Sentences with phrase «accepts the body of»

Therefore, there is no completely accepted body of Ijma to which one may turn.

Is it to be in the development of a common vision, that is to say, the establishment of a universally accepted body of knowledge, in which all intelligence will join in knowing the same facts interpreted in the same way?

If the Supreme Court had consulted the accepted body of scientific knowledge, however, they would have found that the companies» religious beliefs were not in conflict with the birth control methods they opposed, says Pratima Gupta, a doctor at the San Francisco Medical Center and former board member of the pro-choice network Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health.

Diversity # 183, could be useful but the problem with «the generally accepted body of theory relating to global warming» is not that it is either wrong or incomplete, but that operational results based on it will suffer from uncertainty, i.e., imprecision, due to the way that in the theoretical framework, precision is propagated from data to results.

The generally accepted body of theory relating to global warming explains a very large part of the available data, but not all of it.

So what does it mean when Bolt sings the praises of a man who is a declared environmentalist, accepts the body of evidence for climate change, supports a carbon tax and is a strong supporter of the United Nations?

Since I know there's no widely accepted body of work supporting the claim that the MPW was global and synchronous and as warm or warmer than the present I'm highly suspicious of the Idsos» presentation of the work of others.

Not exact matches

Aguilera told PAPER that she thinks that society is becoming more accepting of body diversity, beauty ideals, and risky fashion choices.

Businesses used to throw bodies at sales goals, and accepted that most of the people would fail.

The EU and others had been asked to spell out what limits they could accept on the amount of steel they export to the United States, how they would address the issue of excess production of steel and aluminum and how they would support the U.S. before international bodies like the World Trade Organization.

In light of this, it is not enough for government bodies and policies to be more accepting of Chinese capital and immigration; a discussion needs to be had at the public level between local communities and newly - immigrated Chinese - Canadians as well in order to facilitate the acceptance and integration of new - comers into our diverse Canadian culture.

It is very much important to be informed that the 10Trade is a fairly registered broker under the financial markets regulatory bodies of the EU in which this broker accepts European customers.

O eternal and everlasting God, I presume to present myself this morning before thy Divine majesty, beseeching thee to accept of my humble and hearty thanks, that it hath pleased thy great goodness to keep and preserve me the night past from all the dangers poor mortals are subject to, and has given me sweet and pleasant sleep, whereby I find my body refreshed and comforted for performing the duties of this day, in which I beseech thee to defend me from all perils of body and soul...

You can't accept that atoms, molecules, chemical reactions in our bodies, and the rest of the universe just work somehow, but you can accept that a mystical all - knowing being simply created it all?

One thing abt the major religions is that they make U accept a ridiculously impossible thing as the center of one's faith like the nailing to a cross a human body & not having it tear away.

As for Rasputin's apparent ability to stop Alexei's bleeding, Smith explains at length how modern science accepts the influence of mind over body.

Given a Reformed ecclesiology, an individual believer seems to have no reason to accept a particular ecclesial body as part of the «true Church,» unless its interpretation of the Gospel matches the believer's own.

In a time in which the human body seemed to lose any iconic significance, in the weakness of his failing body, John Paul participated, as Cardinal Lustiger noted, in the suffering of his Redeemer, for the «mystery of salvation happens when Christ is on the cross and can not do or decide anything other than to accept the will of the Father.»

We have allowed ourselves to accept the modern dualism of humanity and nature, mind and body.

If we accept that fasting is not only an attempt to discipline the body, but above all an attempt to eradicate the weaknesses (which St. John Damascenecalls passions [27]-RRB- of the soul, then what we practise in fasting will naturally have an effect on our prayer.

A couple of years after I accepted my best position as minister, serving as pastor of a church in St. Anne, Illinois, my parents came from Mexico for a visit, During their stay my father, who had recently turned 80, suffered a minor stroke that paralyzed the left side of his body.

On the one hand, we assent to the presence of the substance of Christ's Body because we accept the truth of Christ's own words that «this is My Body» (Lk 22:19).

The redemption of the body of Christ surely calls for the timely and literal adoption of every child who is waiting to be wanted, accepted and loved.

A Resurrection of his physical body, such as is implied by the empty tomb and by some of the stories in the Gospels of his appearances, would point towards a docetic Christ who does not fully share the lot of men; unless, indeed, bodily corruption were to be regarded as being bound up with the sinfulness of man which Christ did not share (but, unless we accept an impossibly literalistic interpretation of Genesis 3 as factual history, it is impossible to hold that physical dissolution is not part of the Creator's original and constant intention for his creatures in this world).

Is it better to accept an imaginative picture of God as the distant ruler controlling his realm through external and benevolent power or one of God so intimately related to the world that the world can be imagined as God's body?

On the face of it the passage is a mystical experience; but the way Alyosha got to it was by way of Father Zossima's putrefying body: he had to go through that experience of radical dissociation, accept it and take it with him, an experience fully described in the earlier part of Book VII, in order to come to the insight that «the silence of earth seemed to melt into the silence of the heavens.»

Finkelstein's latest work, however, adds a totally original element by criticizing the activities of the WJC and other Jewish bodies, criticism which one need not be on the left (or the right) to accept.

Comic and romantic narratives that envisioned cure were counterbalanced by tales of tragedy and irony that depicted settings in which I was to accept my body, and thus the world, as it is.

Yet there is a considerable body of material about Jesus whose historicity tends to be generally accepted, on the basis of these same methods.

I am using the term «dialectic» in its ancient and etymological sense, and it seems appropriate to describe the process by this word; for instead of an aprioristic, deductive method of procedure, the process was one of answering questions and objections as they arose, not in anticipation, and not as the unfolding, more geometrico, of a system implicit within a body of axioms or first principles which one needed only accept and then all the rest followed logically to the final Q.E.D..

Tolerance is a double - edged sword that has crept into the body of Christ and provided comfort, cover and an accepted excuse for allowing today's church model to hinder the gospel of Christ and burden the church.

She simply accepts her body for how it is, rather than trying to conform to everyone else's idea of how she should look.

Is it funded by the United Fund or the Government or a body which holds member agencies accountable for accepted standards of practice?

Harmony with nature and one's own body, a more «feminine» and less dominating attitude toward one's self and others, an ability to accept feelings and emotions — including feelings of weakness and despair — a willingness to accept personal variety, have all been valued and tried in practice.

Therefore the Christian is finally called to accept the Antichrist, or the totality of the dead body of God, as a final kenotic manifestation of Christ.

the possibility of realizing the emancipatory impulse of feminism lies not in concretising and more fully defining the boundaries of «our bodies» through law, but in accepting «the self» as something that is negotiable and contestable.

Why is it so hard for you to imagine or accept that, to some people, the «personal, private» parts of the body are not exactly the same as they are to you?

But it is one thing to accept the idea of God in my mind, and quite another to let the presence of God penetrate my being, take root in my body and inform my feelings and behaviors — for God to be alive in my heart.

The body, described by Christian faith as an integral and permanent aspect of human being, must be explicitly cared for and enhanced by any ascetic practice that we accept as good for our souls.

As the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19), how can we accept the brutal and intentional violence that exists in boxing and MMA?

If these elements are accepted and enacted by the nine COCU denominations, their separate institutional existence will not thereby be ended, but the fashioning and functioning of the joints and ligaments of a united ecclesial body will begin.

Hartshorne (MVG 175 - 185), Cobb (CNT 192 - 196) and others have accepted the ideas that the universe is the body of God, and that God's omnipresence is omnispatiality.

The five books of the law had been accepted as sacred Scripture for four or five centuries, and for two or three centuries the books of the prophets had been recognized as a second body of sacred literature; but the rest of the Old Testament (known to this day simply as Writings or Scriptures) had not yet been «canonized.»

This was either too late or too soon, because it has reverted from what was an increasingly accepting body right back into the tyrranical monster of old.

Much more recently Eldridge Cleaver has pointed out that the splitting tendency in American culture, which we have traced back to the early Puritans, tended to make the white man a mind without a body and the black man a body without a mind.20 Only when the white man comes to respect his own body, to accept it as part of himself, will he be able to accept the black man's mind and treat him as something other than the living symbol of what he has rejected in himself.

He was accepting the immortality of the soul; but he was also urging that a mere soul, without a body of some kind, did not constitute the genuine and complete human person.

To summarize briefly, he is one who has been given and has accepted a calling from God, and devoted himself body and soul to his service, bearing witness to the truth of God, enduring many sufferings, and in the end laying down his life for the sake of others.

The reluctance of many churches and church bodies to accept ordination of women is a case in point.

Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.

An accepted comprehensive theory is overthrown not primarily by discordant data but by an alternative theory; we should visualize not a two - way confrontation of theory and experiment, but a complex confrontation of rival theories and a body of data of varying degrees of susceptibility to reinterpretation.