Not in a preachy way, but in being who we are — divine beings
with human capacities.
But the new possibilities were (and are) available to those open to feeling them, willing to trust God and experience what God would do
with their human capacities stretched to the extreme point.
Tapping into these instincts, combined
with the human capacity for complex memory and the ability to extrapolate, Campbell experiments with digital representation as a metaphor for the transmutation of data into knowledge.
Not exact matches
So
with Sandberg's aim in mind, how should companies develop policies that make the most sense for their employees, especially if you have a growing a business and are too small to retain the
human resources
capacity that a big corporation would have?
«After getting the right talent into the organization,» wrote Gubman, «the second traditional challenge to
human resources is to align the workforce
with the business -; to constantly build the
capacity of the workforce to execute the business plan.»
«What - iffing» ourselves
with disastrous outcomes is typically
human, but also completely destructive to our
capacity to make sound decisions.
Fiber optics technology is a marvel of
human ingenuity, not to mention physics and design, and
with it comes high -
capacity digital communications for a modern age.
Graber is passionately concerned
with the nature of intelligence and the
human capacity for sinful or irrational choice.
I am pretty much
with you in that, as
humans, we don't have the know how or the mental
capacity to even start to know anything about the vast universe.
This comparison is not as outrageous as it seems: Like monasticism, science is an enterprise
with a superhuman aim whose achievement is forever beyond the
capacities of the flawed
humans who aspire toward it.
LOL: The Christian perspective is that God does indeed exist, and because of that, all
human beings (including the ones who deny His very existence) are still endowed
with some of the gifts He's given us — such as some
capacity to reason, create, and love, though all imperfectly.
The most holy, the noblest, the best, the most godlike things about us is our
human capacity to learn personhood in responsible self - government (taking up personal responsibility for our own eternal fate) and to share in communion
with other persons, and most of all
with the unseen God.
As for your post about «smarter», I find it hard to argue
with someone who believes that there isn't much difference in «intellectual
capacity» among
human beings.
The unknowability of the Commandments lies in the epistemological terra incognita of modern and postmodern thought, which denies a
human capacity to know anything
with certainty in ethics or morality.
When we stopped teaching the contemplative mind in a systematic way about 400 to 500 years ago, we lost the
capacity to deal
with paradox, inconsistency, and
human imperfection....
has a genius all her own, which is vitally essential to both society and the Church... she is endowed
with a particular
capacity for the
human being in his concrete form.
What is created at that moment is a single new creature — a
human person —
with the
capacity to become conscious and free «in the image and likeness of God».
That's how I hope Christians today see it as well — not as a lightning rod of the culture wars, to be avoided or embraced as some sort of statement, but as a pleasurable gift of a good God, who made water, yeast, barley and hops, and
human beings
with the creative
capacity to brew up something wonderful.
The element of truth in this view of the supernatural is the obvious fact that religious experience is only possible to beings
with mental or spiritual
capacities, i.e., to
human beings.
This was the Incarnation: Et Verbum caro factum est. 20 And from this first, basic contact of God
with our
human race, and precisely by virtue of this penetration of the divine into our
human nature, a new life was born: that unforeseeable aggrandizement and «obediential ’21 extension of our natural
capacities which we call «grace».
Lewis» confidence in
human nature,
with its
capacity for reason and susceptibility to myth, gave him a measure of patience
with those who did not see the truth or saw it only dimly.
and 2) How do these «higher»
human capacities (which traditional theology would associate
with the soul) arise?
Had God not lured the world on to the creation of beings
with the
capacity for conscious, rational self - determination, the distinctively
human forms of evil on our planet would not occur.
We are accustomed to regard a man as an individual of the species «man,» a being endowed
with definite
capacities, the development of which brings the
human ideal in him to realization — of course
with variations in each individual.
But we
human beings are created
with an irrepressible disposition toward the future, as well as a
capacity to recall the past.
the purpose why God allowed multiple religions to evolve and exist in the distant and even today is because our minds intellectual
capacity has increased tremendously after we became civilized about 10,000 years go.Earlier when we were hunter gatherers our priorities was just to find food to survive, Then we became more knowlegible and our concern includes the intelle tual need to understand the meaning and purpose of our existence, so God allowed the founding and establishment of many religions by
humans to conform
with their intellectual, social and educational development, Since this is not static, it contiually diversify and change to conform
with their times of existince, History showed that this is continuesly improving, so the future expects changes towards Panthrotheism in accordance to His will.
Rather, it is a variation of these along
with the demonry of personality itself, of man's moral and rational
capacities in tension
with the sensitivities of spirit as a higher dimension of freedom and goodness which grasp him as a novelty of grace within his
human structure, judging him, yet summoning him to that which is beyond his own
human order of good.
NOT!!!!! Some questions are simply out of the realm of
Human capacity, and I am fine
with that.
Blankenhorn believes, for example, that he has found the «biochemical foundations» of the social form of marriage for
humans in the female's lack of estrus, her «forward - tilting» vagina and her
capacity for orgasm, and in the «unusually large» (by comparison
with a gorilla) male penis — all destined to make heterosexual intercourse a more enticing project for
humans.
I refer also to the
human experience of aesthetic appreciation, along
with our
capacity for evaluating, enjoying, suffering, and in other ways becoming sensitively aware of what is both within us and around us.
The phrase «the image of God» means more than mere reflection as in a mirror; it means the active and energizing
capacity given to
humans, as created entities, to live
with integrity as the «created second» of the God who is making them.
Thanks to evolutionary nature, «
human genes had endowed
human beings
with the
capacity to initiate a revolutionary lifestyle change that blew apart the traditional equation of adaption and survival.»
Finally, and
with its physiological grounding in that sexuality which is integral to
human existence, there is the drive towards, and the
capacity for, loving.
Indeed, the truth of the matter can never be fully explained, for like all personal relationships in their depth and in their strange yet wonderful
capacity to enrich our living — of
human life
with God's life, of men and women
with each other — there is a mystery here which we must accept
with «natural piety» but which we can never hope to explicate
with utter clarity.
We should remember that to be
human is to be compounded of body and a rational
capacity, along
with the equally important
capacity to act by willing and the reality of our deep
human sensitivity or aesthetic awareness.
Human beings are endowed
with capacities that need to be employed; if they are not used, they atrophy, and personality deteriorates.
Kaplan maintained: «The
human mind, as Kant has shown, can not really solve the problem of absolute beginnings, and identifying creativity
with transformation marks the limit of its
capacity (MOG 61).
The second wave — developed largely by various historicist schools of thought, especially in the nineteenth century — replaced belief in the idea of a fixed
human nature
with a belief in
human «plasticity» and
capacity for moral progress and transformation.
God has equipped all
humans with the
capacity to feel guilt, remorse, humility, pride, conscience, etc..
And now I come to my second question: How adequately have Bultmann and Ogden assessed the
capacities of
human thought in dealing
with the realities of faith?
If the teacher is «co-habiting»
with another
human being, male or female, same sex or other sex, without benefit of matrimony, how does that affect that person's
capacity to teach
with integrity on the Church's requirement of chastity and abstinence before marriage?
«155 Peter Hamilton holds the same view, and from it he draws three implications: 156 First, while
human occasions possess greater significance due to their
capacity for a conscious relationship
with God, in some measure all entities contribute everlastingly to the divine life.
I recognize that the unconscious which is the abysmal source of our earthly demons is also the dynamic ground of love and creativity which, together
with our cognitive
capacities, produces the truths and beauties and goodnesses of
human life.
This is the sort of experience Whitehead is referring to when he writes: «In describing the
capacities, realized or unrealized, of an actual occasion, we have,
with Locke, tacitly taken
human experience as an example upon which to found the generalized description required for metaphysics» (PR 112).
How far this creativity can go in creating the
human level in the case of any one individual depends partly upon his innate
capacity but most of all upon two other features: (1) how wide and deep is the volume of history that reaches him, that is, how abundant and coherent are the values that have been accumulated in the history he inherits and (2) how deep is the communion he is able to have
with other persons who embody these meanings accumulated through a long sequence of generations.
Yet in stressing man's permeating sinfulness it often seems to give a too pessimistic view of
human nature,
with too little recognition of the God - given
capacity of some persons to live victorious and highly virtuous Christian lives.
Such forms of expression are subject to great variety in the course of history, for they are the product of the fertile
human imagination, and their popularity depends upon the prevailing mood of an age, and upon the
capacity of their symbolism to communicate
with the «ring of truth».
Love which has
capacity for social imagination, and for a skillful dealing
with human problems, is strengthened in itself.
In his recent best seller, Alvin Toffler argued that many among us are already suffering from «future shock,» an illness
with both physical and emotional symptoms resulting from exposure to change beyond the adaptive
capacities of the
human system.
In brief, social change — this rapid, turbulent, accelerating scene — is more than a professional challenge; it is a total
human challenge, and to deal
with it as
human beings, be we professionals or nonprofessionals, we must unashamedly call upon the full range of our
human capacities and interests — scientific, artistic, and religious.