Sentences with phrase «natural human faith»

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Rice, in his book, citing Pope Benedict XVI, countered that the need to protect all human life from conception to natural death is innate to human nature and confirmed by faith: «The Church's action in promoting them is therefore not confessional in character, but is addressed to all people, prescinding from any religious affiliation they may have.»

By dismissing Marx's ultimate faith in the goodness of Historical progress — and by holding open the possibility of a return to a life both more human and more natural, left conservatives might seem to have freed themselves of the illusions of History.

When democracy is founded on faith in the natural innocence of man and when human wants are taken as the measure of what is good, the ground is prepared for anarchy, conflict, and mass tyranny.

The notions of intellect and will or desireare schemata that we (following the philosophers of ancient Greece) impose on human life for the purpose of describing and influencing it; and the notions of faith, hope and charity are further schemata fitted on by theologians as life rises above what is natural.

But the greater their success in coordinating faith's mysteries and human experience, the less clear became the distinction between faith and reason, supernatural and natural orders.

Our experience of human existence is such that we are quite ready to agree that given such faith, such distrust and betrayal of it would be a natural outcome among men.

Second we can understand the consequences to our faith if the faithful Christ had been saved from the consequences of human distrust and betrayal by the sort of miraculous interference he himself knew to be possible: the twelve legions of angels of whom he spoke, who might have been Roman soldiers arriving in a nick of time to save Pilate from fear of insurrection, or who might have come in the form of a natural catastrophe which would have upset all the plans of princes and priests, or who for that matter might have arrived as superterrestrial beings — men from Mars.

This posture seeks through the praxis of faith to overcome seemingly insurmountable barriers between races, sexes, classes, rich and poor, oppressors and oppressed, humans and the natural world, Christian faith and other religions.

What the church has to say about the secular institutions follows solely from the preaching of Christ, and the Church possesses no doctrine of her own which is valid in itself with regard to eternal institutions and natural or human rights such as might command acknowledgement even independently of faith in Christ.

This way of understanding the human person, which stems from the unique dignity of the person created in the image and likeness of God (Gen 1:26 - 27) and called to eternal redemption in Christ, is rooted in revelation, but it can be appreciated or grasped as true even by those who do not share our faith, on the basis of natural moral law.6

Jane, Buddhism is one of the great religions of the world, in panthrotheism it is one of all religions that God had willed to serve humans who believes on its doctrine.But since we are all humans, we have to experience all the trials of life so that in the future when His Will shall be implemented by us, the wisdom of experience of all religions will be the basis of our decisions.Thats why genocides, wars,, pestilence, natural calamities, and all what we percieve as injustices, such as tyranny, persecutions and all the negative events in history is part of His will, because in panthrotheism, there is no devil or satan.everything has a reason.and we have to accept it, Remember that He is not faith selective but performance appreciative, it is the good things you do that He wills.

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

Had he actually read St. Thomas, or any scrupulous commentator (not including Oliver Wendell Holmes), he would have understood that, according to Thomas (not to mention virtually every other proponent of natural law of whom I am aware), natural law depends upon reason, not faith, indeed upon a reason that all human beings, regardless of creed, are said to share.

McGrath suggests a new reformulation of natural theology, seeing its task as offering an interpretation of nature based on Trinitarian faith, including an account of human engagement with nature in the moral and aesthetic dimensions as well.

All human religion, other than the Judeo - Christian faith was thought to consist of various forms of natural religion which could all be traced back to Noah.

These conditions can be largely met if technology is built primarily on natural human and renewable local resources, if it can be linked to traditional skills, crafts and techniques, and if it is geared to production that will meet the basic needs of the poor» (Faith Science and the Future.

The basis of the Christian contribution is the faith that the crucified Jesus Christ by mediating divine forgiveness to all humans in the solidarity of their sinfulness, has made possible mutual forgiveness between persons and peoples and has brought into being in history a new human communion (Koinonia), transcending all religious, cultural and natural diversities and divisions.

The 1985 Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Instruction on Respect for Human Life states, «By virtue of its substantial union with a spiritual soul, the human body can not be... evaluated in the same way as the body of animals... The natural moral law expresses and lays down the purposes, rights and duties which are based upon the bodily and spiritual nature of the human person.&rHuman Life states, «By virtue of its substantial union with a spiritual soul, the human body can not be... evaluated in the same way as the body of animals... The natural moral law expresses and lays down the purposes, rights and duties which are based upon the bodily and spiritual nature of the human person.&rhuman body can not be... evaluated in the same way as the body of animals... The natural moral law expresses and lays down the purposes, rights and duties which are based upon the bodily and spiritual nature of the human person.&rhuman person.»

(How was it ever conceivable, we ask, that a man like Christian Wolff, in whose dry - as - dust head all the learning of the early eighteenth century was concentrated, should have preserved such a baby - like faith in the personal and human character of Nature as to expound her operations as he did in his work on the uses of natural things?

We must come together in a new partnership with our faith - based institutions, civil society, businesses and government to create a powerful locomotive for transformation so that our President's coordinated program of economic and social development policies will create «an optimistic, self - confident and prosperous nation through the creative exploitation of our human and natural resources and operating within a democratic, open and fair society in which mutual trust and economic opportunities exist for all.»

Absent such faith in the hidden design of natural providence, the mode of human life most in accord with nature must be, according to Aristotle, a via media that is artificially constructed.

The eco-pragmatists who embrace the new geological epoch — Michael Schellenberger, Ted Nordhaus, Peter Kareiva, Erle Ellis, Emma Marris, Stewart Brand, Mark Lynas — express an unbounded faith in technology and human ingenuity, and view the natural world as ultimately conformable to human manipulation and resilient enough to bounce back from whatever humans throw at it.