Sentences with phrase «transcendent dignity of the person»

Pull out from under democratic principles the beliefs of Judaism and Christianity about the transcendent dignity of the person and the human propensity to sin, and the existing edifice of democratic thought is exposed to radical doubt.

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It was the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and Benedict again adverted to rights being grounded in natural law and requiring a transcendent horizon that illumines the dignity of the human person.

The transcendent dignity of the human person in communion with the Creator is still capable of speaking to our depths — the more so to the extent that the fantastical mythology of «H +» is exposed as fraudulent and cleared out of the way, allowing us to notice that we have depths to speak to.

In political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutions.