He first became involved
with human movement through playing tennis, but later in life developed a need to fight his own insecurity of being too skinny.
Remote mountain areas have been taken over by all sides in the war
with human movement in mountain areas that the cats and their prey previously had to themselves.
Previous attempts at correlating disease transmission
with human movement have relied on smaller data sets gathered through monitoring how people given GPS tracking devices move over a period of time, for example.
Would such belief be any more dangerous than an alignment
with any human movement or world view?
Price On Request A 10 minute dive at the Cango Wildlife Ranch exposes divers to five crocodiles bred in captivity and familiar
with human movements.
Not exact matches
But a new
movement today, calling itself transhumanism, carries these notions to their logical conclusion:
human beings are not only manipulable objects, but raw, manipulable material; man himself, his very form, might be tinkered
with, enhanced, and «reengineered,» like a species of crop or livestock.
The doctrine of predestination is at the heart of the Reformed message, but almost every tradition has to wrestle
with the thorny questions of divine and
human agency, as have home - grown religious
movements like Mormonism and Christian Science....
If abortion and related life issues are in fact the great civil - rights issues of our time» in that they test whether the state may arbitrarily deny the protection of the law to certain members of the
human community» then Griswold eventually led to a situation in which the Democratic and Republican positions on civil rights flipped,
with members of today's Democratic party playing the role that its Southern intransigents played during the glory days of the American civil - rights
movement.
Chapter of Romans,
with its account of humanity's
movement from God toward idolatry, has furnished the text for countless sermons claiming that homosexual behavior signifies the lowest depths of
human depravity.
[4] This wayward view has become the rallying assertion of the New Age
movement with its implicit refusal of the body's dignity, and its unguided emphasis on the
human spirit.
It is no paradox that we use the term «modern» to refer both to the external material and social forces that transformed the world, and to the internal intellectual and expressive
movements that wrestled
with, and often deplored, the
human costs of that same transformation.
This is, of course, to take the mundane story of Jesus
with radical seriousness as the metaphor of all
human movement.
And we have an interpretation of
human existence as a
movement toward love, accepted willingly or rejected selfishly
with the inevitable consequences of
human fulfillment or nonfulfillment.
The Faith
movement's push for such coherence involves affirming, in a neo-Augustinian manner, the dynamic relationship of spiritual mind (whether of the absolute God or of the
human soul in his image)
with the objects of its knowing, as a metaphysical first principle.
The reality of
human sexuality is a patent fact; and it would seem to be intimately tied in
with man's total organic
movement, which as we have seen includes his physiology, biology, and psychology, as well as his appreciative (and hence his aesthetic), valuational, and feeling qualities.
Instead of abandoning the
human potential
movement with Farson, other leaders are beginning to institutionalize it.
It's a
movement led by and for women, women who aren't asking for some sort of paternalistic «protection» because they are fragile females, but rather to be treated
with the dignity and respect they deserve simply because they are
human beings.
Riding the publicity wave of Brittany Maynard, a young woman who suffered much and became the
human face of the death -
with - dignity
movement, they have redefined compassion as respect for a patient's autonomous determination of the time, location, and method of death.
As I have wrestled recently
with this problem, I have been helped by some comments of a friend, Lauren Ekroth, who is deeply involved in several forms of the
human potential
movement.
The bioethics
movement grows increasingly utilitarian, explicitly denying intrinsic
human worth,
with increasing support expressed in the most respectable and influential journals for antihumanistic agendas such as eugenic infanticide and abortion.
As other denominations retreated from activism to a more pietistic inwardness, the UUs were already feeling disenchantment
with encounter, sensitivity and
human potential
movements.
There have been — and still exist — rigid religious
movements with such strict rules that they provoke neuroses in
human development.
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.
Rather, in the name of realism, they held that «
human thought is dynamic, not static; that it is a
movement, not a position; that Christian theology grows
with the growth of life and changes when life presents it
with new and unanticipated positions.»
While neither is overly occupied
with the policy concerns of the larger environmental
movement ¯ global climate, carbon capture, alternative energy, the future of nuclear power, and so on ¯ they help illuminate a common narrative that places nature above
human need.
Jenkins, on the other hand, describes appreciatively theological schools, from the Orthodox doctrine of theosis to Teilhard de Chardin to the modern «creation spirituality»
movement, which one way or another allow
humans to share
with God in the evolution of the world to a glorious transformation ¯ although, as Jenkins points out, there's a danger that that could veer off into anthropocentric management.
He says that the
human rights
movement is in trouble because, by its manipulation of the UN and other international organizations, it has lost touch
with any constituency that gives it democratic legitimacy.
To talk in that fashion is not to speak of a kind of meaningless re-enactment of what went on in the creation; it is to speak of a vital, living, and ongoing
movement, where God knows and experiences (if that word is, as I believe, appropriate to the divine life) that which has taken place, but knows it and experiences it
with a continuing freshness and delight — and, if what has taken place has been evil,
with a continuing tinge of sadness and regret — such as must be proper to the chief creative and chief receptive agency who is worshiped and served by God's
human children.
The covenant which the Absolute enters into
with the concrete, not heeding the general, the «idea,»... chooses
movements made by the
human figure....
The
movements for
human liberation inspired by secular ideals can also contribute to this common cause and religious forces can link
with them for their mutual purification and benefit.
everyday, christians pray fo this country, our leaders, troops, the economy, values and morality, and all we get back is hatred from abortion groups, gay right
movements and other form of wayward beleifs
with the sole purpose of reducing
humans to the same level as animals.
In response to the realism of the Nixon - Ford years, a new, morally urgent
human - rights activism was born in the mid-1970s within those elements of the Democratic Party aligned
with Senator Henry M. Jackson, including pro-democracy social democrats and the trade - union
movement.
This, of course, is in accordance
with our earlier comments about direction or routing; and any accurate portrayal of
human existence is to be found, not in some static cross-section at this or that moment, but rather in the
movement which that existence is taking from the past, through the present, towards the future.
Through contrasting man
with the rest of nature Buber derives a twofold principle of
human life consisting of two basic
movements.
This deepening and solidification has produced several highly significant developments in Buber's thought: a growing concern
with the nature and meaning of evil as opposed to his earlier tendency to treat evil as a negative aspect of something else; a growing concern
with freedom and grace, divine and
human love, and the dread through which man must pass to reach God; a steady
movement toward concern
with the simpler and more concrete aspects of everyday life; and an ever greater simplicity and solidity of style.
Feminism challenges the legitimacy of sex roles Along
with other social
movements, feminism is rooted in the critique that a society so constructed that certain people and groups profit from inequalities — between men and women, rich and poor, black and white, etc. — is a society in which money is more highly valued than love, justice, and
human life itself.
«
With Heidegger's philosophy, we are always engaged in going back to the foundations, but we are left incapable of beginning the
movement of return that would lead from the fundamental ontology to the properly epistemological question of the status of the
human sciences.»
What this suggests to us is that religion, as an inescapable element in that
human experience, is one of the ways — indeed it may be the chief way — in which man feels his way into, finds identification
with, and becomes participant in, the ongoing «
movement of things».
And the implication of this theological approach would be that the Mission of the Church must be fulfilled in integral relation to, even within the setting of a dialogue
with, the revolutionary ferment in contemporary religious and secular
movements which express men's search for the spiritual foundations for a fuller and richer
human life.
This refers not only to other historic religions, which also produce high fruits of
human achievement — whether or not in as great numbers or
with as much efficiency as Christianity we are not concerned to say at this point but to
movements and influences not ordinarily called religious.
Thus far our discussion of some of the traditional religious ideas in the light of an analysis of religion in terms of actual
human experience has not been concerned exclusively
with any one religious or sectarian
movement.
As ancient man surveyed his world, he found himself surrounded on all sides
with movement and change, not only in fellow -
humans, animals and birds, but in running water, scudding clouds, heavenly bodies traveling across the sky, rising dust - storms, the occasionally quaking earth and the vegetation which sprang up, flowered, fruited and died.
True, Hook never understood that bit of data as Maritain did, or accepted the interpretation of
human life that went
with it, but his experience of the
movement of
human intellect to utter thanks remains a phenomenon to be explained.
Can I suggest that whether it be money, religion, power, theology, sex, celebrity / political status or any
human movement or ideology that in principle in and of itself there is no good or bad but what one does
with it that determines that.
No serious participant in the ecumenical
movement can mistake the judging and purging power of agape as it moves within the centuries - old forms and symbols which have guided Christian devotion and have become infused
with the very
human loves of the familiar and the satisfying.22
You can keep going
with this until you get to all
humans and animals
movements are predetermined.
Since
human existence is a direction taken, rather than a point at which we have already arrived, further
movement (together
with an awareness of our
human identity) will depend largely upon how we respond both to the past and to the impact of the present upon us.
I agree
with Jermann's statement that the transgender
movement is one of many manifestations of our society's deeply flawed understanding of
human sexuality.
Now, listening to him along
with the worshipful and the skeptical, the editors had to acknowledge that «theology has come to be taken most seriously again in our time where it defines itself most modestly, without slippery
movements into all the other disciplines, without fastening an encroaching grasp or a suffocating embrace on other
human enterprises» (May 16, 1962).
My aim is to nourish what I believe is an emerging new consciousness among many potential dreamers and doers in the churches who can help provide us
with the visions and the values we need to promote a
movement toward an ecologically optimum world community full of justice and joy in which the
human race can not only survive but embark on exciting new adventures of physical and spiritual enjoyment.