Sentences with phrase «apparent contradiction of»

The apparent contradiction of a strong investment market at a time of high vacancy rates is at odds with a commercial real estate rule of thumb: Property sales rise when leasing is strong.

Diane Vaughn, a sociologist and the author of Uncoupling (1986), provides a valuable insight into this apparent contradiction of emotional calamity and predictable emotional patterns: «Uncoupling is perceived by those who experience it as woefully chaotic and disorderly.

It's also been criticized for the apparent contradiction of pushing for unity and openness, while retaining Trump advisor Peter Thiel on its board of directors and reportedly prototyping a censorship tool for China.

Curiously, Mercedes will not rule out a convertible version of the GT R just yet, despite the apparent contradiction of adding weight and removing structural rigidity from a very focussed performance car.

Animals from waters with guppy - hungry predators aged more slowly than did fish from pools cut off from predators by waterfalls — an apparent contradiction of the classical theory.

The apparent contradiction of these two descriptions comes as little surprise to those of us in the scientific community.

David passed the tip along to assistant managing editor Erik Engquist, who then raised the apparent contradiction of words and deeds in an email to the mayor's office.

(CNN)- Pope Francis called an Argentine woman married to a divorced man and reportedly told her that she could receive the sacrament of Communion, according to the woman's husband, in an apparent contradiction of Catholic law.

Rather, his poetry and prose are merged and submerged in his purpose of carrying his reader to the place to which «the whole torrent of our love rushes,» the place of highly energized and pleasurable «rest» — «there,» where the apparent contradiction of rest and strongly felt pleasure coincide and can be communicated most adequately by Augustine's inardescimus et imus: we catch fire and we go.

And, the story goes, Jesus own existence synthesizes the apparent contradictions of a healthy love for life with an attitude of openness to execution.

Not exact matches

LVLT fascinates most people because of the Walter Scott connection, technology relationship, the apparent contradiction to Warren's investment principles and the fact that so many Omaha and Berkshire shareholders have lost 90 cents of every dollar invested in this company.

In the case of apparent contradictions and errors, we are assured that the true interpretation of these passages, this higher understanding, will eliminate these.

The research team have solved this apparent contradiction not with fractals but with the velocity of blood flow, which is proportional to M1 / 12.

It is only when we detach «texts of Scripture» that there are apparent contradictions in the sayings of Christ.

The Christian idea of man can be stated in the form of five paradoxes, each uniting an apparent contradiction.

Where there are apparent contradictions among philosophers, the goal must be to attain a wider vision within which the essential truth of each view can be displayed in its limited validity.9

The resolution to this apparent contradiction is to notice that Paul was addressing two different sets of circumstances.

This is why St. Paul can urge, without any apparent sense of contradiction: «Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work his good pleasure» (Philippians 2:12 - 13).

Analysis of an apparent contradiction between these two passages of scripture, indicating a «wicked sense of humor on someone's part.»

The result is a stage of transition, with apparent contradictions or anomalies in what had been formerly accepted and recognised, tensions in the dominant paradigm, and an increase in new theories and types of research with new achievements being produced within the new.

Perhaps only a postmodern sensibility that routinely takes apparent contradictions in stride can appreciate how a thoroughly constructivist brain is grounded in the universals of human nature.

And if such a contradiction does occur, can the apparent meaning be reasonably rejected on grounds other than merely its contradicting some implication of our interpretive scheme?

Their conclusion, then, that apparent material contradictions of natural law call its coherence or force into question is unsurprising.

The unplausibility of theism without creaturely freedom4 and the absurdity of deity, or any actuality, as wholly timeless was apparent to Plato, who in late dialogues said that in God was «being and becoming» that God cares about the creatures, and is soul and therefore self - changing For him a changeless soul is a contradiction.

Rather than making assumptions about what I am in search of or am trying to prove, how about dealing with the apparent contradiction or explain why there is no contradiction.

This apparent contradiction rests on a misconception, namely, that the thickening of the distance is closer to the original situation than the entrance into relation.

This apparent contradiction certainly names a tension, a problem that lies at the heart of our humanity, and therefore (I would say), at the heart of reality itself, at least as far as we humans can know.

Nature is always trying to re-establish harmony, and with the psyche the principle of synthesis is dominant... The task of therapy is to aid the individual in transforming the personality, and integrating apparent contradictions.

He also discouraged a «version of a Christianity» that is «a house of cards» that falls apart if we find out that certain possible historic or scientific details of the Bible are inaccurate or that there are apparent contradictions.

The apparent contradiction between verses 8 and 10 can be explained by seeing verse 8 as a refusal to go to the feast publicly; though it is possible to read it also as a refusal to «go up» at the time of the feast, in the sense of be lifted up, glorified, going up to the Father, as in 3:13, 6:62, 20:17.

But their actions contradict this denial and their attitude toward themselves and others makes that contradiction apparent, Even the person who decides to commit suicide, because he or she has been disappointed or frustrated or rejected, is really asserting a sense of value, if only in the implicit assumption that by ending life one can give it a meaning.

Once the internal contradictions of the secular project become apparent, people will begin to search for something that can provide a foundation for the self, morality, human dignity and meaning.

The republican Christian, or the Christian republican — the devotee of a republic — lives with an apparent profound contradiction.

The apparent contradiction shows that both the election and the universality of grace must be taken seriously; the compulsion is not automatic (Kittel, TDNT, 227).

Likewise, when Wheeler notes the apparent contradiction between «the preeminent emphasis on individual salvation so characteristic of... American evangelical Christianity, in particular,» and the process emphasis on the transformation (salvation) of the world as a whole,» he appears again to favor a compromise (110).

«Once the internal contradictions of the secular project become apparent,» Woodfinden writes, «people will begin to search for something that can provide a foundation for the self, morality, human dignity and meaning.

This paradox is understandable because the same apparent contradiction characterizes the life of man; for man has departed from God, but God has come to man.

How can we make sense of this apparent contradiction?

Perhaps rather than fearing apparent contradictions, we should celebrate them, knowing that they serve as affirmation that God speaks to all kinds of people in all kinds of ways.

But encountering a 500 - page book listing hundreds of apparent biblical contradictions, half of which I didn't even know existed before, did not have the desired affect and in fact only made things worse.

Thus Cyril C. Richardson has criticized the classical formulations of the Trinity as imposing an arbitrary «threeness» upon our theological thinking, and proposes instead a basic twofold distinction between God as Absolute and God as Related.1 This is for Richardson a basic paradox, an apparent self - contradiction, for if we try to bring these aspects into relationship, we compromise God's absoluteness.2 Charles Hartshorne accepts this same twofold distinction, but he removes the contradictory element by understanding it in terms of the abstract and concrete dimensions of God's nature and experience.3

British theologian Kenneth Leech goes so far as to say that «the holding together of apparent contradictions and ambiguities is of the very nature» of what he calls «the orthodox project.»

But in contrast to the scribal assumption that all passages of Scripture are equally binding and that apparent contradictions are to be reconciled, Jesus sets one passage against another.

You said, «The scientific world (of which I am a very happy and productive part) is willing to accept apparent contradictions in its theoretical framework, because the current edifice is the best set of explanations that we currently have.»

The scientific world (of which I am a very happy and productive part) is willing to accept apparent contradictions in its theoretical framework, because the current edifice is the best set of explanations that we currently have.

She also makes clear that despite their marked differences, and the apparent contradictions in some of the theories related to them, the five methods can function as complementary approaches in religious education.

Believe me, there's plenty of room for confusion and differing interpretations, and even apparent contradictions.

It blots out so much of what needs to be understood about Tony Blair - the journey he went on from social democracy to Christian democracy, his reconciliation of the apparent contradiction in «if it works we will do it», and «because it is the right thing to do».

None of the parties, Cooper says, has successfully addressed the apparent contradiction at the heart of the public's views on immigration.

This apparent contradiction is easily resolved: 56 % of Labour members think parties should say what they believe, even if it's unpopular and loses elections, in comparison 32 % think they should compromise in order to put foward policies that allow it to win an election and put policies into action.