In violating representations
of the human body with this kind of vivid, kaleidoscopic variety, the filmmakers allude only vaguely to the vulnerability of real human bodies.
The artist Antony Gormley combined the shape
of the human body with different geometric shapes.
At the centre of the space, two semi-abstracted white polystyrene sculptures based on Ancient Egyptian gods, Wadjet (King Cobra) 2015 and Taweret 2015, merge the organic nature
of the human body with biological engineering.
His elegant style captured the essential femininity and balance
of the human body with rhythmic, undulating curves in bronze and marble.
These accidents happen when there is contact between any part
of the human body with a high enough level of electrical current to penetrate through skin and hair.
Free World Trust held patents for [para. 4] «an apparatus that bombards different parts
of the human body with low frequency electro - magnetic waves.»
Not exact matches
If your business model revolves more around river tours and large
bodies of water, the mighty kraken, complete
with lots
of morbid jokes about your service to the creature, ferrying tourists to feed its unending hunger for
human flesh, may do a better job
of making your employees feel like they are part
of something greater.
A former health care investment analyst
with a degree in biology from Yale University and current CEO
of the company, Wojcicki is fascinated by the mysteries
of the genome and what it can reveal about the
human body.
The tiny sensors, which consist
of infrared light - emitting diodes (LEDs) coupled
with a sensitive light detector, measure infinitesimal gradations in light in
human tissue, due to changing blood volume in the microvasculature as blood circulates through the
body — a process that follows in rhythm
with the beating
of the heart.
We've figured out some drugs that usually work, but as we learn more about the
human body and our genetic code — the things we have in common but also the things that make us unique — we may come up
with a new sort
of medicine, tailored for each person.
«The miracles
of technology cause us to live in a hectic, clockwork world that does violence to
human biology, enabling us to do nothing but pursue the future faster and faster... Specialization in verbiage, classification, and mechanized thinking has put man out
of touch
with many
of the marvelous powers
of «instinct» which govern his
body.
This is the root
of sexual violence: The idea that women aren't autonomous
human beings
with the right and ability to say yes to sexual interactions we want and no to those we don't, but that we're receptacles for male sexual desire, that our
bodies are up for grabs (literally, in this case).
There is some urgency to simplify the system, what
with the incorporation
of technology into the
human body on the horizon.
Using an algorithm complete
with 3 - D
human body modeling, the company then makes a recommendation as to which
of its mattresses is the best fit.
But what the NEAT researchers are ultimately arguing for is much bigger, nothing short
of redesigning the workplace
with the needs
of the
human body at its centre.
It relies on partnerships
with a wide range
of government agencies and other
bodies to have any effect — and that has forced Gates, the uncompromising and impatient tech leader, to apply the
human touch.
For instance, Hamid speculates about a future political order, based on pure democratic assemblies: «How this assembly would coexist
with other preexisting
bodies of government was as yet undecided... [U] nlike those other entities for which some
humans were not
human enough to exercise suffrage, this new assembly would speak from the will
of all the people, and in the face
of that will, it was hoped, greater justice might be less easily denied.»
Such a new ecclesiastical
body is designed to allow these pathetic
human beings, who are so deeply locked into a world that no longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay people, distort gay people
with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part
of a religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest
of their tortured lives.
Even the
human body is a picture
of God's relationship
with mankind.
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 concept
of international
human rights from which no country is exempt is consonant
with the idea that Shari'a, the large
body of legal tradition that informs the Muslim community about how God requires it to live, is in some sense the rule
of God.
When combined
with his «theology
of the
body» — a celebratory presentation
of human embodiment and sexuality — John Paul's promotion
of Vatican II's reforms provides crucial resources for responding to the American sexual - abuse crisis — a crisis, Wills argues, rooted in defective conceptions
of the Catholic Church and its sexual teaching.
This mystery
of human selfhood,
with its connection to but also its freedom from the
body, is the best evidence I know for the presence
of transcendence in our world.
The appropriate explanation
of Christian asceticism begins
with the dignity
of the complete
human person, not only his soul but also his
body.
[8] It must be realised, therefore, that the question
of the
human body does not deal only
with biology and chemistry, politics and economics, but also
with meaning and value.
[4] This wayward view has become the rallying assertion
of the New Age movement
with its implicit refusal
of the
body's dignity, and its unguided emphasis on the
human spirit.
I know that demons can inhabit a
human, for I took a lady to church to see a pastor, to take it out
of her, I sat there while the pastor prayed over her, finally a black ghostly type,
with a person's
body, came out
of her feet and left the room.
Yet in creating
human beings
with bodies formed from the unfolding
of matter in cosmic development, God the Son committed himself from all eternity to become Man according to the Father's will.
The
human body comes about from the seed and egg
of parents in common
with other animals, but the soul is created immediately by God's loving command and wise, eternal will.
«The Christian vision
of the
human person made in the image
of God
with a spiritual soul as well as a
body is
of central importance.
They say further that even if one does not equate a fetus
with a child, as long as one attributes some value to the fetus» and they demonstrate how economists routinely make such outrageous calculations in insurance claims for loss
of body parts» and put the value as low as one hundredth
of a
human being, the lowered crime rate would not come near justifying the number
of abortions.
The notion
of women's autonomy» including absolute control over our own
bodies» leaves us
with an unrealistic sense
of human power and an exaggerated sense
of independence from the consequences
of our attitudes and actions.
Because
body, mind, and spirit are an indissoluble triad in the
human personality, man deals
with his physical needs in characteristically mental and spiritual ways, ordering his economic life according to rational canons and multiplying his demands beyond all limits in obedience to the infinite yearnings
of the self - transcending spirit.
Unfortunately, some defenders
of theism in the eighteenth century wedded themselves to this view
of the complex machine and its maker and associated it
with the view that such special forms
of the machine as the
human body came into existence fully formed in an aboriginal creation.
For the saving love
of God to be present to
human beings it would have to be so in a way different from how it is present to other aspects
of the
body of the world — in a way in keeping
with the peculiar kind
of creatures we are, namely, creatures
with a special kind
of freedom, able to participate self - consciously (as well as be influenced unconsciously) in an evolutionary process.
The other side
of human nature, which in this life is inseparably linked
with the
body but without being identical
with it, is variously called spirit, mind, consciousness, ego, psyche, soul, or personality.
He associates this
with the «spirit» dimension
of the «Renaissance - Platonic» view
of the
human person as
body - soul - spirit, as retrieved by de Lubac.
Lucretius thought that the soul nestled in the
human breast; Descartes located it in the pineal gland; and process theologian John Cobb, following Alfred North Whitehead, hopes to find mind wandering as a thread through the «interstices
of the brain,» But if we are truly dealing
with metaphysics, then the mind and the soul, like the risen Christ, will not be anywhere, but holistically related to the
body.
He quotes physicist Brian Swimme: «The universe shivers
with wonder in the depths
of the
human,» and points out that this sense
of an emergent universe identical
with ourselves gives new meaning to the Chinese sense
of forming one
body with all things.
He turned his light on it, expecting to see a small mammal but instead, «couldn't quite understand what I was seeing,» That's because
human eyes were never meant to rest upon the South American Goliath birdeater — a spider that measures one foot across,
with a
body the size
of your fist and two - inch fangs.
Just wondering,
with the complexity
of the
human body, Earth, and the whole universe, how exactly can you not believe in God?
In the former case, the dualism is usually that
of soul and
body,
with the assumption that only
human beings have souls.
But they make
of «God» still the farthest limit
of our
human possibilities, caught up
with us just as surely within this
body of death.
The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on
human sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping
Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family,
with its employed father, mother at home, and two or more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent
of North American households.»
In ordinary
human experience this region is coextensive
with the
body or
with some aspect
of the
body.
The idea was that, just as all
bodies are governed by the law
of gravitation and organisms by biological laws, so the creature called man also had his law -
with this great difference, that a
body could not choose whether it obeyed the law
of gravitation or not, but a man could choose either to obey the Law
of Human Nature or to disobey it.
The doctrine
of forgiveness, the doctrine
of the Cross as a symbol
of redemption, the myths and the mysteries surrounding the
human body and
human sexuality, the identification
of sin and temptation
with femaleness, the Image
of God, the mind /
body dualism that devalues female life, the depreciation
of creation... these are some
of the problems Christianity poses, giving subtle sanction to the violence women experience.
Virginity is the ideal
of the holy person not because he or she is filled
with a deep hatred
of the
human body, but because Christ was ihidaya meaning that Christ had singleness
of purpose to be the instrument
of God's will and thought.
This Christian stress on sociality, which (as we shall see in the next chapter) is the natural reason for the existence
of the Christian community as well as
of other
human groupings, has a close relationship
with the fourth assertion: that each
of us is an organic unity,
body - mind - spirit.
This depends upon there being a brain, an arrangement
of cells in a particular part
of the
body which by reason
of its peculiar coordination makes the given routing able to «know» in a distinctively
human manner — quite different from, although certainly continuous
with, the sort
of «knowing» that is possible for the higher grades
of animal life.