But what exactly are the natural tendencies toward religion grounded
in human personhood?
Not exact matches
While Darling isn't quite on board with electronic
personhood (at least not yet), she is interested
in how
humans interact with their technology and believes our choices are ultimately a reflection of us.
The most holy, the noblest, the best, the most godlike things about us is our
human capacity to learn
personhood in responsible self - government (taking up personal responsibility for our own eternal fate) and to share
in communion with other persons, and most of all with the unseen God.
Moreover, Grey insists that a contemporary kenotic spirituality be based on a radically reconstructed notion of
human personhood,
in which «compassion.
Contemporary thinking continues this denial of the body, and refuses to give it any substantial place
in a meaningful
human personhood.
Pace Professor Polanyi,
human personhood for Fr Holloway is,
in accordance with the Law of Control and Direction, the creation of God not humanity.
If quickening corresponds to the emergence of a unified experience
in the fetus, then it is an important stage
in the movement toward
human personhood.
If all mankind catalyze world opinion
in support of
human dignity and the worth of
personhood, together with all the wealth of rights and values already part of U.N. instruments and international jurisprudence, there is hope.
As I was preparing for class, I learned that Mississippi's voters had rejected the so - called «
Personhood Amendment,» which would have outlawed abortion
in the state by affirming as a matter of law that
human life begins at conception.
Personic action, he thought, is essential
in defining
personhood since acts of will are the only vehicles through which the «purposes and designs» of the
human spirit can be established.
That constitutes, according to the fathers of the Church, the special dignity of
human beings, and it should have been treated by Jenson
in the section on «
human personhood.»
It is
in the integrity of a full humanity, and
in every range of it, that God's action is to be found — God energizes
in this man,
in his total and genuine
personhood, not
in some special part of that
personhood or by replacing with deity some particular area of
human nature.
It was perhaps inevitable that the overwhelming experience of God's working made available to men and women
in the event of Jesus Christ would lead to a less vigorous insistence on his
human personhood.
Hartshorne has no patience for those holding a genetic view of
personhood, who claim that the potential represented
in a fertilized
human egg cell is equivalent to an actual person.
This reminds me of Kant's idea that «people should be treated as ends
in themselves rather than a means to an end» — the basis of his ideas of
personhood, dignity and
human rights.
The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood describes complementarianism as the view that «God has created men and women equal
in their essential dignity and
human personhood, but different and complementary
in function with male headship
in the home and
in the Church.»
Christian anthropology's emphasis on
human personhood fulfilling itself
in interaction with persons, leads it to give priority to preserve and develop small - scale social institutions which enable face to face relations to promote personal values and humanize people.
Jesus was The Word, i.e., God's expression of Himself
in human language, the language of
human personhood.
In an analogous way, the counselor aims at that mastery of the principles of his art which will free him to develop his own style of counseling — a style which releases his unique personhood in the human encounter called counselin
In an analogous way, the counselor aims at that mastery of the principles of his art which will free him to develop his own style of counseling — a style which releases his unique
personhood in the human encounter called counselin
in the
human encounter called counseling.
Hromadka of Czechoslovakia used to speak of the credibility of the evangelistic mission of the church as dependent upon the total life of the church, that is to say, it depends upon the way
in which the church makes its prophetic mission of defence of
human personhood and peoplehood
in society and state and the ability of the church to reconcile diversity within its fellowship of divine forgiveness and become a source of reconciled diversity
in the larger society.
Just as
human personhood is not discernible at the level of the molecular interactions
in our bodies, so God is impersonal when encountered solely
in this dimension.
The notion of creativity - characterization not only extends the capacity» of process metaphysics to thematize
human personhood, but it also points to an additional area
in which a process metaphysics needs to be rethought at the deepest level.
We are caught up
in an awesome struggle over the character of
human personhood.
Today however many knowledgeable people are saying that many of the high - tech developments have produced technological systems
in which the mechanical - materialist view of reality,
human greed and ecological destruction are built
in; and that therefore a new paradigm of development with technologies integrated with a more holistic understanding of
human personhood and peoplehood and recognizing the organic natural and spiritual dimensions of
human community are called for.
Modernity is represented by three forces - first, the revolution
in the relation of humanity to nature, signified by science and technology; second, the revolutionary changes
in the concept of justice
in the social relations between fellow
human beings indicated by the self - awakening of all oppressed and suppressed
humans to their fundamental
human rights of
personhood and peoplehood, especially to the values of liberty and equality of participation
in power and society; thirdly, the break - up of the traditional integration of state and society with religion,
in response to religious pluralism on the one hand and the affirmation of the autonomy of the secular realm from the control of religion on the other».
Inherent
in Christian understandings of the realities of the
human condition and of what
personhood might be if it were set free to flourish, and
in Christian understandings of society and church, is a strong stress on
human sociality and an equally strong resistance to the ways
in which individualistic views of
personhood erode or deny sociality.
Each refers to the same vital truth — that there is a dimension of transcendence
in us
human beings and that we are whole only when this dimension becomes the center of our
personhood.
Human wholeness is the end which God intends in Jesus Christ, for in Christian faith Christ himself is held to be the whole man, personhood completed, the New Adam; and human wholeness is the consuming theme of his mini
Human wholeness is the end which God intends
in Jesus Christ, for
in Christian faith Christ himself is held to be the whole man,
personhood completed, the New Adam; and
human wholeness is the consuming theme of his mini
human wholeness is the consuming theme of his ministry.
The Bible is not about conveying divine principles for starting and managing a Christian business — but is instead about Christ on the cross triumphing over all principalities and powers and so radically transforming everything we consider to be our business... Scripture then ceases to about teaching about biblical manhood and womanhood or biblical motherhood and fatherhood — and becomes instead the story of how a covenant - making and promise - keeping God took on full
human personhood in Jesus Christ
in order to reconcile this alienated and wrecked world to the eternally gracious Father.»
The ultimate spiritual question is, is
human being with his / her awakening to self - identity and
personhood an accident
in the evolutionary process and earth's history or is it really the result of the working of some purposive cosmic force, God or whatever?
The second issue is a naïve conception of
personhood, which fails to appreciate the all - encompassing influence of environment, including education,
in the development of a
human being.
From the serious to the superficial, these details are the landmarks that make up a
human being, and becoming familiarly acquainted with these intricacies of your partner's
personhood, knowing intimately their personal traits and trivia, is the process of drawing
in the latitude and longitude on your own Love Map.
A person is a being, such as a
human, that has certain capacities or attributes constituting
personhood, which
in turn is defined differently by different authors
in different disciplines, and by different cultures
in di..
Texts borrowed from book titles such as «Being Yourself, 24 Ways to See the Light,» and «
Personhood, the Art of Being Fully
Human» echo new - age ideals and
in that vein belong to a design aesthetic of the late»70s to early»80s.
While
human beings acquire legal
personhood when they are born, juridical persons do so when they are incorporated
in accordance with law.
Human rights are different from other forms of legal rights in that they are universal, belonging to us all as human beings because of our shared person
Human rights are different from other forms of legal rights
in that they are universal, belonging to us all as
human beings because of our shared person
human beings because of our shared
personhood.
In that world, a robot without a corporate
personhood could be considered the way one would consider a
human without a soul.
«The Stolen Generations was a process that systematically attempted to erase both our Indigenous
personhood, and nationhood, and
in doing so it severely diminished our
human rights.