Sentences with phrase «human agency»

But more than that, thinking about human agency in terms of more than a few centuries just doesn't make a great deal of sense to me.

Again, you avoid the real issue — invasive species imposed on once - stable ecosystems by human agency.

As I said earlier, everything that is done by an institution is done through human agency.

Unfortunately, the approach works only if the object's motion can be described by a linear equation, and that's rarely the case with motions involving human agency.

In this analysis, hydraulic and agent ‐ based elements are combined in a model to investigate the performance of the water system within extreme weather conditions and changing human agency.

I don't know how I feel about that / human agency etc..

We are talking about the scale of human agency.

Again, I would have to say that this always happens through human agency.

As the grain springs up miraculously and ripens without human agency or understanding, so marvelous is the coming of the Kingdom of God.

In short, the sacraments have come to depend on human agency — our ability to remember God — rather than on what God out of his grace does.

The reduced attention to politics mutes the most important way in which individual human agency drives human experience.

Try to understand that the point is not to discuss every possible theory of memes, but to explain without recourse to memetics, why theories that deny human agency — i.e. conceive of people as essentially stupid — come to prominence.

Speed of car - inconsequential In crosswalk - inconsequential Human Agency inconsequential

In truth, while Western Christianity may have relied too heavily on juridical categories in the past, such categories express an essential point about human agency and its responsibility.

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

As soon as anyone reproduces the Bible for others to own and read, human agency becomes entangled with divine authority.

Isn't that something done through post-Christ human agency, by Popes and councils and other committees?

A sense of salvation by human agency begins to permeate the global whole, and the world at large becomes the true church.

«By putting the self beyond the reach of politics, it makes human agency an article of faith rather than an object of continuing attention and concern.»

But the biblical picture of God and humanity also includes real interaction: Adam and Eve sin, and God casts them out of the Garden; Abraham argues with God about the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah» and, in that interaction, God's agency is seen as distinct from human agency.

The final section is a discussion of «miracle» which establishes how God can be sovereign without diminishing human agency.

Rather than chasing fully - autonomous vehicles that chauffeur passengers, Toyota has always stressed the importance of keeping human agency in driving while introducing computer systems that make cars safer.

Only then, with schools that foster authentic human agency, can we say we have achieved our goal of intentional equity.

As discussed previously, critical pedagogy encourages students to move toward human agency (Ball, 2000; Freire, 1990) by exercising agency through critical thinking, through individual social action, and through group social action.

I also began to realize that some things that seemed to just «happen» — notes arriving, carriages being brought round, meals being served — would of course require human agency to make them occur.

His nuanced negotiation of the relationship between artist and subject gives rise to a complex and thoughtful body of work, revealing shifting asymmetries in human agency relative to social frameworks and systems of communication, and the affective means they use to reproduce themselves.

In some cases their introduction was due to clear human agency, such as the Indo - Pacific lionfish (Pterois) that was brought to the coast of the Southeast U.S. by home aquarists.

Legislative change should be more than about the government of Canada taking it as an opportunity to manipulate human agency.

Should the end be precipitated by human agencies in defiance of the will of God, it would obviously need to come in a realm beyond human existence on this earth.

Part documentary, part fiction, it braids together technology and history (specifically, the Battle of Okinawa) for a meditation on human agency and memory.

Again and again, I was forced to wonder whether Tanner sees rightly the integrity of the human creature and the structure of human agency in relation to God.

Not that we are all that matters and that there is no more - than - human agency at work in the cosmos; but rather, that the value of our existence is both an expression of, and an agency available for, what God is up to in the world.

Institutions don't act without human agency — agreed Can't be truthfully used to abdicate responsibility — agreed (I would suggest that the stronger the institution the easier it is to give the illusion of being able to) Control by hook — agreed Holy spirit more powerful — agreed Jesus» methodology — pretty much agreed (e.g. tearing down the temple and rebuilding it in a metaphysical and metaphorical way might be seen as a shot at institution)

As we increasingly inhabit responsive environments that attempt to predict our wishes and desires before we even have them, this discussion identified the shifts in personal and political dynamics, and the role of human agency in a non-human world.

We have seen perfectly well that all the increase in technical devices, all of the improvements in circumstance which are made by governments and other human agencies, simply do not accomplish our Salvation as a society; and the reason they do not accomplish our social Salvation is that the fundamental trouble with us is not that social matters are all askew but that our personal lives are in a state of bad health.

Ben Pile says: August 28, 2014 at 12:15 am «why theories that deny human agency — i.e. conceive of people as essentially stupid — come to prominence»

Ellul plunges even deeper into the mystery of how God's purposes are accomplished through human agency.

The doctrine of predestination is at the heart of the Reformed message, but almost every tradition has to wrestle with the thorny questions of divine and human agency, as have home - grown religious movements like Mormonism and Christian Science....