We conservatives have a standard based in human nature or
the whole human person — the free and relational being — by which we can evaluate political, moral, and technological change.
It will be to the everlasting credit of Pope John Paul II that be bas made his papacy the occasion for insisting upon the fact that our imaging of God, as given in the revelation, involves
the whole human person in all of his psychosomatic reality.
Catholic thought always affirmed that Natural Law theory was about
the whole human person, physical body and spiritual soul.
• «It remains each man's duty to retain an understanding of
the whole human person... a profound inquiry into the meaning of culture and science for the human person» (61).
And when he was thinking about human existence itself, he was intent upon saying that
a whole human person was compounded of body as well as of soul; in the end, he said, the two would be reunited after the separation which death had brought about.
When considering the grandeur and dignity afforded to
the whole human person (body, mind and spirit) in the sight of God and Jesus» teachings on non-violence, a «moral thorn» exists as to the defensibility of boxing and MMA.
Not exact matches
That party could have a political discussion in the kitchen or
people doing keg stands in the living room, but it's all about that
whole range of
human expression.
Assuming the letter you've received doesn't paint the
whole picture for you, calling this number will be well worth it as talking to a
person not only helps you understand the nuances of the situation but there's comfort in knowing that a
human being with a name and a face at the IRS is there to help you figure things out.
On the
whole, celebrities understand they're playing a precarious game of
human Jenga: The tabloid press is fantastic at building
people up, only to delight in their downfalls — deserved or not.
Poets like Wordsworth see the
human person as capable of communing with the
whole of reality, or at least with aspects in a deeper, more profound way.
The cause for this wishful hope in institutions quickly appears: «In an increasingly globalized society, the common good and the effort to obtain it can not fail to assume the dimensions of the
whole human family, that is to say, the community of
peoples and nations.»
You know a couple hundred years from now
people are going to first laugh then cry when looking back on this
whole human religion debacle.
From the Garden of Eden to David's adulterous affair with Bathsheba, from Jesus» sin - filled genealogy to Peter's denial of the Christ, we will challenge and encourage
people of faith to tell the
whole truth revealed in the Bible about foolish
human decisions and the consequences of sin.
It is so obvious that: a) those held in slavery were
human beings (a biological category); b) all
humans are by nature
persons (a philosophic category), that is, beings with inviolable worth that ought never be treated as means to an end; and c) the evil practice of slavery was not a private matter - the
whole community is harmed because we are all communal beings by nature, in solidarity with those who are treated unjustly.
The
whole divine -
human experience of God's taking on
human nature in one
person is an exemplar of suffering that works itself out in multiple dimensions of obedience.
The economic crisis presently being endured in much of the West and beyond also reflects this truth: the
whole meltdown in many ways had its source in that unbridled capitalism that decreed the autonomy of the individual and the moral good of each
person being allowed to pursue wealth without any relationship to the rest of
human society.
A third, a physician in New York City, praised the Catholic tradition for its emphasis on
human dignity and social justice, but added: «I am troubled by the fact that I find greater acceptance of myself as a
whole person in my professional community as a physician, than I do in the official hierarchy of the church of my family, my childhood, and my life.»
The
WHOLE human race of currently 6 + billion
people could not just have come from 2
people.
On the other hand, he would worry over the competing desires corporations and governments face that might lead to a kind of rational planning that does not see
human persons as a
whole.
There is no
human being apart from relations with other
people, with other animals, and with the
whole of creation.
«The protection and improvement of the
human environment is a major issue which affects the well - being of
people and economic development throughout the world; it is the urgent desire of the
people of the
whole world and the duty of all Governments.
What happens in the
human person as the culmination of nature's development must be posited of the
whole of nature.
To directly oppose the inbuilt meaning of a
human act is to oppose not merely the bodily organ but the
whole person who possesses that organ.
Let us speak of a
whole life of sufferings or of some
person whom nature, from the very outset, as we
humans are tempted to say, wronged, someone who from birth was singled out by useless suffering: a burden to others; almost a burden to himself; and yes, what is worse, to be almost a born objection to the goodness of Providence.
In the Bible,
human immortality is always God's gift to the redeemed, is always given in the resurrection, and always involves a
whole, embodied
person.
The problem may not be with rights per se, whose articulation is invaluable to our conception of modern republicanism (and may even help more fully articulate what is true about Christian morality), but with an interpretation that takes rights as the
whole of moral discourse and therefore, understands the abstract Lockean individual to be a comprehensive account of the
human person.
Any God worth worshiping wouldn't choose one
person over another for «blessings», and also wouldn't punish a
whole species of
humans for the sins of a few.
But to castigate me personally and my religion as a
whole based on the known
human failures of
people I don't even know, or worse sensationalized fictions which you believe, is just ignorant.
The Three - Fifths Compromise — a moral failure which defined a
whole class of
human beings as less than
persons — was America's original sin the moment it was ratified.
Insane
people think
Humans are some sort of 4th magical being that's not in anyway related to animals despite that
whole pesky «genetics» thing pretty much guaranteeing we are.
Azariah who later became Bishop of Dornakal argued that the church in accepting the position of a communal political minority with special protection would become a static community and it would negate its self - understanding as standing for mission and service to the
whole national community, that in any case the Indian church is not a single social or cultural community since it consists of
people of diverse background, each of whom would have its own political struggle to wage in cooperation with the
people of similar background in other religions; and therefore theologically and politically Christians should ask only for religious freedom for its mission and service to all
people, not as a minority right, but as a
human right (ref.
This would be that the profession of economists as a
whole would decide that its real goal is to contribute its expertise to the improvement of the
human lot in general by improving the economic condition of
people.
Third World
people, women, blacks, native Americans, Chicanos —
whole hosts of
human beings are witnessing to how our financial system is crippling them.
«This is the witness that the church has to give to the world, that all the other mandates are not there to divide
people and tear them apart but to deal with them as
whole people before God the Creator, Reconciler and Redeemer — that reality in all its manifold aspects is ultimately one in God who became
human, Jesus Christ.»
His published writings and voluminous diary exhibit the gropings of an eclectic mind obsessed with the survival and spiritual growth of the Jewish
people, American democracy, and the
human enterprise as a
whole in an era of crisis and opportunity.
All realms and dimensions of
human experience — physical / material, mental, emotional, etc. — are so interwoven that no
person or thing in the cosmos can be separated from the
whole.
«
People do not wish to know that the
whole human culture is based on the mythic process of conjuring away man's violence by endlessly projecting it upon new victims» (Girard, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, 164).
I think very few gay
people think straights are going to hell (though some might think God has washed her hands of the
whole heedless
human race and will be sending everyone there).
The challenges which lie ahead can not be overcome by any one
person or group working on their own but only by the
human species working as a
whole.
People should realize that this is the Voice of those who have a voice because they have their dollars and they have the power to kill, with a button, the
whole human race and under their own roof the power to kill, day by day, with counterinformation their own sickly conscience.23
The evidence from this new technology affirms the deep interdependency of the physical and mental facets of
human beings and the fact that
whole -
person healing and growth involves the harmonious, integrated
«In the Bible, the heart is the core of the
human person, where all his or her different dimensions intersect: body and spirit, interiority and openness to the world and to others, intellect, will and affectivity... Faith transforms the
whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.»
«The
whole gospel for the
whole person and the
whole world» means that we can not leave any area of
human life and suffering without the witness of hope.
A one - size - fits - all label seems to simplify a difficult matter, but it simplifies too much by simply removing a
whole category of
persons from the
human care list.
It goes on to analyse this, discussing the
whole question of a «personal presence» and asking: «how could a
human individual not be a
human person?»
It also implies that the exchange of conversions between Christians and
people of other living faiths can not render God's love for the
whole human race totally transparent.
That is the view taken by many
people as they gaze with melancholy disquiet at the turbulent swell of humanity; and by it the
whole edifice of
human relationships and social structures is reduced to the level of a regulated epi - phenomenon, having no value or substance of its own, and therefore no future in its own right.
Even in the case of the
human living
person the locus is not the brain as a
whole.
Some
people end in defeat and collapse or, as Mark Twain described them, scoffing «at the pitiful world, and the useless universe, and the violent, contemptible
human race,» and deriding «the
whole paltry scheme.»
And the politics that results from the dialogue is ghastly indeed, because the integration of a single soul calls for much more sacrifice of the parts to the
whole than can ever be expected of individual
human persons in a city.