But the thesis is still the same — namely, that there are standards of worth by which these products can be evaluated and that a proper goal of human life is to engage
in creative activity in loyalty to these standards.
Not exact matches
Whether it's
in business, education, or even
creative and collaborative enterprises, people now turn to team building
activities as a sure fire way of bringing people -LSB-...]
«We found that
in general, the more you engage
in creative activities, the better you'll do,» said the study's lead author Kevin Eschleman, an assistant professor of psychology at San Francisco State.
If it's your
creative energy that is drained, make it is the only
creative activity in your morning.
In their experiments, they asked participants to brainstorm
creative ideas during two short intervals — between five and 10 minutes, depending on the
activity.
Being
creative in my link building
activity actually gives me quality and valuable links which somehow pays off for my efforts.
Along with being a top college destination, key industries
in Massachusetts include finance, renewable energy, defense and
creative and maritime
activities.
Macneil - Brown describes the
activity as a
creative and positive way of getting consumers interested
in a serious message, which is fully
in - keeping with The Body Shop's brand DNA.
The principle of conformation expresses «the stubborn fact that whatever is settled and actual must
in due measure be conformed to by the self -
creative activity» (S 36), and also assumes that «universality of truth arises from the universality of relativity, whereby every particular actual thing lays upon the universe the obligation of conforming to it» (S 39).
God's
creative activity exists, then, first andforemost
in the underpinning of reality's very existence, its being held
in being.
We do not think of His acting as an occasional intervention coming from the outside, but rather as the transcendent
creative activity of God who alone makes it possible for our world to «hold together» and to rise,
in accordance with His plan, step by step higher, so that really new things appear
in it and finally man appears
in it.
But from the viewpoint of
creative activity considered
in relationship to phenomena, ontogenesis and phylogenesis are
in like case.
What is required by the criterion of human integrity is that occupations be so defined that manual work is also a rational pursuit and an opportunity for constructive imagination, that symbolic skills may be exercised
in clear relation to material necessities and
in the light of moral responsibilities, and that
creative professional
activities will be conducted with a vivid sense of the realities of nature and the canons of reason.
As he transfers portions of his
creative activity to the present, he is continuously creating himself anew
in the distant future.)
Aware of God's call to a share
in his
creative activity, man grows
in the consciousness of his responsibility to make that response possible.
Unfortunately, this renaissance of the past century and a half has been seriously restricted because most of the Islamic countries have been held down by alien political and economic controls which did not permit the
creative participation
in cultural
activities which had been characteristic of Muslims
in their glorious days
in the past.
There is, however, nothing
in the process of development itself, whether
in the organic world
in general or
in the realm of mind and morals, to call
in question the
creative and directive
activity of God.
Once this
creative activity is thought of
in the analogy of person rather than the analogy of things, it is possible to understand that God's
creative activity is a call to the creature to create itself.
One thing I've appreciated about Wright's approach
in this book is the emphasis he places on dynamic, spirit - led
activity — the call to God's people to join
in God's work of redemption, reconciliation, peace - making, and
creative activity in the world.
If man today is asking, can God's existence be reconciled with man's deepened experience of himself as free creator of the world, the Whitheadian approach with its notion of God's persuasive personal action
in the world, with its discovery of God's presence yet absence
in man's
creative activity, with its stress on the mutual immanence of God and the world, offers pathways for further development.
Furthermore, since the creature depends totally on the creator for its
creative aim, the creature's autonomy is
in direct, not inverse, proportion to God's
creative activity.
In short, because the Whiteheadian God as Wieman understood it had no active role in the creative process, it was neither subject to empirical investigation nor workable as a concrete process to which persons can adjust their activitie
In short, because the Whiteheadian God as Wieman understood it had no active role
in the creative process, it was neither subject to empirical investigation nor workable as a concrete process to which persons can adjust their activitie
in the
creative process, it was neither subject to empirical investigation nor workable as a concrete process to which persons can adjust their
activities.
Thus, from the divine vantage point, the endless fruitions of the creativity are simultaneously co-present
in the immediacies of their self -
creative activities.
But I have a future as well as a past; and if I look to the future I may say that I belong to humanity, to a future that awaits my own shaping
in conjunction with the
creative activity of others.
Given the strange restrictions under which their makers must work, the constructions already produced are marvels of ingenuity, although a creature so constituted is probably more plausible as a sensitive observer of sunsets than as the
creative agent who,
in a surprisingly short burst of intense
activity, produced Process and Reality.
Satan is a creature of God who exists only because of God's
creative activity, and yet, now that Satan exists, he is not simply under the divine thumb but is engaged
in mortal combat with the creator for the devotion of human beings.
Both God and other actual entities are characterized
in terms of their relations to the transcendent world or
creative activity.
The stream of human conscious experience and
creative activity (the human mind or soul) has one vitally important property
in process thought that it does not have
in Cartesian metaphysics: it is spatially (as well as temporally) extended.
They should be highly productive and
creative years,
in which each partner finds new stimulation
in developing interests and
activities.
Rather, our work becomes
in itself a
creative, joyously free
activity.
Thus if we think of God as temporal the most reasonable picture is the Hartshornean one of God and the world confronting one another throughout time as equally basic metaphysically, with God's
creative activity confined to bringing it about, so far as possible, that the world is
in accordance with His aims.
The
creative movement
in the world,
in its every detail and its varying degrees of importance, with whatever it has contributed to furthering God's love and his
activity in love, is continuously experienced by God, known to him, cherished by him, and used
in the furthering of his objective — which is the wider and wider sharing of love, with its related righteousness and truth and
in its enduring beauty,
in the ongoing of the
creative process.
Suffice it to say that it reached its culmination, so far as scriptural witness is concerned,
in the affirmation that
in Christ the Word (the self - expressive
creative Activity which is divine in nature) «became flesh and dwelt among us,» while in formal theological statement the climax was the declaration that in him there is a genuine union of divine Activity («true God») and human activity like our own («true human being&
Activity which is divine
in nature) «became flesh and dwelt among us,» while
in formal theological statement the climax was the declaration that
in him there is a genuine union of divine
Activity («true God») and human activity like our own («true human being&
Activity («true God») and human
activity like our own («true human being&
activity like our own («true human being»).
For the latter not only is it the case, as Hartshorne would agree, that every finite individual owes its existence to the free
creative activity of God,
in the sense that apart from that
creative activity that individual would not exist;
in addition, it is wholly due to the free
creative activity of God that anything other than Himself exists: it is contingent, and contingent on the will of God, that any created world at all exists.
To believe aright means, then to receive the crucified Christ, to apprehend
in his cross the end of all our self - redeeming
activity, and the beginning of God's
creative redemption.
This can survive the perishing of
creative becoming if reenacted
in its entirety
in a new subject, that is, if taken up into another
activity of unification as informing it with its unique subjective way of experiencing.
The fundamental presupposition
in this view is that the
activities by which persons are brought to true freedom issue from loyalty to what is true and right, which is the only sure and enduring source of
creative energy.
Bultmann is more inclined to attribute certain sayings to the
creative activity of the primitive community — and therefore not to the historical Jesus — while Schmidt is more interested
in the final theological interpretation of the whole process of revelation and redemption reflected
in the New Testament.
While all occurrences disclose God
in creative activity and doubtless also to some degree
in redemptive
activity in providing some guarantee of life's significance and value, this event is especially important.
A process is a sequence
in which a special kind of causality, «
creative activity,» gives direction to the constituents.
God's general
creative activity gives the setting for the particular
activity of God
in Jesus Christ.
Instead of sharpening the
creative edge of living, such groups have a dulling effect, encouraging the investment of precious human life
in trivial
activities.
Studies
in language, mathematics, science, art, history, and philosophy are not made liberal merely by recognizing and calling attention to the
creative factors
in these disciplines and
in the human
activities with which they deal.
A more relational way of saying this is that God's freedom must be reenacted to be free — not repeated slavishly, with full attention given to the particular details and circumstances, but reenacted, taken up anew
in fresh acts of free,
creative activity.
It is the result of the
creative activity of God
in a stream of conditions and events far beyond the range of my knowledge.
He had praise for Luther's role
in providing inspiration for
creative and meaningful
activity in socialist Germany — an impetus for Christians and non-Christians alike
in the upbuilding of a socialist state.
Generally, the twenty - seven categories of explanation describe the
creative activity of actual occasions
in terms of the functions of prehension and concrescence.
These two points, that the
creative process includes the lure of a telos and that the agent of creativity is responsible for its
activity, serve as a basis for the suggestion that self - determination
in creative processes can be conceived
in terms of two notions familiar to the philosophical tradition: eros and agape.
Yet authors Martin Robinson and Dan Yarnell write
in Celebrating the Small Church: «It is unlikely the
activity of a few larger churches, no matter how
creative they might be, will be enough to meet the missionary challenge of our age.
On the other hand, however, even without wanting to think of God's operation
in any anthropomorphic way, the doctrine seems to involve viewing God's
creative activity in a way that does not arise anywhere else
in metaphysics.