Sentences with phrase «human perfections as»

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The Quranic texts do not give in detail the code of laws regulating dealings — human actions — but they give the general principles which guide people to perfection, to a life of harmony — to an inner harmony between man's appetites and his spiritual desires, to harmony between man and the natural world, and to a harmony between individuals as well as a harmony with the society in which men live.

So the God of A might really and consistently have even less perfection than the human race, or whatever the atheist regards with such reverence as he may feel.

The Incarnation was intended to bring about the perfection of the individual and of human society through the integration of the whole human race as a family which takes its name from God the Father.

... viewing morality not simply as individual perfection but as part of a social context... tile concept of universal human values which are valid through history and across national, cultural lines respecting different political and cultural possibilities, but at the same time acknowledge some common goals.

This insight explains the vehemence of his attack upon the German quest for the historical Jesus, just as it illuminates his behavior» during his first years at Lambaréné, when he ransacked the intellectual storehouses of the world's religions in order to find some way to conceive of an affirmation of the world that was not merely mindless hedonism, a way that could motivate a powerful urge toward human betterment, toward perfection within the structures of natural existence.

By contrast, the perfection of the androgynous God of process thought consists in an ideal balance of these contrasting traits, not in the total exclusion of the traits this culture traditionally views as feminine, thus luring both human males and females to strive to create themselves in the divine image.

Christianity defines God as requiring perfection from humans otherwise they can't be around him.

The First Good, when it is understood as fulfillment of a natural potential, seems adequately suggested in the word «self» — hence my own preference for «self - perfection» as the nontheological version of this human fulfillment.

For as no human body is perfection, so neither is any self.

His aim, just as that of Homeric religion, was for human excellence, but whereas for Homeric religion this meant of public excellence of manner and action, for Socrates this meant the perfection of the soul as such.

Both the ascetic saint and the detached sage, exalted in various hagiographies as the true beacons for humanity, may in the final analysis in themselves prove to be poor human models, because they are, in spite of their perfection, incomplete human beings, static and unchanging.

The two intolerable positions are: first, one which deals irresponsibly with the given structures of society, as if some ultimate perfection could be secured by human effort; and, second, one which merely says the world is full of evils.

As the second Adam, he forms the pattern of human perfection.

As Niebuhr described it, the favorite strategy of avoiding the paradox is to claim the achievement of perfection (which in turn becomes a source of human arrogance).

A strong case has been made by F. J. E. Woodbridge that Plato not only does not seriously regard his «perfect state» as realizable, but that he means to make us see the error of imposing perfection too rigorously on human fallibility.3 Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward illustrates the utopia which becomes a persuasive call to radical social reforms.4 It also illustrates one of the functions of utopian thought as a medium of realistic criticism of the present.

It is not merely to be used for the actualization of certain accidental perfections which serve as ornament for human nature; it is for the constitution of the very substance, the very meaning of man.

We can not be sure that The Flood had no relationship to all flesh around that area having «corrupted its way»... The very protection of mankind from natural disasters that were inevitable from the contingent, limited perfection of the planet Earth as a habitat, might well have been mediated to human communities by great prophetic souls, even as Christ prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem as a consequence of his rejection, and because «in the day of your visitation, you did not know the things that were to your peace».

Because of this, Jesus as Lord is the norm by which everyone else is judged, for we are all meant to be as fully the embodiment, the fulfillment, the perfection of God's relationship in our human life as Jesus was in his.

In several places Oakeshott described it as Pelagian, insofar as it assumes the possibility of worldly perfection achievable through human action.

As the human nature of Christ is the perfect image, in the Son of Man, of our own identity and holiness, our wholeness in body and soul through God, so in the order of the spiritual soul, the Divine Being itself, as pure and perfect spirit, is the mirror image of our spiritual perfection, now and unto the beatific visioAs the human nature of Christ is the perfect image, in the Son of Man, of our own identity and holiness, our wholeness in body and soul through God, so in the order of the spiritual soul, the Divine Being itself, as pure and perfect spirit, is the mirror image of our spiritual perfection, now and unto the beatific visioas pure and perfect spirit, is the mirror image of our spiritual perfection, now and unto the beatific vision.

Likewise against the Manichees in the matter of the goodness of sexual desire and function, and against the Pelagians in the matter of its perfection and the need of inner grace to attain that perfection, Augustine gave again to the Church a synthesis of divine and human reasoning which the Church in his day, and for a thousand years and more afterwards, recognised as true in fact to the consequences of her doctrine.

The Reformers» alternative conception of the way of love in the world begins with the insight that the tendency of man is to seek self - justification and to think of ethical perfection as an achievement of human freedom.

It is Christ Jesus himself, the God - man who both perfected human nature and perfectly exemplified its perfection, «one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.»

Building on this convergence between reason and revelation, such thinkers as Aquinas developed an elaborate virtue ethics to outline what further perfections are possible and desirable for human nature, especially under the aid of grace.

Thus, he was always perfect: as a human person he was unsurpassable in divine perfection in conception or possibility, except by himself.

First, all religions and ideologies posit Love as the ultimate moral law of human perfection and community of love with its harmony as the final goal of human and cosmic relationships.

They ascribe human being's own highest perfection to a being different from the human being, to someone who does not even so much as exist.

Now this tendency, through the influence of grace, is not often exhibited in matters of faith; for it would be incipient heresy, and would be contrary, if knowingly indulged, to the first element of Catholic duty; but in matters of conduct, of ritual, of discipline, of politics, of social life, in the ten thousand questions which the Church has not formally answered, even though she may have intimated her judgment, there is a constant rising of the human mind against the authority of the Church, and of superiors, and that, in proportion as each individual is removed from perfection.

It is true that Descartes, a classical theist, did unequivocally affirm human freedom, as did Arminius, but neither of them removed the contradiction between this freedom and the timeless perfection of the deity which knows the free act.

(The doctrine of the sin of the human race has often been misused because it has not been noticed that sin, common though it is to all, does not gather men together in a common concept, into a society or a partnership («any more than out in the churchyard the multitude of the dead constitute a society»), but it splits men into individuals and holds every individual fast as a sinner — a splitting which in another sense is both in correspondence with and teleologically in the direction of the perfection of existence.

Teilhard made it clear, however, that without the presence of another personal being — God — this human perfection would not endure as a utopian realm of freedom but would yield to the psychophysical compression that formed it and disintegrate «in self - disgust.»

Eliade spoke of an «originative, repeatable primordium,» a sacred, mythic «Great Time,» which invited mortals to a consoling «nostalgia for the perfection of beginnings» and which helped them explain the world, even as it became «the exemplary model for all significant human activities.»

In Fr David Barrett's September 2007 article in this Magazine «The Church and Sacramentality», he explained Edward Holloway's definition of a sacrament as «the enfleshing... of an objective gift of God,... in Christ, enwrapped in matter as befits... the economy of God who became enwrapt with a human soul and body for the perfection and the beatification of His creature.»

• The need to exercising self - compassion as you process emotions • Emotional purging in a conscious way to move to an easier parenting journey • Moving passed mindfulness and consciousness to peacefulness • Functioning as a peaceful human being • Moving from «doing» to «being» • The value of peaceful presence, free of emotional trigger, for your kids • Modelling ownership of behavior for your kids • Peacefulness as a practice that takes time • Parenting as an extension of nature: gradually forging new pathways in your relationships and being expansive, not staying «stuck» • The healing power of authenticity with your kids • Aiming for perseverance and presence, not perfection • Exercising compassion for others and recognizing we don't know their struggles • Learning how not to try to control others and focus on self to remain peaceful • Journalling as a practice to release emotions • Finding opportunities for stillness • Releasing others from the responsibility for reading your mind • Shifting to a solution focus to create momentum • Fear: being curious about it to avoid being driven by it • Showing up in your own home to make a difference in the world • Practical ways to nourish yourself • Unconditional love — what does that look like?

I don't strive for perfection nor do I hold anyone to that standard as it simply doesn't exist in the human condition.

Despite his small 5» 3» stature Mohamed's shape and his overall ethereal qualities were said to be as close to human physical perfection as possible.

Cap started out as 90 - pound weakling Steve Rogers before one of those marvelous four - color plot devices turns him into the pinnacle of human perfection.

Considered to be the «Mozart» of computer coding by his peers, Nathan (Isaac) has created Ava (Vikander) an android robo - babe that could double as the personification of human perfection.

Intercut with the Kirk story is the equally brief introduction of the Vulcan Spock who, as a result of being half - Vulcan, half - human, is seen as disadvantaged by a society that demands a sense of perfection.

Just as humans, dogs have their good days and bad days and dogs are not robots that mechanically respond to cues with the perfection of a computer.

We Shall Wake will most likely hold the title of the best third - person action combat game to ever exist as it nears high - speed gameplay perfection, crazy super human powers and an in - depth combat customization system.

Human nature dictates that perfection is simply a fantastical thought, and while this appears as a curse, nothing can be exactly right to a species that thrives on progression and development.

Faced by a society that seems to strive for beauty and perfection it is possible that core human values such as warmth and soul might easily be lost.

I have places in my sculpture that are extremely refined and smooth, which represent perfection of the soul and, in the same piece, places that are raw, showing the more elemental state we come from as human beings.

Teiger's fascination with anatomical perfection extended to the human physique as well.

As explained further in the book's foreward by Kenneth Lapatin - associate curator of Antiquities at J. Paul Getty Museum: «He [Blake] was amazed by honey's transformations when dripped, dribbled, and poured over the human body, and how it can distort and amplify forms, highlight physical perfection, engender repulsion, and suggest both immortality and death.

Instead one might consider the individual elements that comprise these works as meditations on the interconnectedness of human beings, the beauty in perfection, or the order in chaos.

No one will ever always be «right» (a subjective concept at best unless one is discussing science or mathematics etc.) or agreed with by all; that is an impossible objective known as perfection; perfection does not exist; it is a human construct.