Sentences with phrase «human wisdom as»

Viewed in light of its aftermath, the Easter event, the cross stands as a signpost on the path to understanding God's true power not in crushing evil but in surmounting its finality in what appears to human wisdom as foolishness and weakness.

When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.

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Luke tells us that as a boy he «grew in his wisdom» (Lk 2:52), but the Church has taught that this means «his human nature was instructed by his own divinity» (Jerome) or that while remaining divine «he made his own the progress of humans in wisdom and grace» (John of Damascus).

Drawing on the wisdom of thinkers as diverse as St. Augustine and Leon Kass, and on the common sense of such figures as Charlie Brown and former NFL linebacker Bill Romanowski, Schall wittily argues that «unserious activities» help make human life worth living.

But I have long ago stopped regarding it as a perfect text so I am willing to look past the human weaknesses there to find many nuggets of wisdom.

Holloway argues «The aspiration of human knowledge is to attain as closely as possible to the unity of the wisdom of God.»

The revelational rap against apologetic theology is that it either engages in a sellout to the «world» (the self - disclosure of God being so utterly relativized by human wisdom that Christians are unable to tell atheists anything that they don't already know), or it is an exercise in various intellectual imperialisms, such as: «We can prove the existence of God» or «If human culture really understood itself, it would find that it is striving toward that which we already have.»

And though very often it is literal light, it is also the wisdom of the poet who helps us to understand more deeply what it is to be human, just as our Lord himself took flesh to do.

Jes Kast - Keat serves as Associate Minister at West End Collegiate Church in NYC (Reformed Church in America), and is an all - around delightful human being who brings humor, sass, and wisdom to her ministry and to her friendships.

What availed as the common wisdom of mankind until the day before yesterday — for example, that man, woman, mother, and father name natural realities as well as social roles, that children issue naturally from their union, that the marital union of man and woman is the foundation of human society and provides the optimal home for the flourishing of children — all this is now regarded by many as obsolete and even hopelessly bigoted, as court after court, demonstrating that this revolution has profoundly transformed even the meaning of reason itself, has declared that this bygone wisdom now fails even to pass the minimum legal threshold of rational cogency.

But when the man refuses to do this, when he does not accept the word as a Word of God, when he takes refuge behind doubt, or eternity, or human wisdom, when this man asks God to wait, then God rejects him, but he does not send him to hell.

True human wisdom, as God's tiny son demonstrates to us, is not in how much we know; it is in knowing on whom to depend.

Hittinger correctly points out that this new Thomism finds its point of reference in the human experience: «The Church has held Thomas as the master because humans themselves thirst for the kind of wisdom Thomas pursued and taught.

Far from conforming human persons to a philosophical system, the Church has held Thomas as the master because humans themselves thirst for the kind of wisdom Thomas pursued and taught.

God also entrusted humans with an awesome responsibility to behave like him, in terms of his justice, wisdom and humility, as we travel through history.

Luther's theology seeks to stay close to the perspective of the self addressed by God's words of judgment and promise; Aquinas» theology seeks to view all things as much as possible from the viewpoint of God's all - encompassing wisdom, in which the human mind is allowed to participate.

13 These things we also speak, not with words taught by human wisdom, but with those taught by [the] spirit, as we combine spiritual [matters] with spiritual [words].

It embraces a fruitful abundance of descriptions of God, including all the substantive terms that can legitimately complete the sentence, «God is...,» beginning with scriptural terms such as Word, Wisdom, Water of Life, Bread from Heaven, Truth, and Comforter, as well as alternative proper names such as El Shaddai and also El Roi» Hagar's name for God, in the only biblical story where a human being gives God a name.

But the more frequently stated goal is as revolutionary as it claims to be — to displace the common wisdom regarding human sexuality in both church and culture.

For wisdom about the human condition, ancient scripture can be interesting and revealing — as can any good literature, visual art, poetry, music, and such.

Each of them alone, to say nothing of the other five, is so formidable as to be staggering if undertaken only by human strength and wisdom.

I really find it unfortunate also that some believers go to the other extreme of that spectrum, that Jefferson was worthless or questionable as a human being because he took out all the extraneous matter to find the kernel of wisdom that they acknowledge is in there.

Just as there is a human wisdom that comes with maturity and is the result of the interaction of experience and critical reflection, so there is a theological wisdom that comes with maturity and is the result of the interaction of critical reflection, of experience in the church, of engagement with Scripture, of Christian witness today, and of the testimony of the Holy Spirit.9

Whereas the East was interested in Wisdom, the divine Law, and the Kingship of God, the less abstractly minded, more concretely thinking and believing West — it will be said — demanded the adoration of a person, of a divine - human being, a Son of God, as the center of its religious loyalties.

As long as we cling to our own categories we can not hear the voices of our tradition that speak about the importance of poverty and silence, that talk about the benefits of unjust suffering, that understand self - knowledge in terms of internal bondage, that depict human struggle in terms of solitude and self - abnegation, that speak of freedom in terms of self - denial and asceticism, and that perceive wisdom in terms of detachment and transcendencAs long as we cling to our own categories we can not hear the voices of our tradition that speak about the importance of poverty and silence, that talk about the benefits of unjust suffering, that understand self - knowledge in terms of internal bondage, that depict human struggle in terms of solitude and self - abnegation, that speak of freedom in terms of self - denial and asceticism, and that perceive wisdom in terms of detachment and transcendencas we cling to our own categories we can not hear the voices of our tradition that speak about the importance of poverty and silence, that talk about the benefits of unjust suffering, that understand self - knowledge in terms of internal bondage, that depict human struggle in terms of solitude and self - abnegation, that speak of freedom in terms of self - denial and asceticism, and that perceive wisdom in terms of detachment and transcendence.

The secularisation of life through the new wisdoms of science and the philosophy of science are part of the same one revolt from Christ as Lord of human life and history.

All of these world views and the syncretistic Christian combination of them had long been peppered with pithy slogans, golden rules, words of wisdom, etc., which range from Socrates» Know thyself to Christ's If you lose the world, you gain it and on to Nothing in excess and Treat every human as an end in itself.

But in view of the oft - emphasized aphorism that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, it is certain that the author thinks of religious faith and conduct as holding also an honored, if not primary, place among such human treasure.

By postulating the existence of two natures in this one person, the Doctrine of the Incarnation allowed one to say that the suffering of Jesus as reported in the Gospels was experienced by the one human - and - divine person through his human nature, which avoided a run - in with the prevailing wisdom of the time.

This optimistic approach to man's virtue and the problem of evil expresses itself philosophically as the idea of progress in history.17 The empirical method of modern culture has been successful in understanding nature; but, when applied to an understanding of human nature, it was blind to some obvious facts about human nature that simpler cultures apprehended by the wisdom of common sense.

Wisdom we first saw as a human attainment, then as a cosmic quality immanent in the world and in human life.

You can post quotes from and references to this book all year long and it will not change the fact that: Yes, there are some practical words of wisdom for peaceful human behavior in it (as there are in most religious texts), but just because this is true it does not make all of the supernatural fantasies in it true.

Simplistic growth models such as unfolding flowers are deceptively attractive but inadequate when applied to the complexities of human life The recognition that «dying» precedes rebirth is a valuable part of ancient Christian wisdom (expressed symbolically by crucifixion preceding resurrection).

Nevertheless, in the very name of the Incarnation itself, and the majesty of divine wisdom contained within that economy of human salvation, we insist urgently upon the fact that the birth of Christ is the summit not only of theology and philosophy, but of the material sciences as well.

According to Julian, then, as beloved human beings created in the image of the Trinity, we already, right now, at this moment, have our resources for the year ahead: the capacities truly to see God who is the truth, to contemplate God who is wisdom, and to delight in God who is love.

In political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutions.

It is to be expected as part of that one wisdom of God, seen in his magnificent work of creation, extending into human history.

[14] Human nature as flesh and spirit was created not only «in Wisdom», but specifically «in Jesus Christ» the Incarnate Wisdom of God who recapitulates all things in himself.

Allow me to put this in sociological terms (sociology provides a limited but useful «grammar» here): Every human society has its own corpus of officially accredited wisdom, the beliefs and values that most people take for granted as self - evidently true.

It sought a solution of the problem by way of personifying the concepts of God's Word and God's Wisdom, identifying, as I said just now, Word and Wisdom with a pre-existent Son of God, and asserting that it was this divine being, this personal projection or offspring of the mind and purpose of God who took human nature and lived and died and rose from death.

Jane, Buddhism is one of the great religions of the world, in panthrotheism it is one of all religions that God had willed to serve humans who believes on its doctrine.But since we are all humans, we have to experience all the trials of life so that in the future when His Will shall be implemented by us, the wisdom of experience of all religions will be the basis of our decisions.Thats why genocides, wars,, pestilence, natural calamities, and all what we percieve as injustices, such as tyranny, persecutions and all the negative events in history is part of His will, because in panthrotheism, there is no devil or satan.everything has a reason.and we have to accept it, Remember that He is not faith selective but performance appreciative, it is the good things you do that He wills.

As regards what it means to be human and to gain the power to stay human, Jesus Christ is the «wisdom of God» and the «power of God» (1 Cor.

There we find such hopeful images of the human creature as a creature bearing the image of God, pilgrim, co-creator, steward, creature with the potentiality for maturing in wisdom, faith, hope and love.

@NII YOU SOUND LIKE YOU ARE GUILTY AND TALKED ABOUT OTHER FALSEHOOD RELIGION YOU DID NOT LIKE OR UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU WAS LITTLE CHILD OR YOUNGER ADULT OR MID LIFE PERSON.THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF GLOBAL FALSEHOOD RELIGIONS.BUT THIS ONE THING DOES NOT LIE (DNA) Y CHROMOSOME EVEN TOP SUPER SMART BLOND HEAD BLUE EYE PALE SKIN SUPER DNA RESEARCH PROFESSIONALS WITH MULTIPLE PHD DEGREES FROM NORWAY SWEDEN AND FINLAND DENMARK ETC KNOW THAT THE Y CHROMOSOME ALSO KNOWN AS THE ADAM Y CHROMOSOME CAMED OUT OF EAST AFRICA.falsehood religion did not make.the human race WISDOM DID WISDOM WALKED AND TALKED WITH MAN IT WAS WISDOM THAT MADE ADAM AND EVE.THINK ABOUT IT @NII NOW THE MOST DOMINANT DNA BELONGS TOO BLACK PEOPLE NOT EUROPEANS.LOOK AT ALL YOUR MIXED RACE BLACK PEOPLE»S TIGER WOOD»S HALLEY BERRY LENNY KRAVITZ LISA BONET ETC DNA DO NT LIE man made falsehood religion do lie

What is unshakeable is that God in his great wisdom has put us all here and I believe that as human beings our greatest achievement will be to truly love and respect one another regardless of race, gender, appearance, faith or lack of faith.

Professor Celia Deane - Drummond's book, The Wisdom of the Liminal: Evolution and Other Animals in Human Becoming, is an ambitious attempt to counter this trend by bringing questions about animals — as evolved and evolving — into a sustained dialogue with theological anthropology, seeking thereby to reshape the theological vision of the human peHuman Becoming, is an ambitious attempt to counter this trend by bringing questions about animals — as evolved and evolving — into a sustained dialogue with theological anthropology, seeking thereby to reshape the theological vision of the human pehuman person.

This is not to say that a sound and sensible way of dealing with nature is not a part of the wisdom appropriate to humans, and as such itself a gift of God (cf. Isa 28:23 - 29).

Law is not a work of heteronomous (external) imposition but a work of wisdom, and good law facilitates our achievement of the human goods that we instinctively seek because of who we are and what we are meant to be as human beings.

Von Rad in his OT Theology, part one, (German 1957) has touched «Wisdom» as one of the aspects of the human response to the divine saving deeds, thus relegating it to a lesser degreexxv.

@AE — I have had my human spirit as a guide, my morals based on the golden rule, and the wisdom (and errors) made by the many that have preceded me.