As much about the fragility
of the human experience as it is about mental illness, this offers a refreshing perspective on a spectrum of mental health disorders.
A powerful historically accurate book that brings alive the life of one woman enduring the emotional and physical hardships of slavery - written so well and so lyrically that we feel and see all she does - we are there - it is a visceral experience to read this book and I could not put it down - a true look at and experience
of the human experience as it endures the unthinkable and yet retains it's humanity.
I practice yoga because while it teaches me that suffering is as much a part
of this human experience as is sweetness, it also reaffirms the impermanent nature of all of it, breath after breath.
From this standpoint, then, theology is perhaps best understood as the effort to nurture awareness of the depth dimension
of human experience as it comes to expression in the myths and symbols of particular religious traditions and their broader cultures.
We can just as well read it as speaking of the double nature
of human experience as men exist in «true faith» and as they seek after «right living».
The «aesthetic,» in this profound sense, with its expression in appreciation, evaluation, enjoyment or displeasure, and the like, is as much a part
of our human experience as the rational and volitional aspects.
The Christian analysis
of human experience as exemplifying a «mystery of iniquity,» or a ubiquitous «missing» of the experience we most deeply seek and need, means that the explication of Christ's transforming effect upon humanity will not involve merely a perfecting of our intrinsic capabilities, but an overcoming of human hostility to God's aims, a healing of human deformation consequent to that hostility, and a reuniting of humanity with the God from whom we are estranged.
This type of argument is again broadly evidentiary in nature, although it reflects not the «turn to the subject» characteristic of the appeal to individual experience, but rather a «pragmatic» or «linguistic» turn, as illustrated by Whitehead's observation that the evidence
of human experience as shared by civilized intercommunication «is also diffused throughout the meanings of words and linguistic expressions» (cited in TPT 74).12 Such an appeal is an essentially historical form of argumentation.
But «a moral discussion is inconclusive and even trivial, if it leaves out the question of its application,» as Gregory Vlastos has said.13 In order to be as specific as possible about this approach to Christian social philosophy I shall outline in arbitrary fashion five general principles which I suggest can be supported by the evidence
of human experience as being necessary guides to the conditions under which the Good Society can grow.
It added an immense richness to the unconscious, which, by the continuity of its life, constituted the successive occasions
of human experience as a unified soul.
1), it is also part
of human experience as, e.g., in the pregnant formulation by Chuang Tzu:
As is well known, there are many significant points of divergence between the two philosophers, but we shall keep to our topic
of human experience as manifested in its basic mode, primitive perception.
But to try to develop some general theory of the narrative shape
of human experience as a foundation for Christian theology seemed to him «first to put the cart before the horse and then cut the lines and pretend the vehicle is self - propelled.»
If, as Hartshorne does, one uses one's prior understanding of various types
of human experience as the source of generalized descriptions which together constitute the final concept of experience, how does one decide whether the generalizations have been radical enough to support application to all — including nonhuman — experiences or were sufficient only to cover human experiences?
But the question is one that must be faced by any process philosophy or theology which sets out to use an analysis
of human experience as a basis for characterizing God.
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).
Not exact matches
The RMC MBA curriculum is geared toward the needs
of students who have military work
experience, such
as supply — chain management, transportation, finance or
human resources.
The value
of Schilt's work is in its use
of the
experiences of extraordinary people
as a lens to reveal how the value
of human capital — an individual's education,
experience and abilities — is tied to gender perceptions.
They don't see those efforts
as mutually exclusive, and it's perhaps for that reason that some HR departments, particularly in the tech world, have recently undergone some
of their own internal rebranding, shedding the stodgy old «
human resources» name in favor
of friendlier and more inviting monikers like People Operations (Google, Southwest Airlines), Employee
Experience (Airbnb), and Employee Success (Salesforce).
Still, the Telluride program is worth the 4 percent you give up to be part
of it - because
of the other benefits: 70 mentors and seven entrepreneurs - in - residence with impeccable credentials and
experience in fields such
as entrepreneurship, law, private equity, accounting,
human resources, marketing technology, and more.
Dr. Cheryl Anne Lampshire, corporate problem solver and adjunctpreneur, sees tribes
as part
of the
human experience.
Based on his studies during the 1960s and his practical
experience in the early 1970s, Milken was determined to focus, first, on future cash flow rather than the past
as reflected in book value and reported earnings; and second, to consider
human capital part
of the balance sheet.
Consequently, integrating their business
experience into how buyers are reshaping their
human experience in general
as a result
of the Social Age.
Drawing on his life story,
as well
as conversations with ordinary and extraordinary people he has met along the way, Dr. Bob presents a compelling framework that will define and dramatically enhance your
experience of what it means to be
human.»
Tharp has over 25 years
of corporate
experience, including key
human resource positions with General Electric, PepsiCo, Pillsbury, CIGNA and Bristol - Myers Squibb, where he served as Senior Vice President of Human Resou
human resource positions with General Electric, PepsiCo, Pillsbury, CIGNA and Bristol - Myers Squibb, where he served
as Senior Vice President
of Human Resou
Human Resources.
Einstein and the Study
of «Psycho - Pathology» If there really is such a thing
as social mood that guides collective
human experience, how come they don't teach it in -LSB-...]
That is both unconvincing and dangerous,
as our
experience with the defense
of human rights should surely have taught us by now.
If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions
of human experience that defy precise expression in language because
of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the
human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its
experience of the divine
as mediated through Jesus Christ.
It has been the trend
of American churches for some time to venerate marriage
as the holy grail
of human experience — in spite
of the obvious preference
of New Testament teachers — including Jesus — for singleness (Matthew 19:10; 1 Corinthians 7).
Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece
of nonsense no one could
experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object... Their hatred is directed against
human beings
as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings happiness to
human life.
(I take your point, Gary, that this significantly hampers the idea
of Jesus
experiencing what we do
as humans.)
I think knowing that he was a long time and very trusted confidante
of Pope John Paul II, knowing he had
experience as disciplinarian
of the clergy, and knowing he had a clear (
as any
human can) understanding, and knowledge
of scripture is why he was picked to be Pope.
oh and except Chaos
as the universes natural order, except that war is a natural part
of the
human experience.
likewise, even if Jesus had perfect knowledge
of the consequences
of His actions,
as being fully
human in addition to His divinity He would
experience fear and temptation.
But I do argue that even if we each had privileged and direct access to, and guaranteed inventory
of, our own individual
human experience, only a complex dialectical examination could, if anything could, reasonably and nonarbitrarily determine which features
of our own
experience — individual and
human — are essential to
experience as such, which are essential to
human experience but not to
experience as such, and perhaps which are essential to one's own
experience but not to
human experience as such.
The signal for such a theology is Tom Driver's reflective getting in touch with his body while sitting in the bathtub, and his happy invitation, in Patterns
of Grace:
Human Experience as Word
of God (Harper & Row, 1977), for us to do the same.
The facet
of that theory that is
of special interest here is the claim that temporality is essential to
experience as such and therefore to divine
as well
as to
human experience.
It seemed to me that the truly sovereign God could not be regarded
as absent or superfluous in ordinary
human experience and philosophical reflection, but that every single reality should prove incomprehensible (at least in its depth) without recourse to God, if he actually was the Creator
of the world
as Barth thought him to be.
It would still be true, I think, that the content
of such an
experience, and even a fully adequate and somehow (impossibly) guaranteed inventory
of that content, would not alone provide any nonarbitrary basis, intuitive or articulate, for distinguishing what is essential to the
experience simply
as an
experience, and what is essential to it
as a specifically
human experience — nor even for determining whether there is anything peculiarly one's own in the
experience,
as distinguished from what is essential to
human experience as human or
as experience.
To regard the ordinary embodied
experience of men and women
as theologically significant in a positive way is to receive all these images
of physical delight,
of beauty and ecstasy,
of human growth and nurture,
of the contact between
human persons that the touching
of bodies can make possible.
I prefer to apply lessons learned from a wider range
of human experience and condemn those biblical passages
as the product
of an ignorant, arrogant, bloodthirsty tribe
of self - centered nomadic shepherds whose primary characteristics were a raging persecution complex and an unending quest for justification for their major case
of the hots for the little girls in the naboring tribes.
To meet the person where they are is to begin with the phenomena
of their life, and to strive to engage them in such a way
as to enable them to see that their own phenomenal
experience can, if they listen closely, reveal the truth
of the Catholic vision
of the
human person.
Making education contextual means recognizing that 1) theology involves responding to the living God in diverse
human situations; 2) theology involves specific practices
as much
as it does religious concepts and
experiences; and 3) theological education requires attention to personal formation and not simply the learning
of specialized lore and skills.
I was «a person who held that the existence
of the ultimate cause,
as God, and the essential nature
of things are unknown and unknowable, or that
human knowledge is limited to
experience.»
Without the control provided by the doctrine
of creation, they devalued
human experience, dismissing it
as having no positive religious value.
I also believe that, in spite
of Whitehead's reluctance to concede privileged status to
human occasions
of experience, the introduction
of the wide range
of conscious anticipation
of the future which humanity represents in comparison to lesser types
of existence also introduces justice
as a characteristic
of the specially
human aim at harmonious beauty.
But both Ike and I have
experienced the new creation
as a club that can be used, often with the best
of intentions, to assault our
human truths and cause lies, pain and sometimes even death.
And yet, in book after book, Glancy also offends many
of her fellow Native writers — whose books she reads,
as they read hers — by insisting that this absurdity, this intrusion
of the Gospel, writ large in the history
of Native Americans, is the
experience of every tribe and every nation, everything and everyone
human.
Nevertheless,
as Buddhists first call attention to this character
of all events, including each moment
of human experience, and then explain how a mediator is inwardly affected by the realization
of this truth, Christians can listen and open themselves to dimensions important to them.
A person's voluntary encounter with
human suffering should always be viewed
as a cry
of protest and a testimony
of hope against the overwhelming evil that one
experiences.