Sentences with phrase «universal human tendency»

Part of the problem is a universal human tendency that does not depend on a particular ecclesiastical situation.

Niebuhr's inordinate emphasis on the doctrine of sin derives from the anxiety inherent in the paradox created by the conflict between man's freedom and his tendency toward the prideful self - dependency which is a universal human tendency.

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Since not all personal conversions lead to fundamentalist views of the Bible, it would be preferable to emphasize a more universal tendency as the origin of conservative zeal: the human quest for absolute certainty.

For Schleiermacher, the solidarity of the race and its mutual struggle toward spiritual existence from a starting place of sensuous existence accounts for the universal tendency of humans to act against one another's good, and so against their own good as well.

Freud identified the universal tendency to self - deception in human beings, showing that human motivation is seldom as simple or as pure as it may seem on the surface.

For Strauss, a universal morality depends on love for a loving God; only out of love of God can human love overcome its natural tendency to be partial and particular and somewhat selfish devotion.