Sentences with phrase «assumptions about human life»

The six theologians who led the event — Carter Heyward, Barbara Gerlach, Rita Nakashima Brock, Gail Paterson Corrington, Jacquelyn Grant and Delores Williams — challenged age - old assumptions about human life, divine power and Jesus Christ as the only true redeemer.

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Paideia proved compatible both with the more social understanding of human personhood that marked medieval life and with the more individualistic assumptions about personhood that marked much Renaissance culture.

In the company of discerning teachers and learners, my education was being shaped out of certain assumptions that had as much to do with living life as with thinking about it: that we are «in relation» whatever we may think of that fact, that the most basic human unit is not therefore «the self but rather «the relation»; and that this intrinsic mutuality demands — and should be the foundation of — our ethics, politics, pastoral care and theologies.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

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.

This kind of interdisciplinary engagement may also have the side benefit of heightening the theorist's reflective awareness of the underlying sociological assumptions — about power, human nature, the main tendencies of social life and so on — that s / he inevitably makes in constructing a political vision of how the world ought to be.

It struck Muller that many philosophical questions about the meaning of human existence are based on the fundamental assumption that life is finite.

Given that we're talking about an assumption of lives lost, you can already see the savings in human lives right there, especially since the tornado can miss the cars and take out the bus as well.