Sentences with phrase «suffering of our human condition»

Fast - food spirituality is a product of the common and understandable fantasy that relief from the suffering of our human condition can be quick and easy.

Not exact matches

Death and suffering is an inescapable element of the human condition.

Although these threads often degenerate, the simple act of engagement in the discussion provides a means to examine one's position and how it relates to what we might agree is a shared goal in mitigating suffering and improving the human condition.

To be sure, the Word became flesh, identified with us, was tempted in every way as we are, knew the common human condition of suffering and death, and in that identification provided us with not only an example but an intercessor who understands our infirmities.

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They believed that Jesus had come as God in human form and that by his coming, and above all by his suffering, death, and resurrection, he had saved God's children from their unfortunate condition of sin and their resultant alienation from God.

There are many ways to view suffering, but it is a part of the human condition, God or no God.

It need not accept world suffering merely as evidence of the broken human condition, and therefore opt to minister only to the victims of sin without addressing sin's sources.

Is it little wonder that the response in U.S. churches to global suffering is superficial when the theological tradition of those churches has emphasized human incapacity to do anything about the human condition?

At this point Buddhism presents an instructive contrast to Christianity, for here [in Buddhism] one discovers unbelievably complex systems of meditation centering upon the image of death, but here death is a way to a dissolution of the human condition, and therefore to the abolition of pain and suffering.21

Thus Bacon's image conveys viscerally the dimension of suffering in the human condition that cries out for delivery, redemption.

However, if you in the slightest understand the human suffering 90 % of the human population would see then you are exhibiting a very nasty side of the human condition.

Furthermore, we need to recognize the plain fact that a good deal of physical and, even more obviously, of psychological suffering is made possible through exactly the same human (and other) conditioning that makes it possible to enjoy the sense of well - being, even of joy.

Christian faith believed in «God with us»: God not merely reflected through, but mediated in, a human life with all the limitations of genuine manhood; God incarnate and entering into the human condition, even to the point of suffering and death.

And I began to see that suffering is part of the human condition.

Christianity «was founded in an act of expiatory pain, has regarded human suffering as not only inseparable from the nature of life on earth, as a matter of observable fact, but also as a necessary condition in spiritual formation.»

A modern, secular version of this view can be found in certain tragic views of life which assume that evil and suffering is part of the human condition to which there is no ultimate solution.

A further theological problem for AiG is that it seems to think that the move away from its «biblical worldview» explains all wars and suffering — as if the Fall has to do with the loss of a worldview, not the human condition of sin.

This God is one who wants to rescue humans from the condition of poverty and suffering.

Well, the truth is, the cow industry is inhumane, (the overcrowded transportation conditions alone lead to to great suffering, severe cruelty and broken limbs), unhealthy (cows are pumped full of hormones, adrenalin from the fear from when they know they will be killed and anti-biotics — because the unhealthy conditions they live in promote infection and disease) and inefficient (cows must be fed 3 times the edible human grain than their bodies produce in meat).

Is suffering a necessary part of the human condition?

Studies done of neglected children who did not receive adequate affection from another human being showed that these poor babies often suffered from chronic stress, a condition which may negatively effect the parts of the brain responsible for memory, focus and learning.

If you are suffering from a deficiency of human growth hormone, which your doctor has diagnosed, and might be developing a heart condition because of this, then your doctor may prescribe injections of human growth hormone that can correct this problem and prevent the heart problems from even occurring.

Sudan, Rwanda, Somalia, Afghanistan, Bosnia, the Gaza Strip... Places that evoke scenes of unimaginable suffering and hardship, the human condition at its worst.

Like you, I suffer from the human condition of being imperfect.

Studying dogs and cats with osteoarthritis can have significant impact on the development of effective pain therapies for humans suffering from the same painful condition, according to a new research from the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine.

With an estimated 10,000 puppy mill facilities in the U.S., where hundreds of thousands of dogs are bred and housed in unsanitary conditions with little or no medical care, exercise, socialization, or human interaction, The HSUS is working tirelessly to stop a business that contributes to pet overpopulation and the suffering of countless dogs.

For the Humane Society, this means taking animals from both ends of the spectrum: those that are the most «adoptable» (well - trained and compatible with humans) and those who suffer from medical conditions that would otherwise go untreated at a municipal shelter.

Senior cats suffer many of the same conditions and diseases as older humans, but careful management can vastly improve both their potential life span and their quality of life.

The Five Freedoms: The Five Freedoms describe conditions that must be fulfilled in order to prevent the suffering of domesticated animals in human care.

Others within Minnesota contend that dogs and cats are bred for human companionship, not food or fiber — and that breeding practices and conditions which could result in animal suffering should be a part of any inspections, evaluations or permit approvals.

I have seen the dead look in the eyes of little girls forced to work in conditions no human being, much less a child should be allowed to work in, and I have had my heart broken again and again from being witness to such suffering.

Love Story — a seven - channel installation by Candice Breitz — interrogates the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced, prompting viewers to consider: Why is it that the same audiences that are driven to tears by fictional blockbusters, remain affectless in the face of actual human suffering?

Reflecting the chaos, turmoil, suffering, and moral uncertainties of the mid-twentieth century, the series is a testament to the timeless and transcendent aspects of the human condition, such as the co-existence of joy and pain, of hope and suffering, and of life and death.

Suffering the Science: Climate change, people and poverty goes into greater detail, but in short the report says that hunger, disaster and disease will be the «new normal»: At 5 °C Rise Billions Could Die Even at 2 °C temperature increases, some 660 million people could be forced into devastating conditions the report says; and if we continue to follow a business - as - usual trajectory and allow something on the order of 5 °C temperature rise, human population levels could be reduced to just one billion people by the end of the century.

«Suffering is part of the human condition.