Some things, we think, are simply beyond such questioning, and the person who does not see things that way is lacking in essential humanity. (religion-online.org)
Instead, the presence of these camels in the story highlights, in a very clear way, the essential humanity of the biblical writers: like the best authors, they simply wrote about what they knew. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
It is here that we see, as Nathan Scott once wrote, «a richly particularized and wonderfully eccentric human being living out his life — a little hobo whose every gesture somehow manages to redeem the human image... Here is the real human thing itself — clothed not in the unearthly magnificence of tragic heroism, but in the awkward innocence of essential humanity» (The Broken Center, by Nathan Scott, Jr.. (religion-online.org)