Sentences with phrase «attempted by humanity»

Religion is an attempt by humanity to make things right with God.

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With my imagination captivated by humanity's flawed attempts at Eden, and my head lost in philosophy, I couldn't understand why anyone was thinking about «theories.»

In many black churches the healing function in pastoral care — i.e., the function in which a «representative» Christian aids another in restoration to wholeness, including a new level of religious insight — is greatly aided and abetted by the message of black theology, which motivates black people to claim their personhood despite the massive attempts of a racist society to deny their humanity and set in motion a vicious self - hate syndrome.

I am, therefore, sympathetic to the attempt to see his divinity in his humanity and find most helpful an influential book written in 1947 by the Scottish theologian, Donald Baillie (1887 - 1954) called God Was in Christ Baillie tried to explain the incarnation in terms of the paradox of grace.

Our concern will be whether we can intelligibly affirm Cobb's Whiteheadian Christology to be a satisfactory resolution of this classical problem by examining critically what of our own humanity and the humanity of Jesus is allegedly opened by Cobb in his attempt to achieve that end.

As Robert Mellert notes, our present historical criticisms are very similar to efforts by the Christians of the first centuries: «We are attempting to explain the primitive Christian experience of Jesus in the language of a philosophical perspective of God and man to suggest how that perspective might deal with the inter-relation of humanity and divinity in the person of Jesus, who is called the Christ (WPT 79f).

Imagine talking to someone who attempts to justify the horrific crimes against humanity committed by Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin.

But humanity, as the poets tell us, can not bear much reality; and we escape the pain of our condition by resentment, a resentment attempting to reverse or even to leap out of the actuality of existence.

Despite its innocuous title, the Statute Law represented an attempt by the government of President Uhuru Kenyatta to clamp down on the activities of civil society groups that had supported his prosecution at the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

The First Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday denied an attempt by anti-gay bigot Scott Lively to have a crimes against humanity suit against him dismissed

The Identification With All Humanity Scale (IWAH) builds off of work by the towering figures Alfred Adler and Abraham Maslow and attempts to measure active willingness to help those in need.

Once the action shifts to Vietnam, Kubrick's unsentimental documentary style places you in the thick of the battlefield where the slightest hesitation, act of compassion or humanity is punished by death and he makes no attempt to emotionally manipulate or preach simplistic anti-war messages.

The gamesmanship continues in Abel's modest apartment, where the close attention paid to his earlier activities lends his attempts to hide that coded message an instinctive audience sympathy, even though he's spying on the good old U.S.A.. By observing a spy at the ground level (the camera swoops low around Abel's pursuers» feet, as if it's combing the apartment itself), Spielberg establishes the humanity so crucial to the rest of the film.

In Covenant, Scott and screenwriters John Logan and Dante Harper invert the liberal attributes of internationalism (or universalism, if we are talking space) by presenting a story that sees humanity's attempt to discover new peoples, planets and species result in death — David has essentially been breeding Xenomorphs using human DNA, and unleashes said Xenomorphs on humanity.

In a world ravaged by centuries of war between humans and vampires some warrior priests attempt to tip the scales in favor of humanity.

That the film becomes far less ambitious in its aims after the flood waters rise is to be expected, given the reduced scope of the world with which to work, but Aronofsky and Handel accommodate this shift by putting the focus squarely on Noah's attempt to determine exactly what his and his family's role as the sole survivors of humanity (save for one unanticipated stowaway, who — forgotten often and disposed of quite easily — serves no purpose but for unnecessary external conflict).

For Harvard brain - box Robert Langdon, nothing less than attempting to save humanity will do in Inferno, the third of Dan Brown's novels to be brought to the screen by the dream team that is Tom Hanks, director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer.

This story of humanity's attempt to survive after the apocalypse brought on by the appearance of Titans, giants that have only one goal; eat humans.

If you're familiar with the biblical story of the tower of Babel, you may recall that the attempt of humanity to do such a thing resulted in their language being garbled by God.

It's a co-operative game that has you and a couple of chums attempting to stop the spread of several deadly infections across the world, achieving victory by researching a cure for each one before the entire of humanity gets obliterated in horrible ways.

You'll watch the newly embattled team attempt to disrupt the Unification Day celebrations, marking humanity's defeat by the alien forces, seeing the new Ranger Class and procedurally generated maps in action.

Still, her work was not marred by ideological concerns; what fascinated her was the breadth of humanity that she encountered in her studio, on canvas... Alice Neel, Uptown, the first comprehensive look at Neel's portraits of people of color, is an attempt to honor not only what Neel saw, but the generosity behind her seeing.»

instead, humanity faces the completely outlandish and draconian attempt by uncompromising zealots to return civilization to the stone age in order to appease a co2 totem that will tolerate nothing less than total carbon abstinence.

No one would argue that the current multi-lateral climate negotiations are an attempt to establish «ultimate global authority over humanity» and this is certainly never been suggested by the Planetary Boundaries research.

Greenpeace is committing «crimes against humanity» by attempting to block the distribution of genetically - modified Golden Rice which could prevent the deaths of millions of children, said a founder of the environmental organization.

But Mann argues that the paper adds to growing concerns about the «uncertainty» in climate change science being more bad than good for humanity: «We should be taking into account worst - case scenarios when we attempt to gauge the risks posed by climate change.»

Not only that, embracing one's conscience also brings out the humanity in lawyers, which is something else that Harper Lee attempts to make clear throughout the novel by making Atticus such a conscience driven character.