Sentences with phrase «meaning of human action»

He sees the meaning of human action not in the development toward an ideal of man which is founded on the human spirit; nor in the realization of an ideal human society through human action.
Just as the primary meaning of human action does not refer to a public, historical act, the primary meaning of God's action does not refer to any act in history.23 However, since the relation of the world to God is analogous to that of the body to the self, then in the secondary sense of God's action, every event is to an extent an act of God.

Not exact matches

This is part of what it means to think politically, because politics is about action in a realm of uncertainty; politics is about human choice, but these choices are not infinite.
And yet what is equally true is that we are each made in the Image of God, which means (among many other things) that our worth as humans is never diminished by our actions.
(Mind, I am saying neither that all human means of action are to be condemned nor that we should sit idly and await God's action.
For others, the gospel is the assurance of meaning and purpose in human life and action.
It does not necessarily mean observing the rules or codes recognized in any human society, except insofar as these represent the attempt of that society to make actions express the nearest thing to full realization of affected interests which is possible to the average human being.
From his birth to his death and beyond... Jesus translates the logic or meaning or pattern or heart of God into terms we humans can understand: skin and bone, muscle and breath, nerve and action.
He describes with great accuracy the necessities of Christian existence in which love is the meaning of all knowledge and action, but in which man must cope with vast and threatening powers and institutions which are ruled by the distorted and misdirected passions of the corrupt human spirit.
I have emphasized this historical responsibility as the framework of pluralism because it posits humanization and the questions related to the meaning of being human as the central theme of common concern in dialogue and action, for all those who are encountering the common historical responsibility.
You know, its really starting to sound like that religion is simply a means for humans to control the actions of other humans.
All religions including Christianity, all cultures and all secular ideologies are in informal and formal dialogues about what is the meaning of our common humanity and about the path of common action - responses to the situation from their respective understanding of the nature and destiny of the human selfhood.
What matters here is that the total witness found in the Gospels, as well as in the epistles of Paul, John, and others, is to an activity of God in human existence and through a human activity, through which «newness of life» has been known; God has been seen as sheer Love - in - action, and human existence has been given meaning and value as a potential agency for divine Love in the world and in human affairs.
To cut off the actions that express this relation from the affirmation of the whole human mind means to profane them.
For the purposes of human action, entropy (a mass - effect rather than a law of the unit) is without meaning.
His aim, just as that of Homeric religion, was for human excellence, but whereas for Homeric religion this meant of public excellence of manner and action, for Socrates this meant the perfection of the soul as such.
The action of blessing, breaking, and giving thanks reminds us of the last supper, and Matthew and Luke clearly invite us to look beyond the miracle to its meaning; that Jesus Christ is fully adequate to all human need.
Christ, the image of the Father, discloses to us what it means to be in the image and likeness of God and how we should «be what we are» in and through human action.
Before we set out Whitehead's view, it should be noted that if his view really is a different way of looking at real things, then we will need to think about freedom, human action, responsibility, the meaning of life, the self, etc. in a new way.
Out of the quest of social groups for an understanding of the connection between specific beliefs and actions, and the reactions of the universe, as well as the meaning of human salvation, religion grows and develops.
But he believes that such images and concepts can acquire fresh meaning if considered in terms of the Whiteheadian understanding of Jesus as our model of what it means to overcome the common divergence that we as humans experience between that course of action which God presents to us and that course of action we find ourselves naturally wanting to follow (104).
The negative perpetuates itself as a habit of thought» it becomes the highest form of self «consciousness» and it destroys everything in the most direct way; not by physical means, but by corrosion at the seat of faith and action, the human mind.
Occasionally, Hartshorne even speaks of a «besouled body,» but by such language he means only the probability of certain modes of action and experience that embody a given personality's characteristic traits.11 Consequently, he suggests that, when a person's body goes into a deep, dreamless sleep, the soul loses its actuality, only to regain it when the person awakens.12 Understandably, therefore, he disregards as inapplicable to his own view Gilbert Ryle's well - known caricature of Cartesian anthropological dualism as «the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine» — especially since Hartshorne denies that the human body is a «machine» in any materialistic, mechanical sense.13
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The first thing to give us pause, as we survey the progress of human collectivization, is what I would call the inexorable nature of a phenomenon which arises directly and automatically out of the conjunction of two factors, both of a structural kind: first, the confined surface of the globe, and secondly, the incessant multiplication, within this restricted space, of human units endowed by ever - improving means of communication with a rapidly increasing scope for action; to which may be added the fact that their advanced psychic development makes them preeminently capable of influencing and inter-penetrating one another.
It means evaluating all policies and actions according to their effect on these creatures and especially the poor and powerless of the human family.
«It is necessary that the Heir of the Ages come into his own through the womb of woman, so that the human nature of man may be the perfect means of the action and hallowing of God in Person upon «his own» (cf. Jn 1, 11) and upon the material order itself, through mankind.
It seeks to answer the question, «What is the meaning and truth of the Christian assertions that God is love, that love to God and the neighbor are the two great commandments, that the fulfillment of human love depends upon God's action of reconciliation, and that the love of God is the ground of all hope?»
This means, among other things, that even the difference between human creatures such as ourselves and other creatures not similarly capable of self - understanding and moral action is at most a relative, not an absolute, difference.
Wieman was concerned to show what commitment to the source of human good would mean in institutional and national life as well as in personal life.26 It would be false in his case to say that personal salvation is primary and social action its by - product.
«Mission» means «sending,» and it is the central biblical theme describing the purpose of God's action in human history, with the church being the primary agent of God's missionary action.
He analyzes the development of human consciousness, from its immediate perception of the here and now, to the stage of self - consciousness, the understanding that allows man to analyze the world and order his own actions accordingly.3 Following this is the stage of reason itself, understanding of the real, after which spirit, by means of religions and art, attains the absolute knowledge, the level at which man recognizes in the world the stages of his own reason.
Excess, in human faculties, means usually one - sidedness or want of balance; for it is hard to imagine an essential faculty too strong, if only other faculties equally strong be there to cooperate with it in action.
And when this limit, which is God's honor, is reached by man, there is a twofold temptation, either on the one side to pass the limit, to take up God's cause, to try to avenge God's honor oneself, to use political means in the service of the living God in order to do this, or on the other side to remain within the limit but to continue political action as though it did not exist, in other words, to separate the two kingdoms, to argue that while God's honor is there at the limit of politics, and I can do nothing about it, nevertheless in my own sphere I can still act like a shrewd and effective man, pursuing politics to save what can be saved by human means.
Given our stress on freedom in the divine nature, we need to reinterpret omniscience of the future so that it means not a fixed knowledge of every coming event held in a timeless instant, but the simultaneous grasp of an absolute infinity of possibles — a capability we human beings lack — and an instantaneous calculation of the odds for all future possible events and actions.
The building of the Church as a community with complex organizational structure, with manifold functions and leaders, with various responsibilities to the society around it, can easily degenerate into the building of religious clubs, of sororities and fraternities and of national associations for the promotion of good causes, if the understanding of the Church's purpose, of its responsibility to God, of the nature and action of God, of man and his history, of the meaning of the Church's work in all the complex of human activity and of the interrelation of the various aspects of its work are lost to view.
To be consonant with the Word of God, philosophy needs first of all to recover its sapiential dimension as a search for... the ultimate framework of the unity of human knowledge and action, leading them to converge towards a final goal and meaning (para. 81)... to verify the human capacity... to come to a knowledge which can reach objective truth (para. 82)... Hence we face a great challenge at the end of this millennium to move from phenomenon to foundation, a step as necessary as it is urgent.
I am struck with the observation that perhaps the reason Mark ended his Gospel on this strange note of fear was «to emphasize human inadequacy, lack of understanding, and weakness in the presence of supreme divine action and its meaning
This message is the most important one because it counterbalances those very human moments when I am not the most patient mom, they know how I really feel so that when I apologise for being angry or disappointing them or for making very human mistakes they believe it because they have seen through my words and most of my actions that I mean it.
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Building on the tradition of letter - writing as a means of assisting scientists whose rights are violated by their governments, the program initiated the AAAS Human Rights Action Network (AAASHRAN) in 1993.
This doesn't necessarily mean that ancient human actions were solely responsible for the distribution of domesticated plants, cautions Crystal McMichael, a palaeoecologist at the University of Amsterdam.
Elisa practices root cause resolution which means she works to find the triggers of disease in the human body and provides practical action steps on how to address health goals.
Silvia's strengths are words, diplomacy and the subtleties of meaning, while Tobin is all about instinct, action and reading into the most primal human behaviors.
Netflix has released a new trailer for its fantasy action - thriller Bright, which sees director David Ayer (End of Watch, Suicide Squad) directing Will Smith and Joel Edgerton as two LAPD police officers — one human and one orc — who form a most unlikely duo working to keep the mean streets of Los Angeles safe from a sinister underworld filled with gang violence and dark forces at work.
The movie wants to say something about the communications industry and its apparent movement toward a sort of universal hub — a one - stop means by which we can communicate with everyone, even going as far as to literally control another human being's every action — but, as presented here, it comes across as shallow techno - phobia.
A bold new action - thriller from director David Ayer (known for such box office hits as Suicide Squad, End of Watch and Training Day), Bright follows the story of two LAPD police officers played by Smith, a human named Officer Ward, and Edgerton, an orc named Officer Jakoby, who form a most unlikely duo working to keep the mean streets of Los Angeles safe from a sinister, fantasy underworld filled with violence and dark forces at work.
I mean, Stephen Colbert did a segment on a section of published fanfiction that features human on velociraptor action of the sexual nature.
An animal potentially dangerous to humans means any of the following: Any animal which, when unprovoked and off the property of the owner or keeper, engages in behavior that threatens the safety of a human being so that the human has to take defensive action to protect himself / herself or that person is injured.
Model for your child (ren) or students what it means to be humane through your actions and treatment of humans and animals (furry, feathered, or otherwise).
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