Sentences with phrase «finite human»

Instead of «explaining» change, they all essentially deny change by affirming that it is unreal or mere appearance or «being» viewed from the finite human perspective.

Indeed the correct derivation of such categories would appear to be no mean achievement for the finite human reason.

Srishti and samhara always go together in human existence, because the self - alienation produced by the spiritual alienation of finite human self from God sees history as the realm of self - aggrandizement and conquest.

Its implementation, however, must be by finite human creatures.

Of course it is he or she who does the actual celebrating and the preaching; it is his or hers hands, voice, vocabulary, gestures and the like which are the necessary finite human means through which the thing is being done.

Ultimate value can not be reduced to «finite human enjoyments and loves» (MVG 63).

Ultimately, therefore, the unfolding of Christian faith leads to the unanticipated and indeed scandalous conclusion that, in Jesus, the Godhead took up our own struggles and aspirations, suffered frustration, and experienced all that it means to be a finite human being who suffers and dies.

Indeed, while it allegedly defends matters of faith, it typically deals primarily with revelation only from the point of view of what appeals to finite human reason.

The world then appears largely unconquerable by our finite human mental and technological powers.

The interpretation of the present nature of human beings in any situation, as «made in the image of God» and as «brothers for whom Christ died» should be as Persons - in - Relation and destined to become Persons - in - Loving - Community with each other in the context of the community of life on earth through the responsible exercise of the finite human freedom reconciled to God.

Though every individual free act risks total self - commitment, it always surrenders itself into the whole of the one free act of the one finite human life, because every such act is performed within the horizon of existence whence it receives its weight and proportion.

It hardly follows from the supposition of a providential design in history that finite human beings have the ability to discern the design.

Finite human freedom can be realized only in something objective, even if this were to be thought of as consisting merely in brain cells, conceptual mechanisms, associations, that is, basically in social or psychological models of thought, or if it were to belong — but only seemingly — to a merely inner realm of thought.

A second implication of St. Augustine's insight is that God in his own nature (as distinct from the finite human nature assumed by the Word) must be outside of space and time.

In the most complete way possible, we may dare to say, we have the assurance of life in and with God, in the mode which preserves both the integrity of the divine nature as Love and also the value and worth of our finite human existence.

Unlike finite human love that draws up conditions for its wants and needs, God's love is unconditional and totally self - giving... In Bonaventure's view, the mystery of cruciform love leads us into the very heart of the mystery of God.»

They are: i) revelatory experiences are common to all religions, ii) revelation is received under finite human condition, iii) the three types of criticisms, mystical, prophetic and secular help to address the distortions that crept into revealed religions, iv) History of Religions makes «a concrete theology that has universal significance» possible and v) an acknowledgement that «the sacred is the creative ground and at the same time a critical judgement of the secular».

When it is objected that we are dealing with a universal revelation, we must raise the issue of finite human understanding, through which God's self - disclosure is communicated.

The Church is the community of truth and love, and it is the same as in any other loving community of finite human beings: we must always love and accept one another also as men who are strangers to each other and who do not quite understand one another.

Popes, too, are finite human beings, influenced by their history and experience.

The finite human mind can not comprehend God's infinite mystery, but it can have some awareness of God, reading the signs of His presence and activity in the world.

We shall probably never be very good in praying, but that is simply a fact of our feeble, sinful, finite human nature.

Humanism retains some personal explanations as ultimate (at the level of finite human agency) while leaving some inanimate explanations as ultimate also.

The sort that has the same perspective and limited understanding of a finite human being who plods along this earth 80, maybe 90 years and then returns to dust.

The latter is a subtle, supremist dogmatic domineering movement dressed in religious garb while the amazing former is the recognition and practice of Spirit, Love, heavenliness, harmony, Principle, human rights and the positive healing reform of finite human nature and its suffering experience by establishing the fact that «now are we the sons of God.»

How can flawed, finite humans such as you and I fully grasp the concept of God?

Not exact matches

The number of times a human is required to move data from one location to another increases the likelihood of error due to transposition of numbers, typos or a simple misunderstanding and labor is the most costly and finite component of your business.

Those who continue to cling to the fatally flawed infinite economic growth within a resource finite biosphere won't have much to cling to as we witness the outcome of the laws of basic arithmitic, physics, and chemistry on this planet overwhelmed by artificially supported human population and resource exploitation.

But all these media of exchange were imperfect because their supply is constantly expanding, while of course the human time that created the value is finite.

Even the worst human being can only commit a finite number of sins.

If it weren't purged, it is unlikely to be analyzed because the volume is immense and human interest and attention, while cheap, are finite.

We love God... we are ever exploring the depths of Spirit... and we won't confine God to the bible or the person of Jesus (he displayed the full nature of God, but not all of God... a human existence is finite).

Compare with James's view, quoted above, the following passage of Charles Hartshorne: «If it be asked how the individual can be aware of this infinite range if his experience is finite, the answer is that it is only the distinct or fully conscious aspect of human experience which is finite; while the faint, slightly conscious background embraces all past time» (Beyond Humanism.

I have argued that a fully developed «theology of the finite» must accept and affirm both the pleasure and the pain of human physicality, since we are not free - floating spirits or intellects but embodied persons.

A «theology of the finite» will regard seriously, in a nondefensive way, the intimations, the signals, the clues our bodies provide — not simply our bodies as human beings, but as male beings and female beings.

In a blind headlong rush to gain profit by any means these forces have already begun to obliterate animal species, forest cover, fish stocks, water reserves, land and air, and have engaged upon a satanically mindless pilfering of finite resources by vandalism of Mother Earth, and have raised gigantic questions over human survival prospects.

Humans are finite creatures of an infinite mind and will — a mind and will which are so totally... OTHER than us (Is.

Most of the human race has trouble accepting that we're finite.

William Lynch says it very explicitly in his Christ and Apollo: «what we need is the restoration of a confidence in the fundamental power of the finite and limited concretions of our human life.»

Anselm was clearly seeking to uphold the balance of analogy between Infinite and finite because he did not want to refer all human meaning to nothingness.

Human justice could never suffer eternal punishment for finite sin, however grave.

At all events the physicist and the philosopher have a choice: either the infinite supporting the finite structures of intelligibility is material and hence meaningless or there is a personal Infinite, whose intelligibility surpasses human intelligibility even while supporting its analogous understanding.

Your reason for not believing in human evil is your own, limited, finite, subjective experience.

«It exhibits for consciousness a finite fragment of human effort achieving its own perfection within its own limits.

Furthermore, art is artificial and finite, representing the juncture of appearances in reality and human creativity.

Why do pastors like this finite - brained one keep trying to stop humans from being smarter about the universe that surrounds them?

Just because this pastor has a finite brain does not mean that other humans should ever stop asking questions.

More to the point, for educators in these troubled times, is David Griffin's trenchant observation that those who seek to improve the human condition dare not ignore the transcultural proclivity to evil deep within the human heart and the strong element of competition in finite existence.

if your finite minds can't conceive infinity, and you need to believe in a very human way that everything must have been created, then who or what created god?

The relationship of the finite creature with the supremely worshipful and unsurpassable deity is being affirmed; and along with it there is also affirmed the possibility of its becoming on occasion a matter of conscious knowledge on the part of the human, as it is always a present reality in the very nature of God himself.