Austin Eddy's new paintings are structured by the repetition
of a bodily form - a hand holding a face - and use this identifiable foundation to explore a reintroduction of color after years of working in black and white and neutrals.
This is a show full of incredibly serious ideas, and as a woman prone to having serious ideas of my own, I was extremely moved to experience a show that connected with my internal reality rather than forcing the focus, as always, to the considerations
of my bodily form.
Although the explicit denial
of bodily form to Yahweh was late, the early depreciation of interest in any such question forced Hebrews to think of God in some other way.
The experiments between visual artists such as Robert Morris and Robert Rauschenberg and dancers from Yvonne Rainer to Merce Cunningham in New York in the 1960s led to the insertion
of bodily forms and movements into the visual -LSB-.....]
These themes continue in other pieces that hint at the hollowed shells
of bodily forms: a torso, a breast, a head, and two crotches.
Not exact matches
Your home and auto policies already offer some
form of liability coverage in the event you're sued for
bodily injury or property damage.
Excess liability protection is usually in the
form of combined single limits, which doesn't set aside a set amount for
bodily injury or property damage that the standard auto policy does.
Aside from its emphasis on
bodily forms of worship and physical healing, Pentecostalism is, as Smith points out, rooted in an «affective mode
of knowing.»
I wuld ahve preferred some
form of photosynthetic skin capable
of getting energy for
bodily functions directly from sunlight, instead
of masticating and swallowing dead organic matter like some kind
of cheap coal engine.
Much ink has been spilled about what Luke means when he writes that the Spirit descended in
bodily form, and whether or not He came he came in the appearance
of a dove, or just in the same manner as a dove.
The Arians said there could be only one God, the creator
of all things, and that it demeaned God to suppose that God could take on finite,
bodily form.
This is evident from the fact that when the hope
of life after death emerged, it took the
form of bodily resurrection.
The first description points to a level
of mental functioning in which
bodily experience is merely registered without much enhancement
of the mental pole in the occasions other than perhaps a general feeling tone; the second points to an habitual
form of bodily unity; and only the third suggests a flight from environmental obligations in the interest
of greater depth
of experience.
It is a strange story, surely not meant to be taken as a literal record
of an actual encounter with Satan in
bodily form.
We can not say whether Jesus was actually seen with the
bodily eyes in some kind
of physical
form (so as to have been capable in theory
of being photographed).
Now, Gudorf contends, present inroads on this tradition insist that: «1)
bodily experience can reveal the divine, 2) affectivity is as essential as rationality to true Christian love, 3) Christian love exists not to bind autonomous selves, but as the proper
form of connection between beings who become human persons in relation, and 4) the experience
of bodily pleasure is important in creating the ability to trust and love others, including God.»
This recognition that the power
of ritual is made manifest in material
forms illuminates how the
bodily practices that underlie the behaviors in the study — premarital sex and cohabitation, deliberation over relationship decisions, and the gathering
of supporters and witnesses in the marriage ceremony — shape marital quality.
Once we understand the Hebrew success in conceiving Yahweh as the great «I,» we can see that Hebrew reflection, or perhaps better, Hebrew experience with Yahweh, led to the explicit rejection
of the idea that he had
bodily form or was localized in spatial terms.
In this case, the
form is a rational soul and the requisite disposition on the side
of the matter seems to be that those
bodily organs needed for thinking must in some way already be present.
There are places where he resorts to the imagery
of myth and speaks
of Christ as if he were living an unseen life with God in a heavenly realm above, from which he would descend to appear on the earth at the imminent end - time.38 At other times Paul could speak
of the church as the body
of Christ,
of which the Christian believers
formed «the limbs and organs».39 He exhorted the Galatians to «put on Christ as a garment», 40 he said to the Romans, «Let Christ Jesus himself be the armor that you wear», 41 and he told the Galatians how he was in travail until they «took the shape
of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke
of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present
bodily life is lived by faith in the Son
of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.»
He is a complex physicochemical mechanism, and mind and spirit are simply
forms of bodily behavior.
Since no one can point to Jesus today in
bodily or physical
form, we arc forced to resort to the category
of spirit in which to speak about him.
Generality and the recognition
of different objects presuppose this
form of memory, for both are initially based on an awareness
of the likeness
of bodily attitude or
of a similarity
of reactions in diverse situations.
So vivid and so powerful was this recovery
of the kind
of interchange with one another that they had had when Jesus was alive with them that it produced the feeling
of his actual presence with them in
bodily form.
What connects these various
forms of abuse is the element
of coercion or nonconsent; the violation
of bodily integrity and well being; and the betrayal
of covenantal relationships.
At one extreme there are many conservative Christians, both in sects and in the major communions, who, because
of their belief in the authority and inerrancy
of Holy Scripture, still look expectantly to a future point in time when the world will come to a sudden end and when, at the Judgment which follows, there will be a general resurrection
of all the dead in some
bodily form.
The serious answer that follows talks about «
forming an alternative culture, where it is easier to be good and where the fruits
of the Spirit are cultivated,» while embracing orthodoxy to the point
of emphasising the
bodily resurrection
of Christ.
One
of the three high gods, Vishnu, is believed
of his free choice on occasion to have taken
bodily form as an animal or as a human being,
Then they will receive their bodies and arise entire, that is, in
bodily form as the Lord arose, and thus will come into the presence
of God.»
If the liturgical drama
of the Mass has exercised its influence well, it will have stamped not only on the soul, but also on the
bodily faculty
of the imagination the
form of the Victim
of Calvary which is there represented.
Colossians 2:9 is even more explicit: «In Him all the fullness
of Deity dwells in
bodily form.»
This physiological response sets up affective tones or
bodily feelings which constitute the subjective
forms of the energetic processes transmitted to us from our environment.
Like the Hebrews, the Babylonians seem to have believed that sin brings punishment in the
form of bodily suffering, loss
of goods, friends, misfortune
of many kinds.
As
forms of human action, practices are
forms of bodily action.
One notes the weird night scene, the underground setting, the fact that only the witch is reported to have seen Samuel, the complete credulity
of Saul, Samuel's rising out
of Sheol in
bodily form, clothed in a robe and physically recognizable, and, implied in the whole story, the popular prevalence
of such necromancy in making use
of the still - existent dead.
The body is a vast society
of societies; the mind or psyche is a single, personally ordered society whose primary immediate data are indistinctly intuited momentary actualities
forming the
bodily societies.
Whitehead adds that what this
form of bodily organization makes possible is the concentration
of complex and novel information in one portion
of the body, namely, within the brain.
Further, (2) perceptual,
bodily processes are basically unintelligible because, according to the classic «
form / matter» analysis, experience consists
of a synthesis
of intrinsically meaningless physical sensations passively received via the sense - organs — the «matter» — together with an active, reflective, mental judgment — the «
form» — which interprets them.
Instead
of our seeing expression as an external sign
of subjective states or intentions, it becomes the natural
bodily form that my activities take.
On the one hand, there is something awesome about an intervention that no longer deals only with the soma, the
bodily form, but goes right to the very core
of human identity in order to shape the future not simply
of one person but
of his or her descendants.
Origen: On Prayer 4 The Transfiguration Today the day shines forth for us more brightly than usual, when heavenly light darts forth upon the earth, when the true light illuminates the darkness
of mortal men, when the divine radiance shows itself to the human sphere in a visible, even
bodily form.
«If the moral meaning given to our bodies starts and ends with God, then perhaps we need to call a timeout on these trespasses against
bodily dignity, and we need to consider carefully whether we rationalize a
form of entertainment that devalues human bodies.»
In the post resurrection gospel narratives describing Jesus» appearance to his disciples we notice again and again that the accounts speak
of him in terms
of the solid
bodily form of Jesus: He eats with them, invites Thomas to place his hand in his wounds, he breaks bread with the disciples on the road to Emmaus, he eats breakfast by the lakeside.
They believed the only solution was to return to the fundamental certainties and the supernaturalist thought
forms of premodern times, The booklets reaffirmed belief in a personal God, the infallibility
of the Bible, the deity
of Christ, the Virgin Birth, miracles, the
bodily resurrection
of Jesus, and the substitutionary view
of the Atonement.
Increasingly, we are learning that our emotional psychology has as physical roots as our
bodily health — and how much our experiences as babies and young children, especially,
form a foundation that can either be stable and secure, or predispose us to a susceptibility
of lifelong difficulties.
A team
forms between the parent and child, helping the child to complete the natural process
of bodily elimination.
Historians and social researchers have studied how the specific skills and
bodily and mental capacities that have to be cultivated and practiced if specific
forms of violence are to be engaged in are acquired.
We want to see action to address the practice
of breeding dogs to produce changes in
bodily form and / or function which are detrimental to their health or quality
of life..
This transmission can come in the
form of anal, vaginal or oral sex, blood transfusion, contaminated hypodermic needles, exchange between mother and baby during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding, or other exposure to one
of the above
bodily fluids.
But disturbingly, a good two thirds
of the book's contents are relevant today, including Gardner's discussions
of homeopathy, naturopathy, osteopathy, iridiagnosis (reading the iris
of the eye to deter - mine
bodily malfunctions), food faddists, cancer cures and other
forms of medical quackery, Edgar Cayce, the Great Pyramid's alleged mystical powers, handwriting analysis, ESP and PK (psychokinesis), reincarnation, dowsing rods, eccentric sexual theories, and theories
of group racial differences.