Sentences with phrase «attention from»

Preaching may not welcome all this attention from the scholarly world, but after years of being shunted to the back of the catalog under a few faded listings taught by «staff», it should provide occasion for celebration.

For this reason, the fundamentalist method can not receive serious attention from us when we consider the concrete problem of the contemporary religious crisis.

The failure of traditionalism, moreover, is less in its lack of adjustment to changing conditions than in the confusion of the spirit with the letter and in blindness to the actual shift of attention from meaning to symbol that has taken place within the church.

When he ceases to wail about preaching being sick and confesses that his preaching is sick, then the preacher will be willing to do something constructive: not simply choosing more controversial topics and more clever titles to divert attention from his monotonous method of outlining, but choosing a mode of discourse appropriate to the content to be shared and the experience he hopes will occur.

I guess the word «breast» diverted attention from the most remarkable thing the pope said: «I wish to say the same to humanity: Give people something to eat!

The preacher's task is not to tell bunches of substitute stories, which in the end only deflect our attention from the searing reality of the person before God, but to tell that one story, the one that precedes the general category of «story,» and to tell it in such a way that it makes our stories permeable to it.

Berlinerblau's imprecision with respect to these evangelical shibboleths might well lead an evangelical reader to treat lightly a critique that demands serious attention from those who claim as their authority the Bible and the Bible alone.

But it was Murfreesboro that got the most attention from national media, the Justice Department, and local politicians.

When Karl Marx spoke scornfully of religion as the opiate of the people, no doubt he had in mind the practices of prayer, almsgiving, and fasting; these, he said, diverted attention from matters of social justice and gave people a good conscience when their conscience ought to be troubled.

Yale scientist Giorgio Lolli said: «What is already known breeds a more tolerant attitude toward him [the addictive drinker] and favors a shift of attention from his objectionable deeds to those unfortunate experiences that determined them.

The Puranas have had much less attention from scholars than has the literature of India thus far studied.

As a hate group, they'll hopefully get a little more attention from the IRS now.

It takes away the attention from the root cause of the problem by trying to find a handful of scapegoats while letting this disease continue untreated in the rest of society!

In countless ways cleverness can be so misused; but in order once again not to multiply that which is not important and thereby to divert attention from the really important, we will again simply designate this misuse by a definite expression: to seek to evade.

Only years later did the early Church switch its attention from Jerusalem adulthood to Bethlehem beginnings.

An increasing number of news stories are centered on issues rather than personalities; for one thing, there seems to be a shift in the public's attention from personal scandal to issues of campaign financing and contributions.

In order to maintain a positive mental state and avoid the perpetuation of «negative» circumstances, adherents of New Thought may be counseled to turn their «attention from the outer visible effects of this world to the inner world of First Cause....

The passions of war aroused, we diverted attention from Afghanistan to the prospect of a preemptive strike against Iraq, not simply to remove banned weapons but to replace the regime.

By shifting our attention from the now completely irrelevant and anachronistic politics of nationalism and military power to the problems of the human species and the still inchoate politics of human ecology we shall be killing two birds with one stone — reducing the threat of sudden destruction by scientific war and at the same time reducing the threat of a more gradual biological disaster.

Indeed, those who prattle about the dangers of isolationism only divert attention from more pressing concerns.

Any practice, however humble and pious, that diverts attention from Allah must be stopped.

Marx and Engels do not mean that priests are necessarily impostors who cunningly divert the workers» attention from their grievances by telling them lies about God and a spiritual world.

They noted that when average income in a nation rose to a certain point, people turned attention from issues of economic survival to concern for the health of the environment.

As it turned out, these adults themselves needed care and asked for counseling and attention from the group leader.

But it is our very affirmation of God's perfection that conditions us to shift attention from God to us, Because we believe God is perfect, we conclude that God does not really need us to enhance the divine life.

``... It was clear to me that Mark's attendance had the potential to divert attention from the real purpose of Hillsong Conference, which is to see people leave encouraged in their own spiritual journey.»

Brennan became a family friend who often visited the home, where the 14 - year - old «was the subject of special attention from the priest, who persistently wrestled with the boy, rubbed his back and shoulders, and openly brought up sex talk,» according to the grand jury report.

Hartshorne's work has long received appreciative attention from persons who interpret reality in terms of a metaphysic of process, especially along the lines worked out in Whitehead's Process and Reality.

By shifting attention from Enlightenment questions of credibility to postmodern questions of practical effect, radical theology has accomplished a great deal.

Between the time when Aristotle included the «where» in his categories and the time when Whitehead criticized «simple location,» the question of places «where things are» attracted rather slight attention from philosophy.

Let it have it's own church, because at the memorial, the «cross» would only divert attention from those who died.

To pine uselessly about full reconciliation deflects proper attention from the procedures that are possible.

The questions with which this book chiefly deals first began to claim major attention from me through my participation in the Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University and especially in the seminars on classical Greece.

However, this one was spotlighted, and gathered attention from people who are prone to seeing puppy dogs in clouds.

They act out more than their peers and usually demand excessive amounts of attention from the pastor or youth leader.

My guess is to deflect attention from something else.

Peter Williamson fears that my «criticisms» of Lumen Gentium may distract attention from the crucial significance of the Catholic — Messianic Jewish dialogue.

To praise God is to rejoice in God; to turn attention from self to God; to glory, not in anything that one is or possesses of his own, but in the supreme fact that God is and we possess him.

But it helps the Obama admin deflect attention from real matters!

The very fact she got the question has drawn lots of attention from the media.

For reasons which I partly stated in my Balliol lecture in Bradley (January 1934) I regard cosmology as the main subject at present demanding attention from serious philosophers» (NTM 1d).

The method of averting one's attention from evil, and living simply in the light of good is splendid as long as it will work.

Is that to distract attention from the cause and effect of the current state of the world that thousands of years of so - called religious attainment has created?

This bid is as yet highly unsuccessful, though it has generated much attention from the American media.

The primordial nature of God receives the greatest attention from Whitehead.

In Florence, where the greatest «Magdalena was carved, prostitutes were in plentiful supply to fascinate the leaders of society and mildly threaten ecclesiastical discipline, and a saint who was thought to have been a prostitute was bound to get attention from every group with money for the arts.

Learning that his position at a progressive college will be terminated, Henry Mulcahy exploits liberal guilt to deflect attention from his professional failures.

The problems of narrative form and narrative imagination have not received much attention from philosophers or theologians.

That will get lots of interest and divert most people's attention from the real issues.

Moreover, they were also able to deflect attention from the crimes committed by Stalin and his henchmen, especially since anyone who told the truth about what was taking place in the USSR was immediately branded a Fascist.