Religious freedom is the first of human rights, for it is religion that grounds the
dignity of the human person in his relation to an authority that transcends temporal powers.
A notable achievement of the book is to discern the crucial role played by conflicting
views of the human person in determining attitudes to a wide range of ethical questions.
Finally, this shared and imperfect communion from which common evangelical mission arises also speaks to a shared
vision of the human person and thus a common political life.
To the recently concluded council, he wrote, we owe a ringing affirmation of the dignity and
rights of the human person, and of true human freedom — not least religious freedom.
To apply to the killing of a fetus the same language used for the
killing of a human person is an obstacle to reasonable reflection on this contentious subject.
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.
The universe is a gift from a transcendent source and is made for the
communion of human persons, something we can anticipate by nature and fully enter into by grace.
Many persons today accept a holistic view
of the human person not on biblical grounds but on modern scientific, biological, psychological grounds.
Traditionally theology has used the mediation of philosophy to understand the
complexity of the human person and to interpret the biblical message of revelation.
Such a transformation of our look is necessary if we are to have a transformation of action, and so come to a mature
love of the human person.
This principle flows from the
reality of the human person, an autonomous creature whose essential nature consists in a capacity for reflection and choice.
She enjoys public speaking and takes a keen delight in developing public relations through creative communication and strives for the
protection of the human person and her / his environment.
It is therefore a mark of modern thought that it offers sharper and more sustained attention to the nature and the
rights of the human person than did ancient thought.
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.
Alluding to the Charter of the United Nations, the Declaration says that the nations have «reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and
worth of the human person, and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom» (Preamble).
He spoke on the
value of the human person made in the image of God, on the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity that are fundamental to a just society, and on the dangers consumer culture poses to spiritual values.
The family is a divine institution that stands at the foundation of
life of the human person as the prototype of every social order.»
This objection has only been able to gain force because people have begun associating modern
ideas of the human person with the «person» of the Trinity.
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.
«The Christian vision
of the human person made in the image of God with a spiritual soul as well as a body is of central importance.
«The fundamental
needs of the human person are the focus of Catholic education - intellectual, physical, emotional, social, spiritual and eschatological (our eternal destiny).
1) Self - determination: The self - determining
power of the human person is not simply the ability of the person to determine his own action and the course of his life.
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.
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.