Sentences with phrase «case of human persons»

In the case of human persons, those who were directly in relationship with one another while alive would be some of the most relevant sources of new possibilities.

In the case of the human person and God, the relationship is a personal and fundamental one implying that grace is given gratuitously and is somethingsupernatural: that is to say, it is not something that is constitutive of human nature but transcendent whilst at the same time being what human nature was made for.

Not exact matches

Believing you're smarter than people trained in a subject you're not isn't just obnoxious, but also deadly; as the Challenger and perhaps Ford cases show, the lives of human beings are on the line.

And Catholic thinkers — the writings of Jacques Maritain are a prominent case in point — have long promoted a «Christian Humanism,» a perspective that celebrates the created dignity of the human person in God's design for the world.

When people come to share a plane or public place they should try to be a human being first, instead of a show case religious person.

Religion in this case was people hearing the very real loving voices of other people, inspired to love one another for whatever reasons they might think they have, and attaching themselves to that love in order to deal emotionally with the struggles we face just by being human.

It is not the result of the free will of creatures, as is normally the case with the begetting of a human person, but the result of God's own Will, His free decision to become one of us.

I have emphasized that, in the human case, one set of such included acts constitutes, with the including act, an individual person.

In the case of the doctrine of revelation and inspiration the shift meant that the Bible and its teachings came to be viewed as the product of human cultural experience, time conditioned and relative in authority, and certainly not a suitable cognitive guide to thinking persons today.

If all we can say of Jesus and of God is that Jesus is God — all the God of God there is — then we have effectively ruled out all other attempts of the human spirit to glimpse the mystery of the ultimate; and this is all the more conspicuously the case when our understanding of «Jesus,» in the first place, is really a dogmatic reduction of his person, his «thou - ness,» to the «it - ness» of christological propositions that, most of them, enshrine little more than our own religious bid for authority.

Azariah who later became Bishop of Dornakal argued that the church in accepting the position of a communal political minority with special protection would become a static community and it would negate its self - understanding as standing for mission and service to the whole national community, that in any case the Indian church is not a single social or cultural community since it consists of people of diverse background, each of whom would have its own political struggle to wage in cooperation with the people of similar background in other religions; and therefore theologically and politically Christians should ask only for religious freedom for its mission and service to all people, not as a minority right, but as a human right (ref.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

If we measure left and right by support for or opposition to abortion and Bill Clinton, which is a reasonable measure in this case, twelve of the groups represented are very far left indeed — including Catholics for a Free Choice, Human Rights Campaign (a leading gay rights organization), People for the American Way, AIDS National Interfaith Network, and Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.

How far this creativity can go in creating the human level in the case of any one individual depends partly upon his innate capacity but most of all upon two other features: (1) how wide and deep is the volume of history that reaches him, that is, how abundant and coherent are the values that have been accumulated in the history he inherits and (2) how deep is the communion he is able to have with other persons who embody these meanings accumulated through a long sequence of generations.

This would always be an attack on the dignity of the person and his freedom, which is not a means to an end (in this case the compulsory realization of something good), but part of the meaning and goal of the human person.

While in the case of the Canaanites God poured his judgement on human wickedness, through His chosen, but, alas, not righteous people, God's justice is supremely displayed at the Cross where the sinless Son of God bore the judgment of all human wickedness.

Only with the division of the sexes, and only in the case of the Virgin Birth, when there is not a human father, is there space for God to directly determine Mary's fertility and unite this un-personified human nature immediately to the second person of the Trinity, the Logos.

So where are the human rights they tell us about's when many suffer because of those in this world... it is only for those cases you see people become as good as the «Three Wise Monkeys»...?!

And, in any case, aristocracy is the strong sense — including the aristocratic features of the philosophy of the Greeks and Romans — was bound to fade away over time in the face of the truthful Christian insight about the unique irreplaceability of every human person.

In both cases, civil rights could be — and were — denied to homosexuals and black persons because they failed to meet the culture's definition of human «spirit,» meaning a reasonable and sexually self - controlled person.

In those latter comments, Rusty says he feels chastened by a reader's letter to the effect that, contrary to what Rusty may have suggested in the initial column, it is «indeed the case today that free market libertarians are the most likely people to dismiss the role of authority in human flourishing.»

Even in the case of the human living person the locus is not the brain as a whole.

It is true, as Hall points out, that for Whitehead ordering principles are «immanent» within particular occasions (see UP 261 - 70), but in most cases those ordering principles also reflect the «mutual relations» of individuals, as well as the «community in character» pervading groups or societies of individuals (AI 142).13 This is particularly true of persons: the relations between occasions which constitute the human body and brain, and the «community of character» of the succession of personal experiences, give an essential element of unity to human experience.

In this explanation of why he is not a Christian, Keith Parsons discusses the role that Christianity has played in perpetuating suffering throughout human history, the bizarre doctrine of inflicting eternal punishment on persons for having the wrong beliefs, the composition, inconsistencies, and absurdities of the New Testament Gospels, William Lane Craig's flawed case for the resurrection of Jesus, the role of legendary development and hallucinations in early Christianity, and C.S. Lewis» weak justifications for the Christian prohibition on premarital se - x.

What motivated the Apostles and the whole history of Christian missions was knowing from divine revelation that the human race is lost, eternally lost without Christ, and even though it is possible for people to be saved, under certain very stringent conditions, without explicit faith and baptism, very often this is not actually the case.

The plaintiffs» lawyers, Eric Rassbach and Diana Verm, pointed out that even the person the case is now against — the new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Thomas Price — is on their side.

Unlike Jesus Christ, these human creatures are not eternal uncreated persons and will come into being, not only through Divine decision, but also through the decision and determination of the creature, a male principle determining the cooperative female, as is the case between a man and woman in human procreation.

When they encounter the actuality of suffering and injustice, the impurity of even the best motives, and the mutual destructiveness even of a relatively virtuous people, and when they discover also the depths of sin which erupt on a massive scale in human history from time to time, they are overwhelmed by the incongruity between what is and what, at some deep level, they feel should be the case.

I know heartbreaking cases of people in such Churches who have sunk into deep spiritual depressions, no longer able to bear the teaching that God CAUSES billions of humans to eternally burn in hell.

It seems to many thoughtful people, in any case, that a God endowed with traditional omnipotence could have made this a far better world, even for the purpose of soul - making, by preventing a wide range of evils that have destroyed or stunted billions of lives throughout human history.

lt is also nice to note that furums like this are available for people to post constructive and helpful comments that could be of benefit to other fellow human beings in the morals and spirituality (as this case pertains.

In the case of Paul VI's encyclical, Bristow points out that a true appreciation of the conjugal act «depends on the understanding that the human person is a unity of body and spirit, so that where the body acts the spirit is also present and vice versa» (p. 346).

As human beings we are programmed to think that we need animal protein to survive and while I won't get into that very long debate on my blog, I will say that there are plenty of people out there to prove that this is not the case.

During the offseason, Isaacson said, the next step will be training people within each organization — player engagement directors, human resources directors and security directors — who are on the front lines and can identify warning signs or risk factors for cases of domestic violence and sexual assault.

«These are the set of people that want justice, fairness and accountability in all aspects of human endeavours as they used to go around with clean heart of helping Police to unravel cases of criminality and always stand on the progress and growth of Nigeria Police Force.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) used the case of Jayson and Charlotte Carmichael, who successfully challenged the bedroom tax at the Supreme Court, to prevent other people from relying on the Human Rights Act when appealing against benefits decisions at the first tier tribunal.

They took their case to the European Court of Human Rights, which endorsed the Government's right to balance the economic interests of airlines in providing night flights against the welfare of local people.

In the first case, persons can become «outsiders» as a consequence of political circumstances beyond their control, but remain members of a single human civilization.

He noted that although human attempts at bettering people's lives have been significant and worthy of praise, in many cases, they are either not advanced enough or completely incapable of helping, and, therefore, a miracle is the last and often only resort.

Sheriff Craig Apple says ten people — one man and nine women ranging in age from 24 - 55 — are facing charges of Prostitution as part of a human trafficking case following raids on several unlicensed Asian massage parlors in the town of Colonie.

Businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome has filed a fresh case at the African Court on Human and People's Rights after expressing dissatisfaction about the ruling of the International Chamber of Commerce on the GHc 51 million judgment debt paid wrongfully to him by the government of Ghana.

«Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome has sent this aspect of the case to the African Court on Human and Peoples» Right in Arusha Tanzania by invoking Article 40 read together with Article 75 of the 1992 constitution of The Republic of Ghana under case number Ref: AfCHPR / Reg.

Meanwhile, a statement issued by lawyers of the embattled Businessman indicates that his outfit had already advanced the case at the African Court on Human and People's Rights concerning some declarations made by the Supreme Court of Ghana.

You really do actually have to study the case law of the Immigration Tribunal to appreciate the extent to which these cases walk the moral balance of British justice, endanger the public and frankly, for many people outside of parliament, make human rights dirty words.

Meanwhile, human rights and constitutional lawyer, Dr Anthony Agbazuere who is also counsel to the complainants, said he had petitioned the Inspector General of Police over the gruesome murder of the deceased persons and the police boss directed the Abia state commissioner to investigate the case.

Mr Woyome who claims his human rights has been abused and was occasioned by the Review Decision of the Supreme Court of Ghana has sent this aspect of the case to the African Court on Human and Peoples» Right in Arusha Tanzania by invoking article 40 read together with article 75 of the 1992 constitution of The Republic of Ghana under case number Ref: AfCHPR /human rights has been abused and was occasioned by the Review Decision of the Supreme Court of Ghana has sent this aspect of the case to the African Court on Human and Peoples» Right in Arusha Tanzania by invoking article 40 read together with article 75 of the 1992 constitution of The Republic of Ghana under case number Ref: AfCHPR /Human and Peoples» Right in Arusha Tanzania by invoking article 40 read together with article 75 of the 1992 constitution of The Republic of Ghana under case number Ref: AfCHPR / Reg.

«These defendants are charged with creating a killing field in a crowd of innocent people, showing depraved indifference to human life and causing the death of Carey Gabay,» Ken Thompson, the Brooklyn district attorney, said in a statement about the case.

«The rescued persons said that they were brought there by the terrorists from various villages to be used as human shield in case if advancing troops of the Nigerian Army came to attack the Boko Haram terrorists.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday instructed the Inspector - General of Police, Mr. Idris Ibrahim, and governors of affected states to immediately commence investigations into the cases of sexual abuse and exploitation of women and girls in Internally Displaced Persons Camps as contained in a report by the Human Rights Watch.

But a statement from Lawyers of Mr. Woyome, while welcoming the ICC's decision said they had already advanced the case at the African Court on Human and People's Rights concerning some declarations made by Ghana's Supreme Court.