Sentences with phrase «as the vehicle of»

Over the past decade, patient investors benefited greatly from one of the longest economic expansions in U.S. history, using stocks, gold and even cryptocurrency as vehicles of profit.

After a meal, Patriarch Bartholomew briefly addressed the scholars, stating that «open and honest dialogue is the way of the Church and of theology» and envisioning the Great and Holy Council as a vehicle of such a dialogue.

So is the recognition that a book has been given by God as a vehicle of revelation.

In a sense the whole universe is his vehicle of expression, comparable to our bodies as the vehicle of spirit.

Words serve us as content and as vehicles of tratissmission.

An appreciation of the character of a voluntary institution as a vehicle of the life of the church and a willingness to learn how the particular congregation and denomination are organized for nurture and mission so that they may accept responsibility for making these institutions work to these ends.

Through his priestly role the minister brings familiar rituals and theological beliefs to serve as vehicles of trust.

But the real question to explore today is whether we can equally speak of Christ and koinonia in Christ as transcending all religions and able to take root and form within each religion and to undertake the mission of redeeming it of its idolatries and saving its spiritual treasures and values as vehicles of the gospel and the worship of God through Jesus Christ.

Aristotle, with his conception of matter as the vehicle of past determinations, could also speak of the present as being, to a certain extent, an accumulation of the past, but he would make no claim concerning the immanence of the individual of the past in the individual of the present.

Even prophecy points to divine power more than it regards itself as the vehicle of that power; and the ambassador for Christ is no plenipotentiary.

His point was not that scriptural narrative contains no historical elements, but rather that the Bible's historical elements are always mixed with myth, saga and related forms of expression as vehicles of the Word.

Israel with its patriarchal system was peculiarly designed by God as his vehicle of divine truth.

In an article which appeared some time ago Frank M. Doan sought to determine the precise nature of Whitehead's revised metaphysical language and to appraise its effectiveness both as a mode of explanation and as a vehicle of philosophic imagination.

Thus Tillich's theory of symbols stresses their religious use in expressing and evoking experience, and their role as vehicles of commitment and devotion.

fly insisting that Christ enters the series from beyond, «he denies the significance of the whole series as the vehicle of God's action.

; Do they allow the Christians to enter into the concerns of others, to accept their issues as vehicles of involvement?

Unfortunately, humankind sometimes act as vehicles of expression of demons and / or fallen angels — the real enemies of God.

But then, having reduced the fullness of biblical discourse to bare kerygma Bultmann feels no need to ask how the actual language of the Bible functions as a vehicle of meaning.

Still others it strips of their claims to possess autonomous truth and value, and uses them as vehicles of communication (philosophy, language.

The imagination thus functions as a vehicle of anxiety.

Consequently, art, literature, music, and the like, are frequently seen as the vehicles of evil, as means through which people are lured away from spiritual realities to mundane physical attachments.

If we need some type of bodies to serve as vehicles of the spirit there, God will give us what we need.

The initial paradox of this paper concerned an apparent conflict between the directness of works of art in expressing feelings and their indirectness as vehicles of truth.

Christianity was finished as a world - shaping force, according to the opinion - leaders of the time; it might endure as a vehicle of personal piety, but Christian conviction would play no role in shaping the twenty - first - century world.

Even the sacred traditions themselves recognize the importance of the word, the kerygma, as the vehicle of creation, reconciliation, and community.

During a speech at the Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany, King offered education reforms such as the Common Core standards and teacher evaluations as vehicles of greater equality in schools.

It's one of the most consonant intervals, used in myriad compositions as a vehicle of resolution and harmony.

A glide path would mirror the European model, which brought players together years ago to effectively select «clean diesel» as the vehicle of the near future, at least until hydrogen - powered or electric plug - in vehicles develop.

We become rooted in personal desires and attachments, and ignore our innate Divinity, and the need to walk in the world as vehicles of its expression.

As the vehicle of the god Vishnu, Garuda is said to be the king of birds.

Mantra yoga — this is the yoga of sound: a journey that takes you from finite to Infinite using sound as a vehicle of transcendence.

I personally know that just because I choose Ukranian women, as my vehicle of relationship choice, it doesn't mean that I will stop using common sense in pursuit of my own happiness.

We're a non-profit social venture that invests in people and ideas that are typically overlooked (and often taboo) as vehicles of social and economic change.

«American Beauty» not as the rose varietal, but as the smug irony attached to a repugnant diatribe) in more than mere year of release, with digital video coming of age in 1999 as the vehicle of Truth.

Deeply rooted in personal experience, Papatakis's films are politically, morally, and formally subversive explorations of race, gender, and class that use the medium as a vehicle of opposition and dissent.»

Filmmaking serves as a vehicle of transfer, a way for learning outcomes to be transferred from the filmmaking process to other aspects of life.

Vouchers, once stigmatized by their use in fighting integration of schools, are being marketed as the vehicle of a «New Civil Rights Movement.»

It would help Rolls - Royce lose its perceived status as the vehicle of choice for the world's robber barons and, instead, to be appreciated as a work of art that's handcrafted, designed, and built by people like you and me.

Now the type of vehicle you have is irrelevant as vehicles of pretty much all body styles have supercar performance.

Making a decision on a large SUV as your vehicle of the future can be challenging.

Along with a simply massive display of 2010 Mustangs for this year's SEMA Show, Ford will showcase the tuning expertise of four shops (and one in - house project) that have chosen the F - 150 as their vehicle of choice.

The company has chosen the Mercedes - Benz C - Class as the vehicle of choice.

Minivans enjoy a reputation as the vehicle of choice for mothers to bring their future soccer stars to practices, and for beleaguered fathers plagued by endless questions and sibling infighting to question their life choices; in essence, the modern family car.

Land Rover built an extraordinary off - road reputation as the vehicle of choice on the great savannahs of Africa, and its Discovery doesn't disappoint in that regard.

Yet another reason that so many families opt for the GLS as their vehicle of choice, the spacious SUV also features an expansive cargo area.

While trucks and SUVs make up a large portion of our inventory, sedans still hold their place as a vehicle of choice.

The ad, which tweaked Apple's famous «1984» ad introducing the Macintosh computer that year, presented another dystopian environment, but this time the Xoom was presented as the vehicle of choice for personal freedom.

But on balance, Grayling has put forward a powerful argument for independent thinking as a vehicle of salvation, and if he gets lost in the weeds from time to time, at least it's nice to be in the presence of someone who hasn't mistaken the grasslands of the earth for the fabled Garden of Eden.

According to IDC, tablets, mini-laptops and netbooks are largely seen as secondary PC devices and are primarily used for information «grazing,» or as vehicles of content consumption.

The seminal fluid of the male dogs has been incriminated as a vehicle of venereal transmission.