Sentences with phrase «by divorcing from»

All of them are designed to «purify» the operations of human reason, by decontextualizing them: i.e., by divorcing them from the details of particular historical and cultural situations.

Environmentalists say the abbreviation connotes the region's oil and gas potential rather than its wildlife and cultural value by divorcing it from the words «wildlife» and «refuge.»

«20 Niebuhr said it is a tragedy that the church cultivates its spirituality by divorcing itself from an understanding of the brutal elements of collective life.

For him its doom was already inscribed on the walls of history with Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy of 1534, when the Church in England became the Church of England by divorcing itself from papal authority.

This triumph was followed by another three - year sabbatical, which was followed by her divorce from Baldwin and a pair of box - office flops, I Dreamed of Africa and Bless the Child.

Not exact matches

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has pledged to start formal divorce procedures from the EU by the end of March.

By the way, she's divorced from millionaires and has plenty of cash, but feels her 90 - year - old father should pay for a 300 - person wedding in the Bahamas so she can afford a beach house.

Legal costs from the lawsuit by Phills against Saloner and Stanford, and from the intervention of Saloner and Stanford in the divorce case between Phills and Gruenfeld, have surely exceeded $ 2 million by now, and neither case shows any signs of wrapping up soon (in fact, Stanford and Saloner have launched a lawsuit - within - a-lawsuit against Phills over Phills» accessing of his wife's communications with Saloner.).

Lately, the sheer volume of buybacks has prompted complaints among academics, politicians and investors that massive stock repurchases are stifling innovation and hurting U.S. competitiveness — and contributing to widening income inequality by rewarding executives with ever higher pay, often divorced from a company's underlying performance.

The fact that these records are gathered without the government having any reasonable suspicion or probable cause justifying the seizure of data is so divorced from the domain of reason as to be incapable of ever being made lawful at all, and this view was endorsed as recently as today by the federal government's Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight board.

But their job is to keep clients from getting slammed by a fee that's one of the best - kept secrets on Wall Street, and in divorce litigation circles.

But Democrats defended the Independent Treasury system by pointing to the safety of government finances achieved by virtue of their having been divorced from the banking system.

If I began by saying that we can not study God apart from the worship of God, I must end by saying also that we can not divorce either worship or study from an attempt to learn a way of life.

If we take Father Schall's pointed jest and explore it in relation to Walker Percy's own long journey, we see the heart of Percy's concern, a concern central to his fascination with the mystery of sign, of language, in relation to the reality we experience either by a deportment through ordinate sentiment to reality or a deportment of sentimentality, that is, a manner divorced from reality.

By focusing on the inner dynamic of God's eternal life as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Barth is able to avoid two errors: a static understanding of eternity, and one completely divorced from all temporality.

The topics of repentance and the remission of sins are huge issues within Christian theology, but just as with baptism, these topics are severely misunderstood by Christians when we divorce them from their historical and cultural roots within Judaism.

I know very little of Tony Jones — I was vaguely aware of the divorce from internet reports — but I have read books by at least one other EV leader, and had some admiration for them.

You know that scene in The Great Divorce in which C.S. Lewis described the damned as only vaguely human, «shrunk and shut up in themselves,» alienated from the world by choice?

The Courage to Be will be enjoyed by many for its spiritual and rhetorical excitements but, divorced from the truth claims, worship, and life of the continuing community of faith, such excitements are but another option on offer in the marketplace of modern spiritualities.

The Pharisees object by reminding Jesus Moses allowed men to issue certificates of divorce and thereby to separate from their wives.

Her favorite was Das Doppelte Lottchen, a disarming tale about a pair of nine - year - old identical twins separated from infancy by an acrimonious divorce.

Of believers / the godly / the just to whom he is writing, he uses the pronoun «you» (v. 1,3,13) But of the ungodly / the wicked / those who are reserved by God for judgment / the ungodly / etc the writer always designates such by the pronouns «them», «these», «their» and «they» (v. 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,10,11,12,13,14,17,18,19,2021,22) So your theory that the false teachers of verse 1 who bring upon themselves swift destruction / perdition are believers is entirely a fabrication divorced from the context!

There are more complex, more important human questions than have been addressed by either the stern denunciations of divorce or the accommodating «cheap grace» efforts to bless divorce — or by the heralding of divorce as a liberation from outmoded bourgeois morality.

Thus in the modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.

But this (by no means new) idea has been reduced to something untenable and quite contrary to Christianity: the notion that not only can morals be customized, but their articulation is somehow inimical to Christianity; that it is possible to know a Christ divorced from all morality.

She has now filed for divorce from her «Husband» who refused to be interviewed by the producers of this video.When asked whether she believed Warren Jeffs was a prophet answered emphatically NO.

If we add to this the sexual activity of young men of the same age, of gay men and lesbian women at a later stage of life, and that of unmarried and divorced heterosexual couples, it becomes clear that the sexual practice of people in our society is quite different from that held to be normative by the traditional teaching of the churches.

He repeatedly rebuked Mosaic Laws through the gospels by working on the sabbath, saving adulteres from stoning, divorce, etc..

As one priest told the Board, «It's like being divorced by your wife, fired from your job, and evicted from your home all at once.»

By thus divorcing this relation from the clear ethical implications which both Buber and Ferdinand Ebner have given it, Heim makes possible a dualism on the basis of which he characterizes man's relation with the eternal Thou as taking place in an altogether different dimension from his relation with his human Thou.

The nature of work itself is perverted in the modern world by the divorce of technical means from value ends, I - It from I - Thou.

Many modern marriages run a downhill course from the high romance and ecstatic satisfaction of newly - weds, through the progressive frustrations and disappointments of people who measure one another by benefits received, to the divorce court.

That is why you need the license from thr CIVIL government, and if there's a divorce, it's handled by the CIVIL courts.

The overwhelming majority reject and ignore Humanae Vitae, and most Catholics in the UK and the rest of Europe, and the US are also known (from research evidence) to disagree that sexual relations before marriage, [by] masturbation, after divorce, or between same sex couples are morally wrong».

Our Western culture has moved so rapidly in the past half century, our ways of thinking have been so affected by the scientific, technological, and secular advances, that our situation seems divorced almost completely from society as presupposed in biblical and traditional theological thinking.

Pharisees asked Jesus about divorce in book of Matthew by his response he said» No one should divorce for any other reason apart From Adultery»

By putting off the Kingdom of God until «the future millennial reign of Christ» we have divorced most of the message of Jesus from the Gospel of Jesus.

Facing unprecedented economic challenges, emotional baggage from seeing so many of their parents divorced and having core values tested by a shifting cultural climate has given many millennials pause when it comes to «settling down.»

But they can not be divorced from the fences put in place by the religious of past generations and of his generation.

The standard response by Christian theologians to Epicurus» conundrum is to say that their god gave man Free Will and is thereby divorced from his creature's decision making.

The same liberal media that wants to divorce us whites from Jesus by saying he wasn't white are the same media that works to tell us that Zimmerman IN white.

Deeds and actions by themselves accomplish nothing if divorced from the message and focus of the Gospel, which is the person and work of Jesus Christ.

See Polanyi 1967 and Whitehead 1968: «The degeneracy of mankind is distinguished from its uprise by the dominance of chill abstractions, divorced from aesthetic content» (Whitehead 1968, 123).

He would have to recognize that in sentimentality there is not only an escape from boredom but the divorce of feeling from responsibility that serves him by making no end of trouble for humans.

«30 So Nasr believes that since the environment is not an ontologically independent order of reality, which is divorced from the Divine Environment, the environmental crisis «has been caused by man's refusal to see God as the real Environment.

When Pope Clement VII failed to back him, he considered himself released from that debt on the basis that he retained, both theoretically and pragmatically, plenipotentiarity, and needing funds to defend his nation from the consequences, it was natural justice to impose the expense on the offender, the Catholic Church: it is to be noticed that the grounds for his divorce action were that he had been induced into marrying Catherine by the deliberate misrepresentation of Pope Julius II.

An increasing number of commentators say that the main problems we face in a world molded by the modern worldview result from a scientific technology divorced from religious inspiration.

, just published in paperback by ISI: «As more and more populations are added to the immense «global middle class,» each people is commanded to divorce itself from its culpable past» one said to be defined by intolerance and oppression.

While life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are valuable human ideals in themselves, they are by no means «God - given rights,» are not guaranteed in Scripture, and when such values are divorced from the understanding that we will answer to God, these rights become some of the greatest instruments of death, enslavement, and sadness the world has ever seen.

Paul's rejection of divorce (I Corinthians 7) is motivated largely by his concern to prevent Christianity from becoming a wedge between a Christian husband and his non-Christian wife.