Sentences with phrase «issue of human spirit»

The issue of mission is the issue of human spirit.

Sexual behavior and substance abuse are not just moral issues; they are issues of the human spirit that beg for corporate theological reflection.

Professional counselors and therapists must be prepared to deal with their clients» issues of the human spirit.

Not exact matches

This is a term used to describe issue of meaning, belonging and drive in humans and has nothing at all to do with supernatural spirits.

First, for many, including those in the mental health professions, spirituality refers to issues of the «human spirit».

Huntington, for example, contends that «far more significant than the global issues of economics and demography are problems of moral decline», an «increase in antisocial behavior», decay of family structures, weakening of the «work ethic», and decreasing commitment to intellectual activity.12 Similarly Brzezinski refers to a current global crisis of spirit which has to be overcome if the human race is to regain some control over its destiny.

«Representative of these various types were men like Roger L. Shinn, who succeeded Niebuhr at Union in the chair of Applied Christianity; George William Webber, founder of the East Harlem Protestant Parish and later president of New York Biblical Seminary; Truman Douglass, leading spirit in the affairs of the National Council of Churches and pioneer in church involvement in human issues; and Martin Luther King, Jr. «73 Niebuhr was at the apex of his influence in the early 1950s and was to remain there for over a decade longer.

According to the biblical view of human nature, guilt and shame are related to the larger issue of alienation of the human spirit from God, self, and others.

If we understand the human person as the «temple of the Holy Spirit» — the living house of God — then these [other] issues fall logically into place as the crossbeams and walls of that house.

Essentially this school of thought deals in the broadest sense with issues of unity and dynamism — the action of the Spirit — and with the possibilities of human transformation or potential.

The issue here is clearly one of controlling how and when one dies — the understandable longing of the human spirit to name the time and place for a final exit.

In his extended review of Stratford Caldecott's The Radiance of Being (May / June issue), Fr Hugh Mackenzie contrasts that book's espousal of «the «Renaissance - Platonic» view of the human person as body - soul - spirit» with the Faith movement's prioritising of mind as the metaphysical first principle.

We all have issues that we struggle with, and if we could have made ourselves into the perfect person that we are striving to be, then we would have done so but, we can't and won't until faith in God (innocent as the faith of a child) graces the suspicious and protective nature that we all have as a result of life, people, and events that have wounded the human spirit.

Sullivan's depiction of this growing East African human rights issue is at times horrifying, but she writes beautifully of the landscape and of Habo's strong spirit in the face of such monstrous injustice.

Lockett took on issues such as the unfulfilled promises of the civil rights movement, environmental degradation, the trauma of war, and acts of domestic terrorism in works whose beauty and weight testify to the resilience of the human spirit.

While John Armleder, Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach, and others carry on the spirit of Duchamp's intellectual wisecrack (while exploring issues of commodification, the doubtfulness of discernment, and the irrelevance of the art / kitsch dichotomy, all addressed through a compliant stance toward the marketplace), Gober bathes his urinals, sinks, beds, doors, dog baskets, armchairs, and other furnishings in murkier, more psychologically provocative waters, transforming his roster of everyday objects into an iconography of fundamental human experience.

Most recently, I became interested in issues of mortality, vulnerability and the power of the human spirit, I started working in glass because it allows one to look below the surface.