Sentences with phrase «of human depravity»

Chapter of Romans, with its account of humanity's movement from God toward idolatry, has furnished the text for countless sermons claiming that homosexual behavior signifies the lowest depths of human depravity.

My own conviction is that Cheever does not underestimate the depth of human depravity so much as he misconstrues the nature of divine grace.

Even today, it's fairly easy to review the newspapers and see the extent of human depravity.

In the inner city, the evangelical style from another century with its promise of glory, its anthropological view of human depravity apart from Christ, its respectable definition of Christianity, becomes part of the problem, not the cure.

In this moment, God departing from Christ and conquering humanity's sin illustrates both the reality of human depravity and the undeserved gift of God's amazing grace.

Thus these acts are taken by Paul to be expressive as much of God's judgment as of human depravity.

When the doctrine of human depravity is dealt with, it is sometimes handled in a confusing fashion.

He served in the United States Army and worked in law enforcement for 14 years, witnessing all manner of human depravity, some of which haunts him to this day.

The Dishonored series has featured a wide range of human depravity, from murderous gangs of hooligans terrorizing the streets to sadistic nobles exerting their perverse desires onto a helpless underclass.

This challenge led to a finger - wagging review by Hitchens in The Atlantic and a series of punch - counterpunch exchanges in various transatlantic venues, all of which obscured both the thoughtfulness of Amis» meditations on grief and his discovery of the depths of human depravity: «Hitler - Stalin tells us this, among other things: given total power over another, the human being will find his thoughts turn to torture.»

It is a day to remember, prayerfully, the victims, and to reflect, soberly, on the depth of human depravity.

Ramsay plumbs the depths of human depravity, and aspires to transcend genre through fractured storytelling and selectively awry compositions, which are rife with empty space and fascinated by mundane details.

«In a book which takes the reader on a journey to hell and back, J.F. Penn demonstrates her huge talent for conveying the depths of human depravity.»