Sentences with phrase «truths about human beings»

Religious images and symbols both reveal and conceal truths about human beings in relation to God and the world.

In addition, the twelfth - century pope Innocent III's pessimistic appraisal of humanity is quoted to exemplify medieval gloom, followed by» in the very same chapter» a defense of the contorted portraits by Gorringe's contemporary Francis Bacon as «help [ing] us see the truth about human beings.»

McClendon's point is that it takes all three strands of ethics to tell the gospel truth about human beings.

Not exact matches

You can automate the surveying and processing of employee dislikes, but the human touch — listening, empathizing, reacting — is usually required to effect real change, once employees tell you the truth about what's bugging them.

One of the most intriguing things about human behavior is that most of us think that we can hide our thoughts from others — but nothing could be further from the truth.

That phenomenon isn't a mutiny of the grey cells, it's a simple truth about the way the human brain functions.

In summary, we human beings have the ability to think truthfully about the world, but our thinking often gets derailed by considerations that run counter to the truth.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

To the other woman asking about ghosts and aliens... there is only one world, one human race, one truth.

MacDonald was an extraordinary and often eccentric Scot who passionately embraced the Christian «myth» as the truth about a universal human destiny.

I believe that stories communicate both the gospel and the truth about the human existence, but more importantly, they awaken in us something long repressed by our modern culture: life itself is a story.

Science is the only truth, and if we truly care about human survival, Fact not Novels should be what guide our decision making.

Another unfortunate truth about us and our human nature is to resist giving our self away to trust in someone outside of ourself.

This joint proclamation of certain truths about the nature of the human person and human community as created historical realities can not be accomplished, however, in a didactic way.

Humans have been lied to and misled about divinity, faith and God for so long, they would not know the truth if it reached up and bit them on the proverbial cheeks.Deception has been a part of the history of mankind from day one.Further changes to the Bible only indicates it is still as strong as ever.The New Testament without Christ is like a riddle without an answer.

As Catholics, we are allowed to know the truth about human nature - and to rejoice in the fact that medical science is revealing more and more to us about it all the time.

«Although I am an atheist, I respect all religions and take them seriously as vast symbol systems containing deep truth about human existence.

A hallmark of the Catholic tradition is that God's existence (though not His Trinitarian nature), the existence of the incorporeal soul (though not the nature of the after life and the beatific vision), the nature of the human person (though not the full truth about the indwelling of grace), and the natural law are all accessible to us without divine Revelation.

We must ensure that our Catholic schools teach Catholic doctrine, and uphold Catholic values — including the values that might clash with current trends in British society: marriage as the lifelong union of a man and a woman, the need for human life to be cherished from conception to natural death, the truth about our sexual identity as male or female.

For while there are bits and pieces of new information here, the essential truths about the man — his deep (and deeply Bavarian) faith, his extraordinary intelligence, his human decency — were already on display in Seewald's three previous interview - collaborations with Ratzinger.

How do we give up the human point of view without giving up the truth about ourselves as human beings?

It tells us that that the truth about human sexuality is something that ultimately offers genuine freedom to the homosexual person, helping him to escape the slavery to his passions that resulted from the misuse of his free will.

Or as Stephen Crites says about necessary indirection when dealing with the depths of human truth, «Honest men try to tell the truth, but in order to do so they are obliged, like liars, to tell stories....

But God has been speaking in secular ways to men and women through the ages; he has led them into more of the truth about the structure and functioning of the world in which they live; he is at work in the areas of human study, explorations research, and enquiry, which have given us this «new» world.

This is especially obvious if you view religion as essentially a source of ethical rules for human behaviour rather than theological truths about God and make the techie assumption that content equals rules; then, if all your churches come up with the same rules, they must all be based on the same content, and thus they must ultimately all be the same.

Far from being arbitrary, it reflects the truth about the human person and in that way helps build communion.

These fundamental needs can only be truly fulfilled through a rich and living encounter with the deepest truths about God and the human person.»

There are those who think that a major shift in human consciousness is taking place, one aspect of which is an emphasis on spiritual experience rather than intellectual truths about religion.

They apply to every attempt to think about a framework of meaning that transcends human constructions and every claim to truth that can not easily be tested in human experience.

The truth about the human person is a reality that is discovered, acknowledged and received.

If this is indeed the truth about the human condition, we who hold the prophetic - Christian faith must confess to great responsibility for our collective transgression.

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This truth is evangelium because it saves the human person7 and brings about the joy that Jesus desires for every disciple.8

Claiming to be not simply an accidental nineteenth - century invention but a timeless truth about human sexual nature, this framework puts on airs, deceiving those who adopt its distinctions into believing that they are worth far more than they really are.

The circumstances surrounding his birth enable both Abraham and Sarah to see the permanent truth about parenthood: Children are not man's products or creatures, and thus the pride that human beings naturally take in their own children as their own children is vanity and self - delusion.

You Said: «Peace2All, (It) may not address «A HUMAN notion about when the end will come», but (it) does address a fundamental dilemma I am personally championing, ie to clarify misguided reasoning's and hopefully find someone looking for truth.

This truth - knowing human had discovered God; he was not merely talking about God.

Appraisal, he tells us, involves discerning (1) the ontological features of the human, especially in its relation to the divine, (2) what is «enduring, true and real» about the tradition, (3) what this truth implies for concrete «choices, styles, patterns and obligations» of life, and (4) the connection between these different levels of truth in the tradition and concrete situations that we confront in our everyday life.

Here's my version of it: Only human beings are open to the truth about all things.

It may not address «A HUMAN notion about when the end will come», but it does address a fundamental dilemma I am personally championing, ie to clarify misguided reasoning's and hopefully find someone looking for truth..

«Thus, devotion to the truth about man, regardless of the consequences for traditional preconceptions about the races, leads the scientific inquirer to facts that sustain the grand democratic vision of a ground for fundamental human unity which is simultaneously the source of personal variety and singularity.

It's time to come out of the dark ages and recognize the truth about human sexuality

Authentic religion reveals the truth about human nature and motivates believers to defend each human life and ensure that every person is protected and allowed to flourish.

On page 15 of «The Interpreters Bible», Dr. Herbert F. Farmer, Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University wrote about the indispensability of the texts, their importance and how the «truth» of them should be approached, after an exposition of the traditional conservative Christian view of person - hood, sin and the salvific actions of Jesus (aka Yeshua ben Josef), known as «the Christ» in human history.

For many people, the classics are works that are ends in themselves because they embody essential truths about the human condition.

He wrote appreciative statements about Schleiermacher, he allowed that Schleiermacher might be interpreted as a theologian of the Holy Spirit, he emphasized the humanity of God in contrast to the Wholly Other, he called human beings «covenant - partners of God,» and he looked for «parables» of grace and truth in non-Christian religions and ideologies.

Apparently, reading ancient hieroglyphs and cave paintings in the here and now tell us more about the truth of the alienated human being than any day to day feeling of ennui while ordering a latte at Starbucks.

«They need not take their truth claims on loan from some other intellectual or cultural quarter, or regard the only alternative to epistemic servitude as isolation from the broader human conversation about what is true.»

For both Augustine and Hobbes the bellum omnium is a marginal case, illustrative of certain truths about human nature but not, except in situations of exceptional breakdown, actually descriptive of normal human existence.

The point is that human beings are «poets», although usually they do not grasp this truth about themselves.