Sentences with phrase «as ordinary men»

(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.

To those who insisted that knowledge of Greek and Hebrew were indispensable for the interpretation of Scripture, John Goodwin and Samuel Richardson could reply that this might be granted if the original copies of Scripture were extant, but since they were not and since the existing texts could not be certified as free from the errors of the copyists, the scholars were as dependent as the ordinary man upon the gift of the Spirit for the proper interpretation of the Biblical text.

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However politicians can be indicted on many criminal charges just as the ordinary man on the street.

The NPP, has been at pains seeking to have Ghanaians see him as an ordinary man, after years of being seen snobbish and arrogant.

Rich people have a habit of reading as an ordinary man.

Fruitvale Station, which won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, looks past the media frenzy to the life of the victim, portraying him as an ordinary man with friends and family who loved him.

Risking his family and his own life, this intense thriller explores every parent's worst nightmare, as an ordinary man navigates the murky and unfamiliar waters of the dark underworld that is the drug trade.

You play as an ordinary man called Jason Fleming who gets lost on a hike and stumbles across a high - tech group bent on starting a civil war in the US.

It encompassed visions as distinctive as Michael Landy's Market, an installation of empty stalls made from stacked bread crates; Gordon's slowed - down 24 - hour version of Hitchcock's Psycho; Jane and Louise Wilson's psychological explorations of historic buildings through film and photography; and Wallinger's Ecce Homo, a sculpture of Jesus as an ordinary man that was the first piece on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, London.

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Summary: «Peter Parker tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens with his superhero alter - ego Spider - Man, and must confront a new menace prowling the skies of New York City.»

These new expressions of faith, fed by passions of ordinary men and women, did not merely diverge from received authority; increasingly they failed even to take into account the standard theological categories that served as guides for religious experience and formed the common denominator of theological discussion between disputants.

Under the avalanche of commentary on the new translation of the Ordinary Form of the Mass, just approved by the Vatican, I poke my head above the erudite criticisms, to speak as a man whose entire priesthood has been in parishes....

To regard the ordinary embodied experience of men and women as theologically significant in a positive way is to receive all these images of physical delight, of beauty and ecstasy, of human growth and nurture, of the contact between human persons that the touching of bodies can make possible.

So we learn that Jesus Christ gives an ordinary man His own identity, as Head of His Body the Church.This makes the man's soul a reflection of Himself so that He - Jesus - can continuously minister His redeeming love to the world.

It is certainly not the saying of the prophet, and Christians must not take it as a model, but it is the kind of argument the ordinary man can address to the ordinary man, and we must be on guard against scorning it (even if we are not to overrate it either).

wants to kill all the human and they never win as from the beginnin» until the end only the ordinary men as well as their families and they be called the Lamb of God» s children will carry on.

Had Brown not been cut down, he may have grown into a more life affirming position; perhaps as an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, a nationally syndicated newscaster, a White House cabinet member, a military general, a preacher of the Gospel, or perhaps as a simple and ordinary man who loves his wife and leads his family well, like so many who sit in our congregations every Sunday.

«37 Thus, whether the specialness of an event is due only to an interpreter of the event, or whether it is due to both a person who is speaking and acting and to someone receiving this as a special act, it is man who turns an ordinary act of God into a special one.

Thus, alongside the lofty and otherworldly flights of Indian mysticism, stands the Zen emphasis upon «nothing special» and «everyday - mindedness» and «just being ordinary,» as in Yun - men's spiritual path described as «pulling a plough in the morning, and carrying a rake home in the evening,» or in Pao - fu's response to the question, «What is the language of the Buddha?»

man's special place in the cosmos, his connexion with destiny, his relation to the world of things, his understanding of his fellowmen, his existence as a being that knows it must die, his attitude in the ordinary and extraordinary encounters with the mystery with which his life is shot through.

Zen begins with the ordinary individual who is separated from his own true Buddha nature by the false dichotomies of a «Buddha» far back in history, or now in Nirvana; or, more existentially, man as separated from the world around him by a subject - object dualism.

So the point of Whitehead's example in the above passage would be that in talking about the membership of the complex structured society which is a total man, in the ordinary sense of the term, one is referring not to a subordinate society, such as the enduring object which is the life, or soul, of the man, but to all the individual actual occasions in all the subordinate societies and subordinate nexus which make up the man.

He is, rather, a very complex structured society which sustains, among many other societies, a regnant, personally ordered, subordinate society (an enduring object) which Whitehead refers to as «the soul of which Plato spoke» (Adventures of Ideas 267 — see also pp. 263 - 264 for a clear statement of the distinction between «the ordinary meaning of the term «man,» which includes the total bodily man, and the narrow sense of «man,» where «man» is considered a person in Whitehead's technical sense, i.e., as the regnant, personally ordered society which he identifies as his equivalent of Descartes» thinking substance and Plato's soul).

I believe that what Tillich was attempting to say in his own particular idiom (based as it was on a combination of existentialist analysis of human sensibility and the philosophical outlook found in German idealist thought) can be put in another fashion — and one which in my judgment speaks more directly to the ordinary man or woman.

A «no» would have given the Jews a chance to portray Jesus to the Romans as seditious; a clear «yes» would have had a bad popular effect on the ordinary man.

Another much - touted work, Jesus Christ, CEO, describes our Lord as an executive who turned twelve ordinary men into managers of the most successful company the world has ever known.

Indeed, in his other volume, Luke described two of them, Peter and John, as «uneducated and ordinary men» (agrammatoi and idiotai in the Greek) even after their days under Jesus» tutelage.

But religious love is only man's natural emotion of love directed to a religious object; religious fear is only the ordinary fear of commerce, so to speak, the common quaking of the human breast, in so far as the notion of divine retribution may arouse it; religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge; only this time it comes over us at the thought of our supernatural relations; and similarly of all the various sentiments which may be called into play in the lives of religious persons.

Even as Zen repudiates all actual ways to enlightenment, so in the last resort nothing is gained by enlightenment of satori, and thus the life of the sage is no different from the life of ordinary men.

If God does actually love such men as we are, the meaning of that love lies far beyond the power of ordinary terms to convey, and the Christian story, which does succeed in conveying that meaning, is therefore in the truest possible sense true.

It is sure, just as every simple man is sure, that some states of mind are inwardly superior to others, and reveal to us more truth, and in this it simply makes use of an ordinary spiritual judgment.

33:4, 6, 9) Man shared in this creation, taking physical and intellectual possession of the world by his giving names to all living creatures (Gen. 2:19) Throughout the Old Testament, in ordinary and sublime statements, in magic or prophecy, Israel took as her starting point the conviction that a word possesses creative power.

That is to say that there is no firm evidence whatever against, and an immense amount of evidence for, the view that the «ordinary» laws of physics and chemistry hold within the organism just as they do within a man - made machine.

This statement is altogether in line with the words quoted from Acts as representative of the primitive view:» God hath made this same Jesus both Lord and Christ,» In each case a son of man in the ordinary sense is spoken of as becoming the Son of God in a unique sense.

Nothing in his thought seems to correspond to Plato's famous portrayal in The Republic of ordinary men as cavedwellers in bondage, darkness, lies, and delusions.

These interpreters hold that Jesus used the phrase only in its ordinary sense of «man,» and that some community in which the Gospel tradition was being formed, itself thinking of Jesus as the apocalyptic Son of Man, read that meaning back into Jesus» worman,» and that some community in which the Gospel tradition was being formed, itself thinking of Jesus as the apocalyptic Son of Man, read that meaning back into Jesus» worMan, read that meaning back into Jesus» words.

But above all, it includes the countless ordinary citizens, who knew nothing of Locke or Burke or Thomas or Aristotle, who've struggled and worked and fought and died so that they might live under a government responsible to their will, and constrained to regard them as free men and women rather than as members of a class, church, guild, tribe, town, or race.

The result foretold is a thing which any ordinary man will be just as well able as the hero to understand, and there is no secret writing which is legible to the hero only.

Now comes the gist of the matter: if he is able to admit this embellishment, he does not lose all of his infatuating power; when he reveals himself as a plain ordinary man, and bald at that, he does not thereby lose the loved one.

However this may be, the fact is plain that for contemporary men and women, not only of a sophisticated sort but also of quite ordinary attainments, the notion of God as absolute power, as unyielding moral dictator, and as metaphysical first cause never Himself affected, has gone dead.

He looked like an ordinary man as foretold in Isaiah 53

Before and since Moody the chief standard of success as an evangelist (and a minister) in American Protestantism has been evidence of such charisma, of power not possessed by ordinary folk — the ability to manifest in a convincing way that one represents more than himself, in short, that one is a man of God.

As the sciences have moved from one apparent success to another, and paved the way for the rapid advance of technology, the ordinary man has felt more and more confident that he understands the natural forces and processes with some degree of certainty.

Although he is a self - declared billionaire, Trump presented himself in the campaign as a champion of ordinary men and women victimized by the wealthy elite.

As a matter of fact, he had not said anything of the kind, but evidently the word «resurrection» conjured up in the minds of the men the stained glass windows in their parish churches back at home, where, in flagrant contradiction to St. Paul (1 Cor 15:36: «Thou fool»), the resurrection of the dead is depicted in ordinary human and terrestrial categories.

The Wagnerian ideal of erotic heroism inflames ordinary men and women with the desire to live as though such love were possible even for themselves; for myth does not represent some archaic glory but is written «in the eternal present.»

«Liberty» is as close as we get to an ethical norm, and that term is deeply ambiguous, depending on whether it is, in John Winthrop's words, freedom to do the just and the good (Christian freedom) or freedom to do what you list (the freedom of natural man).10 While American civil religion remained extremely vague with respect to particular values and virtues, the public theology that fleshed it out and made it convincing to ordinary people used it with more explicitly Christian, particularly Protestant, values.

He goes on to say that the duality here is not the old duality between time and eternity, man and God, but «the duality of the ordinary seen as ordinary and the ordinary seen as extraordinary.»

It is not simply that poets must work with ordinary words to say their new thing, but some poets are what Paul Van Buren calls «strange ones» for whom the ordinary things of life strike them as wonderful: «the decisive point to be made is that some men are struck by the ordinary, whereas most find it only ordinary.»