Sentences with phrase «as articles of faith»

These three norms were upheld as articles of faith by EU countries throughout most of the 1990s.

Neither these teachings nor these narratives may be imposed as articles of faith on those who seek the ultimate truth of which these things are but the temporary vehicles, and who are themselves conditioned by a totally different world view.

But Ehrlich's prognostications never fell far out of favor, particularly with environmentalists who take it as an article of faith that the planet is already overcrowded.

Those who held it as an article of faith that on the «Day of the Lord» Israel, being God's people, would triumph over all their enemies, were living in a fool's paradise.

Given the sufficiency of Scripture, «whatsoever is not read therein,» declares Article VI of the Thirty - nine Articles, «nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.»

Mary's Assumption was defined as an article of faith in 1950 by Pope Pius XII, who made clear that he was speaking infallibly.

So - called «realistic politics» seems to take as an article of faith that control though coercion (in the sense of overriding people's desires, wants, and aims) is a more successful, strong, efficient, and competent form of power or control.

Once people accepted as an article of faith that modern science could explain the totality of our world, they had to say that anything which fell outside the scope of science isn't real.

Monergism as an article of faith occurs many places in the Old Testament.

A blind acceptance of the New Testament mythology would be arbitrary, and to press for its acceptance as an article of faith would be to reduce faith to works.

But that we old fools march around in bishops» hats and with clerical pageantry and take it not only seriously but as an article of faith, so that it must be a sin and must torment the conscience of anyone who does not venerate such child's play — that is the devil himself.

But the rise in oil and commodity prices pushed up inflation in the UK more than in other countries, demonstrating the downsides of a policy of deliberate devaluation to which much of the British economic policy establishment remains committed as an article of faith, despite little evidence that it has done much long term good.

In its drive to tame entitlement spending and reduce the federal debt, the Ryan plan has been embraced by the GOP establishment as an article of faith, and it is likely to be a key issue in this fall's congressional elections.

Physicists have taken it as an article of faith that the bedrock laws are there to be discovered, if only we are clever enough in looking for them.

It's taken as an article of faith in the education reform community: we're screwing poor kids by giving them less effective teachers than their more affluent peers enjoy.

So I would posit that as an article of faith.

I think it's the love of reading personally and it's also that we on the Kindle team take it as an article of faith that reading is important for civilization.

JB: First and foremost, I would take it as an article of faith.

It has meaning because the men and women who take it as an article of faith have undertaken a journey that's only persuasive because the characters at the heart — a mother, a father, a son — were credibly driven to believe it.

Conceived as an organic interchange, Friends in High Places, explores the implicit connections within a community and takes as an article of faith that a fluid curatorial approach can yield a comprehensive catalog of practices and principles.

Again, Hoyland's European sensibility is on view; it was taken as an article of faith throughout the history of European painting that its relationship to nature should be kept foremost in the painter's mind.

I care about global warming, and I am not particular willing to accept it as an article of faith.

I don't think we should be scared of admitting that we just don't know, if indeed we just don't know (which I believe is a fair reflection of the state of the science)... I do not believe that Fu et al. weightings is some panacea nor that the «cancellation» works on all space and timescales (the statement needs to be * proved * it can not be accepted as an article of faith — that is not the way science works).

You keep repeating, over and over, the mathematics of the law of large numbers — or rewording thereof, e.g. «the errors cancel out» — but you never demonstrate how the fundamental assumption of Gaussian distribution of errors is proven — you simply take as an article of faith it is.

Too many influential people have their reputations and their money on the line for them to give up, and too many well meaning people have been convinced to the point of accepting this theory as an article of faith.

You and others take it as an article of faith that evaporation happening in the first few microns of ocean surface somehow retards heat loss from the bulk of the ocean below it.

While some simply state, as an article of faith, that the provision of legal services and professional values will inevitably be compromised, this is far from obvious to me.

Not exact matches

As further exposition of how blind compliance to authority and the «It Won't Happen to Me» belief pattern work together to prevent us from taking the protective measures we need to take right now, consider a November 2014 article in which a financial analyst stated, «it's time to ditch your golden faith, embrace the truth — and make gold a barbaric relic of your portfolio's past.»

So the only words King actually is quoted as saying is that he «hates organized religion» and in his stories you find religious leaders as the great villains (prison warden in Shawshank Redemption) and this article concludes he is a great proponent of religious faith?

Concerning «getting pearls of wisdom» from research and review of original documents posted on the Internet, versus doctrinal justifications by a specific denomination which begin with enamored language, such as «most convincingly», «sublime article», «holy Christian faith», «believe and confess»....

I just have one issue with the article: why do some think that people of Faith are not practical as in the given example of helping someone who is sick — praying for them vs. doing something for them?

As a writer, and a Christian, myself I am not sure I buy all this man of faith talk in this article.

Moreover, B'nai B'rith seems not to understand that, in asking the SBC to «repeal» its resolution, it is asking Southern Baptists to abandon what is for them an article of faith, namely, that it is the obligation of Christians to try to bring absolutely everybody, including Jews, to a «saving knowledge of Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.»

Her position on this matter, as expressed in this article, however, is most definitely not Catholic, and I re-iterate that if she truly believes this, there are other faiths which are consistent with her beliefs, and she should be intellectually honest and choose one of them.

This article is simply breath - taking in its dishonesty, as a blatant attempt to manipulate public perception of a man who, if he has any faith at all, it is Islam.

«Their insistence that scripture contains all things necessary for salvation,» he writes, «was part of their protest against the Roman insistence on belief in dogmas like transubstantiation [and the perpetual virginity of Mary] as necessary articles of faith.

As seen in the chiastic structure noted above, the parallel statements «not of yourselves... the gift of God» are not explaining «faith» but are explaining «by grace you have been saved» (See the excellent article by Rene Lopez called «Is Faith a Gift fromfaith» but are explaining «by grace you have been saved» (See the excellent article by Rene Lopez called «Is Faith a Gift fromFaith a Gift from God?

According to catholic teaching, the existence of hell, of a state of eternal damnation, is an article of faith (as indeed, given free will and evil, it is a logical necessity); but that some human beings are or will be in fact damned is not an article of faith (though again logically it must be regarded as a possibility): hence Pere Teilhard's prayer further on in this passage.

Will these articles of faith be discarded over time as well?

This is certainly an interesting article which raises a legitimate question for those of faith as well as for those without any specific spiritual belief system: Does God care who wins and if so, why and how much and what influence does He have over the outcome?

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In this way the resurrection is not a mythological event adduced in order to prove the saving efficacy of the cross, but an article of faith just as much as the meaning of the cross itself.

My piece was not a «lament,» but essentially a defense of Pope Benedict (as was my brief follow - up here) against just the type of over-the-top criticisms cited elsewhere in Allen's article, even as I raised one respectful question about the pope's prudential decision not to meet with leading dissidents — a legitimate, good - faith debate among sincere Catholics.

It is effectively an article of «faith» for the materialist to believe that everything must be reducible to material laws, even when they can not explain how things such as human consciousness and free will fit into the deterministic patterns of matter.

A colleague of mine, Gary Gutting, published an article in the New York Times this past Easter arguing that the core of the Catholic faith is a commitment to an ethics of love, and that the historical teachings of the faith are best taken as useful parables.

Although, as a believer, I appreciate some of the article's perspectives on the relationship between science and faith, I do not agree that the Big Bang vs Steady State distinction offers any proof of God.

Money & Chooch, did you read the article??? This very article gives examples of how Pres Obama, claiming he is a christian, is mocking the faith — as it is obvious that he is not.

So reading this article was uplifting, as I know much of the world today is very much against God and against Faith in general, but He continues to touch hearts.

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This point is similar to the distinction Thomas Aquinas makes between some articles of faith which are as such secundum se and others in ordine ad alia (ST 2 - 2, q. 1, a. 6).