Sentences with phrase «by classical definition»

Therefore by classical definition it's a religion.

For something / someone to cause something else, that something would have had to exist before it in time, if we go by the classical definition of the word «cause».

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In a comment, Tim Nichols from Full Contact Christianity challenged my definition of Sola Scriptura, as not being the same definition that was used by the classical Reformers when they talked about Sola Scriptura.

In Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation they recommend that the definition of rhetoric be broadened to its fullest range in the classical tradition, namely as «the means by which a text establishes and manages it relationship to its audience in order to achieve a particular effect.»

The manners appropriate for teachers and students in a democracy of worth are neither those of the classical authoritarian school, where it is presupposed that the schoolmaster knows the truth and is expected to inculcate it, nor those of the progressive school, which is built on the principle that truth is by definition what solves human problems.

I want to suggest to you the classical definition of Christian prayer that is found first stated by a great theologian of the earlier days of the Church, St. John of Damascus, and taken over by St. Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century: «Prayer is the elevation of the soul to God.»

As a man, I'm greatly concerned by subversive attempts to deconstruct all «classical» definitions of manhood.

The classical definition of prayer, given by St. John of Damascus and taken over by St. Thomas Aquinas, is that prayer is «the elevation of the soul to God.»

The classical definition of a nation state requires territory, population, a formal body that can impose taxes and government policy, and recognition by (some number) of sovereign states.

Meek's Cuttoff is the very definition of a slowburn treat, a classical Oregon - set «oater» in which a wagon trail heading across vast, acrid prairies is placed in danger when its party decide to take heed of a short cut suggested by one Stephen Meek.