Sentences with phrase «as sort»

The result of this negative cultural attitude is that the churches remain as a sort of Western institution and experience a certain cultural «poverty».

Two factors above all have contributed to implant and to foster this hesitancy: on the one hand, the very structure of the discipline which serves as a sort of introduction or preparation, to the science of religions (one knows that the majority of historians of religions are former philologists, archeologists, historians, orientalists, or ethnologists); on the other hand, the inhibition created by the lamentable failure of the vast theoretical improvisations of the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth (mythology considered a «disease of language,» astral and naturist mythologies, pan-Babylonism, animism and pre-animism, etc.).

To Herr Odendahl: It may be unfashionable in German Catholic circles to read the New Testament as any sort of reliable record of early Christianity, but do give it a try.

For the latter does not emphasize «images and narrative» as a sort of strategy to be more «evocative or efficacious.»

And he had Eleanor, that unequaled lady who functioned as a sort of extraconstitutional executive - interpreter, expressing and accentuating this bent of mind.

Mormons abstain from those things as a sort of personal code of health... bacon cheeseburgers not included.

She speaks of the message of the gospel as a sort of «rapture in reverse,» in which God refuses distance and comes to be present, as opposed to a world left bereft of God and church, abandoned to punishment.

Not only have I read the Bible as many state, I read it daily and it seems like a flower that continually blossoms and acts as a sort of mirror that I can examine myself with.

Either they need to fire all employees and dismiss all students who aren't Catholic (so they can say it's a religious issue for all that the insurance would cover) or follow the law (which by the way permits employees too opt out from the controversial parts of the coverage as sort of pointed out in the article).

Long was the list of those — not only of popularizers, but philosophers as well, and even some physicists — who interpreted Minkowski's four - dimensional continuum not as the four - dimensional process, essentially incomplete, but as a sort of a four - dimensional hyperspace, whose fourth dimension exists in its completeness as much as the three spatial dimensions.

The world has almost ceased to be the world and is now conceived of as a sort of ecclesiastical training - ground.

As with that center, residents can come and go with a great deal of freedom as they sort out what to do next.

A story's making the rounds today that acts as sort of a Rorschach Test, in that everyone who hears it seems to have a different take on what it means.

If we view God as some sort of Cosmic Santa Claus, we've missed the point.

HA Hellyer, a senior research fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Royal United Services Institute in London told the Telegraph: «When British peers and Christian clergy have been to Damascus in the past, they were rightly condemned as presenting an image of appeasement to Assad's regime, and showing him as some sort of protector of Christians, as though Syrian Muslims mattered for nought.»

After the Fall is when shame appeared as a response to lust, as a sort of protection against the threat which lust now offered to the simple joy and appreciation they had experienced in each other's sexuality «in the beginning».

It acted as a sort of grand jury.

Members could treat such a well - managed church as a sort of corporation in which they bore limited personal liability.

Even if we picture the goal of the pilgrimage as a sort of peasant paradise, it will be far more practical than setting out on a pilgrimage which has no goal....

America — with its history of slavery, misogyny, genocide, and corruption — is worshipped as a sort of infallible source of «Christian» values, the Founding Fathers elevated to the level of deities.

As I mentioned on Monday, the Christians in the churches at Ephesus, Colossea, and Asia Minor who first heard these letters read aloud would instantly recognize Peter and Paul's version of the household codes as a sort of radical Christian remix of familiar Greco - Roman philosophy regarding household structure.

How this person can see himself as any sort of positive influence is beyond me.

It is certainly the case that any view of evolution which recognises the emergence of intelligence as a sort of destiny, written in the script of nature, is welcome.

However, the instructions 1 Timothy 2:8 — «I want men EVERYWHERE to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or disputing» (emphasis mine) is taken as a sort of suggestion that need not be directly enforced in the modern church.

In Whitehead's image God saves the world in his experience as a sort of memory.

I certainly don't begrudge Jesus for saying such prayer, nor do I think less of Him, nor do I see it as any sort of theological problem.

Rather than depicting Jesus Christ as the example of faith, hope, and charity, Beckians depict Samuel Adams, George Washington and Ben Franklin as a sort of holy trinity, the embodiment of Christian values.

Scalia suggests that Kennedy, O'Connor, and other Justices adhere to what might be described as a sort of legal Gnosticism, according to which the meaning of the Constitution is to be found not in what its text overtly states but in some mysterious message conveyed only to black - clad savants.

The Protestant will regard specific norms, in the moral sphere, even in the form in which they appear in scripture, rather as a sort of sign - post pointing out the way to meet and endure the ever new situations of the personal life of faith, with a critical attitude towards oneself and one's hidden sinfulness.

All should be humble and not deny an ability to coexist and even allow science and religion work as a sort of ying and yang for the betterment of the human race and the closer understanding of God's universe.

In 1999 Alan Moore created The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen which pulled characters from a number of classic (and public domain) novels and placed them together as a sort of super team (this innovative series was scrubbed into an abysmally average 2003 film).

They heard Trump's words as a sort of promotion of their beliefs.

Not sure it's all that accurate to regard prayer as some sort of socio - political action, even if many people from all walks of life do try to use it as such.

... as a sort of baptized feng shui would get to me, too, after a while, I think.

It always seems to me like they treat God as some sort of carnival act.

Of course, come Judgement Day, I certainly intend to... The thing is, I want you to stop thinking of religion as some sort of loyalty pledge to Me.

But there are all sorts of ways of understanding the God symbol, with many thinking of God as a sort of philosophical ideal, much as the ancient Greeks might have done.

It is ultimately dependent upon an analysis of the self as some sort of self - enclosed independently existing entity and produces precisely the difficulty for ethics that has been erroneously attributed to Whitehead, namely that his ethics would be a private - interest theory, at best.1 But Whitehead clearly repudiates the contributing analysis of the self, which would be «no more original than a stone» (PR 159), and repudiates its consequences for ethics: «The doctrine of minds, as independent substances, leads directly not merely to private worlds of experience, but also to private worlds of morals.

As you sort of hint at later in your article, the importance of value family, finding nature inspiring and wanting to preserve the environment are general human values.

Or, to put it another way, those who negotiated the withdrawal imagined the campus (or the culture) as a sort of autocephalous church.

Perhaps this will mean something as radical as a sort of «Second Catechumenate» for the formation of Catholics in order to prepare them to live their marriages in fidelity to the way of Christ amidst the challenges of our age.

«It's funny because I always get pegged as this sort of nature girl and, yeah, I do love nature, but I think if you heard my music in a coffee shop, you wouldn't say, «Oh, this is definitely folk music,»» she says.

I don't want to come across as some sort of smart guy, but in reality Jesus was probably a stone worker, there aren't that many trees in that part of the world.

I think our religious culture of dogmatic fear really stifles peoples» natural curiosity, and the way scripture is pulled out of context and used as some sort of hard - and - fast Holy Slogans to live by is simply too much for people.

But I get weary of hearing the declaration repeated because there is so little likelihood of increasing our national understanding of the gospel by representing it as a sort of emergency supplement to the police force.

One of my pet peeves is how some Christians use «God Bless you» as a sort of greeting and salutation.

Praying is obviously associated with religion, but it can also be viewed as a sort of «group reflection» as well.

Now the point of this discussion is not to appeal to Whitehead as some sort of final authority; Hall clearly recognizes that his own view differs from that of Whitehead at some points (see, e.g., UP 200f.

Were it otherwise, then virtually every philosophical position developed in Western Europe and America at least since the mid-nineteenth century would qualify as some sort of evolutionary cosmology and, by implication, as a «process» philosophy as well.

Denying blatant stupidity is not a hate crime, but justifying stories that were told in antiquity as some sort of truth without any proof required.