Sentences with phrase «which humans encounter»

Ask Kitty is a psychotherapist specializing in grief and loss issues which humans encounter when their pets die.

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Evolution and the Fall is a collection of essays from a multi-disciplinary and ecumenical group of authors, which sets out to address «a set of problems that arise from the encounter of traditional biblical views of human origins with contemporary scientific theories» (p. xv)-- not, one might add, in general, to answer them.

So abstract and general a statement, however, not only oversimplifies the long and complicated process it endeavors to describe but, in particular, neglects the natural human opposition which so high an estimate of personality encountered — the endless doubts, cynicisms, and denials with which this emerging estimate of man's value was inevitably met.

Here, of course, we encounter the formidable element of human freedom of action, of which it is endlessly repeated that its unpredictable interference with the established proceedings of Nature threatens constantly to disrupt and frustrate them.

The capacity for candor, confrontation, and encounter may be grossly truncated in one who has an inordinate fear and avoidance of human conflicts.24 It is fitting to learn to provide resistance and critical negation to that which stands in enmity to the peace of God (Ps.

This is the risk of unfettered thinking whereby the human mind, as Augustine said, is stretched and stretched until eventually it encounters something that transcends and judges it, which is Truth.

«2 Therefore, philosophy of religion must balance itself between the extremes of a philosophy that cuts itself off from religious experience and a religious stance that segregates itself from philosophical reflection.3 The search for a philosophy of religion is a search for total world - view in which the idea of God encountered in human history is thoroughly integrated.

And, he explicitly argues that this «traditional conservatism,» which is by the way, not an ideology, has the potential to address the age - old problems related to political science, while implicitly suggesting the possibility of recapturing man's tensional existence in the Platonic Metaxy, thereby restoring the order necessary to illuminate the divine - human encounter.

The experiential dimension does not involve immediate intuition of a personal God even though God is directly present within human experience.21 For if religious experience consists exclusively in such an immediate encounter, then there is no broad foundation of agreement to which one could appeal.

By «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name of love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows of his relationship to human beings in history, and especially in the recorded utterances of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this life, by virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Rom.

See Between Man and Man (London: Regan Paul 1947), p. 89) Such communication by a teacher who has a deep feeling for a religious tradition often leads students to an encounter with the meanings which speak to human needs from that tradition.

The scene in which the divine - human encounter takes place is not, to be sure, a flat earth canopied by a heavenly tent; the scene has become stranger and vaster.

The human mind is not a blank page on which the record of encounters with reality is written nor, on the other hand, is our knowledge the result of purely internal processes of rational reflection.

Nowadays this worry is often expressed by speaking of Barth's supposed «extrinsicism,» that is, his presentation of the Christian faith in terms of an encounter (or collision) of divine and human wills in which creatures are kept separate from God's being.

Perceiving Thomas in this way, Metz finds that «the worldliness of the world is not therefore originally conceived in a cosmocentric way as an already given, self - contained, and actual existent, which man encounters» 4 «Human existence — that is: ecstatic subjectivity; both — man and world — are synthesized a priori in the one being of man.»

That's what enabled him to be fair toward believers, to write of odd encounters with something sacred, and actually to enter into real human dialogue, which we rarely see anymore among our much more brittle public non-believers.

«7 Sartre acknowledges that»... freedom requires a given «8 and that the for - itself is not «its own foundation «9 and that there is freedom only in a situation and that»... human reality everywhere encounters resistence and obstacles which it had not created.

For Arthur Peacocke, the now deceased former Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre, the followers of Jesus encountered in him a dimension of transcendence which they could only attribute to God: «But they also encountered him as a full human person -LSB-!]

It is not in a demythologized, secularized Christianity that human transformation takes place, but in our submission to the discipline of Scripture, where we may hope, in the words of Walter Wink, «to encounter an alien speech which is finally the self - disclosure of God.»

In an analogous way, the counselor aims at that mastery of the principles of his art which will free him to develop his own style of counseling — a style which releases his unique personhood in the human encounter called counseling.

It can mean, then, the development of those principles which most adequately express what we experience and know, in the full range of our human encounters; and the result is a «vision» which can be tested by reference back to experience and to the world experienced.

Kaplan has not time for what he calls mysticism (he mentioned Heschel and Buber by name in his reproach), because to him it is inimical to an ultimate reality which is constantly becoming, constantly encountered in the midst of responsible human action.

What is encountered when the objectified language of the kerygma becomes transparent is Jesus of Nazareth, as the act of God in which transcendence is made a possibility of human existence.

11 In God's covenant with Moses and, through Moses, with the people of the exodus, the being of God acquired «an explicitly personal character» 12 that countered anthropomorphizing tendencies «primarily through the experience of the infinite superiority of the divine nature to all merely human attributes and capacities — an experience which marks every encounter with the divine in the Old Testament.»

«Listener to the Christian message, «2 occasional preacher, 3 dialoguer with biblical scholars, theologians, and specialists in the history of religions, 4 Ricoeur is above all a philosopher committed to constructing as comprehensive a theory as possible of the interpretation of texts.5 A thoroughly modern man (if not, indeed, a neo-Enlightenment figure) in his determination to think «within the autonomy of responsible thought, «6 Ricoeur finds it nonetheless consistent to maintain that reflection which seeks, beyond mere calculation, to «situate [us] better in being, «7 must arise from the mythical, narrative, prophetic, poetic, apocalyptic, and other sorts of texts in which human beings have avowed their encounter both with evil and with the gracious grounds of hope.

In doing so, liturgy also becomes an arena in which the multifaceted traces of divine - human encounters in their relatedness to the world are preserved and celebrated.

It is as simple as that», while perhaps the most substantial of the offerings is «The Spiritual Senses», a series of reflections on the nature of interior apprehension which contains a comment on Saint Bonaventure neatly summing up Dom Hugh's whole approach: «For him the recovery of the spiritual sense is part of the re-ordering of the human person that comes through the encounter with Christ.»

When they encounter the actuality of suffering and injustice, the impurity of even the best motives, and the mutual destructiveness even of a relatively virtuous people, and when they discover also the depths of sin which erupt on a massive scale in human history from time to time, they are overwhelmed by the incongruity between what is and what, at some deep level, they feel should be the case.

The initial structure was simple and theologically eloquent: The glory, the presence, of the Lord is revealed with uncommonly convincing power - the term which is often used for this kind of revelation is «theophany» - signifying the Lord's commitment to the Covenant (a pact, an agreement, a working arrangement between two parties) implicit in the divine - human encounter (ch.

And just as in human contacts the new understanding created by encountering another in love and trust is kept pure only when it permanently retains its connection with the other who is encountered, so too the self - understanding granted by faith never becomes a possession, but is kept pure only as a response to the repeated encounter of the Word of God, which proclaims the act of God in Christ in such a way as continually to represent it.

It demarcated a boundary between the sacred and the profane and thereby created a sheltered place in which the encounter between human beings and the divine (which is the mystery of being in its most eminent and compelling splendor) could occur.

In both we have clearly exhibited the sinful condition of human beings — which human beings in this condition are encountered in a shattering and redeeming way by God's gracious will.

Thus different races, which Europeans were now encountering in areas the subjugated into colonies, may be more or less human or more or less valuable and more or less spiritual, and more or less a slave race or a master race.

In the encounter with Jesus, one is confronted `... with the skandalon of recognizing in this all - too - human Jewish eschatological message the eternal word of God», which means that in the encounter with Jesus, «one is confronted by the same existential decision as that posed by the kerygma».

Much more complex than what Realism mainstreamed as «human nature», insights from neurobiology inform us differently about the building blocks with which human beings encounter whatever environment they are brought into.

The strong nuclear force and the electrostatic force — which don't encounter each other at human scales — fight over the packed protons and neutrons and drive them into strange configurations, collectively dubbed «nuclear pasta ``.

The study and use of hormones have long been the domains of endocrinology, which is primarily focused on the pathologic phenomena encountered in the human body as they relate to hormones.

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The title has a sly double meaning, referring both to protagonist Léo's penchant for getting horizontal with nearly every person he encounters while tooling around the French countryside, seeking inspiration for a screenplay he never quite gets around to writing, and to the inherent difficulty of just being human, which Guiraudie imagines as a constant battle against reversion to an animal state.

The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the drama that must necessarily end with all the logic of which an existence is capable

Due to the compressed lifespan of dogs and cats, cancer treatments like chemotherapy are administered in lower doses, so pets tend to handle these treatments better than people do, which allows them to bypass the illness and side effects humans typically encounter.

They are nothing like real animals; nor are they like the best animals in games, which leverage the interactivity of the medium — games are always, on some level, encounters between the human and the inhuman — to sustain an illusion of independence and alterity.

Steel for Humans, composed by Percival and Marcin Przybylowciz, is a soundtrack which plays whenever a player encounters battles with non-monster enemies such as human bandits or wolves.

Our quartet has a hell of a time on Aegis VII, constantly on the run, reaching level - ending cliffhangers involving surprise attacks, crashed shuttles, unexpected encounters with other humans, all of which make it hard to stop playing.

The human scale of this particular Spider creates a sense of preternatural unease, offering a more unsettlingly intimate encounter than larger spider sculptures such as the monumental Maman (1999), one version of which today towers ten metres tall outside the Guggenheim Bilbao.

Neighboring Hanart TZ Gallery has invested all its energy in Gu Wenda, organizing three simultaneous solo exhibitions: an eponymous show at the gallery; one at the gallery's booth at Art Basel Hong Kong; and another at the art fair's Encounter section, which featured the artist's much - documented United Nations — Man and Space (1999 — 2000), comprising 188 flags made from human hair.

Today, visitors to group shows are as likely to encounter spaces in which objects are to be read and understood by human subjects, as they are to walk into spaces in which their presence (as just another object among other objects) is negligible.

It is installed in the second - floor galleries, across from and in dialogue with the current exhibition La Frontera: Encounters Along the Border, which explores the border as a complex landscape of human interaction through the medium of contemporary jewelry.

The individual and reality, are powerfully overlapping, and the physical body is the very ground on which experience, including our encounters with objects and other humans in the world, takes place.

The encounter raises questions about the extent to which machines take on the characteristics of humans and learn independently through experience.