Sentences with phrase «human realm with»

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Of course, Cardinal Kasper is right that theology is a human enterprise, done by humans with intellectual and personal histories and dispositions, and not just a participation in a Platonic realm of ideas.

Participation in and enjoyment of such unserious activities as writing, singing, praying, contemplating, and dancing help to bring human beings into contact with an order of reality that stands apart from the realm of human making.

Whatever its origin — and I myself agree with Wellhausen and others in attributing the identification to the primitive Christian community, as their least inadequate and only possible term for one who was thus both human and divine and yet not God (which would have been unthinkable in their realm of ideas)-- whatever its origin, this first great step in the advance of Christology was of endless significance for the later development of Christian doctrine, and it was of paramount importance for the Gospel of Mark.

According to our present knowledge of physics, as already pointed out, the Second Law of Thermodynamics presents us in the material realm with the picture of a running - down universe which will ultimately be impossible for human life.

The separation of various realms of human endeavor and activity common to Western individualism does not fit in with the organic, interconnected worldview informed by Russian Orthodox spirituality.

But as «spirit» the human soul simultaneously belongs to another realm of being, the realm of immaterial forms, and as such is contrasted with other formal principles of nature, so that its ontological status is altogether different.24

The moment of passage into the spiritual realm is not something that can be observed with research in the fields of physics and chemistry — although we can nevertheless discern, through experimental research, a series of very valuable signs of what is specifically human life.

That realm of nature which used to be beyond human understanding and control, with which, therefore, one could only establish a creative relation by means of this hypothesis «God», is now more and more being conquered by reason and technique.17

Undoubtedly a certain insight was promoted in regard to such questions as how the papal primacy and the episcopacy founded by Christ can exist and work together in the Church, how the necessity of the Church for salvation is compatible with the possibility of salvation of a human being who does not belong to it, how in the realm of grace each of the regenerate can depend on every other and so above all on Mary, while there is nevertheless only one mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ.

NOT!!!!! Some questions are simply out of the realm of Human capacity, and I am fine with that.

That's what the Greeks and later Michelangelo and the sculptors he most deeply influenced were about: elevating the human figure above the realm of optical phenomena and thereby endowing it with a more visceral presence, a deeper aesthetic resonance, and a greater emotional significance.

While the human realm, «the moderate Aristotelian city / Of darning and the Eight - Fifteen» still remains filled with the same old drudgery, and we still remain weak, ignorant and often silly, our attitude toward the world and ourselves must remain open to wonder and possibility.

From Plato onwards, philosophers have sought to escape from the anxiety of personal freedom by searching for certainty and objectivity in a supra - human realm, whether it be that of unchanging Platonic Forms, or in the inexorable unfolding of some grand historical design, or in an eternal life with an omniscient, loving, supreme Being.

The Bible reflects, with an astonishing realism, the existence of man as a creature living in the realm of time and space, and subject to change and development; and this makes it curiously relevant to human life, in its complexity, as we have to live it.

In order to complete this rescue operation, however, existentialists posited a distinct realm for humans, one radically discontinuous with nature.

Fr Coyne thus risks confusing the complementarity of the distinct realms of determinism and freedom; this complementarity is inherent to human, self - conscious, creative engagement with our deterministic environment - an engagement which modern science exemplifies in such an important way.

From our human, everyday perspective, which no doubt is our concrete perspective (all others being more or less stretched or «abstract»), the richly diversified realm of life appears permanent, with abiding character.

It is the realm of art: the effort to express by one's chosen medium the inexpressible, something of the wonder and mystery with which human life is suffused and sub merged.

Thus to bring the inner realm of man's freedom and the whole outward task of human culture and social advance into one religious unity, with a clear ethical imperative and sustaining hope, was the supreme achievement of the liberal Christian mind.

And as for the pre-existence of Christ, with its corollary of man's translation into a celestial realm of light, and the clothing of the human personality in heavenly robes and a spiritual body — all this is not only irrational but utterly meaningless.

There are two groups of humans on this planet — 1) those who choose to transcend base existence, and 2) those who do not & who are reckoned with the animals of the realm.

It is my view that all human beings come to the realm of human civility with ultimate assumptions about the purposes and ends that run through human history.

Conversely, a contemplative religio - cultural and ecclesiastical agenda for theology was preoccupied exclusively with the specificities of the energy that flows from the God - human encounter; it neglected the fertile activity of God in the other realms of the world.

10 Certain recent discussions of environmental ethics, dealing with «respect for nature» (where nature is not necessarily limited to the realm of living things), reflect some affinities with Hall's ideas on «deference» and seem to pose a challenge to my suggestion that the pursuit of power over nature should be criticized primarily in terms of its negative effects on human values and experiences.

But by locating revelation in the realm of transcendental subjectivity, or on a plane radically discontinuous with actual human events, they have removed it from a more challenging proximity to our historical existence.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

Modernity is represented by three forces - first, the revolution in the relation of humanity to nature, signified by science and technology; second, the revolutionary changes in the concept of justice in the social relations between fellow human beings indicated by the self - awakening of all oppressed and suppressed humans to their fundamental human rights of personhood and peoplehood, especially to the values of liberty and equality of participation in power and society; thirdly, the break - up of the traditional integration of state and society with religion, in response to religious pluralism on the one hand and the affirmation of the autonomy of the secular realm from the control of religion on the other».

Our editorial argues, among other things, that the object of modern science is not a radically delimited subset of the physical realm, and thus that scientific methodology, properly understood, is just a part of that exercise of human reason which is ultimately in profound synthetic harmony with faith.

We both accept, I think, these four related things about human knowing: (1) sentient experience of «physical things» is intrinsically infused with objective meaning, purposefulness and value; (2) flowing out, of this and intertwined with it is, at least for humans, «cognition» of the physical, and moral experience of such value; (3) this moral experience and engagement reveals the spiritual realm as something foundational to and «abstractly distinguishable» from the physical realm — values for Ward, mind for me; and (4) one piece of evidence for making such a distinction is the uniquely «publicly....

In these noetic realms of rational skill, moral imperative and aesthetic delight — of encounter with the true, the good and the beautiful — other forces are at work to draw out and enhance distinctive human potentialities.

By associating «God» with human emotions, you enter the realm of sophistry, not spiritual proof.

The polity, more than most realms of human action, deals obviously with ultimate things.

Guadalupe provides the spark which will allow the people to rise out of the realm of death like the Phoenix rising out of the ashes of the past — not just a return to the past but the emergence of a spectacular newness.10 In sharp contrast to the total rupture with the past which was initiated by the conquest - evangelization enterprise, Guadalupe provided the necessary sense of continuity which is basic to human existence.

Nature is seen as an unspoiled realm of spontaneous harmony that is to be found by getting in touch with the world outside of human intervention.

I don't want to delve deeply into the realms of human biology again but it's similar to exercise: your body will automatically respond with an increased heart rate and blood pressure before you start exercising once you do it on a regular basis and this can be applied to sleep.

As Peter W. Singer's argues in his seminal book Wired for War, this prospect does not belong to the realm of science fiction: we are amidst a revolution in military warfare, with digital and robotic technology increasingly replacing human decision in contemporary warfare.

«As a Deputy Chair (C / S) it lies in my realm of responsibility to lead the EC team (the directors of Finance and Human Resource, Senior Staff and the Union) in collaboration with the Public Services Workers Union (PSWU of TUC).

Since the space age began, the orbital realm has become increasingly littered with the detritus of skyward human striving — spent rocket boosters, dead satellites, stray pieces of hardware.

From bloodless wars (fought with cyborg - controlled robots) to apparent mind reading, the cyborg age could change the meaning of being human and thrust us into another evolutionary realm.

Begley and Doidge wade against this current with a strong message of hope: By recognizing neuroplasticity as a real and powerful force, we can tilt our theories of mind back into a realm where choice and free will are meaningful concepts, and where radical improvement to the human condition is possible using the right, scientifically proven techniques.

As a scientist who, as a teenager was enchanted with the concept of a molecule that instructed our inheritance, I am awed and astounded to be among the first to look across the billions of bases of DNA landscape of the black - footed ferret, an opportunity seemingly beyond the realm of possibility less than a human lifetime ago.

If you missed it, I posted a short but very nice Primer on Resistant Starch yesterday, which I highly suggest you read as a prerequisite so that you're generally familiar with the critical importance of this in the realm of general health for the 100 % of you, and not just the 10 % of you that are your human cells.

Except, «Annihilation» exists outside the realm of previous human experience, allowing Garland to toy with still other (im) possibilities — including the atavistic fear of how our bodies work on a microscopic level — by turning the characters» very DNA against them, while doing even stranger things to their minds.

And it means spending quality time with some of the most human, street - level, flesh - and - blood characters you're likely to encounter anywhere in the television realm.

Along the way, the whole realm of human emotion and community experience is chronicled, satirized, critiqued, and explored, with Kurosawa at the peak of his artistic powers.

There's a whole new world to explore in Planet 51, and the best principal gag the movie can come up with in the whole realm of possibilities available to a strange, undiscovered planet is that the native beings of the planet think of a human being as an alien.

WHAT: When an evil sorcerer named Gul» dan (Daniel Wu) sends a small war party of orcs through a portal to the peaceful realm of Azeroth in the hopes of conquering the land, the human forces — led by King Llane (Dominic Cooper), heroic warrior Anduin Lothar (Travis Fimmel) and powerful magician Medivh (Ben Foster)-- scramble to defend their kingdom with the help of Garona (Paula Patton), a human / orc half - breed who must decide where her true loyalty lies.

There's Ben Foster's wizard Medivh also called The Guardian and Paula Patton's Garona (a part human / part orc former slave) brought to earth by a master, that allies with the humans during the Orc invasion from another realm (please don't correct me if I got that wrong).

After a brief down period following the Apollo missions, NASA re-entered the realm of human space flight with the Shuttle Program.

Whatever livelihoods the students someday choose, Stanford's educators believe they will need to work with people from different countries, in different languages, in the realms of business, politics, and human understanding.