But in the teaching of Jesus the contemporaneity of the action envisages a response by man to God that is at the same time a full
acceptance of the human responsibility in face of the divine mercy.
Not exact matches
It is after doing what is commanded, when everything has been done in the sphere
of human decisions and means, when in terms
of the relation to God every effort has been made to know the will
of God and to obey it, when in the arena
of life there has been full
acceptance of all
responsibilities and interpretations and commitments and conflicts, it is then and only then that the judgment takes on meaning: all this (that we had to do) is useless; all this we cast from us to put it in thy hands, O Lord; all this belongs no more to the
human order but to the order
of thy kingdom.
But I believe it was hinted at in the words
of a young Cambridge undergraduate who told me that what he and most
of his friends aimed at in their sexual behavior were three things: permissiveness, within the range
of social decency and
acceptance; affection, by which he meant genuine caring and the beginning
of real love; and
responsibility, which he defined as readiness to stand up and take the consequences for any and every sort
of human contact.
By this we mean
human dignity in the
acceptance of political
responsibility.
Here are three questions from Brian Barder: (1) Do you accept that
human rights are universal, indivisible, and not conditional on
acceptance of social or other
responsibilities?
From the first image
of sensory awakening to the final
acceptance of adult
responsibility, it pulses with the warm blood
of a very
human hero.