Sentences with phrase «as open»

Allow me to offer an example: If you reread Davidâ $ ™ s post above, you find one who is probably as open - minded as is humanly possible, welcoming, non-combative, compassionate, willing to listen... actually listen, and desperately wants to understand.

Many of the contacts between process and evangelical theologians in the third phase of the relationship have involved individuals identified as Open or Free Will theists.

We advance the goal best by being as open and explicit as possible about the perspective from which we view the topic.

The cosmos might therefore be described as open - ended.

And David, even as open and honest as you are, you speak in a similar manner.

«My faith has inspired me to try to be as open as possible with my children, to help them not go down channels that are difficult to come back from.

The subject determines himself or herself as an open possibility for several new perfections.

Think of it as open mic night on the blog.

see for example: Unbelieving preachers get help to «come out» as open atheists http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/13/unbelieving-preachers-get-help-to-come-out-as-open-atheists/

As we open the living Word, as we pray for the Holy Spirit to guide us and teach us and open our eyes that we might see and our minds that we might understand, He unfolds Scripture to us in ways that we never would have seen on our own.

It is meaningless to witness to Christ as Savior except as we open ourselves to be transformed in all these ways.

Can we extend that same generosity to others as they open up and share a deep conviction to them?

I leave it as an open question whether this perspective is suggestive of new hypotheses that might be tested and whether such a view implies any change in the way in which biologists do biology and formulate theories.

So my best advice is to stay as open minded as can be, and that will make you a better person.

There is a studied ambiguity in such colleges» attempt to maintain some religious identification for the church constituency, and at the same time come across as open and nonthreatening to non-Christian constituencies.

I wish mine were as open as yours... thank you for sharing.

In the long term, however, Bellah is doubtful that either the fundamentalist or the purely secular mode of accommodation to modernity is as viable as an open, multiplex version of the sacred.

I do not mean to say that this sort of interaction is limited to Buddhism, it can be found in every major religion in the world, but it must be said that few are quite as open to adapting radically different ideologies as these monks appear to be.

If my argument has been made good, then just how much we know of the Jesus of history can be left to the early church historians as an open question.

Women thought - out the Scripture as blessed as they open their ministry, open their homes to bless.

Nice try Prothero, but your understanding of a bible passage is as open to interpretation as Bachmann's.

They might be further upset to read how Jane Schaberg, professor of religious studies at the University of Detroit Mercy, interprets Christ's injunction against divorce as an open invitation for men to beat their wives; «Interpreted in this rigid fashion,» she writes, «this prohibition bas... condemned women and men to the alternative of an intolerable bondage or a life of isolation and sexual repression.»

He's not as open as I think he should be to the possibilities that a) Morsi might really intend to give up his extraordinary powers in three months, and that b) regardless of his intentions,....

I would also guess that the persecution against gays is not as open or widespread as it would be in the US... again, generally speaking.

Initiatives to remedy this crisis have led to polarization and name calling in which opponents have misrepresented each other's positions as open borders and amnesty versus deportations of millions.

The future should be regarded as open.

I now know what it was: I'd tried to be as open on my blog as possible.

Selective preschools, tracked classes, small schools within schools and enrichment programs are presented as open to all students but in reality are open only to the children of the most savvy parents — that is, to the children of rich white parents who possess the social and cultural capital to manipulate the institution to serve their needs.

... but, I am open, as open as my skeptical mind will allow me to be, open to the possibility that, if there is a God, he may decide to finally reveal himself, herself, or its self to me some day.

By excising the requirement that Christian marriage be a «a lifelong union between a man and a woman,» along with the Augustinian tradition's second good of marriage, offspring, from the list of «purposes for which it was instituted by God,» marriage would be defined as open to same - sex couples whose sexual unions are not biologically fruitful.

«This book began,» he writes, «as an open - ended study of Catholics who opposed racism and anti-Semitism in the interwar years.

And the «borrowed from Zen philosophy» argument about God's will interpreting what is just and good, not mortal man, does not apply when the rules are enforced by child molesters who are as open minded as the Hitler's Youth clubs they spawned from.

The Lord's supper takes place on the basis of an invitation which is as open as the outstretched arms of Christ on the cross.

After the war, radical Christians criticized the Church's cooperation by the ruling classes even as open - minded party members came to realize how repressive some Marxist regimes could be.

Most Profound: Richard Beck with «As Open as the Outstretched Arms of Christ on the Cross: Moltmann on Open Communion»

The third reason is that though the idiom of resurrection has pursued a long and varied path, in all cases it has been used as an expression of hope, enabling an otherwise closed future to be regarded as open - ended.

As for my question however, as an Open Theist myself, I have to ask: How do you reconcile your beliefs in Open Theism, with catholic Christianity?

This concentration upon a select group must not be misunderstood, as if he had given up the idea of the new Israel as an open society, and now restricted its membership to a holy remnant.

Great art depends on walls as well as open doors, on constraints as well as cultural blank checks.

I've posted my reply here, on my website as an open letter to American Atheists.

Not all are as open and well grounded as you.

Woe to you oh person who can not accept the world as an open concept but rather one of malice and conformity, I feel saddened for you that you are unwilling to be open to other options yourself just because your too hard headed to accept mistakes.

(i) Elite vs. free enterprise capitalism: this first dichotomy has to do with whether the system actually functions as an open competitive marketplace.

The judge judged not as an appointed official but as one who remained in direct relation to the spirit as an open receiver.

Whereas contemporary understanding envisions the curious person as open to knowledge, life, and new experiences in a kind of whimsical, impish, or carefree way, scholastic theologians saw curiosity as a wayward pursuit which impedes the studied application of the mind to worthy things.

More recently Arthur Pap has discussed the whole matter as an open question, although he favors the search for (nearly but not quite) contiguous causes (4:261, 269f).

One of the catechesis's virtues is the way it treats not only sex but also celibacy as open to this giving — and not just the celibacy of professed religious but the far more common celibacy of those who are unmarried but seeking to live chaste lives.

From his new perspective, history reveals itself as an open - ended engagement.

I think that David always says what he's thinking, and yes, sometimes more obliquely, sometimes more transparently, but... I still think there is room for differing perspectives even in this and the three pillar post... maybe just not as many and not as open - ended.

Most people that have what you would define as an «open marriage» are not as open as you might think.