His consciousness is «the theoretical shape of that which the living shape is the real community «11 There is a mutual causality
between the human person and society.
In this context a relation
between human person and divine creativity, although complex, becomes a meaningful question to consider.
The first is that all human societies contain a kind of opening toward transcendence; the relationship
between the human person and God is constitutive and unavoidable.
To regard the ordinary embodied experience of men and women as theologically significant in a positive way is to receive all these images of physical delight, of beauty and ecstasy, of human growth and nurture, of the contact
between human persons that the touching of bodies can make possible.
There are other very important differences
between human persons and corporations that signal the need to treat the two differently in law, the prime example being that corporations can only exist with a view to profit, while this isn't so for people.
Not exact matches
Many
people worry that their followers might not want to hear personal details, but the lines
between work and play have blurred over the last 10 years, thanks to digital media, and you'll be completing the circle of personal branding by giving your posts a
human touch.
Today most
people can't tell the difference
between some types of work performed by a
human or a bot.
On the most granular level, the stock market is just a medium used for
human beings to trade ownership in companies with one another, and you would think that interactions
between just two
people would have at least some
human element in it.
Companies of all sizes are empowering their sales teams to leverage the technology of the social web with the
human connections
between sales
people and their customers to scale reach, engagement and new business.
For most of the history of
human civilization, it has provided a basis for trust
between people and governments, and
between individuals through exchange.
There's no true distinction
between being a
person and being a
human being.
Ruether concludes: «The true struggle of religion in the sixteenth century and still today is not
between the true god of the Bible and «paganism» but
between the warlord gods of
human sacrifice in both religions and the god of life who calls for compassion and mutual respect
between peoples, a god revealed in Christ but also known in Quetzalcoatl.»
We are in the midst of a Copernican shift in
human consciousness [thought patterns] which is why there is so much conflict
between people of good will.
The proper course, it seems to me, is for church leaders and
people of good will to make every effort to connect the
human - rights project to an affirmation of the essential interplay
between individual rights and democratic values.
According to Syrian
human rights groups and reports from the region,
between 120 and 150
people were killed in a series of bombings in Syria yesterday.
All this time, and not only is God still «responding to the facts of
human life,» but doing so with unprecedented intensity and resolve in the
person of him who cures disease and puts demons to flight and heals the breach
between humanity and God: even «Jesus Christ, Son of God» (Mark 1:1)
In our time, in fact, especially in some countries, we are witnessing a disturbing divergence
between reason, whose task is to discover the ethical values linked to the dignity of the
human person, and freedom, whose responsibility is to accept and promote them.
They have always had as their goal the reconciliation
between human solidarity on the one hand and the dignity of individual, concrete
persons, situations, and facts on the other.
Biola then issued a «statement on
human sexuality» saying, «God's design for marriage and sexuality is the foundational reason for viewing acts of sexual intimacy
between a man and a woman outside of marriage, and any act of sexual intimacy
between two
person of the same sex, as illegitimate moral options for the confessing Christian.»
The
human person, as an embodied spirit, exists as a type of bridge, a source of authentic unity,
between spiritual and material ways of existence.
The
human link
between them is obviously the
person of Naaman, and if these acts are all petty, insignificant, and of no evident worth, it is because God respects the independence of Naaman just as he does that of each of the other characters in the story.
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.
Estrangement and alienation are not biblical terms, but they are implied in the biblical description of the
human predicament; the expulsion from paradise, the hostility
between humanity and nature, the hostility of
person against
person, of nation against nation, and of the continuous complaint of the prophets against the rulers.
«The excessive segmentation of knowledge, the rejection of metaphysics by the
human sciences, the difficulties encountered by dialogue
between science and theology are damaging not only to the development of knowledge, but also to the development of
peoples, because these things make it harder to see the integral good of man in its various dimensions.
• the capacity to reach objective and universal truth as well as valid metaphysical knowledge; • the unity of body and soul in man; • the dignity of the
human person; • relations
between nature and freedom; • the importance of natural law and of the «sources of morality,»... • and the necessary conformity of civil law to moral law.
The signatories declared themselves to be in solidarity in their unequivocal support of the dignity and right to life of every
human person, marriage
between a man and a woman as divinely ordained and the foundation of civil society, and religious liberty as an essential component of
human freedom.
Positive values result when the
human personality is confronted with objects and enters into situations where there is some kind of correspondence
between the
person's nature and the nature of the objects and situations.
Now, Gudorf contends, present inroads on this tradition insist that: «1) bodily experience can reveal the divine, 2) affectivity is as essential as rationality to true Christian love, 3) Christian love exists not to bind autonomous selves, but as the proper form of connection
between beings who become
human persons in relation, and 4) the experience of bodily pleasure is important in creating the ability to trust and love others, including God.»
If we look at the cross as mediation
between humanity and God, we can also see this tone — that
people can relate to and are accountable to God directly — it does not need to be mediated through
human authorities.
The unity of God is preserved in principle in the same way as that of a
human person, but here, as always, the difference is
between a partial and a maximum realization of the principle.
A truly extraordinary witness to the kind of full
human love that can exist
between two gay
persons is being manifested daily by AIDS victims and their lovers and friends.
Presuppositionalist he was, but there are two things he would point to further: the coherence of the presuppositions in matching the world outside of the
person, and the fit
between the presuppositions and the
human life as the holder lives it.
Or, seen from the opposite perspective, creation (and with it all of
human history) is a partial expression of the exchange of love
between the three divine
persons from all eternity.
What seems to be lacking in his exposition is an explicit equation
between process in God and community, such that the community life of the three divine
persons is understood to be a process, partly identical with the process of
human history but also partly distinct from it.
The process of creation, including all of
human history, is then part of the subject matter for the never - ending dialogue or process of interpretation
between the divine
persons.
I honor and respect every
person who has ever given his or her life for others but I would never choose a flag over a
human being and by pledging allegiance to our flag causes division and creates a divide
between the Gospel and Patriotism.
Could it be that the writers (and some of us readers) want to avoid a choice
between the amateur and the professional,
between the representative of
human justice (the streetsmart cop) and the
person devoted to divine justice (the priest)?
In that sacred space that stands
between the individual and the Creator, no state, society, or other
human person dares to intervene.
In the violent polarity which has developed
between the eastern and western blocs we see the way in which
people fall off to one side or the other of the dialectic of
human existence.
A realistic appraisal of
human nature leads to a view of democracy as a dyke against the flood of self - interest, as a means of approaching basic justice in relationships
between people who are by nature inclined toward injustice because they look first to their own advantage.
Now this passage deals only with the relationship
between the individual
human person and the state, which is the institution of fullest
human community.
A legitimate philosophical anthropology must know that there is not merely a
human species but also
peoples, not merely a
human soul but also types and characters, not merely a
human life but also stages in life; only from the... recognition of the dynamic that exerts power within every particular reality and
between them, and from the constantly new proof of the one in the many, can it come to see the wholeness of man.
Another point about the common tradition that requires note if we are to make progress toward sorting out the relation
between authority and office is that, within it, authority is a term that is applied in a proper sense only to
persons, either the divine Persons of the Trinity or human persons who act on God's
persons, either the divine
Persons of the Trinity or human persons who act on God's
Persons of the Trinity or
human persons who act on God's
persons who act on God's behalf.
Feminism challenges the legitimacy of sex roles Along with other social movements, feminism is rooted in the critique that a society so constructed that certain
people and groups profit from inequalities —
between men and women, rich and poor, black and white, etc. — is a society in which money is more highly valued than love, justice, and
human life itself.
At times the land seems bountiful and kindly, and again harsh and unyielding, but it is always a challenge to
human strength and ingenuity and
people have learned to adapt their ways accordingly... agriculture continues to involve the relationship
between humanity and the plant and the soil in which it grows....
But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap
between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of
persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic
human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.
Then God's act in revealing himself is no longer an encounter
between the divine
Person and the human person, but an act worked upon a purely passive entity that insight equally well be a dog or a
Person and the
human person, but an act worked upon a purely passive entity that insight equally well be a dog or a
person, but an act worked upon a purely passive entity that insight equally well be a dog or a stone.
Rather than attempting to have animals classified as «
persons,» which Professor Carlin says would «narrow the gap
between humans and the lower animals,» the Christian animal rights movement wants them to be recognized as the sentient beings they are, demonstrably capable of physical and emotional suffering.
It is therefore important to distinguish
between those theologians who are interested in post-modern culture because they want to better understand its effects upon the
human person's openness to evangelisation, and those theologians who think that Christ should be just another option at the market of meaningful symbols, no more or less significant than Buddha or Krishna.
«Holloway suggests that the concept of environment is a helpful way in which to preserve the relevance of the subject without losing its realistic objectivity because a subject is inherently related to its environment whilst at the same time distinct from it... We would propose it as a sort of medium
between... (the fairly uncritical) adoption of the post-modern subject and... «scholastic rationalism»... If then we further understand the
human person as being within a personal environment, that of the living God... We can affrm that
human nature is intrinsically ordered to God» (page 4).