Sentences with phrase «human bondages»

It is the sheer excess — the disproportion of our human bondages and the absurdity resulting from this excess, the grotesque pointlessness of so much of it — that undermines my sense of ultimate meaning as transcendent willing purpose.

It is largely these human bondages of ours that have fundamentally altered my relationship to the languages and perspectives of the Bible and Christianity.

The Legion condemned W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (also 1934), the tale of a man (Leslie Howard) in an illicit sexual affair with a woman (Bette Davis).

Queen Christina is now an A-III, as are Of Human Bondage and Gay Divorcee, described as «dated musical fluff» and «a lighthearted musical comedy with no real substance beyond its charming songs and dances.»

A theologian who laments the brokenness of the world may be persuaded that, in the face of human bondage to sin, there is little point in engaging theology in the struggle toward the reign of God.

Christians reasoned their way from believing in divine righteousness to seeing the immorality of human bondage to advocating total, outright abolition.

What happens to children is a particularly graphic indicator of the depth of our human bondage to forces within ourselves and our planet.

This work with experimental groups extended into a more chastened critical study of transactional analysis in relation to Pauline - Augustinian understandings of human bondage and freedom.4

What is the nature and intent of the Lord at this holy place in the unconsuming fire» Of the human bondage against which Moses had protested back in Egypt he declares, «I have seen... have heard... I know.»

The Word speaks of seeing, hearing, and knowing the stuff of human bondage.

:) I already have something else to read, Somerset Maugham's «Of Human Bondage», a book suggested by my good friend Cristina — I'll try to balance it with my cookbooks since I don't plan on stop cooking and baking.

In a wide - ranging interview with Elizabeth Dzeng at King's Review, geneticist and Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner was far less reticent than we are about suggesting an ethical connection between scientific training and human bondage.

Of human bondage: food craving, obsession, compulsion, and addiction.

In addition, the greatest mal factor is the paucity of time, which keeps one away from healthy recreation and loosens human bondage, which is a must for survival.

Essentially a stage actress, Michigan - born Ruth Nelson appeared sporadically in films from her first movie appearance in Of Human Bondage (1934) to her last in Awakenings (1990).

She won in 1936 for Dangerous and would have done so for her storming turn in Of Human Bondage a year earlier had she not broken her contract with Warner Bros to make it.

TCM has also got one of Bette Davis's first big films Of Human Bondage early Thursday morning, Chaplin's last American film Limelight on Saturday, and Sundance has the first part of the Red Riding trilogy on Sunday.

5:45 am (25th)-- TCM — Of Human Bondage Bette Davis won a Best Actress Oscar in 1935 for the film Dangerous, but it's widely believed that it was a bit of a consolation prize for not winning for this film the year before — one of her first prestigious leading roles, in an adaptation of a W. Somerset Maugham novel.

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He is perhaps best remembered for Of Human Bondage, a semiautobiographical novel written in 1915, which was made into a film in 1934 and again in 1964.

Little Women, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, People of the Book, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Of Human Bondage, The Color of Water,, Marjorie Morningstar Dave Eggers» Zeitoun, The Namesake, The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, Appointment in Samarra, David Sedaris» Me Talk Pretty One Day, The No. 1 Ladies» Detective Agency, Crossing to Safety, Breakfast at Tiffanys, The HObbit, Howard's End, Olive Kitteridge.

With an incisiveness akin to Blake's, Shaw offers sharp insights into the complexities of global politics, economics, urban and environmental turmoil, the powers of organized faith, and human bondage.

Not exact matches

Modern slavery has become a catch - all term to describe human trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, sex trafficking, forced marriage and other slave - like exploitation.

But, in the suit's words, «Goguen was a worse predator than the human traffickers who were keeping her in bondage.»

Authority is a consensus human construct and a convenient fiction to which humanity has been in bondage for millenia.

In this way of conceiving evangelicalism the issues may be focused on questions of anthropology where the basic starting point is an Augustinian tradition of human inability (the «bondage of the will») leading as a necessary consequence to the classic Reformation articulations of election and predestination.

They get caught in the bondage of the debt, physically illness, and human degradation.

«Whatever salvation is... it includes the total transformation of human life, forgiveness of sin, healing from infirmities, and release from any kind of bondage.

Faith in God frees me from bondage to any human teaching, including that of the Christian tradition.

Where I disagree with Luther is where he and Calvin agree, that the bondage of the human will is total rather than disordered / wounded.

And I think this must be even more intensive within the church and its leadership because the church, like any other human institution, is prime culture for deception, abuse, bondage and slavery.

It's not simply that we were in the loins of our ancestors, that we have their DNA or something like that, but rather, a perennial feature of the human condition is that we are in bondage to one pharaoh, one lord or another, and we stand in need of liberation.

For Christians, «freedom» ultimately looks to freedom from bondage to Satan and sin, albeit with implications for bondage to other humans.

To choose their position over that of Paul, Titus, and the other apostles would be equal to pleasing humans and, worse yet, a relationship of bondage.

The advocates of circumcision are like the false brothers who opposed Paul, and they too will bring the Galatians under bondage to human authority.

His enthusiasm for the importance of the will in growth caused him to underemphasize the considerable extent to which the wills of us human beings are «in bondage» (as Martin Luther put it).

As the context makes clear, he is saying that we will be liberated from all of the bondage that is in human life through sin, and especially from that of self - righteous religion.

As long as we cling to our own categories we can not hear the voices of our tradition that speak about the importance of poverty and silence, that talk about the benefits of unjust suffering, that understand self - knowledge in terms of internal bondage, that depict human struggle in terms of solitude and self - abnegation, that speak of freedom in terms of self - denial and asceticism, and that perceive wisdom in terms of detachment and transcendence.

It is only against the backdrop of the enormity of this human dilemma, our willing bondage in this fractured fellowship, that the gift of God's grace and mercy in Jesus Christ stands out in high relief.

The idea that non believers have nothing to care about, nothing to live for and no reason to treat their fellow humans decently is a lie perpetrated by those who wish to keep people in bondage to the myth of a loving, yet just deity.

The salient features of Niebuhr's doctrine of sin, then, are the universality of sin, sin's existence as an objective fact in human experience, sin's tendency to perpetuate and aggravate itself, a meaningful sense in which there is bondage of the will, and the inability of man to extricate himself from the situation of unbelief.

In this post you have suggested «To require people to live according to scripture... does not create free human beings... it is really just a religious form of bondage... [And] the bible is not to be used as an instruction booklet on how to follow the proper steps to salvation».

The fall of Adam and Eve, the covenants with Israel and its deliverance from bondage, its falling away and punishment through new sufferings, the speaking of the divine word through the prophets, the birth of Christ in human flesh, the life and death of Jesus, the experience of the resurrection, and the history of the Church, the expectation of the final events and the established reign of God in love and peace — all this is the Biblical understanding of what God has done, is doing, and will continue to do for the judgment and redemption of the world.

But in addition to the bondage of the past, there is the continuing tendency in human beings to corrupt any fresh achievement of new values.

The story of women being easily possessed by demons to distort God's message is totally unbiblical and must be stopped.If it were so, the woman who was sent by Jesus to herald the first resurrection Gospel, would have distorted.Yet Bible says, this same Magdalene was freed from bondage to demons.Anything that brings fear and bondage isn't the Gospel.The reason why the word seems not to be gaining ascendancy in some parts of the world is because of the coldness of the human heart.To blame it entirely on women is unscriptural.

War, however, can be viewed as relatively temporary, while tyranny may precipitate long - range bondage and the suppression of those freedoms basic to human dignity and welfare.

Paul insists that the reign of the law extends throughout the body of a fallen humanity, but it is confined to all that human sphere which does not yet exist in faith, for insofar as we exist in faith we are delivered from the bondage of the law.

(c) Of the present experiences of God's power to deliver from the bondage of sin, e.g., Matt 1:21; Rom 5:10; 1 Cor 15:2; Heb 7:25; Jas 1:21; 1 Pet 3:21; of human agency in this, 1 Tim 4:16

One definition states that human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, harboring or receipt of people for the purposes of slavery, forced labor (including bonded labor or debt bondage) and servitude.

Liturgy, after all, celebrates the heart of human life, and even the young quickly learn that this heart is a strange mixture of suffering and struggle, accomplishment and joy, bondage and liberation, beauty and pathos, meaning and emptiness.