Sentences with phrase «human cultures of the world»

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The revelational rap against apologetic theology is that it either engages in a sellout to the «world» (the self - disclosure of God being so utterly relativized by human wisdom that Christians are unable to tell atheists anything that they don't already know), or it is an exercise in various intellectual imperialisms, such as: «We can prove the existence of God» or «If human culture really understood itself, it would find that it is striving toward that which we already have.»

Rather, every culture is the product of the human spirit, as the spirit of man wrestles with its total environment and seeks to work out a satisfactory adjustment to the material world, to other men, and to such invisible powers as are believed to control its destiny.

It has often been charged that by focusing attention away from «the world» to God, the kingdom of heaven, and eternal life, Jesus introduced an ascetic and otherworldly element that nullifies human culture.

Tracey Rowland, in Catholic World Report's «round table» discussion (not reported in its print edition) argues that the Pope is affirming that «When cultures no longer serve the deepest needs of human nature and actually narrow the spiritual horizons of people, people don't know who they are and feel depressed.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

As Heidegger journeyed more and more deeply into his intuition of Being, it became ever more clear to him that a central problem in Western culture is the forgetfulness of Being, and that this forgetfulness is symptomized by the will - to - power: that impulse to dominate and subjugate the world in light of human projects.

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.

Therefore it can become one potent source of inter-communal community in society outside the church also, a sort of secular koinonia and of the development of the ideology of a genuine secular human community at local, national and world levels in the modern pluralist context of many religions and cultures.

In any case, the biblical contribution to spirituality is not to belittle this world in order to indulge in an otherworldly exaltation but rather to keep our feet in the soil of this good earth and our hands in the soiled workings of human culture and history in order to re-create them.

This notion of the demonic, especially when it is developed to explain the widespread proclivity of human beings to evil (through being born into cultures more or less dominated by demonic habits, symbols, beliefs, and attitudes), provides a further basis for reconciling God's goodness with the world's evil.

«43 The time, care, and enormous intelligence expended on the process of producing the Constitution expressed not only the traditional culture of a covenant - and compact - making people, perhaps unique in that respect in human history, but also a sense of the meaning of their act on the world stage.

It appears that McGrath has got too sucked into the Popperian insight that human understandings of the world are «theory laden» (p. 61)-- wherein human culture rather than human nature is made not just intrinsic to explanations of observations, but determinative.

But Weigel goes further: He makes the empirical assertion that this corrupted culture played a major role in creating the savage, unstoppable human toll of World War I.

One only has to think about the countless cultures around the world that developed gods independently of each other long before humans began to travel globe to realize that all gods are a result of mans ego, fear and lack of understanding.

Each one of us understands the world and interprets events from a particular perspective — and that perspective is profoundly shaped by our nonhuman and human environments, culture, socio - politico - economic location, and the myths and symbols that organize and give meaning and significance to our lives.

As God has spoken his word in diverse cultural situations, the church is confident that he will continue to speak through the Scriptures in a changing world and in every form of human culture.

As I discovered in my early studies, the local church is a microcosm of human culture, an immediate instance of the world's symbolic imagination.

With some entailment of that danger always implicit in superlatives, one may raise the question whether any other single contribution from whatever source since human culture emerged from the stone ages has had the far - reaching effect upon history that Israel in this regard has exerted both through the mediums of Christianity and Islam and directly through the world of Jewish thinkers themselves.

«People do not wish to know that the whole human culture is based on the mythic process of conjuring away man's violence by endlessly projecting it upon new victims» (Girard, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, 164).

And this applies not just to the laws of matter, but to the whole of the human world - to the ebb and flow of history and of progress in science, culture and religion.

Yet even today, when the Faith of Christ is decayed among the nations, and when Christianity seems to belie the promises of Christ, and to be passing into the dead world of human religions, one more among many, even today, whatever individual values we hold sacred, whatever sanctity we claim for the personality of man, whatever freedoms, above the rut of biological materialism, we try to salvage from the ruins of a culture, all these are the droplets which remain within that chalice of the Christian Faith dashed down by the nation.

The epoch of settled and expanding civilisation which began with the Romano - Hellenic Empire, was the first historically known period of widespread and continuous human culture over a significant area; it came indeed to cover most of the known world by the time of the birth of Christ.

In Chapters 5 and 6 we considered the electronic church preachers who have adopted a «Christ of culture» response which uses the techniques of the world of the technological era, a world of means that values technique («whatever works is good») over human values.

Not to mention the 120,000 years before that humans have lived on Earth or the other parts of the World, that included 99 % of all cultures and civilaizations on Earth 2,000 years ago that JEsus gave no indication of even knowing about.

This world of ours is a new world, in which the unity of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed and will not return to what they have been in the past.

There are international movements like Amnesty International, Oxfam and World Vision which imply visions of coverantal ties between human beings across lines of nation, culture, class, race, and gender.

Highland culture takes at face value the pervasive sense of smallness that humans feel in the world.

Never, as modern human beings, can we experience the one - possibility consciousness of a primitive or archaic culture in which myth quite simply is the received construction of the world.

It is fundamental to any adequate understanding of Ricoeur to note that his phenomenology is so constructed as to be open to the «signs» generated by «counter-disciplines,» and indeed to read the meaning of human existence «on» a world full of such expressions generated by the natural and social sciences, as well as in the history of culture.

Tell me which Greek God or Goddess has changed the landscape of human history since birth and continues to exert powerful influence on cultures around the world to this day as Jesus has.

... and just for the LDS crowd, Luzia Woman found at one of the oldest human settlements in the world at Minas Gerais, Brazil 11500 years old... utterly destroys the LDS myth that the Lamenites were the base for the indigenous cultures in the americas.

«This world of ours is a new world,» wrote Robert Oppenheimer in 1963, «in which the unity of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed and will not return to what they have been in the past» (Saturday Review of Literature, June 29, 1963, p. 11).

Christopher White is the International Director of Operations for the World Youth Alliance, an NGO headquartered in New York City that works to promote human dignity in policy and culture.

Thirdly, in the world setting in which the protection of natural environment and organic processes of production and reproduction of life have become crucial for the continuation of human life itself, there is the felt need for a revival of the spirit of reverence for nature which you had preserved in your culture for ages.

The world is primary; and all entities, including the human entities with their cultures, first emerge out of the world, and only then do they shape it.

Christocentrism could no longer cope with the challenge of religious pluralism; universalism did not grasp the depth of alienation among the poor and the marginalized; salvation history did not do justice to the plural histories of the world's many cultures and nations; the unity of the Church in Christ offered no power or guidance in overcoming sexism, racism and human exploitation.

In a world marked by the effects of original sin, and certainly in a post-Christian, secular culture, one can agree that human beings have a very difficult time grasping metaphysical truths or principles of the natural law.

Deep ecologists want to counter Western culture's anthropocentrism — its tendency to place humanity at the center of the universe and to reduce the nonhuman world to an instrument for human ends — with a theory of an expanded self which calls for identification with the nonhuman world.

Such a picture of how to understand God tends to predominate in cultures that see human life as a cycle replicating the cycles that make the world a unified whole.

Western culture may be compared to a lake fed by the stream of Hellenism, Christianity, science, and these contributions might offer an extremely valuable way of considering the conceptions of a life of reason, the principle of an ordered and intelligible world, the ideas of faith, of a personal God, of the absolute value of the human individual, the method of observation and experiment, and the conception of empirical laws, as well as the doctrines of equality and of the brotherhood of man.

These cultures tend to be ones that, on the one hand, will sacrifice other things to maintain a unified view of the world, and that, on the other hand, maintain important rites of passage by which human life is tied in with the recurring cycles that make the world one.

If Christianity was the only viable synthesis of the traditions and cultures that remained at the end of the ancient world, then it is Christianity itself which represents the most interesting legacy of this era of human consciousness.

Coffee: The World in Your Cup is an exhibit providing a broad overview of the powerful influence of coffee on environments, human cultures, and economies worldwide.

thanks for the sensible comment fatboy yep i know i do get that they do nt really mean it, but i just cant come to terms with that, i do nt really expect civilised culture in a sport but generally from the people in the world, yep you are right about the real world, maybe thats the reason it annoys me extremely, i mean look our world is rotten to the core, the human mindset is terrible when it faces danger or problems for himself, and maybe thats the reason i just want football to stay as just as an entertainment industry but when i see that people even here let the words flow in any kind of way just because the are frustrated, i really cant come to terms with it, i really love black humor and some akbs react angrily when some fans tell some wheelchair jokes or for example on the post from admin where one could write jokes about wenger, some were really awesome, but when people cant control their emotion after a game and abuse other people it just irritates me as hell cause i really think that thats one of the big problems in the world..

It's because we're raising them in a culture of entitlement, one that values acquiring stuff over developing our unique gifts to contribute to the world, and even over being a good human being.

Waldorf Education has as its ideal a person who is knowledgeable about the world and human history and culture, who has many varied practical and artistic abilities, who feels a deep reverence for and communion with the natural world, and who can act with initiative and in freedom in the face of economic and political pressures.

Furthermore, a 2001 international study from Early Human Development concluded that the practice of bed - sharing may vary in different cultures around the world, and that it was difficult to ascribe the cause of SIDS to any one childcare practice.

The technology belongs to our evolutionary ancestors and has allowed humans to thrive and develop the breathtaking array of babywearing cultures seen around the world.

On birth This article appears in the Sage Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Sage Publications, 2005 Until recently in human history, birth has been exclusively the work of the work of women as they labor and bear down with their uterine muscles to push their babies from the private inner world of their wombs into the larger world of society and culture.

It will produce the ultimate example of gene - culture co-evolution: our technology will change the world, and it will dramatically affect natural selection, not just for a whole range of species but for humans as well.