Sentences with phrase «origins of the human body»

(Gen 1:24) Pope Pius XII, St John Paul II and the Catechism have lent increasing support to scientific views of the origins of the human body.

Nor is it helpful to avoid the burning question which this fact raises: the origins of the human body.

the doctrine of «evolutionism» in so far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter — for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God.»

Yours faithfully, Christopher Keeffe 155 Butler Road West Harrow Middlesex EVOLUTION AND THE ORIGIN OF THE HUMAN BODY Dear Fr Editor, In your comment on Fr Kevin O'Donnell's letter, in your November - December issue, you use the words «emergence», «progress» and «evolution» in connection with the origins of the human body.

Generis: «For these reasons the Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God» [italics added].

FAITH: In 1952 Pius XII did indeed write in Humanae Generis that the Church is not closed to «the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter», but that it «obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God».

Pope Pius XII declared that «the teaching authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions... take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter --[but] the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God» (Pius XII, Humani Generis 36)»

Not exact matches

The living community which has once made a corporate response to the divine revelation does so with an ideology of its own, and it approaches each new revelatory event with an ideology which is as human in its origin and nature as any body of human thought can be.

Cherubim, perhaps of Mesopotamian origin, were images with winged animal bodies and human heads.

We are becoming aware of a whole body of data accumulated within the last one hundred years which has stirred the flames of controversy in religious, anthropological, and philosophical circles — data that raises new questions about the origins of the family and of human society.

This «original sin», i.e. sin at the origin of the human race, involves fundamental damage to the spirit - body relationship.

Neurons which are incapable of differentiating between «left» and «right» — similar to distortions in the entire human body — might be a starting point for discovering the origin of these diseases.

Adhering to these traditional concepts the US Department of Agriculture has concluded that diets, which reduce calories, will result in effective weight loss independent of the macronutrient composition, which is considered less important, even irrelevant.14 In contrast with these views, the majority of ad - libitum studies demonstrate that subjects who follow a low - carbohydrate diet lose more weight during the first 3 — 6 months compared with those who follow balanced diets.15, 16, 17 One hypothesis is that the use of energy from proteins in VLCKD is an «expensive» process for the body and so can lead to a «waste of calories», and therefore increased weight loss compared with other «less - expensive» diets.13, 18, 19 The average human body requires 60 — 65 g of glucose per day, and during the first phase of a diet very low in carbohydrates this is partially (16 %) obtained from glycerol, with the major part derived via gluconeogenesis from proteins of either dietary or tissue origin.12 The energy cost of gluconeogenesis has been confirmed in several studies7 and it has been calculated at ∼ 400 — 600 Kcal / day (due to both endogenous and food source proteins.18 Despite this, there is no direct experimental evidence to support this intriguing hypothesis; on the contrary, a recent study reported that there were no changes in resting energy expenditure after a VLCKD.20 A simpler, perhaps more likely, explanation for improved weight loss is a possible appetite - suppressant action of ketosis.

Tracing the origins of body brokering from the «resurrectionists» of the 19th century to the entrepreneurs of today, Cheney chronicles how demand for cadavers has long driven unscrupulous funeral home, crematorium and medical school personnel to treat human bodies as commodities.

Many of the elements that make up our human bodies, and the bodies of every living thing on Earth, have their origins in the formation of the universe.

A perennial favourite is the «Journey into the Human Body» section which takes you on an interactive guide into the origins of mankind.

In these fragmented images where one doesn't know where something starts and where it begins, where the notions of origins and originals are deconstructed, the theme of violence is metaphorically being reproduced — the spectators are exposed to the traces of violence on amputated human bodies.

In a new attempt to explain this loss of body hair I argue that human hairlessness had its origin in the ancestral mother - infant relationship.