Sentences with phrase «rational mere human»

As any rational mere human mind knows, this type of behavior on the part of the Bible god and on the part of Abraham is insane!

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In contrast to the classical Western neglect of the beautiful ones, there is the Hartshornean theory of «contributionism» which, like traditional African thought, maintains that, given a social conception of human existence, «the rational aim of the individual must in principle transcend any mere good of that individual» (EA 188).

Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically evil, Wright details some of the problematic consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..