Sentences with phrase «over human endeavors»

The impact of Wieman in the American scene has sometimes been compared with that of Barth upon Continental theology, 17 and a parallel does exist at the point at which both men direct attention away from humanity and human values to the work of God which is understood as prior to and sovereign over human endeavors.

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Elsewhere he claimed jurisdiction only over sin, but inasmuch as most human endeavor is tainted with sin, the pope's area of possible jurisdiction was large.

The objects contained in this database represent the Dallas Museum of Art's entire accessioned collection of over 24,000 works of art from all cultures and time periods, spanning 5,000 years of human endeavor.

So, in Penone's radical statement, he creates a copy of an original stone hewn over thousands of years in order to argue that what exists in nature is magnificent, and that human endeavors can only aspire to match it.

Segers also uses landscape to frame human endeavor, but he renders it rather diminutively; his etchings and paintings frequently privilege the landscape over the minuscule figures or architecture that populate them.

Yet, by including Foote's 1856 work in the history of climate science, we are reminded that the effort to understand the Earth's atmosphere and human interactions with it has been an ongoing endeavor over a century in the making.

If nothing is done to stop global warming, progress in almost all areas of human endeavor will gradually slow over the next fifty years because of more frequent, and more scary, climatic events — and worse will follow.

Given that no human activity will ever be free of imperfections, an important question is whether the imperfections of the climate science endeavor are receiving an appropriate level of emphasis vis - a-vis the evidence for credible performance over many decades.