Sentences with phrase «argument of the book»

A central argument of this book is that intrinsic value is not limited to human beings.

Many readers will be tempted to evaluate the theological argument of this book by the conclusions it reaches on these issues.

HD: This is an important question that touches upon the core argument of my book.

But the larger argument of the book was that we need to change the way we approach such questions.

Those who simply accuse me of not taking the Bible seriously are dodging the main argument of the book by refusing to engage its message and focusing instead on its format.

This is the basic argument of his book.

Though it is not immediately clear how his understanding of the necessary interaction of Jews and Christians serves to advance the primary argument of the book, I am grateful that he included this chapter.

Reading additional sentences would also have revealed that the article was a book review and, as book reviewers are wont to do, I tried to lay out the main arguments of the book in question.

The focal point around which the entire argument of this book revolves is that the cardinal goal of instruction in whatever field, from physics to etiquette to race relations, should be the development of loyalty to what is excellent, instead of success in satisfying desires.

This does not, I would argue, do justice to the real argument of his book, which is that certain of the properties of natural science, and of the natural world disclosed by science, testify to the operation of mind, specifically to the mind of God.

The central argument of this book is that narratives, like sacraments, can be signs that do things.

The basic argument of the book is that most of what the church does today was borrowed from paganism.

One of the main arguments of the book, as noted above, is that GCC states are not much different from other states and many of the developments they experience are similar to developments of Western states and are beyond Islam and oil.

It is the argument of this book, however, that these various metaphors are not as useful for our time as still another: hearers of the call.

For Prof. Smolin to suggest that Arkes is somehow «digging joint graves for the nation and [the pro-life movement]» only goes to prove how little acquainted he is with the argument of the book or with the beneficial impact of Arkes» persuasive powers.

I take it that the first task of a reviewer is accurately to represent the argument of a book and then to propose pertinent criticisms.

Nowhere does he set forth the argument of the book, and on natural rights jurisprudence generally, he uses Arkes as a kind of foil for his own reservations — again, without ever delineating Arkes» position.

Marshall reports that the argument of his book first occurred to him when he read Lindbeck's Nature of Doctrine.

The new Christian, or the Christian who doesn't know the Word, or who ignores certain statements in the Bible, might be convinced by the arguments of this book.

This double fact of the complexity of the event, on the one hand, and its integrity and indissolubility, on the other, is of such major importance for the argument of this book that it may be well to examine the fact itself somewhat more thoroughly before we go on to consider several of its implications and bearings.

In other words, J. Denny Weaver's approach in this book is that he read a bunch of books on the atonement, and then wrote 5 - 10 pages summarizing the views and arguments of each book, which are then all compiled into this book on the atonement.

(Richard R. Niebuhr, Resurrection and Historical Reason [New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957], p. 49) The argument of this book constitutes, I believe, the opening of a fresh and exciting period in American theological discussion.

(The argument of this book is that it is especially the image of God as self - emptying love that confronts us in this interruptive, yet deeply longed for, manner.)

Perhaps a schematic statement of the argument of the book would be helpful at this point.

I may not have achieved full clarity on the varied senses of faith that are involved, but this view of the changing nature and focus of faith is central to the argument of the book.

The argument of this book is that the culture of even a church as isolated as Wiltshire contains its own prophecy.

Much of the argument of the book would seem to require the claim that «reason» has a single, ahistorical, and transcultural «nature» or «essence» in all human beings.

A central argument of the book is that liberal political philosophy has been altered significantly by the introduction of more statist continental thinking.

The argument of the book can be stated as a series of propositions, with the material in brackets added by this reviewer: