Sentences with phrase «from ordinary human experience»

He was so far removed from ordinary human experience that Christians needed an intermediary in order to relate to him.

And finally, an important observation is furnished by Bronislaw Malinowski, who describes the transition from ordinary human experience to religious experience and belief as a «breaking point» to which the human organism reacts in spontaneous outbursts, and in which rudimentary modes of behavior and rudimentary beliefs are engendered.15

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The word which the apostolic community used and offered to us is the word «resurrection,» hardly a term derived from or consonant with our usual conceptuality or our ordinary human experience, however rich and varied.

Instead, we shall pass from the first to the fifth way, showing in each case how the existence of God can be known with certainty by reflecting on ordinary human experience.

Hence the meaning of what is said can be illustrated by an ordinary example from human experience.

Katie Paterson manipulates two basic human sensesof sight and smell to unbind viewers from the reality of geography and allow them to voyage into outer space and experience the universe beyond the ordinary reaches of our spatial perception.