Sentences with phrase «by ordinary means»

Whereas Bernanos is surely right «that nothing can be reformed in the Church by ordinary means.

Americans in the two opposing strains of Protestantism, the evangelical and liberal, along with many adherents of Pentecostal and holiness cults, would agree that religious knowledge is special knowledge that can not be taught or learned by ordinary means (Philip J. Lee, Against the Protestant Gnostics, 113).

Does your prayer accomplish anything demonstrable by ordinary means?

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Likewise, receiving it as compensation or by other means will be ordinary income.

One way to illustrate the full scope of this problem would be to look more closely at the horizonal character of the ecstatic past in contrast with the past of the ordinary interpretation of time, which is only understood by negative contrast with the present.5 Here Mason, apparently following Whitehead, allows us to make a particularly striking contrast: we can never change the past» he says (p. 95), meaning to evoke what Heidegger calls Dasein's «facticity» and to compare it with the objectivity with which perished actual occasions confront the concrescing actual entity in Whitehead.

It is due to this profoundly personal sacramental meaning of the body that we find a consistent teaching about homosexuality in the Bible (Gn 3 and 19:1 - 11; Lev 18:22 and 20:13; 1 Cor 6:9; Rm 1:18 - 32; 1 Tim 1) and throughout the tradition, wherein this teaching would be infallibly taught by the ordinary universal episcopal magisterium.

«8 Whether or not divine inspiration is claimed by the artist, in his work he surrenders to something beyond his ordinary self and produces some expression of inner meaning capable of evoking purer feelings in those to whom he communicates.

It seems to me that these latter novels are all illuminated by discussing them in terms very similar to the ones we used to discuss parables: they evoke the graciousness of the transcendent by means of a distortion of the familiar, for the purpose of providing a new and extraordinary context for ordinary experience.

Although we are quite in the dark about the why of human disease and suffering, ordinary observation can show us that the result of their occurrence is by no means necessarily evil.

Furthermore, the ordinary Christians who acknowledge the situation as defined by the approved theologians have found meaning within this context.

Not the haburah fellowship meal celebrated by a group of Pharisees; no such meal existed (J. Jeremias, Eucharistic Words of Jesus [1965], pp. 30 f.) Not the Qumran communal meal anticipating the «messianic banquet», for all that this may have influenced the Christian practice, because that is simply a special meaning given to the regular communal meal at Qumran, whereas our evidence indicates that the Christian practice was something out of the ordinary which the early Christians did and which helped to give them a special identity.

Searle would respond by saying that this contradicts the ordinary language meaning of «knowing a language,» but nevertheless, the point here is one about the type of knowledge in the person operating the Box.

The italicized portion is a partial depiction of the middle concept in which the whole of God is conceived as an infinite totality of conceptual feeling; the part in ordinary print indicates how this account could be revised, by means of insertion, to accord with Whitehead's final view.

It is not meant to suggest a special religious power, faculty, or sense possessed by some few individuals as a means whereby they attain special knowledge or truth unavailable by ordinary avenues.

Is that what you mean by «law» — just the ordinary notion of scientific law?

In «Passion,» on the other hand, De Palma has taken an ordinary but well - done French thriller, «Crime d'amour» by Alain Corneau, and added his typical doubts about the true meaning of things with a focus on the surface of things.

In the first place, by no means all the functioning of the unconscious is «mental» in any ordinary sense.

All the traits of the ordinary meaning are resumed, assumed, and transmuted by contact with this confessional «kernel.»

By means of this distinction, one can argue that, although the primary sense of a term with respect to how it means is the sense it has as applied to a creature, or ordinary individual, the primary sense of the term with respect to what is meant by it is the sense it has as applied to the Creator, or eminent individuaBy means of this distinction, one can argue that, although the primary sense of a term with respect to how it means is the sense it has as applied to a creature, or ordinary individual, the primary sense of the term with respect to what is meant by it is the sense it has as applied to the Creator, or eminent individuaby it is the sense it has as applied to the Creator, or eminent individual.

Christian communication needs to find its rootage, its raw stuff, from within the experiences of daily life, and then attempt to show in what way this ordinary, day - by - day existence has ultimate meaning.

An oxymoron is a locution that produces an effect by means of what in ordinary language is a self - contradiction.

On the contrary, he charged that the distinction, suggested by Eugene Fisher, between the Church as institution and the Church as the Body of Christ «is exactly as I feared» and means that «the Vatican's final position on the Church's «errors and failures» would be to hold ordinary Christians responsible while maintaining that the institution itself was blameless.»

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

But should not the answer to this felt need of ordinary experience rather be sought in a deeper penetration into what Whitehead meant by «society»?

This story of extraordinary heroism by ordinary people of little means brought tears to my eyes.

As a first approximation, we may say that the poetic function points to the obliterating of the ordinary referential function, at least if we identify it with the capacity to describe familiar objects of perception or the objects which science alone determines by means of its standards of measurement.

For years theologians have been cutting themselves further and further adrift from the broader sets of meanings by which ordinary people steer their lives; yet at the same time they have clung desperately to the notion that they speak as autonomous experts, that their definitions of what is real are sufficient.

So Whitehead's reply to Berkeley is, in effect, that matter really does matter in the ordinary sense of the word, since whatever acquires material existence is always capable of influencing by means of signs the becomings of subsequent «things.»

Yet it remains a misleading phrase to those who, lacking a technically precise knowledge of Whitehead's vocabulary, understand the term «mental pole» by analogy to the ordinary meaning of «mental.»

The ordinary way in which nature achieves order through time is by means of repetition or re-enactment.

When the words of consecration are repeated, this combination of baked elements is re-moved from the level of ordinary bread and assigned a new meaning in faith, according to the promise made by Jesus at the institution of the sacrament.

Each one has its own meaning in a brief and ephemeral sense, but meaning in the ordinary sense is built up out of patterns of sense which emerge moment by moment in the course of a myriad of microevents happening and vanishing and passing on the meaning they briefly achieve.

We are meant to live in Ordinary Time, and to help redeem the time being from insignificance, by making it not extra-ordinary, but holy in the most ordinary waysOrdinary Time, and to help redeem the time being from insignificance, by making it not extra-ordinary, but holy in the most ordinary waysordinary, but holy in the most ordinary waysordinary ways of all.

Hence the meaning of what is said can be illustrated by an ordinary example from human experience.

Finally, by means of past experiences and unconscious memories «the instinctive apprehension of a tone of feeling in ordinary social intercourse» to which Whitehead also appeals is explicable without reference to unmediated feelings.

The exercise is intended to help people to see the familiar in new contexts, by juxtaposing the ordinary familiar meanings with novel associations: thus Camel filters are juxtaposed with the rich man who wanted to get into the kingdom of heaven, and the ad reads: «This is the one to try.»

You don't wish to own a Rolls Royce with ordinary engine oil or tricycles as your replacement means of transport nor would you want Ozil and Sanchez surrounded by men like Santos, Chamakh, Flamini, Arteta and such likes.

I worry that unless the concerns of ordinary, working people are properly addressed within the political arena by a party that fully supports their aims and aspirations, the real issues of poverty, division and disconnect will mean the people of the United Kingdom suffer and the growing culture of greed and apathy will lead to politics becoming more distant and more irrelevant

But has he shown he can walk with ordinary people, understand what it is like to be delayed by the Tube, or what it means to struggle on the minimum wage, or how to run a small business?

Wolbachia may be the most common infectious bacteria on Earth, but they are by no means ordinary.

Exposing stats illusions Shalizi warns «causal - sounding phrases... encourage confusion» in many analyses of variance studies (where «due to,» «explained by,» «account for» don't have ordinary meanings).

Natural cleansing and healing by means of hydrotherapy, hot and cold baths, friction, compresses and enemas has been widely practiced by monks, naturopaths, doctors and ordinary folk throughout history.

Natural cleansing and healing by means of hot and cold baths, friction, compresses and cold packs has been widely practiced by naturopaths, doctors and ordinary folk throughout history.

But Clemens is by no means the only designer elevating the ordinary emblems of mass consumerism to extraordinary heights — or at least pasting them on t - shirts.

Created closer to Mother Earth for Spiritual Reasons only a Spiritual man would Understand ~ Ocean Gurl to the core and Dolphins are my Aumakua, NOT an Ordinary Woman by any means, but making People Happy 0 / Roks my World!!!

Questlove has become the go - to guy for pop - music perspective in music documentaries for a reason he proves once again here: He brings a musician's knowledge of why a piece of music is special (his analysis here of «Don't Stop «Til You Get Enough» is a mini-music class) as well as a fan's appreciation for what that music meant to millions of ordinary people — how Jackson's music during this era not only defined the time, but made the world a better place simply by its existence.

It's unclear if Mr. Brice means for them to be quite this ordinary, but their banality and unease about fitting in works because it makes them nice foils for Kurt, who, by flamboyant contrast, contains scripted multitudes.

Away We Go, a droll comedy - cum - drama by director Sam Mendes (American Beauty), perceptively explores the lives of more - or-less ordinary 30somethings lost in a world without much meaning.

However it was on this night that magic took the ideas in that box, and created Timothy, who is found by Cindy and Jim covered in dirt and in what was Timothy is no ordinary kid by any means.

Here is an ordinary man to whom an alien bequeaths a ring of power that forms a skin - tight suit around the possessor's body and allows him to create anything that his mind envisions by means of literal willpower.