Sentences with phrase «arguments of the book in»

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But our book finds powerful - if uncomfortable - arguments in favor of foreign adoptions.

The general argument, as reflected in the title of the book, is that unless we progress with people in mind, as opposed to in spite of them, the world will continue to be a very treacherous place to navigate.

In his book «The All - or - Nothing Marriage,» Eli Finkel, a psychologist at Northwestern University and a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, made a similar argument: Modern spouses look to each other for friendship, sexual fulfillment, intellectual growth — not just financial stability, like they did in years pasIn his book «The All - or - Nothing Marriage,» Eli Finkel, a psychologist at Northwestern University and a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, made a similar argument: Modern spouses look to each other for friendship, sexual fulfillment, intellectual growth — not just financial stability, like they did in years pasin years past.

«To succeed in the Gig Economy, we need to create a financially flexible life of lower fixed costs, higher savings, and much less debt,» Diane Mulcahy, a senior analyst at the Kauffman Foundation and a lecturer at Babson College, writes in her book «The Gig Economy,» which is part economic argument and part how - to guide.

Jacoby's occasion for recycling this tired truism is David Gelernter's new book, America - Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats), which he thinks is short on arguments and full of shrill right - wing clichés about tenured radicals and rootless intellectuals.

Yet in the closing pages of his book, Sullivan undermines his own argument.

The Decline of Males, his 1999 book, was particularly controversial among feminists for its argument that female contraceptives had altered the balance between the sexes in disturbing new ways (especially by taking from men any say in whether they could have children).

In 1971, I published In Defense of People, the first book - length critique of «the ecology movement» that was then in ascendancy and that pretty much shaped the arguments that continue to swirl around the varieties of environmentalism todaIn 1971, I published In Defense of People, the first book - length critique of «the ecology movement» that was then in ascendancy and that pretty much shaped the arguments that continue to swirl around the varieties of environmentalism todaIn Defense of People, the first book - length critique of «the ecology movement» that was then in ascendancy and that pretty much shaped the arguments that continue to swirl around the varieties of environmentalism todain ascendancy and that pretty much shaped the arguments that continue to swirl around the varieties of environmentalism today.

In Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society, my new book appearing on August 1, I draw these strands together into a sustained argument for a Christian vision of moral and social renewal.

Despite my general sympathy with what Dreher seeks to do in this book, I am less enthusiastic about other facets of his argument.

In my book — a bully is a bully is a bully and I will NEVER be won over to ANY side of an argument by being bullied.

Chudacoff, who throughout his book tends to introduce the theme of homosexuality with hints and surmises rather than data, counters Stott's argument with this: «More recently [actually less recently — in 1985 and 1988] other historians have discovered hints [of homosexual relations].»

They are discrediting bible through their wit, intellectual, articulate, scientific and logical but sly arguments to convince every people here on earth that it's a 2000 year old hoax and everything written in it which includes the prophecies in Revelations and the book of Apocalypses that had prophecized their comming.

They are discrediting bible through their wit, intellectual, articulate, scientific and logical arguments to convince every people here on earth that it's a 2000 year old hoax and everything written in it which includes the prophecies in Revelations and the book of Apocalypses that had prophecized their comming.

«I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist»... book you should check out explaining the arguments for God and why the God of the Bible is the most fitting explanation for what we see in the world.

The argument of that book was expanded in Faith and Order: The Reconciliation of Law and Religion in 1993.

A computer no more remembers the files stored in it than the paper and print of this book remember my argument to this point.»

The new book of essays updates the twenty - year sojourn of the argument that Peter and I set forth in the original tract, also titled To Empower People.

And the vast majority of arguments was not concerning the inclusion of books that are in the Bible; it was about excluding ones which are not today, ones which, again, the overall Church agreed were not canon.

If any christians had a decent argument, they'd focus on it, instead of on the imagined «hate» and «spite» they seem to see in everyone who doesn't agree with them — but not in god, who demonstrates it in every book of his «word» if you but only read without the bias of indoctrination / brainwashing.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

(See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5) I chose this particular book because I think it provides the most accessible and personal introduction to the biblical and historical arguments in support of same - sex relationships, and because Matthew is a theologically conservative Christian who affirms the authority of Scripture and who is also gay.

I would try to rest the basis of my arguments on books of the Bible with less of a chance of being later forgeries in Peter's name.

This book has been my companion for eight years of Advent now, for some reason I find more solace in poetry during times of longing than in any well - delivered sermon or point - by - point systematic theology argument.

His argument seems to hinge on the idea that capital punishment is so extreme and so different from all other punishments that it necessarily falls in the category of «high justice»» an attempt to «balance the cosmic books»» an authority which the state can not rightly wield.

Fundamentally this is a simple restatement of the argument in the earlier book.

In The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation (Garden City: N.Y.: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1980), Berger again takes up his argument concerning the possibility of religious belief in our modern agIn The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation (Garden City: N.Y.: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1980), Berger again takes up his argument concerning the possibility of religious belief in our modern agin our modern age.

Smith speaks directly to this question in one of my favorite passages of the book, where he speaks strongly against the argument that the only lifeline to Jesus is the Bible:

The chief argument of this book up to this point represents the thinking of great numbers in the Western world and will presumably, therefore, be convincing to many readers who have given serious thought to the problem of the reconstruction of civilization in our time.

Werner Jaeger, who has written the classic history of the idea of paideia, [2] pointed out in a later book on Early Christianity and Greek Paideia that Clement not only uses literary forms and types of argument calculated to sway people formed by paideia but, beyond that, he explicitly praises paideia in such a way as to make it clear that his entire epistle is to be taken «as an act of Christian education.»

It's a useful book for students who need accurate information for the argument / debate / shouting match at the student bar, for families tackling big issues in passionate kitchen debates, and for quiet perusal before replying to the sneers of office colleagues — or even to the well - intentioned «But surely you can't believe...?»

While Faith continues primarily to reason for the existence of God through science, the book's salutary contribution to this reviewer's thought is the case that the moral argument is the most effective in reasoning for God's existence on university campuses.

Chesterton's Autobiography is not always a reliable source; but there is corroborating evidence for these protective feelings from his childhood onwards: and since this evidence is virtually unknown, it is probably best here to take this opportunity to publish it for the first time (much of it will appear in my forthcoming book Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy, though I discovered some of it too late for it to be included) rather than repeat old arguments.

At the very end of the philosophy of science in Part I of this book Caldecott simply affirms, without adducing evidence or argument, the crucial importance of such an «intrinsic difference».

7 The following is to a great extent a restatement or paraphrasing of arguments given by Michael Polanyi in The Tacit Dimension (Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1967), esp.

Wonder explains the heartbreaking honesty in a book like A Grief Observed, wherein Lewis returns to his past arguments about evil and suffering amid the pain of losing his own wife.

When Tom Derr made him a gift of my book, Richard twitted me in print for an argument I had made about the logic of «supererogatory acts,» acts beyond the call of duty.

This book has no cosmological approach to ethics for the most part, and while the cosmological argument of ethics was succinctly and brilliantly put across in a few paragraphs in the final chapter, this is not enough to justify such a title.

hat the book lacks in fullness of argument and exposition, it makes up for in readability, coherence, and simplicity of design.

When I wrote Blessed Rage for Order, I did state that even if the arguments for the public character of fundamental theology in that book were sound, those arguments could not determine the distinctive form of publicness proper to systematic theology or that proper to practical theology.

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.

Still, Mack's book is helpful in alerting the preacher to the structures of argument at work in many biblical texts and to the social situations that produced them.

Chad, Lee Strobel did not have a SINGLE argument in any of his books that was not either an obvious logical fallacy or an equally obvious misuse of statistics.

They read the book, found typographical errors, and suggested hundreds of changes to help clarify the argument and ideas (If you are interested in joining a future Beta Reader team, I will announce openings through the email newsletter).

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.

Later on in the book, he discusses these groups at some length, but without seeing how these millions of fervent believers in our present undermine his central argument for declension.

But like you say — if most of an author's ideas and content are being pulled from the ideas of authors in other books, it is only right and fair to give them more crthan two footnotes especially if content, argument structure and illustrations are similar (credit: Jeremy Myers).

To say that the claims that are based off of a book were created after the book was first written is just stupid (maybe your argument isn't what you typed and you made an error in trying to convey your thoughts).

If you read the book, keeping this in mind will greatly help you understand the argument and thought - flow of the book.

You need to stop being so vindictive towards others, maybe read a book, go have sex, whatever you need to calm down, then come back and realize that no one is attacking you, im sure people are laughing at this conversation, but not because of what it in but just because its pointless, you bring up the same things OVER and OVER again and then accuse me of having spuratic arguments?