Sentences with phrase «manifestations of the human spirit»

After passing through an era dominated by rationalism, Western culture is experiencing an explosion of religious mysticism — a manifestation of the human spirit's seeking to transcend the confines of the single - storied universe into which it has locked itself since the Enlightenment.

So when we look at the religious aspect of human existence and see what contributions process thought may have to make to this inescapable and indestructible manifestation of the human spirit, we shall need to emphasize that it is to be understood not in the wooden fashion that so often has prevailed in institutional churches and in conventional religious communities but as a matter of imaginative and aesthetic response to the human situation and to whatever is supremely worshipful in the cosmos — that is, to what religion calls «God.»

If you love cars, as I do, you will see in them manifestations of the human spirit.

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Symbols still maintain contact with the deep sources of life; they express, we may say, the «lived» spiritual... they disclose that the modalities of the Spirit are at the same time manifestations of Life, and, by consequence, directly engage human existence....

-- Last but not least, as members of the human species, our universal responsibility is to encourage comprehension and appreciation for the excellence of the human spirit in all its manifestations; and for inspiring awe and wonder for a cosmos that brought forth life and consciousness and holds out the possibility of its continued evolution toward higher levels of insight, understanding, love, and compassion.

I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.

But the same ontological totality is not necessarily a manifestation of Spirit since Spirit presupposes at least some minimal form of self - consciousness within the individual entity and thus is confined to the human and interhuman spheres of existence and activity.

It is for this reason that I consider it the first and primal act of ethical and theological consideration what the well - known theologian of the «phenomenon of man», Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, refers to as the responsibility of «seeing», of being able to «understand» the «phenomenon» and the «facts» of history and human development that are taking place within the wider spectrum of the movement of the human spirit to move beyond where it currently stands into a different and perhaps higher level of its manifestation.

This is why symbols have, as it were, a «numinous aura»; they reveal that the modalities of the spirit are at the same time manifestations of life, and, consequently, they directly engage human existence.

Hence the tendency (which is also as old as the world) of the defenders of the Spirit to regard as diabolical, and to reject as being among the most formidable manifestations of pride, the irrepressible desire for growth and conquest, the unshakeable sense of power and progress, which at present fills the human breast.

[3] And so with the help of John Paul's epiphany «even now [purity of heart] enables us to see according to God; it lets us perceive the human body — ours and our neighbour's — as a temple of the Holy Spirit, a manifestation of divine beauty.»