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“A writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person’s release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention.” “The literal meaning of habeas corpus is “you should have the body”—that is, the judge or court should...
5. “Like most poets, I’ve wanted to touch the human spirit and move the reader. That’s what I want to happen to me as well when I read a poem. Not every poem is easily accessible, and not every poem will have the same impact on a person, but poems abound out there for all...
We look at each person, whatever their role, and know that I would do as you do, my brother, my sister, if I were in your shoes. We appreciate the impossible pressures those in power face – that anyone in a position of any privilege faces – in striving to reconcile their humanity ...
If we were God, mind and heart and hands would be in perfect unity but we mortal creatures are divided in this way and need to treat these concretely manifested parts of us as being what ultimately merges into a true human person: unified and coherent and complete. We are not God but ...
Quotes 1500’s John Calvin For Calvin’s insightful description of the psychology and sin of Eve and Adam in the Fall, see his Commentary on Gen. 3:6. On the Eternal Predestination of God (Consensus Genevensis, Niemeyer’s Coll.), pp. 267-68 “It is pleaded as an excuse for him [...
Modern science has come to be regarded as an exclusively objective endeavor employing explicit language that attempts to exclude subjective anthropomorphic biases. In doing so it has run the risk of becoming a purely materialistic bias itself, according no proper place to the human spirit or to int...
174 The soul is what a person comes to through self-renunciation, as Socrates argues in the Phaedo. Spiritual life or the life of the soul is a dimension of human life although many people live at a distance from it. To say that human beings have souls is therefore to say that such ...
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the macro-cosmos is inherently connected with the micro-cosmos; worldly things with bodily things; and physical things with “non-physical” phenomena such as time, space, spirit, and so on. The body of human beings as the microcosm is analogous toshanshui—the macrocosmic body of the univers...