Not exact matches
- God, the Absolute - humanity, the
human condition in its
universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all
humans, present and future, - the
human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of
humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a
universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.
Furthermore, the
universal, the relational, and the unique
human characteristics all have bodily, mental, and spiritual aspects.
Thus, even though all men are sinners before God, sin is not a
universal characteristic of the existence of man or of
human nature such as corporeality, nor is it some magical or mysterious quality of the sinner.
Significantly, at the last union meeting of the parliament, E. G. Hirsch spoke on «
Universal Elements in Religion,» William R. Alger on «The Only Possible Method for the Religious Unification of the
Human Race,» J. G. Schurman on «
Characteristics of the Ultimate Religion,» George Dana Boardman on «Christ the Unifier of Mankind,» and Merwin - Marie Snell on «The Future of Religion.»
This has led cognitive scientists to claim that using spatial concepts to talk and think about time is a
universal characteristic of the
human mind.
Thus,
universal characteristics of preagricultural
human diets are helpful in understanding how the recent Western diet may subject modern populations to chronic disease: Before the development of farming and the domestication of livestock practices, dietary choices would have been necessarily limited to minimally processed wild plant and animal foods.
Perfect locates significance in the
universal desire to animate the inanimate and to project
human characteristics onto nature — the anthropic principle.