Sentences with phrase «human encounters in»

Dirty Looks invites us to question the currency of the spoken word and human encounters in a digital world.

In doing so, liturgy also becomes an arena in which the multifaceted traces of divine - human encounters in their relatedness to the world are preserved and celebrated.

Not exact matches

And later, after encountering a large truck parked in the middle of a side, a human driver was forced to take over.

Every minute I was engrossed in a virtual interaction I was not involved in a human encounter.

Certainly, though, a superior level of humanity will be required to make wide - ranging decisions and consistently act in the best interest of actual humans involved in work - related encounters in fully automated environments.

@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.

Two questions come immediately to mind: (I) whether real human kindness and sympathy are, or can be, encountered in the slaughterhouse, in the circus and the rodeo, in the forced captivity of wild animals in zoos, and in pain research in biomedical laboratories, and (2) whether our abuse and destruction of members of other sentient species for our benefit alone can be a truly moral goal for mankind.

I find meditation, and compassion for self to be conducive to what you talk of with loving God and mankind — sometimes in mysterious, unfathomable and transcendent ways, encountering the power to open up men and women to each other and God in love peace justice and human dignity.

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:

Evolution and the Fall is a collection of essays from a multi-disciplinary and ecumenical group of authors, which sets out to address «a set of problems that arise from the encounter of traditional biblical views of human origins with contemporary scientific theories» (p. xv)-- not, one might add, in general, to answer them.

It covers over the conflicted ambivalent character of human personality with a seamless robe, and gives us authentic security in the encounter with God.

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.

The locus of the new faith was in concrete human relationships and encounters.

So abstract and general a statement, however, not only oversimplifies the long and complicated process it endeavors to describe but, in particular, neglects the natural human opposition which so high an estimate of personality encountered — the endless doubts, cynicisms, and denials with which this emerging estimate of man's value was inevitably met.

I've written about some of my experiences before — meeting a six - year - old forced to memorize and recite the Westminster Confession at dinnertime, nearly losing my faith over the notion that God created the majority of the human population for no other purpose but to suffer in hell for eternity, and encountering the famed «Jonathan Edwards is My Homeboy» T - shirt in the midst of the so - called «Calvinist resurgence.»

«13 The God of the Bible encounters human being in the midst of worldly activities, at the strongest point.

«The excessive segmentation of knowledge, the rejection of metaphysics by the human sciences, the difficulties encountered by dialogue between science and theology are damaging not only to the development of knowledge, but also to the development of peoples, because these things make it harder to see the integral good of man in its various dimensions.

Sam — I do not intend to draw this out... but just wanted to briefly share that I am a retired ELCA pastor who has done a great deal in Human Relations / Encounter Group / T - group training and more recently with Emotional Intelligence - Human Relations Institute (EQ - HR).

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 encounter.

The capacity for candor, confrontation, and encounter may be grossly truncated in one who has an inordinate fear and avoidance of human conflicts.24 It is fitting to learn to provide resistance and critical negation to that which stands in enmity to the peace of God (Ps.

«1 In fact, the idea of God is not invented by the philosopher but encountered in human history so that it can not be sustained by merely logical constructioIn fact, the idea of God is not invented by the philosopher but encountered in human history so that it can not be sustained by merely logical constructioin human history so that it can not be sustained by merely logical construction.

«2 Therefore, philosophy of religion must balance itself between the extremes of a philosophy that cuts itself off from religious experience and a religious stance that segregates itself from philosophical reflection.3 The search for a philosophy of religion is a search for total world - view in which the idea of God encountered in human history is thoroughly integrated.

The deepest reality we encounter in human existence is not our own image in the mirror, for that is no encounter at all.

Some human transactions — for example, a business deal — are adequately fulfilled in a brief encounter.

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.

And, he explicitly argues that this «traditional conservatism,» which is by the way, not an ideology, has the potential to address the age - old problems related to political science, while implicitly suggesting the possibility of recapturing man's tensional existence in the Platonic Metaxy, thereby restoring the order necessary to illuminate the divine - human encounter.

Prayed politics, then, permits our public lives to participate in the central mystery of Christianity: human / divine encounter.

The experiential dimension does not involve immediate intuition of a personal God even though God is directly present within human experience.21 For if religious experience consists exclusively in such an immediate encounter, then there is no broad foundation of agreement to which one could appeal.

It has deeply enriched my appreciation of the universal reach of the human spirit to encounter giant intellects and cosmic spirits in Asia and Africa.

If it has not become so already, surely it is now obvious that our consideration of Radha's and Krishna's relationship has brought us to encounter the issue of eroticism and sexuality in the human - divine love relationship.

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 truIn 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 truin encounters with those of no religion, all participants are of equal human dignity but their beliefs are not equally true.

The «parlor» Freudians, those who chalked up every aspect of the human condition to the fulfillment, or lack of same, of all sexual encounters, were merely silly — although to be sure in some cases consequentially so.

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.

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.

Christians of all ages and churches have encountered in their reading of Scriptures socially appointed, institutionally recognized priests, prophets and apostles, but also extraordinary, «natural» or «charismatic» leaders — non-Levitical priests, prophets without human appointment and apostles chosen like Paul.

This open - eyed trust is at base a trust in existence itself despite the difficulties we encounter in making our human share of it authentic.

The scene in which the divine - human encounter takes place is not, to be sure, a flat earth canopied by a heavenly tent; the scene has become stranger and vaster.

Then God's act in revealing himself is no longer an encounter between the divine Person and the human person, but an act worked upon a purely passive entity that insight equally well be a dog or a stone.

The implied polemic in this humanistic approach to preservation is against nostalgia, antiquarianism, idolatry of the past; against mere prettiness and artificiality; against restoration that ignores contexts and the human stories that were worked out in past encounters with the holy.

But in all humility and sincerity Christians can join with others in seeking solutions to human problems, trusting in the lord of the world whom they encounter in Jesus Christ and in their fellow human beings.

Nowadays this worry is often expressed by speaking of Barth's supposed «extrinsicism,» that is, his presentation of the Christian faith in terms of an encounter (or collision) of divine and human wills in which creatures are kept separate from God's being.

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.»

Our faith becomes more meaningful only when we live in encounter with fellow human beings.

And any claim or belief that we see more or more deeply is always rightly going to be tested in those encounters where we find ourselves working for a vision of human flourishing and justice in the company of those who do not start where we have started.

God freely and completely bestows the Godself in the encounter with humans, yet remains ineffable because we creatures are incapable of fully receiving or understanding the one who is imparted.

«7 Sartre acknowledges that»... freedom requires a given «8 and that the for - itself is not «its own foundation «9 and that there is freedom only in a situation and that»... human reality everywhere encounters resistence and obstacles which it had not created.

Religiousness in this broad sense of an encounter with «mystery» seems to be a most durable aspect of our human situation.

MacIntyre's position is, I think, similar to his characterization of Rosenzweig's in Edith Stein: «We do not begin with some adequate grasp of the concepts of knowledge and truth and in the light of these pass judgment on whether or not we know something of God or whether or not it is true God exists, but rather it is from our encounters with God — and with the world and with human beings — that we learn what it is to have knowledge of what truth is.»

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.