In
living humans effects of the neoplasm present a broad spectrum of symptoms, from asymptomatic to debilitating.
Not exact matches
The
effect is enormous, and not just in extending
human lives; it also improves those
lives.
He criticizes textualism (a mode of judicial interpretation) by citing the author's attempt to «show how lawmakers are engaged in the creative work of ensuring that natural law... is given
effect in our
human living.»
This mystery is richly captured in John Allen's description of John Paul as «a
living symbol of
human suffering, in
effect, an icon of Christ on the cross.»
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.
For it endues us with super-vitality; and therefore introduces into our spiritual
life a higher principle of unity, the specific
effect of which can be seen — according to one's point of view — as either to make
human endeavour holy or to make the Christian
life fully
human.
The imposition of Word upon king is sharply attested again in that brilliant scene immediately preceding the death of Ahab in the middle of the ninth century (I Kings 22) The Word through Micaiah works its radical historical
effects, and another prophet is instrumental in the efficacious juxtaposition of divine
life and will upon
human events.
But neither the action itself nor its symbolic interpretation produces the
effect it claims - that of benefiting
life - making the ritual a violation of the deep convention protecting
human life.
For Bonhoeffer, the perfection of being is achieved through the transformation of
human life by the redemptive activity of the transcendent God, who identified himself with
human beings in order to
effect wholeness.
Accordingly, transcendence must be grasped, not as it has so often been in the past, in spatial terms referring to the God «up there» beyond the affairs of
human life, but specifically in terms of what God has
effected historically, and is doing now, on behalf of
human beings.
Sadly, these attitudes and assumptions were retained even when in fact
human actions began to have a large
effect on other
living things.
Humans are significant to our world since we are the most intelligent
life form, but I do nt think it is important that we have an
effect on the whole universe.
8) The sentence of death may be improper if it has serious negative
effects on society, such as miscarriages of justice, the increase of vindictiveness, or disrespect for the value of innocent
human life.
Yet the basic certainties stand sure; they concern the dynamic reality who is God, God's pervasive action in the world, God's self - manifestation through the whole range of creation, God's focal self - expression in Jesus Christ, the
effecting of God's purpose through loving activity in the world and in
human existence, and the assurance that our
human life is not an end in itself but finds its fulfillment through reception into the divine
life.
The grittiness of Lent, and the «intransigent historical claims» without which Easter makes no sense at all, should remind us that Christianity does not rest on myths or «narratives,» but on radically changed
human lives whose
effect on their times are historical fact.
The dropping of the atomic bomb, however, and the killing of birdlife by DDT, documented by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, introduced a new problem: the presence of totally unpredicted (and probably unpredictable) harmful
effects on the environment and on
human life stemming from actions taken specifically to produce certain benefits.
Nature is treated as repetitive and objective, whereas meaning is to be found only in historical events and their
effects on subsequent
human life.
Particularly
human subjectivity is deeply
effected as the participatory agency of
life in all its dimensions.
The idea of a God who not only sympathizes with all we feel and endure for our fellow men, but who will pour new
life into our too languid love, and give firmness to our vacillating purpose, is an extension and multiplication of the
effects produced by
human sympathy.
One of the most important intellectual and practical problems of our time is the maintenance of this high estimate of the worth and greatness of
human life against the devastating
effects of a materialistic philosophy.
I am certainly aware of the fact sin has been a part of the
human condition since time began.The
effects are catastrophic causing physical, emotional, and mental deterioration.Striving to make healthy choices that will enhance our overall quality of
life is our responsibility.
Any genuine
human life - relationship to Divine Being — i.e. any such relationship
effected with a man's whole being — is a
human truth, and man has no other truth.
The biblical history is meaningful because it is related at every point to the fundamental reality which lies behind all history and all
human experience, which is, the
living God in His Kingdom; and because it moves towards a climax in which the Kingdom of God came upon men with conclusive
effect.
Instead of sharpening the creative edge of
living, such groups have a dulling
effect, encouraging the investment of precious
human life in trivial activities.
Jennifer Moorcroft brings her great understanding and knowledge of the spiritual
life to produce a work that not only brings Therese's world closer to us, but makes us also glimpse longingly at the
effects of grace on the
human soul.
Furthermore, we have said that it is the Christian claim that in Christ and through His power, there is
effected that which men have otherwise found to be impossible, no matter how much they may have sought it — the possibility of a full and selfless offering of
human life to God, in consequence of which a free communion is established between God and man in Christ.
First, a little history: In the 16th century Protestant and Catholic positions on justification became polarized and soon escalated to include other doctrines, including the authority of the church; scripture and tradition; good works; merit and indulgences; the mass; and sin and its
effects in
human life.
I have no idea whether it has any
effect on our
lives or even cares about
humans.
To me this appears the most satisfactory interpretation of the present state of
Life on the surface of the earth; despite a regrettable recrudescence of racialism and nationalism which, impressive though it may be, and disastrous in its
effect upon our private post-war
lives, seems to have no scientific importance in the overall process: for the reason that any
human tendency to fragmentation, regardless of its extent and origin, is clearly of an order of magnitude inferior to the planetary forces (geographic, demographic, economic and psychic) whose constantly and naturally growing pressure must sooner or later compel us willy - nilly to unite in some form of
human whole organized on the basis of
human solidarity.
Thus one who denies a priori that there was objective ground for the resurrection faith of early Christianity denies in
effect the whole Gospel portrait of Jesus, for the knowledge of the
living Christ after the crucifixion is altogether continuous, of a piece, with the memory of the
human Jesus.
Towards the fulfillment of His purposes He has brought man into being and He offers to His
human children the privilege of co-operating with Him so that they may have a share in the
effecting of these ends and, at the same time, find a supreme joy for themselves as they are related to Him and participate in His communication of
life.
As curious, existential,
human beings we're always trying to figure out the cause and
effect of
life.
see what you have to understand about
living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their
effects are measurable... us as
humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in
human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...
The most powerful influence in
human life is neither the environment in which we happen to be brought up, the genes we were bequeathed from our parents at birth, nor all the slings and arrows of fate, no matter how tragic and harrowing their
effects may be.
The
effect was to re-establish a fundamental trust with respect to the meaningfulness of
human life.
If
life can evolve from a single cell to complex
humans, why couldn't a similar process
effect life outside of this dimension?
10 Certain recent discussions of environmental ethics, dealing with «respect for nature» (where nature is not necessarily limited to the realm of
living things), reflect some affinities with Hall's ideas on «deference» and seem to pose a challenge to my suggestion that the pursuit of power over nature should be criticized primarily in terms of its negative
effects on
human values and experiences.
By declaring that it was unnecessary to decide when
human life begins, and by refusing to inquire into what or, more precisely, who is being killed when the woman exercises her «right to choose,» the Court made it possible to pretend that abortion was in
effect a victimless crime.
Sex, as Freud made crystal clear, is a powerful, ubiquitous phenomenon in
human life with profound
effects on mental health.
They would insist, as the Bible insists, as the
life of faith continues to insist, that this epoch in Israelite history witnessed an intense series of divine -
human encounters, initiated by God himself and
effected by his Word.
The amount of conceptual novelty it can introduce is tiny indeed, and the «cleverest» DNA - molecular - occasion in the world is oblivious of the fact that its aims may have an
effect on the welfare of the
human «
living person» who happens to inhabit the same organism!
They point to other destructive aspects of television that have been stressed by television researchers and theorists; the privatization of experience at the expense of family and social interaction and rela - tionships; (33) the promotion of fear as the appropriate attitude to
life: (34) television's cultural levelling
effects which blur local, regional, and national differences and impose a distorted and primarily free - enterprise, competitive and capitalistic picture of events and their significance; (35) television's suppression of social dialogue; (36) its distorted and exploitative presentation of certain social groups: (37) the increasing alienation felt by most viewers in relation to this central means of social communication; (38) and its negative
effects on the development of the full range of
human potential.
The Handbook simply does not take into account why people seek out a religion and what kind of
effects religions and their advocates hope to promote in
human life.
But if it results in a new sort of reality being apprehended, the
effects of which are objective and demonstrable in terms of
human living, then surely it is very valuable indeed.
Fifth, the abstraction from the concreteness of culture and tradition has been accompanied by an abstraction from the concreteness of social structures and classes and their
effects in shaping
human life.
«The Veggie experiment is currently the only experiment we are supporting which involves evaluating the
effects of plant
life on
humans in space,» Alexandra Whitmire, a scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, said in a press release.
We know what
humans need in early
life to develop well, and the
effects of early experience are no longer a mystery.
Dr. Perry's research includes: the
effects of prenatal drug exposure on brain development, the neurobiology of
human neuropsychiatric disorders, the neurophysiology of traumatic
life events, and long - term cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social and physiological
effects of neglect and trauma in children, adolescents and adults.
- Why breastfeeding protects maternal health - Basic concepts of breast differentiation, lactogenesis, and lactation - Basic overview of the
human stress response - Introduction to psychoneuroimmunology and the immunology of pregnancy and postpartum - Lactational stress resistance - Breastfeeding, mental health, and the risk of cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome - Breastfeeding and immunity - Implications of an anti-inflammatory response to enhancing the health
effects of breastfeeding throughout women's
lives
Moreover, fin - de-siècle Americans turned increasingly to science as the most credible authority, particularly in matters of health and the
human life cycle.24 An
effect of this was the increased stature in society, whether self - generated or not, of the medical community.