Sentences with phrase «sort of human spirit»

Not exact matches

Cartesians — taking the theologically grounded refusal to believe in spirits or worry about the influence of final causes to some sort of plausible limit — believed that «animals» were insentient, and that only humans had goals or thoughts or feelings.

Jesus sets the model of the human «ascent» to God — prior to death in the heart or spirit and after death in an involuntary sort of way.

This absolute knowledge is at the same time a sort of recapitulation of the human spirit, for each successive stage retains elements of the previous ones as it goes beyond them.

According to the Hebrew Scriptures, the now - fallen human race (of two) was left alone to sort out its own destiny, but we get an idea of where things were going, because the Creator did express approval of certain individuals and used his holy spirit to give them help, guidance, and power, if they had need of it, e.g. Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Daniel, and the other ancient prophets.

In the end, Unbroken is the sort of classic drama and triumph - of - human - spirit story that people love in movies - with the added bonus of offering three different (but entertaining) versions of that experience.