Sentences with phrase «world of alienation»

Eventually, it leads to us imagining ourselves in an object - filled world of alienation.

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Instead of alienation from a merely objective world, we experience kinship and participation in nature.

But for minorities, your words reinforced the alienation many of us feel in a white - led world and in white - led churches.

Nevertheless, and here we continue to have much to learn from the radical Christian, we can not neglect the possibility that it is precisely our alienation from the religious world of primitive Christianity which can make possible our realization of the fundamental if underlying meaning of the earliest expressions of the Christian faith.

An acknowledged feature of our world is the sense of alienation which many feel.

The practice of solitude, he wrote, brought «a deepening awareness that the world needs to struggle against alienation.

In his book The Neoconservatives (1979), Peter Steinfels described those on our side of the barricades as «counterintellectuals,» people who move in the intellectual world but who do not share that world's dominant sense of alienation and estrangement from the ideas, values, and institutions of the middle - American majority.

Not only is the mutable world separated from its divine principle — the One — by intervals of emanation that descend in ever greater alienation from their source, but because the highest truth is the secret identity between the human mind and the One, the labor of philosophy is one of escape: all multiplicity, change, particularity, every feature of the living world, is not only accidental to this formless identity, but a kind of falsehood, and to recover the truth that dwells within, one must detach oneself from what lies without, including the sundry incidentals of one's individual existence; truth is oblivion of the flesh, a pure nothingness, to attain which one must sacrifice the world.

According to the opening chapters of Genesis, humanity and all the world are created good — but humans repeatedly choose, as they are free to do, a course which yields disruption, alienation and chaos.

So, once again God's focal presence and action in the man Jesus is incorrectly interpreted when it is taken to be primarily a rescue operation or an expedition into the world to bring humans back from their appalling situation of alienation and estrangement.

If I can never adequately state the significance of my relationships with those whom I love in this world, or give a neat description of how I can overcome the alienation and estrangement of myself from another, or describe with any fullness what it means to be accepted by another and loved in spite of my deficiencies and my self - centeredness, I can never state in other than symbolic idiom the opening of further human possibilities with the overcoming of human deficiencies in my relationship with God — a relationship that has been broken by my willfulness and sin.

Thérèse Souga from Cameroon says that «Christ is the true human, the one who makes it possible for all persons to reach fulfillment and to overcome the historic alienations weighing them down... The realism of the cross every day tells me, as a woman of the Third World, that the laws of history can be overcome by means of crucified love.»

The sense of alienation both from the unconscious and from the world of Socratic reason created a consciousness of self or spirit as something wholly other to all the rest of the psychic life.

Religion is often described as the healing of an alienation which has opened between man and his world: this is true; but we may not forget that it is religion which has brought about that alienation.

Abolishing all the inhuman conditions of life in society, and thus humanizing the relation to the material world and nature, the human person will transcend all forms of alienation.

The resulting alienations affect the church by eliminating its essential dipolarity of faith and world — that intersection which is the focal point of ministry.

It uncovers the lostness of the world, the magnitude of human sinfulness, the tragedy of human alienation.

(1) There is the (partial) estrangement of humankind from the world (or nature), evidenced by (a) enmity between serpent and woman; (b) partial alienation of man from the earth, upon which he must now toil for his food; and (c) pain of childbirth, implying conflict even within the (female) human body.

For the marginal societies of the world, therefore, the four functions of Parsons are much less achievements than the distant intentions of a grinding struggle to ameliorate cultural amnesia, alienation, poverty, and oppression.

Christocentrism could no longer cope with the challenge of religious pluralism; universalism did not grasp the depth of alienation among the poor and the marginalized; salvation history did not do justice to the plural histories of the world's many cultures and nations; the unity of the Church in Christ offered no power or guidance in overcoming sexism, racism and human exploitation.

It is not simply that at one unique point in the history of the world the eternal God comes to us in the form of Being - in - time; it is that Christ enters our evil age, our alienation from God.

I believe that the Christian contribution to a «secular» concept of humanity as essentially a Community of Persons can be best made if we maintain the message of the gospel that God became incarnate in the Person of Jesus Christ to overcome the alienation of humanity from God and to create a Koinonia in Christ around the Eucharist, a Community of divine forgiveness and mutual forgiveness acknowledging Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, transcending all religious cultural and ideological divisions with a mission to build a wider Secular Koinonia of mutual forgiveness and justice among the peoples of the world, as witness to the ultimate goal of creation, namely the Kingdom of God.

The alienation of the Western powers from their cultural and religious roots, and from their consequent sense of historical mission, also played a part in the decolonization movement following World War II.

friends come and want to be a part of it because we live in a world full of loneliness and alienation.

When, on grounds of Enlightenment individualism, we develop an economics than ignores the interests of community altogether, aiming only at increased production and consumer sovereignty, when communities around the world are collapsing and the resulting alienation of young people causes a profound breakdown in the order needed for healthy personal life, then an ethics that continues to emphasize only individual dignity and rights becomes counterproductive.

The covenant demand of holiness unambiguously conveys the relationship of people and Word to the world: Israel, in her «separation» and in her appropriation of Yahweh's holiness will convey in the world the power and character of God and his purpose to heal the world's alienation.

The sense of alienation and distance from God which had grown upon the pious in Israel must in proportion as they had learned to look upon Him as no mere national divinity, but as a God of justice who would punish Israel for its sin as certainly as Edom or Moab, is declared to be no longer in place; and the typical form of Christian prayer points to the abolition of the contrast between this world and the next which thought all the history of the Jews had continually been growing wider: «As in heaven, so on earth.»

One projects onto the world of human artifacts one's sense of frustrated alienation, then imagines that an escape from this system is by means of a retreat into an unfallen paradise of «nature.»

Echoing concerns that grew with the World Wide Web itself a decade earlier, the rise of social media has stoked fears of «social displacement» — the alienation of people from friends and family in favor of Facebook and Twitter.

In the cruel world of junior high, Edwin suffers in a state of anxiety and alienation alongside his only friend, Flake.

A staple of high school curricula all over the world, reading this book is a rite of passage, with the theme of modern alienation striking a chord with readers for over sixty years.

The difference between American Splendor and Ghost World is that with two solitary figures in search of completion, there is the possibility for recognition of sameness — but with two figures (underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar and his wife Joyce Brabner (Hope Davis)-RRB- who have found in one another a sympathetic orbit, a partner in life and lo, with a child dropped willy - nilly into their midst to tie up loose ends, there is instead a sort of alien, island of lost toys exclusion that makes for a further alienation of the very alienated audience to which Pekar's comic so appealed and, eventually, took for granted and pandered.

The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies, 2011) * Set in London just after the war, Terence Davies The Deep Blue Sea is filled with nostalgia for a world that is long past, but is also universal in its theme of loneliness and alienation.

The world here appears at once real and imagined, and by the time the fire within the hole lights Yorke's face and the song grinds to a halt, Anderson dramatically reaffirms most of our beliefs about Radiohead's music as, above all else, the prettiest soundtrack in the world to one man's devotion to his own alienation.

Scripted by Monroe's husband Arthur Miller, the Nevada - set film sets the actress's inimitable mix of sensuality and vulnerability against the world - weary alienation of three hardened men, played by Gable, Clift, and Eli Wallach.

Very little is revealed of these supporting players, who function as indistinct sketches that flit in and out of Kerouac's world, never making much impact, highlighting the writer's alienation and detachment from everything around him, including the literary movement that defined his career.

Blind for significantly longer — 20 years, brought on by an abusive mother — the feisty heroine of Michael Apted's under - appreciated Blink (1993), Emma Brody (Madeleine Stowe), may be more connected to the outside world than Susy and Sarah but her loneliness and alienation from living in perpetual darkness make her existence feel just as contained.

This raw psychological drama about an engineer unable to adjust to the world around him following his suicide attempt is at heart a scathing portrait of social alienation and moral compromise.

The managerial efficiency but loneliness of Anne, the remoteness of George apart from his ability to interact with his granddaughter Eve who is a very knowing young teenager, the alienation of Pierre from the comfortable world in which he is trapped and the poor relationship that crackles between the self - centred Thomas and Eve his daughter.

Since he first came to widespread critical prominence and notoriety with Funny Games (1997), he has been both lauded and reviled as a sensational, pessimistic purveyor of contemporary alienation in the industrialised, media - driven First World; someone in many ways akin to a Michelangelo Antonioni (a director Haneke greatly admires) for the 21st century.

In the cruel world of junior high, two friends suffer in a state of anxiety and alienation.

Even the alleged realism in De Sica's neorealist melodramas is meticulously, cruelly designed to do what perhaps only Umberto D did successfully, that is present the dread, the terrible toil, of rising from the apocalypse to discover that the world holds only tragedy and alienation for the freshly - exhumed.

But where those films at least attempted to draw on real social anxieties around urban alienation, or struggled with the interconnectedness of the post-9 / 11 world, 360 just draws on those films.

The opportunities that can help people develop empathy, compassion, deep knowledge and agency to collaborate with others in using what we know to improve the world are the opposite, the mirror image, of the conditions that drive others to alienation, marginalization and hatred towards other human beings, and lead them on destructive paths that endanger the world.

In yet other examples, alienation sets in as the characters try to remake their lives in the wake of changing economies the world over.

When The Lovely Bones came out in July 2002, BookPage reviewer Becky Ohlsen wrote that Alice Sebold found an «inventive way of expressing the universal alienation and powerlessness we all feel, trapped in our own small worlds apart from each other.»

With a brilliant command of language, DeLillo parses the tragedy and heartbreak of 9/11 in a devastating novel that follows a lawyer from the moment he emerges from the World Trade Center through the succeeding months, which offer moments of both true connection and profound alienation.

In a world of game that take themselves too seriously, Alienation is simply fun, and it's a game that I can see myself coming back to when I need just that.

This vision of isolation receives its apotheosis in A Bar at the Folies - Bergère [6], perhaps the most poignant image of alienation ever painted, a deadly serious spoof of Watteau's Gilles in completely modern «naturalist» terms, the anonymous yet concrete figure trapped between the world of tangible things and that of impalpable reflections, existing only as a way station between life and art.

Working from several different sources, Harrod's work deals with notions of human estrangement and alienation from the natural world.