scholarly journals VALOAREA ŞI DEMNITATEA PERSOANEI UMANE ÎN LUMINA ÎNVĂŢĂTURII CREŞTINE

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-15
Author(s):  
ŞTEFAN Florea ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
Moral Consciousness ◽  
Christian Love ◽  
God's Image ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

Life ruled by law and the legality of our culture have in common the oblivion of the right and the demand of saving yourself through your deeds. Life ruled by law deals only with individual saving, because it does not see the total good; it always balances, for its whole horizon is nothing but a changing, as it is the report between God and human being. Love has every virtue and it is contrary to all sins. This is the source of all forms of good. The one who has love is on his way to perfection. Between love and consciousness there is a real complementariness. Consciousness is the instrument through which law becomes operative in our being. Saint Apostle Pavel underlines the fact that a pure moral consciousness is kept by belief (Tit. 1, 15- 16). Christian love that springs from a pure moral consciousness and heart is what God wanted from his creation, man having the possibility to take the resemblance with God, as his nursing to “God’s image”

scholarly journals THE VALUE AND DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE LIGHT OF CHRISTIAN TEACHING

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-68
Author(s):  
Florea ȘTEFAN ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Person ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Moral Consciousness ◽  
Christian Teaching ◽  
Christian Love ◽  
God's Image ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

Life ruled by law and the legality of our culture have in common the oblivion of the right and the demand of saving yourself through your deeds. Life ruled by law deals only with individual saving, because it does not see the total good; it always balances, for its whole horizon is nothing but a changing, as it is the report between God and human being. Love has every virtue and it is contrary to all sins. This is the source of all forms of good. The one who has love is on his way to perfection. Between love and consciousness there is a real complementariness. Consciousness is the instrument through which law becomes operative in our being. St Apostle Pavel underlines the fact that a pure moral consciousness is kept by belief (Tit. 1,15-16). Christian love that springs from a pure moral consciousness and heart is what God wanted from his creation, man having the possibility to take the resemblance with God, as his nursing to “God’s image”.

scholarly journals Makna Ungkapan “Petiklah Kecapi Baik-Baik” Dalam Mazmur 33: 3 Sebagai Upaya Peningkatan Kualitas Pelayanan Musik

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Sri Wahyuni Kusradi
Keyword(s):  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
The People ◽  
God's Love ◽  
History Of ◽  
Music Ministry ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

Pelayanan musik adalah sangat penting dalam ibadah. Karena itu Kitab Mazmur juga menyatakan hal-hal mengenai pelayanan tersebut. “petiklah kecapi baik-baik” memberikan pengertian bahwa pelayanan musik bukanlah semata-mata menyangkut kemampuan memainkan alat musik saja. Tetapi lebih jauh dari hal itu adalah menyangkut kedalaman batin pemusik dalam penyembahannya kepada Tuhan yang menyangkut keseluruhan kehidupan sang pelayan tersebut.              Ia adalah orang yang benar di dalam Tuhan: ia adalah seorang yang memiliki hati yang telah dibaharui oleh Tuhan, dia adalah seorang yang dosanya telah diampuni, telah diselesaikan di hadapan Tuhan. Dia adalah seorang yang jujur artinya dia adalah seorang yang berintegritas dan tidakada kemunafikan. Seorang pelayan musik yang benar adalah yang memiliki sikap yang benar yang jiwanya penuh sukacita dalam memuji Tuhan, yang hatinya penuh dengan pujian kepada Allah. Dia juga dapat memainkan alat-alat musik dengan benar: ia memahami musik dengan benar dan memahami bagaimana bermusik yang dikenan Tuhan. Seorang pelayan musik juga memiliki kesungguhan hati dan perlu mempersiapkan dengan matang melalui latihan-latihan sebelum memulai pelayanannya. Seorang pelayan musik juga adalah seorang yang tiap waktu mengharapkan kasih setia Tuhan, sehingga ia tidak mengandalkan dirinya sendiri, yang hatinya penuh pengagungan dan kekaguman kepada Tuhan. Ia hendaknya mengetahui alasan kenapa ia bermain musik dan melayani musik dengan baik-baik. Ia mengerti alasannya yaitu karena Firman Tuhan telah menjadikan segala sesuatu, bahwa Tuhan yang ia layani adalah yang memiliki rancangan ygng menentukan sejaah umat-Nya, yang perhatian-Nya kepada manusia seluruhnya, dan Ia adalah Tuhan yang menyelamatkan orang yang takut akan Dia. Pemahaman akan hal-hal tersebut akan sangat berpengaruh pada seluruh ibadah dan kemajuan penyembahan umat kepada Allah dan kehidupan umat yang mempermuliakan Allah, Sang Juruselamat. Music ministry is very important in worship. Therefore the Psalms also state matters regarding the ministry. "Pick the harp well" gives the sense that the service of music is not solely concerned with the ability to play an instrument. But further than that it concerns the inner depth of the musician in his worship of God concerning the whole life of the servant. He is a righteous person in God: he is a person who has a heart that has been renewed by God, he is a person whose sins have been forgiven, resolved before God. He is an honest person meaning he is a person of integrity and no hypocrisy. A true music steward is one who has the right attitude whose soul is full of joy in praising God, whose heart is full of praise to God. He can also play musical instruments correctly: he understands music correctly and understands how music is pleasing to God. A music steward also has sincerity and needs to prepare carefully through exercises before starting his ministry. A music steward is also someone who is always expecting God's love, so he does not rely on himself, whose heart is full of admiration and admiration for God. He should know the reasons why he plays music and serves music well. He understands the reason that is because the Word of God has made everything, that the Lord he serves is the one who has a design that determines the history of His people, whose attention is to the whole human being, and He is the God who saves those who fear Him. Understanding these things will greatly affect the entire worship and progress of the worship of the people to God and the lives of people who glorify God, the Savior.

scholarly journals My Intellectual Freedom Journey: Reclaiming a Moral Sanction for the Public Sector

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
James LaRue
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Intellectual Freedom ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Pursuit Of Happiness ◽  
The Public ◽  
Moral Sanction ◽  
Evaluative Process ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
Clear Statement

Intellectual freedom—the idea that all people have the right to express themselves freely and access the expressions of others—is a core value of librarianship. But every value, every institution, must go through a kind of rediscovery with each generation. This “re-valuing” is necessary and right. Do our institutions serve us, or are we forced to serve them? Do we practice what we say we believe? An example of this re-evaluative process concerns the promise, the vision, of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson wrote, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” But that clear statement of “self-evident truths” was on the one hand immediately contradicted by the explicit endorsement of slavery (3/5ths of a human being), and by the denial of a vote to women. Nonetheless, the underlying idea was so powerful and compelling that subsequent generations returned to it again and again, edging closer to the original vision.I believe that intellectual freedom is under such a review by librarians now. I believe, too, that the value remains an abiding and powerful call to service.In this article I will present three snapshots from my own intellectual freedom journey. Each has a context in time that may lend depth of understanding to today’s challenges. Perhaps, too, it will point the way to a new place for intellectual freedom in our work.

scholarly journals Legítima defensa de animales

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-50
Author(s):  
Luís Greco
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
Animal Protection ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do So

If we recognize that animals have rights, even minimal and rudimentary as the right to not to be killed without an acceptable reason or the right to live without constant or repetitive pain (§ 17 Animal Protection Law), then the consequence is that they would be covered by the right to self­defense. Such rights would configure the attacked subjective right, which is exercised by humans instead of animals and they do so in their interest based on a legitimate third party’s defense. The legitimate defense in favor of animals is, however, less extensive than the one which is carried out in favor of a human being, according to the thesis I defend in this article.

scholarly journals Hak Atas Air dan Kewajiban Negara dalam Pemenuhan Akses terhadap Air

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arinto Nurcahyono ◽  
Husni Syam ◽  
Yuhka Sundaya
Keyword(s):  
Current Problem ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Social Good ◽  
Human Need ◽  
Access To Water ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
Gain Access

Water is a basic need of human being, no one can live without water and ithas no substitution. Water is a a requirement of adequate living standard for the healthand well-being of all human being..The current problem is the availability of water infulfill the human need is decreased. On the one hand there is the view that water isa commodity while the other side said that water is a social good.. The right to waterimplies that everyone should have access to water without discrimination. The state’srole is indispensable when people are not in the same position in getting water, thedifferences position of people can occur not only a problem of economic inequality, butalso the specific natural conditions in a certain region. Such differences make some partsof society difficult to gain access to water, and in this situation, the presence of the stateis strong required.

scholarly journals Synthetic biology ethically evaluated: The creating God and co-creating human

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Riaan Rheeder
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Biology ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Absolute Value ◽  
God's Image ◽  
The One ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Image Of God

God did not create once and then put an end to it. Testimony from Scripture shows that God continuously establishes or creates new things. Humans can therefore expect to always see and experience new things in creation. With this pattern of reasoning, one can anticipate that the human being as image of God will continuously establish new things in history. Although nature has value, it does not have absolute value and therefore it can be synthesised responsibly. The thought that humans are stewards of God is no longer adequate to, theologically put into words, the relationship human beings have with nature. New biotechnological developments ask for different answers from Scripture. Several ethicists are of the opinion that the theological construction of humans and created co-creators can help found the relationship of the human being to nature. Humans developed as God’s image evolutionary. On the one hand, this means humans themselves are a product of nature. On the other hand, the fact that humans are the image of God is also an ethical call that humans, like God, have to develop and create new things throughout history. Synthetic biology can be evaluated as technology that is possible, because humans are the image of God. However, it should, without a doubt, be executed responsibly.Sintetiese biologie eties geëvalueer: Die skeppende God en medeskeppende mens. God het nie net eenmaal geskep en daar gestop nie. Uit Skrifgetuienisse kan afgelei word dat God voortdurend nuwe dinge tot stand bring of skep. Daarom kan die mens verwag om gedurig nuwe dinge in die skepping te sien en te beleef. Hiermee saam kan verwag word dat die mens as beeld van God voortdurend nuwe dinge in die geskiedenis tot stand sal bring. Alhoewel die natuur waarde het, het dit nie absolute waarde nie en kan dus verantwoordelik gesintetiseer word. Die gedagte dat die mens rentmeester van God is, is nie meer voldoende om die mens se verhouding tot die natuur teologies te verwoord nie. Nuwe biotegnologiese ontwikkelinge vra na ander antwoorde vanuit die Skrif. Verskeie etici is van mening dat die teologiese konstruksie van die mens as geskepte medeskepper kan help om die mens se verhouding tot die natuur te begrond. Die mens het deur ’n evolusionêre proses tot God se beeld ontwikkel. Aan die een kant beteken dit dat die mens self ’n produk van die natuur is. Aan die ander kant is beeldskap ook ’n etiese oproep dat die mens, soos God, nuwe dinge in die geskiedenis moet ontwikkel en skep. Sintetiese biologie kan gesien word as tegnologie wat moontlik is omdat die mens na die beeld van God geskape is. Sonder twyfel moet sintetiese biologie egter verantwoordelik beoefen word.

scholarly journals Abortion: A threat of modern times

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (33) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Zofia Kępińska Walczak
Keyword(s):  
Human Freedom ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Times ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Church

As one of today’s threats, abortion is both a sign of the times and a challenge for the Church and anyone who sees the evil of it. Every Christian is called to defend life, because life carries a unique dignity – each of us has been created by God out of love, and called to love. Today, when the topic of the human freedom to decide on everybody’s own life often comes up in the discussion about abortion, it should be reminded that this freedom is the right of every human being, also the one who cannot speak on their own behalf.

CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION AT THE TIME OF PROFESSIONALIZATION OF THE POLISH ARMED FORCES AS ASPECT OF EDUCATION FOR SECURITY

2011 ◽  
Vol 161 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-133
Author(s):  
Agnieszka MORAWIAK
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

Security is essential for every society and stands for the basic need of a human being and social development. At the time of globalisation and computerisation, security is closely related to knowledge. A contemporary person is a witness to and a participant of civilization acceleration, in which knowledge and access to it play a major role. Information nowadays facing a global change becomes, on the one hand, a factor of growth; on the other hand, it assumes new forms of threat.The reform of the Polish Armed Forces and its transformation have extorted a new look on the preparation of soldiers to fulfil their tasks and duties. These days security ought to be considered not only as a military matter, since ethical, ecological issues along with opposing economic interests and socio-cultural and ubiquitous terrorism pose a great threat. As well as this, the army ought to adjust to playing new roles and the evaluation of real and potential threats should determine the programme of soldier education along with the creation and promotion of the right attitude in the Polish society.

scholarly journals THE PROBLEM OF GOODNESS AND EVIL IN CHRISTIAN ETHICS

2017 ◽  
pp. 56-70
Author(s):  
Hryhorii Vasianovych
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Original Sin ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Moral Consciousness ◽  
Moral Goodness ◽  
Active Approach ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Right

On the basis of philosophical and ethical literature the concept of "goodness" and "evil" has been analyzed from the standpoint of secular and Christian ethics. It turns out that moral well-being is characterized as a positive phenomenon, and evil – as a negative one. It has been emphasized that Christian ethics considers God as a source of goodness, and a human being as a source of evil being associated with the original sins.It has been stated that goodness and evil exist in dialectical unity, while goodness is endless, whereas evil is finite, they have various forms of manifestation and differences. Moral goodness in Christian ethics acquires the status of all the universality of light, which can spread not only among believers, but also non- believers, it enriches the existence of human being and the whole world, while evil distorts this world. The moral goodness of human beings is realized in their worldview, action activity, as well as opposition to evil. Therefore, it is so important to use various forms, methods, and means in the process of educating true kindness, humanity, human mercy, and love.The problem of moral goodness and evil remains relevant both for secular and Christian ethics. Christian ethics considers God as a source of goodness and evil is a human being who broke God's laws and committed the original sin. Goodness and evil are in dialectical unity, but they are characterized by significant differences. The process of creating goodness requires a constant, well-organized education. At the same time, this process leads to active opposition to evil.It has been determined that philosophers, teachers, psychologists have proven: one of the effective ways of formation goodness is active approach. Creating situations in which a person could do goodness, reveal the kindness of his heart - this is the right path to the formation of moral consciousness, moral relations, and today it is especially necessary.

Mechanisms of Resource Curse and Economic Policy

2007 ◽  
pp. 4-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Polterovich ◽  
V. Popov ◽  
A. Tonis
Keyword(s):  
Real Exchange Rates ◽  
Resource Curse ◽  
Budget Deficits ◽  
Resource Abundance ◽  
Fuel Prices ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Resource Wealth ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
Rich Countries

This paper compares various mechanisms of resource curse leading to a potentially inefficient use of resources; it is demonstrated that each of these mechanisms is associated with market imperfections and can be "corrected" with appropriate government policies. Empirical evidence seems to suggest that resource abundant countries have on average lower budget deficits and inflation, and higher foreign exchange reserves. Besides, lower domestic fuel prices that are typical for resource rich countries have a positive effect on long-term growth even though they are associated with losses resulting from higher energy consumption. On top of that resource abundance allows to reduce income inequalities. So, on the one hand, resource wealth turns out to be conducive to growth, especially in countries with strong institutions. However, on the other hand, resource abundance leads to corruption of institutions and to overvalued real exchange rates. On balance, there is no solid evidence that resource abundant countries grow more slowly than the others, but there is evidence that they grow more slowly than could have grown with the right policies and institutions.

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