Sentences with phrase «humanity as a real person»

It is only Jesus in his utter humanity as a real person who can empty himself and become nothing.

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If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

Would it not be that the West and the institutions of global governance, having closed themselves to transcendence, have stopped searching for what is real, true and good for humanity as a whole and for each individual person, and therefore prove unable to forge any genuine consensus?

The very humanity of relatives is denied as they are denied real assistance and separated so that infertile or gay people may have the opportunity to obtain the healthy baby «of their dreams».

Governor Ambode also charged political and religious leaders to continually tow the path of service to humanity, just as he said that politics in the real sense of it should only be about selfless service to the people

A black and white philosophy that the hotel dwellers and forest people merely operate on two extreme sides of the same coin, equally governed by shallow and trivial rules, shying away from any real emotion and humanity, fascinates as social commentary, but ultimately makes an absolutely funny and often unique film feel narratively inert.

She's also, in person (as seen in interviews and game shows), a truly funny and charming person, and it feels like she could bring a real humanity and warmth to a character like Carol.

Men, Women & Children lacks that humanity — most of its big ensemble come off as storytelling cyphers to essay some blindingly obvious point, like «middle - aged married couples can get sexually restless» or «young people sometimes use video games to escape real life.»

Instead, humanity really needs the more intelligent science orientated ethical people in America to realise that the USA is in many respects so utterly disconnected from the real world they may as well be living on Pluto sometimes.