...the amount of compassion and love in the relationship should be expressed through sexual fulfillment, according to Nelson. Nelson describes four dimensions which are not only components of love but necessary dimensions in order to satisfy sexually and amorously. These four dimensions are Epithymia, Eros, Philia, and Agape. Epithymia is the first of the four dimensions. This is the dimension of love that involves the sexual desire and fulfillment. This dimension involves all the physical aspects and expressions of love. This is a crucial element as all humans have strong desire to satisfy their bodily desires. Eros, the second dimensions of love, could be argued that it is the most natural and deep dimension of all. Eros is the yearning to be united with another. Nelson states it this way “Eros is aspiration and desire for the beloved” (Nelson, pg. 110). This is one of the most basic human instincts. I believe that Nelson would argue this point, by describing how Eve was created for Adam as he craved for the compassion of another. This predates the desire for physical fulfillment and as such can be considered more natural or innate. Philia is the third dimension of love and is a very interesting aspect of it. Philia is the type of love found in friendship. This can sometimes be described as brotherly love, which makes sense in the fact that the city of brotherly love is Philadelphia. The root words are the same. This type of love can be just as strong as or stronger...
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...Assessment The six dimensions of health are: physical wellness, emotional wellness, intellectual wellness, spiritual wellness, interpersonal and social wellness, and environmental or planetary wellness. I would have to say that out of these six dimensions my strongest three would have to be emotional wellness, spiritual wellness, and interpersonal and social wellness. Being not in any particular order I am going to discuss why I feel these are my three strongest dimensions of health. Once I read that the qualities of emotional wellness were trust, self esteem, self acceptance, self confidence, self control, satisfying relationships, and one having the ability to share feelings, I knew right away that this dimension was one of my strongest areas. I am a kind loving trust worthy person, therefore I have tendency to feel that all individuals are trust worthy as well. I love the relationship that I am currently in with my significant other as well as with my family it is a very satisfying one for all parties involved. I am able to share the feeling that I have about by mate to him as well as with others around us. We love and enjoy each being with each other, and this is a very good feeling. Due to my current and pass relationships I have good self esteem and self control. I have also accepted myself for who I am and I love myself for being the woman and mother that I am becoming. Personal Health Assessment 2 My second strongest dimension of health would...
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... Alfie, the character Alfie embodies different ideologies, which view the human person as “image of self” as opposed to “image of God.” The choices and actions Alfie makes and his relationships with others embody various ideologies, such as objectivism described by Ayn Rand. The standards Alfie live by, his moral code, treatment of other people, views on love and final self-reflection all include ideas from the Objectivism ideology, which views the person as “image of self.” For that reason, objectivism embodied by Alfie’s moral code and personal standard to live by can be contrasted to the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, which views the human person in the “image of God.” Alfie lives by a standard and moral code that coincide...
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...DIMENSIONS OF LOVE .........is a refreshing and affecting approach to a life of joy and abundance that we all are intended to enjoy. Love is the most beautiful reality of this world. It pervades the world like God. All Of us know what is love, it is not merely an emotion but also the the most profound Knowledge that a man can expect to know. Love is manifested in different forms like... ...Sensual, Compassion, Care, Sharing, Trust, Friendship.... Love is therefore, rightly described,as the greatest knowledge of the world, as it is the means as well as the end of everything that one wants to learn, feel & know. Love is the foundation for our human love to reach its true potential in our partnerships. The third form of love, the deepest human love we can experience is with our soul mate and we can have many illusions around this. The Dimensions of Love holds ever increasing vaster amounts of love, with his love gradually becoming part of the very fabric of your soul. This involves deep humbly & a Steadfast anchoring into the centre of your own pure soul, along the way feeling all the emotions you have never dared to feel.. In a nutshell--- Dimensions of love opened for me many doorways and true guidance in my journey to God. It gives us a map of the soul and its expansion that we can follow. Drawn from Sufi and Christ conscious wisdom, we also find out the difference between The soul and the spirit . This involves deep humility and a steadfast...
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...Religion is a particular response to dimensions of life considered sacred, as shaped by institutionalized traditions. (Fisher, 2011) According to Ninian Smart, our lives have seven major dimensions: ritual, mythical, emotional, social, philosophical, ethical, and material; that are shaped or influenced by whatever tradition or religion a person practices. In order for us to determine if Earth is a religious planet, we will take a look into some of these dimensions from different traditions, and analyze if there is a main or common purpose. Every single person in Earth has asked themselves: “Where do I come from?” So, I will say all humans have the necessity to answer this question. Lets’ explore the mythical dimension of humans lives by looking into the three major groups. One group called “Christians” say that a God created the world and everything in it, including the first man and woman in six days, and from them all humans descend. Similar to Christians; Muslims also believe that a God (Allah) created the universe and everything in it from nothing. Another group called “Hindu’s” believe there is no beginning just the universe, and different gods sacrificed themselves to create the animals, sun, moon, and the humans. The practical and ritual dimension, is another criteria that we can look into. Ritual is an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or rite. One common ritual that human groups have is prayer. Christians view payer...
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...theory of love is based on three dimensions: passion, intimacy, and commitment. In Sternberg’s model passion, intimacy, and commitment each represent one side of a triangle describing the love shared by two people. Passion means strong emotion, excitement, and physiological arousal, often tied to sexual desire and attraction. Intimacy refers to mutual understanding, warm affection, and mutual concern for the other person’s welfare. Commitment is the conscious decision to stay in a relationship for the long haul. By putting together different combinations of the three ingredients, Sternberg’s model describes several varieties of love and the specific components of romantic and companionate love (Baumgardner and Crothers, 2009). Romantic love is a combination of intimacy and passion. It is more than infatuation, its liking with the added excitement of physical attraction but without commitment. Companionate love is slow-developing love built on high intimacy and a strong commitment. When youthful passions fade in a marriage, companionate love, based on deep, affectionate friendship provides a solid foundation for a lasting and successful relationship. Fatuous love combines high passion and commitment with the absence of intimacy. The commitment is based on passion and sustained solely by passion. Infatuated love is based only on passion, without intimacy or commitment. Empty love has no passion or intimacy, just a commitment to stay together. Reasons for empty love relations...
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...Melanie Bertrand PSY/220 5-27-12 Adam Miller Introduction Our text states that “closeness, care, and commitment make up the stuff of which attachment and, as we will see, love are made.” (Bolt, 2004, p. 26). I have found that few things in life are absolute, but the previous statement is one of those few. From the very beginning of our lives, our need for human contact and closeness is glaringly obvious. Our attachment styles, be they secure, avoidant, or anxious, are formed while we are just infants. These attachment styles tie directly into how we, as adults, execute the different dimensions of love (passion, intimacy, and commitment), in our various individual love relationships. Individual Attachment Styles “Both nature—the infant’s inherent need to bond and belong—and nurture—parental responsiveness—contribute to attachment.” (Bolt, 2004, p. 25). Recent research has been shown to indicate that temperament has a base in genetics and that it is not all left to nurturing, as was previously believed. Personally, I am glad that science has begun to discover what I always have suspected to be true! A parent can be warm and responsive, yet their child could still grow to have an anxious or avoidant attachment style, however the opposite is true as well. I have personal experience with this, which is why I am certain of its validity. Secure Attachment Style Our text describes the secure attachment style in the following manner: “Infants who experience warm, responsive...
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...A Study on Violence Against Buddhism by Korean Protestantism: Centering on the Wonmyeong Temple and Bongeun Temple Incidents Introduction: Violent Attacks on Buddhism by Protestants In the past, there have been numerous incidents where extremist Korean Protestants have damaged statues of the Buddha or Buddhist temples. Such incidents pose serious risks to society as these examples of destruction do not only disregard a certain religion, but are also highly violent in nature. Many high-profile cases have been reported: Arson of the Daejeokgwangjeon of Geumsansa Temple in 1986; the destruction of a stone pagoda and lantern of Okcheonam Temple in Hongeun-dong in 1989; the damaging of the Tangible Cultural Asset No. 17 stone-carved Buddha Statue in 1989; the enclosing of a shrine and burning of a Buddha statue by an army officer in Siheung, Gyeonggi-do in 1993; the arrest of a pastor and his fellows by local police officers for destroying a Buddha statue in Thailand in 1994; a Buddhist accidently killed while he was trying to prevent a Christian from intruding into a Buddhist monastery to distribute Christian missionary materials in 1996; the destruction, damage of 750 Buddha statues in Jeju by a Christian (named Kim) in his attempt to transform Wonmyeong Temple into a church in 1998; the damaging of the Buddha statue at Dongguk University in 2000; and the frenzy over a video clip about missionary students doing a performance involving stepping on the Bongeun Temple site...
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... Humanity and the need for divine grace in this day and age seems to be out of our grasps. The world and humankind seems to be in chaos. No one can see that it does not matter the color of skin, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, etc. that we are all made by God and for God. Pick up the newspaper and we see that our world is out of control. Many theologians have voiced their views on humanity and the need of grace over the years. Today I can see where we may question that humankind has been created in Imago dei, the image of God. “So God created humankind in his image.”[1] John Wesley stated that the image of God can be summed up in three dimensions; the natural image, the political image and the moral image. [2] I question John Wesley’s summation that the image of God can be summed up in the dimensions of natural, political, and moral image. I will explore through other theologians if this assessment is viable. I will also use those same theologians to assess the idea for humanity to need, want and receive grace from God. “The concept of the imago Dei has been widely recognized as central to a Christian understanding of human beings, yet the paucity of biblical references has left the way open for a wide variety of philosophical and theological interpretations of this notion. “[3] Natural image of God according to Wesley’s sermon, The New Birth, is simply stated as “reason,” “will,” and “freedom.” [4] Some say that the most obvious definition of...
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...Most people don't believe that time travel is real. Yet, the characters in the novel A wrinkle in Time would disagree. The intelligent scientists Mr. and Mrs. Murry played around with the idea of the tesseract (fifth dimension). When Mr. Murry goes missing, his high school daughter Meg Murry is left to rescue him in a different dimension. Murry has trouble socially and academically at school, while her brother Charles Wallace is a guinness just like their parents. From the fifth dimension to space and back to Earth, Murry is left to take on this adventure with her brother Charles, her friend Calvin O’keefe from school, and the three W’s (Mrs. Which, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Who). When Murry, Charles, and Calvin are in the fifth dimension on...
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...different people. Diversity goes beyond race and gender. This article is about the different 'layers' of diversity, questions and food for thought to assess our differences and understanding how all dimensions of our life affect our diversity layers. Our diversity layers include: Personality, Internal Dimensions, External Dimensions, and Organizational Dimensions. Let's look closer at each one. Personality: Some have it and some don't. In all seriousness though, many experts say our personalities are formed by the age of Five (5). Internal Dimensions: This includes things like age, race, gender, ethnicity, and physical ability/disability. External Dimensions: This includes things like marital status, appearance(height, weight, attractiveness), educational background, religion, income, and where you live or were brought up. Organizational Dimensions: Includes work location, field of work, employment status, title and seniority. All of these things impact how we see the world, how we judge others and how we make decisions. As I think about my life and the dimensions and people that have influenced me, I’ve learned a lot. My children have taught me humor, wisdom, and have given me a perspective that 'life is simple' and of course, they have taught me about unconditional love. My father taught me the power of a good work ethic, the importance of lifelong learning and education, ambition and the rule of 72. Perhaps the biggest thing I learned from him had to do with...
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...Love Without Hope Summary There are the Squire’s daughter and a young bird-catcher. He takes off his hat and that has the meaning of refusing his own love for the girl. Then there is an exhortation to let free the lark, maybe imprisoned by the young man. Discussion Form and meter One sentence divided up into two couple of lines with scheme rhyme AABB. Characters The girl is presentend not directly, but with a degree of kinship, while the young man is presentend through an activity, bird-catching. Both are social characterizations, but each one carries a different sense. The one of the man could suggest a social position, the one of the girl suggests the power of her father and family above her. The lark is the central figure of the poem: which relationships exist among the lark, the bird-catcher, the Squire's daughter and love? Interpretation As the title can suggest clearly, the main theme of this poem is the love not correspond. There is a parallel between the gesture of throwing the hat and the release of the lark. To throw an hat could have the meaning of getting a new decision in life, closing an old situation. Maybe this could be the metaphor for expressing the end of a love story between the young man and the Squire's daughter. As a matter of fact, as the young man...
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...believers, and ethics. Ultimately, the aforementioned characteristics strive to form and continually validate answers to the enduring questions of life through a process of change, which simultaneously highlights Christianity as a living tradition. Sacred texts and writings are materials that are held significant by a religion as they contain key information that explains how people are connected to the supernatural dimension (Coleman, 2006). The significance of the sacred texts of Christianity is necessarily their ability to timelessly connect the adherent to the divinity of Christ, through which enduring life questions are answered allowing their contents to be expressed and lived differently (Our Lady of Mercy College, 2014). The Bible is given fundamental centrality in Christianity, as the supreme scared text, and it is an essential guide for the Christian adherent to model their life on the ministry of Christ. Christ’s golden commandment, embodied within the verse, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with your soul and with all your mind” and “Love your neighbour as yourself” (Matthew 22:36-40) instruct the adherent to adjust positively in the face of controversy. In fulfilment of the Kingdom of God on earth, with fidelity to the verse, ‘seek first God’s kingdom and his righteousness’ (Matthew 6:33), the adherent is able to understand an enduring question of life, ‘what...
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...prospects for a good life. It is tempting to call equality of condition ‘equality of outcome’ in order to contrast it with the idea of equal opportunity, but that can be a little misleading, because there is no plausible egalitarian theory that says that the outcomes of all social processes should be the same for everyone. Equality of condition is about cannot always institutionally guarantee that everyone’s needs for love, care and solidarity are met but we can try to arrange societies in ways that make this more or less likely. We can ensure that the balance between paid and generally unpaid care, love and solidarity work is such that the latter is facilitated, and is equally distributed. We can ensure that people are educated about care, love and solidarity relations, that employment, transportation networks and neighbourhoods are structured in a manner that facilitates caring, and that vulnerable groups, especially those who are institutionalized, have adequate protections for their care needs. The central aim of equality of condition in its fourth dimension is to reduce power inequalities as much as possible. To do this, first of all we need to endorse traditional liberal civil and political rights, but with less of a commitment to property rights. We...
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...University of Phoenix Material Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet Part 1 For each of the following six dimensions of health, list at least one characteristic, activity, belief, or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in Health for explanations of these dimensions. Physical health: I love fitness to increase my strength, flexibility and endurance to be healthy physically healthy. Social health: Social health is very important with family and raising children, making sure they behave properly. Intellectual health: I need Intellectual healthy to pass University of Phoenix and having intellectual health helped me decide to choose to go back to school. Environmental health: To help the environment our family recycles everything plastic, aluminum, car oil. Emotional health: It is very important for our family to have good communications to express our feeling, and to have trust and love for each other. Spiritual health: For some people drug addicts, alcoholics going to church is good to have a high power to believe in. Part 2 In approximately 125 to 200 words, describe health and wellness in your own words using the ideas and concepts for each of the six dimensions of health. Health and wellness is very important to everyone and it effects all of us. Emotional health understanding our emotions and finding healthy ways of expressing them is important. We have to...
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