Sentences with phrase «image of the body as»

The late Colombian conceptual artist Miguel Ángel Cárdenas moved to Holland in 1962, became Michel Cardena, and immediately started to shed his deep - seated image of the body as shameful and indecent in favour of a sculptural practice that incorporated the use of genetilia, tubes, zippers, spongy materials and bold colours.

The image of the body as a soft fruit blurs the boundaries...

Not exact matches

As an international fitness instructor, Nike Trainer, and former founder of Fiterazzi, a health and fitness magazine focused on positive body image, she's always been an advocate of inspiring others to move.

The men were told to look at the images for as long as necessary to make their judgments, and longer time spent looking specifically at the faces and bodies of the gay male couples was taken by the researchers as another sign of attraction to men.

Based on a 3D image such as an MRI scan, Aspect's machine builds relatively complex organic structures out of a «hydrogel» embedded within cells taken from the body and grown in a cell culture.

Still, Johnson notes that the work of restoring Lululemon's image as a retailer that fits every body remains, and it may be that only a blatant public apology from company executives (aside from Wilson) will do the trick.

With four years of experience as a competitive sprinter, I believes that our motivation to train should be positive rather than negative; instead of training because of a negative body image, we should focus our energy on training like athletes, aiming to be the fittest, fastest and strongest version of our selves.

Three - year - old Aylan, whose body washed up on a beach in southwest Turkey, drowned along with his mother and brother among a group of migrants trying to make it to Greece and sparked global reaction as images circulated the web in September.

20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four - footed beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.

To regard the ordinary embodied experience of men and women as theologically significant in a positive way is to receive all these images of physical delight, of beauty and ecstasy, of human growth and nurture, of the contact between human persons that the touching of bodies can make possible.

These twin factors converge in passages that picture the church as a Body, and so in the minds of many, the Body is the main image for the church.

«The Christian vision of the human person made in the image of God with a spiritual soul as well as a body is of central importance.

His self - image will be colored by his unresolved conflicts and fantasies about his body, as well as his perception of how you really feel about him.

The human body is always treated as an image of society....

Miller, along with many others who are convinced of the shroud's authenticity («shroudies» as they are sometimes known), believe that the clarity and three - dimensional nature of the image show that it was caused by a strong burst of radiation from the body lying beneath the cloth.

What Teilhard has given us in his vision of the «within» is a revolutionary idea and image of the church: here the church becomes understood and affirmed as a new and cosmic body of humanity.

Although Plato nowhere employs that exact image, he does speak of the soul as residing in the body as if in a prison and of the body as the sepulchre of the soul (see Phaedo62B3 - 4, Gorgias493A2 - 3, and Cratylus400B11 - C10).

The point that most excites me about Father Heisig's essay is the new and revolutionary meaning that he appears to bring to the ancient image of the church as the body of Christ.

The questions addressed the moral role of TV celebrity chefs in the food waste debate as well as body image, food poverty and the role of the Christian faith in the overall debate.

The hermaphroditic blasphemy is a generated or vegetated Christ and a virgin Eve — the orthodox image of Christ, for the Church castrated Jesus when it locked the memory of his generation in the image of a virgin birth, just as it dehumanized and falsely spiritualized his body in its belief in the ascension.

On one side of the coin the new trend for artists to talk about issues such as faith as well as mental health, police brutality, racism, body image and fatherlessness is a refreshing shift from the materialistic, consumerdriven rhymes which hip - hop has become notorious for.

Indeed, we may not cherish each other's body and life as we ought unless we discern in one another the image of the God who calls us to himself.

One of its core metaphors is «logos», or, the image of Word becoming enfleshed and acknowledged as the presence of the «Word's Body».

The doctrine of forgiveness, the doctrine of the Cross as a symbol of redemption, the myths and the mysteries surrounding the human body and human sexuality, the identification of sin and temptation with femaleness, the Image of God, the mind / body dualism that devalues female life, the depreciation of creation... these are some of the problems Christianity poses, giving subtle sanction to the violence women experience.

Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.

Images of the aftermath of the strikes in northern Syria appear to show the bodies of children as young as three.

Yet Wilson is guilty of some over-interpretation here, as, for example, when he writes: «We hardly need to dwell on the psychological significance of the Wardrobe in the first story; we do not need, though some will be tempted to do so, to see in this tale of a world which is reached by a dark hole surrounded by fur coats an unconscious image of the passage through which Lewis first entered the world from his mother's body.»

And at yet another point, we are told that, although evangelicals can not accept all of what process theists mean when they say that the world is «God's body», there is a «striking parallel» between the process concept of «God's self - embodiment in a redeemed world» and «the biblical image of the church as the «Body of Christ»» (1body», there is a «striking parallel» between the process concept of «God's self - embodiment in a redeemed world» and «the biblical image of the church as the «Body of Christ»» (1Body of Christ»» (111).

Both images of the crucifixion and images of the lactating Virgin visualize bodies as capable of communicating Christianity's central message — God's love for humanity.

But, continuing with the thought of God's self - embodiment in a redeemed world, do we not find a striking parallel with the biblical image of the church as the «Body of Christ» (I Cor.

As the human nature of Christ is the perfect image, in the Son of Man, of our own identity and holiness, our wholeness in body and soul through God, so in the order of the spiritual soul, the Divine Being itself, as pure and perfect spirit, is the mirror image of our spiritual perfection, now and unto the beatific visioAs the human nature of Christ is the perfect image, in the Son of Man, of our own identity and holiness, our wholeness in body and soul through God, so in the order of the spiritual soul, the Divine Being itself, as pure and perfect spirit, is the mirror image of our spiritual perfection, now and unto the beatific visioas pure and perfect spirit, is the mirror image of our spiritual perfection, now and unto the beatific vision.

Second, the emphasis on identity tends to conflict with the original Christian expression of resurrection in 1 Corinthians: Paul's image of the earthly body as the seed of the heavenly body.

Her images of the world as God's body and her models of God as mother, lover, and friend of the world illuminate the more philosophical understanding I derive from process theology.

The holiness of Yahweh conveys Isaiah's intense practical monotheism: in his call he hears the attendant seraphim (presumably — we are not certain — images of winged creatures with serpentine bodies) praising the holiness of Yahweh as glory filling the whole earth.

The model of the world as God's body encourages responsibility and care for the vulnerable and oppressed; it is a nonhierarchical image that acts through persuasion and attraction; it has a great deal to say about the body and nature.

That clause has a long history of interpretation that I shall not review here, but it certainly does not mean and has never meant the American state has no interest in or concern for religion, or churches either, for that matter, and it certainly does not me and politics have nothing to do with each other.8 To the extent the «wall of separation» image leads to those conclusions it distorts the entire history of the American understanding of religion and leads to such absurd conclusions as that religious congregations should have no tax exemption and legislative bodies should not be opened with prayer.

Christians tend to be very conscious of socially orientated perfectionism when it relates to trends in culture such as body image, fashion or materialism.

One might perhaps be justified in inferring that Ratzinger senior has become more favorable than Ratzinger junior to the Body of Christ as an image of the Church.

If we disengage ourselves; if with courage and trust we release our hold on what we have been conditioned to believe was the immutable form of the church; if, to use a newer Testamental image, we lose our life, ecclesiastically speaking; then we may in fact gain our life as Christ's living body.

Vatican II by no means rejected the image of Body of Christ, or Mystical Body, but it subordinated all the images, including «People of God,» to the theological concept of the Church as sacrament, which Karl Rahner called the Grundidee of Vatican II's ecclesiology.

In responding to this opportunity, churches are discovering deeper meanings in the New Testament image of the church as the body of Christ (1 Cor.

Just as an eye that can not see (where sight is the «form» of the eye) is like a statue or an image of an eye more than like an eye, so a body without a soul is something that looks like a body (like a statue of a body) but isn't one in fact.

Man, created in God's image, has spiritual existence, not as something added to his bodily substance, but as the expression of that concrete body - mind unity which he is as a person.

So when Paul begins to really emphasize in chapter 12 the image of the church as the Body of Christ, his readers will have understood that they are all in this together.

I can understand how more sensitive souls could see it as one big, harsh, body - image - trashing slur, but if you can take it lightheartedly, it's really a great read, full of important points and good ideas.

These images are then compared, which helps to eliminate the background effect caused by the product itself and improves the detection of lower density foreign bodies such as fan bones in chicken, bone fragments in meat, or glass and stones in added value meat products.

O'Neal wants to learn how to use the digital image software to transfer a picture of his face onto the body of an old man, just as a goof to e-mail to some friends.

Dr. Hafeez masterfully applies her years of experience connecting psychological implications to address some of today's common issues such as body image, social media addiction, relationships, workplace stress, parenting and psychopathology (bipolar, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, etc...).

It would be easy to dismiss the naked experimentation as exhibitionism, but I'm sure some riders may have been struggling with their body image or health concerns; for some it may have been a healing process from being bullied, targeted, or abused; and perhaps others simply wanted to walk through the wall of a conventional boundary.

Rather than addressing the real reasons women don't breastfeed - reasons that range from histories of sexual abuse and body image issues to economic and physical constraints - the campaign «portrays anything short of exclusive breastfeeding... as a sign of moral corruption and bad character....