The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
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Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.
This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the first order.
Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.
Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.
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