Or does it celebrate the abundance of that very
human attribute in a popular community park?
Not exact matches
Empathy might seem like a nice - to - have extra, a touchy - feely quality that's most important
in personal relationships and being a nice person outside work, but expert after expert insists this most
human of
attributes is actually a business essential.
She
attributes them to some of the same factors that are behind gains
in human longevity, particularly
in preventative care.
«Deeply
human» is not a particularly common
attribute in Silicon Valley.
Political Life and
Human Dignity Mary Ann Glendon («The Bearable Lightness of Dignity,» May) is right on target
in noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.&raqu
in noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «
In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.&raqu
In its ontological sense it is a given
attribute of the person, while,
in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.&raqu
in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.»
the longer lifespans, and better health of
humans in general, can be
attributed to proper hygiene and diets.
Although identifying these
attributes with generations or cultures helps
in understanding them, Larry's experience suggests the larger
human proclivity for becoming what we do.
There are other
attributes God as defined
in the bible and these definitions clarify to us
humans why we can not be God.
There are mysteries to the
human condition, and the universe, but we don't feel a need to
attribute them to a man
in the sky but rather, give credit to where credit is due, ie, the world around us.
I am no expert
in Vatican politics, but I know better than to close my eyes to the fact that there are those who do not share the insight that Weigel
attributes to John Paul II and to Benedict» the insight that Nielsen herself embraces» «that all social issues, including political and economic questions, are ultimately questions of the nature of the
human person.»
in HUMAN perspective it seems immoral cause YOU and I are not the judges over someones life... and MIGHT is OT Gods only
attribute..
Nevertheless, each
in its own way is also anthropocentric
in attributing moral significance to the relationship (dominant or submissive) between
human beings and the natural order.
it seems that many of us want to create a God
in our image, we seem to say, «if I was god, I would do it this way» well, we are not God and just because our
human nature doesn't like some of Gods
attributes.
They say further that even if one does not equate a fetus with a child, as long as one
attributes some value to the fetus» and they demonstrate how economists routinely make such outrageous calculations
in insurance claims for loss of body parts» and put the value as low as one hundredth of a
human being, the lowered crime rate would not come near justifying the number of abortions.
Human beings have a long history filled with situations
in which they simply decide, for no rational reason whatsoever, to
attribute ordinary natural events to supernatural forces.
Whatever its origin — and I myself agree with Wellhausen and others
in attributing the identification to the primitive Christian community, as their least inadequate and only possible term for one who was thus both
human and divine and yet not God (which would have been unthinkable
in their realm of ideas)-- whatever its origin, this first great step
in the advance of Christology was of endless significance for the later development of Christian doctrine, and it was of paramount importance for the Gospel of Mark.
By this word,
in the New Testament as
in the Old, the noblest altitudes and
attributes of the
human spirit and the saving influences of the divine spirit were expressed.
As William Johnson suggests, «transcendence has little to do with the nature and
attributes of God but has everything to do with the consequence of God's activity
in history, that is, to introduce a transcendent dimension to
human life.»
It needs to be noted that
in the inherited Western tradition, creativity has been seen as an
attribute of creatures with mentality, that is to say of
human beings only.
Second, if our knowledge of God is based exclusively on the history of Jesus Christ and not on pre-Christian philosophies, then the
human attributes of Christ
in time also tell us what God is
in his very nature and being as God.
First, Reformed protestantism — which possesses the theology of «Total Depravity» — DOES N'T say that
human beings are as evil as they could be, but rather just that they are evil
in all their
attributes, so that no aspect of the
human condition is left untouched.
Sociologists, anthropologists, and psychologists have noticed this «scapegoat mechanism»
in various societies and cultures around the world and have
attributed it to an evolutionary necessity for the survival of
human society.
It sounds like the group doing this survey found a lot of volunteerism
in young Jews and wants to find a way to co-op that volunteerism as a Jewish
attribute instead of what it is, a
human attribute, compassion.
The idea of God is really moral
in its influence — it really cherishes all that is best and loveliest
in man — only when God is contemplated as sympathizing with the pure elements of
human feeling, as possessing infinitely all those
attributes which we recognize to be moral
in humanity....
The Qur» an does not state that
humans are created
in the image of God, although later traditions
attributed to Muhammad (hadith) do.
If God is one and alone, then relationship is not an inherent
attribute of God, nor is it necessary for the
human made
in God's image to be fully
human.
The central thought
in The Essence of Christianity is that the supposedly superhuman deities of religion are actually the involuntary projections of the essential
attributes of
human nature.
I've known mere mortal
human beings with more understanding, compassion, unbias, fairness and honesty
in their ways than god's own supposed magical book
attributes to himself.
It has all the
attributes of a
human from the beginning, and those
attributes were
in the forty - six chromosomes with which it began.
But, at the same time that Hartshorne
attributes such anthropomorphic qualities to God, he insists that
in God they are perfections qualitatively different from their incarnations
in imperfect ways
in human beings.
Rather, it gains its meaning from his use of the via eminentia, where qualities judged to be valuable
in human beings are
attributed to God
in the supreme degree.
Within the context of this discussion, including the redefinition of perfection and the divine
attributes of omnipotence and omniscience, the idea of God is important because God is the supreme exemplification of character and virtue, the One that empowers growth
in character and virtue, the One
humans are called to imitate.
if
humans had just fell
in line with religious teachings and never asked questions other than «god did it»... then people would still be dying
in child birth, the common cold, small poxs etc etc etc. i find that we survived a s a species to become the alpha predator of this planet and the achievements we have made since then to be amazing;
attributing everything
humans have achieved to a god just cheapens the value of our achievements as a species.
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.
Idealism recognizes the presence of evil
in history, but it makes a distinction between nature and reason and
attributes evil to the body.16 Idealism is complacent about the perils of the freedom of the
human spirit, convinced that spirit and rationality are identical and that rationality controls freedom.
To investigate the dimension of transcendence, conceived not as an
attribute to God but as a dimension of man, is not to start from something which exists
in our world
in a vain attempt to prove the existence of what can exist only
in another world; it is simply to investigate all the dimensions of
human reality.22
An elected official may be a liar, thief, and / or backstabbing jerk, but those
attributes are nothing new
in government, or
human relations
in general for that matter.
For Arthur Peacocke, the now deceased former Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre, the followers of Jesus encountered
in him a dimension of transcendence which they could only
attribute to God: «But they also encountered him as a full
human person -LSB-!]
«Catholic theology affirms that the emergence of the first members of the
human species (whether as individuals or
in populations) represents an event that is not susceptible of a purely natural explanation and which can appropriately be
attributed to divine intervention.»
They say that the opposite is true of
human beings, for
in man knowledge — as an
attribute — is added to his being, and is not even given to him, for he has no knowledge other than that which he learns.
If God possesses even emotional
attributes that
humans possess, it all of a sudden would mean that God had biological needs, since emotions are important for the performance and life of the organism they exist
in.
It is to Jesus that she
attributes the discovery of this role of forgiveness
in human affairs.
Not sin, for it is thought of as a universal
human attribute; nor forgiveness, for it is conceived as a mere event
in the world of external objects, on which man by his very theories and proofs exercises judgment, asserting that divine forgiveness can and must be thus and so.
[i] Univocal [/ i] language about God assumes that when we make a statement about God, e.g., «God is wise,» the
attribute «wise» means the same thing when applied to God as when applied to the «creature» (
in this case,
human beings).
That is why the ascription of
human qualities and
attributes to a god is nonsensical, and that is the reason for the dichotomy I stated
in my post.
So the real way Burke succumbed to «historicism» — or something like it — was
in attributing too much significance to a particular political event, and so
in having too little confidence
in (or at least faith
in)
in the resilience of
human nature.
As soon as God is claimed to be a causal agent and possess qualities /
attributes we see only
in humans and other tangible entities, the definition becomes internally contradictory.
The foreword of the present book includes a 1965 letter from Ramsey to Fletcher: «[T] he candid issue between us is whether agape is expressed
in acts only or
in rules also, which question is generally begged; or else the structures
in which
human beings live are
attributed to other than uniquely Christian sources of understanding (natural law, etc.) while Christians go about pretending to live
in a world without principles.
HIV Infections
Attributed to Male - to - Male S@xual Contact — Metropolitan Statistical Areas, United States and Puerto Rico, 2010 Weekly November 30, 2012 / 61 (47); 962 - 966 Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections attributed to male - to - male s@xual contact comprised 64 % of the estimated new HIV infections in the United States in
Attributed to Male - to - Male S@xual Contact — Metropolitan Statistical Areas, United States and Puerto Rico, 2010 Weekly November 30, 2012 / 61 (47); 962 - 966
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections
attributed to male - to - male s@xual contact comprised 64 % of the estimated new HIV infections in the United States in
attributed to male - to - male s@xual contact comprised 64 % of the estimated new HIV infections
in the United States
in 2009 (1).
The words that can be accurately
attributed to him have a clarity and transcendence that are constructive to the
human experience,
in the same fashion as Lao Tzu or Buddha.