Sentences with phrase «about human destiny»

Finally, we may ask about human destiny.

At no point is this as significant as when we are considering what may be said, more particularly by Christians who subscribe to the process conceptuality, about our human destiny.

Let us then devote a few paragraphs to a serious consideration of those traditional «last things» and attempt to see what, in their own perhaps odd way, they may have to tell us about ourselves and about human destiny.

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MacDonald was an extraordinary and often eccentric Scot who passionately embraced the Christian «myth» as the truth about a universal human destiny.

Each of the eleven essays in On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs reflects upon an important, but all - too - often overlooked, fact: «It is only when we realize that human affairs stand not simply by themselves but relate us to our end» to our transcendent destiny» that we can relax about what we are, indeed, become what we are.&rHuman Affairs reflects upon an important, but all - too - often overlooked, fact: «It is only when we realize that human affairs stand not simply by themselves but relate us to our end» to our transcendent destiny» that we can relax about what we are, indeed, become what we are.&rhuman affairs stand not simply by themselves but relate us to our end» to our transcendent destiny» that we can relax about what we are, indeed, become what we are.»

• Traditional liberals, writes our friend Robert P. George, have promoted their views as a way that people holding conflicting comprehensive doctrines» «an integrated set of beliefs about the human good, human dignity, and human destiny»» can live together.

The easiest thing to grasp about the City of God is that it is not the City of Man — that is to say, that all existing moral - political authority is all - too - human, and that every individual represents some promise, some meaning, some destiny far beyond anything that can be represented in the economy of an actual political - cultural world.

All religions including Christianity, all cultures and all secular ideologies are in informal and formal dialogues about what is the meaning of our common humanity and about the path of common action - responses to the situation from their respective understanding of the nature and destiny of the human selfhood.

There are also eschatological beliefs about the future of society and the final destiny of the human race.

But if you take Jesus seriously as a teacher, you can not simply take his instructions on how human beings should relate to one another, but also his teachings about his role and his destiny.

If we can hold to the question about who we are and what our destiny is — perennial human questions — and if we refuse to accept answers from the world, we will discover that the question is not one we ask, but one that is asked of us.

We often fail to make «intellectual space» for God in our reflections about our social and personal lives, and we tend to dwarf our assumptions about the perceptive capacities and destinies of humans.

Historically and theologically we are dealing here with devout yet aberrant forms of faith that are unable to illuminate the more profound problems of human existence, suffering, guilt and destiny or to answer questions about human history in its wholeness.

The differences in citizens» beliefs about the origin and destiny of human life may keep them from coming to politics with the kind of shared enthusiasm and exuberant rivalry that they bring to sporting events.

This raises important questions about the unity of the human destiny and about the Church's task of evangelization.

Both the teaching of Jesus and the young church's teaching about him established the framework for our understanding of time, of history, and of human destiny in the purposes of God.

I shall then say something again about human existence in the light of Christology; and I shall conclude with the question of human destiny.

When this belief was coupled with the notion of a last judgement which would not occur until God «had accomplished the number of his elect», in words from still another prayer, it said something about the corporate nature of human life, the equally corporate nature of whatever destiny men have, and the need for patient waiting until our fellowmen have found their capacity for fulfillment along with us.

The Nicene tradition has struggled for many centuries to discipline its concepts so that they fit with the Bible, so much so that it is difficult to identify a way of thinking about God, history, and human destiny that is at once more metaphysically self - conscious and more thoroughly and constantly invested with exegetical substance.

Let me spell out two very clear ideas about the nature and destiny of human - ness.

I suppose what the phrase denotes is the modern culture which gives great emphasis on human being as a creator of culture and of history out of nature and which also believes that human being and history require no transcendent reference to a Divine Creator or a Divine Redeemer from self - alienation to bring about the realization of the community of love which is the ultimate destiny of humanity.

They are seeking what has been called post-modern paradigms for «an open secular democratic culture» within the framework of a public philosophy (Walter Lippman) or Civil Religion (Robert Bellah) or a new genuine realistic humanism or at least a body of insights about the nature of being and becoming human, evolved through dialogue among renascent religions, secularist ideologies including the philosophies of the tragic dimension of existence and disciplines of social and human sciences which have opened themselves to each other in the context of their common sense of historical responsibility and common human destiny.

National affairs and international affairs constituted the raw material for theological thought about the questions of human destiny.

Both the Muslim and the Christian have sought to bring as much as possible of the worldly affairs of their communities under the rule of the divine law and to make effective what their faiths teach about the origin and destiny of human society.

The Church, in other words, puts everything into proper perspective through its witness to the truth about the human person, human community, human origins, and human destiny.

Uncertainties about God, creation, the gift of femininity and masculinity, and the destiny of human life to live eternally with God, leave men and women adrift in knowing how to arrive at their own perfection or fulfilment.

We are talking about human beings and their destinies here, and as President I can not and will not treat these matters lightly.

Set in the not - too - distant future, without overt preaching or much scientific exposition, Gattaca uses the youthful dreams of Vincent Freeman (Ethan Hawke) to tell an affectingly human story about the consequences of putting too much faith into DNA, genetic destiny, and stereotypes.

They have returned to Planetary Radio to talk about this story of human destiny among the stars.

Long before Star Trek, and truth be told, actually better made than ALL of them, comes this opportunity to cinematically philosophize about the frailty of the human condition while wearing color coordinated jumpsuits, holding a ray gun in one hand and some scientist's half - naked daughter in the other, while backed by weird electronic noise (naturally)- or Manifest Destiny in Deep Space.

A film that appeals to the pessimist in us, Irréversible may make you think of Memento, but where Memento was about destiny, Irréversible is cynicially hopeful (if there is such a thing), illustrating the human impulse to look to the past for happy endings — Bogey's bogus reassurance that «we'll always have Paris.»

It is but natural to question the role of fate and destiny in one's life, to speculate about the path not taken, yet Gary Shang's example stands out as an extreme case, leading one to wonder just how much external manipulation a human being can bear.

The US National Academy of Sciences led the real war on science, using control over public research funds to deceive the public about the source of energy that powers the Sun and controls human destiny: