Sentences with phrase «set human history»

The primordial man and woman set human history on its path toward dissolution and death.

Not exact matches

From Zeus to Ra to Allah to any other deity that has come out of human history, the one thing that sets Yahweh apart to me is that here is a God who actually reached out in time at a point in human history to establish relationship with humans.

Unfortunately, the history books of formal education almost always overlook the more human stories of America's bloodiest conflict to focus on battles, dates and generals, which is what Uncivil sets out to correct.

That faith, plus other perceptions about our personal lives and the course of human history, provided a dimension to our stories that I call their setting: the world the story sets in which story's plot can credibly unfold and its character develop.

Or arguing in the other direction, if we take Jesus as significant for human life and history, He must also be seen as having some relationship to the setting of that life and history — the natural order — and hence be as much a «disclosure» of that as He is of man's existence.

This cycle in human history may be obnoxious to the enlightened, but it is set to make a comeback.»

The clue to ethical reconstruction is this: The living God whose nature and purpose is love calls us to respond in our freedom to the tasks which are set for us by the fact that He is at work in our human history both as Creator and as Redeemer,

This is a tragic view of human history set over against a progressive view.

So we talked a lot about Bonhoeffer that year, especially about the musings he set down during the last months of his life about the hiddenness of God and the coming of a «postreligious» age in human history.

When these failed, before beginning the battle they drew up a set of rules of warfare - perhaps the first «London Conference» in the history of the human race.

Look at what religion has often done in history — its bloody wars, its cruel persecutions, its brutal rituals of human sacrifice, its ugly superstitions, the barricades set up by religion against every advance of science.

Secondly, most futurist theology, and recent theology generally, has seen man's life too exclusively in the context of society and history and has neglected the natural and cosmic setting of the human enterprise.

In each instance, the specifically Christian reality was a manifestation of God in act, set in the context of a wider manifestation of God in act in all human experience, in all history, and in the whole natural order.

Since the Christian Faith holds that as a law or an ideal, it is impossible of realization because of human alienation from God and that where it is realized even partially in history, it is realized as the result of the Divine Forgiveness freely given in Christ providing the motivation for mutual forgiveness among persons and peoples in their historical setting.

For the first time in history, governments accepted a set of human rights standards for the entire world.

Most of his book is a history of the unavailing efforts of philosophers, since the time of Descartes, to find certainty, to discover a set of sensations («raw feels» or clear and distinct ideas) or terms (analytical truths, the symbols of mathematical logic) that would provide a secure foundation for all human inquiries and activities.

People set up rules, not some deity that has changed names from «AN» to YAHWEH over the course of human history.

Those who hear, in the setting of the Church's corporate worship, are summoned, upon each particular occasion, to place themselves within the history which is God's revelation, at the point where it culminates in Jesus Christ, and to lay themselves open to the Word of judgement and of renewal which is spoken there to every human being.

God withdraws and blends in, setting the stage for a free and historical encounter of humans with God as a single «Thou» in the drama of history.

We had been preoccupied with intellectual problems set for us by the history of Western thought, not the real social and human problems set by human suffering.

It must take into account not only all the history of mankind in its multiform manifestations — political, religious, economic, aesthetic, social, and intellectual — but what to human beings, with their limited outlook and endowments, is the staggering and unimaginably vast cosmos in which they are set.

In the Bible, the planes of human history and nature are never set in opposition as these interpreters seem to be doing.

We can never set the plane of human history and nature in opposition.

While Western - type liberal democracies remain one of the most effective and tested forms of government in history, what is needed, globally, is not necessarily a transition to liberal democracy but rather a more careful consideration of the fundamental human quest for dignity, which often bears interpretations that are «endogenous» and adapted to various socio - cultural settings.

1118 - FCO - For first time in 64 year history the Commonwealth will have a formal Charter setting out core values: democracy; human rights; peace and security; tolerance, respect and understanding; freedom of expression; separation of powers; rule of law; good governance; sustainable development; environmental protection; access to health, education, food and shelter; gender equality; and the importance of young people and civil society.

The Forum on Human Germline Interventions, organized by AAAS, convened a multi-disciplinary group of scientists, ethicists, and theologians to participate in discussions regarding scientific freedom and responsibility issues; the history and status of religious involvement; ethical and theological issues; therapeutic vs. enhancement applications; and setting policy and developing guidelines on human germline research and applicatHuman Germline Interventions, organized by AAAS, convened a multi-disciplinary group of scientists, ethicists, and theologians to participate in discussions regarding scientific freedom and responsibility issues; the history and status of religious involvement; ethical and theological issues; therapeutic vs. enhancement applications; and setting policy and developing guidelines on human germline research and applicathuman germline research and applications.

In The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable (MIT Press, 2016; 272 pages), neuroscientist Suzana Herculano - Houzel unravels what really sets the human brain apart from that of other primates, tracing our evolutionary history and describing her efforts to tally our individual neuHuman Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable (MIT Press, 2016; 272 pages), neuroscientist Suzana Herculano - Houzel unravels what really sets the human brain apart from that of other primates, tracing our evolutionary history and describing her efforts to tally our individual neuhuman brain apart from that of other primates, tracing our evolutionary history and describing her efforts to tally our individual neurons.

The dna molecule, Kean asserts, is the «grand narrative of human existence» — and he boldly sets out to tell the tale, not only explaining genetics and its scientific history but linking Mendel's pea shoots to the evolution of early humans.

«The Pacific is an ideal setting to test these ideas,» explains senior author Quentin Atkinson, of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Auckland.

History lesson With the advent of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the CEQ was set up to ensure that the federal government adequately conducted the newly required environmental impact statements, resolved disputes on environmental subjects among agencies as well as states, and generally ensured that NEPA's goal of «productive harmony» among human economic pursuits and the natural environment came to pass.

Throughout history, humans of many cultures have found approximately the same small set of sound frequencies musically appealing, as in the 12 - note chromatic scale played on the black and white keys of a piano.

Culture means more than just a set of learned behaviors that vary from place to place, some argued; culture means history and tradition, art, philosophy, and religion — the last barrier, together with language, that separates humans from other species.

With the complete sequence of the human genome a reality, and with a growing body of transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic data sets in health and disease, we are now in a unique position in the history of medicine to define human disease precisely, uniquely, and unequivocally, with optimal sensitivity and specificity.

The end of April has arrived, and with it, the record for the first month in human history with an average carbon dioxide level in Earth's atmosphere above 400 parts per million has been set.

The story is one that needs to be told, and here it is told well, with a script eschewing large - scale action set - pieces in favor of exploring the human frailty behind geopolitically significant moments in history.

Set in an alternate history in which scientists have found a way to greatly extend people's lives by harvesting human clones whose only purpose is to grow up and donate their vital organs, «Never Let Me Go» seems to be an allegory about the elusive nature of life and death.

(John 12:46) Other Quotes by Jesus Posters Set of 25 Quotes by Jesus Posters The sayings of Jesus as recorded in the New Testament have had a profound, life - changing effect on human history and culture.

In a new exhibit in London's Science Museum, «Robots — The 500 - Year Question to Make Machines Human,» depicts the 500 - year history of humanoid robots as a way to understand what was expected of robots in five different periods and settings.

For educators like Whiting, an online course like Holocaust and Human Behavior provides an opportunity to discover new publications, texts, and teaching methods, and be in conversation with Facing History staff, a Holocaust survivor, and other educators from a variety of school settings.

This novel is at times painful, but it is also a satisfying love story set against the backdrop of one of the most difficult times in human history.»

- Nicholas Meyer, New York Times Best Seller and Screenplay Academy Award nominee for The Seven Percent Solution; screenwriter, The Human Stain; director of Star Trek II — The Wrath of Khan «Juliana Maio's City of the Sun belongs in the «one percent» of new novels to read, not only because of the way she weaves suspense to keep you turning pages, but because she has married it all to a fascinating point in World War Two history with Middle East setting descriptions that will have you swearing you've been there.

Although the British withdrew essentially without incident, the decision to partition India set off a tsunami of violence and what is considered the largest single episode of human migration in history.

«I've set myself the modest task of trying to explain the broad pattern of human history, on all the continents, for the last 13,000 years.

The idea that the market sets prices properly has caused more human misery than any other idea ever advanced in the history of personal finance.

was released back in 2003, set in the middle of the most brutal conflict in human history.

«The original Call of Duty was released back in 2003, set in the middle of the most brutal conflict in human history.

The evocative, haunting music sets the mood for one of the most brutal battles in all of human history — the battle for Stalingrad.

A unique fast - paced, open world FPS, set in the age of Gods, long before the human history was written.

In addition, Grasso uses imagery culled from the cinema and art history and, working in video, sculpture and, most recently, painting and drawing, he recreates phenomena — both human and natural — that set up surreal and ambiguous juxtapositions of time and space.

With the Pacific Islands set to play a pivotal role in November's upcoming UN Climate Change Conference (to be hosted by Fiji in Bonn), such a grounded understanding of the intertwined nature of geological and human histories comes at a timely moment.