Sentences with phrase «human reason»

Since the source of the image is infinite in depth, the image bears something of this depth, something beyond the limits of human reason.

There is a loss of confidence in human reason.

Here reason has an important but not an exclusive role within theology; historic revelation and personal experience must be interpreted, analyzed, and communicated by human reason.

You will find when and why it was all cooked up by humans, for human reasons, in human cultures, in known human contexts.

The limits on human reason and the defects in human will translate into limits on politics.

There is a very tangible, human reason why people who describe themselves as spiritual have rising numbers.

No claims that go beyond human reason for crying out loud.

More than just avoiding probate or reducing taxes, there's the very human reasons listed in this article to benefit those you love.

If we can trust human reason, it has to be because it guides us towards true beliefs.

But in reality it gives too little place to the universal power of natural human reason, whether philosophical, scientific, or historical.

Goes on prove that happy people are those that don't let the faulty human reasoning come in the way of their happiness!

Finally, the third stage reduces the scope of human reason even further.

Indeed, while it allegedly defends matters of faith, it typically deals primarily with revelation only from the point of view of what appeals to finite human reason.

I am not sure what you mean with your comment about human reason.

Human reason only works on an individual level — maybe.

He has sought, in notable contrast to the majority of his theological peers, to address universal human reason.

Human nature — which means, minimally, the body and its needs and limitations — shapes human reason and reason shapes what we take to be human nature.

No, at least not in the sense that religion is a revealed doctrine, surpassing human reason and accepted as a matter of faith.

What I would like you to consider is not merely the science but basic human reasoning and sensibility.

It requires the use of human reason and human learning.

Something constructive must be left in human reason and conscience if man is to have a basis for a collective life with a measure of justice and sanity.

For it begins with God, not with human reasoning, and how we conceive of God is dependent on the nature of the reality that is presented to us — in the language of the Bible, that which is seen.

Our editorial argues, among other things, that the object of modern science is not a radically delimited subset of the physical realm, and thus that scientific methodology, properly understood, is just a part of that exercise of human reason which is ultimately in profound synthetic harmony with faith.

Again, this is the doctrinal position of the Catholic Church: «If anyone says that the One true God, our Creator and Lord, can not be known with certainty with the natural light of human reason through the things that are created anathema sit.»

Count me as a fool but I will follow the Word of God and not human reason.

Earlier still, Thomas Aquinas, in the 1260s, saw human reason as vital not just to philosophy and science but also to theology.

Revelation's supernatural truths transcend human reason.

The philosophers would not acknowledge that by «becoming flesh» the divine Logos made it possible for human beings to know God more fully than they could by means of human reasoning alone.

earthquakes, and that the rise of modern science (inspired, of course, by Enlightenment values exalting human reason over divine revelation) has rendered religion obsolete.

But you believe it to be there because OTHER PEOPLE»S THEORIES & limited human reasoning skills have lead to a consensus.

Having granted the legitimate, indeed essential, place of human reason within religion, we need to identify the truth about God and the world, and the relationship between them.

I will take human reason, faith, and comapssion with wisdom and sensibility over one - dimensional athiest commentary.

Granting all this, however, the absurdity, or the mystery, if you like, is that the same human reason arrives at opposite conclusions.

When human reason denies its basis in creation, it becomes unreason.

But this Deist view of nature (as the manifestation of divine reason) was soon replaced by a Cartesian world view that set human reason outside and above nature.

It is a story that exalts human reason, places criticism over faith, disdains revelation as a source of knowledge, and, to put a spiritual cast upon it, postulates that our purpose on Earth is to discover reliable knowledge.

The idea of freedom has proved quite baffling to philosophy, because human reason is prone to posit causes antecedent to every effect as the adequate explanation of that effect.

Here de Lubac is right: Revelation should not be placed in opposition to fallen human reason.