Sentences with phrase «fallen human reason»

This would be the perverse interpretation of the gospel by the fallen human reason.

Here de Lubac is right: Revelation should not be placed in opposition to fallen human reason.

Not exact matches

Any weapon, once created, can and will be used by anyone with a reason to seize it; the Civil Rights Act created a whole arsenal, and fallen human nature provides ample reason.

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.

The narrator of The Fall thus explains the death of Jesus in light of an inherent human guilt: it was just as impossible for Jesus to justify his existence as it is for any one, so that the real reason why he went to his death is that he knew he was not altogether innocent.

I, too, wouldn't expect too many flat - out apologies for this simple reason: they live in a world where litigation and human (fallen?)

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Thomas Aquinas seemed to think that the mind had not fallen as far as the rest of human nature; more exactly, he held that the damage of sin lay not so much in the faculty of reason itself as in its ability to regulate the passions.

Its exactly the reason why we are in this position to begin with its the peoples fault and we are the people, unless your not a human you do nt fall into this really large population on this planet called earth.

In fact, for the very reasons you suggest, Chromosome 2's fusion argues against the literal view of a genetically perfect Adam / Eve who only suffered mutation after the fall, that is, an overnight fixation of this fusion throughout the entire human population.

With the look of a big - budget movie, Falling Skies offers up - close views of CGI extraterrestrials who are kidnapping human children for reasons unknown — but presumably nefarious.

After passing judgment on the humans as a violent species, the apes soon get their hands on their counterparts» guns and eventually fall victim to the same kind of internal squabbling and tribalism (Caesar's deeming his overthrower Koba «not ape» hits home in its familiarity for this very reason) that has come to define us for so long.

Though, the fact that the film isn't entirely without obvious merit confuses things even further: Krauss is wryly brilliant as Krauss and delivers the film's biggest laugh with his Herzog - ian reasons for using a wheelchair; Gael Garcia Bernal has a great time as a lecherous member of Laura's delegation, spinning his suitcase with the sneering verve of a cartoon villain who twirls his mustache and gleefully acts smarmy before being felled by his own beleaguered bowels; Herzog's shots of Diablo Blanco, portrayed by Bolivia's real - life Uyuni salt flats, are among the most stunning in any film released this year; Shannon has fun in the impromptu photo shoot that takes place toward the end of the film; and as expected, there's a fascinating push and pull in the battle between human and nature at the heart of the film's central premise.

«One of the main reasons you pay an adviser is to ensure that you don't fall victim to human emotion, which in this case would be to sell everything in a panic,» said veteran banker and co-author Mike Drak.

The reason's been threefold: One, I went skiing for a month and fell out of the habit; two, I keep on having trouble with my subscriptions as of late (my latest issue of Retro Gamer arrived only as a ripped plastic bag and I have yet to find success contacting any human being about a replacement); and three, ongoing news in the mag business keep on distracting me.

Well, the reason for that is that humans run slightly hunched when pointing a gun, though we increased the height in Shadow Fall.

 Reasons to worry about the human environment, climate and biodiversity, behavioral poisons, libido, depopulation, falling work, rejection of science, twilight of the west

Reasons to worry about the human environment, climate and biodiversity, behavioral poisons, libido, depopulation, falling work, rejection of science, twilight of the west

With that wording it clearly falls under «3.1 Mitigation papers that examine GHG emission reduction or carbon sequestration, linking it to climate change» so, - under our documented rating guidelines - is an implicit endorsement of AGW (and it's called «anthropogenic» for a reason, namely for humans being the main and not just a «minor» or «one of many» causes).

So there is another reason to believe that while humans certainly ARE adding CO2 to the atmosphere, it isn't the primary component (we already know it isn't the primary component because the atmosphere is accumulating CO2 at a much faster rate than humans add each year) because while human emissions have been rising nearly exponentially, atmospheric CO2 has been rising linearly and that rate of rise did not change when global human CO2 emissions fell in absolute terms (tons of CO2 emitted to atmosphere fell in 2009, rate of increase of atmospheric CO2 unchanged).

Falling back on the surface temperatures as the metric for the most societal relevant climate metric, even if its period of record is longer, is not a reason to focus on it, if it does not serve the purpose of telling us if humans are significantly altering these circulation patterns, and thus the weather and ocean conditions that matter the most in terms of the impacts on water resources, food, energy, human health and ecosystem function.

The reason given is natural variation, that the background climate of falling temperature by natural mechanisms is roughly balancing human influence.

My enjoyment, not long ago, of Philip Wood's The Fall of the Priests and the Rise of the Lawyers, in which the author stresses the centrality of law to human survival was, in part, for such reasons.