Harold Bloom helpfully suggests that our continued interest in Shakespeare has something to do with Shakespeare's particular insight into what it means to be a human being: «Shakespeare not only invented the English language, but also
created human nature as we know it today.»
He created a human nature and super-added it to his divine nature» (Ibid.
Undoubtedly, one of the major problems that has beset theological aesthetics is, on the one hand, the modern and post-modern loss of faith in the image and likeness of God in
created human nature; and on the other, the loss of conviction that truth is objectively real and attainable by the human person, intellectually and by feeling (aesthesis).
The text from the Catechism does not mention the Incarnation and focuses on
created human nature, stating more carefully andsimply that, given divine transcendence as well as human sin, «man stands in need of being enlightened by God's revelation...»
Not exact matches
Sometimes it's a result of basic
human nature — we want to be needed, so we
create this need.
Our
human natures cry out for religious symbols, images, and pictures to help us
create a mood for wors - h - ip.
They noted the «increasing departure from the basis of the WCC» — which they defined as primarily to restore unity to the Church — and cited «a growing departure from biblically based Christian understandings» of the Trinity, salvation, the gospel, the doctrine of
human beings as
created in the image of God, and the
nature of the church.
Any weapon, once
created, can and will be used by anyone with a reason to seize it; the Civil Rights Act
created a whole arsenal, and fallen
human nature provides ample reason.
It is far more challenging when trying to replicate processes of
nature, because
nature is wildy more complex than any
human engineering, but as we get smarter and learn more we come closer adn closer to being able to simulate natural conditions and
create the expected results.
But the end result is the same: By its
nature,
human erotic love is ordered to
creating and raising new life, and to the mutual joy and support of a man and woman vowed in a covenant of love.
But I believe
human nature is transformed when we use nice things (or even the Target and Wal - Mart knockoff versions) to become the people we were
created to be.
2) If you believe that 2 random particles, «uncreated» by the way, hit each other and
created this universe, this world, which started as molten rock, which led to animals,
nature, intelligent, conscience
humans, etc., then, wow...
This joint proclamation of certain truths about the
nature of the
human person and
human community as
created historical realities can not be accomplished, however, in a didactic way.
Does the Machiavellian version of «necessity is all there is»
create an unbounded or at least unjustified confidence in the malleability of
human nature by the free or astute man.
She offers insights into the
nature of abortion — but
creates a world almost wholly devoid of three - dimensional
human beings.
Forasmuch as each man is a part of the
human race, and
human nature is something social, and has for a great and natural good, the power also of friendship; on this account God willed to
create all men out of one, in order that they might be held in their society not only by likeness of kind, but also by bond of kindred.
God
created us and, by our own
human nature, we did what we told not too do!!
If a person thinks that
nature is wholly corrupt, that there is no natural morality knowable by
human reason, that grace completely supplants
nature, that the basis of morality is the divine command and not the essences of things as
created by God — and some Protestant theologians can plausibly be read as having said such things — then all bets are off.
The ecological theologian sometimes falls prey to the traditional romantic danger of submerging the distinctively
human dimension of the
created order in
nature, thereby undercutting the biblical norm of social justice.
Creating the universe from nothing, forging a union of
human and divine
natures, and causing the defeat of evil — each of these events would involve full ontological determination by God.
it seems that many of us want to
create a God in our image, we seem to say, «if I was god, I would do it this way» well, we are not God and just because our
human nature doesn't like some of Gods attributes.
So there had to be a way for God the Son to truly take
human nature as his own but without being
created as a new
human person, because he is God in Person.
Studies of expanding non-market sectors, productive techniques that respect the well - being of those who use them, and the organization and
nature of work will help
create more
human forms of organization.
He will not require not merely that the new knowledge be used as the foundation of the proof, but that the very spirit and atmosphere of the new knowledge enter in such a way into thedemonstration of God's existence, that the complexities and confusions of
human thought engendered by the new knowledge shall be resolved in harmonious unity in the postulate of God's existence,
nature, and relation to
created being.
For, as Caldecott highlights, the Catholic tendency, from Thomas Aquinas through to the contemporary Catechism (one might also add St Augustine and the 14th - century papal Encyclical Benedictus Deus) has been to emphasise that the
human soul is not physical, but rather spiritual, in the image of God's divine
nature, and directly
created at conception.
Human society is the natural outgrowth and expression of human nature which, like all created natures, is set within the Unity Law of Control and Direction, which is his new name for and conception of the Natural
Human society is the natural outgrowth and expression of
human nature which, like all created natures, is set within the Unity Law of Control and Direction, which is his new name for and conception of the Natural
human nature which, like all
created natures, is set within the Unity Law of Control and Direction, which is his new name for and conception of the Natural Law.
At the peak of that unfolding equation, matter is gathered into ontological unity with directly
created spirit to form
human nature, which exists in direct and personal relationship to God who is the Living Environment of grace and providence for every
human being and for mankind as a whole.
By this act of recreating
human nature, God mysteriously
created the new possibility of individual man's divinization through incorporation into that glorified
nature.
That
created thing is the
human nature of Christ.
When in the course of
human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of
Nature and of
Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation — We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
We now know that
nature can not take care of itself, that
human beings can degrade it not only locally but globally, that the species God
created and saved from the flood are threatened by
human expansion into their habitats, destruction of their food supplies, pollution of their air and water, and excessive hunting and fishing.
God
created Adam — and Eve — an adult, he was a fully grown man at one - day - old, and gave him the
human nature (passed on to us) of growing fully over nine months in the womb and 18 - 21 years or so after birth.
Then those that are left (surviving genocides and «
nature») will get a clue and realize that only God has the ability to
create the complexities of the
human eye, circulatory system, the fact we have (had) the needed water and atmosphere was not a random perfection that just occurred... will change their minds and ask for forgiveness that was already granted them through Jesus, if they chose to accept it.
To a modernist, who by definition relies only upon
human authority, natural law in the Thomistic sense is no longer supportable because it would have to rest upon the unacceptable premise that
nature was supernaturally
created.
I know there are going to be a bunch of people out there that scream that God can do anything and could
create a sinless Child, but you can not ignore the
HUMAN nature of Jesus, so unless God created something other than human, and then placed it in Mary's womb, he inherited his human nature from his mother and thus inherited the Original
HUMAN nature of Jesus, so unless God
created something other than
human, and then placed it in Mary's womb, he inherited his human nature from his mother and thus inherited the Original
human, and then placed it in Mary's womb, he inherited his
human nature from his mother and thus inherited the Original
human nature from his mother and thus inherited the Original Sin.
Marxist humanism strongly maintains that the distinctive
nature of
human activity is its capacity of
creating projects, positing ends.
It is understood that the benefits of civilization do not come automatically from the cornucopia of
nature but must be continually
created and renewed by
human effort.
Also in the face of the ecological disaster
created by the modern ideas of total separation of
humans from
nature and of the unlimited technological exploitation of
nature, it is proper for primal vision to demand, not an undifferentiated unity of God, humanity and
nature or to go back to the traditional worship of
nature - spirits, but to seek a spiritual framework of unity in which differentiation may go along with a relation of responsible participatory interaction between them, enabling the development of
human community in accordance with the Divine purpose and with reverence for the community of life on earth and in harmony with
nature's cycles to sustain and renew all life continuously.
Any universe
created by the multiverse generator would need to include both (a) the positive conditions necessary for life (i.e., the fine - tuned laws of
nature) and (b) the negative conditions necessary for
human existence (i.e., the absence of V - class objects).
We have witnessed some of the best aspects of
human nature, as tens of thousands of people have responded to real need by
creating organisations such as food banks.
Third, in both classical schooling and higher education, a self - conscious recovery of a biblical and philosophical understanding of
created nature and the practical and spiritual relationship to it that fosters the
human good must have a place in the curriculum.
Human nature is the
created conjunction of spirit and
nature.
Its two revolutions — its anthropological individualism and the voluntarist conception of choice, and its insistence on the
human separation from and opposition to
nature —
created its distinctive and new understanding of liberty as the most extensive possible expansion of the
human sphere of autonomous activity in the service of the fulfillment of the self.
The tradition encourages us to accept
human nature as God has
created it.
Why then should we insist on speaking of the
human mission of «completing, through our work the work finished on the sixth day, as if God had
created nature in such a way as to leave to humanity the margin, the risk, and the honor of this artifice?
... you can claim free will and by so cover all of the
human actions done to the world but how can say that god is real and controls
nature when
nature has killed more purely innocent lives then anything in history ever... if god was just and comp@ssinate why send the wave that killed 300 thousand, why
create the plague that killed nearly 75 million in the middle ages when nearly everyone was a VERY devout believer....
The theology of
nature is that God
created nature, but it fell out of control when
humans sinned.
The key to
human nature therefore lies in both the organic inheritance of evolution through the brain, which is instinct with natural law, harmonic order and finely tuned mutual balance, and in the free, dynamic seeking of truth and values and their free administration by the directly
created spirit.
Hobbes» radical materialism, which accompanies his rejection of the priority of natural law to
human rights, invites Rousseau's idealism, or his craving for a comprehensive moral order not grounded in
nature but
created by
human beings.
The structure of the ideal society Can not be finally prescribed, nor can we directly
create a new order, The stuff of
human history and
human nature simply does not permit that kind of attack.