Sentences with phrase «human concerns such»

Essenhigh's large scale paintings create an enigmatic world in which animated action figures are cast alongside mythological characters and the demimonde in roles where time - honoured human concerns such as patriotism,...

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This is why the message of Love active in the world is a challenge to work so that in human ways and for human concerns such loving may become the dominant quality of life.

Not exact matches

Such contrasts can be seen when looking at the steady tattoo of allegations concerning mass atrocities leveled at Qaddafi of Libya (but after his demise never confirmed), compared to the almost complete failure to cover the uprising in Saudi Arabia — or ongoing human rights outrages there.

On top of this are regional health concerns, such as pollution and tropical diseases, and human rights issues.

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a non-profit based in Massachusetts, has identified a number of potential risks posed by such crops, ranging from introducing new allergens to the food supply to increasing antibiotic resistance in humans and animals.

What it's like: Ron Owston, dean of the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, was initially surprised at how much time he spent on human resource issues, such as dealing with the concerns of faculty members and mapping out the academic year so professors can handle their course loads.

If secular legal processes are deeply concerned with human dignity and the presumption of innocence, how much more carefully should such processes be employed in the Church of Christ?

Because it so intimately concerns human beings, and the variability of our loves, such awakenings of love's intellectual desires will evade the grasp of rationalist reformers, remaining elusive and idiosyncratic.

Knowledge which depends on human experience and traditions related to the Prophet concerning such matters are not the basis for Islamic legislation.

Say: The Spirit is by command of my Lord, and of knowledge ye have been vouchsafed but little» (Surah XVII, 85), indicates that the identification of the soul is His own concern and that the human mind is too limited to understand such a supernatural reality.

After drawing out how the encyclical applies this to various social, economic and ecological issues he highlighted, concerning «the problem of technology», that «this is the first time an encyclical deals with the subject in such an organic manner -LSB-...] The exclusively technical mentality [and ideology] in fact, reduces all to pure doing... [True human development] requires a new perspective upon man that only the God who is truth and love can provide.»

I am concerned here to plead that such people should examine the religious approach de novo, and be prepared to give such a widespread human phenomenon as religion their serious attention.

The comments filed Monday with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services express concerns over the regulations» exemption of houses of worship but not other religious entities such as schools, hospitals and social welfare program providers.

The conclusion here concerns the teleological order within the world as a principle for practical deliberation and, in that sense, asserts a coincidence between maximizing creativity in the world as such and maximizing future human good.

He may indeed be shown as having such positive qualities as solicitous concern, but he is to be a very human shepherd.

Many Christians believed that since Jesus Christ alone is our Lord, and it is to Him alone that we must swear fealty, then any such oath to a flag, or a human ruler, is idolatry (cf. similar concerns raised by Greg Boyd in The Myth of a Christian Religion).

The fundamental moral concern to protect innocent human life is not, however, overridden, even in the face of such violence.

However, such a tangible measure, borne of respect for human dignity and concern for the public good, would help greatly in stimulating the American conscience on a matter that presently struggles to hold its attention.

We have reason to extend to such creatures some of the kind of concern that we extend to other human beings.

This discussion concerns individual entities such as protons, molecules, cells and humans.

By extension every good deed, every struggle for justice and deliverance from oppression, every effort to care for and show concern about those who are in need, will be not merely a reflection of the divine mercy and righteousness but also an instrument for the bringing about of just such shalom or «abundance of life» for God's human children, So one might go on, almost without ceasing, to show that response in faith to the action of God in this vivid moment has its implications and applications for the whole range of human life and experience.

Like Hartshorne, Whitehead is convinced that apart from some such final, though ongoing, consummation of the world, the ground of meaningfulness of human action and concern is undermined.

The ability of biology to detail the organisation and constitution of life - forms, not just on a cellular level, but now also on a genetic and molecular level, and its description of how such factors canaffect the global behaviour of an organism, should be taken into account in the theological and philosophical discussion of free will, individual identity / personality, conscience, the soul, and other areas concerning human behaviour, especially in regard to morality.

The first concerns the non-Christian defense of an appeal to human values — such as reason, justice, culture — by those who share these values with the Christian but are not related to Christ.

As the once separate cultures meet and cross-fertilize one another, humankind is beginning to share more and more values — such as the concern for human rights and personal freedom.

But as a total context existential philosophy is methodologically too restrictive If faith can only be expressed in terms of human encounter, such that we are precluded from using any cosmological framework in expressing our understanding of God, then we have no way of appreciating God's activity and manifestation of concern toward the rest of the created order.

In the first place such education, now as always, is concerned with the nurture of men and women whose business in life it will be to help men to see their immediate perplexities, joys and sufferings in the light of an ultimate meaning, to live as citizens of the inclusive society of being, and to relate their present choices to first and last decisions made about them in the totality of human history by Sovereign Power.

Berkowitz also makes that point, but focuses on the thinly disguised «faith» assumptions in Rawls» theory, such as human dignity, equality, and concern for the disadvantaged.

When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.

But whereas the word «truth» in the earlier title focused attention on the more theoretical aspect of such credibility, «freedom» in the present title is intended to point to the underlying human concern in which the concern for truth itself has its basis.

Such notions have little or nothing to do with love; they are a matter of human justice which may be a mode of love's expression in certain situations but they are also very misleading because love is ultimately not concerned with «justice» in the vulgar sense — it is above justice, whose interest is either retributive or distributive, for the interest of love is with persons, persons in society with their fellows, and the fulfillment of selves in the giving - and - receiving which is mutuality or union.

Given such reasons for concern, why might one support, or even advocate, human cloning?

Finally, there is increased anxiety concerning climate change — with some environmentalists demonising human beings, consumer - based Western cultures castigating poorer nations for their waste and pollution, and little attempt to think more profoundly about what a more ecologically - aware approach to our world may demand from such societies.

But sociology and psychology generally focus narrowly on the specifically human band of the broad spectrum of cosmic layers and do not concern themselves with the universe as such.

And some Straussians, such as Leon Kass, seem to me to concerned about the coming of THE BRAVE NEW WORLD, precisely because they underestimate the natural resistance of human beings to being tamed or to becoming content.

Such a basis for public policy is not consistent with either a humanitarian tradition or a Christian view, nor does it acknowledge the diversity of beliefs that exist concerning the role of sex in human life.

It means penetrating them in such a way as to be able to instruct the world concerning its purpose of serving human need, concerning its original foundation and the end toward which it moves.

With quiet resolve, with love even for those they oppose and concern for the human values at stake, such a group can make the difference between a community in which the church is merely a cultural parenthesis and one in which it is a factor to be reckoned with.

An example of such issues is the legality of a «woman's right to choose» where unborn human life is concerned.

But the truth is deeper than this... there's something about us, everything we touch as humans has the capacity to go very, very badly wrong and that's the real concern - if we are so great, why is the world such a mess?»

In some respects it is more healthy to be an honest non-Christian than a Christian schizophrenic, for the former has at least preserved some element of that integrity or wholeness of the human being for which the Christian faith expresses such concern in its Gospel of salvation.

It is the quest of such other possibilities that should preoccupy anyone concerned with the mitigation of human suffering in the course of social change (p. 163).

Such consultation may occur at many levels: consultation to pastors concerning problem clients with whom they are working; consultation to a pastor and the church administration regarding human relation problems in the congregation; consultation to groups or programs in a congregation that are designed to assist people in the church; consultation to a local, regional, or denominational administration in regard to evaluation of religious candidates, human relations problems in the administration, or denominational programming related to mental health issues; consultation to a group of churches who sponsor a joint community program.

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.

Such an attitude is ultimately in conflict with itself; for the urge to cure disease presupposes openness to the human dignity of sufferers and concern for them.

Yet even among those who manifested such tendencies, there was a concern for maintaining the other side of these affirmations; there was an insistence that man is made in the image of God, that Christ is one with his human brethren, and that God is at work in his world here and now.

Haffner calls Jaki's realism Thomistic, but such a term is questionable when there is no discussion of the crucial question concerning how the human mind attains to the real.

The moral passion of the prophets has become axiomatic; they were concerned with human well - being, it is true, but no such urgency of appeal could have arisen from human considerations.

They oppose the coalition of interests, calculations, fears or ignorance, with a concern which subordinates every principle to human dignity, and which begins with basic respect for life as such.