Sentences with phrase «essential nature of man»

Biblical revelation culminates in the Christ who reveals the essential nature of man.

Clearly, with such a division of the realms of knowledge no conflicts about the essential nature of man such as arise from the usual body - mind - spirit trichotomy need occur.

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You began talking about the essential nature of God, how God's relationship to us is mirrored more in (any) man than (any) woman, regardless of the gender of the person in question.

Thus Holloway is able to preserve the essential distinction between matter and spirit, body and soul, yet maintain the unity of the nature and personality of Man.

That awareness of his authentic nature is essential to human life, and without it man would not be man.

It will be far wiser and truer to the nature of man to allow the essentials of the content of faith to «sink in» so that human culture itself becomes imbued with the truth of Revelation.

, 44b) It is only with effort that modern man can think himself back into such an intellectual atmosphere, and even then he could never accept it himself, because it regards man's essential being as nature and redemption as a process of nature.

Because the crisis of decision in the present moment gives man his essential character, he can not console or justify himself by viewing his sin as a weakness which forms no part of his true nature, or as a mistake which is an exception to be outweighed by appealing to his normal self.

Marriage by its very nature is between a man and a woman and it is the essential foundation of family life.

There is no single memorial statue for the 200 thousand Korean women who died for the cause of the so - called justice and peace of the world.2 It is fair and essential to remember that many Christians supported these historical sins of imperialism, these and other cruelties by which imperialistic colonialism systematically destroyed the created order of nature, men, and women in the Korean peninsula.

It is essential to the true nature of the relations between God and man that man does not receive determinations from God, but that he provides them for himself.

In his concept of wisdom as the vitalizing power in man's restless urge toward better things, which yet was with God before creation and by him was implanted in the nature of things, there is, we have noted, the clear implication that in such wisdom man gains his truest insight into the essential nature of God.

The essential meaning of the covenant, then, is union of man with nature, with others.

Mr Speaker, if the citizens of this country could see the time and care taken in making these decisions; the carefully - targeted nature of all our interventions; and the strict controls in place to ensure that the law and our democratic values are upheld; and if they could witness the integrity and professionalism of the men and women of the intelligence agencies, who are among the very finest public servants our nation has, then I believe that they would be reassured by how we go about this essential work.

Though it's been labelled as the filmmaker's most impenetrable work, I'd offer that it's a crystal - clear representation of Herzog's belief that art is first ineffable, then essential, then fickle — that the pursuit of the muse is, in a Modernist sense (and the Romanticists are the wellspring for the Modernists), the only possible solution to the schism in us separating the things of Nature from the things of Man.

But the producers» spectacular ambitions are undercut time and again by two factors: by the fact that the essential dramatic interest inheres in the grotesquely confined agonies of one man and, beyond that, in the unlikely (which is to say, in entertainment terms, likely) friendship and love of two men; and by the very nature of Franklin Schaffner as a director — that he is also one of the producers serves not so much to contradict my idea of Schaffner the director as to index an ambivalence that is the richest source of tension in the movie.

Beginning with the moment when apes begin cognitive thought and jumping to early lunar exploration, continuing with a manned journey to Jupiter and the development and understanding of non-linear time, 2001: A Space Odyssey tackles some of the most essential topics of humanity and nature.

This intense period, during which the artist also published a sizeable sylloge of writings (Ich will Sofort ein Buch machen / Voglio fare subito un libro, Sauerländer, Aarau - Frankfurt and Hopefulmonster, Florence), was followed by a phase characterised by a return to the essential nature of matter and line (one - man show at the Fundaçâo de Serralves, Porto, 1999).

But I think religion is both scientifically and philosophically an unimportant and silly distraction from what is relevant to man's fundamental nature quo man and to nature quo nature; it does not have essential significance at all to objectively demonstrable pursuit of understanding.

There's the usual tangle here of nature and nurture, the difficulty of holding which unresolved can tempt us to cut the knot with a Gordian «All [men][women] are... such and so,» and «All [white][black][brown][yellow][red] people are... such and so,» whether based in some essentialism or in the view that social attitudes and roles operate so broadly and effectively that the result is largely indistinguishable from that which would be produced by essential differences.