Not exact matches
At the same time we must allow therapy to make its contribution by disentangling the
self from unfortunate patterns of
human parenting that are being
confused with the parenting of God.
Fr Coyne thus risks
confusing the complementarity of the distinct realms of determinism and freedom; this complementarity is inherent to
human,
self - conscious, creative engagement with our deterministic environment - an engagement which modern science exemplifies in such an important way.
The question of development is closely bound up with our understanding of the
human soul, insofar as we often reduce the
self to the psyche and
confuse the soul's health with emotional well - being.
Weak
human nature will not let us believe in the promises of God with a confidence that purges from the soul the anguish of fear and unbelief, the Anfechtungen... Therefore, in Luther's discovery of justification the Christian was liberated from the
self - imposed requirement to present a perfect mental attitude to God, to
confuse belief with knowledge, faith with the direct intuition of an observed world.
The final confrontation between the Queen and her variously philosophical rivals unfortunately settles into a pompous discourse of the
human species» right of
self - determination, the role of religion (the Queen is variously
confused with Iris, the Virgin Mary, the White Goddess, etc.) and the problematical advances or technology... and the psychological and physical power of a vampire eucharist.