Sentences with phrase «appeal of many»

But the fact that it is the fullest and possesses the greatest human appeal of all the versions, also means that it has been the most popular — the one read most commonly, for example, on Easter day.

It has also been proved by experience that the spread of Christianity is not dependent solely upon the appeal of Jesus to the consciences and aspirations of men.

The process is comparable to the modern effort of teachers of religion and morals to attempt to get their material into the movies, on the radio, or in television, which are the media of mass appeal of today.

The selection of verses and paragraphs that follows is designed to suggest some of his major themes and to illustrate the power and appeal of his mind and language.

The appeal of Socrates — the hero displayed by Plato — is basically aristocratic.

On the high school and college level, however, the Christian institutions had to compete with the large networks of Hindu and Sikh institutions which, paradoxically, were begun earlier in this century in response to the Christian institutions, the conversion appeal of which seemed to challenge the Indian religions.

Either situation is inherently contradictory — the notion that you can (or ought to) «pick» what to believe in based not on its «truth» but on the relative appeal of its organizational principles.

We also took our time because things like this can't be rushed, and the creation of lists like these always involves several pots of coffee, several hours of plumbing the depths of Spotify and a few late - night debates about the merits of this band, the lasting appeal of that album and just what constitutes a «Top 10» list.

The fundamental appeal of the practical rationalism that was the grassroots basis for pragmatism.

My belief is that the appeal of Islam for those men lies in the deeply rooted hatred of women.

The appeal of popular religious groups in Brazil, Chile, India, and Poland has been examined in these terms.12

James B. Sterba, The New York Times, December 23, 1973; quoted in an undated letter from CROP, 919 North Emerald Avenue, Modesto, California 95351 (National Office: Box 968, Elkhart, Indiana 46514), on behalf of the Community Hunger Appeal of Church World Service.

The government filed its appeal of Judge Vinson's ruling declaring Obamacare unconstitutional today.

They are the appeal of children to a father, simple, direct and confident.

Their new strength is clear in their electoral successes and the appeal of their agitation and their new confidence about coming to power as rulers of India.

Johnson also touches on a wide range of other issues, from the absurdity of postmodern science to the appeal of Eastern Christianity to the abdication of revealed truth in American universities.

The appeal of democracy is not very great if we are concerned merely with democracy.

The appeal of the communist movement today is at root the same as that of the ill - fated fascist movements of the 1930's and 1940's in Germany, Italy, and Japan.

We feel too, as if the appeal of religion to us were made to our own active goodwill, as if evidence might be forever withheld from us unless we met the hypothesis half - way.»

That sounds extraordinarily like the appeal of Jesus.

This new unity helps explain the appeal of sustainability in higher education.

Part of the appeal of Whitehead's metaphysics lies in this, that through his conception of pulses of experience as the ultimate facts, he invests the passage of time with life and motion, with pathos, and with a majesty rivaled in no other philosophy of change, and in few eternalistic ones.

A possible ecumenical appeal of the dogma is that it teaches us something about human freedom.

This is the truth underlying the appeal of economic theory and the policies it supports.

I must point out that the great appeal of secular music is its ability to reach into the heart of the listener, expressing feelings that they can relate to, in words that are beautiful and memorable; the truly great songwriters write songs that make people WANT to sing along.

If strong images of God impassion evangelizers and attract converts today, Stark reasons, such images should also explain the historical appeal of monotheistic faiths.

The appeal of pantheistic gnosticism was something that Lewis understood and withstood; it lies at the heart of occult «New Age» spirituality, «Deep Ecology,» and a good deal of «Eco-feminism» today.

But the strong appeal of his prints is not due solely to our pleasure in encountering illustrations of familiar stories.

What these rising communities really signal, Jenkins believes, is a deep spiritual hunger in the developing world and the wide appeal of the Christian God and the Christian story even where local religious faith is strong — perhaps especially there.

The biblical appeal of the contemporary theologies of liberation has once more given occasion to fulfill the promise of John Robinson that «the Lord has yet much more light and truth to break forth from his holy word.»

This became painfully clear in 1996 when the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the Alaska Supreme Court's Swanner decision, which held that the state's interest in preventing discrimination against unmarried heterosexual couples is sufficiently great that it trumps the objections of landlords who believe they are forbidden by God to permit «fornication» on their property.

Nostalgia for the religious traditions of rural and small - town America forms part of the appeal of popular evangelists from Billy Sunday to Billy Graham.

Indeed, the fundamental point here is that the strong appeal of the proposals being made by the new reformers is due to the fact that they cohere so well with the way in which we now understand political life and with the way in which we represent ourselves as moral agents.

Instead, the preferring feeling is one of superior disdain, which explains part of the appeal of Colbert, Jon Stewart, and a certain senator from Minnesota.

The seductive appeal of communism, according to Brian C. Anderson («Capitalism and the Suicide of Culture,» February), was its coupling of the «inherently incompatible ideas of human volition and the science of history.»

Does the psychiatric literature shed light on personality types that are particularly susceptible to conspiracy thinking, or on the appeal of Gnostic subcultures that claim to possess secret knowledge?

Not That Kind of Girl has the appeal of reality television: We simultaneously want and don't want to look.

The appeal of Behold a Pale Horse, for example, certainly lies in part in its title, a quote from Revelation 6:8: «And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.»

The appeal of this inauthenticity is obvious.

The most troubling of public neighbors were the able - bodied unemployed, and reformers endeavored to separate out those worthy poor who were the temporary victims of economic circumstances beyond their control and those unworthy poor immune to the appeal of the Protestant work ethic.

Republican state Rep. Mitch Gillespie, who sponsored the bill for the «Choose Life» plates, said he would push for an appeal of the judge's decision, CNN affiliate WRAL reported.

Despite the theological appeal of socialism, it did not carry the day in Christian thought.

The appeal of absolutism, conformity and fanaticism did not end in the first century.

Perhaps the appeal of Gnosticism, for a certain type of scholar, made this artifact too good to check.

The appeal of this volume is that this process of moral relativization has not yet set in.

Today, just as in the early and medieval church, part of the devotional appeal of relics, particularly those of great saints, lies in the possibility of miraculous cures (Acts 19:12), either through their instrumentality, or on the occasion of their close proximity.

How, then, will the Church respond to the appeal of those Anglo - Catholic clergy who wish to bring their people with them?

There seems to be precious few who willingly sacrifice the appeal of marriage and family for the sake of serving Christ.

America was disillusioned after the first war and the old appeal of the Churches no longer struck the usual responsive chord.

The great appeal of true believers is that they offer to be our surrogate family.