Sentences with phrase «recognize human reality»

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But it's also true within the larger context of human reality that we recognize the gracious nature of such relationships, and can be thankful that we have the ability and freedom to give and receive.

If the totality of reality is far more complex than we have ever recognized, then it may be that profound human experience in different times and places has brought to light many of the important patterns that are to be found within it.

He reminds us that the tremendous task and responsibility placed on Christians is to make the secular world recognize the full reality of human life and to show how the Gospel proclaims and realizes it.

We would recognize first that literal human words can never capture the reality of God.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

In enabling a clearer view of reality, in helping us to recognize our implication in that reality, and in equipping us to act on behalf of human dignity within that reality, this framework expresses and sustains its essential accountability.

For in the reality constructed by human imagination, the reality of a thousand national identities, foundational myths, bogus perceptions of «our» innocence and «their» wickedness, who could ever be a judge whose impartiality would be recognized and whose arbitration would be accepted?

The German - American thinker Paul Tillich, who died only a few years ago, believed that the Christian faith could only be rightly understood when it was recognized as providing the «answer» — not of course in words or propositions but in the reality which is behind such statements — to the «problems» which are posed by human existence as such.

From the point of view of process theologians, justice requires that the rest of the creation should also be treated with respect and recognized to have reality and value quite apart from usefulness to human beings.

Today however many knowledgeable people are saying that many of the high - tech developments have produced technological systems in which the mechanical - materialist view of reality, human greed and ecological destruction are built in; and that therefore a new paradigm of development with technologies integrated with a more holistic understanding of human personhood and peoplehood and recognizing the organic natural and spiritual dimensions of human community are called for.

And we need to recognize this reality without blaming and judging ourselves — we need to understand that creating a trauma - world is what human beings do to survive.

Recognized by numerous preeminent, recurring themes that illuminate her unique territory ---- ideas about our need for structure and the examination of articulated human constructs ---- Zittel has throughout maintained a core of investigation of chosen reality fields.

Any effort to bridge the «two cultures» divide in a way that recognizes both human agency and material reality is a good thing.

But Obama faces a reality that many of these groups seem slow to recognize: While the 20th - century toolkit preferred by traditional environmentalists — litigation, regulation and legislation — remains vital to limiting domestic pollution risks such as the oil gusher, it is a bad fit for addressing the building human influence on the climate system, which is driven now mainly by a surge in emissions mostly outside United States borders in countries aiming to propel their climb out of poverty on the same fossil fuels that generated much of our affluence.

«AIG was the first U.S. - based insurance company to adopt a public statement on the environment and climate change, recognizing the scientific consensus that climate change is a reality and is in large part the result of human activities that have led to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere.»

It is impossible to be truly skeptical if you don't recognize a concept of reality and truth independent of human «feelings.»

So when we witness our fellow humans fighting back with false arguments or taking flight from reality in order to cope with the gravity of this Earth - shattering news, we can recognize and even empathize with the response, after all, global warming is scary stuff.

West Coast LEAF is proud to be speaking out in Canada's highest court for an interpretation of human rights law that recognizes this reality and offers meaningful tools for confronting discrimination as it really plays out in our jobs and in our everyday lives.

Recognizing budget realities, the couple would be responsible for the course fee, but the courts could waive the fee for indigent parties, and the state secretary of human services would receive the authority to use TANF funds to make grants to defray the cost.