Sentences with phrase «dimensions of the human are»

The spiritual dimensions of the human are not accessible, he claims, to the natural sciences.

In fact, the religious view considers the secularist «mechanical materialist view of reality as too reductionist and as leaving out the «organic» and «spiritual» dimensions of human being and history and therefore as unable to renew the values of humanism and its reverence for life and the dignity of the human person in society in the name of which secularism started to protest against religious authoritarianism.

So a new holistic humanism integrating the mechanical - materialistic, the organic ecological and the spiritual personal dimensions of human being has to emerge through dialogue between religions and secular ideologies and between religions.

Not exact matches

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Keeping score (leader boards, result tabulations, rankings, etc.) and comparing ourselves to others is natural human behavior that social media and the ubiquitous connectivity of the web have exploded to dimensions we never anticipated.

Recalling that internationally - recognized human rights include social, economic, and cultural rights as well as political and civil rights, we should acknowledge that economic relations and human rights are mutually supportive dimensions of our mature relationship with China.

When the time is right, he leaves that reality for the bigger, truer reality, where he is able to see another dimension to human life, and he finds that he is no longer bound by the laws of the universe that once held him.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

The cause for this wishful hope in institutions quickly appears: «In an increasingly globalized society, the common good and the effort to obtain it can not fail to assume the dimensions of the whole human family, that is to say, the community of peoples and nations.»

Morally, as Ruether has noted, the individual is ambivalent, fundamentally good but capable of great evil; consequently, a feminist critique must keep hold of a judging as well as an affirming dimension if it is truly to respond to the human condition.

Today I think that the religious dimension of human life is one of the irreducible roots of language, and I suspect that quite a few of our words developed from religious origins.

Nevertheless, as Buddhists first call attention to this character of all events, including each moment of human experience, and then explain how a mediator is inwardly affected by the realization of this truth, Christians can listen and open themselves to dimensions important to them.

The whole divine - human experience of God's taking on human nature in one person is an exemplar of suffering that works itself out in multiple dimensions of obedience.

Such gender constructs are hardly natural or «inherent» in the human condition but they become inescapable or «inherited» dimensions of our human existence.

It is on account of the quantity of a material substance (like a human body) under certain dimensions that it is located in a place.

Humans, as God's image - bearers, are able to interact with God through any of these dimensions.

Yet for us this epistemological dimension of the redemption is not from the supposedly «incurably» dualistic nature of human knowing but from stubbornly dualistic theories of human knowing which over the millennia of their influence have whittled away wonder.

Human nature is «brought down to the level of the bodily dimension alone».

There are three dimensions of human relations that «tune» themselves to the Trinity.»

Play's transcendent dimension, its experience of the meeting of the holy and the human spirit, is fully understood as transcendence only in light of the Spirit's further definitive work on Lewis's behalf, his introduction of Lewis to the person of Christ.

An adequate religious faith should be intellectually humble, morally strenuous, with a sense of the tragic dimensions of life and a sense of human hopefulness.

By attending only to external, observable behavior, the radical behaviorists make therapeutic change measurable, but they achieve this by ignoring all the rich, inner choiceful dimensions, all the complexity and mystery of human beings.

When this philosophic dimension is admitted, the natural sciences become prime sources of knowledge of man, not only in respect to those material properties shared with the nonhuman world, but also in respect to the uniquely human qualities of mind and spirit.

Whitehead proposes, then, that philosophy should take account of these dimensions of human experience, but it does not appear that they should be particularly restrictive or prescriptive in the further development of the doctrine of God.

«The excessive segmentation of knowledge, the rejection of metaphysics by the human sciences, the difficulties encountered by dialogue between science and theology are damaging not only to the development of knowledge, but also to the development of peoples, because these things make it harder to see the integral good of man in its various dimensions.

As William Johnson suggests, «transcendence has little to do with the nature and attributes of God but has everything to do with the consequence of God's activity in history, that is, to introduce a transcendent dimension to human life.»

Dear brothers and sisters, Blessed John Paul II reminded us that «man is called to a fullness of life which far exceeds the dimensions of his earthly existence, because it consists in sharing the very life of God».4 The sexual intimacy of marriage, the most intimate kind of human friendship, is a pathway to sharing in God's own life.

Gradations and differences are very important, and the study of human beings involves dimensions that are not relevant to the study of the natural world.

The irony in this is that these churches pride themselves on openness to the world, when really their minds are closed; refusing to engage God in all of God's dimensions, they can not engage human experience in its fullness or complexity either.

If in this connection we would only refer to the testimony of the Spirit who speaks in and through Scripture, this would indeed be correct and would be acknowledged also in Catholic theology; but we would not yet have reached the question where the dialogue touches the human dimension as such.

Sermons are then seen as the expression of an integration of theology, church life and mission, and human life in its various dimensions.

From the point of view of the human sensorium, the Mass is first of all an event in the dimension of sound, the sound of the human voice.

In doing this there is nowhere for these lost lives to incarnate stopping the cycle of karma thus halting the human races push towards enlightenment into the next dimensions of thought thus ending your time line.

It seemed that perhaps public education could leave room for the transcendent after all, that the religious dimension of the human experience might not be curtailed in the right environment.

But he fails to show how this horizontal dimension does not exclude but rather depends on Paul's sense of the vertical dimension — how God's intervention in Christ has created the possibility for a new way of being human.

Rather, it is a variation of these along with the demonry of personality itself, of man's moral and rational capacities in tension with the sensitivities of spirit as a higher dimension of freedom and goodness which grasp him as a novelty of grace within his human structure, judging him, yet summoning him to that which is beyond his own human order of good.

Human temporality therefore tries to divine what the future may bring; it takes the whole of itself (past, present and its future) and puts its whole destiny in an Absolute (ideology, deity, even the self) in the hope and belief that it may be reborn to a new space - time dimension, the eschatological, and thus possess the fullness of time.

The experiential dimension does not involve immediate intuition of a personal God even though God is directly present within human experience.21 For if religious experience consists exclusively in such an immediate encounter, then there is no broad foundation of agreement to which one could appeal.

Human temporality represents the fullness of time of the infrahuman space - time dimensions; toward it they tended as to their eschatological future or «eternity» in order to be.

This vocation can not be understood if its scope is limited to private life or to the «religious» dimensions of human life, leaving all else to the different powers of this world.

In the biblical understanding of things, there is nothing mere about any dimension of the human condition.

Certainly, human sexuality is God's gracious gift, a fundamental dimension of our created and our intended humanness.

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In human life such breadth and intensity are the root dimensions of value experiences.

If «lifestyle,» as I said earlier, is a broad notion, it is also mighty thin, for it flattens all human activity to a single plane: the only dimension it recognizes is the dimension of choice.

Because God wills to have a people that is holy in every aspect of its existence, God provides a land in which it may dwell, so that even this most elementary dimension of human existence may be brought within the compass of relationship to God.

He added: «I was able to pay homage to this great country, which from the beginning has been based on a pleasing joining together of religious, ethical, and political principles, and continues to be a valid example of healthy secularism where the religious dimension, in its diverse expressions, is not only tolerated but valued as the «soul» of the nation and the fundamental guarantee of the rights and duties of the human being.»

Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.

This «poetic dimension,» as Macquarrie calls it, is a state of mind in which things are seen in the light of their Being, much as Van Gogh portrayed, and Heidegger understood, an entire world of human involvements in a simple pair of farming boots.

Particularly human subjectivity is deeply effected as the participatory agency of life in all its dimensions.