Sentences with phrase «essential human tradition»

It is a cultural activity, one that connects us to 12,000 years of the most essential human tradition.

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In our engagement with China in Canada, respecting Canada's sovereignty and traditions is no less essential and calls us to uphold principles of intellectual freedom, civil society, and human rights through enforcement of our legal and regulatory standards.

Hence, White insists upon the doctrine of the «hypostatic union» as guarantor of the Tradition's confession of Christ's uniqueness — as well as upon the legitimacy, indeed the necessity, of reason's probing of the essential traits of human nature, notwithstanding the deformation wrought by the Fall.

Now, Gudorf contends, present inroads on this tradition insist that: «1) bodily experience can reveal the divine, 2) affectivity is as essential as rationality to true Christian love, 3) Christian love exists not to bind autonomous selves, but as the proper form of connection between beings who become human persons in relation, and 4) the experience of bodily pleasure is important in creating the ability to trust and love others, including God.»

Unlike the Jewish tradition, some of the Gentile Christians addressed apparently did not consider «the flesh» essential to the human spirit.