Not exact matches
I
do not find it possible to believe that bodily corruption, that ultimate negation, as it seems,
of all
human endeavor, aspiration and hope, can be something from which the manhood
of Christ was exempt.
The separation
of various realms
of human endeavor and activity common to Western individualism
does not fit in with the organic, interconnected worldview informed by Russian Orthodox spirituality.
It is the
human endeavor to apply the tests
of coherence and comprehensiveness in drawing conclusions about the veracity
of certain phenomena — that, for example, axheads
do not float on water and the sun
does not stand still, that conceptions are not immaculate, that corpses
do not rise from graves.
Most
of the issues related to the Bible and warfare (warfare seems to be what history is made
of and there are usually multiple causes and interpretations for each conflict) had to
do with power struggles (also the most
human of all
endeavors) and perhaps doctrinal issues
of freedom related to these power struggles.
Actually is it not true that though we
do know ourselves helpless to
do God's perfect will, helpless to resist successfully the temptations to pride and selfishness which assail us in every area
of our life and at every level
of moral
endeavor, we nevertheless know that we are guilty before God and that we should be guilty even if we should make the maximum effort
of which
human flesh is capable?
According to Rorty, philosophers have hoped to find a way
of securing an absolute fit between our knowledge
of the world and the world itself, to show that in at least one area
of intellectual
endeavor human knowledge really
does «mirror» reality.
By so
doing,
human cosmologists
endeavor a task
of the moral mediation between the universe and God, contributing to the stages
of deification through which the universe will be transfigured and seen through the eyes
of the Logos - creator himself (p. 479).
The impact
of Wieman in the American scene has sometimes been compared with that
of Barth upon Continental theology, 17 and a parallel
does exist at the point at which both men direct attention away from humanity and
human values to the work
of God which is understood as prior to and sovereign over
human endeavors.
He
did not feel prompted to lament the emptiness
of all
human endeavor in the way the author
of Ecclesiastes
did.
After all, everything we ever
do, say, or experience is measured against the yardstick
of human endeavor.
What Clint Eastwood has
done is turn the sports movie formula on its ear with this film, focusing on the
human aspects
of boxing and shifting focus directly to the ultimate price
of such an
endeavor with a twist at the end
of the second act.
I won't pretend that every piece
of fiction will change the world for the better, but I
do like the fact that it's such a uniquely
human endeavor.
What I have
done different is to apply a reporters» skills to the field
of investing in the way that many before me have applied them to other fields
of human endeavor.
If nothing is
done to stop global warming, progress in almost all areas
of human endeavor will gradually slow over the next fifty years because
of more frequent, and more scary, climatic events — and worse will follow.
One
of the things that strikes me is that this is fundamentally a
human endeavor, and it doesn't matter how good the technology is, if you don't have the buy - in, energy and enthusiasm
of the people involved in the process, then you're destined to fail.
What HBO and Giant Spoon
did is a much more extensive
endeavor, not only due to the cost
of creating a physical park itself, but in the sheer number
of actors and
human beings involved.