Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.
For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
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.
The expression of divinity is in variety.
Just as Divinity descends in a certain manner, to the extent that one communicates with Nature, so one ascends to Divinity through Nature, just as by means of a life resplendent in natural things one rises to the life that presides over them.
Various religious systems have been given to humanity at different times, each suited to meet the spiritual needs of the people among whom it was promulgated, and, coming from the same divine source: - God, all religions exhibit similar fundamentals or first principles.
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.