Sentences with phrase «giving human form»

After a lot of arguing, bickering and several screw - ups which resulted in the wrong type of heart being procured they sort of succeeded, somehow drawing the Moon from its perch high in the sky and giving it human form, albeit a human form with a moon for a head and an inability to speak.

When a website is personified, it is given a human form, a personality, or both.

Ren stands alongside Domhnall Gleeson's General Hux, a sneer given human form, and commands the ruthless Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie).

According to the second creation story, God took the dust of the earth and gave it human form.

Not exact matches

Human resources accosts you with endless forms and pointless videos on ergonomics, IT forgot to set up 16 essential things, and your supervisor, while well - meaning, manages to simultaneously overstuff your brain with details you'll never remember and fail to give you the information you need to actually get started with your job.

Many have pointed out (most recently, Carson Holloway) that the application of natural law to our situation requires the virtue of prudence, a mastery of the details of our circumstances (such as is possible for a human being), with the goals and the weights given to particular considerations by good moral character (or, if you will, a well - formed conscience).

It's extremely humbling to think about God using us to give birth, adopt or foster other human beings, while also helping form them into adults.

It was formed at a time of stress (great wars of religious & political nature) in which the promise of everlasting life given to the humans from an alien (he is an off this world god).

And the focus of his research has been on politics or political things, which give «human life its form.»

He is only following the cue given by secular culture, which has bombarded him since adolescence with the view that human fulfilment is tied to whatever form of sexual «satisfaction» comes naturally.

The tendency to «hallow the relative,» or give absolute divine authority to our own desires and opinions, is one of the commonest forms of human perversion.

The cops I know are constantly struggling with some form of» - ism» (e.g. race, age, class, etc) given the combination of experience and an innate human tendency towards profiling.

In this view, God has placed all human beings in particular structures of life such as nationality, race, sexual identity, family, work, or government that in some form or other are simply givens of creaturely existence.

But suppose, on the contrary (this is the entirely new development in the case of the human race) that the outspreading and unfolding of forms gradually gives way to a process of in - folding.

Hegel, in those difficult, often cryptic, but nevertheless profoundly rewarding pages in the final sections of The Phenomenology of Spirit, where he discusses Christianity as the «absolute religion,» gives witness to the advent of an absolute form of Christianity which both negates all previous religion and promises a reconciliation of all those antinomies which have plagued human consciousness throughout its history.

He quotes physicist Brian Swimme: «The universe shivers with wonder in the depths of the human,» and points out that this sense of an emergent universe identical with ourselves gives new meaning to the Chinese sense of forming one body with all things.

When God chose to incarnate himself in human form and Jesus accepted his God - given mission, this incarnation occurred within the stream of a particular history, the history of the Jewish people.

t its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.

Nature for him (be understands too late) is mere chaos, without form and void, until given meaning by human culture: «This used to be real estate / now it's only fields and trees.»

The American novus ordo, with its revolutionary form of social life — the voluntary association — demonstrates that ordered liberty and human rights are products of social arrangements that give primacy to both persons and communities.

God, through His mercy, gave us a way to avoid that just reward by sacrificing Himself in human form for us.

Sahih International And We have certainly created you, [O Mankind], and given you [human] form.

Granted that religious forms and institutions, like other fields of human and cultural activity, are conditioned by the nature, atmosphere, and dynamics of a given society, to what extent does religion contribute to the cohesion of a social group and to the dynamics of its development and history?

«The Christian Gospel is negatively validated by the evidence that both forms of worldly wisdom, leading to optimism and to pessimism, give an inadequate view of the total human situation.

Give me a richer world of substantial forms, and we can dispense with talk of humans being machines, much less spiritual machines — indeed, in such a richer world (and I believe it's such a world that we inhabit) there are no machines in the sense that I define the term.

Again, Western traditions have given greater stress to human individuality (which in extreme forms becomes an anti-social individualism).

Such freedom to hold to ones own beliefs, to give expression to them in characteristic forms, and to tell others about them ought to be the privilege of all human beings.

Civil religion — or, stated from one perspective, that liturgy which gives form to the parochial gods of nationalism and capitalism — is a profound threat to the human personality, Harrington believes.

I say that «human beings remain as they were — creatures hungry for love and commitment, who... are looking for the forms of social life that make love and giving possible.»

In each case the fraction can disclose the basic human imaginative working that through millennia has given form to primal sound and matter to render it Word and Sacrament, melody, and cleansing.

Again, with like sarcasm, he ridicules the entire faith and vogue of idols: one cuts a tree for firewood, using it for heating and for cooking; but still a sizable piece remains, until as an afterthought it is given to a craftsman who, with a deal of labor, shapes it into a pretense of human form — and then men bow down to it and say, «Deliver me, for thou art my god!»

Where the longing for God is satisfied, human sexuality is enriched because spiritual discipline gives form and direction to desire.

Yes... this is the severist most ignorant form of human brotherhood... but Bill Nye, is taking the first step towards his goal, and the goal of many athiest activist... take the rights away from God believers... because... a hundred reasons... children will be hurt, holds back our country yada yada... be careful who you get suckered in by as you travel these few years we are given on this earth... allow your brother to be your brother... allow him to chose for his life and family... never cross the line of «knowing better.»

The contemporary ecological crisis represents a failure of prevailing Western ideas and attitudes: a male oriented culture in which it is believed that reality exists only as human beings perceive it (Berkeley); whose structure is a hierarchy erected to support humanity at its apex (Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes); to whom God has given exclusive dominance over all life forms and inorganic entities (Genesis 1 - 2); in which God has been transformed into humanity's image by modern secularism (Genesis inverted).

«24 His own positive view of globalization reads thus: «The Trinity, as mystery of communion of the three Divine Persons, has always given herself to creation as well as to the life of every single human being, and has revealed herself — under the forms of sociability, mutual openness, love and self - giving, but also accusation and protest against the lack of such values — to the communities of humanity.

I mean, communicated from a divine source by Jesus Christ as God, through inspired prophets and wise men, apostles, teachers, the writers of the books of the Bible, councils of church leaders, popes, and so on, in such a way that the message has been transmitted in human language, clothed in the external forms of human thought, given, indeed, in the characteristic language and thought - forms of particular nations and cultures, but at the same time in such a way that its essential content has been unaffected by the human mind's fallibility, ignorance and feebleness of apprehension.

What I set out to show, and hope to have shown, is that, viewed from a certain angle, the internal stir of the Cosmos no longer appears disorderly: it takes a given direction following a major axis of movement at the completion of which the human phenomenon becomes detached as the most advanced form of the largest and most characteristic of cosmic processes, that of in - folding.

The message is that the elements of faith — revelation, grace and sacrament — have no meaning, do not work, apart from the physical world and the human talent for form - giving.

We congratulate human power — admiring his discipline, his training, his swimming laps even on Christmas morning, his mastery of nature in the form of his God - given flesh.

But one question, why did god only choose about a 25 % of the World's human population (and let's not even talk about other forms of life) to be given his message?

@ Simran: «why did god only choose about a 25 % of the World's human population (and let's not even talk about other forms of life) to be given his message?»

At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.

I do indeed stand on the distinction between a priori (or metaphysical) and empirical in the sense given this distinction by Popper, except that, whereas Popper defines empirical as «conceivably falsifiable by observation» and apparently limits observation to certain forms of human perception, I sometimes include divine perception (in Whitehead's language, God's physical prehensions).

Because Mary and Joseph were called both to form their son in the faith of Israel and to give up, even renounce, their human claims on him, so that he might be what God the Father intended and the world needed.

At its irreducible minimum, Catholicism requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.

Surely it can not mean that the self - giving of God revealed in Jesus Christ consisted in God's becoming «incarnate,» as an act of condescension, as though God as he is in himself is a being who basically exists apart from the world of process (and thereby fundamentally transcends history), and who out of mercy became immanent and took on human form.

But then it speaks explicitly of ditching the form (or essence) approach of Aquinas and Aristotle and gives the example of «horseness» as something that can change — without seeming to realise that this leads logically to ditching the notion of «human being» and, as a consequence, our union with other humans, from Adam and Eve down the ages until the end of time.

Thus there is produced in final fixed form a Testament which, while in no sense suppressing the human word, nevertheless gives predominant place to the divine Word, justifying on the whole the prophetic theme:

l) «What, in short, is the «mechanism» by which God makes himself known to man, by which the Almighty touches the mightless, by which the Limitless penetrates the narrow confines of the limited, by which Time enters moment, by which the Holy invades the unholy, and the Word speaks in words» Even when this happens, as ultimately it did, as with finality it always does, in the person of Jesus Christ, all the forms and ingenuity of human language are inadequate to give it mechanical explanation.

None of the parts of this body, then, are distinct substances; they are accidents of the matter of the human which dispose it for the human form, and which are given their substantial being by the human form or soul (MD 15, 10, 30).