Sentences with phrase «fuller human self»

Religious conversion occurs when the primary structure is exchanged for another primary structure; when the secondary structure is exchanged for another secondary structure this is, rather, an internal enrichment, within a continuing faith commitment, for fuller human self - expression.

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The fuller meaning of revelation can be understood, therefore, only if we take into account the fact of a human sinfulness that has continually resisted the freedom, extravagance, and surprisingness of the divine self - promise.

The readings offer four distinct perspectives on the nature and attainment of happiness, each of which will serve as the springboard for the discussion of a different set of issues in relation to the search for human ful llment: participation in public life, self - control and education, the longing for God, and the confrontation of death.

The question at issue is rather this: Which of these two revelations has the power to transform the lives of men to save them from self - destruction and bring them to the fullest actualization of the constructive potentialities of human existence?

Everything created exists only because of the charity of God, of course; but human nature, uniquely, only has meaning and purpose at all because of the Divine Self - giving to the creature in the fullest way that is possible.