We support and encourage initiatives that promote
human relationships which are based upon respect, dignity and non-violence.
(5:24), he means specifically justice and righteousness in the Yahweh - Israel relationship, the justice and righteousness in
human relationships which honor Yahweh, by which the life of Yahweh's people is fulfilled, and in adherence to which Yahweh's purposes in Israel may be consummated.
If the actualization of our mental life is so delicately balanced on the preparation of an extremely complex physiological base, we might also maintain that the «actualization» of the divine life, on our planet at least, is even more sensitively dependent upon the preparation of a network of
human relationships which would be the receptacle of the divine incarnation.
All these are aspects of
human relationships which are intensified where there is love.
A theology of grace does not negate the law, but it seeks to transform those aspects of
human relationships which the law can not touch and which may even make law a vehicle for hatred and sin.
Those who had argued in favor of premarital sexual relationships — many of them Christians — had tended to make assumptions about
human relationships which allowed them to avoid analysis and struggle.
The Christian seeks the kind of
human relationship which follows from and embodies the reconciling deed.
Not exact matches
For this post, I'll be covering how to build great links from local authorities —
which time and time again has proven to require
human creativity and leveraging
relationships.
Unfortunately, little attention is given to understanding how
human dignity of the clinician is threatened and violated in the current health care environment... [
which] has led to the systemic violation of the dignity of the clinician (and ultimately that of persons who are sick), created moral distress among clinicians, and the collapse of the healing
relationship.
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relationship between Gd and
human.
The
relationship between God and man, with
which theology (Jewish or Christian) is primarily concerned, could now only be postulated if it contributed to the elaboration of ethical theory Moreover, the only divine -
human relationship that this new anthropocentrism would tolerate was between a postulated deity and the
human individual.
I recommend that you read the book «Theology of the Body»
which teaches the Catholic theology about
human relationships.
I moved toward an intimate
relationship with Jesus —
which taught me all I needed to know about the most important questions we as
humans ask.
If you are two consenting adult
human beings and you desire to have a loving, committed
relationship in
which to raise a family, and you wish to have all of the benefits and responsibilities that comes with it, marriage is a good choice.
Our home cell system is a funtional structure
which has helped with building stronger
relationships and works well among the yout who are highly relational at this stage of their
human development, but I still feel we are missing it somewhere.
Again, think of any
human relationship (
which are given to use to help us understand our
relationship with God).
It is a way of loving in
which nature works through grace to restore the love in
human relationships to God's original intention.
The only «proof» to
which it can be subjected is this: Does it correctly portray the God -
human relationship?
The dynamics of
human development, of sexual
relationships, and of interpersonal adjustment are now interpreted with insights
which have not been available in the past, and we have discovered that much pastoral work has been done in ignorance of many factors
which we need to understand.
It is right to acknowledge that this gap in the
human experience of the Word Incarnate causes difficulty to some people, for it seems on the surface that this most vital area of personal
relationship and responsibility is to some extent a room
which Christ has not been through before us.
We have been seeking to understand the structure of
human life as a history of personal
relationships in
which God's grace works as transforming power.
It is rather that in the incarnation of the Word of God humanity has been taken into unity with God;
human life has been sanctified; and a way has been opened for all men in every century and in all circumstances to enter into their right
relationship to the Creator (the
relationship of sons to their Father) through God's gracious approach to them in Christ and the response of trust and obedience
which God in Christ evokes from them.
He writes that it is «partly the outcome of the
human body, partly the single directive agency of the body, partly a system of cogitations
which have a certain irrelevance to the physical
relationships of the body» (PR 164f).
Few factors were as influential in Jesus» teaching as the seriousness with
which he appropriated from his Old Testament heritage these home
relationships as symbolizing divine -
human kinship, and the insight with
which he enlarged and deepened this use of the family.
The Church recognises the family as the building block of society and for good reason has carefully defended the understanding of family
relationships and of
human sexuality
which is so intimately linked to the ordering of family life and the procreation of succeeding generations.
For Catholic schools to be a worthwhile enterprise for the Church, they must survive and flourish as institutions where pupils grow in a «personal
relationship with Jesus»
which includes following the teaching of Jesus, through His Church, that we should attend Mass every Sunday, go to confession regularly, say our prayers and be loyal to the magisterium - especially in its moral teaching regarding the sanctity of
human life, and the meaning and purpose of sex and marriage, in accord with Humanae Vitae and Evangelium Vitae.
Obviously to transgress these boundaries was not a misdemeanor, it was breaking the very fiber of
which the divine -
human relationship consisted.
Science has very little to offer in solving problems of
human relationships, even though these are the problems
which most need to be solved.
He says that the family is the primary unit of community because all
human relationships derive from the familial bond within
which we minister being and existence to one another.
The state, then, is ultimately based on these natural and supernatural
relationships which make us
human and children of God.
Jesus Christ is the «Elect One,» not by some effort of
human nature alone, for that would not be real election, but by God's eternal purpose
which «from the beginning of the world» — and long before it, too, if we may so speak — has determined that «in the fullness of the times» there shall be just such an actualization of the potential God - Man
relationship as Christian faith discerns in Christ our Lord.
But humanity is spiritual as well as physical, and so
human society is founded on the absolute value of the individual and the need for a direct
relationship with God as the Environment in
which men find their Life - Law and their fulfilment:
CiV speaks of
human relationships coming under the «logic of gratuitousness», [1] a gratuity
which is another name for the Caritas
which even more profoundly marks all God's dealings with us.
At the peak of that unfolding equation, matter is gathered into ontological unity with directly created spirit to form
human nature,
which exists in direct and personal
relationship to God who is the Living Environment of grace and providence for every
human being and for mankind as a whole.
10... «only a sound philosophy can help candidates for the priesthood to develop a reflective awareness of the fundamental
relationship that exists between the
human spirit and truth, that truth
which is revealed to us fully in Jesus Christ.»
The reason unconstrained aggression is so potentially destructive to
human relationships is that often it does not permit those subsequent goods to emerge
which otherwise could have taken root if they had not been withered by the heat of aggression.
If positive values tend to confirm
relationships and negative values to fracture them, then the particular ways in
which changes take place in the
human scene will depend upon the systems of value
which pertain.
The theories of the Atonement so far mentioned are all sometimes called «objective»,
which is to say that Jesus» death on the cross made an objective factual difference to sin and to
human beings»
relationship to God.
Eduardo Galeano said at the Mexico Congress: «In the soulless world
which we are forced to accept as the only one possible, there are no citizens, just consumers; there are no nations, just companies; there are no cities, just agglomerations; there are no
human relationships, just commercial competitions» (Media Development, 1/1996: 22).
He argues that, for Calvin, all theological knowledge has the «practical telos» of «whole
human lives of genuine pietas,
which is to say, whole
human lives of vibrant, graceful
relationship with God.»
As Carl Dudley writes, «When church size is measured by
human relationships, the small church is the largest expression of the Christian faith,» And David Ray reminds us that «small churches are the norm, primarily because many, many people still find them to be the right size In
which to love God and neighbor.
The frequent presence of a «value vacuum» (Frankl) in the personality and
relationship problems brought to counselors emphasizes Erich Fromm's conviction that every
human being needs a «system of thought and action shared by a group
which gives the individual a frame of orientation and an object of devotion.»
In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the
human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things»
which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of
relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community
which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.
The actualities and
relationships which constitute
human experience are felt in a context of relativity
which is ultimately rooted in physical
relationships.
All of the great religions have attempted to call
human beings to their proper
relationship to God and with each other — that
relationship which is love.
Taking note of the altered world - consciousness of
human beings in this century, according to
which Being is to be understood in strictly interpersonal terms, Mühlen suggests, first of all, that the classical expression homoousios, as applied to the Son's
relationship to the Father, does not necessarily mean that the Son is of the same substance as the Father but only that he is of equal being (gleichseiendlich) with the Father (VG 13).
Because God wills to have a people that is holy in every aspect of its existence, God provides a land in
which it may dwell, so that even this most elementary dimension of
human existence may be brought within the compass of
relationship to God.
By «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name of love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows of his
relationship to
human beings in history, and especially in the recorded utterances of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this life, by virtue of «the redemption
which is in Christ Jesus» (Rom.
The Catholic writer understands the necessary
relationship between truth and beauty,
which is not mere social convention or cultural accident but an essential form of
human knowledge — intuitive, holistic, and experiential.
While you may scoff at trying to form a personal
relationship with any large cosmic force greater than yourself, thinking them innate stardust whose signals can not even propagate fast enough for such communication, others marvel it's effectiveness and capable mechanisms
which remain out of reach for
human science at present.