With the exhibition New Sculpture, John Francis continues his investigation of the physical and psychological dimensions
of human transformation and evolution.
The age of adolescence is of particular interest to the artist as a significant period
of human transformation and growth, both physically and psychologically.
Jerry, a retired old school Catskills comedian, incisively pushes Tony to face his own history, to tell the tale of what pushed him out of Hollywood so long ago, and then forces Tony to embark on a course
of human transformation and redemption.
If readers of this blog are interested in transhumanism, they should embrace the low - hanging fruit
of human transformation.
I've discovered, and this movie articulates it so well, that when there is an atmosphere of safety and trust, that the miracle
of human transformation and healing can happen.
Behind all this, however, are the realities
of human transformation.
New Testament images and concepts
of human transformation such as justification (Rom.
Essentially this school of thought deals in the broadest sense with issues of unity and dynamism — the action of the Spirit — and with the possibilities
of human transformation or potential.
Not only is worship crucial to the tasks
of human transformation, but the nature of the church's teaching ministry also must change.
But can this or any historical reconstruction constitute a provenance
of human transformation?
For example, Wheeler grants that the «New Testament images and concepts
of human transformation such as justification, reconciliation, redemption and sanctification» have a long, rich history of «evangelical» interpretation.
Since psychological language aims at revealing the depths
of human transformation, and since this is the goal of theological language as well, there is no reason the two can not walk together in the search for truth.
Not exact matches
At the heart
of this
transformation lies the question
of whether the sales function has lost the
human interaction that once seemed essential.
The
transformation of the
human race through digital knowledge transfer is, frankly, incredible.
Clockwise from left: Hannah Grove, Chief Marketing Officer; Karen Keenan, Chief Administrative Officer; Liz Roaldsen, EVP, responsible for leading the Beacon digital
transformation initiative; Lynn Blake, Chief Investment Officer
of Global Equity Beta Solutions; (on monitor from Dublin) Susan Dargan, Management and future development, offshore business and Alternative Investment Services; (on monitor from London) Maria Cantillon, EVP and Global Head
of Alternative Asset Managers Solutions; Martine Bond, EVP for Trading and Clearing; Kim Newell, EVP and head
of Global Markets Europe, Middle East and Africa, State Street; Brenda Lyons, Head
of the Specialized Products Group; Kathy Horgan, Chief
Human Resources and Citizenship Officer; and Lori Heinel, Deputy Global Chief Investment Officer.
From left: Karen Keenan, Chief Administrative Officer; Kathy Horgan, Chief
Human Resources and Citizenship Officer; Liz Roaldsen, EVP, responsible for leading the Beacon digital
transformation initiative; Brenda Lyons, Head
of the Specialized Products Group; Lynn Blake, Chief Investment Officer
of Global Equity Beta Solutions; Sharon Hart Donovan, EVP, responsible for Enterprise Business Services; and Hannah Grove, Chief Marketing Officer.
I think we're going to see a
transformation of the
human race.
Watching the New England Patriots — trailing 21 - zip in the second quarter, down 25 points in the third, 19 points in the hole with less than 600 seconds to go in regulation — rally to win the Super Bowl in overtime, I couldn't help but wonder if there was some mysterious science behind «the miraculous comeback»: something measurable, or at least point - to - able, that captures the
transformation of human spirit that drives an individual — or, more inexplicably, a team
of separate beings — to see «victory» when «loss» is flashing all around them.
This
transformation will not come without consequences, however, including a greatly disruptive impact on the
human capital that supports the recordkeeping
of contemporary financial markets.
At its heart, Luther's early theology is marked by a strong emphasis on what the scholastics called uncreated grace, grace as the presence
of the uncreated God, and on the
transformation of the
human heart by God in the utter transcendence
of His Godhead.
Being a whole
human journey, not just adhesion to a creed, we need to see the evidence
of inner
transformation reflected in our thoughts, attitudes, words and actions.
In other words, the
transformation of human affections impacts bodily states, causing a change in countenance.
Fairy tales without consequence also lose the potential for metaphor — in interpretation, werewolves» involuntary
transformations could symbolize countless
human realities, from mental and physical illness to fear
of our own sinful natures.
So if you have a triune god who is father, son, and holy ghost but you have a mother
of the
human manifestation
of father / son god — then Mary is arguably the mother
of god and in that way could be argued as the more divine at some point in the history
of the
transformation of the triune god in heaven to the triune god on earth and
of course the few days when the triune god on earth was dead (but not really dead) before rising.
«Whatever salvation is... it includes the total
transformation of human life, forgiveness
of sin, healing from infirmities, and release from any kind
of bondage.
If the future is open, who is responsible for the
transformation of the
human race?
No theologian or counter-circumstance-experience can take away from what I know, what many mothers the world over know in their heart
of hearts about loss and birth and raising babies and real
transformation: it's Love and it is sacred and it is
human and it all redeems.
It is no paradox that we use the term «modern» to refer both to the external material and social forces that transformed the world, and to the internal intellectual and expressive movements that wrestled with, and often deplored, the
human costs
of that same
transformation.
The moving account
of Helen Keller's
transformation from the essentially animal to the truly
human level illustrates both the importance
of a physiological basis for meaningful
human existence and the dramatic contrast between life with and without symbols.
In magic anything might turn into anything else in the twinkling
of an eye before one's face; but such nature - oriented, visual, spatial, magical imagery has little if anything to do with
human transformation.
The remainder
of this chapter will be concerned with three other kinds
of human relations — economic, political, and familial — and with what the sciences centrally concerned with them tell about
human nature and its
transformations.
A culture, even one
of long duration, is modifiable by
human effort under the impact
of a new ideology — witness the radical
transformation of China under Communist influence or the other revolutionary changes now taking place in the Orient from an emergent nationalism.
If we are to avoid the threat and attain the promises inherent in the culminating phase
of this epoch in world history, our requirement is a massive
transformation of ideas, attitudes, commitments, and goals on the part
of human beings around the globe.
But this is possible and right in a fantasy world, for the givens
of this world are not highly complex beings; the focus is not on
human transformation but on the struggle
of good and evil forces in the world, a struggle
of mythic proportions, and it can be resolved mythically.
It is important to note that Williams» variety
of sacramentalism is oriented to nature, not to
human beings; to vision, not to hearing; to space, not to time; and magic is the key to
transformation, not dramatic growth.
I believe that God works through creatures, especially
human ones, that that work is transformative, that we can not know in advance just where such
transformation will lead, but that we can distinguish God's transforming work when it occurs from other kinds
of changes.
For Bonhoeffer, the perfection
of being is achieved through the
transformation of human life by the redemptive activity
of the transcendent God, who identified himself with
human beings in order to effect wholeness.
And it went on: «That is why, at this moment when the
human race is undergoing so deep a
transformation, women imbued with a spirit
of theGospel can do so much to aid humanity in not falling».
Those
of us who believe that
human flourishing depends upon the recognition and honoring
of marriage as exclusively the union
of a man and a woman see this
transformation of marriage into something radically different as a grave threat to
human society and
human happiness.
But in the midst
of all this poverty and misery the little clown came, with his antics and his
human tenderness and his magical
transformations.
These acts are present solely in a dynamic and forward - moving process that even now is reversing the totality
of history and the cosmos, and therefore effecting an absolute
transformation of a Totality that is
human, cosmic, and divine.
He is the Saviour because he is God reaching out to a broken
human race desperately in need
of transformation which can come only by us using our freedom to allow him to change us.
Therefore there must be something which lies back
of that
transformation, but which requires
human cooperation.
The Whiteheadian notion would simply add to Crossan's basic idea that the formation and
transformation of world would be not only a
transformation of human perception, but an actual ordering and reordering
of the concrete entities
of the world.
Jenkins, on the other hand, describes appreciatively theological schools, from the Orthodox doctrine
of theosis to Teilhard de Chardin to the modern «creation spirituality» movement, which one way or another allow
humans to share with God in the evolution
of the world to a glorious
transformation ¯ although, as Jenkins points out, there's a danger that that could veer off into anthropocentric management.
These two characters represent the mixture
of evil and good in
human beings but also, in their love for Lyra and their sacrificial acts, a powerful symbol
of redemption and
transformation in the face
of evil.
It runs full grain against the ethos
of modernity and another legacy
of the Enlightenment —
human agency for the democratic
transformation of society.
The new reality which broke into
human experience in the person
of Jesus becomes more distinct not through new conceptions about a transcendent reality, but through the growing experience
of the power
of that reality to bring
transformation and healing in daily life.
Bloom's premise is that history — understood as the theoretical
transformation of human life — has empted
human life
of its
human content.
The very realisation
of themselves as Dalit, the very acceptance
of the state
of «dalitness,» is the first step on the way towards their
transformation into full and liberated
human beings.1