Sentences with phrase «as against the tendency»

Buber's philosophy of dialogue has made possible a new understanding of the problem of evil because it has reaffirmed the basic significance of the personal relation between the Absolute, the world, and man as against the tendency to submerge man in a mechanistic universe or to reduce God to an impersonal and indirect first cause, an abstract monistic absolute, or an immanent vital force.

Not exact matches

«It helps to guard against the tendency that people feel to justify their feelings and needs so much so that they come off as critical or blaming to the other person before they are able to express what they feel and ask for what they want.»

The daughter of the famed poet Lord Byron, Lovelace's mother had her thoroughly schooled in math and sciences as a bulwark against the young woman exhibiting too many of her dad's literary tendencies.

Try to think of it as a safeguard against your own reckless or overreaching tendencies.

-- Even though the Fed is not expecting a massive deterioration in US inflation expectations, as the Fed lowered projections for rate hikes, the tendency is for dollar softness against the yen, which is poor for sentiment in Japan, particularly for equity sentiment.

I see this tendency springing up in your writings, however, and as someone who cares about you and about the work you're doing, I just wanted to caution you against these things.

Maudoodi, however, stuck to his concept of a highly individualistic capitalist economy and opposed all tendencies toward the nationalization of property as being against Islamic principles.

Against the Hegelian tendency to identify God with man and to see the doctrine of Incarnation as expressing this unity, Barth stressed with new force the transcendent otherness of God.

In his sermons, Newman strove manfully (as he would have put it) against the religious tendencies of his day that could compromise Christian faith and vitiate the pursuit of Christian holiness.

«In those times, we knew about things that have become common today: the reality of abortion, of people who manifest homosexual tendencies, whose personal dignity we always respected, but we were formed to see these acts as absolutely unacceptable, against the nature that God had created for us.»

The conspicuous tendency of our age... is not, as is sometimes supposed, directed merely against the sanctioning of... norms by religion, but against their universal character and absolute validity... their claim to be of a higher order than man and to govern the whole of mankind.

Though it is not quite true that Gustafson and other liberals «never enter into argument against Barth,» there is a pronounced tendency in liberal theology to dismiss Barth's idea of truth as the self - authenticating word of God.

Indeed, such criticism is useful as a safeguard against the tendency of nonperfectionists to practice moral self - deception.

The first element is the interconnected structure of existence, as outlined above, and as developed through process thought; the second draws from the profound insights of black and feminist theology relative to the shaping power of the «normative gaze,» or the tendency to value one's own kind as over against the other.

@Todd — but either way (regarding my last post)-- I would think one could just as easily argue that there is still nothing «immaterial» about the tendency for the mind to behave similarly against certain situations.

First is our national tendency to develop a shell to protect us as a nation against criticism.

Gardner lists five ways in which these paranoid tendencies manifest themselves: (1) the pseudo-scientist considers himself a genius and (2) regards his colleagues as ignorant blockheads; (3) he believes himself unjustly persecuted and discriminated against; (4) he focuses his attacks on the greatest scientists and the best - established theories; and (5) he often employs a complex jargon and in many cases coins words and phrases (neologisms) of his own.

Lutheran ethics, following certain tendencies in Luther's own thought but neglecting his main intention, conceived the social orders outside the Church as necessary bulwarks against sin, but obeying principles of a different order from the demands of the Gospel of love.

For Schleiermacher, the solidarity of the race and its mutual struggle toward spiritual existence from a starting place of sensuous existence accounts for the universal tendency of humans to act against one another's good, and so against their own good as well.

Having begun with protest against tendencies in the latter branch of Christianity to regard the Church as the representative of God it has often succumbed to the same tendency itself.

At the other, in protest against the self - righteous «perfectionism» thus implied, is the current neo-orthodox tendency to stress the continuance of sin in the most saintly Christians, with reluctance to grant any significant moral achievement as the result of redemption lest it savor of human presumption.

Against tendencies to depersonalize and to dehumanize which are prevalent in society the Christian will want constantly to emphasize the importance of personal relationships... The development of the person in all his aspects, religious and moral, as well as physical and mental, is therefore a matter of the deepest importance to him.7

Hard just war theory reverses these emphases, replacing them with the following: a presumption against injustice and disorder rather than against war; an assumption that war is tragic but inevitable in a fallen world and that war is a necessary task of government; a tendency to trust the U.S. government and its claims of need for military action; an emphasis on just war theory as a tool to aid policymakers and military personnel in their decisions; an inclination to distrust the efficacy of international treaties and to downplay the value of international actors and perspectives; a less stringent or differently oriented application of some just war criteria; and no sense of common ground with Christian pacifists.

Clearly, the negative reality over which the Nicene ecclesiology sets the confession of the church's «catholicity» is the tendency of all human communities, including religious as well as national, racial, sexual and other communities, to build protective walls against «the outsider,» and so to become parochial, provincial, chauvinistic, narrow.

in which Wright badly mischaracterizes the response of the United States to the September 11th attacks, as well as the views of President Bush and then - Prime Minister Tony Blair, declared that the 2006 mid-term elections was an example of God «calling to account those who abuse powers,» showed a disturbing tendency toward moral equivalence between jihadists and those who are fighting to defeat them, and directed virtually all of his scorn against the United States and Great Britain rather than al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the regime of Saddam Hussein.

However, although Hall is clearly sympathetic to much in the «gnostic sensibility» as thus characterized (cf. UP 336 - 46), and although, as we have seen, he regards modern technology as the manifestation of a tendency in Western thought and culture of which he is highly critical, he does not himself recommend «a revolt against contemporary forms of technology,» at least as that phrase would ordinarily be understood.

Against the neoorthodox and existentialist tendency to focus on the present moment as the time of encounter and decision, Moltmann and others have stressed that the present has its meaning in its relation to the future.

Now this tendency, through the influence of grace, is not often exhibited in matters of faith; for it would be incipient heresy, and would be contrary, if knowingly indulged, to the first element of Catholic duty; but in matters of conduct, of ritual, of discipline, of politics, of social life, in the ten thousand questions which the Church has not formally answered, even though she may have intimated her judgment, there is a constant rising of the human mind against the authority of the Church, and of superiors, and that, in proportion as each individual is removed from perfection.

At the same time, he raised an alarm against what he regarded as the tendency in social democratic theory to weaken individual freedom in the name of other social goods.

It forms an early and discerning protest against the powerful and perennial tendency in every cult, ancient or modern, so to proliferate, so to elaborate, so to glorify the total «equipment» of worship as to make of worship's material representation an end in itself.

In a situation of social pressure due to economic shortages and unemployment, there may be the tendency for social forces to raise issues of religion and target as in India against the Muslims and in Indonesia this year against the ethnic Chinese, many of whom were Christians and considered allied to the Suharto establishment.

As a reaction against reformist tendencies an organization known as the Rising of the Ulama (Nahdlatul - Ulama, abbreviated to N.U.) was founded in Surabaya in 1345 (A.D. 1926As a reaction against reformist tendencies an organization known as the Rising of the Ulama (Nahdlatul - Ulama, abbreviated to N.U.) was founded in Surabaya in 1345 (A.D. 1926as the Rising of the Ulama (Nahdlatul - Ulama, abbreviated to N.U.) was founded in Surabaya in 1345 (A.D. 1926).

This is an early and discerning protest against the perennial tendency in every cult, ancient and modern, to elaborate the «equipment» of worship so as to make of the material representation of worship an end in itself.

What began as a reasonable enough reaction against the Victorian tendency to disbelieve the wife and deprive her of her children upon divorce, has transmogrified itself into the very reverse, where husbands and fathers, even those of otherwise good reputation and position, are assumed to be the villains of the piece.

A tendency he still has in the playoffs as you can see in the Spurs latest loss against Golden State.

Whereas Napoli like to attack and can leave lanes open, the tendency of the ball to stay on the ground in this system feels like it wouldn't play as well against a resolute and well - organized defensive group.

Xhaka does however have a tendency to shoot from distance, so when he does score, it is often as impressive as this strike against Slovenia:

There must be a tendency to take a risk averse, danger limitation approach (at least as far as player fitness is concerned) to this match with home games coming up against Burnley and Hull in the next week.

The Tangerines have been the neutrals favourite club this season and have had a habit of springing a surprise from completely out of the blue, but they've also had as terrible tendency of blowing decent opportunity, against the so called» lesser» sides in the divisions, of registering valuable wins.

634, 647 - 48, 219 S.W. 2d 910, 915 (1949)(«So long as there is a divided custody there will probably be bickerings and disputes and a natural tendency on the part of the child to play one against the other, as well as for the claimants to seek by indulgences to curry favor with the child, if not to prejudice it against the other.»)

Those who decry the novel for having failed to anticipate, say, the collapse of totalitarian Communism are missing the point - for it prescribes the need for eternal vigilance against these tendencies, in ourselves as much as in others.

There might be a scenario, in case Iraq shows severe fragmentary tendencies, in which Ankara might prefer an Iraqi Kurdish client state as a buffer against a Shiite - dominated rump Iraq.

We would, however, need to guard against the folly of crowds, the tendency of human beings to act as herds and follow any leader.

Although the majority of Cameron's strategy is in fact premised on securing EU wide reforms as opposed to UK - specific arrangements, their broad decentralising thrust goes against the prevailing integrationist tendency within the EU.

Six months later, however the council decided to go against its original decision and classify methylamphetamine as a class A drug - something the committee warns proves its lack of coherent criteria, and shows a tendency to respond to media concern.

As politicians across the spectrum battle against their robotic tendencies, Defence Minister Anna Soubry has once again shown herself to be refreshingly devoid of CCHQ programming.

As politicians across the spectrum battle against their robotic tendencies, Defence Minister Anna...

Before former President George W. Bush nominated him to the 10th Circuit Court, Gorsuch wrote and spoke against «judicial activism» and the perceived tendency of liberal - leaning judges to reinterpret longstanding laws as they saw appropriate.

Because of the potential for bias against new and unfamiliar ideas induced by the above practice I believe the peer review system of the NIH as presently constituted, has inherent tendencies to protectionism.

I know the whole concept of Spirit Guides can seem really «woo - woo,» and I totally understand the tendency to see them as silly, but they've proven oh - so - helpful in my fight against panic and anxiety.