Sentences with phrase «between human action»

Finally, although I'm not a climate expert, I would agree, of course, that there is most likely a large lag time between human action and actual temperature / climate change.

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The author, professor of systematic theology at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts, does a splendid job of introducing the series, addressing such topics as natural law, principles of human action, the determination of the moral good, and the connection between virtues, gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the Beatitudes.

Happiness has been explored in terms of the relations between humans and their past, the objection goes, while the relation of human action to the future has been ignored.

This co-operative activity does not make the action of God remote but rather as direct and immediate as communion between God and human nature can be.

This in turn makes it possible to present the sacraments as a natural consequence of the relationship between Christ and his Church without making matter or human actions pre-determine divine grace.

Earlier this year, memos obtained by The Human Rights Campaign in a Maine civil actions suit revealed that NOM aims at making gay marriage a wedge issued «between gays and blacks,» according to the released confidential plans.

Because Lewis has kept the action in this novel on the supernatural level, in the nontemporal, a-historical Eden, he can affirm life here; but the contrast between Malacandra and earth is such that human life is seen as brutal and brutish.

The Quranic texts do not give in detail the code of laws regulating dealings — human actions — but they give the general principles which guide people to perfection, to a life of harmony — to an inner harmony between man's appetites and his spiritual desires, to harmony between man and the natural world, and to a harmony between individuals as well as a harmony with the society in which men live.

At first glance, it seems like a harmless action and we would be tempted to ignore it until we dig deeper into the links between cruelty to animals and cruelty to humans, or until we begin to see the ox as a victim too.

But the Dalai Lama's camp responded almost immediately, claiming this was not at all the gist of his remarks, emphasizing his appeal for us to distinguish between «the action» and «the actor» and stressing that, as a fellow human being, even bin Laden deserves our compassion and forgiveness.

Paul interpreted his action according to the same opposition between the divine and human win that he has set up throughout the narrative.

MacLeish's changes between the manuscript and published form of J. B. move the play from specifics to the universal, from the allegorical to the human, from mediated to unmitigated suffering, from imposed rationalizations to the dramatic action which is left to speak for itself.

For in such speaking, we represent God's act as analogous to human action, and we represent the communion between God and man as analogous to the communion of men with one another.

Out of the quest of social groups for an understanding of the connection between specific beliefs and actions, and the reactions of the universe, as well as the meaning of human salvation, religion grows and develops.

But he believes that such images and concepts can acquire fresh meaning if considered in terms of the Whiteheadian understanding of Jesus as our model of what it means to overcome the common divergence that we as humans experience between that course of action which God presents to us and that course of action we find ourselves naturally wanting to follow (104).

God does not erase the distinction between good and evil in history because of the moral ambiguity of all human actions.

Therefore, humanism denies the possibility of a permanent unity between man and nature; and it asserts that, in the long run, no human actions or values will make any difference whatever.9 And Hartshorne expostulates that such a creed is impossible for man to live by.

The constitution of a society prescribes the forms of justice only when it provides for that kind of interaction among individuals, and between individuals and the physical environment, which creates the human mind, and which sustains that scope of understanding, power of action and richness of appreciation which is distinctively human in contrast to the lower animals.

Reinhold stresses not the contrast between the good of the whole and defeat of the self - assertive individual parts, but rather the gap between the ideal and actuality — between the absolute ethical ideals that humans conceive and the limited goals that can actually be achieved by collective action.

Reinhold claims that a tragic view of history is necessary to help the Christian negotiate the gap between the ethical ideal and the possibilities attainable by human collective action.

While our actions (gender reassignment and contraception) exhibit an antagonism between the human will and nature, our speech often romanticizes the physical.

This means, among other things, that even the difference between human creatures such as ourselves and other creatures not similarly capable of self - understanding and moral action is at most a relative, not an absolute, difference.

I refer to the distinction I introduced between human existence or self - understanding on the one hand, and human action or praxis, on the other.

(3) There may be a real difference between us in our views of the relation of human to divine action.

Several themes stand out in Mayernik's accounts of these cities: the persistence of a humanist sensibility grounded in sacred order (including what can only be regarded as a sacramental sense of the relationships among the human body, the city, and the cosmos); the role of memory in the life of traditional cities; the relationship between memory and artistic action; and the city as the physical embodiment of shared aspirations rather than «reality.»

And religion is precisely this, not at first a movement of man toward God, but a movement of God toward man, implying a tension between the divine sovereignty and human freedom, a radical dependence of being and action.

According to Islam, a human being has the power to choose between right and wrong so he / she can be held responsible for his / her own actions.

The feature suggests some key actions that could be taken to manage the problem of pollutagens, including preserving wetlands that act as a buffer zone between sources of pollutagens, such as farms and towns, keeping pets indoors, and disposing of human and animal sewage more responsibly.

Restoring the connections between habitats that have been fragmented by human actions — instead of just focusing on maximizing total habitat area — is key if we want to give these butterflies a fighting chance, Oliver says.

«The interesting part is that you can see a clear analogy between these actions in the sheep's faces and similar facial actions in humans when they are in pain — there is a similarity in terms of the muscles in their faces and in our faces,» said co-author Dr Marwa Mahmoud, a postdoctoral researcher in Robinson's group.

The interaction between human and machine is based on a single action with a finite duration.

This group, who divide their loyalties between Republicans and Democrats, are more likely than non-Catholics to believe that climate change is happening, that humans are the cause, and to support action.

Indeed, for years, scientists have sought to better understand how humans and animals bridge the gap between hearing or observing a sensory clue that signifies a coming event, like the sound of a twig breaking in the forest as a bear approaches, and taking action, such as fleeing from the bear.

The distinction between actors and special effects shrinks ever further in the video game - turned - horror film «Silent Hill: Revelation 3D,» which reduces its human players to plastic action figures in tired genre settings.

By calling the film Predators the filmmakers are evoking the relationship between the original Alien film and its sequel Aliens by implying that Predators is the rightful follow - up film to Predator and promises to up the ante in terms of action and the number of creatures for the human characters to contend with.

Semiotics aside, the movie has some action scenes you can follow and some you can't, lots of talking scenes in between, and everywhere you look, some of our finest actors are doing their best to bring human emotion into this universe.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

There's more action this time around, as Bella gets involved in an eternal human - vampire - werewolf romantic triangle, but many of the heart - to - hearts between Bella and her beaux seem to go on for ever, all trembling lips and frowny foreheads and barely articulate groping for words.

Language: English Genre: Action / Sci - Fi MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Bryan Singer Actors: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen Plot: The war between mutants and humans heats up.

That may result in less thrills, but Season Four seems to have finally struck the perfect balance between zombie action and human drama, and although audiences love the former, there aren't many shows that do drama better than «The Walking Dead.»

These days, every Arnold Schwarzenegger performance is a battle between the present and the past: To watch the Austrian muscleman play his advancing years for comedy (the Expendables series) or pathos (the recent Maggie) is to see a once - herculean action star acknowledge that he's not the perfect human specimen he...

The first trailer for Steven S. DeKnight's upcoming sci - fi action sequel Pacific Rim Uprising has been unveiled at the New York Comic Con, and we have it for you here; take a look... The globe - spanning conflict between otherworldly monsters of mass destruction and the human - piloted super-machines built to vanquish them was only a prelude to the all - out assault on -LSB-...]

Directed by Duncan Jones (of «Moon» and «Source Code»), «Warcraft» will take the battle on Azeroth between humans and orcs to live - action, in in a co-production from Legendary Pictures and Blizzard Entertainment.

And since Black Panther demands so many quick switches between human facial reaction and suited - up action, in any given fight there's about as many «mask on» and «mask off» moments as in a Future refrain and that can be a bit silly, if not disorienting.

The bad dialogue and shameless product placement are to be expected, and the dynamic between the three lead human characters is pretty annoying, but Bay can't even get the action right in this one, settling for unintelligible set pieces that evade logic almost as much as the story.

Minority Report is a unique action movie because, while the action sequences range from routine (the factory chase) to spectacular (the brawl in the alley), it is the human interaction that takes pace between Anderton's breathless marathons that compels and enthralls.

Other than a fistfight involving the two leaders (including repeated punches to the face and some blood), most of the action violence happens between the airborne flamethrowers and the humans (who are occasionally eaten whole).

Offering a fresh blend of action and RPG gameplay styles set in a time when humans have been driven into a war between androids and machines, NieR: AUTOMATA is currently being developed in collaboration with PlatinumGames Inc..

Like the humor, the pace is gentle, but the film as a whole is well - divided between present - day antics, an extended (and somewhat wondrous) time travel sequence, and then the bulk of the action in colonial times, with a dextrous action scene that resolves the differences between the turkeys and their would - be human overlords.

Reeves is just as adept at directing the small, quiet moments between apes and humans as he is with the film's action set pieces.