Sentences with phrase «human context for»

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Context — e.g., who said what and why, when they said it, who they know, how often they engage in conversation — is difficult even for humans at times.
While its algorithms provide the traveler with information for getting where they want to go, humans provide the context with real - time traffic updates.
This course provides a foundation for developing your own approach to skillfully managing employees by illustrating alternative human resource management (HRM) strategies, introducing the importance of the legal context, and thinking about what motivates employees.
None of these words would make any sense in the context of investment banking, where if a client wants to speak to a human banker, four of them hop on a plane and fly to the client's office the next day, never mind paying $ 10 for voicemail.
In addition to putting a human face to the brand, the video content can be repurposed and reshared by marketing in social channels, and be used to provide more context for buyer personas.
Former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price today walked back comments about how Republican efforts to undo Obamacare's individual mandate would increase costs for people who remain insured, saying that his remarks were reported out of context.
In the present social and cultural context, where there is a widespread tendency to relativize truth, practising charity in truth helps people to understand that adhering to the values of Christianity is not merely useful but essential for building a good society and for true integral human development.
In general, the counterproposals boast proportionality and restraint, and manage to impart a sense of grandeur without disregarding the surrounding landscape, historical context, or human visitors for whom the memorial is ultimately being constructed.
It certainly may try, and even if it hits on the truth of the matter, since the human is a Mystery unto Itself (and set within the context of Ultimate Mystery), are we not left with a great many perspectives on the matter, which might indicate that a more tentative approach may be the best way to go regarding the question of the OP, so as to make room for those who are just as caught up in the Mystery as we ourselves are?
I totally agree with you that God can not be contained within human constructs and i commend and admire you for being bold enough to write it because it is not a popular opinion among many professing Christians but then i think you took Mark 13:21 out of context.
It is another case of seeing the human eros in its communal context and seeking to order life so that a humane and tolerable existence becomes possible for all.
Representatives of the theology of nature are crucial for setting the discussion of human problems in the wider context.
But doesn't love for the Creator imply respect for His Creation (in this context, the human body and its design)?
Orthodoxy is being able not only to repeat the same teachings but also to show their relevance to the new context.2 Other individuals, on the other hand, interpret religious beliefs as merely expressions of the human community's search for some kind of meaning, an accumulated source of information built up over the years as the community reflected on its life and activities.
However, there radiated from his work a penetrating insight into the human «sickness unto death,» which was put in a profound psychotheological context for me in Tillich's Courage to Be.
Rather than viewing it as a decision made for the sake of living a life free from the world's demands, Augustine agonized over the «evils» of sexuality in a doctrinal context that virtually denied the human capacity for free moral decision.
Care for the Earth has been placed firmly in the context of preserving human life rather than standing alone as an independent value.
(4) Biblical texts must be understood in their human context: for otherwise we shall fail to read their real point out of them and instead read into them points they are not making at all.
It is a drama that unfolds in several contexts at once: within the historical context of a «great cloud of witnesses», that is, in relationship to all of those who speak (and have spoken) as «Christian preachers»; within the context of the speaker's own human existence in relation to other statements of faith collected as «Christian theology» within the time and space set aside for the performance of Christian liturgy.
Moreover, objectivity does not rule thought; human imagination, valuation and social location govern how we identify and classify things — and thus, how we construct contexts for comparison.
Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means of achieving real if limited justice for human life in the world, and a corresponding theory of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus of injustice and the goals of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms of the United Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.
Faith presupposes a context of certain practices and even bodily transformation» for our flesh is redeemed by Christ's own flesh» and can not be considered a general feature of human nature that finds diverse expression in all the great religious traditions.
That provides the context for human action.
- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.
It imputes a sinister motive to what, in this case, is a widely and deeply held belief that God's design for human sexuality lies within the lifelong context of one - man, one - woman marriage.
The main objectives of this Consultation were to analyze globalization and its impact on human rights; to study ethical and theological considerations with regard to globalization; to search for alternative development paradigms; to study the policies of developed nations on development and trade policies in the context of globalization; to gain inputs on the experiences of indigenous people, workers and farmers who are affected by globalization; to consider the response of the Churches to the challenges posed by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian context.
While these latter are important, we must probe more deeply for environment, functions, and context, and, most important of all, for human relation that define social roles and tell us who has power, who is aggressor, and who is victim.
Those who claim that it is morally wrong for human beings to eat meat because it involves killing an animal must logically claim that predation itself — in all contexts — is evil.
They believe that ultimately we do not require for our human existence a context of living things.
’21 The context for understanding the world is human history.
In context here (given the «or») the «enlightenment ideal of human - based knowledge, reason and action» is code for atheism.
You will find when and why it was all cooked up by humans, for human reasons, in human cultures, in known human contexts.
5Note that the term «public» is another example of Whitehead borrowing something from human social experience for metaphysical purposes, and note too how that appropriation is relevant to his use of the term «society» in this same context.
It is a «social event» founded on the basic need for human beings to interrelate with others of their kind within the context of a nourishing social environment; it is a «living - togetherness» constituted of individual human beings sharing a common and, to some extent, mutually satisfying form of social experience.
One needs to search for it within the context of a wholesome outlook of its deeper meaning, sensitivity to the hidden riches characterising human thought and knowledge.
To get a proper and adequate understanding of human freedom, one has to see man in the total context of evolution, for freedom did not start with man; it had its evolutionary roots at the infrahuman level.
In the process of humanization, on the other hand, the evolution takes place within the context of the historical, from an uncivilized, impersonal, inhuman historical situation, for example, to a civilized, interpersonal and more human one.
«Within a public context I'm talking about human dignity and humans flourishing, and my question, «Is this basically good or bad for the human?
This is the context for understanding some of document's most humble of expressions, such as: «Christian revelation contributes greatly [subsidium affert magnum] to the promotion of this communion between persons,... a world becoming more unified every day» (23) and, the Church «contributes toward making the family of man and its history fully human [humaniorem reddendam]» (40).
Presently we are moving beyond any religious expression so far known to the human into a meta - religious age, that seems to be a new comprehensive context for all religions... The natural world itself is the primary economic reality, the primary educator, the primary governance, the primary technologist, the primary healer, the primary presence of the sacred, the primary moral value... The primary sacred community is the earth community.
The interpretation of the present nature of human beings in any situation, as «made in the image of God» and as «brothers for whom Christ died» should be as Persons - in - Relation and destined to become Persons - in - Loving - Community with each other in the context of the community of life on earth through the responsible exercise of the finite human freedom reconciled to God.
To illustrate the importance of the «form of life» context for language he imagined the situation of a lion suddenly using familiar human expressions.
In fact, Farrow's list of fundamental truths points eloquently to the basic ontological foundations for human reproduction and the ethical education of children in society, and from these he reasonably draws a normative social claim: Heterosexual marriage open to the transmission of life is the morally normative context of human sexuality.
In the context of the total document and magisterial teaching on human sexuality, it is quite evident that «self - control» means total sexual abstinence for homosexual Christians.
Even when the Lord honored the children of Israel as his chosen people, it was done to fulfill his divine plan for everyone, and in the context of his boundless love for a unified human race.
For one thing, in a Jewish context «ethics» covers a much wider swath of human behavior than what most people think of when they use ethical categories.
In this context, the Church has to strive to be a fulcrum of peace for the world — the hearth and home of every human being, where each can discover their unique, and at the same time common, destiny in Christ.
We know that we can not escape our social context; it is an inescapable fact for us humans, as for all else in the creation.
If one accepts this doctrine, one can account for the highly complex conscious experiences of human beings in a fully non-reductionistic way, while at the same locating human beings fully in the context of the natural world.
In this context it is significant to listen to Nirmal Minz, himself a tribal Christian, convincingly argue that the primary objection to Christian conversion in the tribal areas is the fact that people begin to make demands for basic human rights when they are converted.
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