Sentences with phrase «vision of the human person»

To meet the person where they are is to begin with the phenomena of their life, and to strive to engage them in such a way as to enable them to see that their own phenomenal experience can, if they listen closely, reveal the truth of the Catholic vision of the human person.

«The Christian vision of the human person made in the image of God with a spiritual soul as well as a body is of central importance.

It will be much harder to do that in the future unless the college administration reverses its present course, calls the faculty and students who have been brutalizing Professor Esolen to order, and reaffirms Providence College's commitment to genuine academic freedom and to a Catholic vision of the human person that challenges the tribalism and identity politics eroding our culture and our politics.

The Pope, by contrast, suggests a truly Enlightenment «free view of knowledge when he says that the scholar's task is to integrate the disciplines «within the context of a vision of the human person and the world that is enlightened by the gospel.»

Professor Celia Deane - Drummond's book, The Wisdom of the Liminal: Evolution and Other Animals in Human Becoming, is an ambitious attempt to counter this trend by bringing questions about animals — as evolved and evolving — into a sustained dialogue with theological anthropology, seeking thereby to reshape the theological vision of the human person.

This intellectual marriage yielded a rich, complex, and (to use the precisely right word a few centuries before its time) deeply humanistic vision of the human person, human goods, and human destiny.

«The atom he split,» though, «was... not physical but psychic,» for Ockham shattered our concept of the human soul and thereby created a new, atomized vision of the human person and, ultimately, of society.

Embedded in that vision of the human person was a powerful concept of freedom.

Dialogue, particularly with people of other faiths, holds out the possibility of conversion in many ways: conversion of others to the fullness of the faith, conversion of ourselves to a deeper living of our own baptismal grace, conversion of the culture to a nobler vision of the human person encouraged by the many examples of virtue to be found within and outside the Church.

Not exact matches

In October, Musk outlined the SpaceX strategy for reaching Mars and even his goal of settling large groups of people on the planet as part of his vision of making humans into a «multiplanetary species.»

That biblical vision helped form the bedrock convictions of the American idea: that government stood under the judgment of divine and natural law; that government was limited in its reach into human affairs, especially the realm of conscience; that national greatness was measured by fidelity to the moral truths taught by revelation and inscribed in the world by a demanding yet merciful God; that only a virtuous people could be truly free.

Given the realities of human diversity, it is next to impossible for us to engage in intimate spiritual fellowship with people whose vision of Christianity we find skewed.

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.

People do somehow expect the Church to take on this role - of protecting truth, encouraging learning, accepting with honesty a vision of human beings as they really are.

This vision of Holloway, and we would dare to suggest that it might be implicitly that of the Church, gives to every human person a real value, role and meaning at every level of their being.

First, since process thought concerns itself with the totality of human experience, it must necessarily take very seriously the fact of the religious vision and the claim of countless millions of people of every race and nation and age to have enjoyed some kind of contact with a reality greater than humankind or nature, through which refreshment and companionship have been given.

With its concern for historical truth and invocation of the need to facilitate the cultivation of the human person and society, «Mapping» at this point comes tantalizingly close to this vision only to fall back into statements that «the fundamental sources of value in a culture are neither necessary nor universal.»

In portraying Rodrigues's struggle to reconcile this idealized vision with the concrete reality of the Japanese people, Endō and Scorsese wish us to see the universal experience of human weakness.

the loss of the fully personal to the imperialism of a single - visioned mindscape, we are led to entertain the possibilities that human life is larger than currently conceived, and that the experience and concept of play might provide the contemporary person with a way into these larger realities.

[9] The Church's social vision, built on principles of justice, peace, freedom and solidarity, [10] presents, this writer would submit, values which serve much better if we want to uphold the dignity of the human person.

After articulating this vision of sexuality and the human person, the catechesis treats the more controversial topics, including contraception, divorce, and same - sex marriage.

In these groupings of sensitive people we learn that we can not progress unless we all turn to a new vision of the human being.

Here the theological understanding of human being as person - in - community must help develop the incorporation into modernity of certain traditional cultural values in the pre-modern spiritual vision.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

... So the question for us is how to offer a coherent vision of society, culture and the human being to people who would like to understand where to put these dimensions - the spiritual and religious and the scientific.»

Both I and St Thomas consider that the soul continues to exercise thought and understanding (and indeed will, which is intellectual appetite) after death, and, as St Thomas explains, this can not be in synergism with the imagination in the way it is during human life, but is made possible in ways God provides, and in this way the life of purgatory allows the purification that most people need, while the Saints pray for the living and the dead of whom God gives them knowledge through their vision of Him.

This is the true vision of the Church of the final meaning of human life, something that could and should be presented to young people as fundamental to their spiritual lives and indeed to everyaspect of their lives.

Approaches that perceive persons only through the upper lens of the bifocals (which enables one to see the strengths and positive potentials in everyone) sabotage their own effectiveness by their incomplete vision of human beings.

The notion of the people, i.e.Minjung, and of small - scale movements and initiatives which represent them, is from the Christian point of view partly a socio - ecclesial vision in the sense of a theological appraisal of the church as social reality in the larger body politic, and partly eschatology in the sense of a vision of the ends worked out within, and ends which extend beyond, human history.

According to Nussbaum, Nehru may have been good at building formal institutions, but it was Gandhi who gave a spiritual and philosophical basis to democracy in India by calling «all Indians to a higher vision of themselves, getting people to perceive the dignity of each human being.»

At the same time this paradigm poses a constant temptation for the Church, the more so because its humanism is post-Christian and draws so heavily on a vision of the human which is inspired by Biblical revelation and the person of Christ.

For us, it must start with the vision of a peaceful world, where gradually the production and distribution of armaments gives way to the production and distribution of goods and services that benefit the human race instead of threatening to destroy it, a vision of the rule of law rather than of economic domination, a vision of democracy where people are able to have a real say in what their own future will be, a vision of smallness and community involvement, a vision of cultural pluralism and a diversity of ideas, a vision of leisure spent meeting human needs.

Rather than lapsing into shamed silence the Church should redouble her efforts: she should direct her attention to this area and should allocate substantial resources to sex and relationships education, to dynamic programmes that meet the complicated pastoral challenges in the field of sexual education in order to provide young people with a healthy vision of human sexuality.

But this experience of solitude and loneliness allowed for a great insight into the human person and to a vision of man which allowed the Church to present to the world an anthropology appropriate to our times; one based on experience and love, two terms the world is able to understand.

The Faith vision argues that the Incarnation of the second person of the Blessed Trinity, far from being primarily a response to human sin, is in fact from the very beginning the meaning and purpose of the Universe.

Our methodology needs to be in accordance with the Christian vision of the person and the Christian view of the human person depends on:

While some may balk at the idea of getting into bed with a corporate partner of such size, and one whose fortunes depend on people eating meat, Memphis Meats explained that the move would «help us advance clean meat and achieve our ultimate vision: a world that is better for humans, animals and the planet.»

In order to create a Ghana that is «able to mobilize our own material and human resources to develop a strong economy, capable of generating prosperity for the mass of our people, and construct a Ghana no longer dependent on handouts and charity», the President stated that the rapid growth of the private sector is an essential ingredient in realizing his government's vision of a Ghana Beyond Aid.

It is always dangerous dealing with people who may be intelligent without depth, shrewd without vision, jocular without humour.People whose friends don't like him and courageously describe them as cold and pompous.We heard Kennedy Agyepong openly insult every soul in the Npp including the flagbearer, we heard him call on Akans to wipe off Gas and Ewes from Ghana and heard Osafo Marfo one personality I hitherto admired so much, declare citizens from some particular regions unfit to occupy the executive seat.Nana did not find these inhuman and obnoxious outbursts as insulting, didn't find it expedient bringing these henchmen to order.We heard Ursula who is a spiritual confidant of Nana painfully say on public platform that had it not been free education, many of our northern appointees would have been managers of cows not human beings.This was how far people who are very close to him went.Antwi another close associate courageously referred to Fantes as «fickle minded» fit only for concert shows.

Critics point to Musk «s claim that SpaceX could send people to Mars in 10 to 20 years, when it has not yet produced a human - rated crew capsule, and Bigelow's vision of putting private outposts on the moon.

People can detect flashes of light as feeble as a single photon, an experiment has demonstrated — a finding that seems to conclude a 70 - year quest to test the limits of human vision.

The number of people with glaucoma is increasing all the time and so given how dependent humans are on vision to get around in our day - to - day lives, I think it's absolutely crucial.

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So this is a brutally narrow take on how people gather, cohort, and manifest their vision of what it means to be human, but the point remains: As educators, we suffer that same reductionism when we see the masses in the same way that Nielsen does television ratings.

A radically different vision of human well - being is the call; one that is in tune with nature and respects other species, promotes socio - economic equity amongst all people, enhances the cultural, material, economic, social, and political opportunities for all, empowers each person and community to take part in decision - making affecting their lives, even as it leaves the natural world a better and much improved place.

In this context, a radically different vision of human well - being, one that is in tune with nature and respects other species, promotes socio - economic equity amongst all people, enhances the cultural, material, economic, social, and political opportunities for all, and one that empowers each person and community to take part in decision - making affecting their lives.

They add up to a new view of human nature and a new vision of how people succeed.

A collection of inspiring stories by people who share a vision of schools, families, and communities where human beings experience joyful learning.

PETCO's vision is to best promote, through its people, the highest level of well being for companion animals, and to support the human - animal bond.

The values of independence, democracy, human rights, and sustainability help the organization work toward their vision of a world where all people have access to enough affordable, healthy, and wholesome food and clean water to meet their basic needs.