Sentences with phrase «own humanness»

People are scared of losing their humanness.

But what caught our eye was how many of the articles focused on or mentioned the importance of humanness or «being human».

Just wanted to reaffirm again how much I value your professionalism, edgy quality and humanness.

In either case, the connection is violated when the essence of humanness is posited to be homo faber, man as self - sufficient creator.

The Scholls and their friends clearly saw that their humanness came from another source, that it could not be destroyed even by the death sentence of a Nazi court.

Yet, in my view, a living system of belief requires doubts to birth research, concerns that give way to rethinking, and exploration of our own deep assumptions that let us realize our own humanness and limitations.

On their lived - out answers to these questions depend the survival of humanity and the restoration of their own personal humanness,

May we recognise the miracle of the Incarnation, not in spite of the mess, but because of the very humanness of it.

«64 Such depersonalism necessarily carries with it a denial of the person's full humanness.

Keen proposes naively that somehow his privileged play in ignorance and unconscious support of others» oppressed conditions is the best means toward realizing authentic humanness for all.

The power of symbolization is a universal property of human beings, without which humanness can not emerge.

Part of my shift in faith and parenting has been about embracing the full range of my humanness.

There was a winsome humanity about Sullivan that emphasized the essential humanness of all persons, including the most disturbed.

It is through an acceptance of the humanness of our sacred text, rather than a denial of it, that we discover God's inspiration.

The bad is whatever blocks growth toward full humanness.

in our own humanness... how can we say who qualifies and who doesn't.

Certainly, human sexuality is God's gracious gift, a fundamental dimension of our created and our intended humanness.

We are human and have failings, and God is «the hope above our humanness».

There is a place for confessing our humanness, our mistakes, our struggles.

Gustafson, with whose work Kaufman's has much in common, would dismiss Kaufman's faith that the cosmic process is somehow oriented to humanness and humaneness as unjustified anthropocentrism.

I differed from him because I thought that an undefined Umbrella God was not a relevant framework for a situation where the search of all religions as well as secular ideologies was for defining and realizing true humanness in the context of a modern technological society.

Addressing this poverty is a complex intellectual task, one that requires articulating the humanness of the human, and presenting children and childrearing as fundamental to the common good.

The goal is the realisation of our full humanness or, conversely our full divinity, the ideal of the Imago Dei, the image of God in us.

The further point is that people should not be held responsible for their sexual choices and behavior (at least not within the context of «a committed relationship»), for they are essential to «authentic humanness.»

It not only helps them to come to terms with their historical consciousness, which is submerged in pathos and protest, but also to comprehend a God who in Jesus restores «humanness» to Dalits.

But if it doesn't — like when it talks about the anger of God, or repentance, or gay sex, or divorce — then we can emphasise its humanness, point out the limited knowledge of the writer, explain how they came to be so silly, and move beyond the text to a supposedly higher ethical standard.

We might say then that heaven, in this present moment, is the realization of our potential humanness; and that hell is the denial of that realization, through our own choices and their inescapable consequences.

Faith perceives the divinity of the man Jesus precisely in his humanness.

Our very humanness is dependent upon the language by which we communicate and grow to some degree of human maturity.

It means metanoia or a conversion of one's intentions and aims so that they may become those which are proper to genuine humanness.

In his book Beegle attacked «inerrantists» for being overly rationalistic, obscurantist in fixing upon the «autographs» of Scripture, naive linguistically in thinking language can be precise, misguided in their use of proof - texting, Docetic in their denial of Scripture's humanness, and wrong in their commitment to a domino theory regarding inspiration.

For it is in working together to liberate the oppressed masses through critical social intervention, and to oppose tyrannical oppression like Nazism, that mutual trust and appreciation is engendered, and a common ground founded on our basic humanness opened.»

It is this human refraction that makes the hard work of critical study inescapable, so that every text is given a suspicious scrutiny whereby we may consider the ways in which bodied humanness has succeeded or not succeeded in bearing truthful and faithful witness.

Technique in all its military modes and derivatively in every other mode threatens us, Technique is aimed at control, the fencing out of death, the fencing out of gift and, eventually, the fencing out of humanness.

«Similar to the incarnation, on which Christ took upon himself the totality of what it meant to be human, so in scripture, God incarnates by taking on the humanness of the writers and the situations they experienced at the time.

In the last two centuries the ultimate has been called into question and the penultimate — peace, order, justice, humanness — breaks down.

In its best expression, salvation has been understood as the fulfillment of our humanness, of our best selves, and not as inhibiting our human potential.

The spiritual challenge of our time is to realize our sacred humanness, that there need not be a conflict between the natural and the supernatural, between the finite and the infinite, between time and eternity, between practicality and mysticism, between social justice and contemplation, between sexuality and spirituality, between our human fulfillment and our spiritual realization, between what is most human and what is most sacred.

In an odd way, the tree is victorious — she has the boy with her and they are both wrecks but they are together — but it is a pernicious sort of victory, bought at the expense of her «treeness» and the boy's humanness.

Death is no longer the divider from God that defines humanness, life, and thus the good.

Of course I still want to be like God in loving others as I am loved, and I need the Spirit to help me do this well through my unique, full humanness.

It is of supreme importance for us because it creates the humanness of us.

This heritage holds that man is more than «a larger white rat or a slower computer «16 — his freedom, awareness, valuing, caring, and creativeness constitute the core of his humanness.

But it does bring the passage to life a bit, and reveal the humanness of Paul.

We are with them in the concrete reality of our full humanness.

It isn't right to expect full acceptance of diverse opinion from people who are simultaneously being denied the rights to full membership in that diverse community or even having their humanness or faith denied.

Oddly, I began to love Paul for the very humanness of him: his frustrations, his love, his exhaustion, his passion, his intelligence, his impatience.

We do not know when the first intimations and stirrings of divinity within his humanness made themselves felt, but given who Jesus was, and what he would have to give his life to, it is inevitable that such moments would come.

They emphasize the crucial importance of affirming the deep «animal» roots of our humanness.

So let me share something of what I see as the affirmations, and the signs of hope that Americans are an integral part of this struggle to manifest total humanness and to acknowledge God's ownership and care of the whole of creation of which human beings are a part.