Sentences with phrase «and claims of»

That's the secret of this whole thing; despite the intensity, history and claims of arrogance, these fan bases are more similar than either would like to admit.

Despite the popular misconception of saturated fats creating fat, reports and claims of slimming down and losing weight with a high fat diet began emerging within the last decade.

Unless the voice of God can carry over into the uninspiring routines of life and the claims of sick, suffering, often sordid humanity, we had better return to the mood of confession and ask God to forgive us our blindness and folly.

«I don't even follow my religion as I should» well guess what a bunch of your brethren do, they follow the words and claims of that child molesting war mongering prophet of your Islam to a tee, and look where that's gotten them.

When in a parable the problem of the impartial administration of justice arises, the particular takes precedence over the universal, and the claims of justice are overruled by the grace of charity.

Furthermore, Harrison's perspective seems to skirt consideration of the legitimate interests and claims of the body politic.

Most Christian theologies have defined Mormonism a «cult» in more the sense of the former - tenets of Mormon theology differ widely from Orthodox Christianity when it comes to key issues like Biblical authority, the trinity, divinity and claims of Christ, total depravity, redemption and salvation... on and on.

The churches of America, though far from decadent, are doing much less effective work than they might be doing with their resources, and the major cause of the difficulty lies in failure to present the meaning and claims of the Christian faith in terms that seem vital to the common man.

Is it possible to affirm the value of the technological revolution, the legitimacy of the hopes and claims of the dispossessed, most of all, of the moral centrality of the Negro revolution in America today — is it possible to affirm all these values and still to live comfortably in the modern world as these writers portray it?

But the fact still remains that there is history in the Bible, and your claims of it being a complete myth is beyond false.

Already two basic values have come into view: (1) our attitude toward our nation and the needs and claims of other nations, especially the poorer ones, and (2) our attitudes toward individual consumption.

But he inherits a church wracked by a decades - old sexual abuse scandal and claims of corruption in the clergy.

Then there's the $ 10m seafront mansion, private jet, expensive cars and claims of lavish expenditure.

Our sympathy and participation in the needs and claims of one party usually precludes any adequate participation in the rival needs and claims of others, particularly if the rival claimant is «society as a whole.»

A durable universal religion can not be built upon historical particularities and claims of uniqueness and finality.

[2] Satya P. Mohanty, Literary Theory and the Claims of History: Postmodernism, Objectivity, Multicultural Politics (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 201.

The articulation of both the similarities and dissimilarities — but particularly the former — between the great empires of the past and the imperial structure and claims of communism illuminates both.

Hard just war theory reverses these emphases, replacing them with the following: a presumption against injustice and disorder rather than against war; an assumption that war is tragic but inevitable in a fallen world and that war is a necessary task of government; a tendency to trust the U.S. government and its claims of need for military action; an emphasis on just war theory as a tool to aid policymakers and military personnel in their decisions; an inclination to distrust the efficacy of international treaties and to downplay the value of international actors and perspectives; a less stringent or differently oriented application of some just war criteria; and no sense of common ground with Christian pacifists.

Ok, Johnny Mo, I will... they ALL have the same problem — that is, none of them have any supporting evidence and the claims of each lack empirical falsafiability.

The ACOG's own previous policy positions imply a very different understanding of the nature, scope, and claims of conscientious judgment, including the judgment that a proposed treatment is not in the best interest of the patient.

They are still citizens, spouses or (alas) slaves, and the claims of those roles are still upon them.

As such, they CAN NOT quantify their claims, and I move to disqualify Bill Nye's claims and the claims of all those who do not have evidence.

Christian Smith shows convincingly that the goals and claims of biblicism have not worked, and so it is an impossible way of viewing and reading Scripture.

The life and ministry cluster of Christian Myth includes the miracle stories, prophecies and messianic claims erroneously attributed to Jesus, and claims of his perfection or sinlessness.

Whether one is caught in a tug - of - war between a religious sect and one's parents, between the demands of the workplace and the claims of wife and children, or between the love of fellow soldiers and the love of wife and parents, the strains are very real.

Colin, I know it seems to be exaggerated when written in brief as I have done, but look to the beliefs and claims of these.

We do not know whether persons in this group, while moved by the presence and claims of individuals with whom they are in face - to - face relations, may, on another level, be oblivious to and unmoved by more impersonal social structures and practices that consistently put and keep persons in situations of oppression and deprivation.

This logic radically destabilizes all existing ties, making individual calculation the primary basis on which to assess the legitimacy and claims of any association.

The free will concept is totally denied by god's supposed behavior in the bible and the claims of Christians.

The U.S. hasn't banned ICOs, but the SEC issued an investor alert in July warning investors to be wary of offers and claims of high returns.

It is the responsibility of the project creator to complete their project as promised, and the claims of this project are theirs alone.»

• General liability insurance covers legal matters due to accident, injuries, and claims of negligence.

Despite its initial controversy and claims of unfair competition, Uber has staked its claim across the world — in fact, in 400 cities and 65 countries.

This is bible speak for reminding people that dad, while and absent and neglecting father will come back one day and claim all of the glory and take credit for everything that was done without his help.

Liberation theology type B responds to both of these issues — the determination of theology by the needs of a community and the claim of privileged and exclusive access to theological existence.

First, since process thought concerns itself with the totality of human experience, it must necessarily take very seriously the fact of the religious vision and the claim of countless millions of people of every race and nation and age to have enjoyed some kind of contact with a reality greater than humankind or nature, through which refreshment and companionship have been given.

As Moltmann points out, God - language must be set in the category of expectation, since this is appropriate for a God of promise.15 Our problem here, therefore, is not to establish the ontological foundation for God - talk but to consider the position and claim of linguistic analysis in relation to the question of the validity of God - talk.

It was the explicit belief and claim of each of these presidents, as it had been of White and Gilman at Cornell and Johns Hopkins — and as it would be of Kirkland at Vanderbilt — that the absence of ecclesiastical governance rendered their universities and colleges nondenominational but Christian: indeed, they were freed to be more authentically (and surely more wisely) Christian than before.

Let us begin with the reaction against Jansenism, or what is often called Jansenism, in the Irish Church and the claim of more recent failure in leadership by the Irish hierarchy.

Soft just war theory is characterized by seven key components: a strongly articulated horror of war; a strong presumption against war; a skepticism about government claims; the use of just war theory as a tool for citizen discernment and prophetic critique; a pattern of trusting the efficacy of international treaties, multilateral strategies and the perspectives of global peace and human rights groups and the international press; a quite stringent application of just war criteria; and a claim of common ground with Christian pacifists.

This condition is rapidly disappearing and the claim of the Gospel must be presented on its own terms with the understanding that the hearers stand amid several alternatives.

In attempting to interpret this picture and the claim of our text we will consider three questions: 1) Who, according to Matthew, is this Son of Man?

It's not the same person they follow, even if they use the same name, and claim some of the same teachings, others that are totally different.

The relationship of men in communities and races was viewed as a gift of God; but the elevation of Volk into an object of supreme devotion and the claim of superiority for one race over another and discriminations on the ground of race or color were declared to be contrary to the spirit of Christ.

Not exact matches

That should be plenty of power for a Chromebook, and Google claims the Pixelbook will start up in seconds.

LG was winning awards for its full touch - screen Prada phone ahead of Apple's entry into the smartphone market and claimed Apple copied its design.

It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

He also believes Barça should own its image rights and sell merchandise directly, rather than allowing Nike, Adidas, and others to claim the lion's share of the value.

A reporter for Infowars faced a verbal assault on the streets of Boston last week, when an irate onlooker unleashed a profanity - laced tirade against the site's founder Alex Jones and his claim that the marathon bombing was a «false flag» operation perpetrated by the FBI.

One - in - four of Americans struggles to get to sleep or stay asleep, according to pollsters, and the CDC claims an equally large percentage of us fail to get even six hours of sleep a night.