Sentences with phrase «apologetic way»

In the next letter, Peter Toleri first thanked the interviewer for his time and then, in a non apologetic way, acknowledged that he failed to say something significant at the meeting.

I reminder her about that comment about acting for others not being her path and she says «I know...» in a goofily apologetic way, like she always knew where she was heading but just hadn't told us.

Kansas» I would say almost in an apologetic way with some side eye to myself.

If you ask them something, they'll do their earnest best to answer, perhaps finishing, in an apologetic way, I must dash.

Not exact matches

Think of it this way: For all that «God» is in the title, God and Man at Yale is not a particularly religious book, and it certainly is not a volume of Catholic apologetics or exegesis.

Jerry Coyne's reponse to the Christian response to the New Atheism opens up a better way forward for apologetics.

Until the recent past the main emphasis has been on apologetics, catechesis and other reasoned approaches, but there are complementary steps to be taken towards the expressive and inspirational by featuring less rational and doctrinal means, such assacred art, that can in their distinct manner explore the way of beauty.1

I think that in this way, the emerging church is seeking to correct what has been a bit of an over-emphasis on apologetics and doctrine within the conservative evangelical community in recent years.

Rather than have recourse to an unproductive apologetics when faced with contemporary atheism, we ought to concern ourselves with weeding out from Christianity what is not authentic, should even be grateful to Marx's critique of religion for the purifying function which it performs in this way.

Sometimes they are apologetic about not «attending church» and I am able to affirm and encourage them that I don't «attend church» either, but am able to follow Jesus in a more relational way just as they are.

John Warwick Montgomery, a lawyer and philosopher as well as theologian, provides perhaps the most comprehensive argument by a conservative in his recent book Human Rights and Human Dignity: An Apologetic for the Transcendent Perspective (Zondervan, 1986) He concludes that rights derived from the inerrant teachings of the Bible give authority to the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration, even exceeding its claims in significant ways.

And today, rather than playing defense, American seminaries like Mundelein in Chicago are exploring how the Church might go on offense — not in an offensive way, but by developing new models of a 21st - century apologetics that invites disenchanted post-moderns to experience the divine mercy and come to know the truths to which that experience leads.

Creation from nothing, the origin of death among humans, the murder of Abel by Cain, a cataclysmic flood of judgement, the righteous judgement of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Mosaic origin of the Torah, manna from heaven, the reliability of Deuteronomy, the driving out of the Canaanites, Isaiah's authorship of the servant songs, and so on — it's almost as if Jesus and his followers went out of their way to validate all of the most awkward apologetic curveballs in the Old Testament just to make life difficult for post-Enlightenment Western interpreters.

Much of traditional and contemporary Christian proclamation, apologetics and worship assumes an innate «suspicion» within people that for the world to be the way it is there must be a greater power behind it - note, for example, Paul's statement to the Romans: «There is no excuse at all for not honouring God, for God's invisible qualities are made visible in the things God has made».

It would unlock the potential for the re-evangelisation of the world through a convincing new apologetic in a powerful way.

He came to feel that the «method and manner» of his apologetic works were «spurious,» and he turned to «make - believe» as «another way of talking about the reality of things.»

Isolated individual philosophers have given way to an apologetics movement that has become an industry in itself.

Sometimes I feel the big important things, and other times it's silly, petty, selfish things but I feel sadness and pain again, in ways that I didn't when I had my barricades of apologetics, bravado, and explanations.

Highlights for me included Chapter 2 («Turtles All the Way Down»), in which Jason manages to use a strange blend of Stephen Hawking and Dr. Suess to engage readers in a really helpful dissection of presuppositional apologetics, Chapter 4 («The Weight of Absence»), which beautifully illustrates the fear and emptiness that comes from not feeling God's presence as often or as keenly as other people seem to, and Chapter 5 («Reverse Bricklaying»), which describes Jason's struggles with prayer and the comfort he finds in traditional liturgy.

With the exception of this one category, however, every form of messianic expectation was applied to Jesus, and even this one, that of the Prophet, already preempted for John, was turned to good account in Christian apologetics: the Prophet had indeed come, but his purpose was to announce the coming of Jesus, the real Messiah, and to prepare his way.

At such times a relaxation of the apologetic approach and a new openness to the foreignness of alternative ways of looking at mystery become essential simply for the sake of the vitality and survival of the tradition's revelatory capacity.

Hans Waldenfels observes that in the standard modern manuals of theology, apologetics does not treat the topic of revelation in so far as it is known through faith, but only in so far as it can be grasped in a purely «natural» way.

Such manuals as that of Garrigou - Lagrange typically cite Hebrews 1:1 as a scriptural basis for this understanding: «In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son...» The notion of God's locutio is easily assimilable to that of propositional truth which in turn best suits the interests of apologetics.

There is no way for anyone other than an apologetic to misread it.

I was asking apologetics questions to my uncle in a very emotional way!

Funny, a whole long article about how apologetic these people are, but I didn't see one thing about them offering the couple the choice of a symbolic marriage ceremony at the church to show both acceptance & tell the bigots there cries for hate won't be tolerated & they won't get their way.

My Christian apologetics become literal apologies for the way fellow Christians have treated them.

Browning's second purpose is to advocate a particular way of doing theology, one positioned between historicist and foundationalist approaches (what George Lindbeck terms, respectively, «cultural - linguistic» and «apologetic» perspectives in his book The Nature of Christian Doctrine).

Brunner was no armchair theologian; in an intriguing variety of ways he lived out his apologetic, pastoral and missionary concerns.

Without these apologetic topics that you mentioned, there is no way I would have become a christian.

Much of our Christian proclamation and apologetics draws on this innate «suspicion» people have that for the world to be the way it is, there must be a greater power behind it.

Unlike the others, Tillich continued the apologetic tradition, drawing on Heidegger as a way of circumventing the limits of the earlier tradition.

At the same time, Barth's polemic against the various ways in which apologetic theology had justified God - language was accepted.

If Barth's analysis doesn't make you shy away from apologetics, the crude way that apologetics is often practiced may do so.

«I am not apologetic about the fact that the bill has been changed on its way through the House,» he told the Commons.

He said, «The APC is not in any way apologetic.

Like Jess above, I would like to blame living in Canada for being apologetic about the way my lifestyle choices and the way I eat, haha.

need a rich man for funIf you are fat say so in a way that is positive and not apologetic.

If you go into any social situation being apologetic that the word fat is your descriptor, then they are going to describe you in this way!

And he's got plenty of reason to think so: He lost his arm to a roadside mine on his way home from his second tour in Iraq, and his brother Jimmy (Channing Tatum) can't keep a job because of a lingering leg injury (or, as his apologetic boss puts it, a preexisting condition).

«We are not at all apologetic for the fact that it takes time... this is not a checklist and it wasn't intended to be, it's a way of building capacity through working through the framework.»

He tries to sound apologetic, the way his brother suggested on the ride over.

I left the company's name blank because after returning home, we contacted their corporate office and corporate was extremely apologetic for the way we were treated and sent us a check for the overages we had to pay.

It's perverse, headstrong, and in no way at all apologetic about what it is — but that's it's strongest point.

I think you need to ask yourself about the courage of your convictions if you give way to apologetics the moment the WSJ finds you guilty by association.

By the way: Joe Bast's weird, unapologetic apologetics after the fact could have easily been written by a moral retard like Dana, I think.

I told my trainer (who was most understanding and apologetic, by the way) that having such a shoddy product really reflects badly on Canada Law Book as a whole.

Continuing its apologetic tour, Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg made plenty of disturbing revelations about the way Facebook hasn't been protecting your data.

Sometimes there are legitimate reasons for employers being this rigid on scheduling (like the interviewer will be coming in from out of town and is only there for a limited time)... but it's also true that if an employer is really interested in you, they'll try to find a way to make it work, or will at least be really apologetic if they can't be more flexible.

Then he would come back very apologetic with tons of excuses (I was kicked out of my house, I'm busy with school, ect) when I was (understandably) very very cross with him and he would somehow weasel his way back into my life again.