Sentences with phrase «as a reformer with»

As a reformer with 30 years of experience in Albany, Scharff criticized the outsized influence that moneyed interests have over the legislative process on nearly every single issue.

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«I admit that I have always harbored an exaggerated view of my self - importance — to put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes (each with his General Theory) or, even better, a scientist like Einstein» George Soros

Certainly that perception, combined with various corruptions of monasticism so caustically criticized by Erasmus and others, led Reformers such as Luther and Calvin to sharply contrast the monastic call «from the world» with the authentically Christian call «into the world.»

Wright criticizes Reformers for failing to stress «the great narrative of God, Israel, Jesus, and the world, coming forward into our own day and looking ahead to the eventual renewal of all things» so that their readings of the gospels «show little awareness of them as anything other than repositories of dominical teaching, concluding with the saving events of Good Friday and Easter but without integrating those events into the Kingdom - proclamation that preceded them.»

As I reflected on the differences between Wesley and the earlier reformers, I saw that these were quite similar to my differences with the Neo-Reformation thinkers who dominated the mid-century discussion.

Bibliolatry became a problem when, confusing traditionalism with Tradition, the Protestant Reformers claimed the Bible as the ONLY binding authority for faith and morals:

Even when, as with the Protestant Reformers, knowledge of God is reserved for the eschaton and theological schooling focuses on faith, schooling remains a practice of paideia — notably, in Calvin's academy in Geneva.

At the beginning of the sixth century of the Hijrah, Muhammad Ibn Tumart — known as the Mahdi, that is, the Imam who is to come — appeared as a reformer and established a new state with the avowed purpose of reforming dogma and the social order.

As one might expect, however, if the reformers» arguments share the strengths that come from coherence with the modern view of the nature of moral and social agency, they also suffer from the weaknesses of these views.

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.

I'm not a Cathoilic, but I do believe, and I want to make it very clear: there are many very sincere Christians in the Catholic Church who love God, and accept Christ as their Savior, but I also believe, along with many of the protestant reformers, the Papacy is the anti-Christ.

Beginning with the experience of Paul, the Christian view of this world which came to theological expression in the Reformers and which has now been revived with great power in the contemporary Protestant theology, has always shown a certain distrust of identifying human efforts toward the good with the divine work of redemption on the ground that the good as man knows it and seeks it is really of a different order from the good revealed in Christ.

When the Reformer insisted that civil magistrates «have been invested with divine authority, and are wholly God's representatives, in a manner acting as his vicegerents,» he explicitly warns that this does not settle questions about the merits of a specific form of government.

This was a good move by the Reformers, but as with pretty much everything the Reformers did, they did not quite go far enough.

As Timothy George wrote in his introduction to «The Gift of Salvation» in the December 1997 issue of Christianity Today: «We rejoice that our Roman Catholic interlocutors have been able to agree with us that the doctrine of justification set forth in this document agrees with what the Reformers meant by justification by faith alone (sola fide)... [But] this still does not resolve all the differences between our two traditions on this crucial matter.»

Boston was teeming as ever with high — minded reformers, including the new militant feminists.

Although Luther was most captive to this form of thinking, it also affected the other 16th century Reformers; Instead of seeing the Eucharist as a time mystery, they treated it as a space mystery, and probed the static problem of locating the body of Christ rather than the dynamic one of making contact with a saving event.

Calvinist like to talk as if Luther could be incorporated into their system by having Luther as «one of the reformers», but Lutherans (we did not chose the name, nor do we follow what Luther says, but what the confessions say) have some very big problems with what Calvin and Zwingli, etc. have to say.

Following a dialectic with Augustine, Aquinas, the Reformers, Barth and others about man as created in the image of God, the author offers process theology's response.

The Reformers» alternative conception of the way of love in the world begins with the insight that the tendency of man is to seek self - justification and to think of ethical perfection as an achievement of human freedom.

But at the same time we have insisted, again with the great Reformers of the sixteenth century, as well as with the whole of historical Christianity in its Catholic expression, that there is an - other side to the picture.

The Psalter is the church's prayer book, and the reformers saw it as an inspired document able to teach believers both how to praise God with «hallelujahs» and how to receive comfort from God when the soul is distraught and cast down.

Though he provides a vivid account of Pascal and Jansenism to illustrate the divisions within seventeenth century French Catholicism and emphasizes the violent opposition encountered by Catholic reformers like Charles Borromeo and John of the Cross, Eire's treatment of the divisions within Catholic reform in general is less vividly realized than his treatment of the corresponding tensions with Protestantism, though Catholic reform could be every bit as fiercely contested and divided.

As the libertarian blogger Megan McArdle once pointed out, that possibility is more likely than it sounds: With the advent of no - fault divorce and the extension of welfare benefits to unmarried mothers, the late twentieth century demonstrated that marriage is both more important and more fragile than reformers had thought.

Yet the Reformers combined this radical freedom with the insistence that the new life is lived in the community of the church with its tradition, its scriptural authority and the celebration of the sacraments, for now the church is known as the community which God creates by his grace.

What Nygren has shown is that the Reformers» doctrine of the gracious love of God as utterly beyond all calculation and analogy with human love establishes an aspect of New Testament faith which helps to shape every Christian perspective on love.

However, as a reformer Cromwell could be encouraged: «You are capable of accomplishing very many things throughout the whole kingdom, and with the Most Serene Lord King you can do much good.

(Forgiveness of sin is the central theme of the Bible, as the Reformers perceived with unerring insight.

There are libraries out there by reformers exposing Rome as an antichrist demonic religion and they prove it with a mountain of evidence.

«18 It is partly in response to that void of an Italian Reformation that we may understand Gramsci's fascination, and not Gramsci's alone but that of almost every major modern Italian intellectual with Niccolo Machiavelli, the Italian contemporary of Luther and Calvin.19 Gramsci treats Machiavelli as a Reformer in secular guise, a «precocious Jacobin,» with a vision of a people armed, a national Italy, and Gramsci used the figure of Machiavelli's Prince to express the unifying and leading function of the modern Communist party.

For example, Pinnock challenges, with process theology, the Reformer's concept of God as manipulating the world (67).

As the people of Ukraine rose up against the kleptocratic and despotic government of Viktor Yanukovych last year, in the Maidan movement of national moral and civic renewal, the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches faced a dramatic choice: stand in pastoral solidarity with the people, or stand with the state that was brutally repressing Ukrainian citizen - reformers?

Augustine's formulation of original sin was popular among Reformers, such as Martin Luther and John Calvin who equated original sin with concupiscence, affirming that it persisted even after baptism and completely destroyed freedom.

The declaration of the principle was the result of Luther's belief at the beginning of his career as a Reformer that any true Christian and particularly a congregation of Christian believers would be able to see that the institutions and practices of the Roman Church were irreconcilable with the gospel.

As it happens, TLT friend and school food reformer Dana Woldow, along with her videographer son, Max Schreiber (who once created a great little video for this blog) won a prize for their video, along with thirteen other entrants chosen from hundreds of submissions.

The book concludes with «Mrs. Q's Guide to Quiet Revolution: An Action and Resource Guide» which provides advice for different stakeholders — parents, teachers, kids, teenagers, chefs and nutritionists — as well as a Resources Guide to point would - be school food reformers toward helpful organizations, blogs and reading material.

Martin Babinec, on the other hand, offers voters a third option as an independent reformer with a strong background of creating jobs.

George Bilicic, Lazard's Global Head of Power, Energy Infrastructure, touted Suozzi's «years as a government reformer» and his experience in the office he lost in a upset last fall to Republican Edward Mangano, saying it provided him with a unique understand of public - private partnerships and «real - life insight into the workings of government.»

Thus, Machiavelli's advice to princes within The Prince (and, indeed, within the Discourses itself), in so far as it aids individual founders and reformers, is perfectly compatible with his republicanism.

Otherwise, they are in danger of looking like conservatives with Osborne and Cameron placed as the great radical reformers.

Elia came to New York with a national reputation as a reformer and champion of accountability for schools and teachers.

In a victory for reformers, campaign finance reform is high on the list, along with other progressive initiatives such as raising the minimum wage and changing New York City's «stop and frisk» policy.

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The assemblyman has a high profile as a would - be reformer and came into the race with a built - in narrative thanks to his prosecuting past.

Running instead as the candidate of the left - leaning Working Families Party, Ms. Niou positioned herself as a reformer who would break with Mr. Silver's brand of politics, earning the bulk of the endorsements and donations in the race.

Sini, a Democrat who campaigned as a reformer, in his inaugural speech pledged that he and his prosecutors will be guided by a «culture of compliance with our legal and ethical obligations.»

I spoke this afternoon with former LG Richard Ravitch, who has years of experience as a budget reformer, and he sounded not quite sold on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed Tier 6 plan, nor was his thrilled about the demonizing of public sector employees that is taking place as elected officials all over the country struggle with varying degrees of fiscal meltdown.

Brooklyn district attorney Ken Thompson, regarded nationwide as a criminal justice reformer, died last year shortly after he announced that he had been diagnosed with cancer.

«His son described him as the only candidate who will end the era of stop and frisk and that was a purposeful branding of de Blasio as a reformer and then immediately, as soon as he was the mayor - elect, he announced he was bringing back perhaps the most controversial police commissioner in the city's history,» Trujillo said, referring to de Blasio's early campaign ads with his son, Dante.

The Republican incumbent billed himself as a candidate with a record of getting things done in Albany, while Avella repeatedly called himself a reformer who would change Albany's political landscape because of the Democrats» slim 32 - 30 majority in the Senate.