Sentences with phrase «human destiny»

In the end it is concerned with the eternal issues of human destiny, but this is not on the surface.

Indeed, he has tied his own destiny to human destiny so tightly that our suffering is his suffering, and our growth in freedom is his growth in freedom.

No discussion of human destiny is adequate which is content to ignore such questions.

This in itself is important, showing us how Israel's concern to see the meaning of human destiny in the scene of human history itself and not the unseen world of the gods, came to a consummation in the Christian faith.

I urge, then, that talk about human destiny through stories of resurrection, like that about the «last things,» is a way of saying with the firm conviction of Christian faith in the cosmic divine Lover active in the event we name Jesus Christ that we can put our trust in God for both time and eternity, whatever we might wish to add about our own subjective participation in the divine life.

In a new take on an old polemic, Ridley acts as mediator between biological and cultural determinists, arguing that genes and the environment play equally important roles in shaping human destiny.

Whether one is a determinist or a believer in self - transcendence, HGI may provide information that makes it possible to influence human destiny through biological engineering.

Not only has there been a complete collapse of the world view of heaven, earth and hell, in which the answers concerning human destiny were expressed, but the very nature of man, as two separable parts of body and soul, which Christian orthodoxy has long taken for granted, can no longer be reconciled with our present knowledge of man.

The humanist acts «as if» history were open - ended and multivalued, as if human choices and actions were determinative for human destiny.

Ecological theology needs sociological theology because left to itself it does not deal realistically with the actual structures of power whose exercise will determine human destiny.

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After all, the science of chemistry did evolve out of alchemy, i.e. the attempt to turn simple metals into gold; and the science of astronomy developed out of astrology, i.e. the attempt to read human destiny from the movement of the stars.

We are haunted by Ivan Karamazov's question: «Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end... but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature — that infant beating its breast with its fist, for instance — and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears, would you consent to be the architect on those conditions?»

Still, he says that he doesn't want to be part of a party (i.e., the Republican party) that upholds what he describes as unreason, but he also doesn't claim that such alleged scientific truth regarding ultimate questions of human destiny provides answers for public policy.

This marks a major shift in the meaning of death, from ineffable human destiny to legislated human right.

MacDonald was an extraordinary and often eccentric Scot who passionately embraced the Christian «myth» as the truth about a universal human destiny.

Human destiny equates with the realization of personal potential, and each group leader will have a fairly ready answer for what that is, whether it is a new state of consciousness or a particular sense of well - being.

This word is of singular value, since it is an indication of the way in which Judaism regarded human destiny.

The one person in a thousand who now plays a significant role in deciding human destiny is likely to enjoy her, or, more often, his status, power, and wealth and the exercise of the skills that have led to this exalted position.

The final human destiny was not in this world of appearances but in the souls transcendental returning.

But how universal is Pannenberg's understanding of universal history when he speaks of «the Kingdom of God in which alone human destiny can find its ultimate fulfillment»?

I turn to the Bible, not for scientific instruction, but for spiritual illumination, to share in the most influential development of religious ideas in man's history, to watch divine deeds that have changed human destiny, to sit at the feet of great prophets, to learn from the insights of the seers, to find guidance in distinguishing right from wrong, and above all to come under the saving influence of Jesus Christ.

They have returned to Planetary Radio to talk about this story of human destiny among the stars.

The day of the release of the spectacular LIGO gravitational wave discovery is a good time to be pondering human destiny, the great things we can achieve as a species if only we don't do ourselves in, and the responsibility to provide a home for future generations to flourish in.

I wrote a Dot Earth column on a climatologist's view of the challenge in investing now for the far future called «How the Climate Challenge Could Derail a Brilliant Human Destiny.»

As he writes in the Introduction, «The writers of the various chapters of this book belong to the confraternity of professional historians of the «scientific» kind; whatever as individuals they believe about human destiny, whatever spiritual contacts they expect or do not expect in their own lives, they write, within their lights, impartially, with detachment from their convictions.»

For instance, there is the idea of heaven as a kind of vault suspended over the edges of the earth's disk, of an underworld like a turbulent cauldron in a deep, dark cavern under the lid of the earth, of the stars as spirits which control human destiny.

How much of this was merely ad hominem and how much represented Jesus» personal conviction concerning human destiny it is difficult to be sure, just as when Plato used demonology to serve his purpose it is difficult to know how literally he took the mental pattern he employed.

The central fact, which has its deepest meaning for the philosophy of history and for human destiny — and which no one seems to take into account — is that the passion of Israel today is taking on more and more distinctly the form of the Cross.

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Both the teaching of Jesus and the young church's teaching about him established the framework for our understanding of time, of history, and of human destiny in the purposes of God.

Only my realisation in that year that the whole human race was on a collision course with disaster shook me out of this dualism and forced me to rethink my theology in light of this most inclusive question of human destiny.

Human free will and human destiny.

They form the ideology of a new religion, and make up a relatively complete and internally, consistent explanation of humanity, the world, and human destiny, asserting that this vision is true and others are, at best, less true.