Sentences with phrase «when human institutions»

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When Wycliffe and Hus took issue with mendicants and papal overreach, they were simply expressing a «long - standing frustration,» not making an innovative call for the abolition of «human institutions.»

When the self is committed to the Second Good, its stock of memory, intelligence, relationships, health, and wealth becomes the instrument for the concrete achievement of security, justice, liberty, or fraternity within the domain of personal relations and in the larger world of human institutions.

When either our animal or our primeval ancestors were not given the responsibility for our plight the blame was shifted to the social institutions which corrupt human nature.

I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.

Even in the best of human institutions, of which marriage can serve as a supreme example, there can be damage when somehow the intention to share life fully is absent.

It is equally easy and false to take a docetic view of revelation: to suppose that the content of the scriptures, for example, is, just simply, the thoughts of God, the human writers contributing no more than a pen for God to write them down with; or to imagine that a person or a group of people or an institution can, as it were, throw a switch from time to time and become a transmitter of revelation from an external divine source: a group of bishops, for instance, when assembled in council, or a pope when defining a dogma ex cathedra.

When gratitude is due to a country, an organization (e.g., a school, a hospital, a shelter), or some other collective, it is owed to them as communities of human persons, not as impersonal institutions.

However, the striking accomplishments of their movement — particularly its ending of the institution of slavery — brought on even thornier problems in human relationships, and that at a time when most Americans wanted to get back to their personal agenda.

Today, as always happens when a supreme ideal endeavors to get itself expressed in human institutions, the general average of organized religion is lower than the best.

Next month Britain has a once in a generation opportunity to spearhead reform of the European Court of Human Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights and their related institutions when it assumes the chairmanship of the Council of Europe.

While bad credit doesn't mean that you're a bad person, it can be hard to remember that when dealing with financial institutions that don't see the human being behind the credit score.

This idea of holistically consuming our human stories, including the many that are normally excluded from history — while it has become a normal part of daily digital living — was inconceivable in the 1980s when the Guerrilla Girls became famous for storming cultural institutions and media outlets to take on the political plight of better representation for women in the arts.

Focusing primarily on Indonesian and Southeast Asian contemporary artists, he has curated solo and group exhibitions with different institutions, including Yasumasa Morimura (2001); Ecstaticus Mundi (2002); AVICON — Asia Video Art Conference (2004, co-curated with Videoart Center Tokyo); Bandung New Emergence (2006; 2008; 2011); I / CON, solo exhibition of Agus Suwage (2007); Nobody's Land - Heri Dono (2008); The Fitting Room - Mella Jaarsma (2009); Loss of the Real (2010); Java's Machine: Family Chronicles - Jompet Kuswidananto (2011); Human Resource Development - Ade Darmawan (2012); copy select all — Poklong Anading (2013); Threshold - Takashi Kuribayashi (2013), and; Things Happen when We Remember — FX Harsono (2014).

Still, in the long history of nation states, and given human beings» persistent tribal tendencies, when does an outside institution, however well intentioned, have the right to intervene in another country?

Integrity is an important concern, especially when so many scientists have accepted far larger sums for research that emphasizes human causes, including some at Penn State, Virginia, George Mason and other institutions associated with the IPCC and EPA.

When once asked about the many scientific institutions that accept the consensus of human - caused global warming — including IPCC, NASA, NOAA, the National Academy of Sciences, and many more — he responded: «What can I say?

When it comes to the rule of law, human rights - sensitive good governance initiatives reform legislation and assist institutions ranging from penal systems to courts and parliaments to better implement that legislation.