Sentences with phrase «of human personhood»

So far as human sexuality is concerned, it becomes part of human personhood and can be expressed personally only when there is love or mutual recognition of personality.

Ivan is blind to this iconic joining of the earthly and heavenly realms, perhaps because he is also blind to the Orthodox understanding of human personhood.

Another kind of failure can occur when the full dignity of human personhood with its spiritualvocation is not accorded respect or attention.

What is at stake here, however, is not the pedagogy but the view of human personhood that is implied by schooling.

Of course she could not have realized at that time fifty years ago that some specialized medical technologies could be so fully integrated with the materialistic - mechanical reductionist view of human being and with the profit - consumerist motives that it would be impossible to convert them to the holistic view of human personhood or to be made an appropriate tool for promoting health of poor communities.

Today however many knowledgeable people are saying that many of the high - tech developments have produced technological systems in which the mechanical - materialist view of reality, human greed and ecological destruction are built in; and that therefore a new paradigm of development with technologies integrated with a more holistic understanding of human personhood and peoplehood and recognizing the organic natural and spiritual dimensions of human community are called for.

This constitutes the essence of human personhood.

We are caught up in an awesome struggle over the character of human personhood.

Hromadka of Czechoslovakia used to speak of the credibility of the evangelistic mission of the church as dependent upon the total life of the church, that is to say, it depends upon the way in which the church makes its prophetic mission of defence of human personhood and peoplehood in society and state and the ability of the church to reconcile diversity within its fellowship of divine forgiveness and become a source of reconciled diversity in the larger society.

Jesus was The Word, i.e., God's expression of Himself in human language, the language of human personhood.

The ground of this human personhood is the possibility of communion with the person of the Creator by way of covenant and sacrament, a possibility enacted and cultivated through prayer.

Paideia proved compatible both with the more social understanding of human personhood that marked medieval life and with the more individualistic assumptions about personhood that marked much Renaissance culture.

Moreover, Grey insists that a contemporary kenotic spirituality be based on a radically reconstructed notion of human personhood, in which «compassion.

But one of them is not that the surrounding culture gets to decide the nature of human personhood and identity, nor the bounds of acceptable sexual expression.

Not exact matches

While Darling isn't quite on board with electronic personhood (at least not yet), she is interested in how humans interact with their technology and believes our choices are ultimately a reflection of us.

The most holy, the noblest, the best, the most godlike things about us is our human capacity to learn personhood in responsible self - government (taking up personal responsibility for our own eternal fate) and to share in communion with other persons, and most of all with the unseen God.

I have warned that «personhood theory» will lead to terrible oppression of so - called human non persons.

Is the human intellectual concept of personhood applied to an anencephelic fetus, and which ones with all the various genetic variations of the condition where the fetus has no brain, or part of a brain?

Contemporary thinking continues this denial of the body, and refuses to give it any substantial place in a meaningful human personhood.

Pace Professor Polanyi, human personhood for Fr Holloway is, in accordance with the Law of Control and Direction, the creation of God not humanity.

If quickening corresponds to the emergence of a unified experience in the fetus, then it is an important stage in the movement toward human personhood.

The time of illness is thus the time of recapitulating natural and acquired bonds, of summing up the connectedness by which personhood springs into being, of renewing human relatedness even while one of its strands is unraveling.

Believing that God is the giver of all life, our aim is to uphold and support the dignity, sacredness, personhood and flourishing of every human soul, whether born or unborn, elderly or young, privileged or poor, healthy or sick, strong or weak, American or international, Christian or Muslim or other faiths or no faith at all.

If all mankind catalyze world opinion in support of human dignity and the worth of personhood, together with all the wealth of rights and values already part of U.N. instruments and international jurisprudence, there is hope.

As I was preparing for class, I learned that Mississippi's voters had rejected the so - called «Personhood Amendment,» which would have outlawed abortion in the state by affirming as a matter of law that human life begins at conception.

If the concepts of relational power and aesthetic value are accepted as more adequate categories for understanding human experience than those arising from substance metaphysics, then we must obviously change our images of ideal personhood and ideal communities.

Personic action, he thought, is essential in defining personhood since acts of will are the only vehicles through which the «purposes and designs» of the human spirit can be established.

That constitutes, according to the fathers of the Church, the special dignity of human beings, and it should have been treated by Jenson in the section on «human personhood.»

The concept of personhood is different from the concept of human life.

It is in the integrity of a full humanity, and in every range of it, that God's action is to be found — God energizes in this man, in his total and genuine personhood, not in some special part of that personhood or by replacing with deity some particular area of human nature.

It was perhaps inevitable that the overwhelming experience of God's working made available to men and women in the event of Jesus Christ would lead to a less vigorous insistence on his human personhood.

It seems that there are two overall ranges of relations that are destructive of authentic human personhood (of which privacy is certainly an essential feature), that encourage spiritual dissolution.

«many pro-life advocates unwittingly allow this flawed anthropology (of our contemporaries) to prosper because they do not offer any proof or argument for the existence of the spiritual soul, which is the only rational ground for uniquely human personhood».

Hartshorne has no patience for those holding a genetic view of personhood, who claim that the potential represented in a fertilized human egg cell is equivalent to an actual person.

This reminds me of Kant's idea that «people should be treated as ends in themselves rather than a means to an end» — the basis of his ideas of personhood, dignity and human rights.

The ecological basis of life, rights of people and persons, of peoplehood and personhood are the concerns which have brought us to fight against the present pattern of development because it exploits and destroys nature and does injustice to nature and human's organic relation to nature.

Our human rights and dignity can not be asserted intellectually without reference to our personhood and this demands some description of what personhood involves, our unique intellect and free will, our non-material, spiritual nature.

The reason the abortion issue is so foundational is not because Catholics love little babies ¯ although we certainly do ¯ but because revoking the personhood of unborn children makes every other definition of personhood and human rights politically contingent.

In an analogous way, the counselor aims at that mastery of the principles of his art which will free him to develop his own style of counseling — a style which releases his unique personhood in the human encounter called counseling.

Many people identify, all of us some of the time, personhood with human reason.

They saw the various dimensions of the human person, and different civilizations identified one aspect of personhood as the organizing center of experience: for the Greeks, for example, the center was reason, the Hebrews the will.

Just as human personhood is not discernible at the level of the molecular interactions in our bodies, so God is impersonal when encountered solely in this dimension.

«The good life can not be lived without self - control, but it is better to control a restrictive and hostile emotion such as jealousy, rather than a generous and expansive emotion such as love» (p. 239) Russell, unlike the authors of Human Sexuality, does not assume that empirical data could ever show that a particular form of sexual activity is good or bad or the development of personhood.

The notion of creativity - characterization not only extends the capacity» of process metaphysics to thematize human personhood, but it also points to an additional area in which a process metaphysics needs to be rethought at the deepest level.

RESOURCES «New Zealand Grants a River the Rights of Personhood,» Care2.Com [Swiss] Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology, The Dignity of Living Beings with Regard to Plants [PDF] Community Environment Legal Defense Fund Web Site CELDF «Rights of Nature» FAQs Carl Cohen and Tom Regan, chapter by Carl Cohen, «Rights and Interests,» The Animal Rights Debate, (Latham, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001), p. 17 David S. Oderberg, «The Illusion of Animal Rights,» Human Life Review, Spring - Summer 2000, p. 42.

· and finally, that it is particularly important to be critically attentive to the concepts of «theory» and «practice» that are employed by any proposal seeking to understand a theological school, and that it is also important to pay attention to the proposal's assumptions about human personhood.

Because God is the ultimate source of personhood, the principle of explanation that gives human existence its greatest intelligibility, and the source of enduring happiness.

Balthasar gives particular attention to the question of the natural human capacity to grasp universal truths regarding the created order, natural law, personhood, and the transcendent reality of God.

The human person is not only perspective: we are going to explore the person inwardly, so to speak, by looking at the human person from within the interior experience of personhood.

Modernity is represented by three forces - first, the revolution in the relation of humanity to nature, signified by science and technology; second, the revolutionary changes in the concept of justice in the social relations between fellow human beings indicated by the self - awakening of all oppressed and suppressed humans to their fundamental human rights of personhood and peoplehood, especially to the values of liberty and equality of participation in power and society; thirdly, the break - up of the traditional integration of state and society with religion, in response to religious pluralism on the one hand and the affirmation of the autonomy of the secular realm from the control of religion on the other».