Response: We believe that lack of reliable electrical energy
stunts human enterprise, and is a root cause of poverty for much of the world.
And, of course, much the same is true of almost any
other human enterprise, including religion, when it becomes a business.
Each of us, in becoming, needs exactly some such awareness of belonging with others in the
total human enterprise.
Strip mines are ugly gashes in the landscape, yes, but they don't have a negative environmental impact — or more precisely no impact more negative than that of any large -
scale human enterprise.
In the task of that redemption [of the total
human enterprise] the most effective agents will be men who have substituted some new illusions for the abandoned ones.
Offering six purposes for elevating truth as our highest priority, Guinness declared that honoring God, knowing God,
empowering human enterprise, providing a gospel foundation, combating repression and transformation in Christ — all depended on a high view of objective truth.
They look upon religion as an
essentially human enterprise — an attempt by men to fathom mysteries that by their very nature are too deep to be comprehended in any one viewpoint.
I think it should be possible to convey that earth systems science is an
evolving human enterprise where discordant views are the norm, and then to explain why certain issues have proved hard to resolve.
When we stop making it about everything that it isn't (a
successful human enterprise, saving the world, denominational differences, a clean culture, etc.), and focus on Jesus as the all in all, then it will make sense.
There's perhaps no habit that more firmly illustrates the global nature of the
modern human enterprise than drinking coffee.
At its best, science is
a human enterprise with a superhuman aim: the discovery of regularities in the order of nature, and the discerning of the consequences of those regularities.
It is something from which animals are exempt, except those who have the misfortune to be harnessed to
human enterprise, and it is something unknown to a creature of mere needs.
Of course, Cardinal Kasper is right that theology is
a human enterprise, done by humans with intellectual and personal histories and dispositions, and not just a participation in a Platonic realm of ideas.
We would find the truth that mattered, they both thought, by cooperating in
the human enterprise.
Recombinant DNA research can be encouraged by the church as one more way to acquire information about and to work with our world, but it must also be subject to some form of regulation, as must every other
human enterprise.
It is too bad that an almost incurable anthropocentrism has marked so much of our western ways of theologizing that we have tended to do less than justice to the other aspects and areas of the creation which are not directly related to
the human enterprise as such.
It is not based on divine revelation but on
the human enterprise of empirical science.
«Religion» has to do with human beliefs and behaviors that are as riddled with nonsense as any other
human enterprise.
The Human Enterprise (New York: Appleton - Century - Crafts, 1940), 369; cf. his Natural Laws and Human Hopes (New York: Henry Holt, 1926).
Perhaps the concept of freedom comes closer than any other single idea to summing up what
the human enterprise is all about.
In this upward movement mankind may find warrant for confidence and hope for the future of
the human enterprise.
The humanist Max Otto closes his survey of
the human enterprise with words of ringing promise:
His published writings and voluminous diary exhibit the gropings of an eclectic mind obsessed with the survival and spiritual growth of the Jewish people, American democracy, and
the human enterprise as a whole in an era of crisis and opportunity.
The human enterprise is a great adventure, as we move from the relatively settled world of our past, through decisions and actions in the present, toward the unexplored but alluring world of the future.
In the face of these dangers, can we have any confidence in the power of God to sustain
the human enterprise?
For the American man the frontier is a way of viewing
the human enterprise and a way of interpreting the life of the traveler.
Religion is that
human enterprise that «asks terrible (wonderful) questions.»
So there is a dignity about
the human enterprise.
Nothing about the moral adequacy of theism seems as obvious to them as Taylor's bold statement makes it» and they are sufficiently mindful of the atrocities committed in the name of God to suggest that whatever moral hope there is for
the human enterprise.