Sentences with phrase «as men of letters»

As the champion of a kind of conservatism currently in eclipse, and as a man of letters who made his living outside academia, Kirk is in danger of falling through the cracks.

Not exact matches

At least one place Lewis explains this problem was in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better for us if all humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»

2000 years ago: Philo Judeaus said: «The letter of this statement is plain enough; for it is expressed according to the symbol of the part, a half of the whole, each party, the man and the woman, being as sections of nature co-equal for the production of that genus which is called man.»

The «discernment letter» written by the six of them that night in Dallas, Texas will go down as one of the most ungodly acts against a woman done by men who claim to be of God, progressive, pro-feminist, Christianity 21.

Together with the opening line of the Letter to the Hebrews («In ancient times God spoke to man through prophets and in varied ways, but now he speaks through Christ, His Son...»), as well as many other biblical texts, this passage reveals to us a startling truth.

Now it is no longer «men of God writing Scripture as they were moved by the Holy Spirit» but rather, something like this: «Men of God having inspired ideas which they provided to a professionally - trained letter writer, who then composed the letter according to standards and guidelines found in a letter - writing manual before getting the approval of the man of God to send the letter out to its intended recipients.&raqmen of God writing Scripture as they were moved by the Holy Spirit» but rather, something like this: «Men of God having inspired ideas which they provided to a professionally - trained letter writer, who then composed the letter according to standards and guidelines found in a letter - writing manual before getting the approval of the man of God to send the letter out to its intended recipients.&raqMen of God having inspired ideas which they provided to a professionally - trained letter writer, who then composed the letter according to standards and guidelines found in a letter - writing manual before getting the approval of the man of God to send the letter out to its intended recipients.»

While many of these charts were helpful, such as the parallels between Acts and the letters of Paul, and the chart on Paul's missionary journeys, I did not find the charts about all the Men and Women mentioned by Paul to be necessary.

About a month into our community awareness campaign, I received a letter from a man who, as a result of our efforts, had now become aware of our church.

«The Catholic Church, which considers man redeemed by Christ as her way» (cf. Encyclical «Letter Redemptor hominis, n. 14), insists that the recognition of the dignity of the human being as a person from the moment of conception also be guaranteed by law.»

While Paul's thought is by no means always clear, and perhaps from letter to letter not always exactly the same, it is nevertheless certain that his concept of resurrection can be clearly distinguished from that of the traditional «bodily resurrection».27 Paul does not speak in terms of the «same body» but rather in terms of a new body, whether it be a «spiritual body», 28 «the likeness of the heavenly man», 29 «a house not made by human hands, eternal and in heaven», 30 or, a «new body put on» over the old.31 In using various figures of speech to distinguish between the present body of flesh and blood and the future resurrection body, he seems to be thinking of both bodies as the externals which clothe the spirit and without which we should «find ourselves naked».32 But he freely confesses that the «earthly frame that houses us today ’33 may, like the seed, and man of dust, be destroyed, but the «heavenly habitation», which the believer longs to put on, is already waiting in the heavenly realm, for it is eternal by nature.

We would add Newman's actual words from the «Letter to the Duke of Norfolk»: «Unless a man is able to say to himself, as in the Presence of God, that he must not, and dare not, act upon the Papal injunction, he is bound to obey it, and would commit a great sin in disobeying it.»

In July 1982, treating of both virginal celibacy and marriage as «gifts of God», John Paul II took up the difficult passage we have just mentioned, in St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians: «It is well for a man not to touch a woman.

In his Letter Concerning Toleration, Locke puts forth his own definition of the Church: «A church, then, I take to be a voluntary society of men, joining themselves together of their own accord in order to the public worshipping of God in such manner as they judge acceptable to Him, and effectual to the salvation of their souls.»

As Cardinal Lustiger said, «From the event of Creation to the gift of the Law, the Bible describes man's vocation and his spiritual nature in letters of fire.»

Let's not forget we were forwarned about this day, and the very Word of God this man is talking about fortold us: 2 Pteter: 3 14 Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, 15 and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

The letter as a whole makes one feel that the author is a sincere man of high principles.

Instead, he argues that Wilson should be remembered as «a man of letters.»

Poe taught himself to drink, just as a careful man of letters makes a deliberate practice of filling his notebooks with notes.»

Women were considered unreliable witnesses at the time (a fact that may explain why the apostle Paul omitted the women from the resurrection account entirely in his letter to the Corinthian church), so their proclamation of the good news was dismissed by the men as an «idle tale,» the type of silly gossip typical of uneducated women.

Jerome, the great Latin scholar who in the fifth century was responsible for the Latin translation of the Bible known as the Vulgate, in his brief biography of James, says: «James wrote a single Letter... and even this is claimed by some to have been published by someone else under his name, and gradually, as time went on, to have gained authority» (Lives of Illustrious Men 2).

Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), in his later years hailed as the outstanding living man of letters in the English - speaking world, in his youth a believing Christian, in his maturity held that men's lives are governed by blind, unconscious, purposeless cosmic forces.

(ENTIRE BOOK) The author intends to present the portrait of a man of extraordinary accomplishment in the fields of religion, politics, linguistics and ecclesiology, but also as an ordinary man whose letters and reported conversations reveal his struggle with the ordinary issues of a person of his time.

Modern education offers little help in grasping this, as is brought out in a letter from a young mother, a few years out of an American college: «I have come to realise that I was educated to be a successful man, and now must learn by myself how to be a successful woman.

It was his as the true gospel because he was himself a man «in Christ» — and that phrase signified for him, as his letters make abundantly clear, that he was, and knew himself to be, what the Book of Common Prayer calls — in another phrase which yet is remarkably Pauline in expression — «a very member incorporate in the mystical Body of Christ, which is the blessed company of all faithful people.»

Ambrose states his conviction as to the prophetic function of the bishop very well in a letter to Theodosius: «There is nothing in a priest so full of peril as regards God, or so base in the opinion of men, as not freely to declare what he thinks.»

His love of the sportis complicated and many - layered, as befits a man of letters.

One of the issues that LLL raised in their response letter, as posted on Trevor's website, is that some women may be uncomfortable receiving breastfeeding support from a man.

ALBANY — After months of listening to Gov. Andrew Cuomo assail him as responsible for a bill he voted against, U.S. Rep. John Faso closed a letter to the governor on Thursday with an especially cutting observation: He's not the man his late father was.

And Machiavelli the man of letters comes across as humane, witty and decidedly un-Machiavellian.

Cuomo holds his father and his legacy in a sacrosanct state, making the kicker of the letter a real punch to the solar plexus and will do little to advance either man's relationship (part of this bad blood may stem from way back in 2010, when then - Attorney General Cuomo settled with the lobbying firm Faso worked for as part of a major pay - to - play pension fund scandal).

Gentry Collins: The former RNC political director may be remembered as the man who effectively ended Steele's chances at a second term — penning a resignation letter that detailed the fundraising (and other) foibles of the committee.

«I have received a letter from the Gender Ministry requesting my assistance to support the ministry in my capacity as a man of God,» he said.

But his wife of nearly 50 years, Rosa, still wrote a heartfelt letter of support for her husband, saying that he is a «good man» and lauding him as dedicated public representative, father and grandfather.

He denied the allegations in a conference call with reporters, then followed that up with a public letter from several women who used to work for him attesting to his virtues, and characterizing the alleged misconduct as «completely out of step with the man we have worked closely with.»

Newton's law of gravitation first allowed such apparently instantaneous «action at a distance», but he himself was not a fan, describing it in a letter as «so great an Absurdity that I believe no Man who has in philosophical Matters a competent Faculty of thinking can ever fall into it».

This well - known «color - word matching Stroop test» involved showing the men words meaning color, such as blue, green, red, but asking them to name the color of the letters rather than read the word itself.

The letters written by Charles Whitman on the eve of his killing spree provide a chilling window into a mind losing the ability to understand good, bad, and other people: «It was after much thought that I decided to kill my wife, Kathy... I love her dearly, and she has been as fine a wife to me as any man could ever hope to have.

As an example he tells the story of a man who lost the capacity to name letters after being struck by a stone, and of another who forgot certain people after falling from a roof.

Shaywitz and his colleagues asked men and women to perform a series of tasks, such as recognising whether two strings of consonants have the same pattern of capitals and lower case letters, or grouping words with similar meanings.

Isaacs on incorporates these letters — as well as more familiar bits of Einstein lore — into a masterful portrait of the man behind the science.

A research letter Tanner J. Caverly, M.D., M.P.H., of the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Center for Clinical Management Research, Michigan, and coauthors examined the beliefs of primary care health - care professionals (PCPs) as to how receptive they might be to recommendations for limiting medications for some older patients, including a hypothetical scenario involving a 77 - year - old man with diabetes at risk for hypoglycemia.

The system of payment for opening letters is the following: men should first purchase credits (as low as $ 1 per credit) and then apply credits to each opened letter.The number of credits needed to open each letter varies.

(I would say, Elena's Models could potentially quadruple its income by using PPL instead of membership and making men pay for every letter, chat, and photo share, as paid chat «Russian brides» sites do.)

As the Russian Brides expert Elena Petrova points out, 99 % of letters from Russian women men get through Internet dating sites are actually from scammers.

As one of the men said, it's normal when on your 3 - page letter about your feelings you receive a couple of paragraphs on the current weather in Moscow.

If you remember my recent story The ugly truth about PPL dating sites for Ukrainian women, foreign men are often being duped into communicating online and paying for every message or minute of chat via pay per letter websites unnecessarily, and often, as the evidence shows, it may not be the girls from the pictures who are talking to guys but substitutes, who are earning money from this deception.

Brachka, also known as pay per letter dating (PPL) is a big business in the former Soviet Union republic, with thousands of Ukrainian women spending nights chatting with foreign men online.

As a consequence, the girls in this age group receive many letters from men of all ages.

So agents hired writers to type the kind of letters that would keep men «on the hook and paying» for as long as possible.

Yes surely all pay per letter sites are completely fake full of free lancers getting a commission or professional daters who show up for a «date» with no prior knowledge of the man as it is a company employee who has been writing on their behalf.