Sentences with phrase «as coequals»

Some Protestant leaders are striving to broaden the church's ministry to include the growing plurality of family forms — to include as coequals with the intact nuclear family all single - parent families, the divorced and remarried, blended families, childless couples, unmarried couples living together, and gay and lesbian couples with or without children.

Any valid exposition of humanism must begin here, for it is on the foundation of this principle and its corollaries — the humanocentric predicament and individuals as coequal centers of freedom / authority — that humanism establishes its methodological policies and builds its ethics and epistemology.

He maintains that it simply stands for the power of the Court, as a coequal branch of government, to act on its own interpretation of the Constitution in deciding what it can and can not do.

Yet the book also shows how many of these photographs re-main photographic, as coequal pictures in their own right, upending the simpler notion of source material versus final product.

Not exact matches

That is, they have set aside the traditional understanding of God as a unique spiritual substance in which all three persons somehow share and have moved to a more contemporary understanding of God as an interpersonal process or a community of three coequal persons.1 In effect, they have abandoned the Aristotelian world view in which individual substance was the first category of being and have accepted (even for the doctrine of God) a process understanding of reality.

He disputes the claims of nullifiers that the federal union was a compact between sovereign states, argues that the founders sought coordination between the branches of government rather than a stalemate between competitive, coequal centers of power, and offers a strict construction of the Second Amendment as an authorization for state militias rather than a charter for the private ownership of assault rifles by potential revolutionaries.

Would it be possible to use Whitehead's notion of society (or, better, of a structured society) to describe the Trinity as a community of coequal persons who are themselves in process, hence who are subordinate personally ordered societies within the «democratic» structured society which is the community as such?

And in this Trinity none is before or after another; none is greater or less than another; but the whole three persons are coeternal with each other and coequal, so that in all things, as has been stated above, the Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity is to be worshiped.

If the branches of the federal government are truly coequal, if the President and Congress are not subordinated to the Court by the Constitution (except insofar as the Court might declare them to be), then the theme of «judicial restraint» that runs wistfully through your symposium is less an appeal for the impossible than a misconstrual of the problem.

Insofar as realization of relation with God in one of the dimensions we have discussed excludes communion as a permanent, coequal dimension, it leads to something other than salvation, And, of course, so long as Christians insist on clinging to distinct identities, relations and communion, they will fail to realize the distinctive religious ends of other traditions.

Instead, it was an independent branch of the campaign, coequal with communications, field and finance, and was in fact as much a client of the technology folks as, say, the press department was.

«Todd was a coequal to Joe Percoco and Howard Glaser and absolutely seen as the governor's guy, even though he wasn't on the state payroll and officially part of the government.

The study, published online this week in the open - access journal PeerJ, brings the long - banished name back into scientific respectability as a genus coequal with Apatosaurus.