Sentences with phrase «human mode of existence»

One may understand the personality of God as His act — it is, indeed, even permissible for the believer to believe that God became a person for love of him, because in our human mode of existence the only reciprocal relation with us that exists is a personal one.

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Every people has its culture, whether primitive or advanced, and this culture is discerned in the folkways and moral standards, forms of family life, economic enterprises, laws and modes of dealing with lawbreakers, forms of recreation, religion, art, education, science, and philosophy that constitute the social aspects of human existence as contrasted with the bare biological fact of living.

One response to this situation is to understand Christianity as the creation in history of a new and in some sense final mode of human existence.

In Romans, Barth said that the Word of God can be uttered only when the predicate Deus revelatus has as its subject Deus absconditus31 The vast ocean of so - called reality that is the profane world of a completely autonomous mode of human existence has left the island of the sacred completely submerged.

In the most complete way possible, we may dare to say, we have the assurance of life in and with God, in the mode which preserves both the integrity of the divine nature as Love and also the value and worth of our finite human existence.

The conviction that there is a diversity of structures of existence as well as a diversity of modes of existence within each structure is partly a function of reflection on human differences and partly a function of a priori considerations.

However, this «new kind of reality,» who is Jesus, is an emergent manifestation of God in human life emanating from within creation: «a unique manifestation of apossibility always inherently there for human beings by virtue of their potential nature being created by God... a new mode of human existence emerged through Jesus» openness to God making him a God informed human being» (ibid).

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What distinguishes the structure of existence in Jesus» situation from that of the contemporary Christian can best be broached, Cobb suggests, through an analysis of the pronoun «I.» This «I,» we are told, is to be identified with both reason and the passions as the two dominant modes which have always characterized human psychic activity.

Encounter with other visions of reality, religious and secular, and their correlative modes of human existence, introduces attention to other elements of common reality and their increased effectiveness in one's life and thought.

We know very little about the first epoch of human history, that four million years or so when humans lived in an oral mode, because during that period they left almost no records of their existence.

Technology is, in essence, a mode of human existence...» [xvii] «It remains true, nonetheless, that man in the technological age is, in a particularly striking way, challenged forth into revealing» to the degree that such revealing «reveals the real as standing - reserve.»

Because of the precarious nature of heroism and genius we esteem them more than the everyday modes of human existence.

By concentrating on experience in the mode of presentational immediacy, Buddhism is led to empty the environing world of real significance for human existence.

It is not an optional mode of existence but is integral to the human status.

«Forager groups are a good place to start, because for much of human history we've been occupied with their mode of existence,» she said.

He often collaborates with communities and his works highlight alternative modes of human existence, solidarity and action.

Known for his interdisciplinary and inquisitive approach to art making, Graham delves into modes of critical thinking and human existence through photography, film, and performance — often times blurring the distinctions between these mediums.

Mikhail Karikis (Greece / United Kingdom) has a background in art, architecture, and music, and often collaborates with communities to create projects that highlight alternative modes of human existence, solidarity, and action.

The press release uses the metaphor of a leech appropriating human life to stay alive where we «enter into another mode of existence.»

He collaborates with communities connected to places of production to generate site - specific performances to camera which explore the role sound plays in creating a sense of collectivity, highlighting alternative modes of human existence, work and action.