Sentences with phrase «in human affairs»

Actually, there are traditional societies in which it is not apparent, at least as a significant factor in human affairs.

The meaning of true justice in human affairs is also quite different from the ordinary understanding.

However, they have made their primary mark in human affairs as a dominant laboratory subject.

But the universal, active as it may be in reason and rightly influential in human affairs, lacks the power to bend the arc of human affairs away from sin's destruction.

Thus, the determining authority in human affairs is the desire of the people; they are not to be governed by anything or anyone beyond themselves.

He did have a profound sense of the tragic and the ironic in human affairs.

We must defer till later chapters a more specific discussion of the difference this makes in human affairs.

Knowing something about the past of others helps us to know them better, and a general knowledge of history can alert us to the range of possibilities inherent in human affairs.

The evolution of the role of pets in human affairs has opened new opportunities for veterinarians, especially those in family practice.

I would say forgiveness is an important factor in human affairs.

Love alone does not tell us what that may be, and it does not give us freedom from the dialectic of force in human affairs.

Lion, many of the most prominent founding fathers were deists, that is, they believed that a god created them, but that god was not interested in human affairs, there are no miracles and that Christ, while a fine teacher was no more than another human.

franklin was a deist (believe in a god, but one that didn't meddle in human affairs.

The most distinctive form of power in human affairs extends beyond the acquired responses of mind, to the self - transcending action of the human spirit.

Einstein was consistent in his rejection of a personal god involved in human affairs who judged individual humans.

But Methodist dogmatics had been plagued by the predicament of reconciling contingency in human affairs with the traditional doctrine of God's absolute foreknowledge — a reconciliation that Calvinist necessitarians gleefully declared impossible.

Second, there was a major new beginning in human affairs in the fourth millennium before Christ.

History is indeed a moral order, in which judgements of the living God take effect; but this view can not be fully verified upon the plane of history as we know it, since there is an irreducible element of tragedy in human affairs.

The anatomy of social power vividly illustrates the interfusion of physical, mental, and spiritual elements in human affairs.

If I read Niebuhr correctly, the two are roughly equal their strength and influence in human affairs.

The Servant in Isaiah is one who affects the course of history, who is instrumental in bringing God's will to pass in human affairs.

Our deepest longing is to see the day when the triumphant, sovereign lordship of you our loving God will no longer be a mere hope clung to desperately by faith, but a manifest reality in all human affairs.

Even when it is freed from these trappings, it seems to run counter to the continuing dominance of evil in human affairs.

Unlike the French and the Russians, for both of whom the intellectual has been a recognizable and awe - inspiring phenomenon, with a distinctive and redemptive role in human affairs, the English have traditionally had no use for such a category.

There was no evidence of its coming, of the kind that people had imagined; no vast revolution in human affairs, no cataclysm, not even a sudden and far - reaching moral reformation.

This remained Niebuhr's typical realism in human affairs.

That difference is not only in human affairs; it is also a difference in God, since God is always so related to the created order that what takes place in it has its influence and affect upon him or her, upon deity itself.

Unlike the gods and goddesses of the other nations and unlike the philosopher's vision of a transcendent goodness, the God of Abraham has taken a stake in human affairs.

We thought, even those of us who rejected the more naive and self - indulgent illusions of the New Left, that we were somehow going to make a deep and lasting difference in human affairs that would leave things vastly better than they were.

In human affairs such as law, morality, personal relations, politics, and religion, this world - view was either ignored or correctly seen to be contradictory to the basic assumptions of human society.

One can apply the Whiteheadian view to an understanding of the adventures of the concept of freedom in human affairs.

They had a common sense that accepted the idea of a God who intervened in human affairs on specific occasions for specific purposes.

Our accepted exegesis of this bold denial is that it means only a repudiation of divine activity in human affairs, since, so it is said, the Hebrews never doubted the existence of God.