Sentences with phrase «of human institutions»

Society has discarded the natural restraining influence of the human institutions and values that should temper our economic activities.Return to Order is a clarion call that invites us to reconnect with those institutions and values by applying the timeless principles of an organic Christian order.

Indeed, «the primary theological understanding of human institutions is that they are among the crowning creative redemptive achievements of God» (50).

But one can take full account of the sinfulness of human institutions without concluding that participation in them necessarily implies sin.

The modern, secular version of this view sees evil as a product of human institutions and social structures which can be overcome by human solutions.

It is hard for us to recognize it now, but Peter and Paul were introducing the first Christian family to an entirely new community, a community that transcends the rigid hierarchy of human institutions, a community in which submission is mutual and all are free.

Christ the transformer of culture: human nature is fallen or per - verted, and this perversion is transmitted by the culture; therefore Christ stands in judgment of all human institutions.

It may be said, speaking in very general terms, that in asserting the zoological nature of the Noosphere we confirm the sociologists» view of human institutions as organic.

Even in the best of human institutions, of which marriage can serve as a supreme example, there can be damage when somehow the intention to share life fully is absent.

The more time I spend in them, listening to stories of inmates and seeing the terrible impact of incarceration, the more I believe prison is the most irrational of human institutions.

Herbert Otto has pointed out that «The actualization of our human potentialities is closely bound to the regeneration of our human institutions....

When the self is committed to the Second Good, its stock of memory, intelligence, relationships, health, and wealth becomes the instrument for the concrete achievement of security, justice, liberty, or fraternity within the domain of personal relations and in the larger world of human institutions.

Together they have brought about a profound shift in the nature of thought, the directions and balance of the different spheres of human society, and the interrelatedness of human institutions.

Not exact matches

That's unlikely to come under a Trump administration, whose recent budget proposal calls for a $ 15.1 billion cut to the Tom Price - led Department of Health and Human Services, the department that houses the FDA, the CDC, Medicare and Medicaid, among other government institutions.

Our so - called e-waste alone has dark, if still imprecise implications for human health, say lots and lots of scientists and public institutions.

As we look to the 150th anniversary of our Confederation, we are reminded that ours is a rich inheritance: a legacy of freedom; the birthright of all humanity and the courage to uphold it; the rule of law, and the institutions to protect it; respect for human dignity and diversity.

Big losers will include our cultural institutions, including the CBC and the Canada Council who will likely face further devastating cuts, as well as human rights, international development and arts organizations who were funded historically by the Canadian government (some of whom had already lost funding under the minority Conservative government).

& It is unnecessarily costly to operate a business, financial institution, or financial intermediary where human workers are doing jobs that computers are capable of handling faster, more efficiently, and with less error than human workers.

SkinTE a new product developed by Salt Lake City - based startup which makes the human skin for the patients who are victim of burns within 24 to 48 hrs, this technology already been approved by the many medical institutions.

In particular, laws and domestic institutions based on the rule of law and human rights are indispensable for justice.

-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to Peter Carr, 10 August 1787): «All natural institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.»

the liberal peace answers: The building of law and institutions, international and domestic, that protect human rights and punish violators of human rights.

When Wycliffe and Hus took issue with mendicants and papal overreach, they were simply expressing a «long - standing frustration,» not making an innovative call for the abolition of «human institutions.»

The cause for this wishful hope in institutions quickly appears: «In an increasingly globalized society, the common good and the effort to obtain it can not fail to assume the dimensions of the whole human family, that is to say, the community of peoples and nations.»

In reality, institutions by themselves are not enough, because integral human development is primarily a vocation, and therefore it involves a free assumption of responsibility in solidarity on the part of everyone.

I don't dispute that equality and different levels of authority can and often do coexist (and your example of governments illustrates only that we have set up certain human institutions that need this dynamic to function).

As Zmirak writes, Röpke «centered his economics in the dignity of the human person, who lives not alone but as part of a family and a community; who thrives or suffers according to the health of those institutions; and who regulates his own economic activity according toýfinancial and personal incentives that he» and not the State» is best equipped to interpret.»

Instead it's an assertion of human will, the conscription of a sacred institution to serve a contemporary ideology.

In fact, it goes against much of human nature, and women's self - protective inclinations used to be supported by the people and institutions around her.

It is instead of just another human institution with all the same tendencies as every other institution that is built by to give an elite few power over others for monetary gain.

The Catholic Church, to take one prominent institution devoted to the defense of human life from conception until natural death, makes no «theological» argument about the nature of the life in the womb.

But we have dramatically reduced poverty, shown ways to build institutions that respect human rights and liberties, virtually eliminated famines, found ways to prevent and remedy diseases, dramatically increased the longevity of people everywhere, and come to include more and more persons in the «circle of exchange.»

Leadership is godly work which addresses a fundamental human challenge faced in the environment and culture of communities, congregations and institutions.

Many of us struggle to «lower the knob,» and will eventually succeed, but because we are involved in human institutions, that isn't necessarily quick and easy.

My assessment is that the wider disorientation of Western society, the decreasing respect for many institutions and the disdain for humans alongside what Christopher Lasch has termed a «culture of narcissism» has played out both among the «spiritual but not religious» identifiers as well as among many «new atheists.»

The all - powerful multilateral institutions are not concerned about the satisfaction of human and social needs.

«The World Conference on Human Rights urges Governments, institutions, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to intensify their efforts for the protection and promotion of human rights of women and the girl - child&raHuman Rights urges Governments, institutions, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to intensify their efforts for the protection and promotion of human rights of women and the girl - child&rahuman rights of women and the girl - child».

She convincingly argues, among other things, that «where repression is especially severe, where institutions (schools, trade unions, churches, professional associations) have been purged and subject to constant governmental vigilance,» little discussion of human rights occurs («Human Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328 human rights occurs («Human Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328 Human Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328 ff.).

And though there is the language of God, it has more to do with the human institution and what people in that insituttion are comfortable with about what they want God to be?

The supernatural element in human life, whether it comes to us through conscience as human beings or through the Spirit as believers, is not to be located externally in the world of nature and social institutions (as for Taylor and MacIntyre), nor internally (as for the Romantics), but in the interaction of the individual with his world.

Although the jargon is new, the role of «faith «based» institutions in meeting human needs has a long history, as is admirably demonstrated by these essays from City Journal.

This corporate thrust is made through the direct effort of innumerable local congregations and through the thousands of varied denominational institutions, all of which constitute a manifold witness to the Lordship of Jesus Christ as they set forth the fact that there is no human need and no human concern which is not His concern.

JON: All of these things that we're talking about are human institutions, and there's a really great differencebetween Christendom and the Church.

The implementation and monitoring of human rights enforcement going beyond mere legislations but insisting on the creation of national structures, institutions and organs of society which play a given role is stressed.

Just violence envisions human relationships of a particular kind, and these can not be realized without coercive institutions.

For Catholic schools to be a worthwhile enterprise for the Church, they must survive and flourish as institutions where pupils grow in a «personal relationship with Jesus» which includes following the teaching of Jesus, through His Church, that we should attend Mass every Sunday, go to confession regularly, say our prayers and be loyal to the magisterium - especially in its moral teaching regarding the sanctity of human life, and the meaning and purpose of sex and marriage, in accord with Humanae Vitae and Evangelium Vitae.

Religious institutions received more time to implement the Department of Health and Human Services» controversial contraception mandate after its «safe harbor» provisions were expanded.

The family is a divine institution that stands at the foundation of life of the human person as the prototype of every social order.»

But while institutions are always the creation of human beings, and whether they are just or unjust, effectual or ineffectual depends entirely on the people who use them.

This is why the state is a legitimate organ of human organisation, but it is also why the state derives its authority upwards from the individual and the family, via intermediate groups and institutions, and not the other way round.

After closed - door conversations with the White House going back to November, the cardinal - in - waiting challenged the White House over an insurance mandate from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that forced religious institutions, except for houses of worship, to provide insurance plans that included coverage for contraceptives.