Sentences with phrase «human affairs»

However, they have made their primary mark in human affairs as a dominant laboratory subject.

But how much has past climate change influenced human affairs?

Neither shall I here attempt to examine the economic and political problems created by the intrusion of nuclear energy upon human affairs.

Human affairs take place in an arena that is itself a mixture of the relatively more fragmented and the relatively more ordered.

Human affairs assumed a new dignity and eternal significance.

We have spoken of what holds true among men, and there it is true so far as human affairs go.

The economy, like all other human affairs, hangs from the world's living systems.

On seeing my post, he offered a deeper look at the 19th - century illustration that I used, and his reflections on how changes in climate alter the course of human affairs.

There will be impacts on human affairs in the Arctic, for worse and better, as we explored extensively in 2005 and I've followed here since.

In spite of all this, we confess that the Christian movement has been for most of its history so preoccupied with human affairs as to neglect and ignore the fate of other creatures.

Just as the human body of Jesus could get tired, feel pain, hunger, thirst, and even die, and just as the words and intentions of Jesus could be misunderstood, misrepresented, and misapplied, so also, when God entered into human affairs in various times and places in the Old Testament, He did so with all the frailties, weaknesses, and limitations of humanity, and His words also could be misunderstood, misrepresented, and misapplied.

They want to get rid of the trappings of religion but hold on to the belief in a benign deity with some degree of loving power over human affairs.

An Op - Ed article by two solar scientists in today's paper explores the implications for human affairs of both peaks and lulls in solar activity.

Its image of God is not the strong Father intruding into human affairs by his mighty acts, but is rather the nurturing Mother, Sophia, who embraces stability and enhances relationships (Wisd.

He manipulates countries, pulls strings to govern human affairs, and demands the people follow and obey Him «or else.»

It has also exerted a profound influence on the way in which human affairs are approached.

When one looks at how the book was written, edited, compiled, altered and translated over the centuries, it becomes pretty obvious that it is an entirely human affair, bereft of any divine authorship or inspiration.

We... can hardly help finding it striking and perhaps exasperating that Plato and Heidegger, when they entered human affairs, turned to tyrants and Fiihrers.

From my viewpoint (atheist) god's tangible absence confirms that he does not exist or does not care about human affairs.

We've designed this archive to put human affairs in the larger context of ecology and now seek to connect our project with students and faculty at other schools, the media, and the global community focused on improving environmental and social quality.

In other words, if God has divinely intervened within human affairs in order to «bless» Alabama running back Mark Ingram with a particularly good game on Saturday, what does that say about the family of refugees in Uganda who beg God for just enough food to get through the day... but to no avail?

Andrew Revkin is the author of The New York Times blog, «Dot Earth», about «efforts to balance human affairs with the planet's limits.»

Despite the recent turbulence, the overarching trajectories for human affairs right now are pretty good.

If we instead look to the actual Founding Fathers, you'll find that most of them were Deists, who may or may not have believed that there had been some creator god, but not one who so forcibly intervened in human affairs as Yahweh / Jehovah / Allah.

But for the most part, routine ruled human affairs and «news» as we think we know it began with business, when trading associations in Northern Europe shared information about commodity prices and other conditions that would affect profit, developing newsletters with the new print technology.

In human affairs such as law, morality, personal relations, politics, and religion, this world - view was either ignored or correctly seen to be contradictory to the basic assumptions of human society.

So does the Accord, which I believe has been a substantial contributor to the low rate of inflation we now see in Australia: the Accord processes are not perfect but that is the nature of compromise and human affairs generally.

The most distinctive form of power in human affairs extends beyond the acquired responses of mind, to the self - transcending action of the human spirit.

Sometimes human affairs are conducted on the basis of such direct physical compulsion.

Einstein was consistent in his rejection of a personal god involved in human affairs who judged individual humans.

Surely that must make even the simplest, most ovine of believers suspisious as to whether it is a purely human affair and there are not competing sky - gods up there.

At this present time, in a period of decline in Christian faith and morals which is still unchecked, still sweeping even lower, it remains true that the teachings given men by Christ, although whittled away and progressively abandoned, still preserve a better level of charity, justice, and chastity in human affairs throughout Christendom than prevails in those regions where the name of Christ has hardly entered, or where it is bitterly persecuted.

Again, the Bible tells of the visits to Abraham and others by supernatural beings known as angels; however, they were really messengers from outer space who were trying to influence the course of human affairs according to God's interplanetary directives.

Only the full experience of this capacity can bestow upon human affairs faith and hope, those two essential characteristics of human existence which Greek antiquity ignored altogether, discounting the keeping of faith as a very uncommon and not too important virtue and counting hope among the evils of illusion in Pandora's box.

In most human affairs, freedom to be self - governing is a rather higher ideal than most of the ideals about which governance decisions would be made.25

I'd like to thank Chris Smith, whose participation helped make the seminar a success, and Donald Yerxa and the Religion and Innovation in Human Affairs initiative of the Historical Society for providing the indispensible financial support.

What some call the role of tradition in the formation of the Bible I prefer to describe as the gracious gift of God in sovereign control of human affairs so as to result in the Bible - the Word of God written.

The West has jettisoned a transcendent truth above human affairs.

Christians should be on the frontiers of human affairs looking for those right and ripe moments when ideal possibilities are ready to flower if nurtured and encouraged.

The Poverty of Historicism by Karl Popper - by far the best reminder that all dogma is suspect and that all models, theories and doctrines concerning human affairs become flawed if pressed too far and should always be treated with healthy scepticism.

Fortunately, encapsulation in human affairs doesn't need lawyers or a tyrant; it can be achieved within a wide variety of political structures.

The point of such models is to avoid describing human affairs from the top down with fixed equations, as is traditionally done in such fields as economics and epidemiology.

Stephen Boyden adds a biological prefix and puts the study of human affairs where it belongs - in the biosphere, the natural world.