Sentences with phrase «human sense of mystery»

What does «revelation» mean in relation to our pervasive human sense of mystery?

What is the relation, if any, between the human sense of mystery and the Christian's belief in a special historical revelation?

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Of course, we are engaging a Mystery in the deepest sense when we seek a direct encounter with God and existentialism has its serious limitations as do all human attempts at understanding; but I am drawn to Kierkegaard's insight into prayer:

At first they may be taken merely as aesthetic moments, such as communing with nature, savouring memories andimages, meeting mysteries, the heightened sensing of musical sounds, odours, colours, the thrill of acute poetic expression, or moving encounters with other human beings; but on further reflection people often cite such experiences as having a spiritual quality and as hints of the divine.

This realization, perhaps combined with the aboriginal human «restlessness» of which Augustine spoke in the first paragraph of the Confessions, has engendered in many a new and (even when it is packaged in tinsel) entirely earnest search for some sense of transcendence and mystery.

Religiousness in this broad sense of an encounter with «mystery» seems to be a most durable aspect of our human situation.

Perhaps aspects of them, such as their ethical implications, may be compared, but as total approaches to mystery, to human existence, and to the world, it makes little sense to say that one is clearly better than another.

Its power should not be underestimated: natures fresh to sexuality can have a purer sense of the mystery of the body and a spontaneous understanding of the true relationship ofbodily actions to human love.

Rock can get religion only if it is already in some sense religious — which it is, due to its commitment to the irreducible mystery of the human voice.

The «religious» sense that there is a dimension of incomprehensible and inexhaustible mystery beyond the immediately given world has been predominant throughout most of human history.

We need a renewed sense of the mystery of the human person and the limits to our own efforts at shaping and transforming character.

Moreover, the human body in itself is in some sense sacramental and it is from this perspective that John Paul wants to study the human body as a theology, as a sign of the spiritual and divine mystery.

The «sense of mystery, spirituality, and aesthetic beauty» which supposedly accompanied childbirth «throughout human history» is mostly a figment of NCB advocates» imagination.

Here, the sad sounds aren't quite so soothing, but that human element of Portishead gives them a sense of comfort, just as it intensifies their sense of mystery, for it is the flaws — often quite intentional — that give this an unknowable soul and make Third utterly riveting and endlessly absorbing.

We believe that poetry shouldn't clarify, rather it should convey a sense of the mystery of the human imagination.

From sinister unsolved murders or the exploits of slavers to the realms of the supernatural, and the mysteries of the human mind, these tales heighten the senses and take you back to those childhood fears that we are all drawn to once again when the lights go out.The tales are presented from a rediscovered manuscript by Sidney Wainwright's friend Archibald Jerome along with his recollections of the illusive man himself, who is perhaps a deeper mystery than any of the stories.

My intention is to create artwork that evokes this sense of transcendent mystery and purpose and to imbue my work with a vulnerability and vitality that reflect a human condition, emotion or state of mind.

Belgian artist, Michaël Borremans, creates mystery on the canvas through figurative painting, filing inanimate objects with a sense of humanity, and obscuring the life from any human forms.

I hope that the viewer senses a discovery, beyond words, and is touched by the mystery of human existence that my work explores.