Sentences with phrase «distinctively human capacities»

From what we have already said about prayer, it is clear that the prayer - situation is one which is supremely relevant to the fulfillment of the highest human potentiality (e.g., envisaging of ideal possibilities) and which calls for the exercise of the distinctively human capacities (e.g., imagination, reflection, deep feeling).

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Had God not lured the world on to the creation of beings with the capacity for conscious, rational self - determination, the distinctively human forms of evil on our planet would not occur.
Descending the scale of organic being is an exercise during which we peel off layer after layer of human «capacities,» during which we watch the distinctively human fade from realization into irrelevance.
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