Sentences with phrase «existential act of»

But we need to remember also that the faith we personally appropriate is the faith of the community, and this means that even the most internalized, existential act of personal commitment will bind us into a communal relationship of shared belief with others.

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For the substance - dependent person, each act of use involves a series or chain of choices and behaviors mediated by a variety of cognitions (automatic thoughts, cognitive distortions, permission - giving beliefs, core beliefs / early maladaptive schemas, etc.), which interact with emotional states and past learning, strongly reinforcing «self - medicating» for emotional and existential pain.

It is the experiential insight that gives succor to man's deformed yearning (sehnsucht) for perfection in life, and it reveals to us that «God can not be contained within reason, because what he does goes beyond reason,» therefore the initial anticipation of the revelatory act / reality is signaled by the existential realization that God's «unnecessitated» love for us as created being, both corporately and individually, makes transparent «God's gift of Himself.»

Jean - Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir wrote about gratuitous crimes as acts of existential purity.

Bultmann, on the other hand, insists that this proclamation of the saving act in Jesus Christ must be retained and restated within existential terms.

The full love act, therefore if God so will, takes in both the ideal of the essential self and the existential self.

So transferring the existential valence of existing to «actuality»» has the logical effect of reducing our ordinary sense of «existing» to that of «self identity» and so picture the act of creation as one of adding existence to already constituted individuals.

If then it be true that we can not speak of an act of God without speaking simultaneously of our own existence, if such an act can not be established apart from its existential reference, if it dispenses with the objectivity attainable by impartial scientific investigation (e.g. by experiment), we inevitably ask whether divine activity has any objective reality at all.

Survival is the implicit goal of characters in horror films, but a certain subset of these films are able to turn the act of survival into an existential quest, a powerful statement of defiance against the vagaries of the unknown.

This is a basic question that returns again and again, and it lays the foundation for the themes of existential paranoia that Garland dives into during the last act of «Annihilation.»

He loses his intellectual block and chooses an existential act which despite its repugnance to society does a world of good for the college teacher.

SYNOPSIS: A philosophy professor, in the midst of an existential and a moral crisis, commits an irrevocable act of murder.

Following on from the arrival of a UK poster this past weekend, a new international trailer has debuted for Woody Allen's Irrational Man, which you can watch below after the official synopsis... Woody Allen's IRRATIONAL MAN is about a tormented philosophy professor who finds a will to live when he commits an existential act.

Between the embarrassing attempts at dark humor and the ludicrous development of a full - on zombie apocalypse in the final act, «Life After Beth» is so bad that it's hard to believe it was made by the same guy who co-wrote David O. Russell's underrated existential comedy, «I Heart Huckabees.»

From the embarrassing attempts at dark humor, to the idiotic and unexplained development of a full - on zombie apocalypse in the final act, «Life After Beth» is so bad that it's hard to believe it was written by the same guy who co-wrote David O. Russell's underrated existential comedy, «I Heart Huckabees.»

If the publishing industry is acting irrationally, it may be because ebooks represent an existential threat to bookstores and to a part of the industry that can not be duplicated or replaced online.

One mainstream is represented in the works of Matisse, Picasso, and Monet: expressing beauty, sensuality, primitive power, painterliness, opticality, art as the conveyor of emotion primarily thru color, the spiritual archetypes of Jung, art as the an uplifting sensibility, art as a depiction of idealized life, art as a depiction of everyday (existential) life, and the act of painting itself.

His work was not just about copying and the act of appropriation: it was also an existential gesture made by a realist artist, speaking through a figurative language of his relationship to his subject matter.

Fox paints hybrid portraits — humanoid monsters and existential figures — often posed behind a canvas, as though in the act of their own creation.

As the specter of iconoclasm continues to resurface in current events, «The Keeper» will present the complex lives of images and objects that have escaped a tragic end alongside the existential adventures of individuals driven by unreasonable acts of iconophilia.

Stimulated by existential queries and investigations into what - ifs, each one of his artworks acts as a vessel to tell a new story, all collectively fitting into an overarching narrative where fictions and realities collide.

Ms. Hartigan, a friend and disciple of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, subscribed to the Abstract Expressionist notion of the painterly brushstroke as existential act and cri de coeur but, like de Kooning, she never broke entirely with the figurative tradition.

An act of psychomagic in its own right, this existential and artistic project is the love child of two artists who are separated in age by over forty years.

It has always been thought right to know oneself and to act accordingly, and in existential psychology this form of authenticity is seen as central to mental health.

Since then, Pachauri has raised the specter of large - scale population displacement and the existential threat that global warming poses to low - lying island nations, while arguing that large, industrializing countries such as China and India will not act on the issue before the Western world curbs its own greenhouse gas emissions.

Within a warm and collaborative therapeutic relationship, I adopt an eclectic approach which includes elements of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Gestalt, Existential and Humanistic approaches using positive psychology and strengths - focus themes.