Sentences with phrase «human hostility»

Heat gets a bad rap for fueling human hostility.

CSGC defines martyrs as «believers in Christ who have lost their lives prematurely, in situations of witness, as a result of human hostility.»

The Christian analysis of human experience as exemplifying a «mystery of iniquity,» or a ubiquitous «missing» of the experience we most deeply seek and need, means that the explication of Christ's transforming effect upon humanity will not involve merely a perfecting of our intrinsic capabilities, but an overcoming of human hostility to God's aims, a healing of human deformation consequent to that hostility, and a reuniting of humanity with the God from whom we are estranged.

All the human bitterness, the rivalry, jealousy, envy, and human hostility is transformed in him into a life - giving power that accepts abuse, endures pain, allows death, and gives only love in return.

When discussing Christ's transforming effect upon humanity, Wheeler implies that, for both evangelicals and process theists, the essence of any such transformation «will not involve merely a perfecting of our intrinsic capabilities, but an overcoming of human hostility to God's aims, a healing of human deformation consequent to that hostility, and a reuniting of humanity with the God from whom we are estranged.»

Not exact matches

But «those incidents don't obliterate the well - established record of hostility to civil rights enforcement in other areas,» said Wade Henderson, the president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

The United Nations human rights expert on Myanmar voiced deep concern on Tuesday at a sharply escalation in hostilities in Kachin state, citing reports of the army using aerial bombings, heavy weapons and artillery fire on civilian areas near China.

People have varying kinds of experience with human fathers and, as soon as one speaks of God as father, some are sure to project upon God the dependency, fear, hostility or resentment that has marked their relationship with their earthly father.

Estrangement and alienation are not biblical terms, but they are implied in the biblical description of the human predicament; the expulsion from paradise, the hostility between humanity and nature, the hostility of person against person, of nation against nation, and of the continuous complaint of the prophets against the rulers.

Thus, while process thinkers and evangelicals may both be able to claim with integrity that, through Jesus Christ, we can overcome our human «hostility to God's aims» and be «reunited with God,» for evangelicals this is true only because God became human, died and rose again — that is, because God unilaterally intervened in the most direct manner possible in earthly affairs.

It is the demand inscribed into infinitely aspiring human nature by the Creator; its perversion in idolatry, hostility and self - centeredness is the heart of man's tragedy; its reconstruction, redirection and empowerment is redemption from evil.

But he lamented how Burma's people have suffered «and continue to suffer from civil conflict and hostilities», and insisted that everyone who calls Burma home deserves to have their basic human rights and dignity guaranteed.

The religion of early humans focused on the maintenance of stable tribal existence in the face of nature's wild elements and the hostility of other peoples.

When one is content in his own life, he isn't prone to such hostility toward people he has never met and have done him no harm — assuming it is a reasonable individual possessing any sort of self control or true intelligence — certainly a basic understanding of human interaction.

It is rather the fullness of justice, leading to that tranquility of order which is much more than a fragile and temporary cessation of hostilities, involving as it does the deepest healing of the wounds which fester in human hearts.

The Samaritan ignored the barrier of national and religious hostility in the face of human need.

It is clear that our hostility to nature flows partly from a vision of the cosmos in which we humans are only accidentally present and essentially absent.

It's difficult to understand how this can happen, especially today, when hostility appears to be the bread and butter of human relating and living.

Such an attention getting event might be the simultaneous and overnight, 1) world wide total and permanent remission of all cancers, 2) world wide regeneration of limbs of all amputees, 3) world wide total cessation of sëx trafficking human abuse, 4) world wide total cessation of child abuse, 5) world wide cessation of all hostilities, 6) world wide sudden curing of diseases cause by genetic defects.

There they were the object of considerable hostility from Greeks and Romans who regarded them as superstitious, exclusive, and — in the words of Tacitus — hostile to the human race.

The need for relief is a consequence of the hostility of nature to human existence and the moral imperative for human beings to overcome nature's tyranny through productive labor.

Like Job, he might discover that, while the natural order seems inimical to human happiness, its operations might have their own purposes, not revealing any divine hostility toward human well - being.

It's like humans want what they don't have and have an inclination to hostility to people that ae different.

Given the total hostility to criticism and severe reprisals meted out against critics by President Rajapaksa's regime Amnesty believes the UK government has a particular duty to ensure the brave families, journalists and human rights defenders they meet whilst in Sri Lanka are protected and supported by the British Embassy.

Not to mention the hostility other reanimated species might face if their interests run counter to those of humans sharing a habitat.

Addressing a molecular medicine congress, Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and a founder of the Human Genome Project, urged Germany to overcome widespread hostility to genetics research and focus on the great benefits that applying genome research can offer humankind.

He fell for more than 4 minutes before landing safely in the desert of New Mexico, proving that people could survive the hostility of space, and pioneering technology to protect human life in that environment.

Elizabeth Loftus of the University of California, Irvine, a current member of the AAAS Board of Directors and a psychologist specializing in human memory, has received the 2016 John Maddox Prize, recognizing «sound science and evidence on a matter of public interest, facing difficulty or hostility in doing so.»

In his account of the bitter race to catalog human DNA, James Shreeve shows that at least part of the hostility toward Venter was bureaucratic, not personal.

The hostilities involve institutions (M.I.T. and Harvard versus University of California), gender (Doudna, Charpentier, Zhang), geography (east versus west coast) and what you might call über - institutions (the Broad Institute, which has become an empire of genomic research under Lander's direction, especially after his leading role in the Human Genome Project, versus the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, whose president, Robert Tjian, is based at Berkeley and has co-authored at least one CRISPR paper with Doudna, also an HHMI investigator).

The reason for the hostility, Dennett believes, is that «People ache to believe that we human beings are vastly different from all other species.»

There is a widespread but false assumption that us - against - them hostility is an inevitable part of human nature.

Some of that hostility reflected skepticism about whether climate change was real and, if it was, whether humans played a key role in causing it.

But it should be kept in mind that among our own conservatives, there is a home - grown hostility towards the UN which emerged in the late 1990s in the Australian campaign against the UN's human rights system.2 The criticisms by the Howard Government of the UN human rights system and the calls for it to be reformed were driven by anger and embarrassment at international condemnation of Australia's treatment of asylum seekers and inability to solve the problems of Indigenous disadvantage.

At the risk of oversimplification, this third piece in a series of four on HRA 1998 seeks to identify the different strands of hostility that coalesce to the effect that the British public has yet to take human rights to its heart.

The closeness expressed by wrong - minded individuals serves to exclude and express hostility to those who properly value human rights and the legal underpinnings of our justice system.

[7] The criticisms of the NTA by the Human Rights Committee in 2000 following CERD's observations were met with similar hostility.