Sentences with phrase «other human possibilities»

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Afternoon napping has been suggested by many and seems to align well with humans» natural circadian rhythms, but if your customers or your kids make that option untenable, are their other possibilities for dealing with your daily energy rollercoaster?

Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.

But it also follows that human individuals themselves have the greatest potential for increasing the possibilities of other human individuals.

The other, «liberal,» possibility is to celebrate the human freedom and dignity bestowed by God upon us.

Whereas Marx defined transcendence as the human beings» possibility to move towards the future with freedom and choice, so that they could shape their own destiny, Bonhoeffer gave a this - worldly interpretation of transcendence in which the experience of transcendence is Jesus «being there for others».

He believed spiritual doctrines opened the mind to a limitless freedom of possibilities, whereas the other is «the worst chain that ever fettered a human being» because without free thought you don't have free will.

Undoubtedly a certain insight was promoted in regard to such questions as how the papal primacy and the episcopacy founded by Christ can exist and work together in the Church, how the necessity of the Church for salvation is compatible with the possibility of salvation of a human being who does not belong to it, how in the realm of grace each of the regenerate can depend on every other and so above all on Mary, while there is nevertheless only one mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ.

He is interested not in promoting himself but in inviting others to live in a way that acknowledges Jesus as the «bearer of a new possibility of human, social, and.

At the human level, there is what we style «sin» — willful choice, with its consequences, of that which is self - centered, regardless of other occasions, content to remain stuck in the present without concern for future possibilities — and this is an obstacle which is like an algebraic surd.

We appraise ourselves in the light of our human possibility and we are appraised by others in our relationship with them.

Direction is that primeval tension of a human soul which moves it to choose and to realize this and no other out of the infinity of possibilities.

The other possibility — and the one I believe makes much more sense and is more in accord with the biblical witness — is that in Jesus the energizing and indwelling activity of God in human creation reaches a climactic stage.

If I can never adequately state the significance of my relationships with those whom I love in this world, or give a neat description of how I can overcome the alienation and estrangement of myself from another, or describe with any fullness what it means to be accepted by another and loved in spite of my deficiencies and my self - centeredness, I can never state in other than symbolic idiom the opening of further human possibilities with the overcoming of human deficiencies in my relationship with God — a relationship that has been broken by my willfulness and sin.

In doing this, we have also seen how one of the consequences of authentic preaching is a determination, established in the hearts and minds and wills of those who have assisted at worship, to give themselves more fully to the service of God — as «co-creators», in Whitehead's fine word, with God in the great work of «amorization», establishing in this world (so far as a finite order will permit it) a society marked by caring, justice, responsibility, interest in others, and relief from oppression, devoted to everything positive which promotes the fullest actualization of human possibility.

In fact, his biggest fights with humans have been over their habit of reacting in fear and violence against other life forms and possibilities.

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The Renaissance, the other wing that came out of the breakup of the medieval synthesis, saw human nature only as a realm of limitless possibilities.

The well - known phrase «impossible possibility» stands here in Niebuhr's thought for the warning that the pure love of God transcends human possibility.17 At the same time an element of uncalculating sacrificial giving of the self to the good of the other is possible for man.

Thus the issues which are being debated anew in the theological turmoil today center in the meaning of Christian love as it points on the one side to the possibilities of human existence, and as it points on the other side to a fulfillment of this life in an ultimate good which transcends the possibilities of this world.

They grant the right of concern to citizens and humans but never confuse the issue by considering the possibility that the clergyman or other professional is also a citizen or human being.

Language, in turn, introduces many other possibilities into human life which are remote from that of animals.

Throughout his preaching, he holds forth two and only two final possibilities for human existence: the one being everlasting happiness in the presence of God, the other everlasting torment in the absence of God.

I should agree with Buri and I should say that the point of the Christian gospel is to «re-present», as Ogden puts it, that possibility; to «re-present» it in starkly human terms, under human conditions, in Jesus as what I like to style «the classic instance» of what God is always «up to», rather than the totally other or the sheer anomaly, as so many (including Bultmann, presumably) would wish to regard him.

As God's «word became flesh» in Jesus Christ, the promise of creation was restored and human beings experienced the possibilities of dialogue with God and with each other.

The increasing use of in - vitro - fertilisation techniques, and the emergence of new possibilities involving human cloning, mixing of human and animal genetic elements, and the use of embryonic stem cells for research, among other things, brought the need for further teaching.

Above all, however, human existence (whatever may and must be said about other levels of existence in the cosmos) is characterized by the possibility of loving.

«20 The philosopher tries to show that the symbol is in fact a reality detector, that it enables us to discern a human possibility that could not be discerned in any other way.

The possibilities which are presented are blessedness which comes from self - fulfillment and the acceptance by God of that self - fulfillment — all of this, of course, in relationship with others and not in any presumed human isolation of self hood — or the disintegration or failure which comes from self - destruction or rejection by God because there is nothing to be received by God in His consequent nature for the furthering of His purpose of good in the course of the process of creative advance.

Our proposal also entails a distinction between the Christ, that Word or creative possibility specifically addressed to the human situation and actualizable by a man, and the Logos, which is the totality of creative possibilities inherent in the primordial or nontemporal nature of God, actualizable by the diverse creatures appropriate to them, including intelligent living beings on other worlds.

The book begins, properly, with Sacred Scripture, «the soul of theology», and examines biblical ideas of intercession, concluding that «the New Testament encourages human beings to intercede for each other, a possibility precisely because of the mediation or intercession of Christ.

Power in its deepest sense is not some person (s) dominating others, but all persons fulfilling their richest possibilities and God - given potential in the interaction of the human community.

On the other hand, if (as we have just said) our decisions make a difference, if the future is not a «closed future» but is open even for God, then we can see that there are possibilities that can not be realized until and unless there is human consent to that realization.

It is the quest of such other possibilities that should preoccupy anyone concerned with the mitigation of human suffering in the course of social change (p. 163).

They are also more likely than Christians to accept the possibility of intelligent life, other than humans, elsewhere in the universe.

On the other hand, the techniques of postcivilization also offer us the possibility of a society in which the major sources of human misery have been eliminated, a society in which there will be no war, poverty, or disease, and in which a large majority of human beings will be able to live out their lives in relative freedom from most of the ills which now oppress a major part of mankind.

But in the perspective that we have taken in this book, the ethical dimension is a matter of the human realization of possibility and accountability, with men and women in their social belonging and in the light of the one absolute ethical principle — which is nothing other than love - in - action.

Dialogue, particularly with people of other faiths, holds out the possibility of conversion in many ways: conversion of others to the fullness of the faith, conversion of ourselves to a deeper living of our own baptismal grace, conversion of the culture to a nobler vision of the human person encouraged by the many examples of virtue to be found within and outside the Church.

If one assumes that God exists, one must inevitably concede the possibility that he has disclosed himself to some human beings more directly than to others.

Researchers are exploring that possibility and other crime - fighting techniques that rely less on human judgment and more on big data crunching such as an algorithm that predicts an offender's risk of committing another crime.

This and other controversies aside, recent results raise the possibility that PTSD is a less distinctive affliction than originally thought and that its symptoms may arise in response to a plethora of intense stressors that are part and parcel of the human condition.

Independently of the technical possibilities, we have to respect the ethical standpoint that the use of embryonic stem cells means the use of human life for other purposes.

Kennewick Man's genome reveals that he is more closely related to contemporary Native Americans than to any other humans on the planet — dashing the remote possibility that he represents a mysterious migration from the east.

And a team led by the Broad's Feng Zhang on 3 January 2013 indisputably first showed that CRISPR worked in eukaryotes, which, among other advances, opened the possibility of working on human DNA and making new medical interventions.

Questions about how massive stars function, the possibility of life on other planets, human significance, and human resourcefulness are inevitably broached, and people must consider what these topics might say about the purpose of billions of stars, the relationship between humans and non-human species, and limits of science.

If, say, an unexpected adverse event pops up in a human trial, the informaticians can then sift animal, lab, and human data to investigate the possibility that certain gene variants or other factors predispose patients to the adverse event.

The possibilities include intense competition for food and other resources due to overpopulation; the rise of diseases acquired by living closely with livestock, other humans, and their waste; and increased violence among Neolithic communities.

In this respect, it is known that the circulating levels of myostatin protein in humans are considerably lower than in mice [14], [21], raising the possibility that the balance of the relative roles played by myostatin and by these other regulators may have shifted further away from myostatin in humans compared to mice.

SciLifeLab hosting parts the Human Protein Atlas program will be collaborating with the ELIXIR coordinator EMBL - EBI in exploring possibilities to link the data held in the Human Protein Atlas with other data resources.

This theory discounts any human intervention in the decline of Neanderthal populations, but still leaves open the possibility of other extinction scenarios.

The technique, which requires genetic engineering, can not be applied directly to people, but the achievement points toward better understanding of human aging and the possibility of rejuvenating human tissues by other means.»