Sentences with phrase «of human virtue»

Few films in recent times have examined the possibilities of human virtue, elevated beyond the divisions of race, religion and class, with such compelling intelligence.

His fictional testimony to the power of human virtue and solidarity...

His fictional testimony to the power of human virtue and solidarity is rendered especially poignant by Cheever's recent death from cancer at age 69.

«Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value.

If the family really is the domestic church and parents the primary educators and protectors of their children, then we must be more creative in promoting and supporting them as the first and best of teachers in the home, the school of human virtues.

If production is understood in this fully human and fully virtuous way, then industrial production appears as a triumph of the human virtues of cooperation, trust and intelligence.

They represent the finest of human virtues, the ones needed to be preserved for all humanity.

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The human cost of Australia's offshore detention centres, where freedom does not equal opportunity America is obsessed with the virtue of work.

Many have pointed out (most recently, Carson Holloway) that the application of natural law to our situation requires the virtue of prudence, a mastery of the details of our circumstances (such as is possible for a human being), with the goals and the weights given to particular considerations by good moral character (or, if you will, a well - formed conscience).

In human society this aspiration is expressed by a desire to find significances and uses for things which otherwise have none, assigning meaning to things by virtue of their affinity to other things or personalities available in the natural world.

And Socrates» paradoxical statement in Plato's Apology that «not out of money does virtue arise, but out of virtue money and all other goods for human beings, both private and public» - a passage that has given modern scholars fits for generations - underscores the self - sufficiency of the virtuous individual.

The author, professor of systematic theology at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts, does a splendid job of introducing the series, addressing such topics as natural law, principles of human action, the determination of the moral good, and the connection between virtues, gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the Beatitudes.

Or consider the Church's loss without Thomas Aquinas» magisterial treatment of human acts and habits, virtue and vice, desire and chastity, law and grace, comprising the entire second part of his Summa Theologiae.

It is another sign of the miraculous virtue of the Gospels to fold so much psychological depth and moral and spiritual truth into seemingly simple and natural human encounters.

Nevertheless, by virtue of our collective human powers — our capacity for complex symbolic thinking, the sophistication of our tools, our ability to steward nature, and our demonstrated interest in telling both nature's story and our own — human beings also transcend nature.

Pride being the hatefullest of the virtues, the human spirit now turns away from this certain - sure morality, though it has nothing else in particular to turn to.

Rather, specifically human existence is, in Whitehead's term, a «personal society,» i.e., a temporal sequence of occasions which share, by virtue of inheritance from the earlier to the later, a defining characteristic that makes the man or woman in question just this individual and not some other.

I use «public world» to mean the world that is constituted by human communication, i.e., the world shared by virtue of the relation (s) of one or more human individuals to one or more other human individuals.

It states that her «immunity from the effects of Original Sin» was «by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Saviour of the human race».

He defends, against the Neoplatonists, the Christian understanding of human nature as intrinsically open to sociability such that the life of virtue should be a social life.

Nonetheless, human beings are naturally religious when by that we mean that they possess, by virtue of their given ontological being, a complex set of innate features, capacities, powers, limitations, and tendencies that give them the capacity to think, perceive, feel, imagine, desire, and act religiously and that under the right conditions tend to predispose and direct them toward religion.

The beasts receive their doom, and pass from the scene: the powers of evil are overthrown, not by any human virtue or strength, but by the presence and power of the living God.

The Qur» an makes it clear in many passages that Angels possess all the spiritual virtues and none of the shortcomings of human beings, while the Jinn are described as sometimes being whisperers and provocators — evils which are sometimes found in men.

These understandings are what humans take for granted by virtue of being socialized into a particular imaginary.

This was the Incarnation: Et Verbum caro factum est. 20 And from this first, basic contact of God with our human race, and precisely by virtue of this penetration of the divine into our human nature, a new life was born: that unforeseeable aggrandizement and «obediential ’21 extension of our natural capacities which we call «grace».

-LSB-...] charity is placed as a key link: divine charity works through human action, as a theological virtue -LSB-...] Man is not considered only as the object of a process, but as the subject of this process.

It corresponds to the deepest stirrings of the human heart and offers guidance for genuine growth in holiness and virtue.

Temperance, then, is the virtue by which we keep each of these passions in its proper place, so that it works for our overall human growth and leads to our fulfilment.

Thereby the living power of the transcendent and omnipotent Judge is transposed in human experience into the dead body of Satan, as Milton's passage through the death of selfhood unveils the ground of an isolated selfhood as that chasm separating the creature from the Creator, thus making possible the reversal or dissolution of natural virtue and self - righteousness in the immediate and present actualization of the self - annihilation of God.

Our task today is to clearly unpack the nature and virtues of minimal government, now forever wed to the notion of securing rights, without slipping into a anthropological minimalism that radically liberates the abstract human individual at the price of devaluing the complete human person.

The eternal Son of God has truly suffered and died, but he has done so by virtue of his human nature (suffering in both body and soul).

«God should be detectable by scientific means simply by virtue of the fact that he is supposed to play such a central role in the operation of the universe and the lives of humans.»

That said, the case has been made that if the Christian god exists, then «God should be detectable by scientific means simply by virtue of the fact that he is supposed to play such a central role in the operation of the universe and the lives of humans», with the conclusion that» [e] xisting scientific models contain no place where God is included as an ingredient in order to describe observations.»

Again and again such thoughtful writers as Alasdair MacIntyre and Robert Bellah tell us that moral rectitude, fundamental truthfulness, and all of the other virtues and skills that make us human depend upon society: upon our....

Rather, the embryo is human merely by virtue of this physical and spiritual substance created by the union of sperm and egg (or at least by virtue of its purported ability to survive physically outside the womb)

Again and again such thoughtful writers as Alasdair MacIntyre and Robert Bellah tell us that moral rectitude, fundamental truthfulness, and all of the other virtues and skills that make us human depend upon society: upon our having a lifelong place within a social order and contemplating the historical «narrative» that defines the social order.

If humans deserve our moral regard by virtue of their possession of these qualities, would not other animals deserve similar consideration?

Rather, we make decisions on the basis of beliefs about what sorts of virtues seem important, what sort of human life we believe to be good.

It is interesting that Stephen Law actually denies that human beings, just by virtue of being human, have any unique dignity.

Though both the conception of human liberty and the virtues necessary to its true exercise sprang from biblical teachings, the framers were careful not to endow biblical religion, or any religion, with state power.

One of the many virtues of Larsen's study is its revealing of the «all too human» character of the scholarship of the anthropologists he examines.

In this sense a process hermeneutic will be more fully «secular» than the new hermeneutic, since it will recognize that all beings, in all times and places, who can in the full sense be named human persons, are — simply by virtue of their humanity — capable of grasping (and being grasped by) the message of the text.

We have moved from a place in which human rights have been guaranteed by virtue of some understanding of transcendent derivation, to a dispensation in which even the most fundamental rights are to be regarded as existing at the whim of the electorate.

The defect in this confidence in individual conversion is that it obscures the dual and social character of human selves and the individual and social character of their virtues and vices.

Its systematic unity is provided by the trinitarian perspective: from the beginning, the creation was intended for «inclusion» in the triune community by virtue of union with Christ, the purpose being a «perfected human community.»

The position taken in this book is that such a democracy is inherently self - defeating, in part because the unrestrained pursuit of satisfaction tends to breed conflict rather than harmony, but more importantly because human nature is such that persons and cultures do not grow in beauty, strength, and virtue when people strive only to get what they want.

A story sustains the precariousness and openness of the situation until it reaches its end, and does so by virtue of that power of imagination, or what I called memory that penetrates the future, to envisage a stretch of time as both sequentially related and also developing through human opportunity, intention, decision, and being acted upon.

By «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name of love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows of his relationship to human beings in history, and especially in the recorded utterances of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this life, by virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Rom.

«5 The full account of the human ousia in De Anima and in the Nichomachean Ethics is a dynamic one, in which the rationality of the agent shapes, by virtue of his choices and his actions, his own coming - to - be.

First, he seemed to assume too quickly the virtue of the capitalistic system and one of its foundational presuppositions the goodness of private property - over against the Marxist contention that money is one objectivation of human alienation.