Sentences with phrase «of human likeness»

Therefore I felt it was deeply appropriate that the only directly representative image of human likeness in my selections be a photo of Hujar, on his deathbed, taken by Wojnarowicz himself.

known for his synthesis of wit and formalism, reinventing the vocabulary of sculpture and turning it on its head, wurm works with the corporal silhouette in the same manner as a traditional sculptor, yet severely deconstructs and distorts each element of human likeness, mutating the body in unexpected and unconventional variations to further its ambiguity.

The Georgia Tech researchers» main goal was to compare perceptions of robot faces that varied in terms of human likeness.

Not exact matches

Sin against God and nature continues to beget misery upon the human family until we each make a concerted effort to lead lives worthy of a human being made in the image and likeness of their Creator.

Forasmuch as each man is a part of the human race, and human nature is something social, and has for a great and natural good, the power also of friendship; on this account God willed to create all men out of one, in order that they might be held in their society not only by likeness of kind, but also by bond of kindred.

At the heart of all of this is a passionate conviction that every human is created in the image and likeness of God.

Cardinal Ruini spoke of «false interpretations» of cosmic and biological evolution which «contribute more than a little to a purely naturalistic understanding of man» and which also lead to «the denial of the existence of a personal God distinct from the world» and the denial of «the transcendence of the human subject, made in the image and likeness of God».

This is why we each human being has an infinite dignity because they are made in the image and likeness of God.

What is created at that moment is a single new creature — a human person — with the capacity to become conscious and free «in the image and likeness of God».

While couched in different language, Catholic social teaching has much in common with this approach, in its overriding concern to safeguard the unique dignity of every human person, created in the image and likeness of God, and in its emphasis on the duty of civil authority to foster the common good.

Also human beings are made in the image and likeness of God, we can know and love, through the power of our spiritual soul - we are very different from animals, not in our physical bodies but in our souls.

When humans attempt to break another human will, they desecrate the likeness of God in that person and violate their God - given gift of freedom.

And finally human existence, too, is emptied of any intrinsic divinity — while at the same time all human beings, from the greatest to the least, and not just pharaohs, kings and heroes, are granted a divine likeness and mediation.

Yet, the verse begins, «Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...» Human rule of the animal creation and the natural world should mirror what I believe to be God's loving care for all life.

Though he was in the form of God, he did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness (Phil.

«Freedom,» he said, «is ever new,» and the Church will do her part in «building a world ever more worthy of the human person, created in the image and likeness of God.»

If so, then human minds, created in the image and likeness of God, should be able to understand the world in which we find ourselves; much of the skepticism of modern society needs then to be rethought by Christians.

II Being born in the likeness of man And being found in human form 8 He humbled himself Becoming obedient unto death (i.e. the death of the cross).

Invoking a scriptural image of man created as the image and likeness of God, he redeployed reason and will, securing — at least for believers — an enduring human nucleus.

Human beings, made in the likeness of God, have tended to understand their dominion over other creatures in terms of such unilateral control.

What if the gods are human creations, fashioned after the image and likeness of humanity?

The Hebrew scriptures are replete with scorn for the «idolatry» that makes gods in the likeness of humans.

-- John Calvin According to the Hebrew scriptures, humans were made in the image and likeness of God.

I have disagreed with him before about these matters, for example when he tried to claim that human exceptonalisim is somehow tied in with our genes being made in the likeness and image of God's, when God, as an incorporeal Being, would not have genes.

Christ, the image of the Father, discloses to us what it means to be in the image and likeness of God and how we should «be what we are» in and through human action.

did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave (doulos), being born in human likeness And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death even death on a cross.

While Paul's thought is by no means always clear, and perhaps from letter to letter not always exactly the same, it is nevertheless certain that his concept of resurrection can be clearly distinguished from that of the traditional «bodily resurrection».27 Paul does not speak in terms of the «same body» but rather in terms of a new body, whether it be a «spiritual body», 28 «the likeness of the heavenly man», 29 «a house not made by human hands, eternal and in heaven», 30 or, a «new body put on» over the old.31 In using various figures of speech to distinguish between the present body of flesh and blood and the future resurrection body, he seems to be thinking of both bodies as the externals which clothe the spirit and without which we should «find ourselves naked».32 But he freely confesses that the «earthly frame that houses us today ’33 may, like the seed, and man of dust, be destroyed, but the «heavenly habitation», which the believer longs to put on, is already waiting in the heavenly realm, for it is eternal by nature.

Human beings, who are the unification of physical matter and spiritual mind in one personality, are at the top of this cosmic pyramid in which we, uniquely, and primarily in our spiritual souls, are made in the image and likeness of God.

Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.

5Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.

As exegetes assert, «the likeness of man is not to be drawn from something called «human nature.»

Human beings are bodies and souls, And souls, made in the image and likeness of Cod, are eternal and essential, whereas bodies are mortal and impermanent.

The community of Father, Son and Holy Spirit becomes the prototype of the human community dreamed of by those who wish to improve society and build it in such a way as to make it into the image and likeness of the Trinity.

This is what it means for human beings to be created in the image and likeness of God.

Attendantly, from within this millenarian orientation, Jesus himself was identified with the bar nasha of Daniel 7:13 — 14, a type of new Adam, who, on the basis of his appearance before the Ancient of Days, recovered the characteristics that distinguish the human being created in the image and likeness of God: dominion, glory, and kingship (see Ps.

Undoubtedly, one of the major problems that has beset theological aesthetics is, on the one hand, the modern and post-modern loss of faith in the image and likeness of God in created human nature; and on the other, the loss of conviction that truth is objectively real and attainable by the human person, intellectually and by feeling (aesthesis).

When we give to assist others, we are expressing that solidarity with all people which comes from recognising our common dignity as human persons made to the image and likeness of God.

This way of understanding the human person, which stems from the unique dignity of the person created in the image and likeness of God (Gen 1:26 - 27) and called to eternal redemption in Christ, is rooted in revelation, but it can be appreciated or grasped as true even by those who do not share our faith, on the basis of natural moral law.6

Based on observation, as scientists likes to say, are you not created in the likeness of your human parents?

Importantly, this divine and human co-signification was made possible precisely because of the Christian teaching which regarded the human being as created in the image and likeness of God.

Using the term «human» when denoting an individual is different from using the term «person»: whereas human signifies our place on the horizontal dimension of creation, the term person signifies our vertical likeness to God.

It censured libertinism and cruelty, and upheld the freedom to practice the good, chastity, virginity, innocence, conjugal fidelity, love of enemies, charity, abnegation, goodness toward the weak, and dignity for all human beings, created in the image and likeness of God.

This extraordinarily intimate union, given the task of multiplying so that there are more human beings made in the image and likeness of God, is what we call marriage.

Fantasy, argues Tolkien, «remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker» (ibid., p. 55).

As we walk with him, as we talk with him, our human nature is being transformed into the likeness of divine nature.

• The fact that human beings are made in the image and likeness of God and that, therefore, we are all from God and for God, for ever.

As Orthodox theologian Vladimir Lossky observes, the Eastern Church regards choice as the mark not of freedom but of fallenness, as a debasement of true liberty, as a loss of the divine likeness: «Our nature being overclouded with sin no longer knows its true good... and so the human person is always faced with the necessity of choice; it goes forward gropingly.»

We spoke with Antonacci at Brooklyn Cyclones game, where he was accompanied by «Bobby the 4th ``, a human bobble head likeness of Antonacci.

Joe Kloc misses a possible explanation for the uncanny valley — the feeling of unease when seeing a robot with a strong human likeness (12 January, p 35).

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.