Sentences with phrase «many human cultures»

Most human cultures depend on leaders to define, modify and reinforce the behaviors and beliefs of the group.

The origins of morality in human cultures are not religion.

this was formed a 1000 years before Jesus and is something that could be easily understandble to the primitive human culture.

Thus anticipating when it will rain, snow, be hot, cold, windy and so on, in some human cultures even talking, praying, and perform rituals to ask the earth for food, water, protection, shelter and so on.

As for the belief that blacks or people of darker skins are inferior to whites, that belief was (and is) widespread across human culture.

Rather, we refer to recent attempts in sociobiology to account for the rise of human culture and religious values such as altruism.

As human culture advances, there are always those who stay mired in the past.

You can remove religion completely from human culture, and people will find a reason to fight.

We can not yet know all the mysteries of God's plan, but it seems that Jesus came at a time when human culture and politics had developed to an extent that the Church and the Gospel could begin to be taken to every part of the earth.

Religion has been the primary way that human cultures have answered these life questions.

The revelational rap against apologetic theology is that it either engages in a sellout to the «world» (the self - disclosure of God being so utterly relativized by human wisdom that Christians are unable to tell atheists anything that they don't already know), or it is an exercise in various intellectual imperialisms, such as: «We can prove the existence of God» or «If human culture really understood itself, it would find that it is striving toward that which we already have.»

It is Jesus who revealed the mimetic rivalry and the scapegoating sacrifices that both threaten and bind all human cultures, civilizations, religions, and relationships.

He will broke no compromise with institutionalization, which is ultimately what he thought the social traditions of human cultures promoted, even as he resisted a liberalization that secularized the gospel.

The reality of acceptance before God actually is in itself the grateful involvement in the enterprise of human culture, and always with particular and peculiar concern for the outcast and the suffering ones in the midst of that enterprise.

The song «Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground,» was chosen by Carl Sagan and his team of researchers as an important part of human culture.

See also Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture (New Haven: Yale Univ..

It has often been charged that by focusing attention away from «the world» to God, the kingdom of heaven, and eternal life, Jesus introduced an ascetic and otherworldly element that nullifies human culture.

I don't know much about the origins of sacrifice in human culture.

They display the capacity of the gospel to free us to embrace the diversity of human cultures and appreciate their values.

But I am allowing for an honest dialog within myself between my faith and my deep appreciation of science and the evolution of human culture since Biblical times.

For Humanum is concerned with the specificity of human experience, seen through the prism of human culture at its best.

Thus God uses human words and human language, human culture and human imagery, human existence and human nature.

It is no accident that Benedict XVI placed the spirit of monasticism at the foundation of any authentically human culture.

Human culture is the expression of the creative power of reason.

The belief that man possesses a soul, or some kind of spiritual entity that survives death, is itself an almost universal phenomenon in primitive human culture and it has led to different kinds of development in more mature human civilizations.

It is Paul again who opens the way to a Christian understanding of the creative good in human culture with its appreciation of excellence:

In Part 2, this book attempts, tentatively, to take stock of just where we humans are in the evolution of human culture on this planet, to explore the significance of entering a new era that is both global and post-Christian, and to look into the future.

True, it desires that most legitimate civilizations should be preserved, yet it approves of the development of «a more universal form of human culture... one which will promote and express the unity of the human race» (art. 54) and favours a powerful international organization which, despite the United Nations, does not yet exist (art. 84).

This scene captures the view of human being that gives coherence to The Human Quest: scientific understanding is both exciting and necessary; human cultures are vulnerable systems whose survival is threatened, in the face of which threat we seek moral values embedded within our scientific knowledge.

Where does this «absolute morality» arise from, and why is it human cultures all have such different rules?

We must move beyond the humanistic ideals that have shaped our cultural traditions and invent, or reinvent, a sustainable human culture by descending into our instinctive resources.

Instead, the means of survival must be transmuted into another form, into a lifestyle which the anthropologist Paul Radin has shown to be a perennial type in human cultures: that of the skeptic.

Nature for him (be understands too late) is mere chaos, without form and void, until given meaning by human culture: «This used to be real estate / now it's only fields and trees.»

In any case, the biblical contribution to spirituality is not to belittle this world in order to indulge in an otherworldly exaltation but rather to keep our feet in the soil of this good earth and our hands in the soiled workings of human culture and history in order to re-create them.

Heck, if one wants to believe that they need to apply Herbert Spencer's view of the «fittest» to human culture.

There have been thousands of human cultures that have ever lived on Earth.

[17] He argues that the «mainspring of human behavior» is the fear of death, and he seeks to explain all human culture on this basis.

I would argue that Kierkegaard is rightly seen as one of the great «novelists» who sees human culture clearly and penetratingly.

Human culture, of course, has always been undergoing slow evolutionary change.

Human culture began to adversely affect nature's function.

Rather, it has been to point to the gospel of Jesus Christ as the decisive revelation of human violence as the generating event behind all human culture, including those human cultures that consider themselves «Christian.»

Christianity, they say, is a religion of crisis, a judgment which regards even the highest achievements of human culture as vitiated by man's fallen nature and doomed to destruction.»

Crucially important to Meland's enterprise is a recognition of myth as the felt expression of the depths of human culture, In his view, religious faith, and more particularly Christian faith, finds embodiment and expression not only in religious institutions and individual religious experience, but in the midst of secular cultures as well, The Judeo - Christian mythos underlies and is formative of the cultural sensibilities of Western men.

It will be far wiser and truer to the nature of man to allow the essentials of the content of faith to «sink in» so that human culture itself becomes imbued with the truth of Revelation.

For millennia every human culture has recognized the bond linking sex, marriage, and the generation of human life, and frowned on begetting children out of wedlock.

It appears that McGrath has got too sucked into the Popperian insight that human understandings of the world are «theory laden» (p. 61)-- wherein human culture rather than human nature is made not just intrinsic to explanations of observations, but determinative.

The Church, as Christ the Saviour working upon all men in word, in life and in sacrament, is not accidental or incidental to the order of human history, but part of that order and the sign of the deepest meaning of human culture in time and for eternity.

The process weaves a seamless web of human cultures, erecting for each its own interpretations of reality, and guiding its social relations.

This drawing room witticism for me is a universally valid critique of human culture.

As God has spoken his word in diverse cultural situations, the church is confident that he will continue to speak through the Scriptures in a changing world and in every form of human culture.