Worthy
of this ordinary human experience, with all of its joys and suffering.
The term «conscious superject» can be taken to refer to the physiological correlate of a moment
of ordinary human experience, although this does not exhaust its technical meaning.
Not exact matches
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.»
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.
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.
And finally, an important observation is furnished by Bronislaw Malinowski, who describes the transition from
ordinary human experience to religious
experience and belief as a «breaking point» to which the
human organism reacts in spontaneous outbursts, and in which rudimentary modes
of behavior and rudimentary beliefs are engendered.15
In
ordinary human experience this region is coextensive with the body or with some aspect
of the body.
Instead, we shall pass from the first to the fifth way, showing in each case how the existence
of God can be known with certainty by reflecting on
ordinary human experience.
So far we have not discussed the area
of human life which is known as the «religious
experience», the awareness
of the «more - than -
human» impinging on
ordinary experience.
It was recognised in Edinburgh in 1910 that «the following ten years would in all probability constitute a turning point in
human history and might be more critical in determining the spiritual revolution
of humankind than many centuries
of ordinary experience.
Hence the meaning
of what is said can be illustrated by an
ordinary example from
human experience.
In the course
of human existence it has been the role
of «religion» to provide the «answers» to our limit questions and to illuminate our boundary
experiences by placing them in a larger than
ordinary context.
Because
of this fact
human experience can not truly transcend itself, nor can
ordinary and extraordinary modes
of consciousness be utterly disjoined.
The metaphors in the poem keep the wonder
of renewal firmly fixed on
ordinary human experience: the new life has to do with dew and rain and versing.
In these states, the
ordinary contrast
of good and ill seems to be swallowed up in a higher denomination, an omnipotent excitement which engulfs the evil, and which the
human being welcomes as the crowning
experience of his life.
The Zookeeper's Wife is a powerful, emotional fact - based drama about both the depth
of human suffering
experienced during World War II and the remarkable courage and strength
of character that
ordinary women and men demonstrated when their friends» and neighbors» lives were in danger.
Katie Paterson manipulates two basic
human sensesof sight and smell to unbind viewers from the reality
of geography and allow them to voyage into outer space and
experience the universe beyond the
ordinary reaches
of our spatial perception.