Sentences with phrase «human encounters as»

Named after constellations that were in turn named after mythological figures, each painting is filled with movement, longing, seduction and elusiveness, evoking messy human encounters as well as the mysteries of stargazing.

Still, additional genetic analyses have typically led researchers to conclude that Homo sapiens arose in Africa and replaced the archaic humans it encountered as it spread out from its birthplace without mingling with them.

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@Chuckles I was not being hostile, but am just trying to point out that you are basically willing to conflate any similar cognitive errors such as we have as humans as being significant in any way in religious terms, should it happen that we encounter some alien species that also has idiots who think imaginary stuff is real.

Yet having encountered this fantastic tree with human features, readers can no longer look upon real trees as mere objects meant only for our manipulation.

On the plus side, he makes clear that Christian worship is an encounter in Word and Sacrament with the living Christ, who is present to the church by his Spirit and who forms the church as a divine and human communion.

Of course, we are engaging a Mystery in the deepest sense when we seek a direct encounter with God and existentialism has its serious limitations as do all human attempts at understanding; but I am drawn to Kierkegaard's insight into prayer:

They bring students into «the company of great souls» (TRL 11), confront them with «the questions that are central to human existence» (TRL 29), and so by the universality of that encounter provide them with a common heritage that serves as «the glue that binds together our pluralistic nation» (TRL 30).

A person's voluntary encounter with human suffering should always be viewed as a cry of protest and a testimony of hope against the overwhelming evil that one experiences.

The significance of this chapter (III) lies in its attempt to describe the human impression Jesus made upon people in a way clearly suggestive of the meaning Jesus has for faith, as if a human contact with Jesus were — at least potentially — an encounter with the kerygma.

Stephen Crites» remark on the most physical mark of human individuality, the face, as formed through encounter is a lovely comment on this point.

As long as love and loyalty, aspiration and hope, faith and dedication remain among men, so long will there remain an ultimate mystery in the divine - human encounteAs long as love and loyalty, aspiration and hope, faith and dedication remain among men, so long will there remain an ultimate mystery in the divine - human encounteas love and loyalty, aspiration and hope, faith and dedication remain among men, so long will there remain an ultimate mystery in the divine - human encounter.

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.

This is the risk of unfettered thinking whereby the human mind, as Augustine said, is stretched and stretched until eventually it encounters something that transcends and judges it, which is Truth.

Rather, in my view, they are most faithfully engaged with as a collection of books written by fallible human beings whose work bears the hallmarks of the limitations and preconceptions of the times and the cultures they lived in, but also of the transformational experience of their encounters with God.

As other denominations retreated from activism to a more pietistic inwardness, the UUs were already feeling disenchantment with encounter, sensitivity and human potential movements.

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.

In ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, as also in encounters with those of no religion, all participants are of equal human dignity but their beliefs are not equally true.

I have emphasized this historical responsibility as the framework of pluralism because it posits humanization and the questions related to the meaning of being human as the central theme of common concern in dialogue and action, for all those who are encountering the common historical responsibility.

Thus a human experience is not to be understood as a subject encountering an object.

As the gospels present him, Jesus conveys an astonishing empathy with the broken human beings whom he encounters; and it is only through this compassionate identification with their brokenness that he is able to become their healer.

Yet it is precisely because of this complete openness to all that is human, that the historian must open himself to encounter with humans who understand their existence as lived out of transcendence.

«Pastors often feel they can't be human with their own churches,» Keel laments as he shows me a thank - you card from a minister who said he had been ready to leave the ministry before encountering JW.

Perceiving Thomas in this way, Metz finds that «the worldliness of the world is not therefore originally conceived in a cosmocentric way as an already given, self - contained, and actual existent, which man encounters» 4 «Human existence — that is: ecstatic subjectivity; both — man and world — are synthesized a priori in the one being of man.»

I find this helpful to think of it as a process rather than some dysfunction or symptom an illness perhaps but what a normal healthy human being encounters.

But as a total context existential philosophy is methodologically too restrictive If faith can only be expressed in terms of human encounter, such that we are precluded from using any cosmological framework in expressing our understanding of God, then we have no way of appreciating God's activity and manifestation of concern toward the rest of the created order.

For Arthur Peacocke, the now deceased former Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre, the followers of Jesus encountered in him a dimension of transcendence which they could only attribute to God: «But they also encountered him as a full human person -LSB-!]

Peris saw the therapeutic relationships as an authentic encounter between two human beings, not a variation on the doctor - patient relationship.

This does not present us with facts of the past in their bare actuality, nor does it lead to encounter with human existence and its interpretation, but, as a sacramental event, it re-presents the events of the past in such a way that it renews them, and thus becomes a personal encounter for me.

But this takes place not by his reproducing the events of the past in memory, but by his encountering in those events of the past (as his own history) human existence and its interpretation.

So it is here on the historical Jesus, as he is presented to me by the texts and encounters me as a person through historical reconstruction, that the decision of faith is made, not on the risen Christ as I would have liked him to be, or as, for example, he is accessible archetypally to all human beings as a symbol of the self.

In virtue of its comprehensiveness as a metaphysical category, therefore, the term society is much more suitable than the term substance to describe the various ontological totalities encountered in human experience.4 Yet this key insight into the ontological actuality of Whiteheadian societies is easily lost from view unless one ponders what Hegel was trying to express with the somewhat elusive notion of Spirit.

For these reasons, I see the coming encounter and dialogue between humanism and theism not as the occasion for sour - tempered vendettas, but as another of those recurring interludes in the history of the race when the search for truth pits conscientious antagonists on the battleground of human thought.

The ground to be covered in this volume includes discussions of the biblical, historical and patristic understandings of the love of God and human love as they encounter both ancient and contemporary theology and philosophy.

What is encountered when the objectified language of the kerygma becomes transparent is Jesus of Nazareth, as the act of God in which transcendence is made a possibility of human existence.

«Listener to the Christian message, «2 occasional preacher, 3 dialoguer with biblical scholars, theologians, and specialists in the history of religions, 4 Ricoeur is above all a philosopher committed to constructing as comprehensive a theory as possible of the interpretation of texts.5 A thoroughly modern man (if not, indeed, a neo-Enlightenment figure) in his determination to think «within the autonomy of responsible thought, «6 Ricoeur finds it nonetheless consistent to maintain that reflection which seeks, beyond mere calculation, to «situate [us] better in being, «7 must arise from the mythical, narrative, prophetic, poetic, apocalyptic, and other sorts of texts in which human beings have avowed their encounter both with evil and with the gracious grounds of hope.

If in Jesus Christ we encounter one who is divine in the fullest sense — if he is the Son or Word of God who is of one and the same essence as God the Father — if he is «God the Son» — then can we also see in him one who is truly human, of one and the same essence as ourselves in respect of his manhood, as the council of Chalcedon expressed it?

His seminal work The Divine - Human Encounter (later republished with a new introduction as Truth as

Every day the conversion continues as I am changed by human encounters, the natural world and countless experiences that provide new insights into the nature of God.

Just as human personhood is not discernible at the level of the molecular interactions in our bodies, so God is impersonal when encountered solely in this dimension.

God withdraws and blends in, setting the stage for a free and historical encounter of humans with God as a single «Thou» in the drama of history.

His descriptions evoke the complex relationship between their respective processional paths, the architecture encountered along the way, the recollection of Rome's Imperial and Christian history, the reality of Rome itself as a Christian reliquary and pilgrimage destination, and the analogy between the human body and the city.

They would insist, as the Bible insists, as the life of faith continues to insist, that this epoch in Israelite history witnessed an intense series of divine - human encounters, initiated by God himself and effected by his Word.

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.»

St John's account of the resurrection and encounter of Jesus with Mary of Magdala in the garden where Jesus calls Mary by name becomes for Vanier a sign of hope for us all, and when the disciples react with disbelief and ridicule at Mary's good news Vanier is reminded of the tensions in all human communities that can only be transformed by living in the Spirit who is sent by Jesus as a sign of his undying love for his followers.

And just as in human contacts the new understanding created by encountering another in love and trust is kept pure only when it permanently retains its connection with the other who is encountered, so too the self - understanding granted by faith never becomes a possession, but is kept pure only as a response to the repeated encounter of the Word of God, which proclaims the act of God in Christ in such a way as continually to represent it.

(Schumann p. 186) But is there any point in analyzing human Being in relation to God if the relation between man and God is possible only as an event in the concrete encounter between man and God?

As we have said, the present position is an encounter.32 When persons or human communities meet, there arises a need to communicate.

Cf. Söderblom, Missionens Motiv och kulturvärde in ur religionens historia (Stockholm, 1915), p. l94: «Mission means that the encounter between the great human cultural types, that is the great povvers of human ideas, becomes as deep and central and manysided as possible.»

What matters to us here is that these virtues provide a general definition of civility — of the stance of a person who, as far as possible, is deliberately and carefully related (attentively and openly, veraciously and responsibly) to all members of the human race, so far as they are encountered in one's life, yet makes these relations the substance of a resolutely critical and independent personality.

I know God as neither male nor female, but as the Spirit Who lives in me and inspires me every moment of my life, in every situation I encounter, and in every relationship with another human being.