Sentences with phrase «only humans struggle»

Only humans struggle to think themselves unique, their tribe unique, their imagined stories unique and their gods unique.

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The outcome of a war will not only lead to a sharp escalation in human casualties and displaced families, who have yet to come to terms with the death and destruction from the conflicts in Iraq, Yemen and Syria, but the region itself may no longer be the landscape it currently is as most countries in the area will struggle to recuperate from the large - scale devastation caused by a war.

While Tillich provides a system to overcome the subject - object dilemma of Cartesianism, he denies that Being - itself is actually increased or decreased by events, i.e., it is not in process, and, therefore, does not share in human adventures.5 Camus» position implies that if there is a God, such a God would be tolerable only if God is involved in the struggle of man's existence.

For his story not only is the human struggle of moving toward belief but in some way that story is the unification of the mundane and the transcendent.

An epistemology of the cross plays a key role in facilitating this transformational accountability — not only theologians» accountability, but that of others committed to the struggle for human dignity.

Azariah who later became Bishop of Dornakal argued that the church in accepting the position of a communal political minority with special protection would become a static community and it would negate its self - understanding as standing for mission and service to the whole national community, that in any case the Indian church is not a single social or cultural community since it consists of people of diverse background, each of whom would have its own political struggle to wage in cooperation with the people of similar background in other religions; and therefore theologically and politically Christians should ask only for religious freedom for its mission and service to all people, not as a minority right, but as a human right (ref.

It's only exclusion when you try to turn atheism into this dogmatic struggle with any form of monotheism, with the same ridiculous notions of superiority based on human thinking and logic which are always proven wrong.

An Athanasius, inspired by a genuinely Christian monasticism, not only had a more (comparative to his times) wholesome understanding of human sexuality and marriage, as well as women s ministerial roles in the church, but also struggled (to the point of being expelled from his diocese five times by those supporting the imperium) for an orthodoxy which would confess the God revealed in Christ as a community of consubstantial Persons.

Not only its aesthetic value, which is apparent in the power of its expression, in the depth of its sensitivity, and in its monumental structure; but also its content — the bold and colossal struggle with the ancient, and at the same time always new, human problem of the meaning of suffering — all this puts the work, in its universal significance, in a class with Dante's Divine Comedy and Goethe's Faust.8

But with this important exception, the Bible contains reflections of every human interest — not only religion, but also history, philosophy, poetry, drama, great addresses, stories, letters, law - making, the struggles of war, the pursuits of peace.

It was his conviction that only a Christian, informed and empowered by God's grace, could continue to struggle for a better world without illusions about human nature and the historic process.

Books like these, which delve deeply into both the human heart and the public square, can help us with the old struggle, the longtime call to people of faith to look not only inward and outward, but upward.

I strongly believe that the only way we'll ever come close to the goal of world peace is by setting religion aside and viewing one another with human eyes and recognizing the human struggles common to each of us.

The struggle occurs not only in the heart or mind, but in a natural and human social context, so that empirical theology is naturalistic and socio - historical — or better, it is historicist if «historicist» refers to natural as well as human history.

Human affliction, especially the monstrous inhumanity of man to man, was to them a practical, rather than a theoretical, problem; it represented not only a conflict of ideas but a conflict of individual and class interests, a struggle for justice in personal character or social organization against selfishness, ill will, and inequity.

This implication is derived from one of the most valuable insights of process thought, namely, that each of us is not only an intellect, not only a rational being with some capacity to learn truth, not only a will to be taught to strive and struggle — human beings are supremely sensitive, desiring, feeling, appreciating, and valuing beings.

So while it is all well and good to imagine that each of us has managers, exiles, and firefighters struggling to get along within ourselves, the transfer of those metaphors back again to the actual human population from which the metaphorical functions were borrowed in the first place only distorts reality rather than helping to explain it.

It is not only unkind towards Williams, but towards his family and friends, towards all people who struggle with depression, towards families and friends who are dealing with suicide, and towards every human being who cares about other people.

Today we are struggling for the survival not only of human civilization, but for survival of life on the planet Earth.

In a general sense, one can speak of four areas of struggle: (i) the system of economic exploitation and social stratification (racial segregation, women's working conditions, unemployment and the new legislation of «flexibility and «deregulation); (ii) the ideology (the way of representing the world, social relations, etc.) that justifies the system — the new ideologies of race superiority, the religious legitimation of competition and the so - called free market as the only and sufficient way of organizing human life (iii) the ways in which the consciousness of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology of domination and to develop a feeling of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization of the society through the weakening and destruction of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestations.

It is significant that Vatican II (and also the Uppsala Assembly of the World Council of Churches) defines the church as the sacramental sign of the unity of all humanity, and also speaks of the presence of the Paschal Mystery among all peoples (see Decree on the Church, and the document on the Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World) This approach assumes that in Christianity, acknowledgment of Salvation (understood as the transcendent ultimate destiny of human beings) finds expression and witness in the universal struggle for Humanization (understood as the penultimate human destiny) in world history which is shaped not only by the forces of goodness and life, but also by the forces of evil and death.

«And in spite of all of that, I struggle every day with my self - esteem, my self - worth, and my value not only as an actor and writer, but as a human being.

He was not only one of Mr Mandela's closest friends, but also a human rights activist in his own right who had a long history in the struggle against discrimination and apartheid, says the BBC's Milton Nkosi in Johannesburg.

Humans aren't the only species that struggle with sexually transmitted infections.

What did make this movie work was the sense of «being there,» of watching these characters go through what they think are grand plans for themselves (Wikus proud of getting promoted; Christopher thinking he's finally going to fix the mothership and escape) only for random chance, selfishness, and the raw immediacy of simple survival kick in and having them struggle from moment to moment against hostile forces (MNU, the human slumlords, there is no difference between those two groups exploiting the aliens).

And although their only black character, the Cairo - born Storm, was not American, the politics of race are vivid in the mutants» struggle for acceptance by humans.

First, there's Geoffrey (1938), a young and naïve schoolteacher who enlists during WWII -LRB-»... there would be, he imagined, an intense but brief struggle in Europe») only to find himself in Nazi - occupied Poland in an unspeakable situation; Billy (1859), an industrious Englishman who works his way out of poverty and gets caught in a love triangle; Elena (2029), an Italian scientist whose ground - breaking work in the field of human consciousness doesn't seem to eliminate her loneliness; Jeanne (1822), a simple - minded French servant who comes to know God and embraces change; and Anya (1971), an American, Joplin-esque musician whose talent and thirst for freedom send her on a glorious yet self - destructive path.

The resulting power struggle will determine not only the fate of Alexander's mission, but the fate of the entire human...

Consumers who struggle with credit issues are only human — but so are the people who enter information into creditors» databases and credit reports.

What I particularly love is that they will not only be offering pet food at shelters and rescues but also at human food banks so struggling families can feed their dogs and cats real pet food instead of table scraps or worse, having to give their beloved pets away to shelters because they can't afford to feed them.

And as pet owners, you may have struggled with this problem on a more personal level, scanning Internet listings for hours for an affordable apartment that will welcome not only the human members of your family, but the ones with fur and paws.

You aren't the only one; just as humans struggle with Spring allergies, so do dogs, and yours may need some extra attention, too.

There has always been a struggle for legitimacy in the games industry, as proponents of the medium try to convince the world that it's not only about twelve year olds killing prostitutes, when that's just an aspect of the industry like The Human Centipede or Transformers are aspects of the movie biz.

There are hundreds of human rights activists and social workers who are not only speaking for human rights, but who are struggling to achieve their goals of education, peace and equality.

Scientific controversies not only reveal intellectual arguments, struggles for power and human limitations within the practices and institutions of science, they also reflect the dynamics of these exact same phenomena in the wider culture within which science takes place.

When human history and natural history become entangled, it is no longer credible to argue that the future of the Earth depends only on the moral struggle of modern men and women.