Sentences with phrase «over human affairs»

Payne's Downsizing (written with the help of his long - standing collaborator Jim Taylor) is a cheerful fantasy on the subjects of ecological doom, intractable class and race divisions, and the supremacy of marketing over human 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.

As in the Old Testament, therefore, the idea of God had been progressively formulated, not so much in the light of philosophic disquisition as in the light of his mighty acts for Israel, from the deliverance out of Egypt to the least and latest sign of his effective control over human affairs, so in the New Testament the idea of God was centered not in a concept but in a deed.

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.

There is a basic incompatibility between Islam's belief in all encompassing doctrines that embrace religion, private and public life and the American principles of liberty of belief and speech and the absolute separation of state and church affairs For Americans belief is a private matter, not so for Islam, where theocracy rules over all human affairs.

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The stream of negative headlines has become a distraction for an administration that has already parted ways with its secretary of Health and Human Services and secretary of Veterans Affairs over questionable spending.

In global terms the forces of business which are in the process of taking over the affairs of human beings have created a momentum nothing less than a pandimonic progress of the Gadarine Swine.

Between 1945 and the late 1980s, the United States militarily intervened more than 200 times into the internal, sovereign affairs of well over 100 «third world» countries, causing directly or indirectly the murders of 20 - 25 million human beings and the maimings of at least that many».

When one looks at how the book was written, edited, compiled, altered and translated over the centuries, it becomes pretty obvious that it is an entirely human affair, bereft of any divine authorship or inspiration.

«Representative of these various types were men like Roger L. Shinn, who succeeded Niebuhr at Union in the chair of Applied Christianity; George William Webber, founder of the East Harlem Protestant Parish and later president of New York Biblical Seminary; Truman Douglass, leading spirit in the affairs of the National Council of Churches and pioneer in church involvement in human issues; and Martin Luther King, Jr. «73 Niebuhr was at the apex of his influence in the early 1950s and was to remain there for over a decade longer.

As time goes buy the kind defenders of free will over their rejection to «dead» here and colossians 2:13 tend to resort to a familiar defense, that of labeling it a Calvinist viewpoint and that its almost a cultist view point to hold.Very sad yet very much the defense of many christians.Dead may i suggest is dead, the inability to respond, does not mean that prior to being saved one could not read scripture but because of this spiritual deadness its not profitabel / meaningful - we just can not continue to revise the meaning of dead to fit a view point - because natural man has not been born again this deadness (spiritually) shows itself as «none seek after God», in this condition they are» slaves to sin» and the spiritual things of God (the bible) is «folly / foolishness» even the gospel is judged by natural man as «folly / foolishness «(1 cor.1: 18) Please stop with this weak / common defense called Calvinism - many believers are truly turned off by such a defense.We must not forget the man's «free will» is what took the whole human race down in the garden; i would hope we can rise above our love affair with the human will.

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.

Labour has cancelled the launch of its general election campaign as the human tragedy in the Indian Ocean takes precedence over domestic affairs.

The three came under pressure over a letter in May 2007 prepared by Harbottle & Lewis on the instruction of Jon Chapman, the former director of legal affairs, and Daniel Cloak, the head of human resources, suggesting phone hacking had not been widespread.

The letter, addressed to center board members, Jerusalem's mayor, and the director of the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA), says that the project involved «surreptitious and unscientific removal of hundreds of human burials,» and broke Israeli laws requiring that all human remains be turned over to the Ministry of Religious Affairs for reburial.

Let us put aside consideration over whether the term «free market» describes anything that has ever actually existed in human affairs, or could exist, since this discussion exceeds the purpose of this website.

It remains to be seen whether the series draws a substantial and sustained audience, but the Showtime team, at least in episode one, deserves plaudits for taking a compellingly fresh approach to showing the importance of climate hazards to human affairs, the role of greenhouse gases in raising the odds of some costly and dangerous outcomes and — perhaps most important — revealing the roots of the polarizing divisions in society over this issue.

But, within the media coverage of greenhouse gases and climate that has accumulated over the last half century, there's also a broad body of work that has clearly described the science and its significance for human affairs and the wider nature world.

Here are some highlights from particularly interesting non-anonymous comments (a perk aimed at fostering constructive discourse), along with thoughts sent to me by two prominent analysts of the intersection of science and human affairs, Brad Allenby, the professor of engineering and ethics at Arizona State University and co-author of one of my favorite books of 2011, «The Techno - Human Condition,» and Steve Fuller, a professor of sociology at the University of Warwick in Britain and author of «Humanity 2.0: The Past, Present and Future of What it Means to be Human,» which I look forward to reading over the holihuman affairs, Brad Allenby, the professor of engineering and ethics at Arizona State University and co-author of one of my favorite books of 2011, «The Techno - Human Condition,» and Steve Fuller, a professor of sociology at the University of Warwick in Britain and author of «Humanity 2.0: The Past, Present and Future of What it Means to be Human,» which I look forward to reading over the holiHuman Condition,» and Steve Fuller, a professor of sociology at the University of Warwick in Britain and author of «Humanity 2.0: The Past, Present and Future of What it Means to be Human,» which I look forward to reading over the holiHuman,» which I look forward to reading over the holidays.

In an interview, Richard Somerville, a climatologist at the University of California, San Diego, and a past contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said the case for climate change as a serious risk to human affairs was clear, despite recent firestorms over some data sets and scientists» actions.

In May 2013, Germany's Minister of Foreign Affairs Guido Westerwelle told Die Weit that he shares the concern over autonomous weapons, stating, «I don't want a situation where human decision - making is removed and delegated to machines.»

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The exploration in this year's report of Indigenous human rights protections, remote Indigenous education, Indigenous healing and Indigenous health equality provide the basis for identifying the important steps government needs to take over the following eighteen months, to set the new agenda for Indigenous affairs.