Sentences with phrase «understanding human expression»

From Wikipedia: «Linguistic semantics is the study of meaning that is used for understanding human expression through language.»

It offers support to any effort in homiletics to locate «aesthetics» as a starting point for understanding human expression.

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The concept of cultural relativism is particularly helpful in connection with the understanding of values as one of the expressions of human spirituality.

As with Spinoza, nature is identified with the ultimate, and a human being appropriately understands himself or herself as but one of many equally important and interrelated expressions of God: a «temporary and dependent mode of the whole of God / Nature» (SD 310).

DO N'T think you understand democracy if you think it's only about elections: it's about injecting as much of your religious culture and mindset which excludes freedom of thought, freedom of expression, political and religious pluralism, and human rights.

Taking note of the altered world - consciousness of human beings in this century, according to which Being is to be understood in strictly interpersonal terms, Mühlen suggests, first of all, that the classical expression homoousios, as applied to the Son's relationship to the Father, does not necessarily mean that the Son is of the same substance as the Father but only that he is of equal being (gleichseiendlich) with the Father (VG 13).

(For instance, on the very day on which I write this page, the post brings me some aphorisms from a worldly-wise old friend in Heidelberg which may serve as a good contemporaneous expression of Epicureanism: «By the word «happiness» every human being understands something different.

In its best expression, salvation has been understood as the fulfillment of our humanness, of our best selves, and not as inhibiting our human potential.

The religious understanding of the conflict between good and evil, the fact of the stubborn resistance of the human heart to the love of God and its demands, the vision of the divine strategy of sacrificial love in the life and death of Jesus as the climax of history, all this is foreign to most of the philosophies of progress, but it was the heart of the great expressions of Christian liberalism.

The Hebrew thinkers, with a penetration that might have spared some later thought its worst blunders, recognized that the meaning of the world can be understood, if at all, only in the light of, and by inclusion of, human life, which is its highest expression.

But if the reader persists he will come upon passages of deep insight, beauty of expression and profound understanding of the great problems of religion and human thought.

DO N'T think you understand democracy if you think it's only about elections: it's about a culture and mindset which includes freedom of thought, freedom of expression, political and religious pluralism, and human rights.

This is the context for understanding some of document's most humble of expressions, such as: «Christian revelation contributes greatly [subsidium affert magnum] to the promotion of this communion between persons,... a world becoming more unified every day» (23) and, the Church «contributes toward making the family of man and its history fully human [humaniorem reddendam]» (40).

We need to have a conversation that deepens our understanding of, and appreciation for, what being human is all about and that everybody, in my view, every single human being is a unique expression of the spectrum of both the masculine and feminine, because God is neither male nor female.

I propose that the more helpful understanding of the relationship between the arts and religion is in the suggestion that religion, understood etymologically, is that form of human expression that seeks to tie all things together and to provide an environment of meaning to the otherwise randomness of events.

New Testament theology is thus disqualified from playing a constructive role in the forming of a theological method which shall take seriously the problem of faith and history, and particularly this faith, rooted as no other religious faith is, in the very concreteness of history, and becomes nothing more than»... the first permanent expression of the distinctively Christian consciousness, and begs the question of the external history of that consciousness» (Ibid., 57, 58) «thus leaving... theology with nothing to discussion except the human need for self - understanding in general.»

Such would seem to be the fundamentally negative implication in Bultmann's thought about the event which underlies the New Testament kerygma and the understanding of human life of which it is the expression.

That God's love, manifest in diverse ways throughout the duration of the universe, might come to a full and unsurpassable self - expression in an individual human being who lived and died in the Middle East almost two thousand years ago does not seem incongruous with what we now understand about the nature of an evolving universe, especially if we regard religion as a phenomenon emergent from the universe rather than just something done on the earth by cosmically homeless human subjects.

It is fundamental to any adequate understanding of Ricoeur to note that his phenomenology is so constructed as to be open to the «signs» generated by «counter-disciplines,» and indeed to read the meaning of human existence «on» a world full of such expressions generated by the natural and social sciences, as well as in the history of culture.

What this means for the study of religion is that we can no longer legitimately isolate it as a peculiar expression of the human mind or focus on it as though psychology and the social sciences, or even theology, were the privileged roads to a contemporary understanding of it.

He concluded that it did, that the true purpose of myth here was to give expression to human self - understanding.

Myth, properly understood, can serve contemporary man, as well as it served ancient man, for the verbal expression of the response of the human spirit to the environment of his existence.

Rather, it reflected a less individualized understanding of existence, in which what persisted were impersonal processes that gained particularized expression in human experience.

Scientific language has replaced myth for the understanding of physical phenomena, but it has not replaced poetry and art as the expression of the human spirit.

It is significant that Vatican II (and also the Uppsala Assembly of the World Council of Churches) defines the church as the sacramental sign of the unity of all humanity, and also speaks of the presence of the Paschal Mystery among all peoples (see Decree on the Church, and the document on the Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World) This approach assumes that in Christianity, acknowledgment of Salvation (understood as the transcendent ultimate destiny of human beings) finds expression and witness in the universal struggle for Humanization (understood as the penultimate human destiny) in world history which is shaped not only by the forces of goodness and life, but also by the forces of evil and death.

Through the long centuries in which God was seeking to prepare the way for the «incarnation» — the coming in human flesh of Himself through the «Word,» the self - expression of Himself in the creation of the cosmos — He was seeking men who would willingly respond to «the light which lighteth every man» and slowly was finding some in the small minority of His «chosen people» who were struggling to understand what His Spirit, respecting their free will, was trying to say through them.

As an expression of human revulsion at the Holocaust this denial of corporate responsibility is comprehensible, but will it suffice for a Jewish theological understanding of man?

From this standpoint, then, theology is perhaps best understood as the effort to nurture awareness of the depth dimension of human experience as it comes to expression in the myths and symbols of particular religious traditions and their broader cultures.

A religion is thus understood as the particular expression of a universal mode of human reaction to Ultimate Reality.

Understand the indications and application of breastfeeding technology (manual and mechanical breast milk expression [and identify rental sources], supplemental feeding methods, test weighing of the infant, milk storage, donor human milk).

They need the opportunity to understand and explore the full range of human expression.

1118 - FCO - For first time in 64 year history the Commonwealth will have a formal Charter setting out core values: democracy; human rights; peace and security; tolerance, respect and understanding; freedom of expression; separation of powers; rule of law; good governance; sustainable development; environmental protection; access to health, education, food and shelter; gender equality; and the importance of young people and civil society.

Further studies of processes in which GTPBP3 is involved will help towards the understanding of human diseases that are linked to mitochondrial DNA expression and to develop new therapies.

«This is a unique and valuable resource for researchers wishing to begin to understand how gene expression is dynamically regulated in human islet cells,» said Kim.

The light - activated genetic switch could be used to turn genes on and off in gene therapies; to turn off gene expression in future cancer therapies; and to help track and understand gene function in specific locations in the human body.

As the end products and biological effectors of gene expression, proteins are crucial for improving our understanding of human biology, developing new and better drugs, and advancing precision medicine.

Humans have an ortholog of the murine Nrk gene, and considering that the gene expression pattern in breast tumor in Nrk mutant mice was similar to that in human luminal B breast cancer, the findings of this study may lead to further understanding of the mechanisms of human breast cancer suppression and to advances in its diagnosis and therapy.

In this context, Dr. Woo's work focuses on deepening the understanding of these mechanisms based on postmortem human brains and animal studies using a variety of protein and gene expression techniques, in addition to the utilization of differentiated human neurons.

«Taken together, the work represents a large step towards deciphering the code that controls gene expression, and provides an invaluable resource to scientists all over the world to further understand the function of the whole human genome», says Professor Taipale.

By determining how changes in gene expression affect the fate of glial cells in mice, we hope to understand the key factors that govern neural cell regeneration in the human brain.

Dr. Loftus» research is aimed at understanding how the human genome regulates gene expression, with a focus on how this controls the cellular processes governing mammalian development.

Naturally occurring loss of function (LoF) mutations that disrupt the gene's function or expression provide an opportunity to understand the long term consequences of genetic deficiency in humans.

They examine how teachers can redesign the curriculum and differentiate instruction to respond to students» natural human interests — the drive for mastery, the drive to understand, the drive toward self - expression, and the need to relate — in order to engage even the most reluctant learners.

Although all of us share the four human interests described here, the drives for mastery, understanding, self - expression, and interpersonal relationships exist in varying degrees in different people.

So, according to you, s / he is using the understanding of human expression through language to its maximum advantage.

Researchers believe that these results show that dogs have the ability to understand emotions in facial expressions and through human verbal cues when accompanied by corresponding facial expressions.

His focus on the human expression, and his interest in wanting to fully understand another human being has us interact with his work by filling us up with empathy.

«Sending out a stamp, a letter or a card, something that in the west carried no risk and involved no emotional investment, was connected in the East with a defence of the basic human right to free expression and was often understood as a form of public service or protest.»

Quinn's diverse and poetic work meditates on our attempts to understand or overcome the transience of human life through scientific knowledge and artistic expression.

But the book, in its totality from page to page, can actually be read as much more — as a long synesthetic poem, one that imagines a shape, color, and sound for words and speaks to our profoundest understanding of human expression.