Sentences with phrase «of human affairs»

On seeing my post, he offered a deeper look at the 19th - century illustration that I used, and his reflections on how changes in climate alter the course of human affairs.

History's meaning and purpose are no longer «above,» but instead operate within the ongoing flow of human affairs.

But the universal, active as it may be in reason and rightly influential in human affairs, lacks the power to bend the arc of human affairs away from sin's destruction.

This is hardly a vision that makes sense of human affairs.

Unless you're a vegan (I'm not), killing animals is an inevitable part of human affairs.

The solution for a balanced lifestyle is easy to discuss and confirm, but very hard to achieve on a broad scale of human affairs.

In doing so we are changing the given geographical context of human affairs.

It takes little imagination to see how these assumptions have guided most realms of human affairs, from policy making to media portrayals of social life.

But what makes «Cartel Land» special, and particularly frightening, is that — unlike most mainstream movies and TV shows — it reflects the more ambiguous state of human affairs.

Except for its Roman model, it refers to few precise past and no existing temporal states, but to the divinely sanctioned secular government of all Europe that should be the essential ordering force of human affairs in this world.

What some call the role of tradition in the formation of the Bible I prefer to describe as the gracious gift of God in sovereign control of human affairs so as to result in the Bible - the Word of God written.

Author Irving Howe recently criticized literary critic Lionel Trilling's «liberal mind,» a mind alive to the complexity of human affairs, for being an essentially conservative mind.

In this passage, especially in the phrase «the nature of human affairs», Smith comes close to the traditional doctrine of original sin.

Embracing a new critical understanding of human affairs that includes nature as a key actor will be essential to solving both our social and political problems, as well as our environmental crisis.

Indeed it is not merely human, it could not be, it's first pope was a coward, it has been the home of scandals and the messiest of human affairs.

«The disciple stands as an envoy or a receiver by which the kingdom of God is conveyed into every quarter of human affairs.»

Undemocratic conditions in any sphere of human affairs are symptoms of irreligion or idolatry.

As he said, «the Kingdom of God includes the economic life, for it means the progressive transformation of all human affairs by the thought and spirit of Christ.»

In poetic terminology, she stands in the busiest concourse of human affairs, wherever man may be, and there accosts all and sundry.

Again, the Bible tells of the visits to Abraham and others by supernatural beings known as angels; however, they were really messengers from outer space who were trying to influence the course of human affairs according to God's interplanetary directives.

Some fifty years ago H. G. Wells, certainly an informed historian and keen analyst of human affairs, said of Jesus: «His is easily the dominant figure of history....

There is no way to justice except through the re-ordering of human affairs, and this is never without its cost.38

To grant God any administration of human affairs, Pinker argues, lessens the incentive for human beings to correct and improve them.

, still God would have brought the world of human affairs into such a relationship with Him as in Christ He did do, so that He might crown His many comings and revealings and workings among us by this supreme and definitive act.

All of this confirms yet again the desperate need for a new theological synthesis capable of encompassing not only science and religion but also a new social vision that will re-vindicate the authority of Christ in his Church to be the ultimate source of control and direction at the heart of human affairs.

His view that creativity «is the passage from an actuality to a greater and, in a sense, more richly concrete actuality» expresses a wholly positive intuition of reality and the stuff of human affairs.

But this does not alter the fact that the Old Testament as a whole has a note extremely important to Christian ethics today: namely, that God alone is the final arbiter of human affairs and that in him power, righteousness, and grace are inseparably joined.

Given the fact that innovation, especially in the area of human affairs, usually brings much immediate suffering even when its purpose is to eliminate suffering in the long run, it is easy to understand and even sympathize with the effort to associate God only with cosmic and ethical order.

Atheists keep trying to apply scientifc rules of evidence where they don't belong — to matters of human affairs — yet are perfectly content to throw away the same rules when it suits their purposes (e.g., evolution).

They believed in God's governing of human affairs and believed in life after death; the righteous would rise again, but the souls of the wicked would be punished eternally (18, 2 - 6).

Christians should be on the frontiers of human affairs looking for those right and ripe moments when ideal possibilities are ready to flower if nurtured and encouraged.

«That is, the freedom to hug one's spouse and children, the freedom to organize the myriad of human affairs that collect over time.»

That is because during his lectures, he noticed that many of his students had less trouble with the strictly logical science than with the wrenching ambiguities of human affairs.

Stephen Boyden adds a biological prefix and puts the study of human affairs where it belongs - in the biosphere, the natural world.

With the arrival of the Anthropocene humans have become a geological force so that the two kinds of history have converged and it is no longer true that «all history properly so called is the history of human affairs».

Every once in while, something happens that tosses a huge rock into the pond of human affairs.

Let us begin with language, perhaps the most fundamental of all studies because of the fact that speech is so clearly a distinguishing feature of human beings within the whole created order and because it is so essential to the effective conduct of all human affairs, including every aspect of education.

In this phase Whitehead proceeds from the fact that, opposed to the «concrete universe,» or to the world which embraces — howsoever — both nature and the «whole round world of human affairs,» there stands a multiplicity of theories of the world, which reciprocally influence each other and the world or are coined in these relations.

Obviously we can not know how this cosmic operation is effected but we can at least make sure that we do not «parochialize» the divine love and talk as if its only interest is in what happens in the realm of human affairs.