Sentences with phrase «by essentials we mean»

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Diversifying your portfolio by means of different securities and asset classes is an essential approach to lower the overall risk of a portfolio.

They still have to comply with federal and state laws, which means gays are out, but everyone else has to be considered for employment by the company (the only exceptions to the law are where your religion or other protected status are essential for the job... for example, a Muslim couldn't sue an Episcopalian church who wouldn't hire them in an administrative role because their faith clashes with that of the church — things like that don't apply to a fast food chain).

The polarization is so deep that when, in 1996, the late Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin founded the Catholic Common Ground Initiative as a means of addressing division in the church, he was criticized by some liberal Catholics who thought that the project was not radical enough and by some of his brother cardinals who believed that it jeopardized the essential truths of the faith.

We may put it differently or even mean different things by it, but an essential part of Christianity is that the truth is not to be found in denying or escaping the arena of natural and historical activity, but within it.

We re-discover the meaning of heroism and friendship as we see the two hobbits clawing their way up Mount Doom; we see again the endless evil of greed and egotism in Gollum, stunted and ingrown out of moral shape by years of lust for the ring; we recognize again the essential anguish of seeing beautiful and frail things - innocence, early love, children — passing away as we read of the Lady Galadriel and the elves making the inevitable journey to the West.

Group counseling can become one means by which the pastor fulfills his essential function «to equip God's people for work in his service» (Ephesians 4:11 - 12, NEB), and through which laymen perform their priesthood as members of the Body of Christ.

In order to interpret this core - principle of revelation, we must understand its essential presupposition; namely, that events are present «in» other events - present not just abstractly (through «eternal objects»), i.e., mediated by the «general,» but as singular events that effect their further history by their unique concreteness (PR 338).12 Whitehead recognizes precisely this constellation when he says:» [T] he truism that we can only conceive in terms of universals has been stretched to mean that we can only feel in terms of universals.

The inner relationship between democracy (or that which it is meant to guarantee) and the Church is ev - idenced also by the essential charismatic element in the nature of the Church.

Over at No Left Turns, Peter Lawler reminds us that part of the problem with an unrestrained judicial activism is precisely its championing of the ever expanding rights of the Lockean individual — the essential premise of Texas v. Lawrence is that the word «liberty» as used in the Fourteenth Amendment is an indeterminate concept meant to be expanded indefinitely by the Supreme Court.

Yet liberalism as a political theory, understood as a cooperative enterprise for mutual advantage among free and equal persons, is considered by friend and foe alike the essential expression of what it means to he a political animal in the modern West.

one's past self is not merely inferred but is given, &... this givenness of past in present is an essential aspect of what is meant by the endurance of the identical» self....

This is by no means to deny all essential relations to the Aristotelian universe.

The values of things are thus real, independent of the interpretation of them in the same sense that things are independent by virtue of being harmonies of their conditional features with and by means of their essential features.

By removing the wide segments of knowledge and skill with which the school ordinarily deals from all explicit relation to religion, the meaning of religion is falsified; by being made a specialized concern, it is robbed of its essential comprehensiveness, and the school studies become occasions for propagating the gospel of autonomy and self - sufficiencBy removing the wide segments of knowledge and skill with which the school ordinarily deals from all explicit relation to religion, the meaning of religion is falsified; by being made a specialized concern, it is robbed of its essential comprehensiveness, and the school studies become occasions for propagating the gospel of autonomy and self - sufficiencby being made a specialized concern, it is robbed of its essential comprehensiveness, and the school studies become occasions for propagating the gospel of autonomy and self - sufficiency.

Although the madness currently seizing Sudan and Algeria is not the focus of her book, one concludes Ye'or's brilliant monograph realizing how fragile the recognition of human rights can be and how long the road will be before all the globe admits what Vatican II taught: that the right to worship God according to one's conscience is an essential component to what it means to be a human being created by this same God» whom we all worship, however unawares.

It is now overturning beliefs and institutions which, in some cases, have lasted for millennia, and which are judged by some to be absolutely essential or fundamental to the meaning of people's lives and the welfare of society.

That existing things, including people, can be ordered by means of mathematics (for example, in a census, or in actuarial statistics) is a happy circumstance that does not negate the essential independence of mathematical ideas from every empirical reality.

If it is possible in this way to regard the creation of the soul by God as a case of becoming through essential self - transcendence, because this latter concept formally includes what is meant in the former by creation, then the origin of the soul possesses its distinctive, unique character, in contrast to any other origin through the agent's self - transcendence by the fact that here the self - transcendence occurs in the direction of an absolutely unique individual being, spiritually unique.

What makes any religious tradition a tradition is that it has an essential meaning or motif which can be criticized as inessential only by abandoning rather than appropriating the tradition itself.

There must be a winnowing and sifting of its essential meaning from its inessential forms — to the extent, indeed, implied by an Anglican bishop in the seventeenth century who remarked that «the most useful of all books on theology would be one with the title De Paucitate Credendorum, on the fewness of the things which a man must believe.

When we inquire further as to the concrete meaning of Jesus, after his death, within the life of the early Christian community, we find ourselves at once forced to deal with two theological issues of fundamental importance: the nature of the church and the nature of revelation; for the essential and permanent significance of Jesus lies in the fact that he was the center and head of the church and that he was the central figure in that revelation of God which we have received and by which we are saved.

The conclusion seems unavoidable: Aquinas has expanded Augustine's definition of love in a useful direction, but the fundamental problem limiting the meaning of God's love by virtue of God's essential immutability and transtemporality has not been surmounted.

By the last he means the exhaustion of essential material resources before alternatives are available or the depletion of human vitality and genetic integrity.

Equally essential is that theology concern itself with the appropriateness of the Christian witness, by which I mean the congruence of what is meant in this witness, however it may be said, with what is properly taken to be the Christian norm.

Worse still, until recently these weapons have been accepted by public opinion as legitimate and essential means of defense.

I mean, communicated from a divine source by Jesus Christ as God, through inspired prophets and wise men, apostles, teachers, the writers of the books of the Bible, councils of church leaders, popes, and so on, in such a way that the message has been transmitted in human language, clothed in the external forms of human thought, given, indeed, in the characteristic language and thought - forms of particular nations and cultures, but at the same time in such a way that its essential content has been unaffected by the human mind's fallibility, ignorance and feebleness of apprehension.

Both as a means of bringing together what has been said in earlier chapters and as an introduction to this one, let us begin by stating certain essential principles which apply to prayer and also to worship in its larger setting.

Another essential facet in the historical background for Platonic theism is the definitive fixing of the meaning for being by Parmenides of Elea.

«The body,» he continues, «would thus be, not the cause of our thinking, but merely a condition restrictive thereof, and, although essential to our sensuous and animal consciousness, it may be regarded as an impeder of our pure spiritual life.8 And in a recent book of great suggestiveness and power, less well - known as yet than it deserves, — I mean» Riddles of the Sphinx,» by Mr. F. C. S. Schiller of Oxford, late of Cornell University, — the transmission - theory is defended at some length.9

But this is not for Jesus the essential meaning of human life; for him its meaning is that man stands under the necessity of decision before God, is confronted by the demand of the will of God, which must be comprehended in each concrete moment and obeyed.

It is, however, by no means certain that this is the essential character of myth.

The RE syllabus is too often dictated by the needs of public examinations, but even within this some fine work could be done, and the Faith communicated for what it is: essential knowledge, rich and deep, that opens wide the whole of life's meaning and purpose and sets it in the context of centuries of God's revelation and 2,000 years of Church history that is thrilling to discover.

While work is necessary and we have the freedom the earn and enjoy the good fruits of labor, hustle culture creates a system where overworking is necessary and essential for material success and where the ultimate goal in life is to achieve wealth and prosperity, by any means necessary.

The essential meaning of «The Unity Law of Control and Direction» is that every aspect of reality is permeated by a single principle which relates it all to the Mind and Will of God.

Such a theology strains the meaning of «political», but it can and should conform to all those features originally proposed in the characterization of political theology by Metz, Moltmann and Sölle, and it carries forward its essential spirit.

Personal acceptance, personal faith, and personal responsibility are essential; and this is what is mean by the «solitariness» in which a man faces God, the world, and himself with utter honesty and tries to come to terms with all three.

The essential philosophical problem concerns what we mean by meaning.

It is essential to note what Hartshorne means by a priori.

For Troeltsch the essence of the Christian ethic by the end of the nineteenth century had come to mean four essential theses, all derived from the double love commandment.

So the sentence repeated by the authors of On the Way to Life should be understood to mean that «Grace makes human nature to be human nature», that grace is «essential to the meaning of the term «human nature», that «grace is part of the definition of human nature» (along, therefore, with being composed of soul and body).

«Religion is that activity of the human impulse towards self - preservation by means of which Man seeks to carry his essential vital purposes through against the adverse pressure of the world by raising himself freely towards the world's ordering and governing powers when the limits of his own strength are reached.»

The mental pole, however, even while it is the prime means of simplification, is also the route to novelty by virtue of its essential affinity for eternal objects.

They're best kept in the fridge too, but this isn't essential by any means.

But yes it's up to you to include them or not, they're delicious but not essential by any means.

As someone who respects animals, it is essential for me to support farmers that employ humane farming practices by letting their animals roam on pasture, feeding them what they are naturally meant to eat and treating them with respect and gratitude.

So many things to do the sometime we forget the most essential things, and off course with that I mean food, if you notice how fast the year go by know and how expensive it is to grocery shopping, it is important to incorporated budget friendly recipes to our everyday meal plan.

The second joy of using any nut milk made by Silk is that it's always loaded with nutrients, calcium and essential vitamins, meaning that combined with the pumpkin, you're doing your body a whole lot of good while enjoying a whole lot of yummy baked pumpkin mac and cheese.

That means that it contains all nine of the essential amino acids, which can not be made by the body.

A house cocktail is by no means an essential invention.

For me and everyone else it was customary, and by that I mean essential, that the greens be cast right into the rice bowl and mixed in with chopsticks.