If secular legal processes are deeply
concerned with human dignity and the presumption of innocence, how much more carefully should such processes be employed in the Church of Christ?
Not exact matches
While couched in different language, Catholic social teaching has much in common
with this approach, in its overriding
concern to safeguard the unique
dignity of every
human person, created in the image and likeness of God, and in its emphasis on the duty of civil authority to foster the common good.
Is this not the very historical stimulus that has made us so
concerned with the right to privacy as the assurance of
human dignity here and now?
- God, the Absolute - humanity, the
human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and
dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available,
with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of
concern for all
humans, present and future, - the
human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of
humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.
It is evident from what has already been said that the ethics of Jesus are predominantly
concerned with the
dignity and responsibility of the
human individual face to face
with God.
He goes on to say: «True, as far as China is
concerned, the change from feudalism - capitalism to socialism is all - important for the restoration of
human dignity, but the change has not done away
with this state of
human spiritual poverty.»
Such an attitude is ultimately in conflict
with itself; for the urge to cure disease presupposes openness to the
human dignity of sufferers and
concern for them.
They oppose the coalition of interests, calculations, fears or ignorance,
with a
concern which subordinates every principle to
human dignity, and which begins
with basic respect for life as such.