Human Nature in a sentence

It’s no accident that an incarnational faith struggles mightily where nature itself – including human nature, the nature which the Second Person of the Trinity took upon himself and through which he redeemed the whole human race – is so out of fashion.

Applying this to man, he who would criticize all human acts, movements, relations, etc., by the principle of utility, must first deal with human nature in general, and then with human nature as modified in each historical epoch.

Christians teach that human beings inherit a corrupted or damaged human nature in which the tendency to do bad is greater than it would have been otherwise, so much so that human nature would not be capable now of participating in the afterlife with God.

Wuwei ( Pinyin : wúwéi) or 'naturalness' are contingent on understanding and conforming to this inner nature, which is interpreted variously from a personal, individual nature to a more generalized notion of human nature within the greater Universe.

The whole is no longer considered as anything more than the mechanical expression of its parts and all historical consideration of human nature is abandoned in favour of a changeless, static ‘human nature’.

God’s intervention has saved humanity from the Fall of Adam and the wickedness of Satan. citation Human nature has become joined with God’s in the person of Jesus, thus allowing human nature to have victory over sin.

He identified approximately 150 such features, coming to the conclusion there is indeed a "universal human nature", and that these features point to what that universal human nature is.

Human Nature He argues that they should not be rejected or dismissed, but further investigated by science to better understand their significance to human nature.

Rather than viewing The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations as presenting incompatible views of human nature, some Smith scholars regard the works as emphasising different aspects of human nature that vary depending on the situation.

S. Foster Damon noted that for Blake the major impediments to a free love society were corrupt human nature, not merely the intolerance of society and the jealousy of men, but the inauthentic hypocritical nature of human communication.

Since the fall of man, then, it has been mankind's dilemma that no human can restore his nature to union with God's grace; it was necessary for God to effect another change in human nature.

Where Nestorianism holds that Christ had two loosely united natures, divine and human, monophysitism holds that he had but a single nature, his human nature being absorbed into his divinity.

He used Freemasonry to recruit for his own quasi-masonic society, with the goal of "perfecting human nature" through re-education to achieve a communal state with nature, freed of government and organized religion.

He was noted for the speed with which he applied paint, and he worked more from observations of nature (and of human nature) than from application of formal academic rules.

His fully divine nature is united with His fully human nature yet without mixing, blending or alteration" citation These Churches claim that this latter teaching has been misunderstood as monophysitism - an appellation with which they strongly disagree.

In his view, it is more likely that human nature comprises inclinations toward violence and those that counteract them, the "better angels of our nature".

More accurately, Christ's salvific work enables man in his human nature to become "partakers of the Divine nature" (2 Peter 1:4); that is to say, man is united to God in Christ.

Not only this, but he opened the gates of Hades to all the righteous dead of past ages, rescuing them from their fallen human nature and restoring them to a nature of grace with God, bringing them back to life, this time in God's heavenly kingdom.

Sadly, human nature is such that war will never be eradicated by human effort.

The result is rueful musing about human cultures and innate human nature.