Sentences with phrase «realities of human diversity»

Given the realities of human diversity, it is next to impossible for us to engage in intimate spiritual fellowship with people whose vision of Christianity we find skewed.

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I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns in a power struggle.

Because human words are no longer in harmony with the Word of God, languages become separate and then diversity in accordance with their subordination to different realities.

It is not some silly superstition, it is the reality and glorious diversity of human beings.

These lists and specific references in other essays identify six similarities: (a) God is understood as love involving God's presence in human experience and God's response to that experience, (b) human existence depends upon God's grace and that grace makes humans free, (c) humans respond to God resulting in the fulfillment of God's intentions in the concrete experiences of individuals, (d) knowledge involves more than subjective sensory experience, (e) experience broadly understood is crucial for theology, and (f) reality is characterized by diversity and relationality.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place, without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words» father, mother, spouse, parents» retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs or a pawns in a power struggle.

The ethos of the school is hugely important to me as well — students are exposed to the reality of spiritual diversity in the human community, not indoctrinated, and an organic type of tolerance, respect, and mutuality grows here.

And yet, the astronomical number and fractal diversity of viruses could be an insurmountable gap, and the goal of finding viral killers before they begin their rampage may be little more than an ambitious human hope that wilts under nature's reality.

A critical training that lies on the interpretation of the reality that unfolds when attempting to transform it using your educational action and, finally, philanthropic: to discover and appreciate at firsthand the human diversity, finding the difference in more elements that unite us.

The foreign minister of Singapore warned that «universal recognition of the ideal of human rights can be harmful if universalism is used to deny or mask the reality of diversity.»