Sentences with phrase «at root»

At its root the basic issue is not about «them,» but about us all: What is the nature of that humanity toward which God is pressing us, and what does it mean to be a woman or a man in Jesus Christ.

At root, it is a referendum on John Paul II, or at least one aspect of his legacy.

This meaningfulness to the observer is at the root of all descriptions of an object, including adjectives such as objective, publicly compelling, predictable, etc..

This ratings drive is the economic reality which in many ways lies at the root of the problem, at least in television.

It is unlikely that the basic issues raised in theological schooling by the pluralism of pluralisms that confronts it will be addressed at their root if the end of theological schooling is defined in so essentialist or formalist a way.

Merchant shows that a fundamental philosophical idea lies at the root of modern science and technological society.

I smell a book del and greed at the root of this one.

At the root of the problem is the fact that we have grown accustomed to using the word «biblical» prescriptively (to mean, «what God wants») rather than descriptively (to mean, «that which is found in the Bible»).

But my point here is that unsatisfactory economic ideas and practices which have an impressive history of failure, which caused to founder that great nation California, which lie at the root of much of the shame and dread and division and hostility and cynicism with which our society is presently afflicted, are treated as immutable truths, not to be questioned, not to be interfered with, lest they unleash their terrible retribution, recoiling against whomever would lay a hand on the Ark of Market Economics, if that is the name under which this mighty power is currently invoked.

It may also be helpful for us to reconstruct the historical, non-miraculous events that may be at the root of these accounts.

You may have to «tweak» your question asking a bit to get at the root of the issue, but the point is to ruthlessly examine and question everything.

It is at the root of their missiology and belief.»

The lack of adherance to core christian values like honesty is at the root of our political and economic woes.

This error has been at the root of much of the difficulty with this subject - object schema.

We can not overemphasize that every occasion is at root experiential.

The church in mission lies at the root of Paul's whole understanding of his apostleship.

You can't address the problem by treating the symptoms — you have to go deep under the surface and neutralize it at its root, that tiny seed of pride, disdain, bitterness, and superiority allowed to germinate in the soul.»

Our technological crisis is at root a moral and therefore a spiritual crisis.

The Good News of God's unconditional love is at the root of the movement of freedom from self and from bondage, to fellowship, justice, the Kingdom of God.

For sin is the radical acknowledgment that indeed something is wrong in the world, but it is also the recognition that at root what is wrong is our warped relationship to God.

No one would deny that symbolism is at the root of this controversy.

Her book became the fountainhead of innumerable writings that argued that «Pentecost laid the axe at the root of social injustice.»

If the Vanderbilt transition from Methodist to neuter exhibits a typical pattern of academic secularization, what we will find at the root of these events is a sponsoring church that is nonchalant about its burden: one that wishes to be the patron of a college or university without being its benefactor.

This tension is at the root of Paul's concern in his paradoxical description of «physical» and «spiritual» bodies in I Corinthians 15:35 - 55.

You claim «person»... a «personality»... look at the root word.

So, look at the root cause.

Perhaps at the root of strong assertions of male and female differences is the fear of so identifying the two as to make them interchangeable.

At the root of this paradoxical state of affairs lies a new racism, differing from the old in its origins and dynamics.

Moral rebellion is at the root of atheism.

There are many factors that can, on their face, be identified as causes for the blight in our communities, but at their root for the most part is the contemporary crisis of the family.

This is at the root of our modern predicament as a current example will illustrate.

While this is not the place to pursue the matter, I must say to begin with that a methodological difference may well be at the root of differences in interpreting personal identity.

We have to look at the root of the problem: ourselves, our selfishness, our pride and our lack of love for ourselves, for each other and for God When it comes to these issues only God could really change us.

Without realizing it — and this is at the root of our present political and ideological confusion — we are still desperately clinging to the old concept, now become unlivable, of a world in a state of human immobility, as though this idea were not visibly crumbling.

At root, however, this charge is not much above the level of the hippies.

But if this is true of «ordinary» species, what duration may we not look for in the case of Man, that favored race which, by its intelligence, has succeeded in removing all danger of serious competition and even in attacking the causes of senescence at the root.

And surely it is this kind of attraction, the necessary condition of our unity, which must be linked at its root with the radiations of some ultimate Center (at once transcendent and immanent) of psychic congregation: the same Center as that whose existence, opening for human endeavor a door to the Irreversible, seems indispensable (the supreme condition of the future!)

Already the axe is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree which does not bear fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire!»

For more on this subject we should look at Ricoeur's large recent volume, The Rule of Metaphor64 in which his theory is radicalized to place metaphor at the root of all linguistic disclosure of being.

It was everywhere present in him: at the root of all his actions because it was their insidious and indefinitely active principle.»

Pereiro attempts analyse what was at the root of the whole movement: its ethos — ήθος.

It was that at the root of my incessant Netflix binge, something was terribly wrong.

While evil is not radical, if by that is intended «at the root of things» — for it can not be, if God is love and is Himself «at the root of things» through His creativity at work in them — it is most certainly not to be dismissed or minimized or talked away.

Rather, our founders wanted to get at the root causes of the poverty they saw as they were working in the shantytowns of Santo Domingo.

But at the root of them all lies the fact that the very thing for which the Church exists — the proclamation of the gospel — is being in our time so feebly done.

We could not bear to see the Lord «high and lifted up,» for are we not, at root, all atheists?

Again, we must see that sin is a corruption at the root of our being, if we are to have any right understanding of it.

It comes across as false bravado to me, lack of confidence in their position at the root.

Our religion is a ceremonial camouflage, and we dare not look beneath it for fear that, at root, it is supported by nothing; beneath it is only the Abyss.

If one word could suffice to name the disordered philosophy at the root of our current difficulties, it would be «scientism».