Sentences with phrase «how human traditions»

Again he gives an example of how human traditions can take false precedence over the commandment of God.

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The concept of international human rights from which no country is exempt is consonant with the idea that Shari'a, the large body of legal tradition that informs the Muslim community about how God requires it to live, is in some sense the rule of God.

The answer is pretty specific and pretty basic and it has to do with human sexuality, as that is how LGTQ, or current label differ from long - held teaching and tradition, and also what nature would seem to indicate.

No, when I think about God being redeemed, I am referring specifically to how we humans have tried to use Scripture, theology, and tradition to tie God down into a box.

It is instructive to see how deeply Gregory intuited much of the interpersonal analysis that was later to be developed in the modern behaviorist tradition of vector analysis by G. Homans, R. Carson, T. Leary, J. Thibaut, and H. Kelley.17 According to this modern behaviorist analysis, human interaction patterns can be graphed on the vectors of two poles: a horizontal emotive axis that registers resistance versus affection, and a vertical pole that registers superordination and subordination, or relative power or influence in relationships.

Rorty argues that the philosophical tradition from Plato to Kant has treated truth in terms of correspondence to reality, and the human mind as a kind of mirror which reflects back to us how things really and truly are.

Unlike much of the inherited Western tradition, which has equated creativity with mentality and attributed it only to human beings, process thought considers anything actual at all an instance of creativity, from the tiniest energy event to the most complex creatures we are aware of, human beings; some degree of mentality is present in no matter how rudimentary, even negligible, a form.

The new understanding of how the human mind works in creating human culture has shown more clearly the relative nature of all religious traditions.

In addition to considering these topics as theological concepts, participants will also consider how they intersect existentially within the human hearts of Christians and Jews animated by their respective traditions.

His book, The Sense of Injustice, shows how legal terms for human relationships have been won painfully and slowly out of long experience, guided by the religious tradition.

Since human motives usually «come mixed,» only God is wise enough to judge how much of this resistance to social change is due to self - interest, how much to the pull of tradition, and how much to sincere Christian conviction.

The two most striking examples of how human life may be guided, so far as our tradition is concerned, are seen in Greek philosophy and the Christian religion.

As Yves Simon and Heinrich Rommen long ago demonstrated, there is room for disagreement within the tradition of natural law about how one envisions the role played by God as the author of human nature, or about the tortuous problem of culpability when there is deeply rooted perversity of basic inclinations.

Then once the Sabbath, with its human yearning and its sense of communion with the ultimate, was defined, once it became the liturgical center of life, then the tradition of how it was to be observed developed.

In the light of the Exodus tradition and its annual commemoration, Israel's thinkers were led to reinterpret the earlier tribal traditions and myths in such a way as to show how freedom from bondage is a basic human concern.

To my way of thinking, the Whig tradition — and particularly the Catholic Whig tradition — offers the world's best statement of philosophical principles and practical guidelines concerning how and why free citizens should shape new societies worthy of their human rights and ordered liberties.

«A key question now is to know how the human of the 21st century can reactivate his animality and animalize himself anew when all Western thought since the Greeks tells him that he is human precisely because of this rupture with animality,» Lestel suggests, building on his critique of the very philosophical foundations of the ethological tradition.

How could anyone resist the naturally flowing, genuine human warmth, traditions and gastronomy of the Red City?

By bringing these four artists together in the same exhibition, rosenfeld porcini hopes to contribute to the human ability to continually re-invent age old materials into contemporary forms and show how artists whilst in total respect of their history and tradition, manage to take their media into our present age.

Basquiat's work is an example of how the American artists of the «80s could reintroduce the human figure in their work after the wide success of Minimalism and Conceptualism, thus establishing a dialogue with the more distant tradition of «50s Abstract Expressionism.

Marina Abramovic's exhibition is comprised of several video projections, which explore how sexuality and the human body were employed in Balkan pagan traditions and culture throughout history.

We can either set out the positive requirements to maintain our traditions of respect for equality and human rights and be a country that really does work for everyone; or we can miss this golden opportunity to demonstrate how post-Brexit Britain can create a fairer and more united Britain.»

Now of course these judgments may be informed by medical observations — for instance, when the brain develops to a certain level, or when something will end up naturally growing into a born human without any further intervention — or by pragmatic considerations, gut feel, opinion polls, tradition, views about how precise and clear legal lines should be, or whatever else.

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