Sentences with phrase «dignity of the person created»

Older accounts grounded in the dignity of the person created in the image of God are, in my view, far stronger.

This way of understanding the human person, which stems from the unique dignity of the person created in the image and likeness of God (Gen 1:26 - 27) and called to eternal redemption in Christ, is rooted in revelation, but it can be appreciated or grasped as true even by those who do not share our faith, on the basis of natural moral law.6

Not exact matches

And Catholic thinkers — the writings of Jacques Maritain are a prominent case in point — have long promoted a «Christian Humanism,» a perspective that celebrates the created dignity of the human person in God's design for the world.

Unfortunately, little attention is given to understanding how human dignity of the clinician is threatened and violated in the current health care environment... [which] has led to the systemic violation of the dignity of the clinician (and ultimately that of persons who are sick), created moral distress among clinicians, and the collapse of the healing relationship.

These men and women have fought for the abolition of slavery (Wilberforce), established orphanages for abandoned children (Mueller), advanced civil rights for racial minorities (King), fought against HIV / AIDS (Koop), provided human touch, restored dignity, and shelter for the poor (Mother Teresa), created places of belonging and contribution for people with disabilities and special needs (Tada), and fought against the sex trade and human trafficking (Caine).

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.

«In those times, we knew about things that have become common today: the reality of abortion, of people who manifest homosexual tendencies, whose personal dignity we always respected, but we were formed to see these acts as absolutely unacceptable, against the nature that God had created for us.»

Using the Deuteronomic Creed as model, Dalit theology can construct the historical Dalit consciousness which has to do with their roots, identities and struggle for human dignity and «for the right to live as free people created in the image of God.»

Although K.C. (as we have come to know him in EATWOT) writes to and for the people of India, his message has meaning for all Christians and other justice seeking people who are committed to creating a global village that protects the rights of the poor and provides space for the affirmation of their dignity.

In the encyclical Evangelium Vitae, the Pope expressed this relationship within the framework of the common good: «It is urgently necessary, for the future of society and the development of a sound democracy, to rediscover those essential and innate human and moral values which flow from the very truth of the human being and express and safeguard the dignity of the person: values which no individual, no majority, and no State can ever create, modify, or destroy, but must only acknowledge, respect, and promote.»

In other words, the choice of certain ways of acting is always and radically incompatible with the love of God and the dignity of the human person created in His image.»

Given this rich and robust understanding, we see why the human person amongst all of visible created reality has pre-eminent dignity.

This is extremely concerning because the definition of harassment relies largely on the perception of the person who claims they were harassed: all they need do is allege that someone has «violated their dignity» or that someone created a «hostile or insulting environment» for them, and they can take legal action.

But when power is used in a way that creates, supports, or promotes injustice, or tramples upon the freedom and dignity of persons, it is evil.

The convention outlaws anything which violates «the dignity of a person, in particular when creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment».

«If our losses today are part - payment for every family that is more secure because of a job we helped create, every person with depression who is treated with the compassion they deserve, every child who does a little better in school, every apprentice with a long and rewarding career to look forward to, every gay couple who know their love is worth no less than everyone else's, and every pensioner with a little more freedom and dignity in retirement, then I hope our losses can be endured with a little selfless dignity.»

That people suffer degenerative diseases and die with less dignity than they might have wanted, or that murderers are able to get away with it because they manipulate the law created to allow people to die with that level of dignity that we'd all like?

The stories and videos on the site also look at ways to create a learning climate where all viewpoints are respected and where the rights and dignity of every person are protected.

This is any unwanted conduct which has the purpose or effect of violating a person's dignity or creating an offensive, intimidating, hostile or degrading environment for them.

The university's community covenant, says director of law reform Kendra Milne, creates «another access barrier» to women through language requiring students to «treat all persons with respect and dignity, and uphold their God - given worth from conception to death.»

As we use technology and culture to create more health, more access and more dignity for more people, we keep reminding ourselves how inadequate it is in the face of the injustice and pain that remains.

Step # 1: You and your partner agree to investigate the benefits of the collaborative divorce process, which was created to help people obtain, with dignity and respect, an uncontested divorce.