As the analogy suggests, it is really the illusion of accountability.
Not exact matches
What we might rather hope for,
as Stanley Hauerwas
suggests, are the discoveries of
analogies between the traditions that might help Jews and Christians alike «survive in a world that is not constituted by the recognition much less the worship of our God.»
I would
suggest also that one way into such a new doctrine of
analogy is a new understanding of man or history
as the image of God, wherein historical development and evolution could be seen
as a reflection or embodiment of the development and evolution of God.
This
suggests a closer identification of rhythm
as the casual counterpart of life; namely, that wherever there is some rhythm there is some life, only perceptible to us when the
analogies are sufficiently close.
This
analogy is not meant to
suggest that God matures
as we do, but it may point out how every actual experience that God relates to perfectly (because it is actual) enables God to bring that experience along with everything else to future relationships.
He might have offended his critics less if he had more often used the
analogy he gave James G. Blaine when explaining his course on Reconstruction: â $ ˜The pilots on our Western rivers steer from point to point
as they call itâ $» setting the course of the boat no further than they can see; and that is all I propose to myself in this great problem.â $ ™ â $ œBoth statements
suggest Lincolnâ $ ™ s reluctance to take the initiative and make bold plans; he preferred to respond to the actions of others.
What is briefly
suggested here has to be sure no application to Abraham in case one might think it possible to find out by
analogy an appropriate word for Abraham to end with, but it does apply to this extent, that one thereby perceives how necessary it is that Abraham at the last moment must carry himself through, must not silently draw the knife, but must have a word to say, since
as the father of faith he has absolute significance in a spiritual sense.
But only people given to verbal naiveté, such
as academics, are liable to misunderstand a healthy use of
analogy to convey, or at least to
suggest, the mysteries of our life in the spirit.
With truth the
analogy can be carried to extreme terms in saying that some among the scholar - surgeons performed in such a way
as to
suggest that they regarded their task not
as an operation but
as an autopsy.
You said, «You may take it
as an insult, but I would
suggest that what you are pointing out is actually a weak
analogy fallacy, i.e. the comparison between the evidence for Jesus, et al and the evidence for the tooth fairy is not a valid comparison.»
As Lisa Cahill, Joan Timmerman and other theologians suggest, its position may have as much to do with mistaken analogies as with logi
As Lisa Cahill, Joan Timmerman and other theologians
suggest, its position may have
as much to do with mistaken analogies as with logi
as much to do with mistaken
analogies as with logi
as with logic.
Duméry makes much of this, whether it be a question of descriptive
analogies like those of Otto in The Idea of the Holy or of a justification of these analyses by a critique of knowledge such
as is
suggested by the works of Husserl, Scheler, or Gabriel Marcel.
Further riffing on the Reddit -
as - government
analogy, The Verge's T.C. Sottek
suggests instead that it is «a failed state,» adding that «Reddit wants to be a techno - libertarian's wet dream, but in practice its a weak feudal system that's actually run by a small group of angry warlords who use «free speech»
as a weapon.
In this case, having more students reduces random error among middle school teachers, but,
as the baseball
analogy suggests, this does not increase reliability.
You might remember in the earlier thread where I was pondering religion
as an
analogy for environmentalism, I
suggested that rational improbability was fundamental to «faith.»
«We could purchase our own health care coverage or we could purchase it through a single network,» Fox - Penner
suggested as an
analogy.