Sentences with phrase «bear proper names»

On these terms, the self could conceivably remain «nothing but» an arbitrary label for those accretions of flesh that bear proper names or social security numbers.

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There are, of course, proper names of God or gods, whether in the polytheistic religions or, as in ancient Israel, where the one omnipotent God, Yahweh, bears a special name because the people is convinced to have had a special experience of him in its history, which characterizes him despite his incomprehensibility and actual namelessness and thus confers a name on him.

In reflecting upon Vashti McCollum's death, J. Brent Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, told the CENTURY: «The 1948 case that bears her name set the tone for the Supreme Court's view on the proper relationship between church and state in public schools.»

«Again, respect of persons, in uncovering the head and bowing the knee or body in salutation, was a practice I had been much in the use of; and this, being one of the vain customs of the world, introduced by the spirit of the world, instead of the true honor which this is a false representation of, and used in deceit as a token of respect by persons one to another, who bear no real respect one to another; and besides this, being a type and a proper emblem of that divine honor which all ought to pay to Almighty God, and which all of all sorts, who take upon them the Christian name, appear in when they offer their prayers to him, and therefore should not be given to men; - I found this to be one of those evils which I had been too long doing; therefore I was now required to put it away and cease from it.

The exploration of «theology proper,» a ready activity in Pentecostal schools, more often than not will be done with the aid of systematic theologies bearing the names of authors who pre-dated the Pentecostal movement — Charles G. Finney, Charles Hodge, W G. T. Shedd, A. H. Strong, R. A. Torrey.

From selecting the proper ingredients all the way through the end - drying process, President and Treasurer Bruce Sturgis keeps close tabs on the final product that bears his family name.

These writs, which bear names as ancient as their common - law origins, have been considered indispensable to our legal system, and the Constitution specifically authorizes their issuance in a proper case without the necessity of having to proceed initially to trial.