Sentences with phrase «use human analogies»

I will use human analogies as well as dog to dog examples in order to teach you how to understand your dog.

I use the human analogy: my relationship with my wife has some areas of great tension, and we can not reconcile our boundaries in those areas.

Not exact matches

To use the tried and true analogy of human parents: yes, I allow my children to experience bad consequences, but part of my job is to make the consequences appropriate.

The Church of course uses a number of different images or analogies to describe herself or different aspects of herself; a mother, a bride or spouse, a home, a human body and so on.

The universe is a body, to use a poor analogy from our own experience, but it is not a human body; rather, it is matter bodied forth seemingly infinitely, diversely, endlessly, yet internally as one.

2) Enns uses an incarnation analogy, writing that Scripture is both human and divine, similar to Jesus Christ.

Here again the human analogy can be used.

Gregory of Nyssa, (c.330 - c395), who was bishop of Nyssa, but exiled for a time by the Arian party» used this analogy: «We may be confronted by many who individually share in human nature, such as Peter, James and John, yet the «man» in them is one.»

Using a father / son analogy to describe gods relationship with humans is wrong and misunderstanding the whole point of the analogy in the first place.

Although the Song of Songs praises human love, and nowhere mentions deity, some, especially medieval mystics, have not hesitated to use it as an analogy for the relationship between the soul and God.

While those images that relate to human experience in the domestic, economic and social spheres have been given prominence, Jesus» use of agricultural imageries3 and analogies derived from nature or divine action in nature have not received adequate attention.4 This too, despite divine interaction with humanity taking place in the context of the creation.

I used this analogy earlier in my attempt to get at the significance of Jesus as what has traditionally been called the incarnation of God in human existence.

By using the human body of Christ analogy, Ed is blending the paradigm of discardable wineskins with the paradigm of living / valuable wine.

From this viewpoint it makes good sense that Whitehead describes the actual entity in categories of subjectivity and thus makes methodic use of the analogy of human subjectivity.34 For actual entities are not to be treated simply from the outside, as objects to which other objects stand as past, simultaneous, or future.

But is it possible to avoid critical reflection on the use of analogy in this transposition of the human you to the divine Thou?

Take, for instance, St Augustine's use of a human being's mental capacities as an analogy of the processions of the Divine Persons in the Trinity: just as the Son proceeds from the Father and the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son, a concept in the human mind is conceived (or born) in the intellect and from this breaks forth a movement of love in the will.

While, to be sure, the technical use of the word society has certain analogies to the functioning of human societies, these analogies are not complete and, as we shall see later, break down.

I preordered through Amazon but am too tech dense to figure out how to photo the receipt, so here is a cut & paste: Items Ordered Price 1 of: Gluten - Free on a Shoestring Bakes Bread: (Biscuits, Bagels, Buns, and More), Hunn, Nicole Condition: New Sold by: Amazon.com LLC $ 14.78 So many bread memories, no wonder bread has been used as an analogy for human love and nurturing for centuries.

We take for granted our ability to reason using analogies, but the skill is at the core of human cognition, argue Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander

The BBC team used clever analogies and appealing graphics to discuss three key numbers that help clarify important questions about climate change: 0.85 degrees Celsius — how much the Earth has warmed since the 1880s; 95 % — how sure scientists are that human activity is the major cause of Earth's recent warming; and one trillion tons — the best estimate of the amount of carbon that can be burned before risking dangerous climate change.

«The analogy we use is the human genome.

These types of comparisons are crucial for making and understanding analogies, which humans use to solve problems, weigh moral dilemmas, and describe the world around them.

To drive home his point about humans, Nunez uses what he describes as the «absurd» analogy of snowboarding.

In one canine research conference, a comparison of electro - convulsive therapy (ECT) used to treat depression in humans and shocking a dog to decrease an undesirable behavior was put forth as a viable analogy.

The analogy that I use is that my car is not running that well, so I'm going to ignore the engine (which is the sun) and I'm going to ignore the transmission (which is the water vapor) and I'm going to look at one nut on the right rear wheel (which is the human - produced CO2)... the science is that bad!

It's no surprise, therefore, that when scientists began to wrestle with the potential impact of human - generated greenhouse gases, they often used Goldberg's machines as an analogy.

The petitioner argued that laptops were fundamentally different from the closed container analogies used in previous case law, more similar to homes or the human mind, given their capacity for storage and ability to record activity.