Sentences with phrase «of humanity as a whole»

It is interesting to observe that while preparing for the centenary celebrations of the 1893 World Congress of Religions of Chicago, Metropolitan Paulose Mar Gregorios said that Chicago 1993 Global Concourse of Religions must «be committed not just to dialogue with each other but to the future of humanity as a whole».
He says, «They did not find themselves playing their role in the history of the nation or of humanity as a whole.
Yima's lie is «the primal lie... of humanity as a whole which ascribes the conquest of the power of nature to its own superpower.
Just as in tribalism the destiny of the tribe is more important than that of the individual, so the destiny and well - being of humanity as a whole must now take precedence over that of any tribe, nation or regional culture.
For Teilhard, the Christian church as (ideally) a universal community of human / divine love and shared idealism is the prototype of the movement of humanity as a whole toward a superhuman social reality organized around Christ / Omega as the ultimate attracting and unifying principle.
Furthermore, these special ideas must be made compatible with the «common sense» or common experience of humanity as a whole.
It is difficult, but important to respect and cultivate multi faith and interacial marriages and families for the better of humanity as a whole.
It is precisely as a liturgical worshiping community that the church is most effectively a sign of the ultimate destiny of every human being and of humanity as a whole.
The timing of the incarnation of Jesus had something to do with the development of God's plan of redemption, along with the development of humanity as a whole.
Participants» responses also showed significantly more positive than negative emotions, both when contemplating their own reactions and those of humanity as a whole.
I can get along with pretty much everyone but I also dislike the majority of humanity as a whole, which makes it hard to meet people.
I can get along with pretty much everyone but I also dislike the majority of humanity as a whole, which makes it hard to meet...
Perhaps scientifically acceptable compromise can be reached, but the bar seemed to be deliberately be set low — if the worst happens and no reputable targets are established then that's what we expected beforehand; if everyone (finally) puts the interest of humanity as a whole over interests of nationality and strong targets are set, then, well, «what a success; the international process works.»
This phenomenon is characteristic of humanity as a whole, and a problem of an international scope.

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He has described GM methods, which are employed on around 10 % of the world's arable farmland, as a «gigantic experiment with nature and the whole of humanity which has gone seriously wrong».
While some of these famous selfies may make us smile, drool with envy or imagine floating in space, others may just make you question humanity as a whole.
This time, he carried in his heart «the whole Church, or rather, the whole of humanity» — just as he continues to do today in his newfound ministry.
Believing Christians should look upon themselves as a creative minority and help Europe espouse once again the best of its heritage, thereby being at the service of the whole of humanity.
God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.
Paul's letter to the Colossians (1:15 - 20) has as its theme the persuasive love of God as extended not only to all humanity but to the whole of creation.
When, two centuries ago, your Church began to feel the particular power of your heart, it might have seemed that what was captivating men's souls was the fact of their finding in you an element even more determinate, more circumscribed, than your humanity as a whole.
God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences
Although, that epistle was addresses specifically to the Thessalonians, there was nothing to indicate whether the meaning behind for those of us who remain meant to just the Thessalonians, or to those who are living now on earth as a whole will be there at Christ's return, or even if he actually referred to those of us remaining to mean those of us who remain of all humanity on Earth in general, which could mean that Paul didn't give any specific time frame as to when Christ will; only that his return will happen.
This idea of the land belonging to all humanity, to the community as a whole, is not entirely inoperative today.
It is primarily the life of society and humanity as a whole.
What the Church knows as the descent of Christ into Hell is not, according to Blake's vision, a descent apart from the body, but rather a descent into the very depths of bodily repression, a descent that is only consummated in the identification of Jesus» «Satanic Body of Holiness» with the totality of the cosmos, and its consequent presence as the redemptive fire of passion throughout the whole body of humanity.
According to the biblical story of the Flood, it was not individuals who were wicked; it was humanity as a whole, a wickedness encoded in humanity's very nature.
This limit consists in humanity's inability to nullify God's purpose: the election and redemption of Israel and through Israel of humankind as a whole.
It is Mankind as a whole, collective humanity, which is called upon to perform the definitive act whereby the total force of terrestrial evolution will be released and flourish; an act in which the full consciousness of each individual man will be sustained by that of every other man, not only the living but the dead.
To the folks who are vehemently denying this person was a Christian, I would urge you to consider this: If a person with a muslim name commits an act of terrorism, he is immediately labelled an «Islamic» terrorist, no questions asked, even though the Quran clearly states that a person who kills an innocent is like he / she has murdered then whole of humanity (the Quran mentions this in reference to murder of ANY innocent person, irrespective of the victims belief): To quote from the Quran: «On that account We ordained for the Children of Isra`il that if any one slew a person — unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land — it would be as if he slew the whole humanity: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the whole humanity.
But in the mystical body of the Church, the surplus humanity that Christ finds in each of the members of this his body is called upon, insofar as each is a part of the whole, to participate in the work of this body, which is the redemption continued throughout time.
We also see that those novels (and the old genius himself) stand somewhere in between Sophya's selfish obsession with personal love and the the Tolstoyan (and Tolstoy's own) political principles — directed as they are toward a kind of selfless or disembodied love of the people or humanity as a whole.
If we knew that humanity is going to survive, we should not do anything either... Because we can not know whether humanity is going to survive or not, we have to act today as if the future of the whole of humanity were dependent on us.12
This is given and taken between man and man as wisdom and is honored by admiration, its quotation never fluctuates, the whole of humanity guarantees its value.
Manumission, I'm not sure what exactly you are referring to but people being killed because of Religious differences is a huge stain on humanity as a whole.
It was Sheikh Ali who defended us against his friend, arguing that if we had saved just one life, as the Quran said, it was as if we had saved the whole of humanity.
Would it not be that the West and the institutions of global governance, having closed themselves to transcendence, have stopped searching for what is real, true and good for humanity as a whole and for each individual person, and therefore prove unable to forge any genuine consensus?
And since process theology sees human beings as part of a larger community which includes all creatures, the indivisible salvation of the whole world can not be limited to humanity.
If we all just take a step back and really reflect on our beliefs and how to articulate them, humanity can benefit as a whole, regardless of who is «right».
When Dorothee Sölle wrote in 1971 of the indivisible salvation of the whole world, she and her readers assumed without reflection that the whole world is the world of human beings.1 But as the seventies progressed and the environmental crisis forced itself on public attention, more and more Christians became troubled about the separation of humanity from the rest of nature.
Most people I speak with who are not affiliated with a specific religion care more about humanity as a whole and the future of the species than those who I speak with that claim the world is going to come to an end, and soon.
Consequently we know nothing except that man was created by God as God's personal partner in a sacred history of salvation and perdition; that concupiscence and death do not belong to man as God wills him to be, but to man as a sinner; that the first man was also the first to incur guilt before God and his guilt as a factor of man's existence historically brought about by man, belongs intrinsically to the situation in which the whole subsequent history of humanity unfolds.
Some Jews have already reacted negatively to the declaration's teaching on Jesus Christ as the Unique Mediator for the whole of humanity.
Applied to the individual the idea of total extinction may not at first sight appall us; but extended to humanity as a whole it revolts and sickens us.
Well, what will finally crown and limit collective humanity at the ultimate stage of its evolution, is and must be, by reason of continuity and homogeneity, the establishment of a sort of focal point at the heart of the reflective apparatus as a whole.
Otherwise, what reason do we have for supposing that God, as «author of the whole drama,» meant the statement to be understood, in the light of subsequent developments, as a reference to humanity's future redemption?»
We recognize our responsibility, as stewards of God's creation, to use science and technology for the good of humanity and the whole world.
In the ecumenical thinking of the 1960s, God's concern was seen as not primarily with the church, but with humanity as a whole.
so what ever this endless blo - odshed is resulting now is because of such action has become a burden on America and the Americans whether this was planed by them or have been misled by Kurds or by those countries who were fearing S - adam regime in the area... which I am sure their turn would be coming sooner or latter to pay their dues to humanity as a whole for the losses and grieve they have caused all those years of emb - argo and followed by the brutal inv - asion...
I would only hope we recognize that our new nature (which can not sin) is alien to our old - nature we drag with us, and it is by God's grace any of us are subject to God's conforming us into the image of The Son and building us up as a whole with all the saints into the full measure of spiritual adulthood belonging to the Humanity of our great God and Savior Jesus our Lord and Master.
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