studies; indeed, it is sometimes exaggerated.

As to method, the older view was rooted in the traditional ecclesiastical theory of Mark's derivation from Matthew — which modern Synoptic study completely reverses — and it took for granted a conception of «Paulinism» which made the Apostle to the Gentiles responsible for everything in primitive Christianity which could not be squared with a crass, reactionary Christian Judaism; it completely ignored the development of a Gentile type — or types — of Christianity apart from and even prior to the work of Paul.

The adverbial mode of perception must be understood as a response, a response that has some identity or correspondence with the patterned processes playing upon the organism but that, at the same time, is not unambiguously reproductive of these energetic activities.5 Even though some originative activity may occur at this primitive level of physiological responsiveness, it is holistic in nature.

This explains what seem to us the strange and horrible sacrificial rites of primitive peoples; they are seeking to find something that they may present to their god — their best gift, even if it meant the offering of the bravest man, or of a treasured possession, or of some animal of flawless quality.

In principle, life (in a generalized sense) and mind were there all along, but in primitive forms, much more primitive even than in a single plant cell.