Sentences with phrase «upon human events»

The imposition of Word upon king is sharply attested again in that brilliant scene immediately preceding the death of Ahab in the middle of the ninth century (I Kings 22) The Word through Micaiah works its radical historical effects, and another prophet is instrumental in the efficacious juxtaposition of divine life and will upon human events.

Not exact matches

Human beings naturally cling to life, and the witnessing of the death of others, especially those near and dear, and the anticipation of one's own passing away compel reflection upon the meaning of these events.

Ministers are not trained to reflect upon human action and events, to interpret them theologically, and to regard such reflection as important as the study of books.

But this does not imply and must not suggest that the gospel is not grounded in history and established upon events which actually occurred in the world of human experience.

The Resurrection made it possible to look back upon that human life with fresh insight, so that in later years St. John could write a Gospel in which, though the subject is still the events which took place in Galilee and Jerusalem, the deeds and words of Jesus are reinterpreted in the full light of his risen glory.

The resurrection of Christ is a way of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «Jesus Christ», has included: — his human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified man upon his cross, in continuing relationship of others with him after that death, and also what has happened as a consequence of his presence and activity in the world.

If the fashion in which the basic New Testament proclamation has been interpreted in the preceding chapter has validity, then talk of the resurrection of Christ is a way of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «Jesus Christ», has included: his human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified man upon his cross, in continuing relationship of others with him after that death, and along with this what has happened in consequence of his presence and activity in the world.

They open up the possibility for God to be related to the creation, and in this instance at the level of human existence, in the light of the new occasion, by the responsiveness of God to that event and by his employment of that event to bestow upon his human children still further «graces and mercies».

The Reformed Journal editor recognizes that suffering will be the necessary style of the Christian's entire life.38 Just as God entered fully into history in the Christ - event, taking upon himself its pain, so Christians must commit themselves to the human situation, assuming its misery.

But we are here concerned to apply this concept of the priority of God's will and purpose, which however waits upon — and may be thwarted by — human free will, to the whole event Jesus Christ, including its Old Testament background.

In a study of religion and nationalism, Ninian Smart writes that the flow of human events in society and individual life is such that entities that have phenomenological reality and a special shape (independent of whether they have actual existence) impinge upon consciousness and feeling.

As though, in any event, there exists any force on earth capable of restraining human thought from following any course upon which it has embarked!

Bultmann is inclined to the judgment that there exists a substantial agreement between the Christian understanding and a philosophy of existence not orientated upon the event of Christ (Heidegger and others) on the negative side — i.e. the fallenness (Verfallenheit) of human life.

And consonant with the immutable position of Yahwistic prophetism, whose primary proposition is always the effective impingement of divine life upon history, the meaning of Solomon's reign and of events subsequent to it is discerned in the scheme of sin and judgment: like Babel, apostasy results in the rupture of human community.

All the causality exercised on a present event, therefore, must come from prior events; no present event, including a moment of human experience, can exert causation upon itself so as to be (partially) self - determining.

Thus the eschatological event was God's judgement upon human pride, as well as God's grace giving meaning to human life.

In the Christ event, «human structures, already impregnated with the seeds of Redemption through antecedent events, became articulate and responsive with a sensitivity and receptiveness that literally thrust upon the social community a new level of consciousness, a new center of consciousness and concern» (RE 258).

The events in the nerves leading to the brain succeeded the events in the eye and were in turn followed by the events in the brain and finally by the impact upon the conscious human occasion of experience.

And second, do we see a God at a remove, watching over events as they transpire, or do we see here the definitive entrance of God upon the world stage as he reclaims lost human nature for himself?

Fluctuations in extreme weather events, such as heavy rains and droughts, are affecting ecosystems in unexpected ways — creating «winners and losers» among plant species that humans depend upon for food.

Freud's notion of the absence of time in the unconscious, for example, and Proust's reflection that «a single minute released from the chronological order of time has recreated in us the human being similarly released» lead to the same conclusion: the choice of individual reaction to events can not be a function of chance but must depend upon past experience, on the memory of some analogous event.

Upon earning 60 skill checks; players will unlock the ability to create their own cup series allowing full customisation or alternatively randomising including saving up to five unique cup series to choose from comprising of human only or human and A.I. competitors, anywhere from two to ten competitors and between one to five events in addition to the race, battle race, stunt showcase and takedown modes albeit takedown mode is only available against human opponents, the amount of tracks that have been unlocked during gameplay in other modes, event duration such as one to ten laps in race and battle race or up to five minutes in stunt showcase and takedown and one of 18 weapon sets or all weapons for battle race or one of seven weapon sets or basic takedown weapons for takedown events.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

Barcelona, Spain (October — September) Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Biennial (October) Late at Tate Britain, (performance), London, (Friday 4 June, 18.00 — 22.00) 2010 Psychopomp Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo, in conjunction with Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2009 Marcus Coates, Kunsthalle, Switzerland Marcus Coates and Martin von Hasselberg, New Orleans Museum of Art Follow the Voice, Unitarian Church, Shrewsbury, UK Performance A Ritual For Elephant and Castle Coronet Theatre London Marcus Coates, Lisson Gallery, London, UK Trying To Cope With Things That Aren't Human, Air - Space Gallery, Stoke on Trent The Plover's Wing, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK 2008 Performance, Pastoral Spirit, Wallspace, All Hallows Church, London Performance, Report, Channel 9 TV, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador Performance, This Wild Melody, Barbican Art Gallery, London Performance, Spirit Caravan, Hayward Gallery, London 2007 Performance, A Heligoland for Souls — Experiment Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London Performance, HaPazura, Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon, Israel Exhibition, Cycle Parking and Prostitution, Rekord Gallery, Oslo, Norway Solo Screening, Dawn Chorus, Venice Biennale, Italy Exhibition, Marcus Coates, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK Performance, Dawn Chorus, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK Exhibition, Dawn Chorus, Picture This, Bristol, UK Exhibition, Dawn Chorus, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK Performance, 100 Ways to Change the World, Hayward Gallery, London, UK Performance, Pub Shaman, The Event, The Lamp Tavern, Birmingham, UK Solo Screening, Artesmundi, Cardiff, UK 2006 Performance, Kamikuchi, Grizedale Arts, Ikebukuru Tokyo, Japan Performance, The Mouth of God, Grizedale Arts, A-Foundation, Liverpool Biennial 06, UK Solo Screening, In Conversation with Mark Wallinger, ICA, London, UK 2005 Solo Screening, Marcus Coates» Films 99 - 2005, Side Cinema, Newcastle, UK 2004 Exhibition, Journey to the Lower World, Café Gallery Projects, London, UK 2003 Exhibition, Unbecoming, The Gymnasium, Berwick upon Tweed, UK 2001 Performance, Chiffchaff, Compton Verney, The Bandstand, Leamington Spa and Herbert Gallery and Museum, Coventry, UK

The event season is upon us, providing us with a deluge of human interactions.

*** (The foregoing is Brian Martindale's personal belief / interpretation of events based purely on his speculation hinging upon his understanding of human nature when humans, even judges, are faced with difficult decisions of grave importance that said humans (even judges) want to somehow escape from while at the same time saving face (s).