Sentences with phrase «human response to the experience»

I see each of the enduring religions as emerging as a human response to the experience of God.

Not exact matches

The classical response to nonmoral evil we have been discussing begins by affirming «C» omnipotence in relation to humans and then argues that there do exist good reasons to believe that such a moral world would include instances of genuine nonmoral evil and plausible reasons for assuming that such a world would have the types and amount of genuine nonmoral evil we presently experience.

For it is not in rational explanations about God — explanations that fit our systems of knowledge and our human categories of experience — that we learn who God is and how to love God; it is in the response, «I am the Lord's servant.»

And the religious response to this suspicion is in each case the same: the formulation, by means of symbols, of an image of such a genuine order of the world which will account for, even celebrate, the perceived ambiguities, puzzles and paradoxes of human experience.

Hence the implication of Ramban's words is that weeping is an appropriate response, not an excessive one, to the human experience of separation.

To recognize the factual nature of values as responses of actual human beings in actual or imagined situations is to remain on the solid ground of experience which all can understanTo recognize the factual nature of values as responses of actual human beings in actual or imagined situations is to remain on the solid ground of experience which all can understanto remain on the solid ground of experience which all can understand.

The immediate implication of this, which is really my second statement in shorthand form, is that the Bible is thus a human product, namely, the response of two ancient communities to their experience of the Sacred.

This means that religion in general, and the Bible in particular, must be taught as human cultural responses to the experience of the Sacred.

The fact is that Abelard was trying to say, with his own passionate awareness of what love can mean in human experience, that in Jesus, God gave us not so much an example of what we should be like but — and this is the big point in his teaching — a vivid and compelling demonstration in a concrete event in history that God does love humanity and will go to any lengths to win from them their glad and committed response.

However much we may try to blame somebody or something else our human associates, our human situation, our past experience, and the like — the human response when most perceptive is to say that «I am accountable».

Tillich holds that theology must start from the «questions» implied in human existence and the «answers» experienced in human life in response to revelatory events.

The main objectives of this Consultation were to analyze globalization and its impact on human rights; to study ethical and theological considerations with regard to globalization; to search for alternative development paradigms; to study the policies of developed nations on development and trade policies in the context of globalization; to gain inputs on the experiences of indigenous people, workers and farmers who are affected by globalization; to consider the response of the Churches to the challenges posed by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian context.

By extension every good deed, every struggle for justice and deliverance from oppression, every effort to care for and show concern about those who are in need, will be not merely a reflection of the divine mercy and righteousness but also an instrument for the bringing about of just such shalom or «abundance of life» for God's human children, So one might go on, almost without ceasing, to show that response in faith to the action of God in this vivid moment has its implications and applications for the whole range of human life and experience.

It is my conviction that whoever has a human face can experience richness of experience, at - one - ment, healing and a passionate response to ultimate concern.

In the course of history such assumptions have changed — at least partially in response to changes in science, though also in response to changing views of other area of human experience.

Nevertheless, they are modes of response of persons to experienced realities, and they must be judged on the basis of their success in disclosing the qualitative possibilities of human experience.

Whitehead's response was to consider how in human experience there can be a kind of redemption of past suffering and sin.

I read an article once that said when a human gets stressed, her hypothalamus sends a message to her adrenal glands and triggers the same response her very distant ancestors would have experienced upon getting chased by a tiger.

Didn't he need to learn and experience what it means to be human, to be subject to emotions, desires and temptations, to learn how to control the natural responses to those, to grow into an adult, before he could teach us?

Some may believe that the most reasonable response to some of what we as humans experience — for example, changed lives or unusual events — is to assume that God unilaterally intervenes at times in earthly affairs and thus conclude that any theistic perspective that does not allow for such intervention must be considered inadequate.

The prayer of thanksgiving is the human response to this combined experience.

Can it be that we are neglecting the fact that no other human experience calls for so direct and intimate an involvement of another person's body in response to one's own?

The importance of human response leads to the theme that human experience and praxis are vital to theology (Ogden, Suchocki, Stone, Walker, Moore, Young).

In spite of the common understanding that process theists limit God to persuasive action and evangelicals affirm that God acts coercively both sides agree that God ordinarily works in human experience through mutual interaction, or persuasion (Hasker, «Response» 41).

These lists and specific references in other essays identify six similarities: (a) God is understood as love involving God's presence in human experience and God's response to that experience, (b) human existence depends upon God's grace and that grace makes humans free, (c) humans respond to God resulting in the fulfillment of God's intentions in the concrete experiences of individuals, (d) knowledge involves more than subjective sensory experience, (e) experience broadly understood is crucial for theology, and (f) reality is characterized by diversity and relationality.

The pre-Socratic response to this experience was essentially poetic: not an attempt to devise a hierarchy of categories by which to capture the event in a cage of human concepts but, rather, an attempt to name the event of being in its mystery, with an almost childlike innocence, in a language of purest immediacy.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

Human brains develop in response to experience, and conversely, they do not develop without it.

However, some mice experienced dangerous levels of brain swelling, a side effect of the immune response triggered by the engineered cells, the researchers said, adding that extreme caution will be needed to introduce the approach in human clinical trials.

Findings about the brain circuits that control the behavioral and physiological responses are assumed to explain how humans experience fear.

Psychologist Pamela Dalton, a member of the Monell Chemical Senses Center observes that, although humans don't appear to have innate responses to these odors, we do learn to associate them with our experiences.

Subsequent studies in animal models that are thought to mimic the human experience indicate RSV inactivated vaccine induces an increased CD4 + T lymphocyte response, primarily of Th2 cells and the occurrence of immune complex depositions in lung tissues [32], [42], [43].

His lab has extensive experience evaluating and modulating T cell responses to tumors and viruses, including introducing genes into T cells to impart specificity and modulate function, designing strategies to overcome tolerance and enhance in vivo activity, and developing mouse models that more accurately model human immune responses to candidate vaccines.

Well, you'd have to experience it for yourself, but Dr. Helen Lavretsky, a psychiatry professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA told the New York Times that participants will often experience «deep mental and physical relaxation» that would «increase the parasympathetic autonomic nervous system tone» and decrease the stress response.

«But keep in mind that humans are highly suggestive: Sexual response and sexual chemistry have a lot to do with emotion, and so if these women are paying money for a treatment, they may very well be experiencing a powerful placebo effect.»

In response, he has spent the last decade studying how to improve health and the human experience.

We know, like Hopkins, that age will alter her innocent responses, and that life holds more than pure joy, but rather that «sorrow's springs are the same,» that loss is basic to the human experience.

In response to this fundamental shift in the human experience, educators are beginning to take a closer look at what video games can teach them — and their students.

Of course I wish that she had known the warm feeling of a human petting her, had experienced elevator butt and the rumble of a purr in her throat in response to those pets.

He is equal parts animal behaviorist and human psychologist (the latter became especially important as Brian had to manage the very different responses and skill levels of me, Tony and his daughter who was nervously monitoring our experience from the West coast).

In use reports, Clove seems to have a wonderful benefit of reducing human responses to airborne allergens, and many people who experience severe symptoms when they enter a household with animals, do not notice the same reaction in households diffusing Clove regularly.

We leverage those base human responses for players to connect to the experience.

Kerr goes deep into the biological and scientific definitions of fear, rather than dismissing the experience solely as an emotion... «Every organism, from the fruit fly to the human, has a defense or threat response,» she reminds.

Consecrated Reality speaks of the impulse to create as a ceremonious response to the human experience.

By using his mother tongue and an indispensable measure of humour, his works appear to offer bite - sized responses to human experiences like failure and success.

But I go on to say that my reporting on behavioral research explaining human risk reactions and responses (or the lack thereof) has been the most unnerving experience of all:

Michael Schlesinger, a climate scientist at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, with decades of experience studying and teaching about global warming, read the post on psychoanalysts» exploration of the human response to climate change and responded with a query, as follows:

But I go on to say that my reporting on behavioral research explaining human risk reactions and responses (or the lack thereof) has been the most unnerving experience of all: Read more...

A continuing negative feedback carbon cycle response, in conjunction with restraint on human emissions, plus some luck with experiencing the lower ranges of climate sensitivity, could lead to climate change of, let's say, 2 °C.

This is a point that has been mostly lost in the cacophony of commentary about the messiness of human experience and unpredictable responses to sexual assault or violence.