Sentences with phrase «universal human experiences»

A concrete cast of the interior of an entire terraced house, House only stood for a few months before its demolition, but was a landmark public sculpture for London and has come to epitomise Whiteread's lifelong project as an artist: fusing everyday architectural and domestic forms with personal and universal human experiences and memories.

His works focus on universal human experiences — birth, death, the unfolding of consciousness — and have roots in both Eastern and Western art as well as spiritual traditions.

Some of his themes reflect his African - American roots - «Jacob's Ladder» (Chicago) or «I Have Been to the Mountain» (Memphis)- while others mirror universal human experiences and concepts or focus on pure form in space.

For forty years he has made artworks dealing with universal human experiences such as birth, life and death.

Her lifelong project as an artist is fusing everyday architectural and domestic forms with personal and universal human experiences and memories.

CAGIBI is invested in sharing the universal human experiences to be found in works of prose and poetry set within places unfamiliar to readers; thus, our expressed interest in international — or world — literature, and works in translation.

Although illness and disability are universal human experiences, written works about these experiences can be narrowly categorized by publishers, editors, market forces and even reader expectations into «inspirational» narratives that limit your reflection and complex experience, shutting down your creative work and your inquiry.

These are universal human experiences, told through the specific lens of a Muslim child or family.

By building upon universal human experiences, Team Gotham have created a poignant game which distills romance without being sappy, compassion without ulterior motive and self - reflection without the fear of others» expectations.

Human beings — who, like hamsters, are also mammals and vertebrates — are remarkably seasonal, Prendergast added, citing a long, astonishing list of universal human experiences that have a seasonal component, including birth, death, suicide, viral infections, mortality from bacterial infections, sleep patterns and sudden infant death syndrome, even though industrial societies buffer humans from contributory factors.

The blood - and - guts tales told by the ancestors of today's journalists gradually evolved into more civilized literary forms, to provide more complex characterizations, to describe more universal human experiences, to explore more sophisticated levels of conflict.

Hunger for food, and its satisfaction, are universal human experiences.

It's fascinating to learn about the hugely varied ways in which people respond to a universal human experience,» says Morton.

The Declaration invites us to recognize that the other is different within a universal human experience.

The universal human experience is to discover that the other is different.

Confronting neo-orthodoxy, liberals reaffirmed the role of reason, the authority of universal human experience, and the insights of contemporary modes of thinking.

Lewontin thus saw creationism as falsified not so much by any discoveries of modern science as by universal human experience, a thesis that does little to explain either why so absurd a notion has attracted so many adherents or why we should expect it to lose ground in the near future.

It is a universal human experience that we come to our own personal end in history.

Certainly, the legal system, building upon the universal human experience of responsibility, assumes the latter.

But to be of full value for all people in all ages these insights must be understood as illustrations and particular embodiments of general aspects of universal human experience.

In recent decades they have preferred to explore the experience of faith itself as a universal human experience that exhibits common stages of development through the succeeding phases of human life.

It's about recognizing the unfortunately universal human experience of losing a loved one... and feeling sympathy / empathy for someone — regardless of whether there is a personal, real life connection to that person — who is going through one of the most traumatic experiences in life.

This year's festival is full of artfully - told stories that provoke thought, drive empathy and allow the audience to connect, in deeply personal ways, to the universal human experience.»

The desire to collect objects and images of personal significance, and to make connections between them, is a nearly universal human experience.

This need for there to be an universal human experience and an universal art is a tenant of Modernism.

«I'd like to tap into a universal human experience but know there's no such thing,» says Brooklyn - based artist Nicole Eisenman.

Anger is a universal human experience.

He's crafted songs that speak to the universal human experience and get at situations and feelings we've all shared.

Not exact matches

In looking for inductive possibilities for a move from anthropology to theology, i.e., in attempting to find an anchorage for theology in fundamental human experience, Berger turns to our common, «universal» experiences - to what he labels «prototypical human gestures.»

In portraying Rodrigues's struggle to reconcile this idealized vision with the concrete reality of the Japanese people, Endō and Scorsese wish us to see the universal experience of human weakness.

A contemporary faith that opens itself to the actuality of the death of God in our history as the historical realization of the dawning of the Kingdom of God can know the spiritual emptiness of our time as the consequence in human experience of God's self - annihilation in Christ, even while recovering in a new and universal form the apocalyptic faith of the primitive Christian.

In contrast with this experience, which is universal and important but not of central or ultimate importance, the experiences described in the next part of this book as defining religious experiences are involved in and illustrated by every form of human activity including the seeking for food and the appreciation of art.

From amongst the varieties of human experience only those will be selected as religiously significant which are universal in nature.

But I can point to the universal experience of all humans who have a yearning for something beyond our physical existence — for ultimate purpose, value and meaning.

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

But the theory of divine relativity assumes a finer and deeper knowledge of reality than that evidenced by human knowing with its dependence upon sense experience and abstract universals.

So when they experience this universal, timeless yearning, they are likely to envision the therapeutic ideals of deep consolation and genuine human flourishing — two worthy goals that the forces of this world and the conflicts in our hearts do not seem to allow.

They are: i) revelatory experiences are common to all religions, ii) revelation is received under finite human condition, iii) the three types of criticisms, mystical, prophetic and secular help to address the distortions that crept into revealed religions, iv) History of Religions makes «a concrete theology that has universal significance» possible and v) an acknowledgement that «the sacred is the creative ground and at the same time a critical judgement of the secular».

Assuming that experience does have given, universal dimensions, a better way to identify them is to look for elements that seem to be presupposed in all human practice.

Our calling is to invite all to turn from gods which are even less than human, and from idols like power, profit, property, creed, class, caste, language, race, success, technocratic progress, managerial efficiency and the ego, and thus experience the fulfilling realization of God's Reign which consists in justice, freedom and fellowship, tender love, universal compassion and equitable sharing of resources.

or is the thorn in the flesh the experience he must humble himself under in order to attain the universal human?

However, spiritual matters, which are not subject to empirical testing (there is no way to physically measure love) should be tested in the crucible of human experience and present statistical evidence by consensual (that is consensus, not consent) validation before being granted the status of a universal principle or dogma.

The first hundred and fifty or so pages of his Leviathan show forth his attempt to paint that portrait of human being, but by almost universal agreement, he failed — that is, he could not both present human being as a part of the new nature and at the same time do justice to our direct experience of what it is to be human.

Here we may pause to reflect on the fact that in human experience it is much easier to believe in human survival than it is in the finiteness of human existence.18 The almost universal belief in an «after - life» which developed from primitive man onwards was only to be expected.

Moreover, if «God» is correctly understood as in some sense referring to reality itself, its referent, if any, is evidently ubiquitous, and this implies that the experience of God is universal as well as direct — something unavoidably had not only by mystics or the religious but by every human being simply as such, indeed, by any experiencing being whatever, in each and every one of its experiences of anything at all.

Basically, his solution takes the form of distinguishing two different levels of human experience, or of more or less conscious thinking about experience, on only the deeper of which is there an experience of God that is both direct and universal.

However, the experience of limits is universal in human experience, so it seems reasonable to suppose that all religions bear some relationship to this experience.

Still, by starting with the frankly stated premise that the problem is the flawed human character in a mysterious universe, Miller was able to highlight the universal aspects of even so eccentric an experience as that of the Puritans.

In apparent opposition, we have claimed throughout this book that religious awareness is possible in every human experience — that the fundamentals described in Part Two are universal and central, in the sense that there is no experience to which they are not relevant.

Haight sees faith as «a universal form of human experience» that «entails an awareness of and loyalty to an ultimate or transcendent reality.»