Sentences with phrase «procreation which»

With the help of prayer and debates I learnt that while sexual activity arouses and exchanges feelings, it's only focussing upon the twin ideas of Creator and procreation which frees us for loving union and communion.

This and the phraseology of procreation which the evangelist employs, «before they had sexual intercourse» (1:18 b),»... he did not know her...» (1:25 a), might suggest that the holy Spirit is the male partner of Mary and that Jesus» generation is to be conceived as the result of their sexual union.

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Moreover, it is demeaning to suggest that Paul VI affirmed the Church's classic position on marital love and procreation (which had been held for centuries by virtually every Christian community until the Anglican Communion broke ranks at the 1930 Lambeth Conference) because he was afraid that changing the traditional position would unravel the entire body of Catholic moral teaching.

Many worry about their own «sexual orientation» especially in a culture saturated with pornographic images and obsessed with discussions which assume a contraceptive mentality in which sex and procreation are wholly separated.

The Church recognises the family as the building block of society and for good reason has carefully defended the understanding of family relationships and of human sexuality which is so intimately linked to the ordering of family life and the procreation of succeeding generations.

[1] «a conjugal act which is suitable in itself for the procreation of offspring, to which marriage is ordered by its nature and by which the spouses become one flesh», as the Code of Canon Law # 1061 § 1 puts it.

In 1995, Blessed John Paul II wrote that our culture suffers from a «hedonistic mentality unwilling to accept responsibility in matters of sexuality, and... [from] a self - centred concept of freedom, which regards procreation as an obstacle to personal fulfilment.»

«The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament.»

Before that there's seed bearing fruit and the blessing of procreation, «be fruitful and multiply,» which establishes the sexual reproduction of the beasts of the field and the birds of the air.

If the created order demands that all sexual expression lead to procreation, then abortion, which interrupts the fulfillment of sexual expression, must be rejected.

Some Catholic statements, like the 1968 papal encyclical Humanae Vitae, condemn the practice on grounds of the created order, which is thought to be structured in such a way that all sexual expression must be open to procreation.

It is not the fruitfulness of marriage that he draws upon, not the possibility of procreation, but, in Audet's words, «an aspect which is in a sense much more radical, and which is more specifically human, namely that of love.

In contrast to Adam's joy over the woman in Genesis 2:23 f, which looked forward to sexual union but not to procreation, here the connection with childbirth is explicit.

I think in utero hormone levels has been proposed as a large factor as well, which might not necessarily require your «forced procreation».

Kass, moreover, characterizes the deep longing as something that «can not be attained in earthly life,» which is just where procreation is located.

It makes the statement more precise by indicating that this procreation belongs to that kind of created efficient causality in which the agent by virtue of divine causality essentially exceeds the limits set by his own essence.

His main point is to focus upon paragraph 15 of Humanae Vitae (HV) which states «the Church does not consider at all illicit the use of those therapeutic means necessary to cure bodily diseases, even if a foreseeable impediment to procreation should result there from — provided such impediment is not directly intended.»

Given His onto - logical primacy, in his uncreated Personality and his created body and soul, it would be il - logical, in the deepest sense of the term (i.e. contrary to the Logos), if the conception of the Creator's human nature were subject to that creaturely power of co-creation by which new creatures are brought into being, for this is a fundamental aspect of human procreation.

THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY «The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament.»

So the male, who is not necessary for the virginal conception because he is superseded by God whose determining power he ministers in the sexual act, is therefore necessary for the procreation by which new human persons are created through the initiative of other men.

One can appreciate how a tribe struggling to populate a country in which its people were outnumbered would value procreation highly, but such values are rendered questionable in a world facing total annihilation through overpopulation.

Whether one is white or black makes no causal difference to one's ability to engage in procreation and family life or the excellence with which one does so.

I may get barred for posting this but wasn't a male penis designed to go into a female vagina for the purpose of procreation / sex rather than a male anus which was designed to expel excrement?

«A same - sex couple,» Wolterstorff affirms, «can provide or exhibit all of [these goods] except for the first part of the third,» which is to do with procreation.

Similarly, the status of the human embryo, and the value placed upon it, have come under increasing scrutiny over the past decades, and even since DP in 2008 it has become increasingly normal to assume that it is morally acceptable to destroy embryos or to experiment upon them.12 The increasing sense of a loss of respect for human life in its earliest stages is linked to the abandonment of male - female lifelong marriage as the normal structure in which human life begins and is cherished.13 DP emphasises that «human procreation is a personal act of a husband and wife, which is not capable of substitution» (DP 16).

The other is an objective moral norm which does not permit considering the act of generation a reality to be decided arbitrarily, irrespective of the divine plan of human procreation.

Patriarchy is the ancient framework for procreation, through which the promise of life's victory over death is eventually fulfilled, as we follow the story of patriarchs through the story of Israel to the birth of Christ.

This giving of one's self, which is the definition of conjugal love, must lead in its normal development to paternity or maternity in a spiritual sense, just as marriage does in a physical sense through procreation, rearing, and education of children.

There is some point in the view that Augustine had much to do with fastening a negative and morbid attitude toward sexuality upon the Christian church, but we want to find what it is in his view of love which led to this.12 We have to go deeper than the familiar point that Augustine thought of the stain of original sin as transmitted through the act of procreation.

Vicki Thorn presents some of the growing body of biological evidence which suggests that sexual relationships which are monogamous and not artificially closed to procreation are the only healthy ones.

Obviously, all forms of human sexuality which do not have procreation as their goal fall equally under this principle: masturbation, contraception, nongenital sexuality between husband and wife, homosexuality.

The divine blessing of procreation («Be fruitful and multiply») is spoken to the human male and female in Genesis 1:28, and Adam's rapturous little poem naming woman and man in Genesis 2:23 (which I take to be the way Genesis 2 affirms that creation is «very good») clearly aims at sexual union, as the man is to leave father and mother and cleave to his woman, becoming one flesh with her (Gen. 2:24).

Yet in our times this institution has been gravely weakened by the sexual revolution and the damage it has done to marriage and the family: widespread divorce; the dramatic increase in out - of - wedlock births; the casual acceptance of premarital sex and cohabitation; and a contraceptive mentality which insists that sex has an arbitrary relation to procreation.

Before that there's seed bearing fruit and the blessing of procreation, «be fruitful and multiply,» which establishes the sexual reproduction of the beasts of....

It is the biochemical means by which procreation is facilitated, and tends to evaporate once the process is successful.

This is the ideal behind single payer health care (No worries about which plan to buy and how to fund it), abortion right (no worries about making a mistake in procreation), free immigration (no worries about being excluded), etc..

«Marriage benefits society in many ways, not only by promoting mutuality and fidelity, but also by acknowledging an underlying biological complementarity which includes, for many, the possibility of procreation.

This knowledge could play an important role in the design of future vaccination campaigns, but also highlights a deeper evolutionary logic which modern humans sometimes are governed by: as social beings, in the right circumstances, we can afford to take into account a broader societal context, but when we get the chance to invest in the evolutionary «core values» (survival and procreation) the larger context is easily forgotten.

The researchers» hypothesis: The evolution of feathers made dinosaurs more colorful, which in turn had a profoundly positive impact on communication, the selection of mates and on dinosaurs» procreation.

Their hypothesis: The evolution of feathers made dinosaurs more colorful, which in turn had a profoundly positive impact on communication, the selection of mates and on dinosaurs» procreation.

Our opinion editor Amanda Gefter recently visited an exhibition entitled The Sex Lives of Animals, which seeks to overturn the idea that animals engage in sex purely for procreation.

Aronofsky puts to work the tools of the horror genre (the haunted house - isolated in a forest, bumps in the night, body horror, unwelcome strangers, horror as a manifestation of marital problems) to construct a Trojan Horse from which springs a complex thesis about the commodity and vanity of celebrity, mass societal behaviour, procreation, religion and more.

I don't want to come off sounding like some kind of fascist or anything, but the cavalier attitude with which we treat procreation in this country is kind of astonishing.

Instead, the developers behind Incredipede and Pineapple Smash Crew have collaborated on one of the most bizarre and intriguing game concepts you'll see this year: an alien jellyfish procreation simulator set beneath the thick Venusian clouds, which challenges us to help an intrepid Cnidarian spread its seed and fertilise a variety of extraterrestrial flora.

At its most base level, it is a lust for procreation, which is as close as many creatures get to the immortal.

Occupying all three galleries, six of the works will be installed in pairs, the juxtaposition of which question whether it is the collision and union of two elements that creates a new reality when considering phenomena such as the Big Bang Theory, particle physics, or human procreation.

It can also be viewed as a life - giving metaphor for the link between humankind and the earth and a hymn to procreation in all living organisms, which, in this respect, are related or analogous.

It also builds upon Canadian scholarship that has debated the benefits and risks of applying a contract model in family law contexts, and which has advocated for a more «women - centered» legal approach towards the regulation of assisted procreation.