Sentences with phrase «affirming as»

They are affirming as they mean that the boss really does appreciate the employee's hard work and contribution.

They're just as beautiful and life affirming as the artworks of his youth.

Although being able to append full - time writer to ones biography is a goal for many writers, often the reality isnt quite as life affirming as its sounds: unscheduled days and the lure of the internet can be a perpetual struggle.

As life - affirming as it is awe - inspiring, Ang Lee's «Life Of Pi» is a another of 2012's special effects bonanzas paired with first class storytelling.

The concept is presented in Walker's In Search of Our Mother's Gardens, and many women in church and society have appropriated it as a way of affirming themselves as black while simultaneously owning their connection with feminism and with the Afro - American community, male and female.

The idea of Purgatory as purification is one possible answer, though we have no basis for affirming it as a doctrine.

The next week Jesus comes to Thomas, who responds, not merely identifying the figure with Jesus, but affirming him as Lord and as God.

5:19; cf. 3:22, 8:15) the good in all our labor, an affirming as «good» (tob) our eating and drinking (Eccl.

As I was preparing for class, I learned that Mississippi's voters had rejected the so - called «Personhood Amendment,» which would have outlawed abortion in the state by affirming as a matter of law that human life begins at conception.

Based on work by Robert Cialdini, this strategy helps create rapport based on shared mutual beliefs that you affirm as part of the rapport building process, which happens early in the sales cycle.

As such, Walker's central challenge to process thought becomes his own theological struggle for coherence in a metaphysical scheme that denies what he affirms as fundamental to a black liberation theologian, i.e., that the most inclusive concept of God is the God of the oppressed.

Yet occasionally the texts affirmed it as moving or dynamic.

But to affirm as Mr O'Donnell does that the celibate «is more available and can give himself more to the service of the Lord and his people» (and that this is St Paul's understanding of the «higher vocation of the celibate») is simply to recognise that the celibate priest is freed to love the Lord and his people in a way that is closest to Christ's own loving who «gave himself to the point of laying down his life and came «to serve and not to be served».

In the first instance, the Law, affirmed as the fixed and immutable expression of God's eternal will, and spelled out in theological and ethical formulas, was the sole and sufficient guide for man's conduct.

His point was that no one ought to be compelled to affirm as true a religious tenet he took to be false and that no one should be compelled to participate in a religious rite that violated his own understanding of his religious obligations.

All being is affirmed as good because it is the product of God's purposeful intention and activity.

What Teilhard has given us in his vision of the «within» is a revolutionary idea and image of the church: here the church becomes understood and affirmed as a new and cosmic body of humanity.

32 Persuasion is affirmed as a positive alternative to coercion or compulsion, surrendering the illusion of control and intending not to violate the freedom of the one being persuaded.

At the one point in the Bible where God reveals his name he affirms himself as He Who Is, thus as pure being or existence.

She responded in a loving way which affirmed him as a man and a lover.

If man today is asking can God's existence be affirmed as transcendent without making God a functional element in an abstract scheme, it may be fruitful to realize that knowledge and experience of God involve a cyclic growth process from experience to schematization, from formulation to God present in the dynamism of man's life and activity.

Can God's existence be affirmed as transcendent without making God a functional element in an abstract scheme?

But whether supernatural agency, affirmed as a line item in the creed, so to speak, was all that crucial in the way that the two groups actually lived their lives, day by day, may well be questioned.

It is not enough to affirm these as abstract general principles; they must be controlling directives.

«Its provisions seek to affirm as a matter of statute that no - one should be under any duty to participate in activities that they believe involve the taking of human life, either in the withdrawal of life - sustaining treatment or in any activity authorised by the 1967 or 1990 Acts.»

Like Titus, the Galatians have been affirmed as believers without the requirement of circumcision, and have avoided the enslavement of those who would require it.

The extensive continuum is affirmed as the ground of the solidarity of all the relative real potentialities.

Creation is affirmed as benevolent, embodying the possibility of goodness.

Yet the hour that he has affirmed as history in this sense is none other than that of Hitler and the Nazis, «the very same hour whose problematics in its most inhuman manifestation led him astray.»

In «Religion and Modern Thought» Buber criticizes Sartre's statement that man «should affirm himself as the being through whom a world exists.»

I recognize and affirm myself as a center of consciousness.

«Imprecatory prayers,» which ask God to harm another person, have been affirmed as acceptable speech under the First Amendment, according to a story from Religion News Service:

Individual and social salvation were affirmed as of equal importance, and the definition of the former was not as closely tied to the latter as by some of the leaders of the social gospel.

They are affirmed as symbols but denied as literal predications, for the categories of finitude can not be applied literally to God.

We are committed to a sexual ethic founded on Scripture, and individuals whose lifestyles do not align, are not affirmed as leaders.

We must affirm it as real, independent of our cognition, and we should also affirm, therefore, that the bodily events of other people are real.

These proposals assumed that all the cultural streams should be affirmed as having their distinctive value and encouraged to maintain themselves.

In verse 48 and following He affirms Himself as the bread from heaven, and also affirms that eternal life comes from only Him!

That does not mean that the idea of Purgatory is necessarily true and it must be assessed in the light of scripture as a whole and, in my view, there's simply not enough biblical support to affirm it as an established doctrine.

The hypothesis that there are reals and an external permanency is affirmed as a commitment — a commitment of the kind one makes in marriage.

We shall attempt to discern why that particular form won conviction in its own setting, and why it conveyed truth to those who affirmed it as the expression of their hope.

There the crucified Christ, now risen with God, is affirmed as the source of the love which overcomes all human or cosmic threats to unity with God.

But the Christian scientist as such in his own sphere is bound as a matter of principle and method by the Church's magisterium as the higher and more comprehensive authority, in the sense that even as a scientist he may not affirm as established with certainty by his science something which would involve a definite contradiction of a doctrine taught officially by the Church as certain (Denzinger 1656, 1674 ff., 1681, 2085).

I ask because I myself have wondered if the pulpit makes a convenient place for someone with NPD to affirm themselves as right and to give themselves the constant control and me - centered affection they are dependent upon.

First, we must not be governed by our limited perception of him — supposing that we are qualified to judge him; secondly, we forgive him not because he is guilty, but because we choose to affirm him as he is revealed in the Bible; and thirdly, we must set him free — letting him totally off the hook — until the day arrives when every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:9 - 11).

The Law of Polarity dictates that not just one but both components of pairs of ultimate contraries should be affirmed as true because they are mutually interdependent and correlative.30 Accordingly, Hartshorne, in obeying this law, insists that God is both absolute and relative, infinite and finite, individual and universal, active and passive, eternal and temporal, cause and effect, creative and created, et cetera.

Such awareness is exactly what Hartshorne affirms as the case.

When we notice, then, that the Fourth Gospel begins not with the baptism and birth, but with the eternal Logos, who «was in the beginning with God,» it is not unnatural to decide that belief in the pre-existence of Jesus was the culmination of a process of exalting the earthly career which began with the fact of the resurrection and moved backward step by step till not only the whole of the earthly life was included but a divine pre-existence was affirmed as well.

The brotherhood of man has often been affirmed as a humanistic ideal apart from a specifically Christian rootage.

Naturalism came to be affirmed as axiomatic, and metaphysical or theological premises concerning man contemptuously dismissed as obsolete and hence irrelevant.