Sentences with phrase «individual life histories»

These private sessions are also helpful to explore past traumas from your individual life history that contribute to the current pain.

Not exact matches

When one man who has disrupted the energy, automotive and space industries, and another who connected nearly 2 billion individuals in the same social network, make major moves in neuroscience, somehow it feels like science fiction is evolving into history, and that our lives are about to change in unprecedented ways.

Think and Grow Rich is the number - one inspirational and motivational classic for individuals who are interested in furthering their lives and reaching their goals by learning from important figures in history.

«Tribalism,» as he defines it, is «the commitment of individuals and groups to their own history, culture, and identity, and this commitment (though not any particular version of it) is a permanent feature of human social life.»

This would assume an «imaginative,» not a historical, disposition: a divine intent in history, God - gifted immutable laws of morality, to which man has a duty to conform; order as a first requirement of good governance, achieved best by a restraint and respect for custom and tradition; variety as more desirable than systematic uniformity and liberty more desirable than equality; the honor and duty of a good life in a good community as taking precedence over individual desire; an embrace of a skepticism toward reason and abstract principle.

The purely individual need for a fulfillment that is denied to us in this life, for an everlasting love that we await, is certainly an important motive for believing that man was made for eternity; but only in connection with the impossibility that the injustice of history should be the final word does the necessity for Christ's return and for new life become fully convincing.»

It may well be the case that God so respects the «humanity» of each particular individual that he will seldom, if ever, override those decisions which are significant in an individual's own life history, even if the actualization of such decisions will negatively affect large numbers of people.

Obviously it is much more difficult for us to imagine the first appearance of reflective thought at some point in the history of a phylum or race made up of different individuals than at some point in the series of states making up the life of one and the same embryo.

Trying to proove that some 2000 yr old history book, (i.e. your bible) dictates every individuals life's journey!

Sometimes I wonder if perhaps the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous have, at some point in its 76 year history, contained individuals who possessed the ability to do great things — cure cancer, revolutionize politics, or contribute other great things to society — but whose minds became so polluted with AA propaganda that they shut off their own brilliance and chose to spend the rest of their lives «making their sobriety their number one priority» and believing humility to be more valuable than fulfilling their potential and allowing their greatness to shine.

Of the Bible she wrote, «I regard these writings as histories consisting of mingled truth and fiction, and while I admire and cherish much of what I believe to have been the moral teaching of Jesus himself, I consider the system of doctrines built upon the facts of his life... to be most dishonorable to God and most pernicious in its influence on individual and social happiness.»

This emphasis, having a long history within Protestantism, asserts that personal piety is the key to the Christian life and that social action is an individual issue that should not necessarily involve the full resources of the church.

Knowledge about the Bible, the history of Christianity, and contemporary expressions of the faith serve as both raw materials and tools with which the individual can develop his personal faith - for - living.

God «s revelation through real people and events signifies that genuine meaning must be related to the life histories of actual individuals.

In contrast, the neo-Freudian Erich Fromm becomes quite unrealistically utopian in his hope for the «sane society» of reasonable men, and he never asks where the individual can find in present history the community which can sustain the spirit which must live in this threatening and imperfect world.2

Therefore, communication is one - way, and individuals in the audience are treated as things to be «influenced» in ways that have nothing to do with their needs or their life histories.

In the name of further revelation, the Bible is tailored to fit a typology in which two philosophies of life, the «Abel - type» and the «Cain - type,» struggle in cyclical battles throughout history, each struggle building upon the previous success of the Abel - type and so ascending toward a complete restoration of the individual, the family, the nation and the world.

Yet if God's work were completely concealed, human history and individual life would be random and rudderless, the chaotic product of an accidental universe.

Needed is a foundation for uniting a radical understanding of God's action in history with radical individual and corporate discipleship in the world — namely, reflection which results from depth experience, the spiritual life, the interiorization of faith through meditation, prayer and corporate worship.

To say that God gives saving help to the shattered, the empty, the vacillating, the sinful life is to say that what has happened to many millions of individuals in Christian history can happen to any individual today.

History is not merely a platform on which individuals are prepared for inward blessings or for eternal life.

Although sanctification in the life of communities and social institutions is not so clearly defined an experience as it is in the individual, Niebuhr said that old forms and structures of life may be renewed rather than destroyed by the vicissitudes of history.

Whether this future is conceived as eternal life for the individual, or a new heaven and a new earth for mankind, or as the conquest of evil in or beyond human history, the trajectory is toward the future, the eschaton.

There were two impulses in sectarianism:» (a) the impulse towards the perfection of individual life expressed in the pietistic sects and (b) the impulse towards the fulfillment of history expressed particularly in the Anabaptist and socially radical sects.

Is the creation of the soul of man at the beginning of the history of humanity and at the beginning of the individual life of each particular person, as this is understood by traditional Christian philosophy and the Church's magisterium (as a truth of faith), an exceptional, extraordinary occurrence whose special ontological features contradict everything that is otherwise understood regarding the relation of the first cause to second causes?

So rather than try to guess at the motives of these individuals, let me say this: We live in a broken world, and there is a lot of hurt around identity, culture and history.

This process, which is the inner history of every man whose life in the whole weight of its problematic character and its ambiguous self - consciousness has been lived within the sound of the voice of the Christian tradition, has a pace that is slower than the urgent haste of individual perplexities.

Finally, it can be argued that God so respects the «humanity» of each particular individual that God will seldom, if ever, override those decisions that are significant in an individual's own life history, even if the actualization of such decisions will negatively affect large numbers of people (PS 11:18 - 19).

Redemption is not just «God's way of tidying up messy places in history or covering up ugly moments of our life together or our lives as individuals redemption is not about saving situations or justifying oppression or abuse.»

Paul's phrase «in Christ,» which he used more than any other single expression, can not be fully explicated until we all «know as we are known»; but Paul surely means that in the Christian life we are not only separate individuals, but we are incorporated into the new reality which God has created in history through the life of Jesus.

Christians see compassionate Wisdom or wise Compassion at work in history as well as in individual lives.

In brief, my response to this fundamental affirmation of liberal Protestantism would he that the idea of the ultimate value and reality of the individual is historically limited to the classical period of modern Western culture, and that it can have neither a living meaning nor a truly human form in a post-modern or post-liberal period of history.

The reason for the muddle is that history — like individual life — is extraordinarily complex and filled with complications and ambiguities.

Individuals drift from one church to another, without roots, without religious history, without any Rock or Refuge or any sense that they belong to a communion of saints or participate in an ongoing history of salvation that God is working out in their lives and world.

Under the combined influence of Science and History, and of social developments, the twofold sense of duration and collectivity has pervaded and re-ordered the entire field of our experience; with the twofold result that the future, hitherto a vague succession of monotonous years awaiting an unimportant number of scattered individual lives, is now seen to be a period of positive becoming and maturing — but one in which we can advance and shape ourselves only in solidarity.

Making sense of Christian history as a living resource, peopled not with venerated abstractions but men and women as alive and individual as you or I, seems critical at a time when storytelling and imitation are more the province of secular entertainment than sacred order.

«Gandhi was probably the first person in history to live the love ethic of Jesus above mere interaction between individuals to a powerful and effective social force in a large scale.

That the judgment of God prevails in history, as well as in the life of the individual, is the meaning of the stories of the Flood and the tower of Babel, in which God judges in catastrophe the blasphemous deeds of men.

Beneath the surging waves and gleaming solar panels, the city's antediluvian foundations still lurk — and occasionally resurface to profoundly change both individual lives and the course of history.

In addition to stressful life events, trauma and family history of schizophrenia and, the calculator takes into account five other factors to determine an individual's level of risk.

They relate their hypothesis to life - history theory, which talks of balancing the preservation of one's health and the production of offspring that will survive to reproduce themselves, and theorize that «early life stressors may predispose an individual to adaptively suppress fertility when situations are less than optimal, leading to periods of fertility difficulties even following previous births.»

But in individual cells this effect is short - lived: after just 30 minutes, the survival rate no longer depends on the exposure history.

Bacterial spores store information about the individual growth history of their progenitor cells, thus retaining a «memory» that links the different stages of the bacterial life cycle.

Reich's second new Nature paper, on the genomic history of southeastern Europe, reveals an additional migration as farming spread across Europe, based on data from 255 individuals who lived between 14,000 and 2,500 years ago.

«This type of selection experiment, which we propose has been going on in all bass lakes since the inception of angling, has the potential to alter, perhaps quite significantly, the behavior and even the life history of individual fish in those populations,» the study said.

Case histories of scientists, such as Isaac Newton, and of writers, such as Thomas Hardy, are provided, to throw light on how the wound surfaces in the life and work of different individuals.

This classic life history phenomenon — the selective disappearance of less productive individuals — has not been demonstrated for such a long - lived animal before.

The Science History Institute Archives actively collects and preserves the papers of organizations and individuals whose work has significantly advanced our scientific understanding of chemistry, chemical engineering, and the life sciences and its allied fields.

I am interested in the physiological and behavioral aspects of development and how things like maternal care, social / environmental factors, and stressors influence an individual's life history trajectory.

Moreover, causal situations may be different for different individuals - while one person may develop schizophrenia due to a strong family history of mental illness, someone else with much less genetic vulnerability may also develop the disease due to a significant pre-natal or environmental stressor during their lives.