scholarly journals Drive for the divine

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Darryl Wooldridge
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Imago Dei ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Final Word ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Human Desire ◽  
Derivatives Of

Although the present article stands alone, it is a continuation of ‘Living in the not-yet’ (published in vol. 71, issue 1 of HTS). Both articles are derivatives of a larger study that discusses God as the centre of an often inarticulate and inchoate but innate human desire and pursuit to enjoy and reflect the divine image (imago Dei) in which every human being was created. The current article sets forth foundational considerations and speaks to the ineffaceable drive within humans to find God. It is a reciprocated drive – a response to God who first sought and continues to seek humans – a correlate and concomitant seeking in response to God. Although surely not the final word, this article discusses God as spirit and spiritual, by whom human beings have been created as imago Dei or God’s self-address, showing God’s heart as toward his creation, and humans most especially. Also discussed here is that humans are destined to join the perichoretic relationship that God has enjoyed from eternity. Moreover, in his ascension and glory, Jesus sends the Spirit of adoption into creation so that human creation might enter this same perichoretic relationship with God.

Imago dei as Foundational to Psychotherapy: Integration versus Segregation

1981 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney D. Vanderploeg
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Psychotherapy Integration ◽  
Imago Dei ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
The Core ◽  
Relational Aspect

In the last issue (Vanderploeg, 1981), the concept of the Imago Dei was shown to be central to being human and as establishing human beings as essentially relational, called to relationship with God and with each other. God's election was seen as at the core of the Imago Dei and hence as a universal phenomenon. In the present article, the intrapsychic aspect of personality is also discussed as a third important relational aspect of the Imago Dei. The Imago Dei is seen as foundational to psychotherapy, providing both a ground for therapy and a mandate. The therapeutic relationship is understood as covenantal and as an affirmation of God's election, as it is a relationship in which clients are universally supported in enhancing their relationships, that is, the Imago Dei. The transpersonal, God-person relationship is also discussed, both as to how it manifests itself in therapy and how it can be dealt with therapeutically. Throughout, the focus is on questions which help therapists intergrate their faith with their vocation rather than segregating the two by imposing one on the other.

scholarly journals Eating Human Beings: Varieties of Cannibalism and the Heterogeneity of Human Life

Philosophy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-501
Author(s):  
Mikel Burley
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Face ◽  
Human Flesh ◽  
Ways Of Being

AbstractPhilosophy as well as anthropology is a discipline concerned with what it means to be human, and hence with investigating the multiple ways of making sense of human life. An important task in this process is to remain open to diverse conceptions of human beings, not least conceptions that may on the face of it appear to be morally alien. A case in point are conceptions that are bound up with cannibalism, a practice sometimes assumed to be so morally scandalous that it probably never happens, at least in a culturally sanctioned form. Questioning this assumption, along with Cora Diamond's contention that the very concept of a human being involves a prohibition against consuming human flesh, the present article explores how cannibalism can have an intelligible place in a human society – exemplified by the Wari’ of western Brazil. By coming to see this, we are enabled to enlarge our conception of the heterogeneity of possible ways of being human.

scholarly journals Bacterial cell wall nature and its mode of resistance against antibiotic drugs: An Overview

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saif Ali ◽  
Bhavtosh Sharma ◽  
Anita Rawat
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Bacterial Cell ◽  
Bacterial Cell Wall ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Inappropriate Use ◽  
Recurrent Uti ◽  
Antibiotic Drugs ◽  
A Cell ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Derivatives Of

Bacterial cell wall is made up of two derivatives of NAG (N- acetylglucosamine) and NAM (Nacetylmuramic) which forms peptidoglycan. On the basis of peptidoglycan bacteria are classified into two main categories: Gram-positive and Gram-negative. But there are some other bacteria which are devoid of cell wall like PPLOs (pleuropneumonia like organism) and some are L-form which do have a cell wall but they can switch to cell wall deficient state and vice-versa. L- form bacteria can change shapes to avoid antibiotics. Bacterial strain ST144 and ST782 were tested on media with or without osmo-protection in the presence and absence of Fosfomycin and showed that bacteria can switched to L-form and revert back to walled state after antibiotic treatment and causing recurrent UTI (Urinary tract infection) in patients. Inappropriate use of antibiotics and immunity effectors favour bacterial L- form. Bacteria have different mechanism of avoiding antibiotics but changing the morphology to L-form make difficult for antibiotics to identify the cell wall which makes bacteria to persist more in human body to causing full blown infection. Mutation caused by disassembly of ribosomal sub-unit can also helps the bacteria to survive in multi-drug environment. The current article highlights the nature of bacterial cell wall and its nature against antibiotic drugs in human beings.

The image of man in the Koran

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahdi Esfahani
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Complex Dimensions ◽  
Basic Meaning ◽  
The World ◽  
Insight Into

This article provides an insight into Koranic anthropology and looks at the essence of man in his relationship with God. Here the author starts from the term insān as one of several terms for »man« occurring in the Koran, which, according to the representation of the Arabic lexicographer al-Ḫalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Farāhīdī (d. ca. 791) in the Kitāb al-ʿain, refers back to the three-radical root n-s-y with the basic meaning »forget«. With the term insān al-ʿain, literally »the man of the eye«, which in Arabic denotes the pupil, he shows that seeing, perceiving and cognizing are essential characteristics of human beings which, on closer examination, include forgetting, since human beings can only see and recognize what they are actually looking at, while everything else is inevitably forgotten. The author considers this meaning in the context of some fundamental verses of the Koran, which clarify the complex dimensions of the human being in his relationship to God and the world, in order to finally show that man is capable of assuming the highest and lowest levels of being, depending on his degree of perception and knowledge.

From Glory to Glory

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-169
Author(s):  
Sean P. Robertson ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Imago Dei ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
De Trinitate ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The Devil ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
The Invisible

This article argues that, in De Trinitate, Augustine’s ascent to God via a search for the Trinity is successful precisely because of the emphasis he places on the role of Christ in such an ascent. Unlike scholarship which reads this ascent as an exercise in Neoplatonism—whether as a success or as an intentional failure—this article asserts that Augustine successfully discovers an imago trinitatis in human beings by identifying the essential mediation of the temporal and eternal in the person of the Incarnate Word. Of the work’s fifteen books, Books 4 and 13 focus extensively on the soteriological and epistemological role of Christ, who, in his humility, conquered the pride of the devil and reopened humanity’s way to eternity. The Christology in these books plays an important role in Augustine’s argument by allowing his ascent to move from self-knowledge to contemplation of God. Indeed, it is his understanding of the Christological perfection of the imago dei which allows Augustine to discover a genuine imago trinitatis in human beings. For Augustine, the imago is observable in humanity to the extent that an individual is conformed to Christ, the perfect image of the invisible God. Thus, it is only through Christ that a human being can successfully contemplate the Trinity in this imago.

scholarly journals Die antieke Griekse lofgedig

Literator ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-168
Author(s):  
W. J. Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
The Public

Ancient Greek praise poems Arguing from both the surviving texts themselves and from ancient theorists, the present article deals with early Greek lyric poems in praise of human beings. This type of lyric falls under the more “secular types” of ancient Greek lyric, in the sense that they were addressed, not to a divine being, but to a human being. The context or space of such “secular” lyric performance includes, not only the public gathering of officials and the populace, but also the private and intimate circle of individuals with shared interests. Both choral odes and solo-lyrics are therefore involved. The lyric types discussed are the praise poem, the war poem, the political poem and the dirge.

scholarly journals ILMU-ILMU USHULUDIN MENJAWAB PROBLEMATIKA UMAT ISLAM DEWASA INI

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Farid Wajdi Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Social

<p>Abstract: The interpretation of ushuluddin is how the human relationship with God and man to man to avoidinequality, the human beings should be able to put himself as aservant of God ('abd) are always subjecting themselve stoper form the ritualworship. However, as a zon human politicon the human being should also capable in understanding social phenomena that occurinthe community, andprovide the solutions to the problems that occurin the community in the real life, as well ashow to create the social conditions to be prosperous society that is blessed by the Almighty.</p>

scholarly journals Instinct or Society? A Rouseauist Analysis of Corruption in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 155-158
Author(s):  
Adnan Al-Zamili
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Lord Of The Flies ◽  
Relations Of Power

The present study argues that William Golding’s Lord of the Flies can be read as a manifest for the natural degeneration of human beings, and that human beings are violent and competent by nature. In doing so, the present article, firstly, draws upon the Hobbesian philosophy of human nature and how it is in conflict with the related ideas of Rousseau. The article, then, analyzes certain elements of the novel so as to show the Hobbesian ideas behind the novel where there is a society of children and the upcoming relations of power and individual desires. The article afterwards argues that human nature, against what the author declares in the Hot Gates (1965) as the degenerated human nature, is not naturally degenerating, but through society this savagery of human being takes place. Ideas of Rousseau are then used thereupon for backing this very argument. Golding’s novel launces attack on Rousseau’s ideas that society is the agent of corruption in beings.

scholarly journals Pobreza, Educação e os Direitos Humanos Dentro da Sociedade / Poverty, Education and Human Rights Within Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (57) ◽  
pp. 888-895
Author(s):  
Andressa Alberti ◽  
Bruna Becker da Silva ◽  
Renan Souza ◽  
Eliton Marcio Zanoni ◽  
Adriano Alberti
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Material Goods

Resumo: A sociedade em meio aos seus vários aspectos norteadores da formação do ser humano, busca responder por meio de vários estudos como melhorar o desenvolvimento do meio social e da vivencia entre os seres humanos. A pobreza não é falta de cultura ou falta de educação, muito menos a falta de bens materiais como muitas pessoas pensam, pois a compreensão dela é muito mais complexa do que isso e é de suma importância a compreensão sobre isso. O presente artigo presente artigo, por meio de uma revisão da literatura, pontua sobre pobreza, educação e os direitos humanos dentro da sociedade. Palavras Chave: Ser Humano, Sociedade, compreensão. Abstract: Society, in the midst of its various aspects that guide the formation of human beings, seeks to respond through various studies on how to improve the development of the social environment and experiences among human beings. Poverty is not lack of culture or lack of education, much less the lack of material goods as many people think, because understanding it is much more complex than that and understanding about it is of paramount importance. The present article in this article, through a literature review, points out about poverty, education and human rights within society. Keywords: Human Being, Society, Understanding.

Human and Divine Love Cocreating the Self

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Marandiuc
Keyword(s):  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Divine Love ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Universal Love ◽  
Human Desire

In conversation with Kierkegaard, the chapter argues that human and divine loves interweave to cocreate the self. Referring to Plato’s thought that love is a union between need and desire, the chapter suggests that underneath the gospel commandment to love one’s neighbor as oneself, which channels human desire, lies a powerful need for love. It is argued that Kierkegaard’s bilayered theological anthropology corresponds to his theology of love whereby universal love for human beings forms a ground from which preferential loves grow and gives birth to human subjectivity through the Spirit’s mediation. The chapter distinguishes between universal neighbor love, which Kierkegaard counts as Kantian duty, and particular love attachments, which home the self and anchor its freedom. Kierkegaard inherits from Scotus the framework of dovetailing human and divine loves and uses it to portray one’s love for God as a letter sent with a forwarding address to another human being.

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