Sentences with phrase «through human stories»

I am looking for a way to see the bigger picture through human stories, with more compassion and less fighting.

The book tells Paraguayan myths through human stories that are mythical, epic and yet related to Paraguayan landscapes and Paraguayan history, specifically the Chaco War of 1932 - 35 (1); universal stories that are Paraguayan in their basic elements.

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«Bennett has become a master of storytelling through character, and while there are clearly no people in these films, it was clearly a very human story, which we knew a director such as Bennett would zero in on and draw out very real human - like emotions from these poor inanimate objects,» Lennon said.

The creation story in the first chapter of Genesis depicts the creation of humankind as male and female, sexually differentiated and enjoined by God's grace to sustain human life through procreation.

History tells us that the power of story, even a fictitious one, can send shock waves through society — transporting an issue no one can really solve into a human reality from which no one can turn away.

Everything about us, our human history tells a story, our human story and God's story of redemption of mankind through His own initiative, by sending His Son Jesus Christ who declared Him and explained Him so that we would KNOW Him and be able to have living, active relationship with Him, by believing on the Name of His son whom He sent to redeem us.

We find that what we can not do through human efforts, can be done by Christ, if we're humble enough to accept it (Remember, the — I believe allegorical — story of the «The Fall» in Genesis was about mankind wanting to do things on its own and be «like God»).

I love the way CS Lewis explained that ``... He (God) sent the human race what I call good dreams; I mean those queer stories scattered all through the heathen religions about god who dies and comes to life again and, by his dead, has somehow given new life to men.»

It has been an attempt to suggest that the Western novel is haunted by the story of Jesus, in the sense that like the hiddenness of God in that human life, the image of human life in the Western novel is one in which human beings grapple with the transcendent through the inexorable limitations of historical existence.

I have no issues with the Christian faith when viewed through the poetic lenses of the human story.

actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same with religion, thousands of years ago when there was no science yet, primitive people had a religion, of course man made faiths to conform with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But with the accelerated evolution, these faith again is threatend with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang

The story of Easter declares that the God of Beyond has died on the cross and through the Holy Spirit now is the human community as the struggle for human equalities and freedoms, the impulse for harmony.

Officially, North Korea has denied that the camps even exist, but human rights organizations have been able to confirm their existence through satellite images and stories from survivors.

The entire Christian story — from the calling of Abraham to the birth of Christ to the sending of the Apostles and into the present — is the story of how God's desire that all people be reconciled to himself (1 Timothy 2:4, 2 Peter 3:9) operates through the concrete particulars of human history.

Stories can affect the world directly, as well as through human perception.

He, in fact, communicated through story in his own work, interpreting at length the story of Abraham and Isaac, and creating parabolic stories to convey his insights into the human condition.

Israel answers the unresolved questions of the primeval story with a perfectly astounding affirmation: the problems of man's rebellion against God will be answered — and are in fact now being answered — by God's own initiative and action in human history in and through Abraham and the nation Israel — in whom all the families of the earth must ultimately be blessed.

We * need * these stories, these myths — humans are symbol - using, meaning - seeking creatures, and we communicate to our deepest selves through story and image.

A story sustains the precariousness and openness of the situation until it reaches its end, and does so by virtue of that power of imagination, or what I called memory that penetrates the future, to envisage a stretch of time as both sequentially related and also developing through human opportunity, intention, decision, and being acted upon.

His Phenomenology of Spirit told the speculative story of how human beings attain free self - consciousness through conflict that always leads to a higher resolution.

Human life is the search for the love which fulfils the will to belong, and which has passed through the story of love's betrayal and found a new possibility of hope.

William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (Boston: Gorham Press, 1918 - 20); cf. Herbert Blumer, An Appraisal of Thomas» «The Polish Peasant in Europe and America» (New York: Social Science Research Council, 1939); Ellsworth Faris, «The Sect and the Sectarian,» in The Nature of Human Nature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938); Liston Pope, Millhands and Preachers, A Study of Gastonia (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1940); Raymond J. Jones, A Comparative Study of Civil Behavior Among Negroes (Washington: Howard University, 1939); Arthur H. Fauset, Black Gods of the Metropolis (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944); J. F. C. Wright, Slava Boku, The Story of the Dukhobors (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1940); Ephraim Ericksen, The Psychological and Ethical Aspects of Mormon Group Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1922); Edward Jones Allen, The Second United Order among Mormons (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936); Robert Henry Murray, Group Movements Through the Ages (New York: Harper & Bros., 1935); David Ludlum, Social Ferment in Vermont, Columbia Studies in American Culture, No. 5 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939).

From within our human history God's vision of cosmic destiny can be grasped only through the relatively limited and time - conditioned stories of promise that serve as the foundation of our biblical tradition.

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.

It is universally recognized that the long story from our earliest remains of human life onward through the great civilizations of the ancient east witnessed remarkable advances.

It just means that whenever God enters the human story, God speaks to (and through) people using their own language, their own view of the world.

Despite all the dangers that accompany the humanization of sexuality, we see through this story a possible direction toward human fulfillment.

Modern day scholars were not around to hear Jesus speaking and so it is a question as to whether you believe in the power of God to convey his story through human conduits (writers and translators of the Bible).

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.

At the end of the story of Genesis God declares his purposes through a human voice.

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.

We are invited to participate imaginatively in the old story now told once again through the joints and ligaments of a particular human life story..

why don't you start with why humans invented religion in the first place, the origins of the books of the bible, the multiple «christ» (copied) stories throughout the history of time, fossil evidence of evolution of man and all species, all the discrepancies in the bible, knowledge of all the gods that humans have believed in through recorded history, the political uses of christianity in the time of it's origin, the fact that every other religion has followers who believe just as strongly in their own god / book, that fact that if you had been born in another part of the world you would be a different religion and going to «hell», and that a good, kind, omniscient god wouldn't allow all the suffering and evil to happen, and wouldn't need «help» as christians like to tout... and then we'll get to all these ridiculous fools.

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold through Our Genes by Adam Rutherford.

That's the story of paleoanthropology, at least according to Ann Gibbons's book The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors (Doubleday, $ 26), a deliciously soap - operatic account of efforts to trace human ancestry through the study of fosHuman: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors (Doubleday, $ 26), a deliciously soap - operatic account of efforts to trace human ancestry through the study of foshuman ancestry through the study of fossils.

He performs a difficult balancing act with aplomb, telling the story of human evolution through an accurate and unsparing narrative of what scientists actually thought and did.

The Boy Who Loved Too Much sheds new light on being human through the story of a boy with Williams syndrome, a rare genetic condition

In the beginning, the story goes, the first humans ventured through the watery underworld in the West.

What he was writing about was his semi-Marxist view of the darker side of the human future — how capitalists might turn into Eloi and the proletariat become Morlocks — and the only way available to him to make a story out of it was to pretend that time was a dimension as traversable as any other, and that therefore a machine to travel through it was possible.

«Tooth truth: Human teeth tell the story of humanity through our fragile relationship with the sun.»

It will «tell the story of human exploration of the moon» from the Apollo program through modern - day missions designed to study the lunar surface, the museum added.

This symposium features three trailblazers in science communication, working through multiple media sources to engage people with the exciting and challenging stories of human genetics.

To dispel this final falsehood, Rick, Michele and several other individuals who've been impacted by Alzheimer's disease decided to share their real - life experiences in a groundbreaking story entitled, Fade to Blank: Life Inside Alzheimer's, a multimedia exploration of the human side of Alzheimer's, through the eyes of those living with the disease.

A podcast will be a place for learning and story sharing with an aim to de-mystify therapy and connect through our human experiences.

He told the story of how awful humans are to other humans (I mean prawns), and journeyed through the eyes of a blithering idiot who started out steamrolling over the aliens for the Man, then had a change of heart, completing the transformation by literally turning into one of them.

Based on the beloved bestselling novel by W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Purpose shares the soulful and surprising story of one devoted dog (voiced by Josh Gad) who finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he teaches to laugh and love.

Thomas Hardy's timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love - as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.

In its brief sojourn on the screen, A Ghost Story moves through centuries of geologic time and into the deepest recesses of the human heart.