Sentences with phrase «convictions about human nature»

Such an account is inevitably conditioned by the historian's scale of values and by his fundamental convictions about human nature.

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Despite some of his protests against the Reformed, Dawson's fundamental convictions about the social nature of the human person resonates with Abraham Kuyper's argument that the organic nature of life is the foundation of the social or ecclesial organisms that come after it.

In The Spirit and the Forms of Love Williams analyzes the meaning of love and indicates what this implies about the nature of God.104 The classical conviction that the immutable is the superior is shown to devalue human love and to conflict with the biblical conception of God's love.

It was his conviction that only a Christian, informed and empowered by God's grace, could continue to struggle for a better world without illusions about human nature and the historic process.

All sections of society must thrive to converge upon their visions and convictions and find common ground for collective action that can bring about the transformation required to ensure the wellbeing of all on the planet — humans as well as nature.

Each brought to bear both an impressive resume and passionately held convictions on the age - old question about human development: which counts more — nature or nurture?