Sentences with phrase «effect in our human living»

He criticizes textualism (a mode of judicial interpretation) by citing the author's attempt to «show how lawmakers are engaged in the creative work of ensuring that natural law... is given effect in our human living.»

First, a little history: In the 16th century Protestant and Catholic positions on justification became polarized and soon escalated to include other doctrines, including the authority of the church; scripture and tradition; good works; merit and indulgences; the mass; and sin and its effects in human life.

The water that comes out from the shower is believed to eliminate all kind of diseases including adverse effect in the human life and give the new holy spirits.

Not exact matches

The effect is enormous, and not just in extending human lives; it also improves those lives.

This mystery is richly captured in John Allen's description of John Paul as «a living symbol of human suffering, in effect, an icon of Christ on the cross.»

History is indeed a moral order, in which judgements of the living God take effect; but this view can not be fully verified upon the plane of history as we know it, since there is an irreducible element of tragedy in human affairs.

The imposition of Word upon king is sharply attested again in that brilliant scene immediately preceding the death of Ahab in the middle of the ninth century (I Kings 22) The Word through Micaiah works its radical historical effects, and another prophet is instrumental in the efficacious juxtaposition of divine life and will upon human events.

For Bonhoeffer, the perfection of being is achieved through the transformation of human life by the redemptive activity of the transcendent God, who identified himself with human beings in order to effect wholeness.

Accordingly, transcendence must be grasped, not as it has so often been in the past, in spatial terms referring to the God «up there» beyond the affairs of human life, but specifically in terms of what God has effected historically, and is doing now, on behalf of human beings.

Sadly, these attitudes and assumptions were retained even when in fact human actions began to have a large effect on other living things.

Yet the basic certainties stand sure; they concern the dynamic reality who is God, God's pervasive action in the world, God's self - manifestation through the whole range of creation, God's focal self - expression in Jesus Christ, the effecting of God's purpose through loving activity in the world and in human existence, and the assurance that our human life is not an end in itself but finds its fulfillment through reception into the divine life.

Nature is treated as repetitive and objective, whereas meaning is to be found only in historical events and their effects on subsequent human life.

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

The biblical history is meaningful because it is related at every point to the fundamental reality which lies behind all history and all human experience, which is, the living God in His Kingdom; and because it moves towards a climax in which the Kingdom of God came upon men with conclusive effect.

Instead of sharpening the creative edge of living, such groups have a dulling effect, encouraging the investment of precious human life in trivial activities.

Furthermore, we have said that it is the Christian claim that in Christ and through His power, there is effected that which men have otherwise found to be impossible, no matter how much they may have sought it — the possibility of a full and selfless offering of human life to God, in consequence of which a free communion is established between God and man in Christ.

To me this appears the most satisfactory interpretation of the present state of Life on the surface of the earth; despite a regrettable recrudescence of racialism and nationalism which, impressive though it may be, and disastrous in its effect upon our private post-war lives, seems to have no scientific importance in the overall process: for the reason that any human tendency to fragmentation, regardless of its extent and origin, is clearly of an order of magnitude inferior to the planetary forces (geographic, demographic, economic and psychic) whose constantly and naturally growing pressure must sooner or later compel us willy - nilly to unite in some form of human whole organized on the basis of human solidarity.

Thus one who denies a priori that there was objective ground for the resurrection faith of early Christianity denies in effect the whole Gospel portrait of Jesus, for the knowledge of the living Christ after the crucifixion is altogether continuous, of a piece, with the memory of the human Jesus.

Towards the fulfillment of His purposes He has brought man into being and He offers to His human children the privilege of co-operating with Him so that they may have a share in the effecting of these ends and, at the same time, find a supreme joy for themselves as they are related to Him and participate in His communication of life.

see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...

The most powerful influence in human life is neither the environment in which we happen to be brought up, the genes we were bequeathed from our parents at birth, nor all the slings and arrows of fate, no matter how tragic and harrowing their effects may be.

10 Certain recent discussions of environmental ethics, dealing with «respect for nature» (where nature is not necessarily limited to the realm of living things), reflect some affinities with Hall's ideas on «deference» and seem to pose a challenge to my suggestion that the pursuit of power over nature should be criticized primarily in terms of its negative effects on human values and experiences.

By declaring that it was unnecessary to decide when human life begins, and by refusing to inquire into what or, more precisely, who is being killed when the woman exercises her «right to choose,» the Court made it possible to pretend that abortion was in effect a victimless crime.

Sex, as Freud made crystal clear, is a powerful, ubiquitous phenomenon in human life with profound effects on mental health.

They would insist, as the Bible insists, as the life of faith continues to insist, that this epoch in Israelite history witnessed an intense series of divine - human encounters, initiated by God himself and effected by his Word.

The amount of conceptual novelty it can introduce is tiny indeed, and the «cleverest» DNA - molecular - occasion in the world is oblivious of the fact that its aims may have an effect on the welfare of the human «living person» who happens to inhabit the same organism!

They point to other destructive aspects of television that have been stressed by television researchers and theorists; the privatization of experience at the expense of family and social interaction and rela - tionships; (33) the promotion of fear as the appropriate attitude to life: (34) television's cultural levelling effects which blur local, regional, and national differences and impose a distorted and primarily free - enterprise, competitive and capitalistic picture of events and their significance; (35) television's suppression of social dialogue; (36) its distorted and exploitative presentation of certain social groups: (37) the increasing alienation felt by most viewers in relation to this central means of social communication; (38) and its negative effects on the development of the full range of human potential.

The Handbook simply does not take into account why people seek out a religion and what kind of effects religions and their advocates hope to promote in human life.

But if it results in a new sort of reality being apprehended, the effects of which are objective and demonstrable in terms of human living, then surely it is very valuable indeed.

Fifth, the abstraction from the concreteness of culture and tradition has been accompanied by an abstraction from the concreteness of social structures and classes and their effects in shaping human life.

«The Veggie experiment is currently the only experiment we are supporting which involves evaluating the effects of plant life on humans in space,» Alexandra Whitmire, a scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, said in a press release.

We know what humans need in early life to develop well, and the effects of early experience are no longer a mystery.

Dr. Perry's research includes: the effects of prenatal drug exposure on brain development, the neurobiology of human neuropsychiatric disorders, the neurophysiology of traumatic life events, and long - term cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social and physiological effects of neglect and trauma in children, adolescents and adults.

Moreover, fin - de-siècle Americans turned increasingly to science as the most credible authority, particularly in matters of health and the human life cycle.24 An effect of this was the increased stature in society, whether self - generated or not, of the medical community.

The effect of feeds of differing composition on entero - insular hormone secretion in the first hours of life in human neonates

The event will feature medical, public health and human rights experts looking to offer an open and honest conversation about the effects of the virus in Africa and the current climate in our own communities, while providing facts about Ebola that can save lives.

Their first visit was to CytoCybernetics, where CEO Glenna Bett explained how her company has developed a system that uses computers and live human cells to screen drugs in their early stages of development, to determine whether they may cause any potentially deadly side effects.

We, concerned Ghanaians and Pan-Africanists at home and in the Diaspora, have read and watched with concern reports on the damaging effect of illegal mining on human lives, animals and the Ghanaian environment.

Showing that the therapy is safe and identifying a marker that can track its effects in a living brain, he says, «is the key final piece that would be necessary to go forward in a human trial.»

Scientists are forced either to experiment on whole animals, which is expensive, raises ethical issues and may not predict effects in humans, or to perform tests on microscopic human cells found in tissue cultures, which have been altered to live forever and bear little relation to actual living, breathing people.

The growth effect from quality of life and human capital is more pronounced in rural — nonmetro — counties, the researchers said.

«Our study suggests that the effect of human capital on economic growth is larger in high - quality - of - life counties — natural amenities such as clean air and temperate climate, could potentially attract human capital and perhaps increase labor productivity, thus boosting the effect of human capital on growth,» said Fan.

Here too, the team found evidence of significantly more positive than negative emotions in responses to the claimed discovery of extraterrestrial life, and this effect was stronger in response to reading about extraterrestrial life than human made synthetic life.

A case study in the epigenetic effects of upbringing in humans can be seen in the life of Szyf's and Meaney's onetime collaborator, Frances Champagne.

The effect would only be temporary, Kullmann says, because the drug has a half - life of around 7 hours in humans.

According to Sierra, researchers have managed to identify several molecular pathways that, if modified through medicine, could one day mimic the life - expanding effects of calorie restriction in humans, without requiring anyone to eat less.

«You might see harmful effects in shy humans at the end of life in particular,» she says.

While the evolution probably won't have a direct effect on humans, Falkowski believes that it could lead to a change in this minuscule variety of marine life.

They indicate that particulates are the greatest current environmental risk to human health, with the impact on life expectancy in many parts of the world similar to the effects of every man, woman and child smoking cigarettes for several decades,» says study co-author Michael Greenstone, the director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and the Milton Friedman Professor in Economics, the College and the Harris School.

And because the drug has a half - life of around 7 hours in humans, the effects would only be temporary, Kullmann says.