So it is celebration
of creation of humanity.
Not exact matches
So, when it comes to the question
of how we interact with our
creations, maybe we should be less concerned with determining their personhood than we are with defining our
humanity.
My goals are to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy and to help make
humanity a multi-planetary civilization, a consequence
of which will be the
creation of hundreds
of thousands
of jobs and a more inspiring future for all.
He has now teamed up with ex Google ethicist Tristan Harris in the
creation of The Center for Human Technology — an alliance
of Silicon Valley notables dedicated to «realigning technology with
humanity's best interests.»
Creation is beautiful and good, and humanity upholds God's image within it; creation is fallen, evil, corrupt; creation can be, and will be, restored — that triune intuition of Christian faith provides a template of meaning that at least attempts an answer to Gauguin's qu
Creation is beautiful and good, and
humanity upholds God's image within it;
creation is fallen, evil, corrupt; creation can be, and will be, restored — that triune intuition of Christian faith provides a template of meaning that at least attempts an answer to Gauguin's qu
creation is fallen, evil, corrupt;
creation can be, and will be, restored — that triune intuition of Christian faith provides a template of meaning that at least attempts an answer to Gauguin's qu
creation can be, and will be, restored — that triune intuition
of Christian faith provides a template
of meaning that at least attempts an answer to Gauguin's questions.
Five hundred years ago, the Renaissance scholar Pico della Mirandola delivered his famous «Oration on the Dignity
of Man,» which defined the role
of humanity in
creation.
First chapter
of Genesis is a SUMMARY
of Creation and God summarizes that He created
humanity — both male and female (v27).
Perhaps you do not know the full intent
of the author, just as many «real» christians know that the «author
of creation» isn't a being that
humanity can understand.
Creationism is the religious belief [1] that
humanity, life, the Earth, and the universe are the
creation of a supernatural being, most often referring to the Abrahamic God.
faith is the ecstasy
of reason that does not undo reason because
humanity is that one
of the creatures in whom
creation's constituting ecstasy toward God becomes rational.
The great danger is an identification
of God and
humanity, or
of God and
creation.
Against those who hold
humanity in contempt, I, too, want to declare myself a humanist and join in the most elevated and elevating tradition
of a culture that celebrates man as «the crown
of creation.»
Third, the song
of reason's gift by which we understand the uses
of nature to preserve and enhance the well - being
of humanity»
humanity being the part
of creation that God became in order that we might become fully God's.
In the course
of history, it was often maintained that the
creation of institutions was sufficient to guarantee the fulfilment
of humanity's right to development.
HOW CAN U EXPLAIN THE CONCEPT
OF A CREATION WITHOUT A CREATOR!??? And because of this unwillingness to accept TRUTH, they themselves have shut out from their minds additional «knowledge» that would eventually lead to the explanation of WHY humanity was created in the first plac
OF A
CREATION WITHOUT A CREATOR!??? And because
of this unwillingness to accept TRUTH, they themselves have shut out from their minds additional «knowledge» that would eventually lead to the explanation of WHY humanity was created in the first plac
of this unwillingness to accept TRUTH, they themselves have shut out from their minds additional «knowledge» that would eventually lead to the explanation
of WHY humanity was created in the first plac
of WHY
humanity was created in the first place!
3) you speak
of «God creating a world with sin» but Judaism & Christianity share a common view
of creation — namely, that God made the world perfectly good but *
humanity * ruined it.
The very language upon which it depends for articulating its moral and political ambition — e.g., equality, gender,
humanity, rights, etc. — was predicated upon reality being more than a linguistic construct or the
creation of individual egos.
And in order to bring about His ultimate plan to glorify Himself, He ordains all
of the intricate workings
of His
creation, but never violating the free will
of humanity.
Or, put somewhat differently, the salvation
of humanity occurs within a larger framework, a cosmological drama where the whole
of creation is destined for redemption, for being made whole.
With all the emphasis on
creation or evolution coming out
of the first few chapters
of Genesis, we often miss some
of the most important ideas about our
humanity and how God created us (not physically, but spiritually and psychologically).
Most
of the 350 - plus books written by «
creation scientists» consist in large part
of discussions
of the supposed errors
of evolutionary teaching, reviewing vast amounts
of technical scientific data and theory, challenging this or that piece
of evidence, method
of dating or use
of data, while producing evidences and counterarguments
of their own in favor
of a young earth, recent
humanity, worldwide flood, etc..
In fact, we see on the Old Testament how God gradually forms and guides
humanity from a primitive to a more enlightened understanding
of God and His
creation.
The
humanity of Christian humanism was trying to supplement in its modest way the majestic gestures
of original
Creation.
Pace Professor Polanyi, human personhood for Fr Holloway is, in accordance with the Law
of Control and Direction, the
creation of God not
humanity.
We have recognized that
humanity is one part
of a much larger
creation for which God cares.
Work is part
of God's ordering
of creation; it belongs to our
humanity that we work.
Paul's letter to the Colossians (1:15 - 20) has as its theme the persuasive love
of God as extended not only to all
humanity but to the whole
of creation.
The greater man becomes and the more
humanity becomes one, conscious
of its power and able to control it, the more beautiful
creation will be, the more perfect adoration will become, and the more Christ will find, for the mystical extensions
of his
humanity, a body worthy
of resurrection.
Christianity, for example, is essentially based on the twofold belief that man is in a special sense an object
of pursuit to the divine power throughout
creation, and that Christ is the terminal point at which, supernaturally but also physically, the consummation
of humanity is destined to be achieved.
God created
humanity without those things until
humanity rejected God and sin was woven into every fiber
of creation.
God's love has [48] been reduced to a stance God takes unswervingly toward the
creation and fallen
humanity, bereft
of passion and particularity, an eternal and unchanging love utterly unaffected by the responses
of the beloved.
So also, Justin's onetime pupil Tatian restricted the phrase «all power» to God's initial creative activity; God's
creation, especially
humanity, is not without power altogether but simply is not «
of equal power with God» (Address to the Greeks, 5).
Kuyper insists that the organic character
of the church stems from the organic character
of humanity that is part
of the order
of creation.
My point here is not to take sides with any
of these speculations, but only to indicate that the initial insistence on locating
humanity fully within nature, heightens the marvel
of creation that is too often lost when we stay within our dualistic compartments.
Would that be the same debt
of sin that he saddled
humanity with because his original
creations screwed up (which he knew would happen before creating them)?
that «The truth, Benedict asserts, is that love leavens the very architecture
of creation; that
creation is a realm
of abundance, and
humanity the image and likeness
of a triune and infinitely loving God.»
The recent editorial in Faith on that very subject would have perhaps given him the fuller Catholic vision, which places the Atonement within the perspective
of the absolute Primacy
of Christ in
creation and the solidarity and identity
of humanity in his Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity.
If the God
of life is one, and if the God
of life is seen in every child
of his
creation, then we must treat every child
of his
creation as if that child is holy, and there can be no categorical denial
of another's sacred
humanity.
The humans were to bless, to name, to take responsibility; to eat and drink and partake with reverence and thanksgiving — that was the eucharistic life
of humanity in the midst
of God's
creation.
Moreover, there is Karl Barth's (1886 - 1968) emphasis on how God's «historical dealings with
humanity,» far from showing how God needs
creation, actually reveal the perfect, self - reliant life
of the Trinity itself.
-LSB-...] God has a plan
of love for every human being, for the whole
of humanity and thewhole
of creation.»
The suggested developments cover respectively,
Creation, the
humanity of Jesus Christ, The Cross, and the Church - corresponding to four key God - centred concepts which are underplayed in Alpha: reason, human nature, solidarity and communion.
So rather than the Incarnation being a sort
of «Plan B» to rescue
humanity after the fall, in Scotus» theology it is the whole purpose
of creation.
Chapter 1 deals with the state
of fallen
humanity and the reasons for its
creation.
Humanity is said to be the steward or manager
of God's
creation.
Walter Brueggemann's book Genesis, in citing the biblical chapter 11:1 - 9, suggests that the story
of the Tower
of Babel describes
humanity's attempt to organize itself around an instrument
of its own
creation.
Paul is speaking
of sinful
humanity (Gentiles) not having an intimate knowledge
of His saving grace, not having had the gospel revealed to them as the Jews had, yet having a knowledge
of God revealed by His
creation.
Together they form the account
of an ancient, sacred dialogue a giant conversation initiated, inspired and guided by God with and among
humanity about God, his
creation and our role in it as his partners.
Everything in God's
creation is interrelated, and one can not separate protection
of the environment from protection
of humanity: Again citing Benedict, Francis observes that «the world can not be analyzed by isolating only one
of its aspects, since «the book
of nature is one and indivisible,» and includes the environment, life, sexuality, the family, social relations, and so forth.»
In time, perhaps, it will yield a biblical theology
of womanhood (not to be subsumed under the label
humanity) with roots in the goodness
of creation female and male.