Sentences with phrase «post-christ human agency»

Topic: Autonomy, Decentralization and Trust in Corporate Culture Takeaways: (1) the power of human agency that gives value to autonomy in corporate culture, (2) the logic of many specific Berkshire Hathaway decentralization decisions and how to apply the lessons in other businesses.

the negation of ideology, the political secularization of the doctrine of original sin, the cautious sentiment tempered by prudence, the product of organic, local human organization observing and reforming its customs, the distaste for a priori principle disassociated from historical experience, the partaking of the mysteries of free will, divine guidance, and human agency by existing in but not of the confusions of modern society, no framework of action, no tenet, no theory, and no article of faith, a distrust of the systems and processes of the idol of self and of the lust for power and status, scorn to all approaches of ideology and meta - narrative.

The doctrine of predestination is at the heart of the Reformed message, but almost every tradition has to wrestle with the thorny questions of divine and human agency, as have home - grown religious movements like Mormonism and Christian Science....

This possibility challenges us to ask about the relationship between divine and human agency.

I don't know how I feel about that / human agency etc..

Humanism retains some personal explanations as ultimate (at the level of finite human agency) while leaving some inanimate explanations as ultimate also.

Here again the technology has a cjaracteristic of something more than a simple extension of human agency.

The belief that individual human agency should be factored out of history was, he feared, a self - fulfilling dictum, since the factored - out would come to believe it themselves.

So you wouldn't see God and Jesus able to predict exactly the kind of suffering that was dished out by human agency?

In short, the sacraments have come to depend on human agency — our ability to remember God — rather than on what God out of his grace does.

As the grain springs up miraculously and ripens without human agency or understanding, so marvelous is the coming of the Kingdom of God.

It runs full grain against the ethos of modernity and another legacy of the Enlightenment — human agency for the democratic transformation of society.

After the opening introduction of his name and tide «apostle» in 1.1, he states that his apostleship is not from or through any human agency.

In MP I developed these themes at some length in the setting of a detailed discussion of human agency and causality.

Isn't that something done through post-Christ human agency, by Popes and councils and other committees?

Or, from the other side, it is human agency which is in control and God can «enter in» only as a sort of extra.

She thus lacks that minimal coherence essential to human agency.

A sense of salvation by human agency begins to permeate the global whole, and the world at large becomes the true church.

Ellul plunges even deeper into the mystery of how God's purposes are accomplished through human agency.

The fact that human agency is explicitly asserted in verse 46 — «since you thrust [the word of God] from you and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life» — strongly militates against any assumption of divine agency in verse 48 and of an eternal decree of unconditional particular election (Shank, Elect in the Son, 184).

But the biblical picture of God and humanity also includes real interaction: Adam and Eve sin, and God casts them out of the Garden; Abraham argues with God about the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah» and, in that interaction, God's agency is seen as distinct from human agency.

Many Christians think that divine inspiration means that God dictated His words to human authors and therefore bypassed all human agency.

The proposal outlined in this paper, asking for religiously affiliated people to work together to face the issues of terrorism, violence and injustice, in not meant to diminish the important role that all other human agencies, state sponsored or voluntary organizations, groups and movements, have to play.

But this much we can say with confidence: at every point of suffering and wrong, in every situation where man is being divested of his essential humanity, the judgment and the grace of God is operative through some human agency.

That «other quarter» was probably not envisioned as God's direct intervention, for Mordecai was a realist who believed in the necessity of human agency; God's invisible providence undergirded human endeavor.

In the New Testament itself the universal fatherhood of God involves the universal brotherhood of man, and, so far as human agency is concerned, only moral forces are counted on to bring about the recognition of the one and the reformation of life to fit the other.

As I said earlier, everything that is done by an institution is done through human agency.

(b) Of the spiritual and eternal salvation granted immediately by God to those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, e.g., Acts 2:47, 16:31; Rom 8:24; Eph 2:5, 8; 1 Tim 2:4; 2 Tim 1:9; Titus 3:5; of human agency in this, Rom 11:4; 1 Cor 7:16; 9:22

(c) Of the present experiences of God's power to deliver from the bondage of sin, e.g., Matt 1:21; Rom 5:10; 1 Cor 15:2; Heb 7:25; Jas 1:21; 1 Pet 3:21; of human agency in this, 1 Tim 4:16

Although» [f] reedom in some form or other maybe necessary according to process theism,» he says, the «sophisticated variety of freedom involved in human agency... is indeed the result of a divine decision.»

America's exceptional history as the only nation in the world with two centuries of political continuity stems from its people's love for individual rights, which they hold to be inalienable because they are granted by a power that no human agency dare oppose.

Should the end be precipitated by human agencies in defiance of the will of God, it would obviously need to come in a realm beyond human existence on this earth.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

, Divine and Human Agency in Paul and his Cultural Environment (Library of New Testament Studies, 335; London: T&T Clark, 2006).

I also have forthcoming articles, which discuss the classical debates around the role of ideas in social change in the tradition of the Left and sketch an alternative approach that is critical towards determinism — the idea that human agency can be predicted by external material forces — but avoids falling into the common idealist trap when one tries to rehabilitate human agency.

It is common sense that transformative outcomes in so - called developing countries are dependent upon, above all but not exclusively, human agency and the position and role of the old guard and the military.

«By doing this we were able to, for the first time, conceptualise such experiences as potentially representing endeavours at the extreme end of human agency, that is making choices to engage in activity which may in certain circumstances lead to death.

Unfortunately, the approach works only if the object's motion can be described by a linear equation, and that's rarely the case with motions involving human agency.

This suggest that two haplotypes exist in the area of origin of the species, but that only one of the two haplotypes (the «World haplotype») has, through human agency, been widely dispersed.

We are talking about the scale of human agency.

Part documentary, part fiction, it braids together technology and history (specifically, the Battle of Okinawa) for a meditation on human agency and memory.

The reduced attention to politics mutes the most important way in which individual human agency drives human experience.

Only slightly more than a half - century ago, historians began to «revise» that narrative, examining sources previously ignored or unseen, informed by new ideas about race and human agency....

As a writer, educator and a student of human agency, I am particularly drawn to the sections on the effects of the collapse of our cultural narratives.

Only then, with schools that foster authentic human agency, can we say we have achieved our goal of intentional equity.

As discussed previously, critical pedagogy encourages students to move toward human agency (Ball, 2000; Freire, 1990) by exercising agency through critical thinking, through individual social action, and through group social action.

Critical pedagogy works on a continuum and encourages students to move toward action and human agency (Ball, 2000; Freire, 1990) by applying agency through critical thinking in the classroom, then through individual social action, and finally through group social action.

I also began to realize that some things that seemed to just «happen» — notes arriving, carriages being brought round, meals being served — would of course require human agency to make them occur.

This volume seeks to further the use of formal methods in clarifying one of the central problems of philosophy: that of our free human agency and its place in our indeterministic world.

Topic: Autonomy, Decentralization and Trust in Corporate Culture Takeaways: (1) the power of human agency that gives value to autonomy in corporate culture, (2) the logic of many specific Berkshire Hathaway decentralization decisions and how to apply the lessons in other businesses.