Sentences with phrase «human predicament»

Her drawings and paintings range from miniature narratives where characters navigate a world of human predicaments, to large scale figures tumbling alone through space.

Other methods may give «religious» experiences, but only Christianity insists that the life of the spirit must be expressed within the terms of the present human predicament.

For Lutheran Christians, such despair in face of the universal and radical human predicament can only be overcome through the gospel, which announces forgiveness of sins and redemption of life under the conditions of an ambiguous world chained by sin and death.

For many human predicaments, classification as «illness» has been a gesture of hope and acceptance.

Whereas the religious traditions from the Axial Period onwards each arose at one point and then radiated outwards, the global religion (if it comes at all) will probably arise more or less spontaneously out of the common human predicament.

A thousand years from now our descendants will be facing difficult times, some of their problems being new and others being the same old problems that plague us today, because they will share inevitably in the perennial human predicament.

Your thoughts about the human - driven overpopulation aspect of the distinctly human predicament we are presenting to the whales, to humanity and to life as we know it are always welcome.

These whales are threatened by a multi-faceted, human - forced problem, one I prefer to name a colossal human predicament.

At least to me, it speaks to us about the very essence of the human - induced, global human predicament that could soon confront the human community.

«It is a sad feature of the human predicament, in personal as in public life, that whenever one has the agreeable sensation of being impressively moral, one probably is not,» Kennan said.

Learning to live with tension, is part of the human predicament.

Christian artists and audiences have come to expect either a sanitized view of the human predicament or a picture of conversion that shortchanges the high cost of following Christ.

The human predicament is described by words such as estrangement and alienation.

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.

Estrangement is implied in Paul's classical description of the human predicament of «man against himself» because of his conflicting desires.

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Can it not be more widely recognized that we are all in the human predicament together and that the pooling of knowledge and experience might lead to considerably more light being shed on the business of living which faces every one of us.

In the twenty - first century, philosophy's task will be to rebuild a positive response to the human predicament that starts with the cause of that predicament, man's alienation from God.

The cause of Jesus» suffering is sin and the human predicament.

The one who can endure the loneliness of disappointed love, without bitterness and rancor, and goes on to affirm the healing that time can bring, experiences the human predicament radically and creatively.

Through the method of correlation, the existential questions which arise from our human predicament find response in theological answers derived from revelation.

One of the tasks of a preacher is to bring to those who hear him exactly this understanding of the human predicament: a genuine sense of value in human life but yet an accompanying grasp of its incompleteness, frustration, and inadequacy.

Marx's analysis of the human predicament and alienation leads him from the criticism of religion to the criticism of society.

Perhaps, in all their striving, they revealed a stubborn truth about the human predicament.

Niebuhr concluded that neither the insights of Luther nor Calvin were able to do justice to the paradox of grace or the problems of the human predicament.

The other facet of the human predicament is that the will of man inevitably corrupts itself in competing interests.

The will aspect of the human predicament is answered by God's grace in Christ as the power of God (to be treated in the next section of this chapter).

This makes it imperative to see as clearly as possible our human opportunities and human predicament, and try to discern what God is saying to us in the midst of it.

If this is so, then also to be God is not to experience the human predicament.

I have the feeling that this is not simply a minor point, but that a central fact of the human predicament is precisely that of being and feeling separate from the infinite and eternal God.

The global culture will evolve, if it evolves at all, out of the spread of global consciousness (as described in Chapter 8)-- a consciousness of the human predicament, an appreciation of humanity's dependence on the earth, and a willingness to act jointly in response.

We criticize this combination a lot, both for what it says and for what it fails to say about the human predicament.

Nonetheless, no less an «atheist for Niebuhr» than Perry Miller, in his great volumes on the New England Mind, stated baldly that what he admired about the Puritans was that they faced directly the realities of the human predicament.

It appears that Thomas is proposing something unusually sweeping: God is not some false answer to the human predicament, nor simply the brutal cause of their distress but the very predicament itself.

Nevertheless, they point vividly to a new dimension of the human predicament that must be faced by anyone concerned about the future of the world.

Is this «vision» of how - it - is the best way to talk about and understand the human predicament?

This is the human predicament.

The citation to the Board of Managers read:» [Woolf] presents with compassion and honesty the human predicament in which we are caught in the dilemmas of life.

I believe the time is coming when this geocentric conception of the human predicament will seem foolish and inadequate.

Not only was this myth meaningful within Israel and the former generations of Christian believers, but also to us living in the new world, three thousand years later, it still speaks powerfully, as it lights up for us our human nature and our human predicament.

The effective pastor is one who has learned as a result of his own involvement in the human predicament and can admit to his own experience of «caughtness.»