Our beliefs must reflect the most adequate, consistent, and comprehensive
interpretation of all human experience.
This is why I prefer to turn toward some structures of
the interpretation of human experience to discern there those traits through which something has always been comprehensible under the idea of revelation understood in a religious sense of the term.
Not exact matches
In some cases this appeal to inner intuition might take the form
of the claim that each
of us has a «non-sensuous
experience of the self» which is «both prior to our
interpretation of our sense - knowledge and more important as source for the more fundamental questions
of the meaning
of our
human experience as
human selves» (BRO 75).
This model invites students to see the New Testament as the product
of a profoundly
human process
of experience and
interpretation, by which people
of another age and place, galvanized by a radical religious
experience, sought to understand both that
experience and themselves in the light
of the symbols made available to them by their culture.
It takes seriously the fact that
humans always seek to understand and interpret their
experiences, but that certain
experiences force more radical and inclusive types
of interpretation.
For example, a realistic
interpretation of the sentence, «The stone is gray, is that there exists independent
of human experience an entity called a «stone» qualified in a distinctive way such that the term «gray» is appropriate to it.
Consider, above all, the activity
of what Whitehead calls «the final percipient occasion», i.e., the present occasion
of human experience, in integrating its present visual
experience, with all the complex
interpretation involved therein, with previous
experiences.
Whereas Marx defined transcendence as the
human beings» possibility to move towards the future with freedom and choice, so that they could shape their own destiny, Bonhoeffer gave a this - worldly
interpretation of transcendence in which the
experience of transcendence is Jesus «being there for others».
First, is a religious
interpretation of our common
human experience meaningful and rue?
They have talked about it in most diverse fashion, but they have all been intent upon making it a basic factor in the
interpretation of the lives
of men and women, whoever they may be, wherever they may live, and whatever idiom they may have found useful or helpful in putting into some sort
of language this persistent fact in the total
experience of members
of the
human race.
From popular
interpretations of Freud (in many respects incautious and one - sided) it has come to be widely believed that sexual impulses are the central factor in
human existence, that social restraints on sex are the source
of unhappiness and illness, and that uninhibited sexual
experience is the basis for
human felicity.
It is an
interpretation that is intended to make sense
of and give sense to the persisting fact that Jesus is not only a figure
of the past but in some profoundly real way a present factor in the
experience of the
human race.
Every
interpretation of the meaning
of human experience, every understanding
of the world in its totality, must by necessity start from some particular stance — or, better, must find some particular point that is taken to be
of special importance among all the events or occasions; it provides a clue to the totality
of experience.
Christian's third conclusion means that Whitehead's philosophical theology is in a sense a confessional theology, i.e., a rational «explanation
of an
interpretation»
of human experience.
If one follows Whitehead in extrapolating from
human experience, one can find in this
interpretation of the divine priority a doctrine
of creation that is compatible with biological evolution: in the concept
of God supplying a «lure» to evolution, «process» thinking approximates to that
of Teilhard de Chardin.
Are theological
interpretations of the hopes implied in diverse cultures and social
experiences devices for the self - perpetuation and self - glorification
of these forms
of life, or do they succeed in placing conflicting hopes in a transcendent perspective such that the authentically
human reality is disclosed?
We have to take our
interpretations of human behavior as hypotheses and test them against an ever wider range
of experience.
The only true
interpretation of eschatology is one which makes it a real
experience of human life.
From the standpoint
of our
interpretation of religion the central Christian
experience just described is important because it provides an answer to the question regarding the relative power
of community - creating and community - destroying factors in
human history, i.e., to the question concerning the outcome
of the battle between good and evil.
True, Hook never understood that bit
of data as Maritain did, or accepted the
interpretation of human life that went with it, but his
experience of the movement
of human intellect to utter thanks remains a phenomenon to be explained.
Now we are also asking: What does our
experience of human sexuality say about our perceptions
of faith — our
experience of God, our
interpretations of Scripture and tradition, our ways
of living out the gospel?
We are seeking an
interpretation of the love
of God and the loves
of man in the light
of the biblical faith and in relation to
human experience.
Metaphysics has traditionally been understood as the search for a coherent set
of general categories for the
interpretation of the whole range
of human experience — scientific, religious, aesthetic, moral, etc..
We can at least say that religion specifies a perspective on the world and an
interpretation of history and
human experience.
No evidences from
human experiences (Holocaust, hurricanes, slavery) or from other
interpretations (evolutionary theory and Marxism) will ever count against the revelation whatever the content
of the «ultimate purpose» might be.
In my simplistic way, it seems to me that other arts can make statements about the
human experience, while painting offers a breadth
of interpretation that equals life.»
This transcendence can be as open to
interpretation as the evaporation
of sea water, the struggle to personify the natural world in
human form in order to make an emotive connection, or ultimately, the idea
of interpreting a belief system as architecture, both
of the natural and man - made world, in order to transport oneself from a secular state to a sacred
experience.
The
human / building interface and other layers
of reference are facilitated and activated by the impromptu improvisation by the performance artist in this immersive
experience and open ended performance; offering diversifying layers for
interpretation.
Lauren Scavo's small - scale charcoal drawings examine the connection that exists between
human consciousness and its surrounding environment, specifically the way in which our sensory
experience of a place influences our subjective
interpretation of...
Of course another interpretation would simply be to posit that those rejecting the alarming visions of a human - unraveled climate are illustrating another solid human trait — skepticism about overwrought claims in the absence of hard evidence (don't expect that any time soon) or direct experience (same deal, at least in prosperous places
Of course another
interpretation would simply be to posit that those rejecting the alarming visions
of a human - unraveled climate are illustrating another solid human trait — skepticism about overwrought claims in the absence of hard evidence (don't expect that any time soon) or direct experience (same deal, at least in prosperous places
of a
human - unraveled climate are illustrating another solid
human trait — skepticism about overwrought claims in the absence
of hard evidence (don't expect that any time soon) or direct experience (same deal, at least in prosperous places
of hard evidence (don't expect that any time soon) or direct
experience (same deal, at least in prosperous places).
Furthermore, the
interpretation of character is a science, which demands considerable
experience and insight (fyi I have a BSN in nursing, I did training in psychiatry) in before anyone can accalim they can accurately characterize another
human being.
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