The pastoral role is concerned with ministry to individuals; the priestly role has to do with the proclamation of the faith and with leadership in the liturgical life of the church; the prophetic role focuses on judging the level of
humaneness in the social order and pointing to the changes required if common justice is to be approximated; the kingly role takes up governance and the expression of neighbor love through responsible corporate action.
The office of modern education is to
nurture humaneness within the new world generated by the progress of invention.
Since members of the medical profession must be faithful to their vocation, their work will always be more than a mere way of earning their living, it will reveal
true humaneness.
In one brochure, he also denounced the Russian legal system for its «
criminal humaneness,» which is something like denouncing Putin for excessive liberalism.
Peter Hitchens's «In Praise of Borders» demonstrates both the perceptiveness and the blind spots — the
deep humaneness and the disquieting parochialism — of his brand of romantic English conservatism.
17 - 26)-- specifications for ritualistic and ceremonial observance stand side by side with those
indicating humaneness and moral insight.
Adoption is not just getting a dog for free or for a token payment; it is a question of your
own humaneness and understanding that, genuinely good deeds are rare but still do happen in daily life.
Humaneness becomes subverted; calculated pursuit of the end justifies the means, with the help of alcohol and drugs to numb the emptiness that one's life endures whilst strategically acting out as the life of the party (s) as one continuously plays the part of the searcher in constant need of new business.
Fortunately, scientists have started to shed some light on the effectiveness and
humaneness of popular training approaches, in particular, how dogs trained with reward - based methods differ from dogs trained using aversive training techniques.
This course will train and certify personnel in the various euthanasia techniques; instruct personnel in the physiology of euthanasia; promote the concepts of compassion and
humaneness in euthanasia for shelter
[1] Raymond Houghton, To
Nurture Humaneness, ASCD (curriculum arm of the NEA), 1970 «The Protestant Ethic will atrophy as more and more enjoy varied leisure and guaranteed sustenance....
It was no small feat for England, in a period of massive social and economic changes, to attain a degree of civility and
humaneness that was the envy of the rest of the world.»
We have another heritage, however, springing from the great Hebrew prophets, coming to its fulfillment in Christ, gathering up the best of ancient Greece, a heritage of faith in God and man, of
humaneness and goodwill.
The formulation of penalties may be motivated or even dominated by considerations of deterrence, rehabilitation, mitigating circumstance,
humaneness, respect of persons or protection of society, but in every case there is necessarily the assumption that the legal penalty is occasioned and justified by the behavior of the one penalized.
But midway the mark of the kingdom is
humaneness, loving service, a deep concern for human need.
John L. McKenzie, «Biblical Anthropomorphism and
the Humaneness of God,» p. 182 in Religion and the Humanizing of Man, ed.
Most traditional religious groups in the country can, I think, find ways of learning from this elemental American commitment to
humaneness.
It represented the urbanity, the individualism,
the humaneness, the intelligence that we had come to prize.
It must be translated in terms of empathy,
humaneness, a sense of justice, the development of mutual relations between peoples.
Reference has been made to
the humaneness of the codes.
The utmost cruelty was not only allowed but commanded by Yahweh against Israel's rivals, and in the presence of habitual conflict fine ideals of
humaneness had their chance to develop only within the circle of the blood - brotherhood.