Sentences with phrase «built around them»

Whether it was Seth Cohen's social status or Ryan's class status, the show was built around the premise that everyone is trying to get into somebody else's world.

Our foreign policy during the last decade has been built around the negative aim of opposition to Russia, and has failed to take positive leadership in a world - wide attack on hunger and disease.

The entire Bible is built around not being able to prove God by the ways of man.

Even one seems to forget that we are a county built around hundreds of different cultures and beliefs.

The Life of 3.14 I minored in Classical Studies and the more you dig into the cult of Mithras the easier it is to see how Jesus was built around it.

The economic system is built around the very content, shape and outcome of work.

These ministries are thought to be manipulative, theatrical, phony and often built around ego - centered clergy.

Perry's ties to Texas» black and Hispanic communities are largely built around faith - related issues such as abortion and gay marriage, on which polls show minorities tend to be more conservative than whites.

It is built around scenes of conquest ---- conquest over the American frontier, the American Indian, and over nature itself.

A mystique has been built around it, and that is not going to vanish overnight.

Catholic Studies programs should be built around an «incarnational principle» embodied in a committed community of faculty, who form a communion of persons (one of John Paul II's favorite philosophical phrases) in service to the intellectual and spiritual formation of their students.

Rhythms of life are built around your weekly routine, holiday traditions, and interactions with people — and these are all about to change.

Whole communities have been built around it and it's become... stale.

4However, this does not confuse empirical theology with «speculative theology» or speculative philosophy» — a theology or philosophy that may be built around, for example, Whitehead's categoreal scheme, Hegel's absolute scheme, Kant's subjectivist scheme.

Summa was probably what got me started questioning the whole concept of God and religions built around gods.

It will be seen straightaway that music built around these patterns will not (as is so often thought) be linear.

Wind and fire sweep through this upper room of our habitual spirituality to upset the self - protective scene we have built around ourselves.

But when I looked at the Gospel for the day (John 20:19 - 31), it became very clear to me that here is a story, a story of Jesus» appearance to the disciples when they were in hiding after the Resurrection... this was a real opportunity to say something about that story and about the faith which is built around people who were fearful, were skeptical, and into the midst of them, somehow, in a way that was ultimately moving, comes the presence of Jesus through locked doors and barriers of skepticism, cynicism, and doubt, all of these things that prevent ourselves from being God's people.

«Simplicity circles are built around people's personal stories,» she explained.

In the past, our world had been built around church activities, praise music, and shared belief in general.

There are entire denominations of Christians built around a particular understanding of the Mosaic Law which separates them from others.

As a result hundreds of urban communities, built around factories, have disappeared.

The disciples, like the Pharisees, need to be liberated from ideas and practices they have built around what it means to know and follow Jesus.

The duo have reportedly envisioned an online network that would be built around faith - based programming, like The Bible miniseries and A.D..

Its whole scheme of history is built around the concept of «indemnity» — that is, around humanity's struggle to fulfill its portion of reparation for the Fall.

... Dawson thought it strange that 16th - century men should read so many pagan classics and, philosophy and theology aside, so little of the great Christian works that had subsequently appeared, especially works of the imagination like the Cid or Parzival that were built around the question of what it means to live the Christian life in the world.»

Modern American evangelicalism emerged in the late 19th century, built around biblical literalism and an emphasis on human sin and redemption.

Entire College Courses would be built around the movies teachings.

Your identity is built around a sense of self that materialism is forced to eliminate.

The point is that the result in either case is that the sexuality within is confined, shaped, limited, perhaps diminished by the container built around it.

This is a form of re-colonization that does not need any military intervention; it is done unceremoniously by a mere legal transfer of ownership of the shares of enterprises, helped by the previously mentioned international agencies built around the UN system.

The problem that Rosenzweig poses for the radical liberal is that The Star of Redemption is built around the issue of Jewish election.

Without knowing which of the many forms of pacifism (or liberalism or conservatism) one is referring to, no premise that is built around the word can be argued logically one way or the other.

Whitehead's discussion of the human soul is notoriously difficult,» but that he is involved in such a category confusion rests on Mays's failure to appreciate Whitehead's metaphysics, built around the notion of a dipolar actual entity as a vibrant, dynamic center of integrative processes having both physical and mental poles.

Built around 9600 B.C., the site predates Stonehenge by about 6600 years and places the origins of human religious experience much farther back in the historical progress of our civilization than scholars previously believed possible.

Since such a large part of most services is built around the lectionary, the finest biblical scholarship can have a great impact on the totality of the service through new commentaries and other resources.

1:27) Can that be said of those whose clergy and other members are involved in politics, or whose lives are largely built around materialistic and fleshly desires?

If his thesis is built around his interpretation of that verse then it is going to be difficult to sell the idea unless he makes a convincing argument against John 16:32 and Psalm 22, for me at least.

That message is built around three doctrines: creation (God made the world and declared it good), stewardship (God gave us the responsibility to care for that creation), and restoration (God's plan is to restore the creation).

The new president made a great many promises regarding the direction of our culture — his entire campaign was built around the idea that he could «make America great again.»

In an era of evangelicalism where there are church ministries built around the idea of «family,» marriage has become the focus of countless books and sermons and «family friendly» entertainment...

There are also independent families built around plural marriages.

This is the never setting sun and the empire built around it truly lives in an eternal day without night.

A plethora of books and seminars have been built around treating the Household Codes as God - inspired marriage advice for modern couples, often working off the statement that «God tells wives to respect their husbands because men need respect, and God tells husbands to love their wives because women need love.»

The AA program is built around 12 steps, which are straightforward suggestions for people who choose to lead sober lives.

So much of evangelical culture is built around loud, large - scale events.

when you feel uncomfortable about your life and how the world is built around you and thinking you're too small to make a change, you feel the need to transcend; this need is filled by god / spirituality.

Every religion has its narrative, a belief system built around one or more gods postulated to exist.

He already knew he had cancer in both lungs when he mounted this final testimony to his faith, which was built around the theme of love.

And he did so based on the belief that this is the New Testament vision: a family «built around the quality of relationships shared by the members of God's kingdom rather than blood ties.»