Sentences with phrase «against alternative views»

What we have in these chapters, in turn, is an almost gentle presentation of natural theology, a Christian theological proposal that is argued vigorously against alternative views, and a straightforward apologetic for a certain physics - based conception of God's action in the world.

Not exact matches

But the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler offers an alternative — and in our view, more credible — explanation for why the administration edited down the talking points, suggesting that the emails reveal a «bureaucratic knife fight» that pitted the State Department against the CIA.

Kraus supports her view by producing an argument against what she apparently takes to be the only alternative position open to Whiteheadians, the «interpretation of God as a personal order of divine occasions» of Charles Hartshorne (p. 163).

This occurrence is too threatening for large segments of some traditions and subsystems, and so they have retreated into themselves, building thicker walls against the invasion of alternative points of view.

The second chapter includes a substantial discussion of Christology that argues vigorously for the author's interpretation of what Christology, including the resurrection, has meant in the past and what it might mean today, with a fair share of polemics against alternative theological views.

Yet viewed against the background of the stark alternatives proposed in Strauss» book, Buber appears to be much closer to liberal German «Jewish thought than many of his subsequent interpreters, and perhaps even Buber himself, have recognized.

The alternative proposed over against the dominant modern world view does not necessarily include God.

Non-traditional bond funds, viewed as an alternative to long - only bond funds and a protective hedge against interest rate increases, have continued to disappoint in the aggregate.

Before BEST, the above questions aside, strict mathematical analyses of the data could not reach above a 90 % CI on any substantial span of years, nor could reach a similar CI against alternative hypotheses based on some views of ocean variability.