Sentences with phrase «of human predicaments»

«It is a sad feature of the human predicament, in personal as in public life, that whenever one has the agreeable sensation of being impressively moral, one probably is not,» Kennan said.

Christian artists and audiences have come to expect either a sanitized view of the human predicament or a picture of conversion that shortchanges the high cost of following Christ.

Estrangement and alienation are not biblical terms, but they are implied in the biblical description of the human predicament; the expulsion from paradise, the hostility between humanity and nature, the hostility of person against person, of nation against nation, and of the continuous complaint of the prophets against the rulers.

Estrangement is implied in Paul's classical description of the human predicament of «man against himself» because of his conflicting desires.

At the level of the human predicament, it corresponds to one meaning of original sin.

One of the tasks of a preacher is to bring to those who hear him exactly this understanding of the human predicament: a genuine sense of value in human life but yet an accompanying grasp of its incompleteness, frustration, and inadequacy.

He felt that the biblical portrayal of the human predicament could liberate the liberal mind from its rationalistic fixations, show the limitations of all human schemes, and save men from guilty despair when their visions did not bring in the Kingdom of God.

I have the feeling that this is not simply a minor point, but that a central fact of the human predicament is precisely that of being and feeling separate from the infinite and eternal God.

The global culture will evolve, if it evolves at all, out of the spread of global consciousness (as described in Chapter 8)-- a consciousness of the human predicament, an appreciation of humanity's dependence on the earth, and a willingness to act jointly in response.

«Its urgency is underlined when we realize the seriousness of the human predicament and the tremendous task waiting for the churches at present.»

Martin Creed is a winner of the Turner Prize, an internationally recognized mixed - media artist, song writer, commentator on the condition, purveyor of the prurient, thinker - not thinker, and a regarded member of the human predicament, as it were.

In my exploration of the human predicament these days, I keep stumbling back on the idea that we've been locked into what amounts to the species - scale equivalent of an adolescent binge for the last century or two.

In case you missed it when I posted «Pedal to the Metal,» here's my distillation of the human predicament:

That is a characteristic too often missing from discussions of the human predicament these days, amid so many shouts of «woe is me» and «shame on you.»

Not exact matches

I have a stepdaughter that has Downs Syndrome, and as much as I fully believe that she is much more developed along the lines of loving her fellow human beings, I am also not convinced that her predicament was ever Plan A.

Can it not be more widely recognized that we are all in the human predicament together and that the pooling of knowledge and experience might lead to considerably more light being shed on the business of living which faces every one of us.

Other methods may give «religious» experiences, but only Christianity insists that the life of the spirit must be expressed within the terms of the present human predicament.

For Lutheran Christians, such despair in face of the universal and radical human predicament can only be overcome through the gospel, which announces forgiveness of sins and redemption of life under the conditions of an ambiguous world chained by sin and death.

But Methodist dogmatics had been plagued by the predicament of reconciling contingency in human affairs with the traditional doctrine of God's absolute foreknowledge — a reconciliation that Calvinist necessitarians gleefully declared impossible.

In the twenty - first century, philosophy's task will be to rebuild a positive response to the human predicament that starts with the cause of that predicament, man's alienation from God.

The cause of Jesus» suffering is sin and the human predicament.

Through the method of correlation, the existential questions which arise from our human predicament find response in theological answers derived from revelation.

Because Kirk believ ed that such an understanding was best apprehended and transmitted through imaginative literature, it is only right that his short stories and fiction best enable one to appreciate the character of his insight into the human predicament.

This makes it imperative to see as clearly as possible our human opportunities and human predicament, and try to discern what God is saying to us in the midst of it.

On the other hand, if this man was human as I am, if he was a limited, feeling, fallible creature like myself, and he was able to live in this way and love in this way and give of himself in this way — then so can I. And his teachings are then relevant, for they come from someone who shared my predicament.

Whereas the religious traditions from the Axial Period onwards each arose at one point and then radiated outwards, the global religion (if it comes at all) will probably arise more or less spontaneously out of the common human predicament.

It appears that Thomas is proposing something unusually sweeping: God is not some false answer to the human predicament, nor simply the brutal cause of their distress but the very predicament itself.

Is this «vision» of how - it - is the best way to talk about and understand the human predicament?

The latter represents the human moral predicament, the fate of the tower representing the human intellectual predicament.

Not only was this myth meaningful within Israel and the former generations of Christian believers, but also to us living in the new world, three thousand years later, it still speaks powerfully, as it lights up for us our human nature and our human predicament.

The effective pastor is one who has learned as a result of his own involvement in the human predicament and can admit to his own experience of «caughtness.»

A thousand years from now our descendants will be facing difficult times, some of their problems being new and others being the same old problems that plague us today, because they will share inevitably in the perennial human predicament.

It's not surprising that this kind of predicament brings back an old sore topic: human population and whether to do anything about it.

THE human cost of Greece's predicament is becoming clear.

«We argued then that high fat consumption was one of the most important solutions to the predicament presented by human evolution.

When we first meet them, they're lamenting their predicament as outcasts from human society — ejected by the dog - hating authorities after an epidemic of canine flu — and tussling over a sack of maggot - infested food which drops from the sky.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: French Farce from Legendary Director Released on DVD Over the years, Patrice Leconte has proven himself quite adept at plumbing the depths of the human psyche by placing two people with nothing in common in an emotionally - explosive predicament.

Though South Africa opened its borders and welcomed refugees fleeing persecutions, the current approach towards treatment of refugees shows a sign of a fatigue of hosting refugees.45 It becomes a metaphysical question as to whether Rwandan refugees should blame South Africa for having laws that protect the human rights and interests of its citizens or whether they blame the superpowers foreign policies that led to the negation of the principles of human and refugee rights, resulting in their current sufferings and predicament or whether they blame the oppressive regime installed in Rwanda, a regime only interested in tracking them down for assassination.

Platforms: Xbox 360 / PC / PlayStation 3 Developer: Spark Unlimited Publisher: Capcom Genre: Third Person Shooter Platform Played: PlayStation 3 The Earth is running out of resources, and it's becoming a dire predicament for humanity, forcing humans to search other planets in an effort to gain the resources necessary to keep -LSB-...]

«There'll Always be an England,» is a pleasure cruise of cultural history in the form of some of the finest photographs of people and their human predicaments that we could find on this side of the Atlantic.

In his Traps series, Lockett used the predicament of ensnared animals as a metaphor for specific modern - day crises, such as segregation and environmental destruction, as well as the more general human condition of feeling isolated or trapped by the circumstances of birth.

in 2011 uses the acrobats series and the animal series to explore the topic of «predicament» and «human beings fate», opening many new possibilities in Xiang Jing's art.

The exhibition represents the life stories and related issues of the post-war Chinese LGBTQ community as the artworks on view touch upon a profusion of subject matters such as identity, equality, exploitation by mass media, social predicaments, comments on individuals / groups, human desire, as well as life and death.

In light of the hard - won scientific consensus developed by the IPCC, has the time not yet come to «center» our discussion on what we know of climate change, based upon good science, and talk about what we are going to do in order to address the human - driven predicament in which humanity finds itself in these early years of Century XXI?

Thanks to the many contributors to this discussion and to other discussions like those occuring in the Earth & Sky community and the Orion community, we can share an adequate understanding of the distinctly human - derived predicament with which humanity is soon to be confronted.

As I see it, too many leaders understand quite well the precarious status of the tiny planet we inhabit; nonetheless, they adamantly refuse to acknowledge or speak openly about the distinctly human - induced predicament that looms ominously before the human community in our time.

What makes the climate predicament even tougher is the uneven nature of human development, and the reality that nearly all of the growth in emissions of greenhouse gases is coming from a near - inevitable burst of fossil fuel combustion in fast - growing developing countries.

Before we can determine what new and different to do, perhaps a brief analysis of our current, distinctly human - induced, global predicament is in order.

Perhaps the human - induced predicament looming ominously before the family of humanity is so large that people can not see the whole of it and, therefore, are not able to see the world's «problematique» for what it is?

At least for me, your exchange of valuable perspectives on the human condition (# 19 and # 20), dramatizes some of the profound implications of the multi-faceted, human - induced predicament that could to be confronted by the human community in these early years of Century XXI.