Sentences with phrase «all over nature»

Others believe in nurture over nature.

Overcoming our urges and controlling ourselves is mind over nature.

Because of these difficulties, disagreement over whether complying with the mandate would be formal or material might well be disagreement not so much over the mandate as over the nature of intention itself.

Bernard W. Anderson, «Human Dominion Over Nature,» in Biblical Studies in Contemporary Thought, edited by Miriam Ward.

God does not work that way although God has full power over nature as with the flood.

This last difference, however, highlights perhaps the most important and persistent difference between the speakers, one that remained sadly unexplored: a difference over the nature of history.

In this oracle of comfort the prophet uses the hymnic traditions of the pre-exilic temple to introduce the theme of Yahweh's sovereignty over nature and history.

In debates between Christian theologians and economists over the nature of capitalism, facts and figures count for almost nothing.

If such a source (or sources) exist, why is there such confusion and disagreement over the nature of this god and what it wants?

She once gave shelter to Trotsky (and is said to have argued him into the ground over the nature of social oppression), was a soldier at the front in the Spanish Civil War, sought dangerous service in World War II and served with the Free French in London.

Fighting over his nature, the types of ceremonies that you need to perfrom, and the relevance of «holy» books and or doctrines merely define which sect of the cult you inhabit.

A couple who put a plug on their fertility may be acting out a kind of «sorcery» whose purpose is to gain control over nature by wrongful means.

He had power over nature.

Orderly and dependable forces in God's world make possible man's security and mastery over nature — but never wholly, for accident and disease come in their wake and wait to be conquered.

Well known are the disputes over the nature of the atonement.

Many claim Jesus did this just to prove his divinity and authority over nature.

These assumptions, which have their origins in a theologically motivated rejection of a classical understanding of God and creation, lead by an easy path to the view that human beings fully realize themselves by producing concepts that give us mastery over limitless possibilities — first mastery over nature, then over ourselves.

This tension is, essentially, that between the Enlightenment emphasis on disengaged reason exercising control over nature, and the Romantic emphasis on self - expression and creative imagination.

C. S. Lewis once said that man's celebrated power over nature «turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.»

SCHÖNBORN REFINED The important debate over the nature of the Church's acceptance of the theory of evolution has been refined over the last couple of...

Protestants, for their part, never cease arguing over the nature of the Lord's lordship.

They think of emancipation from its subject - object dualisms and the hegemonies these spawn (humans over nature, men over women, and the West over the rest of the world) as liberation indeed.

In so doing Nietzsche ends up reversing the priority of mind over nature (which we saw in Hegel) to that of nature over mind.

Referring to C. S. Lewis's much - cited claim in The Abolition of Man, Kass writes that if «man's so - called power over nature is, in truth, always a power exercised by some over others with knowledge of nature as their instrument, can it really be liberating to exchange the rule of nature for the role of arbitrary human will?»

Though not directly stated anywhere, Peter Enns appears to be a proponent of the idea that the Bible is a library of books written by various authors from various theological perspectives, who are in dialogue with each other over the nature of God and what the human response to Him should be.

Hence the reason why Hegel gives priority to mind over nature.

In a recent discussion with a group of seminary students, I was struck by the apparent confusion over the nature of ordination among young persons about to enter professional ministry.

Two points have given rise to endless controversy over the nature of faith.

Absolute idealism admits man's transcendence over nature; and it has the advantage over naturalism in its appreciation of the depth of the human spirit.

I gave men mastery over nature.

Another aspect, as in Freud and Marx, is the insight that reason is dishonest when it claims mastery over nature.

Toynbee observed that since the dawn of civilization there has been a growing «morality gap» between humankind's physical power over nature and the level of its spirituality — a gap that has increased rapidly in the last 200 years.

I do not understand what all of this conflict over the nature of his worship is about.

There is no belief in the inner superiority of spirit over nature, no conception of struggle between spirit and nature, nor of the inner growth which man can win in the battle with nature; there is lacking also the specifically modern pessimistic estimate of the world such as has received poetic expression from Strindberg or Spitteler.

I am particularly concerned about the attempt to wed so closely this debate over the nature of the church with religious and political communion.

We desperately need a new vision of our own meaning and purpose, one that will give us the wisdom to control the new powers over Nature that we are acquiring, one that will give us a new direction and a new hope.

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From the beginning of creation, God has always been love and through Jesus» ability to forgive sins and his power over nature, God's love is revealed to the world, what has always been is now radiated by a seemingly insignificant carpenter from Nazareth.

Even some who stand relatively low in the prestige ladder now lord it over nature, as they drive great machines which coerce the earth to do their bidding, or shape and twist tough metal as if it were putty, or with explosives obliterate any obstacle in the wink of an eye.

Irenaeus therefore made a distinction between the image of God which is man's distinctive endowment of reason, his dominion over nature, and his creaturely dignity; and the similitude to God which is faith, hope and love, that is, the full and righteous relation which man is supposed to enjoy as God's creature.

There was a beginning so there is Creator who is perfect in power and wisdom, having power over nature therefore everything is under submission to the One who has power over nature and by definition that is God.

God is: the supreme or ultimate reality, perfect in power wisdom and goodness — Merriam Webster the creator and ruler of the universe, the source of all moral authority, superhuman being or spirit worshiped as having power over nature — Oxford Dictionary the one Supreme Being the creator and ruler of the universe — Dictionary.com

Nevertheless, as mysteries of the natural world are «explained,» and as man gains more and more mastery over nature, one particular necessity to invent «gods» tends to die away.

We puzzle over the nature of Christ's resurrection, and the locus of the resurrected Christ is extremely problematic, but in so merging Christ with cosmos and consciousness that he has no personality of his own in any sense, Altizer certainly seems to have negated Christian tradition.

It is built around scenes of conquest ---- conquest over the American frontier, the American Indian, and over nature itself.

For once real transcendence is eliminated or suppressed, political order itself becomes the transcendental horizon, assuming sovereignty over nature, truth, and morality — over anything that would precede, exceed, and limit it.

They reflect the confusion of the national debate over the nature and extent of the «energy crisis» and the remedies needed.

10 Certain recent discussions of environmental ethics, dealing with «respect for nature» (where nature is not necessarily limited to the realm of living things), reflect some affinities with Hall's ideas on «deference» and seem to pose a challenge to my suggestion that the pursuit of power over nature should be criticized primarily in terms of its negative effects on human values and experiences.

William Pollard sees technology today as a Promethean quest for human self - sufficiency, omnipotence, and complete mastery over nature, a celebration of man's glory rather than God's.

Power over nature has always been one of the motives for seeking technical knowledge, linking it in function with the practice of magic in earlier days.