Sentences with phrase «larger human community»

Helen uses White as a kind of touchstone or measuring stick for herself: as a hawker, as a person struggling with grief, and as a member of the larger human community.

Walker's understanding of a womanist as «not a separatist» («except for health»), however, reminds the Christian womanist theologian that her concern for community building and maintenance must ultimately extend to the entire Christian community and beyond that to the larger human community.

As an observer of what's happening at Mars Hill, I think the internet has served the larger human community well.

All this tells us much about how in the city, or larger human community, we are to express our humanity and find ourselves thereby enriched in our grasp of true selfhood - in - community.

It is a good thing that the ministry there has been exposed because it has motivated the larger human community to call it to account.

Effective parental / executive leadership and authority to nurture, protect, and socialize Organizational stability, with clarity, consistency and predictability Adaptability and flexibility — to better meet stresses and change Open communication characterized by clarity of rules and expectations, positive interactions, and a range of emotional expression and empathic responsiveness Effective problem - solving and conflict - resolution processes A shared belief system that enables trust, and promotes ethical values and concern for the larger human community Adequate resources for security and psychosocial support

It has been difficult to resolve the uneasy tension between loyalty to the local community, whether ethnic or religious, and that to the larger human community, which globalization requires.

At the same time, he criticizes Buber in a way that no careful reader of I and Thou could possibly do, suggesting that for Buber the I - Thou relation is uniquely between man and God and not between man and man and within the larger human community.

During Andrew Marr's Radio Four book programme, when attempting to mitigate the admitted disaster of Chernobyl with its estimated 40,000 casualties, Dr Lovelock commented that «Chernobl was now a wonderful place for wildlife as they were not disturbed by large human communities».

Not exact matches

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America's largest gay - rights organization, swung into action, demanding that Johns Hopkins distance itself from the «falsehoods» that «attack the entire LGBTQ community.»

The concept of international human rights from which no country is exempt is consonant with the idea that Shari'a, the large body of legal tradition that informs the Muslim community about how God requires it to live, is in some sense the rule of God.

In large measure, however, these relations are not preconditions for but properly a part of the public world, i.e., they yield happiness beyond some minimal degree because nature is, as it were, taken into the human community.

A human person is an example of such a personal order, and one could extend this image to include larger and more complex corpuscular societies, such as ethnic groups, geographical communities, or subcultures.

If a task force is perceptive, they will discover a sea of unmet needs and unrealized human potential, both in the church and in the community at large.

The Holocaust was, in largest part, the consequence of ideas about human nature, human rights, the imperatives of history and scientific progress, the character of law, the bonds and obligations of political community.

The pressure of the church in a society should help reduce the tension between spiritual freedom and social morality and therefore the influence of the church in society should produce a larger community which also may be spoken as a first fruits of the Future, God intends for human beings.

That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.

And since process theology sees human beings as part of a larger community which includes all creatures, the indivisible salvation of the whole world can not be limited to humanity.

The human community becomes sacred through its participation in the larger planetary community.11

No one can measure the known and unknown tragedies that have grown out of its defilement in our stock, nor the repercussions upon the human community at large from all the trauma so caused.

We must hold them in mind as background to the main task, which is to explore the interaction of theologians and human scientists as they seek to formulate a new concept of civil society which can draw traditioned communities and other human associations into a larger covenantal bond.

I have been arguing all along that this larger world is never just the human community, but is the world of man's dependence upon God who is his origin and his Lord.

To improve the economic condition of the community as a whole is the economic goal; and this serves the larger goal of improving the quality of human relations and thus of human life, while stimulating the personal freedom of all the members of the community.

As we have seen, the Greek view of justice is the proper and harmonious functioning of humans in the larger whole of the political community, each fulfilling the function innate to one's being, fully cognizant and accepting ones limits.

What he did not stress as clearly, but what is implied by his metaphysics, is that this community is also a moral community in a larger sense, and although this dimension is only apprehended by human beings, it still binds them morally into community with the nonhuman as well as the human.

«He is to serve his community, and human society at large, in any and every way by which his personality may be brought to bear.

That is, in view of the common quest of human community with peoples of other religions, how do we understand the being of the Church of Christ and the forms of the life of the congregation in the larger community?

That is, will the faith - communities while keeping their separate identities be prepared in the present historical situation of pluralism, to interact with each other bringing their respective religious and / or ideological insights on the conception of the human so as to build something of a consensus of cultural and moral values on which to build a single larger secular community?

Another claim made by Hasker is that if God were «routinely to intervene to prevent evil from being done, there would be far less incentive to form effective human communities, a large part of whose function is to encourage good behavior and to restrain evil.»

For once the community becomes large enough, and if consciousness keeps pace, that process is fulfilled whereby the study is no longer an objective inquiry carried on from the outside, but a human study carried on from within.

The human community is part of a larger society of living things, of an ecosphere, and even of the total biosphere.

It will enforce the moral code that is already built into the human species, and will come with the incentive that living a good life on earth enhances the lives of oneself, one's family, and one's community at large.

Civilization is the dimension of religio - culture which, through its long process of historical cumulation and geographical expansion, constitutes the matrix of community life of the peoples; its inner, organic nexus crosses the boundaries of human communities, organizing them into a large - scale constellation.

Therefore, when inquiring about the larger context in which preaching takes place — the human community at every level, from the neighborhood to the globe — it is helpful to begin by placing that inquiry within the sacramental context that is also the implicit or explicit context of every act of preaching in Christian worship.

By this I mean the larger community that is part of our human existence and of which we ourselves are necessarily a part by virtue of our belonging in the city.

This is certainly obvious in terms of widening the area of human co-operation — in uniting families into peaceful communities with equitable distribution of responsibilities and privileges, and then creating from these the larger communities of states and nations, and finally developing from these a world society dedicated to the fullest realization of every member of the human family.

Top the Cops is also an opportunity to generate some good PR with the teens and with the community at large, McKinnie explains: show them they're human, that they're not just trying to get them in trouble, and let the other, older drivers see them making nice with the youngsters.

Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «Schools are communities that work together each and every day to teach the next generation to think carefully and critically about discrimination and to empathise with other human beings.»

«According to our study, there is more human — jaguar conflict in Darién National Park, probably because communities are near larger tracts of unbroken forest, which is much better jaguar habitat,» Moreno said.

«It's a tightknit community, but it's also a tight field, in that a lot of people are interested in the same overall questions» — for example, what are the evolutionary histories of humans, charismatic large animals like polar bears, and essential agricultural crops like maize.

But as my A.S.U. colleague Kim Hill has put it, Even before the invention of agriculture, human communities may have eventually numbered around 70 million individuals... as Homo sapiens spread over the planet more broadly than any other large vertebrate.

As large - scale genome sequencing projects, such as the Human Genome Project, near completion, the research community's focus is shifting toward efforts to determine functional information about these sequenced genes.

Economically effective management, access to high - value markets and having other income opportunities often play a larger role in human outcomes than stock health, especially in communities where fishing is a large share of the economy.»

(Gut bacteria are part of the microbiome, the larger community of microbes that exist in and on the human body.)

He found higher rates of nest predation in small woodlots near human communities because these areas had higher populations of raccoons (Procyon lotor) and squirrels (Sciurus spp.) and few, if any, large predators, such as cougars and bobcats (Lynx rufus).

Large - scale genome sequencing efforts, like the Human Microbiome Project, have focused on the community of microorganisms that live in the humanHuman Microbiome Project, have focused on the community of microorganisms that live in the humanhuman gut.

«The program is supported by a broad partnership — a global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline, the world's largest multidisciplinary science society, community - based organizations like libraries and Boys & Girls Clubs, and the K - 12 educators who deliver the curriculum,» said Betty Calinger, AAAS Education and Human Resources project director.

Work is now being finalized on a much larger project around the Volcanoes National Park in northern Rwanda, made famousby the film Gorillas in the Mist, where McGuinness is assessing the impacts of mountain gorilla, buffalo and golden monkey on the conservation of this park and the development of surrounding human communities.

Humans began living in large communities only about 10,000 years ago.

For example, the large - scale sequencing program has already started to sequence the genomes of 100 microorganisms found in the human gut, and will build on this by using genomic sequencing to characterize the complex microbial communities found at many sites in and on the human body.