Sentences with phrase «of human persons»

It is not a moral imperative that all possibilities of human persons become actual persons.

When gratitude is due to a country, an organization (e.g., a school, a hospital, a shelter), or some other collective, it is owed to them as communities of human persons, not as impersonal institutions.

While all Catholic moral theologians seem opposed to the direct killing of human persons, some maintain that the embryo in the early stages is not yet a full human person, and therefore does not have the same rights as, for instance, the mother.

Procreation is the active, and causal co-operation of human persons with God.

In the case of human persons, those who were directly in relationship with one another while alive would be some of the most relevant sources of new possibilities.

To use that designation is only possible if one alters its meaning so as to exclude important features of human persons.

Or, we need a new pattern which takes the good community values of the tradition and good values of modernity, like freedom of human persons and equality between them.

As examples of the former: if what most Christians think about Jesus of Nazareth is true, then what most Muslims think about him must be false; if what most Buddhists think about the nature of human persons is true, then what most Jews think about this must be false... and so on.

So it might seem to me that my Buddhist interlocutor has crazed views about impermanence, the transience of all things, and the absence of any enduring principle that constitutes the identity of human persons; while I have more sensible metaphysical views that require a substance - based ontology and a theory as to what constitutes human persons that permits them to endure through time.

As examples of the latter: if the baptism of all human persons in the triune name is a desideratum and is alone productive of salvation, as many Christians believe (and as the Gospel of Matthew seems explicitly to claim), then it is false that the chanting of the «nam myoho range kyo» is the principle means of human salvation, as some Japanese Buddhists claim.

It is, rather, an intrinsic, basic good of human persons precisely as males and females, and as such it offers married men and women a reason to engage in the marital act.

Since God is already fulfilled, indeed the perfection of life, the fulfilling of human persons through the paradoxical transition of death is the new, dramatic, striking event that captures our attention.

And while humans today are said to be entitled to rights as fundamental as life or as strange as access to Wi - Fi, the entire notion of rights is undergirded by an implicit assumption of the dignity of all human persons.

Brightman emphasizes the social character of human persons, but not as much as does Hartshorne.

Independently of anything about the larger context, in other words, universal rights are grounded in the moral qualities of human persons.

The Commission realized that western culture and science could not destroy the traditional idols but has also introduced into India new gods like Rationalism, Scientism, Individualism and Materialism which had no sense of the sacredness of human persons and was converting technology into a force for exploitation of the industrial workers and dehumanization of peoples» lives in the cities of India.

His statements about priest and king being bound to the land and the people ultimately point back toward a view that sees social and moral responsibility for the common welfare as stemming from a prior relational view of human persons.

The «persons» of the trinity, in Christian thought, became analagous to the way people thought of human persons as independent entities, that is to say as substances.

[16] It may seem as if we are now relying on divine Revelation, but in speaking of God as the creator of human persons, we remain within the purview of the natural law.

And Catholic thinkers — the writings of Jacques Maritain are a prominent case in point — have long promoted a «Christian Humanism,» a perspective that celebrates the created dignity of the human person in God's design for the world.

The philosophical significance of his own attitude to transgenderism seems lost on him: Transgenderism raises fundamental questions about the nature of the human person — indeed, about whether one can even speak in terms of human nature anymore in any universal, meaningful sense.

His appeal to the dignity of humanity, the toleration of differing ideas, and emotivism finds a needed alternative in James Rogers» response from a Christianity that observes how sin perpetuates «the indignity of the human person.»

According to metropolitan Kallistos Ware, the central question of the twentieth century was the nature of the Church, whereas the central question of the twenty - first century is likely to be the nature of the human person.

Or slavery and the «nature» of a human person (i.e., those who are «slaves by nature,» in Aristotle's definition)?

Evangelical Catholicism draws the will, the energy, the strength, and, if necessary, the stubbornness to continue defending and promoting the dignity of the human person from the power of the gospel.

The archbishop also asserted that laws are based upon certain principles: «the pursuit of the common good through respect for the natural law, the dignity of the human person, the inviolability of innocent life from conception to natural death, the sanctity of marriage, justice for the poor, protection of minors, and so on.»

Additional reasons might be given for The United Methodist Church to rid itself of a commitment to abortion rights: the increasing numbers of African delegates (who are, in the main, pro-life) to General Conference; the horrifyingly high abortion rates (though the annual totals are continuing to decrease) in the United States; the pro-life drift of American public opinion (which United Methodism seems to follow); the uncommon clarity of ecumenical teaching on the dignity of the human person; and the providence of God.

In other words, a properly ordered will (one that leads toward good things in good measure) following closely on the heels of right reason (one that perceives and presents to the will goods really perfective of the human person) goes a long way to putting the passions in their place (which is not, emphatically, squashed way down into a virtual black hole).

He refused to believe that the false ideas of the human person and human history embodied in communism could divide Europe indefinitely; and by igniting a revolution of conscience behind the iron curtain, the man the last president of the Soviet Union called «the world's greatest moral authority» became an agent of liberation for his Slavic brethren and the precursor of new possibilities in international affairs.

The Modern notion of individual autonomy is an attenuated or thinner version of the Christian conception of the dignity of the human person.

The Catholic bishops of the United States have vowed to continue to resist the HHS Mandate, which forces Catholics and others to violate their consciences regarding grave issues of the human person and human life by requiring coverage of abortifacients, sterilization, and contraceptives.

This joint proclamation of certain truths about the nature of the human person and human community as created historical realities can not be accomplished, however, in a didactic way.

He reminded the diplomats and dignitaries that the UDHR «was adopted as a «common standard of achievement» and can not be applied piecemeal, according to trends or selective choices that merely run the risk of contradicting the unity of the human person and thus the indivisibility of human rights.»

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.»

I am no expert in Vatican politics, but I know better than to close my eyes to the fact that there are those who do not share the insight that Weigel attributes to John Paul II and to Benedict» the insight that Nielsen herself embraces» «that all social issues, including political and economic questions, are ultimately questions of the nature of the human person.»

In their response to me, Robert George and Patrick Lee argue that some form of material continuity, indeed, a partial identity with respect to the material aspect of the human person, is part of what it means to believe in the resurrection.

On November 29, Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, secretary of state, wrote to Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal of Jordan, the chief organizer of the letter of the 138, on behalf of the pope: «Common ground allows us to base dialogue on effective respect for the dignity of every human person, on objective knowledge of the religion of the other, on the sharing of religious experience, and, finally, on common commitment to promoting mutual respect and acceptance among the younger generation.

Denying the divine origins of the human person, our government has withdrawn the law's protection from unborn children in the womb» the most absolutely innocent and defenseless members of our human family.

Contemporary cultures had lost a vital understanding of the foundations of human dignity and were increasingly marked both by disillusion and by a mechanical and instrumental account of the human person.

To meet the person where they are is to begin with the phenomena of their life, and to strive to engage them in such a way as to enable them to see that their own phenomenal experience can, if they listen closely, reveal the truth of the Catholic vision of the human person.

Further, it is not true that being killed by a fully autonomous military drone necessarily violates the dignity of the human person.

In recent times it has become evident that these cruel practices were neither necessary for public order, nor in conformity with the legitimate rights of the human person.

What violates the dignity of the human person is being treated unjustly.

The maternal face consequently becomes the material manifestation of the infinite longing for each human person, the visible reminder of each human person's being wanted and desired, of each person's infinite value and worth regardless of output or production.

It is not the result of the free will of creatures, as is normally the case with the begetting of a human person, but the result of God's own Will, His free decision to become one of us.

In our time, in fact, especially in some countries, we are witnessing a disturbing divergence between reason, whose task is to discover the ethical values linked to the dignity of the human person, and freedom, whose responsibility is to accept and promote them.

A hallmark of the Catholic tradition is that God's existence (though not His Trinitarian nature), the existence of the incorporeal soul (though not the nature of the after life and the beatific vision), the nature of the human person (though not the full truth about the indwelling of grace), and the natural law are all accessible to us without divine Revelation.

For the human person, the union of his body and soul has been a source of bewilderment and sanctification since the Fall, which introduced a clashing discord into the harmony of the human person.

Bernard Farrell - Roberts argues that government proposals use a profoundly unjustified approach to brain death and the dignity of the human person.

Assumed consent would have the effect of making our bodies a commodity for the use of the state and others, and would therefore compromise the dignity of the human person.