Sentences with phrase «builds upon nature»

It is, of course true that revelation builds upon nature and that the Second Vatican Council decreed that «the scientific exposition of moral theology should be more nourished by the teaching of holy scripture», [1] and, indeed, that such an important document as Vehtatis Splendor is heavily based on the New Testament, including Paul.

We have some beautiful theology and anthropology filling out the traditional Catholic maxim «Grace builds upon nature».

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The Rio Summit sought to build upon the past with the goal of establishing a new and equitable global partnership through the creation of new levels of cooperation among states, key sectors of societies and people, working towards international agreements which respect the interests of all and protect the integrity of the global environmental and developmental system, recognizing the integral and interdependent nature of the Earth, our home, some excerpts will help.

The most powerful tools available to us for teaching the ethic of eco-justice are these stories built upon the analogy between human oppression and nature's oppression, between the human struggle for liberation and nature's struggle for fulfillment.

«Grace», says Aquinas at the beginning of his Summa Theologiae,» [1] «does not do away with nature but perfects it», and «faith builds upon and perfects reason».

Schleiermacher, however, built a theory of the solidarity of humankind in sin upon an evolutionary view of human nature.

There is law of birth, growth, and decline, the whole order of nature from the ultimate particles to the body of man is a relativity built upon finality and purposiveness.

It is built upon a certain natural power and need to seek, to seek in the order of our spiritual nature, which means to seek through the mind and the heart, through knowing and through loving.

Thus «faith», the pattern of contemporary religious experience which is to relate us to God through Christ, can not by its very nature be built upon «the present evil aeon», with all that it provides of worldly security under man's control and invariably at his disposal; by definition «faith» is the life given in death, and consequently has its basis beyond our control, is lived out of the future, is «an act of faith».

In a great many, there were as many as six or seven that had been built upon the same site; and out of these great mounds there came a vast wealth of information disclosing the nature of the great civilization that had flourished there.

However, as in the seventeenth century the various later theories were not produced independently of each other but came to be developed by working through, and in divergence from, the first great attempt at a philosophical structure built upon a profound insight into the problems at issue, namely, that of Descartes, so in our time the new efforts which are required in the philosophy of nature will need to come to terms with the pioneering work of Whitehead.

We can rejoice that we are saved not through the immanent mechanisms of history and nature, but by grace; that God will not unite all of history's many strands in one great synthesis, but will judge much of history false and damnable; that He will not simply reveal the sublime logic of fallen nature, but will strike off the fetters in which creation languishes; and that, rather than showing us how the tears of a small girl suffering in the dark were necessary for the building of the Kingdom, He will instead raise her up and wipe away all tears from her eyes» and there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor any more pain, for the former things will have passed away, and He that sits upon the throne will say, «Behold, I make all things new.»

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

Cobb and Pinnock's Searching for An Adequate God (2000) and Stone and Oord's Thy Nature and Thy Name is Love (2001) build upon that change to further the dialogue between process thought and evangelical theology.

It seems that a good deal of confusion has arisen because of lack of clarity concerning the nature of violence, Building on the analysis of Troy Organ («The Anatomy of Violence,» The Personalist, Autumn 1970), we might define a violent act as one in which the agent, according to the judgment of an ideal observer, is objectively attempting to impose his will upon another.

The researchers have built upon this breakthrough to design a way to «outsmart Mother Nature,» Peersen said, by reengineering one key part of the polymerase enzyme so the virus can't grow very rapidly in a cell.

The research, published this week in Nature Chemical Biology, builds upon previous work revealing heparanase's three - dimensional structure.

Given the complex nature of these diseases, our approach will be increasingly focused on specific mechanisms that build upon results from past and ongoing trials by investigating combinations of therapeutics that target more than one pathogenic pathway.

We can't see the laws upon which nature is built, from the intricate form of a seedpod to the periodicities of the planets and stars.

These ancient yet adaptable practices encourage an extraordinary sense of self awareness, built upon traditions secured to nurture the individual where he / she is ready, willing and able to bring to light the nature of Oneness with the divine, with love, with all energy - revealing the gift of their own Presence, as a necessity in this space and time.

Upon meeting with her, the King's renowned landscape artist André Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts) is initially disturbed by Sabine's distinctive eye and forward - thinking nature, but eventually chooses Sabine to build one of the main gardens at The Sun King's new Palace of Versailles.

Architect owner Nick Troubetzkoy has expanded upon his philosophy of building in harmony with Caribbean nature in his creation of Jade Mountain St. Lucia.

Anse Chastanet's architect / owner, Nick Troubetzkoy, has expanded upon his philosophy of building in harmony with nature by introducing a new level of sophistication in the individually designed, extraordinary Jade Mountain infinity pool suites.

Iwasaki, who is based in Hiroshima, will be showing a work called Upside - Down Forest, which addresses the nature of Venice as a city built upon wooden stakes as well as the design of the iconic Itsukushima Shrine.

To build on the the Western tradition, he experiments with technology to enhance his artwork, and has come upon ways to depict nature that are fresh and vivid.

They also build upon the collective histories of their chosen medium — clay as nature, clay as origin, clay as shelter, clay as dam, clay as vessel, clay as terra firma — and choose to play with those histories in their attempts to give the viewer pause while, simultaneously, addressing twenty - first - century aesthetics and concerns.

Often times promotion and advertisement provide raw material for the artist's practice; the installation simultaneously exploits and reflects upon the polemical nature of propaganda — its power to politicize space and potential to actualize ideology — in order to interrogate the tendency of the built Capitalist environment to stifle and obliterate individualism.

The title of the exhibition, Tilling Phase, plays upon the changing nature of the building's interior.

The artist's aesthetic suggests a Platonic vision where geometry is represented as the structure and foundation upon which all nature is built.

The artist says of his subject matter, «the non-subject and ubiquitous nature of faces is appealing to me as a stripped down structure to build upon; as a vehicle for abstraction, and as a straightforward symbol of communication.»

It's the follow up to «NDD Immersion Room,» in which viewers had to hand over their phones before entering a darkened nature - themed installation, and continues to build upon her investigation of the effects of cell phone culture.

The glass will reflect the changing nature of the light and landscape to create a constantly evolving theatre of shadows upon the adjacent buildings as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.

They do that by using a highly - developed mental «map» of the subject knowledge which they have built up by working in the area — as definition # 4 says, they are dependent upon «the nature of an object as it is known in the mind.»

In nature, however, this process is slow and can not be compared to the fast pace induced by contemporary technological advances, even when the latter build upon several centuries of scientific progress.

As humans will never know any absolute truths about nature, we can only have our best approximations to build our fractured and faulty catalog of knowledge upon.

In fact, the WGI report is built upon a process which, as revealed by the Climategate emails, is, by its very nature, designed not to produce an accurate view of the state of climate science, but instead to be an «assessment» of the state of climate science — an assessment largely driven by preconceived ideas of the IPCC design team and promulgated by various elite chapter authors.

By nature, white - collar crime cases usually involve a large volume of documents and bank records upon which the prosecution relies to build its case.

Or, we could simply relax and appreciate the ephemeral nature of a digital enterprise built upon a political footing, being humbled — indeed, relieved — by the certainty that «this too shall pass,» as the wise man originally intended.

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Children's development is cumulative in nature, such that children's ability to accomplish new developmental tasks builds upon achievement of previous developmental milestones.