Sentences with phrase «in the human experience»

We are social creatures and interpersonal relationships play a central part in the human experience.

It seems to be inevitable in the human experience.

To that assessment this essay will contribute modestly by arguing (1) that an account of experience must be compatible with the fact that there is no one thing which is what experience is or is the essence of experience, (2) that no philosophically adequate account of what experience is can be established merely by appeal to direct, personal, intuitive experience of one's own experience, (3) that generalization from features found in human experience is not sufficient to justify the claim that temporality is essential to experience, but (4) that dialectical argument rather than intuition or generalization is necessary to support the claim that experience is essentially temporal.

I have contended further that one can not know what the essence of experience is, or whether temporality is a part of it, merely through generalization of features found in human experience.

This not only helps to explain religion's primordial, irrepressible, widespread, and seemingly inextinguishable character in the human experience, it also suggests that the skeptical Enlightenment, secular humanist, and New Atheist visions for a totally secular human world are simply not realistic — they are cutting against a very strong grain in the nature of reality's structure and so will fail to achieve their purpose.

If this is true, then the complexity, hiddenness, and skepticism inherent in human experience of anything can not be denied, and they can be denied least when the experience in question is that of coming to belief.

God is real actual, and existent where and when he is present in human experience as real, actual, and existent.

It is right to acknowledge that this gap in the human experience of the Word Incarnate causes difficulty to some people, for it seems on the surface that this most vital area of personal relationship and responsibility is to some extent a room which Christ has not been through before us.

As both an iconoclast and a spokesman for the value of play in human experience, Keen needs to be heard.

Moreover, in his preface he states he has in no way changed his mind about the need to follow an inductive approach to explore the «signals of transcendence» to be found in human experience (P. ix).

But where God plays no vital role in human experience and vision, he is either nonexistent, as for the Buddhist, or dead, as for the modern Christian.

The Christian pastor will find nothing alien to his concern in any human experience, in so far as his limitations of skill and human insight will permit.

The God who is progressively manifest in human experience as an empty and alien other is the inevitable consequence of the Spirit who descends ever more deeply into flesh.

They apply to every attempt to think about a framework of meaning that transcends human constructions and every claim to truth that can not easily be tested in human experience.

Love and sexuality are linked in human experience, though sex is not love, and love is not always sexual.

Although I find his critique of authority - centered ethics convincing in the sense that it is clear that we must find moral criteria that are self - validating in human experience, his orientation here also seems two - dimensional.

A contemporary faith that opens itself to the actuality of the death of God in our history as the historical realization of the dawning of the Kingdom of God can know the spiritual emptiness of our time as the consequence in human experience of God's self - annihilation in Christ, even while recovering in a new and universal form the apocalyptic faith of the primitive Christian.

Once God has ceased to exist in human experience as the omnipotent and numinous Lord, there perishes with him every moral imperative addressed to man from a beyond, and humanity ceases to be imprisoned by an obedience to an external will or authority.

Thereby the living power of the transcendent and omnipotent Judge is transposed in human experience into the dead body of Satan, as Milton's passage through the death of selfhood unveils the ground of an isolated selfhood as that chasm separating the creature from the Creator, thus making possible the reversal or dissolution of natural virtue and self - righteousness in the immediate and present actualization of the self - annihilation of God.

If we take seriously Whitehead's claim that the fundamental form of order and hence of value is aesthetic, and the accompanying principle of relatedness, it is obvious that unilateral power (the ability to affect without being affected) inherently inhibits the growth of value in human experience.

To be sure, the parables are understood more profoundly in the light of the full disclosure of agape in Christ; but that revelation illumines what is already pressing for recognition in human experiences of love.

Since that is impossible in the human experience, it seems to me that Jesus teaching on not judging another is spot on.

In the historic passage, as well as in human experience, God is active.

Hittinger correctly points out that this new Thomism finds its point of reference in the human experience: «The Church has held Thomas as the master because humans themselves thirst for the kind of wisdom Thomas pursued and taught.

Here once again there is a remarkable similarity between certain emphases in Whitehead as well as in other process - thinkers and the strong insistence of contemporary existentialism on the centrality of the «subjective» feelings and of self - awareness in human experience.

Wieman may have had two motives for his transition from a cosmic vision of divine creativity toward one focused on creativity in human experience.

Proponents of diverse theological positions have shared the assumption that religious convictions are in some decisive manner deficient, lacking proper roots in human experience or needing new metaphysical backing.

Tillich briefly discusses the idea of divine relativity as God's participation in human experience.

A recent editorial in a Christian Science periodical proclaims that «healing, after all, is the name for how God is known and expressed in human experience» (A. W. Phinney, «What do you think about Christian healing?»

In representing the Torah, then, Jesus in no way creates a new possibility for human obedience; he points, rather, to God's primordial will — ever perceptible in human experience — for which humanity has always been responsible.

«If that is the case,» responded Borden Spears, a senior editor at the Toronto Star, Canada's largest newspaper, «the news media are seriously distorting reality; the proportion of violence in human experience, which the press claims to reflect, is not that high.»

The fact that many of the assumptions fundamental to Whitehead's starting point in human experience were thrown into question by those undertaking this revolution is the main reason, I think, for the subsequent neglect of his philosophy in the English - speaking world.

The latter mode, which constitutes the «given» element in human experience, occurs prior to the rise of the interpretative element, and is therefore not culturally conditioned.

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.

We have come to the question of suffering in human experience as we try to understand atonement.

Since YHWH is one, and since He is God, then everything in human experience and understanding stands in relationship to Him.

The most evident answer is that it is found in human experiences.

Worship and work go together, as the American religious philosopher William Ernest Hocking so well put it in his book The Meaning of God in Human Experience.

Once accept the disclosure of God in Christ (and in all that is Christ - like in human experience, for we ought not to be exclusively christo - centric in the narrower sense); once take that disclosure with utmost seriousness — and then God as «pure unbounded love» becomes central in our thinking.

Surely spirit is the best category we have, for in our human experience it describes responsible creative being, and yet it suggests the mystery of that being.

By grounding religious claims in human experience, Schleiermacher did not have to begin with metaphysical speculation nor by requiring intellectual assent to the dogmas of the church.

That was an idea a Roman could grasp, and it certainly threw light upon the mystery of the Messiah's death, otherwise the blindest act of fate in all human experience.

The Meaning of God in Human Experience.

More blood and repression has taken place in the human experience due to religion than any other thing.

Similarly, the major contribution of the existentialist movement in philosophy, psychology, and theology has been to point out the fundamental role of decision - making in all human experience.

In chapter six Williams examines the metaphysical structures revealed in the human experience of love.

In that context there can be no interest in plants and animals except as they are given being in human experience.

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

That is the cosmological view which understands reality in terms of nature, i.e., what is given objectively in human experience.

An alternative understanding is that perfection is everything that is given in human experience, an «everything» that only God relates to but also an «everything» that is limited to each event.