Sentences with phrase «as an instrument of»

In economics that is not the case, and to convert a model into a quantitative formula is to destroy its usefulness as an instrument of thought.»

Our classes are open to everyone, but we are particularly focused on educating women because we believe that women's involvement will help blockchain realize its enormous potential as an instrument of positive change in the world.

It was not merely symbolic; it was a heavy timber designed specifically as His instrument of death.

Berlinerblau makes a mistake, common among many secularists and some Christians, in assuming that a person who takes his or her religion seriously must thereby regard government as an instrument of proselytization and salvation.

What else would account for using Jesus as an instrument of hatred and oppression?

We then become vulnerable to «a neo-pagan foe that wielded horror as an instrument of policy,» as I wrote.

Let us think of process philosophy as a method designed for use on such occasions, evoked by such disputes as an instrument of reasonable good sense and creative imagination, one that will serve to fix what had broken down and to get things running smoothly once again.

... lending should not be used as an instrument of advantage - taking...» This sounds like a variation on the Moral Argument for the existence of god.

«The laws have changed, but the basic notion that lending should not be used as an instrument of advantage - taking is deeply embedded in our collective consciousness,» she wrote on the bureau's blog prior to the meeting.

The hero of my novel The Aviator (it will appear in English this year, translated by Lisa Hayden) assumes that Stalin served as the instrument of a social aspiration to suicide.

To look upon those prayer wheels not (as some of us were taught) as instruments of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful woman as her own act of participation in the prayers of the church.

Many Americans view the United Nations as a threat to our sovereignty even though, in fact, it has functioned more as an instrument of United States» foreign policy than as a challenge to our power.

Meanwhile, this mortal flesh, far from being essentially evil, was potentially good — to be dedicated, «your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.»

Certainly, as believers in Jesus we need ongoing faith, and what would be more natural and right than for the new birth to serve as an instrument of God whereby our faith in Christ grows and multiplies?

Duff spoke of an intellectual and social revolutionary ferment at work among the educated sections of India through the impact of western power and culture and wanted the Missions to enter that revolution to make it serve as an instrument of the civilizing and evangelizing mission of Britain in India.

Especially if that standpoint is a privileged one, it is to be regarded with suspicion as an instrument of domination.

A neglected area of church activity is the use of the congregation as an instrument of therapy.

12:7, 11]-RRB- Where the Word is so indispensably cast in the first two scenes, it can be no accident of the text that there is not even a suggestion of Nathan's acting as the instrument of the Word in the third scene.

If today's liberators of the self decry dogma, history, and institutional authority as instruments of oppression, Newman offers these same things as instruments of liberation.

Neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead..

Further, to seek to use the state as an instrument of love implies not only a sectarian state but a totalitarian state.

In 1926 Dr. Morrison joined with Salmon O. Levinson, a Chicago lawyer, in campaigning for the renunciation of war and the branding as a crime its use as an instrument of national policy.

Yet surely the most striking feature of prophecy belief is precisely the opposite: how impotent it has been as an instrument of public policy.

The gavel was discussed as the instrument of rational and accepted authority, not over but with.

As instruments of the Word, Francke argued, parents and teachers should treat children in a loving, patient, tender and friendly manner.

Hegel hinted at this when he recognized the slave, not the master, as the instrument of History, because the slave works upon nature and molds it to human consciousness.

I approach the Bible in all three connections as the communication of doctrine from God; as the instrument of Jesus Christ's personal authority over Christians (which is part of what I mean in calling it canonical; as the criterion of truth and error regarding God and godliness; as wisdom for the ordering of life and food for spiritual growth; and, thus, as the mystery - that is, the transcendent supernatural reahty - whereby encounter and fellowship with the Father and the Son become realities of experience.

The educator, as an instrument of Creation, should derive respect and ardour for his efforts from a profound, communicative sense of the developments already achieved or awaited by Nature.

In the Old Testament, the Lord used first Assyria and then Babylon as the instrument of discipline for his people and the nations (Isa 7:1 - 25; Hab 1:6 - 7; Dan 1:2).

[29] Marxist propaganda depicted Buddhism as superst ition, and religion was looked upon as a means of hostile foreign infiltration, as well as an instrument of the «ruling cla ss».

They are ideally suited as instruments of depth education.

What constitutes the veil, the misunderstanding, is what we choose as the instrument of action, of mediation, of intervention, of influence.

, and I pray the Lord will continue to use you as an instrument of His will.

Indeed, our whole society instead of ordering economic matters for the sake of overall human and social well being has subordinated itself to the market as the instrument of producing wealth.

«Judaism can not accept as the instrument of its salvation the very philosophy of nationalism which is leading the world to destruction.

St Thomas, as we have seen, thought that the development of the body to the level corresponding to option (b) was brought about by the semen acting on the menstrual blood as an instrument of the father.

Evangelical faith is largely personal; evangelicals view themselves not as instruments of a church but as individuals freely expressing their faith.

He cites in support of his claim John XXIII's statement in his 1963 encyclical Pacem in Terris that «it is hardly possible to imagine that in an atomic era war could be used as an instrument of justice,» and a similar statement by Benedict XVI.

The obstacle before St Thomas that prevented him from seeing the reasonableness of the doctrine of immediate animation was his belief that the sperm, acting as an instrument of the father, was the enduring agent behind the construction of the foetal body to a state ready for a rational soul.

Every sensitive Christian must feel a sense of unworthiness when he is compelled by historic destiny to act as an instrument of God's justice.

The communities that comprise church have been tamed as instruments of the powerful.

We are two nations: one concentrated on rights and laws, the other on rights and wrongs; one radically individualistic and dedicated to the actualized self, the other communal and invoking the common good; one viewing law as the instrument of the will to power and license, the other affirming an objective moral order reflected in a Constitution to which we are obliged; one given to private satisfaction, the other to familial responsibility; one typically secular, the other typically religious; one elitist, the other populist.

He see Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon as the instrument of Yahweh's antagonistic warfare, Yahweh's punishment for Judah's sins.

Every one who is at all acquainted with the Persian mystics knows how wine may be regarded as an instrument of religion.

A church which knows that it is not self - sufficient nor secure in righteousness but dependent on God for judgment and renewal as well as for life will expect him to use as instruments of his judgment the opponents and critics of Christianity.

The church now came to be viewed not as an instrument of social welfare and the reform of secular society, but as a God - given community, transcending divisions of nation, race and class and providing visible evidence of what God means society as a whole to be.

Otherwise, it begins to think of itself as the instrument of that judgment.

We need also the government as the instrument of good order and justice.

Its main point, which comes only two sentences from the end, is expressed this way: «To those to whom truth has been revealed, who continue in the tradition of the Holy One's followers, the call is not only to offer words of praise, confessing that Jesus is Christ the Lord, but to offer our lives as the instruments of this Lord of peace and justice.»

The therapeutic attitude includes a realistic awareness of one's limitations as an instrument of growth and health; but it also includes an awareness of one's potentialities as such an instrument.