Sentences with phrase «old notions such»

Old notions such as the fear of God have been widely replaced by theologies that hold that God is powerless to do anything save lure people to righteousness, theologies that deny life beyond the grave altogether, or theologies that preach universal salvation.

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Such manuals as that of Garrigou - Lagrange typically cite Hebrews 1:1 as a scriptural basis for this understanding: «In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son...» The notion of God's locutio is easily assimilable to that of propositional truth which in turn best suits the interests of apologetics.

So it follows that the notion of God's revelation, as Christians believe it, must be understood always through the great Hebrew affirmations — this, in fact, is why the early Church refused to cut the Gospel of Jesus Christ loose from its moorings in the Old Testament, and why such thinkers as sought to do this, like Marcion and other Gnostic writers, were condemned as perverters of the faith.

Separately, although I have found many people - let's say on an airplane with a particularly upset 5 month old of mine, to be upset with the notion that such a child has dared to deafen them with his unexpected ear pressure problem, these instances are usually somewhat understandable.

I still cling to the old - fashioned notion that there are such things as facts.

By the same token, Krueger rejects the notion that policymakers should focus new investments in education on a particular age group, such as the very young: «Old dogs can learn new tricks,» he says, and the benefits of programs for teenagers and adults are apparent more quickly than those for young children.

The Jaguar snorts with disdain at such a notion, as if to say, «Yes, old chap, we're sure that is genuine leather.

She had never been to a yoga class, never meditated, unable to escape the notion that such strategies constituted a surrender, an admission that she could no longer bear to touch the skin of reality, her old lover.

Whereas for previous generations retirement planning simply meant working at the same company for 30 to 40 years before retreating into a life of leisure, such old - fashioned notions rarely apply anymore.

Efforts to collapse the barrier between art and life during the past half century are often associated with the material innovations of artists such as Robert Rauschenberg — with his rejection of notions of mastery and craftsmanship and insistence on bringing everyday materials into his work, like his bed, the morning newspaper, or an old tire — and the enactment of ordinary daily rituals like eating and drinking in the «happenings» of Allan Kaprow and others.

The peculiar notion that the human race will grow much more quickly than it can be sustained by food supplies is at least as old as Thomas Malthus, whose grim Malthusian Theory of more than two centuries ago predicted just such a scenario.

A researcher that comes to the data compilations process with a preconceived notion that the world is warming may be eager to explain why the raw data shows no such temperature trend, and quick to accept a rationale for adjusting older temperatures down and more recent temperatures up.