Sentences with phrase «determine human destiny»

Ecological theology needs sociological theology because left to itself it does not deal realistically with the actual structures of power whose exercise will determine human destiny.

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Election means that human destiny is determined by God rather than by man himself.

Two years ago, the Czechs were in the streets of Prague facing Russian tanks, not because of compassion for human want and misery, but because they were not free; the Vietnamese continue to resist America, as they did Japan and France before us, not because of hunger for food but hunger to determine their own destinies; black militants are in the streets of our cities today, not because they are famished — though poverty and want still stalk our land, particularly black communities — but because black citizens, more than any others, have been politically isolated and impotent, unable to act in their own governance.

Decades earlier, cosmologists looking at Einstein's equations determined three possible destinies lying in wait for the universe, depending on how much stuff — galaxies, stars, humans — it contained.

The power and depth of ancient legend created a strong and multi-layered tapestry in which to weave the threads of my story, and the Fates» responsibilities — creating life, determining destiny, and ending life — represent human transitions perfectly.

Curated by Susanne Pfeffer, the museum's director, the show presented the work of a number of artists who imagine the human figure diverging from socially or biologically determined destinies into sometimes monstrous formations.