Spiritual existence has brought into
human history depths of both good and evil that are impossible in any other context.
Not exact matches
A tradition that came from, went back to the
depths of the
human race; a
history, an absolute, an honor required that the floor be kept clean.
History, as well as the society of our contemporaries, is in the same case — not enough is known of
human «
depths», as the psychoanalysts put it, for any appraisal to be entirely accurate.
What is needed today, I believe, is the radical attempt to work Out a theological pattern for Christian faith which is in the main influenced by process - philosophy, while at the same time use is made of what we have been learning from the existentialist's insistence on engagement and decision, the understanding of
history as involving genuine participation and social context, and the psychologist's awareness of the
depths of
human emotional, conational, and rational experience.
When they encounter the actuality of suffering and injustice, the impurity of even the best motives, and the mutual destructiveness even of a relatively virtuous people, and when they discover also the
depths of sin which erupt on a massive scale in
human history from time to time, they are overwhelmed by the incongruity between what is and what, at some deep level, they feel should be the case.
God is beyond all the
human limits of time and space; God is in the heights and in the
depths of life, but most uniquely to the Jewish people and the Jewish mentality, God is Yahweh, the Lord of
history.
Of late he has been plumbing the
depths of what makes
humans animals madness and murder in Spider and now rage and violence in A
History What is interesting is that this is a project that uses the idea of violence and rage atop an emotional distance, to create a world that is like a twisted mirror of our own.
Jeff Bark's monumental photographs plumb the
depths of a collective
human experience in the manner of
history painting's grand masters, from Titian to Jacques - Louis David, while drawing from the tradition...
It's saddening to think that humanity must sink to its darkest
depths before reality sinks in, but let us hope that this tragic moment in
human history is a wakeup call for all of us.