Metz
puts human responsibility «in the new perspective of the full horizon of God's future intention for the world».37
Not exact matches
In other words,
putting family first doesn't imply nepotism, but rather ordinary
human responsibility.
By the same token, to affirm the necessity of exercising
human responsibility is not to express a naive confidence in our ability to solve all our problems if we simply
put our minds to it.
The mere
putting of these queries indicates the importance of
human freedom and its bearing on Christian moral
responsibility.
It is after doing what is commanded, when everything has been done in the sphere of
human decisions and means, when in terms of the relation to God every effort has been made to know the will of God and to obey it, when in the arena of life there has been full acceptance of all
responsibilities and interpretations and commitments and conflicts, it is then and only then that the judgment takes on meaning: all this (that we had to do) is useless; all this we cast from us to
put it in thy hands, O Lord; all this belongs no more to the
human order but to the order of thy kingdom.
Thus for each of us, the exacting and inescapable question, which must be faced and answered, is the question of our total mortal life as we are now living it, a question which arises from our mortality with the
responsibility which that entails, which
puts itself to us in the form of our measuring up to the possibility of becoming authentically ourselves, and which issues in our realization (not so much in thought as in deeply felt experience as existing men) of blessedness, as we know ourselves becoming what we truly are, or in destruction or damnation, as we know ourselves both frustrated men and failures in our
human fulfillment.
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Put another way, the parental obligations whose fulfillment is protected by the Canadian
Human Rights Act are those whose non-fulfillment engages the parent's legal
responsibility to the child.