Sentences with phrase «through human authorities»

If we look at the cross as mediation between humanity and God, we can also see this tone — that people can relate to and are accountable to God directly — it does not need to be mediated through human authorities.

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But unlike the artists of whom Wilde wrote — who see the world through the brushstrokes of other painters until, via their own brushstrokes, they compel the world to reproduce the types they have invented — Bloom wants to claim that Shakespeare's invention of human types came from himself and himself only, from a «preternatural ability,» without relying «on authority, or authorities.»

Thus support for human rights in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities follows a pattern: each group believes that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other human rights standards established through international law derive authority from the teachings of its own religious tradihuman rights in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities follows a pattern: each group believes that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other human rights standards established through international law derive authority from the teachings of its own religious tradiHuman Rights and other human rights standards established through international law derive authority from the teachings of its own religious tradihuman rights standards established through international law derive authority from the teachings of its own religious tradition.

But Jesus is divine as well as human — he through whom the universe was created and is sustained determines the hour of action solely on his own authority.

But as a result of its willingness to comply with any secular authority which would protect its own religious practice, Christianity ended by accommodating itself through history to everything wicked and degrading in the social existence of human beings.

Relativism runs through the whole of our modern world - view: the assessment of nature as a directionless flux of chance events, the erosion of the absolute value of human life, the dismissal of historic religious authority as «out of date», and the ever shifting sands of personal and social morality.

In my Luther the familiar theological topics make an appearance: justification by grace through faith (which is linked with one of his favorite images, that of a «joyful exchange» of identities with Christ); the forgiveness of sins; the authority of the Word; the human as «sinner and at the same time justified.»

Though he became a Catholic late in life, he was, I think, in theological terms what one would call a «skeptical fideist»: temperamentally and through wide experience a skeptic, his skepticism took the form of an incapacity to believe in all merely human authority or power.

Indeed, to invoke the separation between religion and politics in order to uphold this sort of Platonic dualism is to suggest that human beings somehow belong to the powers that be, that is, they are at the mercy of political authorities who can do what they please with them without any fear of rebuke from God through the prophetic ministry of the Church.

Now this tendency, through the influence of grace, is not often exhibited in matters of faith; for it would be incipient heresy, and would be contrary, if knowingly indulged, to the first element of Catholic duty; but in matters of conduct, of ritual, of discipline, of politics, of social life, in the ten thousand questions which the Church has not formally answered, even though she may have intimated her judgment, there is a constant rising of the human mind against the authority of the Church, and of superiors, and that, in proportion as each individual is removed from perfection.

Thus, any human attempt to claim that the Spirit has chosen to give only men the «gift of leadership» and women the «gift of nurturing» is a human construct that seeks to bind the work of the Spirit in the world for the benefit of those who establish such strict categories and try to enforce them through claiming some biblical authority to do so — as men have for millennia now.

`... that all authority in the last analysis rests on opinion is never more forcefully demonstrated then when, suddenly and unexpectedly, a universal refusal to obey initiates what then turns into a revolution... Unlike human reason, human power is not only «timid and cautious when left alone», it is simply non-existent unless it can rely on others; and the most powerful king and the least scrupulous of all tyrants are helpless if no one obeys them, that is supports them through obedience; for, in politics, obedience and support are the same».

Throughout Matthew's gospel, the gentle insistence and power of divine authority consistently cuts through the tangled jungle of human error and ignorance: «You have heard how it was said of old... But I say to you» (Mt 5, 33 - 34) · Christ prepares the disciples, and especially Simon Peter, to be bearers of this divine authority.

A society, or a human society, is a group of people involved with each other through persistent relations, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.

Great Britain's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), which oversees fertility treatments and embryo research in that nation, recently approved fertility procedures that would amount to the genetic engineering of children through cloning (nuclear transfer) technology and germ - line modification, resulting in a «three - parent embryo» that would have genetic material from two mothers and one father.

The new chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, now empowered to permit scientists to create hybrid embryos and saviour siblings, is not a whit dismayed by the ethical and religious fracas that broke out as the enabling bill laboured through parliament.

Peering through aesthetic lenses of hindsight to the turnabout of political authority, conflicted posturings, hidden narratives, and changes in moral code, we see human Geiger counters who were making art that gleaned the doors of chaos suddenly being held ajar.

Anyone who takes the time to properly research the origins of the «population control» movement will come to understand that the Rockefeller - Turner-Gates agenda for drastic population reduction, which is now clearly manifesting itself through real environmental crises like chemtrails, genetically modified food, tainted vaccines and other skyrocketing diseases such as cancer, has its origins in the age - old malevolent elitist agenda to cull the human «chattel» as one would do to rodents or any other species deemed a nuisance by the central planning authorities.

As many EU regulators require a fully - fledged decision making unit through proper governance, the analysis of the changes in delegation of authority schemes and the assessment of potential human resources impacts must be considered early on in the process.

The main thrust of her appeal was that in the light of the incorporation of the Convention into domestic law, by virtue of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) coming into force in October 2000, a local authority may owe a duty of care to a parent of a child when exercising, through social workers, its duties to protect children from their parents by placing the children on the child protection register.