Sentences with phrase «limits upon human»

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However, our discussion and defense of Plantinga has shown that, when worked out coherently, the classical theist must affirm a notion of omnipotence practically identical to that of the process theist — i.e., our discussion demonstrates that the classical theist must, like the process theist, acknowledge that human freedom places necessary limits upon God's power in both the moral and natural realms.

One example of Jesus showing his humanity and the limits he placed upon himself by becoming human, was when he asked who touched him.

He was reluctant to identify transcendence with God because he understood the absoluteness of God to function as a limit, a restraint upon the otherwise unlimited field of human possibilities.

According to Christian faith, society is not limited to human individuals upon earth.

Yet, both became the making of changes in the institutional structure was not his chief concern and because his human vista was limited by the conditions of a simple peasant society east of the Mediterranean in the first century A.D., he obviously could not foresee or make pronouncements upon the vast complex of particular problems that confront Christians in today's world.

There are limits to human potential, and persons are called upon to acknowledge their creaturely status.

The conception of inviolable human dignity, of constitutional limits upon central power, of equality under law, and of the free exchange of goods and services in markets is, again, part of a preliberal legacy.

Inviolable human dignity, constitutional limits upon central power, and equality under law are part of a preliberal legacy.

While our rights tradition stems from a belief in a moral order independent of government, a strong case can be made that our system of limited and dispersed power depends even more profoundly upon an appreciation of human imperfectibility.

They understand logical limits as arising out of the limitations of human understanding rather than being based upon the nature of existence (Griffin, «Response» 257).

Pinnock holds that God's power is self - limited and that this allows room for human influence upon God (70).

Sometimes it looks to me as if some of my brothers and sisters in the current generation of elders are so singlemindedly focused on the accumulation of wealth and power, in feathering their own gigantic nests, exchanging secret handshakes in exclusive clubs, flying private jets, sailing yachts and visiting exotic hideaways, that they have forgotten how human life depends upon Earth's limited resources and frangible ecosystem services for its very existence.

At its current scale and rate of growth, the continuous economic expansion we see today may be approaching a point in human history when unbridled increases of production, unchecked per human consumption and skyrocketing human population numbers could overrun the limited natural resources and frangible ecosystem services upon which life as we know it utterly itself depends for its very existence.

Perhaps leaders are now called upon to lead by reasonably and sensibly limiting the global growth of human numbers, per capita consumption and endlessly expanding production capabitities so that we find a balanced relationship with nature and, consequently, give this marvelous planetary home God has blessed us to inhabit the time it requires for self - renewal.

That's according to Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) secretary general Steve Sawyer, who said Monday that any chance of limiting the human - induced rise in global temperatures to below 2 degrees C depends upon achieving a carbon - free global power sector by 2050.

As future climate change is dependent upon emissions of greenhouse gases, efforts to mitigate those emissions can reduce the likelihood that human or natural systems will experience a limit to adaptation.

Girleanu v. Romania, ECtHR, acting alone, represented Guardian News and Media Limited in a third party intervention before the European Court of Human Rights in a case concerning the imposition of sanctions upon a journalist for possession of sensitive information alleged to impinge upon national security.

Legal principle must try «to keep the law abreast of the society in which [the judges] live and work»: «If the law should impose upon the process of «growing up» fixed limits where nature knows only a continuous process, the price would be artificiality and a lack of realism in an area where the law must be sensitive to human development and social change... Unless and until Parliament should think fit to intervene, the courts should establish a principle flexible enough to enable justice to be achieved by its application to the particular circumstances proved by the evidence placed before them.»

The fundamental rules of the DAO are collectively agreed upon in accordance with the goals and purposes of that organization and encoded in software, thereby limiting the necessity for human managerial activity.