Sentences with phrase «story of human understanding»

Caldecott is not making a romantic or antiquarian proposal: ancient and medieval understandings need to be adaptedto where we find ourselves now in the story of human understanding.

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The study of history is arid and incomplete unless it is understood as a work about (and by) individual human beings — and, moreover, a story whose substance and manner of telling are matters of moral significance.

-- the Bible being a collection of stories about trying to understanding the human concept of «God.»

The story could be heard and understood by anyone who had experienced the depth of love in a family with its dilemmas and decisions, and Jesus uses it as a lesson about God which is reflected in the human situation.

The shad, like the Concord farmers, have, as he says, a «just cause,» and when he asks what might avail a crowbar against the Billerica Dam, he is pointing, by means of a parable, to a radically new understanding of the story of human existence.

And that's really the sad part... if you just accept them as the stories they are... of humans trying to understand what this life is all about and making answers to fit their environment and circ.umstances, then the contradictions simply confirm just how wonderfully human we are... There are some great stories.

To slip into Whiteheadian technical terminology, I understand Jesus as a figure the story of whom we objectify with peculiar vividness as a result of his power to grasp the successive subjective aims of generations and generations of men by the sheer massiveness and compelling weight of the ideal vision which he has presented as a lure promising richness and depth of feeling in human satisfactions.

It might be said that the history of the past half - century is the story of human attempts to secure world - community, the triumph of righteousness and justice, the establishment of understanding among the peoples of the earth, but always through the exercise of some variety of coercion.

The book begins with the person's graced nature - indeed «grace is somehow constitutive of human nature» and the way to come to an explicit understanding of this grace is through narration, through «telling the story».

Because Kirk believ ed that such an understanding was best apprehended and transmitted through imaginative literature, it is only right that his short stories and fiction best enable one to appreciate the character of his insight into the human predicament.

The real purpose of myth (e.g. the creation stories) is not to give an account of what actually happened in the past, or what may happen in the future (e.g. another ice age), but to convey a particular understanding of human life.

see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...

Though he is spoken of anthropomorphically (as a being in human form) at some points in the Bible, particularly in the early «J» stories of the Old Testament, this is not the normal biblical understanding of his nature.

To speak so does, I think, demand a high measure of participation in its story, and an effort to understand it first in its own terms — to grasp the Old Testament's own fundamental assertion that its story from beginning to end is the account of the historical action of God seeking the reconciliation of man and God, the human and the divine, the creature and the Creator.

In other words, these biblical stories, which are not self - conscious literary creations but genuine emergents from the experience of a religious community — these stories are attempts to express an understanding of the relation in which God actually stands to human life, and they are true in any really important sense only if that understanding is correct.

It is a story that has to do with the human life of Jesus Christ, understood in the light of all that preceded and prepared for his appearance, and apprehended for what it really signified through an awareness of what followed upon it and was nourished and empowered by his appearance in history.

As Adam is simply the Hebrew word for «man», the story is about man and his wife, and becomes one of the most penetrating narratives ever written about human self - understanding.

After years of struggling through the issues, I decided it was a profound story that helps us understand the human condition, but was unlikely to be literal history.

Christian faith sees in the story of Jesus the spirit of God reshaping human existence and opening the way to new forms of understanding of what that existence is.

She was quickly captivated by the amazing story of human milk and is focusing her research on understanding the nutritive and immunoprotective value of donor milk beyond one year postpartum.

From a detailed look at the variety of factors informing the selection of human rights stories by the media, it appears possible to begin to construct a framework for understanding their inclusion.

A number of recent news stories have had a similar kind of message: animals viscerally understand certain mathematical operations better than humans do.

«Revising the story of the dispersal of modern humans across Eurasia: Technological advances and multidisciplinary research teams are reshaping our understanding of when and how humans left Africa — and who they met along the way.»

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a visionary story about reprogramming the human brain, and how such a development could impact how we understand ourselves and interact with the world.

From axolotls to zebrafish, this story explores some of science's classic models, others more unusual, but all with potential for increasing our understanding of biology to improve human health.

Since it was established by CASW in 2000, this prize has sought to honor not a single story but a body of work published by a single journalist that has made a lasting contribution to the public's understanding of critical advances in medical science and their impact on human health.

Here's my understanding of this story: At some point, there were some initial animal studies that suggested soy * might * be bad for humans.

Paying attention to a Sugar Baby grumbling concerning social ills and daily tensions could be a real turn off.Just having a vague understanding of human interest stories and world events can, generally, supply you an excellent beginning.

It's an underdog story that's a bit formulaic but very well set in its moment, and it tells of a very human experience: though it's about racism - Davis being the first black player to win the Heisman trophy - it's not too heavy - handed, and it's just as much about football, and built on a deep love and understanding of the game.

A former documentarian whose understanding of the human condition often results in movies with realistic and honest personalities, Arcand has seemingly cornered the market in cerebral, character - driven stories in an era when computer - generated explosions fill the multiplexes.

Structured in two parts, the first portion of the story centers around the young ape boy's struggle to understand his differences from his family, while the second portion complicates that struggle with the introduction of an older Tarzan to a father - daughter team of human explorers and their ruthless protector, Clayton.

When using gamification narratives, the use of game mechanics to encourage behavior, we are appealing to a basic human instinct: stories fascinate us, they include metaphors that we understand immediately.

Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.

There's no doubt that Ghettoside is impeccably researched, but what makes it a brilliant book is Leovy's ear for the human story behind the statistics and her sharp, intuitive understanding of the people she meets.

A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out.

Stories like these are critical for HABRI in understanding the physical, emotional and psychological benefits of the human - animal bond.

You only ever hear the bad stories, not the story of the extremely matted dogs we help, dogs with health problems not noticed by owners, abused dogs we help to understand not all humans are bad, etc..

In showing understanding without praise, the game's story manages to walk a thin line between having the player act as part of what is arguably a local insurgent group and siding with said groups, the end goal of which is a more considered viewpoint which treats enemy combatants as human beings rather than koopa troopas.

In that world, you would be reading those stories because humans would generally understand and take seriously the probable longer term consequences of their actions.

«The Arctic is going through its most unprecedented transition in human history, and we need better observations to understand and predict how these changes will affect everyone, not just the people of the north,» Jeremy Mathis, head of NOAA's Arctic Research Program said in the AP story.

The story ranges from physics to chemistry, biology, geology, fluid mechanics, and quantum mechanics, to economics and social sciences.The class will consider evidence from the distant past and projections into the distant future, keeping the human time scale of the next several centuries as the bottom line.The lectures follow a textbook, «Global Warming, Understanding the Forecast,» written for the course.

The story is in getting the public to understand the critical juncture that the human race and all of its needs are at in relation to several key problems.

Stories can deepen empathy and build understanding of the human story of relationships, sex, family, and the paths we choose.

Geophysics and soil science, carbon dating, knowledge of cultural artefacts, stories and other evidence provided from ancient documents and carvings, pollen analysis, human DNA from local populations, etc. — each had evolved in independently of one - another, but would now be combined to deepen any 21st century archaeology's approach to understanding the pot.

Recruitment materials described the study as testing a «newly - developed virtual interaction story» in which the participant would «create [their] own adventure story with a virtual partner» and would help «improve current understanding of human interaction.»