Sentences with phrase «mere human reason»

Apparently this job is not the job of mere human reason, (although the Spirit of Truth works in the realm of human reason, showing, shining light onto and convincing and bringing about authentic conviction) it is Holy Spirits job to completely convince persons what is right and what is not right, to the point one is convicted in their inner being.

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His jeremiad is no mere denunciation of a corrupt political class but of the Spaniards» failure to live up to even the basic dictates of human reason.

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.

Our age is in need of a great philosopher; one who can thread his way, step by step, through the intricate labyrinth of reasoning into which scientists have been led, eyes riveted to earth, by the desire to improve our human lot, the desire to destroy life, or mere common curiosity; one who can keep his mind, at the same time, open to the metaphysical implications of all he learns, and at last put the wholecorpus of our knowledge together in one grand synthesis.

The primacy of practical reason and of the summu bonum or supreme aim or purpose, has some validity, but should not be allowed to belittle theoretical reason, nor should the relations between human and divine values be allowed to reduce God to a mere means for the production of human good.

Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically evil, Wright details some of the problematic consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..

To his mind, our age is simply the age of technology, which is to say that our reasoning is simply a narrow and calculative rationalism that sees the world about us not as the home in which we dwell, where we might keep ourselves near to being's mystery and respond to it; rather, the world for us now is mere mechanism, as well as a «standing reserve» of material resources awaiting exploitation in the projects of the human will.

The gaping chasm between God and human beings — which human reason has perceived and before which it has trembled — has been bridged by this infant's merest yawn.

the mere measure of absence due to disability or other reasons attracting human rights protection does not offend human rights legislation;