Sentences with phrase «human search for meaning»

I hope our theological experiment in Asia in the coming century will be a modest contribution to the human search for the meaning of life and eternity in the world of transition and temporality.

In Berdyaev's protest we have an intensely religious point of view that disassociates the human search for meaning from strict teleology.

However distinct Christian revelation may appear to be, it is still linked to the long human search for meaning and mystery upon which our earliest human ancestors embarked as long ago as the Old Stone Age.

Serious social scientists have no professional vocabulary to deal with the mystery of death, the human search for meaning, the moral struggle, the primacy oflove or the drama of salvation.

When the believer confesses his faith in God and affirms that he belongs to God, he affirms that this mysterious God is also the one who gives final significance to nature and to history, the one who gives meaning to the human search for meanings, the one who is the explanation of the fact that there are explanations.

Not exact matches

De Waal recently published a book called «The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates,» which synthesizes evidence that there are biological roots in human fairness, and explores what that means for the role of religion in human societies.

What Whitehead thus provides for us in the search for the meaning of love is a perspective on the world which opens new possibilities for conceiving the divine love and human loves.

Orthodoxy is being able not only to repeat the same teachings but also to show their relevance to the new context.2 Other individuals, on the other hand, interpret religious beliefs as merely expressions of the human community's search for some kind of meaning, an accumulated source of information built up over the years as the community reflected on its life and activities.

What, if anything, undergirds our persistent, human quest for meaning and prompts our search for a truly personal and integrated humanity?

Before searching for the perfect piece of the puzzle to complete you, understand that we're all broken and meant to be filled by Christ, not another human being.

So, it was not just the small group of Jesus» followers who were confused about the future; many in Roman society were searching for a system of meaning that would make sense out of their experience of human life.

I would also agree with you that it is very human to search for meaning.

Once the internal contradictions of the secular project become apparent, people will begin to search for something that can provide a foundation for the self, morality, human dignity and meaning.

The problem of modern man is not that of finding deliverance from the unseen powers of evil, or from the burden of guilt, but is the search for meaning in human existence.

William A. Johnson believes that the search for transcendence is prompted by the desire for a «deeper and more profound meaning of life and for a sensitizing and intensification of human experience» (The Search for Transcendence [Harper - Colophon, «974]» search for transcendence is prompted by the desire for a «deeper and more profound meaning of life and for a sensitizing and intensification of human experience» (The Search for Transcendence [Harper - Colophon, «974]» Search for Transcendence [Harper - Colophon, «974]» p. 1).

«Once the internal contradictions of the secular project become apparent,» Woodfinden writes, «people will begin to search for something that can provide a foundation for the self, morality, human dignity and meaning.

One needs to search for it within the context of a wholesome outlook of its deeper meaning, sensitivity to the hidden riches characterising human thought and knowledge.

They are subject to interpretation since they are human products, and only in humanity and its creations may we search for meaning.

This article, however, simply attempts to claim a monopoly (for theism and religion) on the search for meaning and human closeness.

What you meant to say is «searching for intimacy, and closeness to another human».

``... Unconsciously, we narrow our focus... What gets lost from sight are other things that motivate human beings: their search for meaning, for a sense that their world is not out of control, for a conviction of their own worth, and beyond this, for a sense of their own moral goodness.

On the contrary, the human search for knowledge and love is essential to the human condition and takes on ultimate meaning in light of the communion of Trinitarian persons.

In terms of the long human search for adequate representations of the universally intuited dimension of mystery we may now gain more understanding of what Christian theology means by a «special» historical revelation.

I might add that while I think that Bergman's diagnosis of the human condition is telling and provocative, I find his vision a bit too pessimistic and his understanding of love too simplistic to keep pace with those of Christian theology (cf. my Ingmar Bergman and the Search for Meaning [Eerdmans, 1969]-RRB-.

To be consonant with the Word of God, philosophy needs first of all to recover its sapiential dimension as a search for... the ultimate framework of the unity of human knowledge and action, leading them to converge towards a final goal and meaning (para. 81)... to verify the human capacity... to come to a knowledge which can reach objective truth (para. 82)... Hence we face a great challenge at the end of this millennium to move from phenomenon to foundation, a step as necessary as it is urgent.

SpaceX announced last year that it plans to get people to the Red Planet by 2024, but the battle over what humans» arrival would mean for the search for life on Mars will probably reach a fever pitch this year.

«But [searching for such flaws] is just a short - term fix because more powerful hardware and larger data for training means that future AI models will be able to capture all these properties and be truly indistinguishable from human - authored content,» Zhao says.

These preprogrammed behavioral patterns make bimanual searching possible, meaning the robot can look for cucumbers as a human would.

As he wrote in his bestselling book Man's Search for Meaning, «It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make - up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds...»

We have a professional reputation which is obliged not only to an abundance of dynamically developing means for acquaintance and entertainments such as instant messenger, internal mail, winks, extended search and catalog of photos but also to the human participation shown to all our Caribbean visitors.

, because, as teacher Amy Seefeldt explains, even though Frankl is an atheist, «He says that at the core of human existence is the search for meaning.»

Kunzru's lively, hugely ambitious novel explores humans» desperate search for meaning — whether it be through drugs, religion, computer programming, or UFOs — within the chaos of life, both modern and ancient.

A novel about a man's search for meaning that illuminates our deepest concerns: love and death, marriage and family, and the mysterious tug of beauty on the human heart.

Rather, we believe it works because investors are human and, as they search for a signal in the noise that surrounds the stock market, they often attribute too much meaning and overreact to information that proves to have little to do with the long - term value of their investments.

We've searched for products without to no avail., so we chose to go with the best quality (used for all the finest human foods) yogurt coating we could find that meant containing sugar over maltodextrin or another sucrose.

Viktor Frankl, neurologist, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor, said in his wildly popular book Man's Search for Meaning, «Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.»

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The search for meaning — a purpose that radiates beyond the limited confines of the self — lies at the center of all human interaction.

«The Power and The Glory» is a means of commenting on the search for fame, which gives power and calls for some thought on vanity, which establishes the terms of our human condition.

Some songs are personal and some draw from the collective choir of humanity, some are lyrical ballads and some are melodic improvisations, but all speak to our universal search for meaning in the face of this most difficult and unifying aspect of human experience.

Within the pursuit of artisan craftmanship, Derek's figures are captured in moments of contemplation, anguish and the search for meaning and comprehension of being human during challenging times.

Environmentalism, whether it is setting fire to laboratories (so much for science then) or campaigning for laws to restrict human freedom, is a desperate search for meaning, in the same way that setting fire to things is a desperate attempt to assert control over a confusing world.

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Victor Frankl, a psychologist and a former Jewish prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp, explains in his book Man's Search for Meaning, that human beings can endure unimaginable suffering if they see a meaningMeaning, that human beings can endure unimaginable suffering if they see a meaningmeaning in it.

Recruiters, hiring managers, and Human Resource departments use computer searches and applicant tracking systems to flag resumes worth looking at, and that means they use keywords to search for the ones they'll be interested in looking at further.

The second dimension, search for meaning in life, concerns the need for intently seeking a valued life purpose or mission and a greater meaning in life and originates from human intrinsic motivation (Frankl, 1963).

This means that the listings that appear on a website are viewable to human visitors, but not to the search engines that scan a site for content.