Sentences with phrase «many human predicaments»

«It is a sad feature of the human predicament, in personal as in public life, that whenever one has the agreeable sensation of being impressively moral, one probably is not,» Kennan said.

Christian artists and audiences have come to expect either a sanitized view of the human predicament or a picture of conversion that shortchanges the high cost of following Christ.

The human predicament is described by words such as estrangement and alienation.

Estrangement and alienation are not biblical terms, but they are implied in the biblical description of the human predicament; the expulsion from paradise, the hostility between humanity and nature, the hostility of person against person, of nation against nation, and of the continuous complaint of the prophets against the rulers.

Estrangement is implied in Paul's classical description of the human predicament of «man against himself» because of his conflicting desires.

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Can it not be more widely recognized that we are all in the human predicament together and that the pooling of knowledge and experience might lead to considerably more light being shed on the business of living which faces every one of us.

Other methods may give «religious» experiences, but only Christianity insists that the life of the spirit must be expressed within the terms of the present human predicament.

For Lutheran Christians, such despair in face of the universal and radical human predicament can only be overcome through the gospel, which announces forgiveness of sins and redemption of life under the conditions of an ambiguous world chained by sin and death.

At the level of the human predicament, it corresponds to one meaning of original sin.

In the twenty - first century, philosophy's task will be to rebuild a positive response to the human predicament that starts with the cause of that predicament, man's alienation from God.

The cause of Jesus» suffering is sin and the human predicament.

Through the method of correlation, the existential questions which arise from our human predicament find response in theological answers derived from revelation.

One of the tasks of a preacher is to bring to those who hear him exactly this understanding of the human predicament: a genuine sense of value in human life but yet an accompanying grasp of its incompleteness, frustration, and inadequacy.

He felt that the biblical portrayal of the human predicament could liberate the liberal mind from its rationalistic fixations, show the limitations of all human schemes, and save men from guilty despair when their visions did not bring in the Kingdom of God.

Because Kirk believ ed that such an understanding was best apprehended and transmitted through imaginative literature, it is only right that his short stories and fiction best enable one to appreciate the character of his insight into the human predicament.

This makes it imperative to see as clearly as possible our human opportunities and human predicament, and try to discern what God is saying to us in the midst of it.

I have the feeling that this is not simply a minor point, but that a central fact of the human predicament is precisely that of being and feeling separate from the infinite and eternal God.

Whereas the religious traditions from the Axial Period onwards each arose at one point and then radiated outwards, the global religion (if it comes at all) will probably arise more or less spontaneously out of the common human predicament.

The global culture will evolve, if it evolves at all, out of the spread of global consciousness (as described in Chapter 8)-- a consciousness of the human predicament, an appreciation of humanity's dependence on the earth, and a willingness to act jointly in response.

We criticize this combination a lot, both for what it says and for what it fails to say about the human predicament.

It appears that Thomas is proposing something unusually sweeping: God is not some false answer to the human predicament, nor simply the brutal cause of their distress but the very predicament itself.

«Its urgency is underlined when we realize the seriousness of the human predicament and the tremendous task waiting for the churches at present.»

Is this «vision» of how - it - is the best way to talk about and understand the human predicament?

This is the human predicament.

Not only was this myth meaningful within Israel and the former generations of Christian believers, but also to us living in the new world, three thousand years later, it still speaks powerfully, as it lights up for us our human nature and our human predicament.

The effective pastor is one who has learned as a result of his own involvement in the human predicament and can admit to his own experience of «caughtness.»

Applies the learnings from existential therapy to help readers understand the human predicament and rediscover their selfhood.

Ministry and mission entail managing that in - escapable ambivalence that is the human predicament in faithful, generative ways.

A thousand years from now our descendants will be facing difficult times, some of their problems being new and others being the same old problems that plague us today, because they will share inevitably in the perennial human predicament.

«There'll Always be an England,» is a pleasure cruise of cultural history in the form of some of the finest photographs of people and their human predicaments that we could find on this side of the Atlantic.

Martin Creed is a winner of the Turner Prize, an internationally recognized mixed - media artist, song writer, commentator on the condition, purveyor of the prurient, thinker - not thinker, and a regarded member of the human predicament, as it were.

In my exploration of the human predicament these days, I keep stumbling back on the idea that we've been locked into what amounts to the species - scale equivalent of an adolescent binge for the last century or two.

These whales are threatened by a multi-faceted, human - forced problem, one I prefer to name a colossal human predicament.

In case you missed it when I posted «Pedal to the Metal,» here's my distillation of the human predicament:

That is a characteristic too often missing from discussions of the human predicament these days, amid so many shouts of «woe is me» and «shame on you.»

More quality education could help us solve the human predicament — the combined crises of overpopulation, wasteful consumption, deteriorating life - support systems, declining resources, multiplying weapons of mass destruction, and widening inequity within and between nations.

The negative manifestations of these interactions are often referred to as «the human predicament» [10], and determining how to prevent it from generating a global collapse is perhaps the foremost challenge confronting humanity.

«Ignorance of science is one blockade to effective action on the human predicament.

The Human Predicament Around 11,000 years ago, as the...

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I have a stepdaughter that has Downs Syndrome, and as much as I fully believe that she is much more developed along the lines of loving her fellow human beings, I am also not convinced that her predicament was ever Plan A.

But Methodist dogmatics had been plagued by the predicament of reconciling contingency in human affairs with the traditional doctrine of God's absolute foreknowledge — a reconciliation that Calvinist necessitarians gleefully declared impossible.

On the other hand, if this man was human as I am, if he was a limited, feeling, fallible creature like myself, and he was able to live in this way and love in this way and give of himself in this way — then so can I. And his teachings are then relevant, for they come from someone who shared my predicament.

Our predicament is a commentary, not on instruments and instrument makers, but on the human inability to employ both scientific knowledge and technical achievement to bring about the good life and the good society.

The latter represents the human moral predicament, the fate of the tower representing the human intellectual predicament.

Could we not assign, instead, a unique value to this nascent human life, without criminalizing and traumatizing those who, caught in overwhelming predicaments, choose not to carry it to term?

Animals that travel between multiple destinations and return to a home base — like bees, birds, primates and humans — face a predicament known to mathematicians as the Travelling Salesman Problem.

It's not surprising that this kind of predicament brings back an old sore topic: human population and whether to do anything about it.

THE human cost of Greece's predicament is becoming clear.

«We argued then that high fat consumption was one of the most important solutions to the predicament presented by human evolution.