Sentences with phrase «tension in human life»

Value is related to change as a kind of dynamic element or tension in human life.

Not exact matches

A religion brooks no rivals, but destroys or converts or lives in uneasy tension with different ways of understanding human life and destiny.

Jesus» response is not a clear - cut choice of religious duty over family obligation but an expression of the tension of human living in covenant with God.

The tension that Israel knew throughout her life as a nation between faith in an electing, acting, covenanting God on the one hand, and on the other the rational improbability, if not absurdity, of the divine promises implicit in her faith; the conflict between the divine demand to trust and the human doubt; the incongruity between divine promise for the nation and the incredible historical odds against fulfillment — all of this Israel is mindful of in the shaping of the stories, and in the reading and cherishing of the stories.

In Buber «is» and «ought» join without losing their tension in the precondition of authentic human existence — making real the life between man and maIn Buber «is» and «ought» join without losing their tension in the precondition of authentic human existence — making real the life between man and main the precondition of authentic human existence — making real the life between man and man.

Yet the book's pluralism is constantly put in tension with the human desire for a «richness» of «meaningful» living.

Voegelin explicates the noetic core as the experience of the push - pull of the «golden cord» wherein life is gained, and awareness of existence in the «In - between of human - divine participation,» and the understanding of divine reality inherent in the tension defined as question and answer (the philosopher's questin the «In - between of human - divine participation,» and the understanding of divine reality inherent in the tension defined as question and answer (the philosopher's questIn - between of human - divine participation,» and the understanding of divine reality inherent in the tension defined as question and answer (the philosopher's questin the tension defined as question and answer (the philosopher's quest).

For Bergson, each tension yields a problem that is also the mark of apparently irreconcilable views of what is vital to the place of human beings in the world: (1) Time is measurable according to length and brevity, but immeasurable in reality, because it is qualitative, felt, and immediate; (2) Psychological life is divided into a self awareness of deeper, dynamic layers of human beings and what is superficial and fixed; (3) There is an inner consciousness and an independent world apart from inner consciousness.

To hear in it a call is to accept the creative tension between what is and what might yet be, between the life we live as human beings in this world and the life to which Jesus summons us — without supposing that it is possible to resolve the tension in a single act or single moment.

St John's account of the resurrection and encounter of Jesus with Mary of Magdala in the garden where Jesus calls Mary by name becomes for Vanier a sign of hope for us all, and when the disciples react with disbelief and ridicule at Mary's good news Vanier is reminded of the tensions in all human communities that can only be transformed by living in the Spirit who is sent by Jesus as a sign of his undying love for his followers.

Adam Bernstein takes Gilligan's taut script and finds a deliberate pace that cranks up the tension without sacrificing the small, human moments that make Breaking Bad so compelling — even as characters make exactly the wrong choices in their lives.

Every bit of dialogue demonstrates the missed human connections of her troubled characters, and the kitchen works as a perfect metaphor for the simmering tensions of life in twenty - first century London.

In this 2006 oil on canvas Hirst mingles the horrific with the comic and there is an artful tension between the futility of human life and the inevitability of death.

Brimming with Gilbert & George's unique visual vocabulary, it functions as a social document of life in our modern urban world, examining issues of nationality and individuality, class tensions, and the artists» preoccupations with religion, politics, sex, death, and human existence.

Enter into the mystery and tension of being a human being created for perfection yet living in a world where our desires are sometimes left unfulfilled.