Climate
in Human Perspective: A Tribute to Helmut F. Landsberg.
In Climate
in Human Perspective: A Tribute to Helmut F. Landsberg, edited by F. Baer, et al..
To put
that in a human perspective, if I were to ask you to stand still for 2 minutes for $ 5, would you do it?
Cervezas Alhambra takes pride
in the human perspective of their brewing process and embraces the tradition of a hands - on approach through each part of the process.
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In human perspective, that does seem somewhat reckless,» she explains.
in HUMAN perspective it seems immoral cause YOU and I are not the judges over someones life... and MIGHT is OT Gods only attribute..
Not exact matches
«On the consumer side, it's very clear we are now
in the age where the next $ 50 billion market cap company will be what we call a «hybrid» that uses both technology and operations from a
human perspective.»
«A cascade of changing business conditions, changing organizational structures, and changing leadership has been forcing
human resource departments to alter their
perspectives on their role and function almost overnight,» wrote John Johnston
in Business Quarterly.
Above all we must have compassion for the cultural and historical
perspectives in which our fellow
humans are embedded.
It gives me a different
perspective to
human life and purpose
in a broader sense, reenergizing me and inspiring my work.»
His photographs provide a very
human perspective to a series of wars that are often lacking a
human face
in the media.
Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote
in the journal, Academy of Management
Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the
human and social environment as well.»
«Both Sriram (Ganesh) and I started our careers
in virtual reality and
human - computer interface, which gave us a hand - on
perspective of opportunities
in this segment from a developer
perspective,» explains Das.
And Catholic thinkers — the writings of Jacques Maritain are a prominent case
in point — have long promoted a «Christian Humanism,» a
perspective that celebrates the created dignity of the
human person
in God's design for the world.
The common image of Calvinism — and I hear it portrayed
in this way often, even by people who know some things about theology — is that the religion of John Calvin is a mean - spirited, narrow - minded
perspective where a nasty God decides to save a few people while arbitrarily consigning the vast portion of the
human race to eternal suffering.
The author (s) of this story lacked
perspective on their calendar, or maybe they wanted to debunk astronomical principles of order
in favor of making the statement that God made all that is
in the universe
in one «work» week a nice juxtaposition between divine and
human potential to get things done.
While convergence does happen
in religion from the
perspective of the
human psyche being adapted through its self - deceptive capabilities (e.g., as a coping mechanism), we didn't land
in the new world with the discovery of the same kind of scripture stemming from a singular God.
Especially form a Creationist
perspective, the entire Universe
in its endless complexity and unfathomable grandeur — exists solely so that
Human beings can exist (the fine tuning argument).
Understanding this new
perspective on church is as difficult today as it was
in the days of Jesus for Jews to understand a different
perspective on Sabbath, but the basic principles seem to be the same: Church, just like Sabbath, is not supposed to be a bunch of
human traditions which have become legalistic laws by which to judge one another's spiritual maturity.
As one consequence, the Whiteheadian
perspective stands
in fundamental opposition to what has sometimes been called «metaphysical individualism,» i.e., the theory that
human individuals are self - contained
in the sense that communities are created by them but not vice-versa.
This criticism has an initial ring of plausibility, for it is easy, from our
human perspective, to identify times when we believe God could have profitably violated
human freedom for the sake of humankind - e.g.,
in relation to some of Hitler's actions.
Therefore much mystery to be had and it being folly to think of one
perspective in human rational terms as being superior to the other.
It certainly may try, and even if it hits on the truth of the matter, since the
human is a Mystery unto Itself (and set within the context of Ultimate Mystery), are we not left with a great many
perspectives on the matter, which might indicate that a more tentative approach may be the best way to go regarding the question of the OP, so as to make room for those who are just as caught up
in the Mystery as we ourselves are?
The homosexual person may initially recoil at the
perspective presented here, but that is because he easily confuses
human nature with what «feels natural» or what «comes naturally» -
in his case, the powerful desire to engage
in sexual activity with another male.
In fact Jesus was shown to have been a law breaker from a
human perspective, and was condemned to death, and made a curse, according to the law.
Dr Saunders affirmed that such experimentation was «unethical» because: ``... from a Christian
perspective human beings... are made
in God's image... God became a
human being
in the person of Christ.
And exactly why do
humans persistently «regard themselves as the central and most significant entities
in the universe» or assess reality «through an exclusively
human perspective?»
There remains the question as to whether adopting the
perspective that locates
human beings within the whole creaturely world, albeit as the most valuable part of it, would
in fact work against the interests of the poor.
They are arranged so that they complement each other
in their discussion of what is now called The Lure of Divine Love:
Human Experience and Christian Faith
in a Process
Perspective.
We have long been profoundly aware of these
perspectives: the progress of the universe, and especially the
human universe, does not take place
in rivalry with God, nor is it a vain squandering of the energies we owe to him.
The Resurrection placed the
human life of Christ
in the
perspective of eternity.
Thinking from the
perspective of caring for creation
in both its
human and natural aspects, if it is serious and clearheaded, can be of immense value.
How much the CES actually cares about «the most profound metaphysical questions concerning
human existence and the nature of reality» within any recognisably Catholic
perspective is, however, to put it as mildly as possible, perhaps
in some doubt.
If you would think, you could come to the conclusion that the
human perspective of the universe could very well be likened to the
perspective of bacteria
in a petrie dish.
We are summoned
in the Lutheran
perspective to divine obedience and neighborly service within the framework of concrete
human historical structures, as questionable and ambiguous as they always are.
After drawing out how the encyclical applies this to various social, economic and ecological issues he highlighted, concerning «the problem of technology», that «this is the first time an encyclical deals with the subject
in such an organic manner -LSB-...] The exclusively technical mentality [and ideology]
in fact, reduces all to pure doing... [True
human development] requires a new
perspective upon man that only the God who is truth and love can provide.»
One is vital prayer through which the
perspective shifts until the soul has its major orientation, not
in human opinion, but
in God.
This
perspective makes the economic part of
human nature worthy of a creature made with divine generosity
in God's own image.
Jennifer Roback Morse of the Acton Institute points out on their website that,
in the very first paragraph of the encyclical we discover that «Benedict's
perspective on Truth has its own view of
human freedom as well as of the
human good: «Each person finds his good by adherence to God's plan for him, -LSB-...]
in this plan, he finds his truth, and through adherence to this truth he becomes free.»»
From the
perspective of theology as we understand it, all
human divisions, systems, social and political institutions, all philosophical thoughts, find themselves on the same level, on the side of the created world
in its corruption and promise.
When
human history is seen
in the long
perspective of the centuries the path of the light has broadened.
What Whitehead thus provides for us
in the search for the meaning of love is a
perspective on the world which opens new possibilities for conceiving the divine love and
human loves.
«Response to Dr. Koyama's Paper»
in The
Human and the Holy, Asian
Perspective on Christian Theology, eds.: Nacpil and Elwood, Orbis, New York, 1978.
From another
perspective, Christine E. Gudorf,
in a chapter on «Regrounding Spirituality
in Embodiment», (35) observes that contemporary Christians are creating new forms of spirituality based
in reflection on embodied
human experience.
Linking prayer to your day - to - day activities
in solidarity with other
humans around the world can bring a new
perspective and depth to our prayers.
An interesting
perspective... because we can still wonder whether the entire universe is controlled by an alien being who might at any moment do something for which there has been no precedent
in all of
human memory... we could still see beyond that practically all - powerful being a being that we could rightfully know to be God even to that other being to whom we are at their mercy.
We live
in a time
in which the entire
human situation must be explored, a time
in which our
perspective must move from the particular to the universal.
John Warwick Montgomery, a lawyer and philosopher as well as theologian, provides perhaps the most comprehensive argument by a conservative
in his recent book
Human Rights and
Human Dignity: An Apologetic for the Transcendent
Perspective (Zondervan, 1986) He concludes that rights derived from the inerrant teachings of the Bible give authority to the rights set forth
in the Universal Declaration, even exceeding its claims
in significant ways.
Human nature is more than either
in the Christian
perspective.
Human beings, on the other hand, necessarily read discursively, across time
in which words sound and pass and
perspectives and interpretations change.