Sentences with phrase «power over nature»

There is an ongoing cultural debate over Biblical references to the human power over nature.

The image illustrating the male dog hints towards the dual powers over nature, towards energy, wisdom and precious stones.

We desperately need a new vision of our own meaning and purpose, one that will give us the wisdom to control the new powers over Nature that we are acquiring, one that will give us a new direction and a new hope.

Given our unprecedented power over nature and nations, the implications of so arrogantly supposing that God's grace is ours as a reward for our cultural virility are frightening.

God does not work that way although God has full power over nature as with the flood.

C. S. Lewis once said that man's celebrated power over nature «turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.»

Referring to C. S. Lewis's much - cited claim in The Abolition of Man, Kass writes that if «man's so - called power over nature is, in truth, always a power exercised by some over others with knowledge of nature as their instrument, can it really be liberating to exchange the rule of nature for the role of arbitrary human will?»

Toynbee observed that since the dawn of civilization there has been a growing «morality gap» between humankind's physical power over nature and the level of its spirituality — a gap that has increased rapidly in the last 200 years.

Man also has been given power over nature, our second position.

A postcivilized society of unshakable tyranny, resting upon all the knowledge which we are going to gain in social sciences, and of unspeakable corruption resting on man's enormous power over nature, especially biological nature, is by no means inconceivable.

More than 40 years ago C. S. Lewis noted that «what we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.»

Traveling time with Stephen Hawking, new ideas for finding aliens, having God - like power over nature, and more

Levitated Mass stands not as a testament to timeless human achievement but as a trophy for a certain class of real estate developers and corporatists for whom the message of power over nature and landscape has changed little since the time of their forebears Leland Stanford and Cornelius Vanderbilt.

Skills and technology of all kinds may be admirable, but the tyrannical or greedy use of human power over nature is a failure deriving from human sin, not from God's intention in creation.

The danger is that the new powers over nature will also be used to put men into subjection.

He had power over nature.

Another claim that only a divine being could make is to have power over nature.

Remember that in the «last days» because affluence and power over nature has abounded, so will iniquity abound.

Power heads the list: power over others; power over nature.

Power over nature has always been one of the motives for seeking technical knowledge, linking it in function with the practice of magic in earlier days.

The individual is replaced by collective humanity, a vision of the free individual expressed in and through the whole species creating itself and universalizing its power over nature by its labor.

«If rivers have power over nature, mar the beauty which made me admired too well, by changing myform!»

There is, as Yuval Levin noted in his remarks on the encyclical, something paradoxical about the union of the left, which tends to see itself as the party of science, and the environmental movement, since the latter's holistic view of nature is at odds with modern science's ethic of human power over nature.