Sentences with phrase «which human imagination»

He seems to have been for Müller little more than a sort of supernatural clergyman interested in the congregation of tradesmen and others in Bristol who were his saints, and in the orphanages and other enterprises, but unpossessed of any of those vaster and wilder and more ideal attributes with which the human imagination elsewhere has invested him.

... that no matter how wide the perspectives which the human mind may reach, how broad the loyalties which the human imagination may conceive, how universal the community which human statecraft may organize or how pure the aspirations of the saintliest idealist may be, there is no level of human moral or social achievement in which there is not some corruption of inordinate self - love.

Obzekhan argues that a «normative» approach is required in which the human imagination is set free to create images of a desirable human future that can be invented.

Not exact matches

He outlines three forms of consciousness: the simple consciousness of animals and humans; the self - consciousness of humans, which includes reason and imagination; and cosmic consciousness, which transcends factual understanding.

But, like Samuel Florman, who fears that «flights through cyberspace, however energizing they may be for the imagination, may weaken the objective rationality needed to do good engineering», I agree with Alan Cromer that the formal linear thinking needed to do science «goes against the grain of traditional human thinking, which is associative and subjective» (Florman 1994).

The human imagination needs to be set free among all ages, all races, all classes, all nations to dream dreams of things that never have been but which could be — dreams so real that they stir up passionate commitment that strives for their embodiment sometime, somewhere, somehow.

Human imagination as a whole provides the particular idiomatic and narrative construction of a congregation; its members communicate by a code derived from the totality of forms and stories by which societies cohere.

Yet once granted that a genuine form of the mythical vision remains a possibility for civilized or historical man, and that myth itself is a creation of the human imagination, then it follows that a private myth is not only a possibility but is indeed the inevitable form by which a new or revolutionary myth will first appear in history.

The image of the «singularity,» the point at which artificial and human intelligence merge, haunts our cultural imagination.

While his account is often sloppy, he is nevertheless right that the transhumanist agenda is a logical consequence of Gnosticism (which he and many others mistake for Christianity), and that this Gnosticism, which has theological roots in the Scotist - nominalist revolution in metaphysics, ever more exclusively shapes the modern cultural imagination and our understanding of what it is to be human.

Both I and St Thomas consider that the soul continues to exercise thought and understanding (and indeed will, which is intellectual appetite) after death, and, as St Thomas explains, this can not be in synergism with the imagination in the way it is during human life, but is made possible in ways God provides, and in this way the life of purgatory allows the purification that most people need, while the Saints pray for the living and the dead of whom God gives them knowledge through their vision of Him.

Without imagination there is no self - transcendence, but it is far from being a self - justifying exercise of the human personality unless harnessed to the realm from which it begins its airy journeys into the beyond.

There is only one God... human imagine or uses their thoughts to come up with multiple Gods... which i think is lake of understanding about the definition of God... i also think the reason we see this is mostly because the teaching of these faiths are showing God as an old dude with white long beard and extended hands... its all human imaginations...

Love which has capacity for social imagination, and for a skillful dealing with human problems, is strengthened in itself.

Likewise as members of the body of Christ, humans may be achieving aims which far transcend human imagination.

As pointed out at the time, this was in contradiction to statements he had made previously, inwhich he had repudiated the idea of human cloning: «Human cloning has grabbed people's imagination, but that is merely a diversion — and one we personally regret, and find distasteful,» he had said in The Second Creation, the book on Dolly's cloning which he co-authored with embryologist Kenneth Campbell in human cloning: «Human cloning has grabbed people's imagination, but that is merely a diversion — and one we personally regret, and find distasteful,» he had said in The Second Creation, the book on Dolly's cloning which he co-authored with embryologist Kenneth Campbell in Human cloning has grabbed people's imagination, but that is merely a diversion — and one we personally regret, and find distasteful,» he had said in The Second Creation, the book on Dolly's cloning which he co-authored with embryologist Kenneth Campbell in 2002.

Soon after, we find Christians heartily mocking other, irrational gods of the time which, being so hopelessly capricious, were to them no more than the work of human hands or, as we would say, the figments of men's imaginations.

Trotter proposes three ways in which imagination in religion contributes to enriching human experience.

The human imagination, unconditioned by the Christian faith, invariably reflects the dominant social forces in which the individual is interested.

No more fantastic peg on which to hang the future of Christianity was ever invented by the human imagination.

The first one is that since God is our Father, by which we mean that He cares for us after the fashion of our concern for our children but with an intensity altogether beyond our human imagination, He would wish that we should tell Him, although already He knows, all that we think we need, all that we want to have.

He must decide what is the kernel of the gospel, and what is merely the outward husk which has been shaped by human imagination, by traditional interpretation, by the tendency to produce credal formulae, by the subsequent historical consolidation of the truths of faith.

Does the order of the timeless universe and your part in it reflective of the unfathomable Mind which makes and sustains it in ways human mentation can not perceive have any relevance to you or are you so bland and blah, so gray in your imagination that you are blocked by your senses from seeing and knowing the real nature of the present and the beyond which are One?

Myth therefore employs subjective means derived from the human imagination to describe a reality which utterly transcends consciousness, and which possesses an objective validity in its own right, quite apart from its effects on the disciples and witnesses.

So that Christ combines the imagination, spontaneity, and richness of experience which were God's aims in drawing forth human beings, with the free obedience and loving communion with God which in a «fallen» world are otherwise approximated only by creatures of a «lower» order.

From what we have already said about prayer, it is clear that the prayer - situation is one which is supremely relevant to the fulfillment of the highest human potentiality (e.g., envisaging of ideal possibilities) and which calls for the exercise of the distinctively human capacities (e.g., imagination, reflection, deep feeling).

«15 Moreover, Whitehead emphasizes that symbolic reference, at least in human symbolisms, is generally a two - way affair in which the symbol and the symbolized are frequently interchangeable, a situation that suggests a reciprocal interaction between secondary (poetic) imagination and the social or cultural aspect of symbolizing.16

In the relations of a man and woman who love each other with passion and imagination and tenderness, there is something of inestimable value, to be ignorant of which is a great misfortune to any human being» (p. 74).

In its history a few particular human heroes, kings, ecclesiarchs, and saints stood forth very prominent, overshadowing the imagination with their claims and merits, so that not only they, but all who were associated familiarly with them, shone with a glamour which even the Almighty, it was supposed, must recognize and respect.

If imagination plays such a vital role even in such sciences as physics and astronomy, where man can so clearly be an objective spectator, how much more must man depend upon his imagination when seeking to understand the questions of human existence, in which he is at the same time an active participant.

But legal systems as such do not produce anything that corresponds to the biblical sensitivity which forcefully enjoins against the source of all violence, namely, the realm of thought and contemplation, the intangible but critically powerful world of human imagination.

One literally can not imagine a limit to the human imagination» @Chad «very true, of course that doesn't mean that Abraham Lincoln wasn't real... Blanket statements are pretty worthless when evaluating the historicity of a particular claim (which is why anti-theists tend to stick to that)»

The «sense of mystery, spirituality, and aesthetic beauty» which supposedly accompanied childbirth «throughout human history» is mostly a figment of NCB advocates» imagination.

That's just one revelation from journalist Jonah Lehrer's latest venture into the human mind, which explores both the science of imagination and the ingenuity - boosting policies of today's most innovative companies.

After seeing this movie last Saturday, I thought the main message was that IMAGINATION is a wonderful, human trait which should not be squelched.

A lifeguard (Justin Timberlake) tells us a story that just might be filtered through his vivid imagination: a middle - aged carousel operator (James Belushi) and his beleaguered wife (Kate Winslet), who eke out a living on the boardwalk, are visited by his estranged daughter (Juno Temple)-- a situation from which layer upon layer of all - too - human complications develop.

People often tell children to use their imagination when approaching a task, which comes from the understanding that imagination is a kind of hotbed of potential for learning and creativity in humans.

Michael has displayed his quirky, multidisciplinary approach to science in books such as 2003's Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form (Viking) and Apollo's Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination, which was selected as one of NPR's Best Science Books of 2007.

Human freedom, I suppose, is only possible in the imagination, which is why we need stories and cats don't.

«Humans» is riveting theology - fiction in which Christian Mjomba, a student of philosophy and theology with a runaway imagination, is determined to turn in a winning theological thesis.

Unlike most dog sports in which the dog and human perform a prescribed set of exercises or run a set course, musical freestyle is limited only by the imagination and abilities of the human / dog team.

While Rothko's colossal canvasses express basic human emotions and like altar pieces, compel their viewers to step past the boundaries of materiality and into what Robert Rosenblum calls «a quasi-religious state of awe», Pintelon invests heavily in the power of language which contrasts, or reinforces the inner - worldly and the imagination.

The exhibition illustrates the ways in which the hours of darkness continue to provoke the contemporary imagination, providing apt metaphors for the diversity and intersections of human experience along with the anxious tenor of the day.

His works exhibited here display Yamamoto's unique talent within which elements of the natural world such as plants, minerals and climate, and spiritual entities such as the human imagination become interfused with each other, resulting in a mysterious atmosphere.

The featured works examine how human ambition and imagination physically manifest in the highly complex constructions that shape the world in which we live.

In America artists such as Julian Schnabel, David Salle and Jean Michel Basquiat championed figurative painting and in Italy the Transavanguardia, which held emotion and human imagination above rational principles, emerged to challenge Arte Povera.

Yet, since her first works in the 1990s, which indirectly resonated Malaysia's social change at that time, her expressions are richly multifaceted and manifest deeper and broader landscapes of history, culture and human experiences and imagination.

The narrative represents intensity and density of Afro - Cuba religions and, on one side, it seems as if it celebrates the openness of human mind, as well as the dark corners of imagination which can be a direct comment on the global political state of the time.

The result is a marriage of form and historical content, an exploration of the ways in which the heart is a site of human empathy and experience, and a deep look at a muscle that bridges imagination, metaphor, emotion, and biology.

Each object falls under one of four stages illuminated in the Allegory — Imagination, Belief, Thought, and Understanding — which represent the progression of human experience.