Sentences with phrase «humanity in a human way»

It fails to see that the glory and dignity of the biblical God consists in God's freedom to engage humanity in a human way.

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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.

Many students of humanity are willing for reductionism to have its way in the rest of the world, but most are determined to adopt a quite different approach in the study of human beings.

This image must include the notion of humanity living in symbiotic harmony with the natural environment, and organized technologically and politically in such a way as to provide equal access to the means of human fulfillment to all of the earth's people.

Another way to say it would be to observe that my story testifies to the truth of the position the Christian church has held with almost total unanimity throughout the centuries — namely, that homosexuality was not God's original creative intention for humanity, that it is, on the contrary, a tragic sign of human nature and relationships being fractured by sin, and therefore that homosexual practice goes against God's express will for all human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.»

He inspires the human authors to write about Him in these ways so that He can paint the outline, or picture (Greg calls it a shadow) of what Jesus will do for all humanity on the cross.

But if the twentieth century's experiments in a brave new world have taught us anything, it is that attempts to institutionalize a revolution in global human solidarity have a way of repeating and amplifying the permanent problems of humanity.

In representing the Torah, then, Jesus in no way creates a new possibility for human obedience; he points, rather, to God's primordial will — ever perceptible in human experience — for which humanity has always been responsiblIn representing the Torah, then, Jesus in no way creates a new possibility for human obedience; he points, rather, to God's primordial will — ever perceptible in human experience — for which humanity has always been responsiblin no way creates a new possibility for human obedience; he points, rather, to God's primordial will — ever perceptible in human experience — for which humanity has always been responsiblin human experience — for which humanity has always been responsible.

That's why, Pierre says, he finds more real humanity in the religious person, the person for whom human or relational bonds are of real concern all the way down — or all the way up.

At times the land seems bountiful and kindly, and again harsh and unyielding, but it is always a challenge to human strength and ingenuity and people have learned to adapt their ways accordingly... agriculture continues to involve the relationship between humanity and the plant and the soil in which it grows....

It is important to point out that the belief was used in the early church as a way of affirming Jesus» full humanity; «born of a virgin» in the Apostles» Creed has the force of «really born of a woman,» in opposition to heretics who denied that Jesus was truly human.

By virtue human beings become divine, while in no way losing their humanity.

Why then should we insist on speaking of the human mission of «completing, through our work the work finished on the sixth day, as if God had created nature in such a way as to leave to humanity the margin, the risk, and the honor of this artifice?

This can also be expressed another way: the God who speaks to humanity is «God with humanity,» Immanuel, and then God in a human being.

Pastores Dabo Vobis is clear about the matter when it notes that if the priest's ministry and mission is to be credible and acceptable «it is important that the priest should mould his human personality in such a way that it becomes a bridge and not an obstacle for others in their meeting with Jesus Christ the Redeemer of humanity».

By examining Marx's critique of religion optimistically and without prejudice we found that Marxists and Christians can agree, in spite of several disagreements, that both are ultimately concerned for true humanity, especially for the rights of the poor and needy, the hungry and hopeless; both could agree that they strive to be «true to the earth».1 We observed that Marx's atheism is primarily an anthropological affirmation; it is another way of putting human being in the centre of human interest and concern.

Humanity is whacked in so many ways - but the most whacked humans work for CNN.

Or to put it in another way, we humans have evolved in a symbiotic relationship with the culture created by the countless generations before us; we are dependent on the culture into which we have been born, not only for what we think and believe we know, but also for our very humanity.

Rowling's moral vision of our common humanity, like her narrative style, is in some distinctive ways premodern: she has an honest, confident optimism that human beings are equipped to recognize, to desire and to choose the good.

MR: «This arresting belief that God is in some way human from all eternity — that humanity is eternally enclosed in the second person of the Godhead — is the core of Barth's entire theology.»

If God truly loves humanity, this way of thinking presumes, then he'd saturate the world with his presence, making himself available to everyone in and through the diversity of human experience.

In fact, all my anxieties run in the opposite direction: that, in order to affirm the uniqueness of humanity within organic nature, as well as the unique moral obligations it entails, we will reject all evidence of intentionality, reason, or affection in animals as something only apparently purposive, doing so by reference to the most egregiously vapid of philosophical naturalism's mystifications — «instinct» — and thereby opening the way to a mechanistic narrative that, as we have learned from an incessant torrent of biological and bioethical theory in recent decades, can be extended to human behavior as welIn fact, all my anxieties run in the opposite direction: that, in order to affirm the uniqueness of humanity within organic nature, as well as the unique moral obligations it entails, we will reject all evidence of intentionality, reason, or affection in animals as something only apparently purposive, doing so by reference to the most egregiously vapid of philosophical naturalism's mystifications — «instinct» — and thereby opening the way to a mechanistic narrative that, as we have learned from an incessant torrent of biological and bioethical theory in recent decades, can be extended to human behavior as welin the opposite direction: that, in order to affirm the uniqueness of humanity within organic nature, as well as the unique moral obligations it entails, we will reject all evidence of intentionality, reason, or affection in animals as something only apparently purposive, doing so by reference to the most egregiously vapid of philosophical naturalism's mystifications — «instinct» — and thereby opening the way to a mechanistic narrative that, as we have learned from an incessant torrent of biological and bioethical theory in recent decades, can be extended to human behavior as welin order to affirm the uniqueness of humanity within organic nature, as well as the unique moral obligations it entails, we will reject all evidence of intentionality, reason, or affection in animals as something only apparently purposive, doing so by reference to the most egregiously vapid of philosophical naturalism's mystifications — «instinct» — and thereby opening the way to a mechanistic narrative that, as we have learned from an incessant torrent of biological and bioethical theory in recent decades, can be extended to human behavior as welin animals as something only apparently purposive, doing so by reference to the most egregiously vapid of philosophical naturalism's mystifications — «instinct» — and thereby opening the way to a mechanistic narrative that, as we have learned from an incessant torrent of biological and bioethical theory in recent decades, can be extended to human behavior as welin recent decades, can be extended to human behavior as well.

If by some way humanity were able to reduce the environmental impact of all its technologies by 10 per cent and there were no increase in per - person affluence, world population growth would return the collective impact of humans to the previous level in about five years.

Just in case his readers construe this as being a human function, Upadhyaya qualifies the extra-mundane character of this teaching: «Jesus Christ claims to have given to mankind the completest possible revelation of the nature and character of God, of the most comprehensive ideal of humanity, of the infinite malice of sin, and of the only universal way to release from the bondage of evil» (Ibid.)

It matters to God; hence it is meaningful to speak of the way in which, once we have come to the end of our life in this world, something abides — and that something is of enormous importance and gives dignity to our humanity, both for you and me as particular persons and also for human society in its total reality — a society of which each of us is a member, by virtue of our belonging together in what an Old Testament text beautifully calls «a bundle of life».

It remains an often brilliant exploration of the ways in which Western humanity has succeeded in creating a world in which all values have become subordinate to the demands of the human will, and in which knowledge and human creativity have become almost entirely confused, conceptually and practically, with the exercise of instrumental reason's mastery over all of reality.

A way to connect us more deeply to ourselves, make sense of our human experiences and, in sharing our own voice and journey, connect us more directly to others by way of our shared humanity.

In this way, human rights are ascribed to all humanity, regardless of nationality or citizenship: the doctrine of human rights can therefore come into conflict with the doctrine of the sovereignty of governments and the law.

His humanity is explored (even though he was never human) and he finds a way to return to his homeworld of Zenn - La to find it in shambles.

Massive redeeming feature is the cinematography.l have never seem Florida captured in all it's beauty of weather and landscapes allied to the vulgarity of retail Americana.It is a visual feast and highly evocative and atmospheric.William Dafoe is always highly watchable.The film is lacking is compassion and humanity and has too much one way traffic of human self inflicted hardship.

To the people of Earth, she appears to be charming and peaceful, as she offers gifts and invites humans to live on her ships under the guise of friendship, but in reality, Anna is cruel and cunning, ruling the Visitors with an iron fist and manipulating humanity in horrifying and unpredictable ways.

This final human settlement, dubbed «New Los Angeles», now serves as the last speck of humanity in the universe, and it must find a way to co-exist with Mira's indigenous people, the Nopon.

Humans aren't depicted as all good, as the impetus of our downfall is human evil itself run amok, but the good parts of humanity are what's represented in the 9 rag dolls, who, through their adventure, must find a way to defeat the horrific robot factory and assure that the human legacy can live on, even if not through the bodies of actual hHumans aren't depicted as all good, as the impetus of our downfall is human evil itself run amok, but the good parts of humanity are what's represented in the 9 rag dolls, who, through their adventure, must find a way to defeat the horrific robot factory and assure that the human legacy can live on, even if not through the bodies of actual humanshumans.

Along the way they explore stories, memories, and, pretentiously or enchantingly, remind us about the human in humanity.

Yet, even with new forms of resistance ushered in by technological innovation, the stiff - gestured ideology of neoliberalism has arched towards a state of «human exceptionalism» where all of humanity is now supposed to feel free to exploit at will the relations between nature and society any way that it chooses, as long as profits can be squeezed out.

We are here on Mother Earth as humans, and our purpose is to become truly humane, as we make our choices and decide the purpose of our existence, for we are already in Mars, in the universe, in the moon, but we are still looking for our soul... human rights, and the economic, social and cultural rights of peoples, and the practices for the care of the planet are the ways to be about the exercise of our full humanity.

Your role is to inspire students to find ways to achieve their own fulfillment and to recognize where they are in the sweep of humanity and human history.»

He excels at writing characters (human or viral) in such a way that you empathize in their humanity but also their monstrosity.

Heaven and Hell have decided to battle over humanity's fate in the middle of Tokyo, and humans are stuck in the middle, searching for some way to survive.

Even though China's «one child per family» policy is implemented in ways that are incompatible with my personal values and, I believe, with universal human values, I do believe this policy can be implemented in humane and voluntary ways that provide a remarkably robust response to the human - induced global challenges which loom ominously before humanity.

Another great way to get people excited is to drive it into them that this will be the most pivotal time in human history, and what we do now will impact the future of humanity in a big way.

Third, most of our top rank experts and the people in many places, the ones who refer to each other as «the brightest and the best» -LCB- and point to each other as the «smartest guy in the room» -RCB-, appear not to rejected adequate ways of communicating to the family of humanity about what people somehow need to hear, see and understand: the rapacious dissipation of Earth's limited resources, the relentless degradation of the planet's environment, and the approaching destruction of the Earth as a fit place for human habitation by the human species, when taken together, appear to be proceeding at breakneck speed toward the precipitation of a catastrophic ecological wreckage of some sort unless, of course, the world's colossal, ever expanding, artificially designed, manmade global political economy continues to speed headlong toward the monolithic «wall» called «unsustainability» at which point the runaway economy crashes before Earth's ecology is collapsed.

He said that science and technology, while allowing humanity to observe itself from space and connect distant communities, had not shaped the human way of being and in fact appeared counterproductive — «more of a source of disintegration and doubt than a source of integration and meaning.»

Finding ways to keep such cities functional — and in particular mobile — as the human growth spurt hits a crest in the next few decades is vitally important if humanity is to experience a relatively smooth journey in what some have called «the century of the city.»

And Bill McKibben, the author and activist who's been exploring humanity's two - way relationship with climate in parallel with me since the 1980s, has different ways of characterizing the climate challenge than I do, and has chosen a different path toward achieving a sustainable human relationship with the climate.

Even so, humanity remains an integral part of nature, not apart from it, and in so many ways, humans are like the marvelous creatures that surround us in our earthly home.

So long as we humans believe in our own supremacy and adaptability — that somehow, some way humanity will survive virtually anything thrown our way — then no amount of pontificating on the threat of global warming or any other danger, man - made or otherwise, will suffice to change our path.

Before we can find our way forward to a good enough future for our children in a sustainable world, I suppose we must find a way to organize and maintain SUSTAINABLE COMMUNICATION about the global challenges posed to humanity by the unbridled, skyrocketing growth of the human species and its soon to become patently unsustainable consumption / production activities now overspreading the surface of Earth.

And a third study has highlighted the value to humanity of intact forests, while estimating that four - fifths of the Earth's remaining woodlands are now in some way degraded by human activities.

My climate enemies have done scientific and other academic frauds; they've destroyed, withheld and pretended to misplace scientific data in order to prevent the human race discovering things about nature; they've forged documents to frame people they don't like; mendaciously and publicly accused innocent people of deplorable crimes that carry prison sentences; betrayed the trust reposed in their professions by fraudulently abrogating to themselves the magical competence to diagnose entire swathes of the (perfectly healthy) population with thought disorders just to score points in an academic bitch fight; deliberately and self - servingly lied to * massive * audiences about the way science itself works — than which I can't for the life of me think of a greater crime against humanity in the recent history of the developed world, can you Joe?