Sentences with phrase «humanity as a unity»

In those early chapters of Genesis it is clear that although plants and animals are created in great variety, we are to regard humanity as a unity.

Not exact matches

During an interview Wednesday, he noted that both bold unity and great humanity are being demonstrated over and over in Houston in ways large and small as ordinary citizens help each other survive.

However, when discussing the uniqueness of Jesus Christ, Wheeler maintains that whether «Jesus Christ's divine - human unity is the sole member of its class, as evangelical Christians would typically claim,» or is «a paradigmatic member of a class with multiple members» as Whiteheadians contend, this crucial unity can be construed more fundamentally by those in both groups as an example of a systemic change of the God - world relationship happening once in the history of humanity globally (105).

We can then think of humanity beginning as a great transcendental design, which is a living reality and a unity in God.

Whether Jesus Christ's divine - human unity is the sole member of its class, as evangelical Christians would typically claim (John 1.14, I Timothy 2.5), or a paradigmatic member of a class with multiple members, this unity can be construed as an example of a systemic change of the God - world relationship happening once in the history of humanity globally, 5 and entering our cultural / religious awareness through Christ with the power and appeal described above.

The mission of Israel is identified as a withdrawal from participation [in Lévy - Bruhl's sense] so as to prepare humanity for that day when it would be totally isolated from the world and yet called to the task of realizing a new unity with the world (our time).

We can gain new appreciation for the unity of all living things if we recognize that what we know as reason in humanity has its counterpart at a lower level in the animal world.

It is significant that Vatican II (and also the Uppsala Assembly of the World Council of Churches) defines the church as the sacramental sign of the unity of all humanity, and also speaks of the presence of the Paschal Mystery among all peoples (see Decree on the Church, and the document on the Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World) This approach assumes that in Christianity, acknowledgment of Salvation (understood as the transcendent ultimate destiny of human beings) finds expression and witness in the universal struggle for Humanization (understood as the penultimate human destiny) in world history which is shaped not only by the forces of goodness and life, but also by the forces of evil and death.

These bitterly suppressed people in their ragged procession, remembering now the word of Moses conveying the Word of Another, in overwhelming realization that only this Word could effect so glorious and impossible an outcome; this company of the lost, the enslaved, the dying, now found and freed and given life by God; this weak, diffuse body of humanity suddenly made almost terrifyingly aware of its unity and entity as created out of God's unfathomable purpose - these people in this company, in this body, all break forth into a spontaneous hymn of praise, more shout than song, more chant than anthem, more cry of ecstasy than conscious composition:

In Christ Jesus, marriage serves as a redemptive sign that the great chasm separating creature from Creator has been bridged, and the original unity intended by God has been restored, both among us and between humanity and its Creator.

Having shown that the gospels are essentially purveyors of a Christ myth, Strauss concludes his work with a last chapter in which he presents Jesus as a religious genius who achieves in himself the unity with the Father which, as unity between God and man, is the goal of the religious development of humanity.

«At the dawn of global civil society, the test for humanity is to achieve unity while preserving cultural differences as well as the distinctiveness of nations and peoples.

The next step the lover reaches in their journey is a perception of unity with the whole of humanity, which Plotinus refers to as the «world - soul,» which leads to higher intuition («mind»), which then leads to recognition of mind as a single principle («world - mind»)-- the closest point human thought can reach to ultimate reality («the One»).