Sentences with phrase «notion of a way of life»

It refers to the notion of a way of life, it is deeply connected to the artist's existential situation.

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b) yes, repentance and restoration are the underlying goal (as seen in the exile from Eden at the outset — we are looking for a way back to life fully restored to God), but you seem to think Christians DISAGREE with that notion... which makes me think you haven't read much of the NT.

A politics of reason gave way to a politics of emotion and flirted with the politics of irrationality; the claims of moral reason were displaced by moralism; the notion that all men and women were called to live lives of responsibility was displaced by the notion that some people were, by reason of birth, victims; patriotism became suspect, to be replaced by a vague internationalism; democratic persuasion was displaced by judicial activism.

This image must include the notion of humanity living in symbiotic harmony with the natural environment, and organized technologically and politically in such a way as to provide equal access to the means of human fulfillment to all of the earth's people.

Yet the notion of emergence opened the way for biology really to take the living character of its data seriously.

By this event they are enabled, even compelled, radically to redefine their notion of his sovereign power as it affects their lives; but if they are allowed in that place to glimpse the ultimate secret of his ways, this would seem in part at least to be because there he made, in the person of his Son, their perplexity and their pain his own.

That Catholicism could be regarded as pacifist is in many ways an odd notion, but the adherents of this position argued that the Second Vatican Council, in calling for the spirituality of the religious life to be expanded among the laity, implicitly extended the traditional non-involvement in war of the religious to all faithful Catholics.

And having done so without the necessity of altering to any degree their social economic patterns, they saw no reason for changing their traditional notions of the federal character of the national government, the benefits of Negro slavery, or the superiority of a rural - agricultural way of life.

Unless the discussion in the preceding pages has entirely failed to make its point, it will be plain that what is being proposed in this book is (as I have said) a «de-mythologizing» of the inherited notions of «life after death», with their (to many of us) impossible assertions; and also the «re-mythologizing» — or better, the re-conceiving — of their implicit intention so that we may have a valid way of affirming the value and worth of human existence, its significance and importance for God, and its preservation in God as a reality which has affected the divine life and in God has acquired an enduring quality which nothing can take away.

In ecclesiastical terms, the very notion of authority, as opposed to domination, requires also the notion of a communion of saints who enjoy a sensus fidelium in respect both to belief and ways of living.

Thus the notion of resurrection is a way of saying that first in respect to Jesus, and then (as we shall see) in a more general sense, all materiality, all history, and all relationships which have been known and experienced, have been received by God into the divine life.

I refer to the notion of a planetary society living at peace with nature and with God organized in such a way as to provide all persons with equal access to the available means of human fulfillment.

Specific notions of deity, and of divine action, that have figured in theistic conceptual systems of long - past civilizations have certainly been influenced by then - prevailing technology — the ways in which people made their living.5 In our own time, recent developments in technology and in science have had major influence on how the object of religion is conceived, at least for some theists.6 Whitehead wrote:

I know he admired Spinoza and brandied the word «god» around as a metaphor for the numinous, but he certainly did not believe in the notions of life after death or a god that in any way worried itself with human beings.

We can choose to live this way, but then we also have to relinquish any notion of being agents of change in our culture; and we have to accept that the world will not care about what we have to say.

In it, Friesen deconstructs the notion that God has a specific ideal blueprint for every person's life in favor of what he calls the «way of wisdom» as described in the Bible.

It was in this way that the Greek and Roman gods ceased to be believed in by educated pagans; it is thus that we ourselves judge of the Hindu, Buddhist, and Mohammedan theologies; Protestants have so dealt with the Catholic notions of deity, and liberal Protestants with older Protestant notions; it is thus that Chinamen judge of us, and that all of us now living will be judged by our descendants.

The history of chili cookoffs begins with the Chili Appreciation Society International, which was the first organization to support the notion that chili is more than just meat and chiles — it's a way of life.

The hang up, though, is when we start talking public policy decisions that cost billions of dollars... I'm still searching spiritual / philosophical ways to deal with feelings about that, but it may just be the whole notion of «rendering to Caesar» and trying to live in my own realm, separating myself from the madness of the State.

That way, you'll be able to go into your life as a stay - at - home mother without some preconceived notion of how life is supposed to be.

Or perhaps our biology is not the only way to construct living things; perhaps the notion that consciousness and intelligence arise from the electrochemical gunk of our brain does not apply to minds elsewhere in the universe.

This notion that our lives are out of sync with the way humans were meant to be is a fallacy, or a «paleofantasy,» claims Zuk, an evolutionary biologist.

Even blood donation has become a Paleo fad among the most dogmatic of 21st - century cavemen, based on the notion that our ancestors were often wounded, making blood loss a way of life.

Scafaria, who also wrote the film, floats the notion that sticking to routine in the presence of overwhelming chaos is a way of giving life meaning.

Even more carefully drawn are complex ideas about the importance of heritage and the succinct way it extols the notion that if no living person remembers us, our legacy can't be kept alive and passed down.

Some of the themes involving upsetting your parents, authority, and anyone other than yourself, might not sit well for the more sensitive, particularly in the notion that rampant immorality and mean - spirited anarchy are the way to strive to live one's life.

The real Abagnale made a very profitable life out of people's predetermined notions about image (a couple of million dollars worth), and the film's humor comes from the way a charming young man, nicely dressed, always ready with a smooth word or two is able to get whatever he wants.

The entire premise of the first film can be boiled down into man vs. nature (umm, life finds a way, duh) and now we're supposed to swallow the notion of 22 - years of fraternization with humans suddenly allowing for cognitive decision making on the part of these «animals»?

The old ways and stories are useful in determining the course of the present, but they are not the be-all and end - all of how to live, act, and be (An unexpected but welcome cameo solidifies this notion).

What begins as an honest insight into the lives of the working class ends as an introspective on the notion of how our lives eventually come to affect those of our children, in ways we don't expect.

When you're thrust out into the real world on graduation day, saddled with student loans, it's natural to buy into the notion that debt is just a way of life.

Accepting the notion of «animal guardian» replacing «pet owner» will go a long way towards making the lives of our animal companions much better and richer.»

«It's this kind of notion that art may itself be eternal in some way, but life certainly isn't,» Cameron adds.

Some of the highlights also include Elizabeth Catlett's The Negro Series, commemorating anonymous Black women's labor and the courage and strength of African American women; Edward Hopper's paintings that reveal the ways the home structures our interior life; the works of Jay DeFeo and Mark Rothko who sought recourse in spirituality and mysticism; but also Diane Arbus, George Grosz, Jasper Johns and others who explore the notion of a nation.

Her subject matter for the last 30 years has often been drawn from her intimate involvement with the climate, culture and geology of Iceland, with more recent work exploring notions of duality and the ways in which our lives reflect or «mirror» nature.

In a world mediated by the rationale of the market and consumerism, Claire Fontaine co-opts art practices as a method for collective activity, a way of reflecting on how such notions predicate the construction of our lives as individuals and as citizens.

If that sounds horribly indigestible, the sheer poise, elegance and professional rigour of the dancers allows them to animate the space in a truly satisfying way, bringing new life to the hackneyed notion of «living sculpture» as they interweave echoes of classical dance, classical sculpture and 21st century high camp.

She lived in Paris (1982 — 86), graduated from highschool in West - Berlin in 1988, studied Russian literature, Eastern European studies, political science, and art history in Berlin and Amsterdam (1988 — 96) and in 2004 obtained her PhD from the Humboldt University in Berlin, with a thesis focusing on a paradigmatic shift in the way artists reflected the historical avant - garde and the notion of utopia in visual and media art projects of the 1980s and 1990s in (ex --RRB- Yugoslavia and Russia.

Through exploration of such subjects Veleko continues to delve deeper and defy clichés of outdated perceptions of South Africans, and Africans in a larger context, that have been largely focused on the notions of fashion and the way of life.

The conceptual genesis of the exhibition came to Mills over a period of time while contemplating the notion of self, our thoughts about our selves and how these thoughts may contrast with the ways that others may view us, be they close friends, family, lovers or people we merely pass by in our lives.

fanciful — has it ever been proposed that ocean heat uptake during interglacials might be the planets way of preparing for the next ice age, when the oceans give up the heat to preserve continuity of life on the surface — I know, sounds a bit link an intelligent Gaia mythology, but doesn't the notion of synergy suggest the possibility?

Carefully researched and visually engaging, Architecture Without Architects challenged conventional notions of architecture and dwelling through its study of vernacular building technologies and alternative ways of living.

The notion that Lovelock promoted was «the evolution of the Earth as a planetary organism» — it might apply to Pandora, the Avatar world with the sentient biosphere, but what we really have here is what Steven Schneider called the «Co-evolution of climate and life», which seems to be a much clearer way of looking at it.

Moreover, the notion that an agricultural way of life has been preserved by big wind doesn't cut the mustard.

[38] The notion of occupation had to include a «nomadic or semi-nomadic» way of life of some Aboriginal peoples.

If you have some notion that encryption is a workable way of frustrating snoops, governmental or otherwise, or that «the authorities» know what they're doing to such a degree that their intrusions into citizens» digital lives will be surgical and secure, as it were, you would do well to read this careful, thoughtful piece.

After the Second World War, emerging researchers avoided explanations of their research based on race, just as determinedly as earlier researchers had avoided explanations that undermined notions of biological race.7 Culture replaced race, with researchers now collecting data about a vanishing way of life, and similarities rather than differences were emphasised.

I have been practicing in this model for more than a decade and I am pretty passionate about the notion that our society needs to move into an honorable point of view that Collaborative Divorce is naturally the only way for a family to make a life - altering transition that truly serves the greater good.

«Obviously, many people live their whole lives in apartments, but there may be ways of promoting the notion of apartment living as a permanent lifestyle,» says Joseph Coates, president of Washington D.C. - based Coates & Jarratt Inc. «When considering the problems of home ownership, the apartment house becomes a very attractive alternative.»