Sentences with phrase «distinctively human expression»

Part of the distinctively human expression of pervasive sexuality is the bringing of children into the world, at least for those who are not celibate (where such contact does not occur) or homosexual (where procreation is not possible).

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New Testament theology is thus disqualified from playing a constructive role in the forming of a theological method which shall take seriously the problem of faith and history, and particularly this faith, rooted as no other religious faith is, in the very concreteness of history, and becomes nothing more than»... the first permanent expression of the distinctively Christian consciousness, and begs the question of the external history of that consciousness» (Ibid., 57, 58) «thus leaving... theology with nothing to discussion except the human need for self - understanding in general.»