Sentences with phrase «sense of human possibility»

If we win the political struggle, we will not even know what we want unless we have a new vision of man, a new sense of human possibility, and a new conception of the ordering of liberty, the constitution of freedom.

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But he fails to show how this horizontal dimension does not exclude but rather depends on Paul's sense of the vertical dimension — how God's intervention in Christ has created the possibility for a new way of being human.

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.

The other possibility — and the one I believe makes much more sense and is more in accord with the biblical witness — is that in Jesus the energizing and indwelling activity of God in human creation reaches a climactic stage.

the possibility and necessity of living in a dimension of meaning in which the urgencies of the struggle are subordinated to a sense of awe before the vastness of the historical drama in which we are jointly involved; to a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom, and power available to us for the resolution of its perplexities; to a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of... our vanities; and to a sense of gratitude for the divine mercies which are promised to those who humble themselves.

Furthermore, human sense perception is only to be understood as a condition of the possibility of intellectual cognition, posited by spirit in contradistinction to itself but for itself, and consequently once again affirms the kinship of spirit and matter.

Essentially this school of thought deals in the broadest sense with issues of unity and dynamism — the action of the Spirit — and with the possibilities of human transformation or potential.

With de Lubac, and against postmodernity, the Church must restore to the human person a sense of the natural human capacity for the universal, and with it the possibility of an ennobling unity based on shared metaphysical truth rather than the negative peace of nonjudgmental tolerance.

Power in its deepest sense is not some person (s) dominating others, but all persons fulfilling their richest possibilities and God - given potential in the interaction of the human community.

They are also responsible among human beings for the pervasive sense of positive possibilities partly attained and partly missed that Whitehead sees as characterizing moral and religious experience.

In the act of conceiving of God (an act made necessary by His removal of «His way from human sense») we conceive, bring into being, put into place, a landscape in which actions are labeled «possible,» «desirable,» mandatory,» «unthinkable,» and so on; and each time one of those actions is taken or avoided or not seen as a possibility, that landscape becomes ever firmer in its configurations and ever more resistant to a basic alteration.

In fact there is probably no area of human endeavor where the phenomenal richness of possibility is so apparent as in art, and where the sense of incompleteness is more evident.

«Next steps are to further explore this possibility in human trials in order to assess if it will help patients, but these two drugs make sense from a variety of studies and we find that they act together through multiple mechanisms to control cancer growth in the laboratory.»

«If further studies validate that these processes are critical in human breast cancers,» Koshy notes, «the possibility exists that agents that favorably modify the biophysical properties of the extracellular matrix, or that target the receptors and signaling molecules associated with how cells sense this matrix, could be used as a new avenue for the prevention or treatment of breast cancers.»

The most dormant part of the human brain is ripe with the intuitive capacity to sense the universal will and flow with the times, which will unravel the hidden possibilities of advanced technologies with a highly spiritual functionality.

Hans is alternately seduced and instructed by Chuck's particular brand of naivete and chutzpah — by his ability to hold fast to a sense of American and human possibility in which Hans has come to lose faith.

[Response: Do you think that scientists are not well aware of the possibility of confirmation bias or have no sense of «human nature» as you call it?