Sentences with phrase «upon human freedom»
He placed enormous emphasis upon human freedom and the possibilities of human life.
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No matter was good your doing, to say that that is betowing «personal freedoms» and «human rights» upon people is not accurate.
Unfortunately, Plantinga, himself, has not explicitly acknowledged the fact that his analysis of the relationship between divine sovereignty and human freedom is basically an attack upon, not a defense of, the view of omnipotence that most classical theists seem to hold; moreover, many such classical theists seem not yet to have perceived this tension for themselves.
However, our discussion and defense of Plantinga has shown that, when worked out coherently, the classical theist must affirm a notion of omnipotence practically identical to that of the process theist — i.e., our discussion demonstrates that the classical theist must, like the process theist, acknowledge that human freedom places necessary limits upon God's power in both the moral and natural realms.
The other, «liberal,» possibility is to celebrate the human freedom and dignity bestowed by God upon us.
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we can not shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature.
Her rationale for such a view seems to rest upon (1) a highly questionable interpretation of one text in Process an Reality and the claims (2) that only such a view is compatible with human freedom and (3) that only such a view is compatible with human faith.
The Basingers believe «that most influential classical theists — e.g., Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin — have affirmed I - omnipotence»; they go on to say that «unfortunately, Plantinga, himself, has not explicitly acknowledged the fact that his analysis of the relation between divine sovereignty and human freedom is basically an attack upon, not a defense of, the view of omnipotence that most classical theists seem to hold.»
When Plato acted it was probably in the belief that his freedom to act could only affect a small fragment of the world, narrowly circumscribed in space and time; but the man of today acts in the knowledge that the choice he makes will have its repercussions through countless centuries and upon countless human beings.
«We call upon the Iranian authorities to release Pastor Nadarkhani and demonstrate a commitment to basic, universal human rights, including freedom of religion.»
The test of theory is its capacity to illuminate the concrete demands which God makes upon the use of our freedom in all the variety of human situations.
However, the problem of human freedom which has thus intruded itself upon our attention demands further examination.
How do your rules for Christians (i.e., no smoking, no drinking alcohol, no contact with «naked» art) fit in with the Biblical mandate to put to death the human «do's and don'ts» and embrace the freedom Christ lavishes upon us?
If human beings could communicate among themselves by direct sympathy, then they would be as mutually dependent upon each other as the body and mind are; and this condition would deny individual persons freedom and distinct individuality over against one another.26 Although the relationship between one's body and mind seems to be immediately social, Hartshorne holds that interchange between human minds is almost never by direct contact and generally through mediation of vibrating particles of air and other kinds of «matter.»
At the same time it acts in the belief that testifying to the principles of freedom and justice is a mandate that can not be avoided, and that — potentially — action based on these liberating principles can indeed transform structures built upon human selfishness.
«13 Ellul insists that respect for human responsibility, dignity, and freedom forbids ever acting upon people with technical means.
At the heart of every human love there is a dependence upon freedom which can not be either bought or compelled.
At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.
Cobb utilizes Whitehead's understanding of the immanence of God in each occasion to resolve the tendency to oppose grace to freedom and to make Wesley's insight of God's mutual relation with humans a consistent reliance upon God's grace as the source of human freedom.
The problem with focusing exclusively upon this aspect of human freedom is not that it is unreal, but that it is incomplete.
According to the applicant, his arrest and detention constituted a gross violation of an infringement upon his dignity, personal liberty, fair hearing and freedom of movement as enshrined and guaranteed under sections 34, 35, 36,41,46 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and Articles 4,5,6 and 12 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights.
The exhibition reveals him as both artist and human being who was beyond what seemed on the surface to be a post war rebel pushing boundaries for the sake of art, someone who deeply reflected upon society and his time, and desperately yearned for freedom both as an artist and human being, breaking out of historical, artistic, and political constraints, condemning any form of conformism, and refusing to be labelled, branded or marketed.
To solve the problem relies upon people willing to fly in the face of the human utopia which is freedom without responsibility, and address their way of living.
She is currently conducting a research on the relevance of human rights norms in migration law, in particular human rights norms that have not been much touched upon in migration context, such as the right to freedom of religion, the right to respect for private life, the right to fair trial and the right to education.
On January 15, 2013, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg released its ruling in the cases of four Christian employees who argued that they suffered from discrimination and that their employers encroached upon their right to religious freedom at work.
In a 27 - page opinion (PDF, English), the president of the commission, Jacques Frémont, states that he believes (along with numerous others) that several proposals in the government's policy paper contravene Quebec's Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms and infringe upon established fundamental rights and freedoms.
These types of proceedings can have human rights implications in two ways: Article 6, providing the right to a fair trial can be infringed upon by improper communicaton by jurors, and to a lesser extent, Article 10, which provides the right to freedom of expression may be engaged.