Sentences with phrase «on human affairs»

One of the biggest potential impacts on human affairs from sustained warming is coastal inundation as warming seas swell and fill with water flowing from melting ice sheets.

The book imagines a vast, secretive organisation known as the Concern that keeps a discreet stranglehold on human affairs.

When I considered its divisive impact on human affairs, as well as the hypocrisy that flourishes even among the so - called faithful, I felt it wasn't for me.

The idea behind astrology is that stars and planets have some influence on human affairs and terrestrial events.

Not exact matches

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D), along with the state's Human Relations Commission and the Governor's Advisory Commission on African American Affairs, issued a statement Thursday condemning racial discrimination in public places, including the arrests of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks and the incident at Grandview.

Zakaria wasn't suggesting ceding Western values and beliefs — but rather recognizing that prevailing attitudes on such issues as the environment, human rights, and social affairs are different in many parts of Asia than those that hold sway in the West.

Most of those concerns focus on the singularity, a soon - to - arrive crossover point in the affairs of man and machine, where machines overtake human intelligence, and we cease to be the most interesting feature of the planet.

The Biblical accounts of God - to - human relationship and affairs going from the very obvious to the very mysterious, starting with creation and going through a multitude of stages, the fall, the expulsion and curse, trials and covenants, rebellion and Law, culminating with God's «Ultimate Provision» for Salvation, the «Good News» of the Lord Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, the «New Covenant,» the «Millennial Kingdom» to come, the end of time, and the afterlife, are the basis for the Christian Theology on «Time Dispensations.»

Each of the eleven essays in On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs reflects upon an important, but all - too - often overlooked, fact: «It is only when we realize that human affairs stand not simply by themselves but relate us to our end» to our transcendent destiny» that we can relax about what we are, indeed, become what we are.&rHuman Affairs reflects upon an important, but all - too - often overlooked, fact: «It is only when we realize that human affairs stand not simply by themselves but relate us to our end» to our transcendent destiny» that we can relax about what we are, indeed, become what we are.Affairs reflects upon an important, but all - too - often overlooked, fact: «It is only when we realize that human affairs stand not simply by themselves but relate us to our end» to our transcendent destiny» that we can relax about what we are, indeed, become what we are.&rhuman affairs stand not simply by themselves but relate us to our end» to our transcendent destiny» that we can relax about what we are, indeed, become what we are.affairs stand not simply by themselves but relate us to our end» to our transcendent destiny» that we can relax about what we are, indeed, become what we are.»

The meeting lasted three hours and touched on matters ranging from terrorism and education to human rights, according to Johnnie Moore, a California pastor and public affairs executive who attended and served as a spokesman for Trump's ad hoc board.

This principle of the chaos theory is that just s Jesus incarnated Himself as a human, eventually taking on the appearance of a criminal worthy of death, so also, God incarnated Himself in the human affairs of the Israelite nation, so that He appears to be guilty of their crimes when in fact He is not.

Sometimes human affairs are conducted on the basis of such direct physical compulsion.

Accordingly, transcendence must be grasped, not as it has so often been in the past, in spatial terms referring to the God «up there» beyond the affairs of human life, but specifically in terms of what God has effected historically, and is doing now, on behalf of human beings.

Though he denied having much knowledge of religious doctrines and affairs, he nevertheless displayed a deeply human sensitivity that made of his comic artistry something considerably more than an occasional tickle on the periphery of our existence.

Leon R. Kass is Addie Clark Harding Professor in the College and the Committee on Social Thought, The University of Chicago, and author of Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs and The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature.

Like Sir Walter Scott's historical novels, it takes place amidst events events that changed the course of human affairs, in this case, World War I, but remains vividly focused on one character's fate.

In particular, Lutheran theologian O. Frederick Nolde, who represented the Federal Council of Churches and was the first director of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA), lobbied very effectively for inclusion of human rights in the UN Charter and for specific provisions in the Universal Declaration.

The authors report on the results of a survey of scientists and theological educators, asking about their belief in a God who intervenes in human affairs.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

Furthermore, it is obvious that this shift in strategy has been facilitated by his change of view on the relation between the historicity of natural processes and human affairs.

Any student of the Græco - Roman world at the beginning of our era who tries to penetrate beneath the surface of the political, economic and military history of the period and discern what was going on in the minds of men, becomes aware of a widespread expectation of a turn for the better in human affairs, even the dawn of a golden age, after the violent convulsions which had disturbed society for a century or more.

Fifthly, the Eucharist as action is given an imperative quality in that it results in a «sending out» or a mission received by the worshipers, which they are to carry on in their daily life of witness and work in the world of human affairs.

The prophets took their stand on the conviction that God has a hand in human affairs, and they therefore interpreted the events of their time with insight derived from their converse with the Eternal («hearing the word of the Lord.»

They had a common sense that accepted the idea of a God who intervened in human affairs on specific occasions for specific purposes.

They want to get rid of the trappings of religion but hold on to the belief in a benign deity with some degree of loving power over human affairs.

That Whitehead should have borrowed from human experience the term «society» and then employed it systematically to refer to a certain type of «derivative existent» without intending any metaphysical implication in the context of human social affairs, would have been not only careless on his part, but what is worse, fraudulent.

But what has not yet been sufficiently taken into account, although it explains everything, is the extent to which this process of mechanization is a collective affair, and the way in which it finally creates, on the periphery of the human race, an organism that is collective in its nature and amplitude.

In A.D. 1500, Islam, supported by the Turks and by various peoples of Central Asia; Confucianism, the system on which the Chinese Empire, larger and more populous and apparently more highly civilized than all of Western Europe, was based; Hinduism, the faith of the majority of the peoples of India, a subcontinent more varied racially and probably more populous and wealthier than fifteenth - century Western Europe; and Buddhism, with extensive followings in Southern, Central, and Eastern Asia, all loomed larger in human affairs than did Christianity.

In the activity of Jesus, God could be seen putting human affairs to rights, entering the lists on behalf of humans against their ancient enemies.

Reflecting, even briefly, on the state of affairs which might evoke this universal love in the human heart, a love so often vainly dreamed of, but which now leaves the fields of Utopia to reveal itself as both possible and necessary, we are brought to the following conclusion: that for men upon earth, all the earth, to learn to love one another, it is not enough that they should know themselves to be members of one and the same thing; in «planetizing» themselves they must acquire the consciousness, without losing themselves, of becoming one and the same person.

We know what goes on in human affairs, but we recognize divine affairs, too, though we barely sense them.

In other words, if God has divinely intervened within human affairs in order to «bless» Alabama running back Mark Ingram with a particularly good game on Saturday, what does that say about the family of refugees in Uganda who beg God for just enough food to get through the day... but to no avail?

God is love like that — indeed we ought to put it more forcefully and say that such human love as we see in Jesus is the very reflection of the reality of divine love on the stage of human affairs.

It has also exerted a profound influence on the way in which human affairs are approached.

Niebuhr goes on to add that the fact that the will to power inevitably justifies itself in terms of the morally more acceptable will to realize our true nature means that the egoistic corruption of universal ideals is a much more persistent fact in human affairs than any moralistic creed is inclined to admit.

Thus a ruler is called khalifa when «he replaces the one who was before him, and takes his place in the affair, and is his successor (khalaf)».68 There are many contemporary thinkers who opine that human beings are the vicegerents (khalifa) of God on earth.

Testimony of Holly Burkhalter for America's Watch to the House Subcommittees on Western Hemisphere Affairs and Human Rights and International Organizations, January 31, 1990.

Just as Jesus took on human flesh with all its weaknesses and limitations, so also God, in the Old Testament «incarnated» Himself into the affairs of humanity with all of our weaknesses and limitations.

When a person takes on the personality of God, therefore, divine love is realized and incorporated into human affairs.

The protection of human dignity (earlier on mainly a national affair) was put on the agenda of the world community.

Thorpe stated that he personally had found Whitehead's thought of little help in relation to his own work on animal behaviour which was largely concerned with birdsong, but I think Suzanne Langer has shown that it may indeed be illuminating to think of problems of animal communication and eventually human language in terms of instructions, subjective aims or feelings, rather than in terms of information and description of states of affairs.

This allows us to face the challenges of our time soberly, neither despairing of the possibilities of justice in public life and thus withdrawing, nor seeking to take command of history by embarking on grandiose ideological projects that encourage us to assume godlike powers over human affairs.

The human species currently consists of some six billion individuals spread around the globe in millions of groups large and small, all focused on their own affairs without much concept of any ultimate goal, or the value of their contribution.

This is not likely to make human existence in society an entirely easy and uncomplicated affair; on the contrary, it will give rise to continued struggle.

Over the years, however, I've come to believe that history, literature, and the arts provide a more promising place to start on the ladder of intellectual love, for they train us to savor truth amid the flux and flow of human affairs, which is where we're destined to live.

«Thank goodness the lord chancellor has now realised that the government's wobbling on the human rights convention did nobody any good,» said Liberal Democrat constitutional affairs spokesman Simon Hughes.

This article is based on conversations with Catherine Barnard, professor of EU Law at the University of Cambridge, Anand Menon, professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King's College London and director of UK in a Changing Europe, Steve Peers, professor of EU, Human Rights and World Trade Law at the University of Essex, Amy Porges, adviser and government representative on WTO negotiations and litigation and free trade agreements, John Springford, director of Research at the Centre for European Reform and other politicians, trade negotiators, civil servants and officials in London, Washington and Brussels who asked not to be named.

Britain has never been very interested in international affairs, so it will have little notion of the warmth with which an attack on human rights will be received in some of the more questionable capitals of the world.

Patricia Ferguson, Scottish Labour's external affairs spokesperson, said: «For Scotland's First Minister to admit his admiration for someone with such a controversial record on human rights and democracy does not reflect well on our country.

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