Sentences with phrase «effects upon humanity»

A Christian's faith is nothing but «participation in this being of Jesus» Transcendence, thus, refers to the transformation God effects upon humanity in its entirety.

When discussing Christ's transforming effect upon humanity, Wheeler implies that, for both evangelicals and process theists, the essence of any such transformation «will not involve merely a perfecting of our intrinsic capabilities, but an overcoming of human hostility to God's aims, a healing of human deformation consequent to that hostility, and a reuniting of humanity with the God from whom we are estranged.»

The Christian analysis of human experience as exemplifying a «mystery of iniquity,» or a ubiquitous «missing» of the experience we most deeply seek and need, means that the explication of Christ's transforming effect upon humanity will not involve merely a perfecting of our intrinsic capabilities, but an overcoming of human hostility to God's aims, a healing of human deformation consequent to that hostility, and a reuniting of humanity with the God from whom we are estranged.

Not exact matches

Now if humanity's transformation through relationship to Christ truly depends upon the human response of faith, then the expansion of the effects of God's redemptive presence in Christ will be processive in nature and have a time - space extension.

However chilling the effect of such government scrutiny upon his art and life, Norman's paintings stand as a testimony to his talent, determination, unfaltering conscience, and to his ultimate belief in humanity.

If humanity could have an effect upon global climate events at all, it still does no good to destroy world liveliehoods for the sake of making matters worse by implementing good intentions which prove to be horribly fatal mistakes.

The movement to make ecocide a crime against peace under international law, led by UK - based lawyer Polly Higgins, as well as efforts to grant legal rights to Mother Earth, such as Bolivia has done, is exactly where we need to be going in terms of the highest level of environmental thinking: Recognizing that destroying whole swaths of the planet, with little to no concern for the effect on all the creatures that live upon it, is not just unethical, unacceptable behavior, but is also a crime, a crime against humanity, a crime against life itself.

If memory serves me correctly I believe that I said that you were someone who had previously presided as Registrar over those who dealt with stiffs (the funeral home business) and that you were now (then) about to preside over a bunch of not - yet - dead stiffs, and that you were therefore out of your league of knowledgeable prerequisites upon which to hold the reigns of power as Registrar over a bunch of under - educated, under - experienced, over-inflated egos residing within commission - hungry shells of humanity looking for a financial break, or words to that effect.