Sentences with phrase «by peculiar ways»

The way to crimes against humanity was prepared by peculiar ways of thinking about humanity.

Not exact matches

«Buying the yen because of a trade war in which Japan was going to be hit pretty badly, and Japan hasn't been exempted from the steel tariffs by the way, that seems to me pretty peculiar,» Giles Keating, managing director at wealth manager Werthstein Institute, told CNBC.

Any effort to understand God truly that is guided by an interest in the peculiar ways in which God is present involves acquiring capacities for critique of falsity, including the falsity of ideology.

Remember that the congregation is idiomatic; it constitutes itself by a very distinctive language whose indicative aspect identifies a world in some ways allied with metaphors widely employed in the culture but in other ways peculiar to that group alone.

(b) These abilities are guided by interests in God's peculiar ways of being present, interests in them for their own sake rather than for their moral, therapeutic, or redemptive consequences.

The pastor went to Romans 12:2 («Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind») and explained, «One of the ways we show we are sons and daughters of God is there's been an inward transformation that has lead to an external, outward transformation that the world finds peculiar.»

The capacities needed to apprehend God must be guided by interests in God's peculiar ways of being present and by God's idiosyncratic reality, not by persons» interests in realizing or fulfilling themselves; but the shaping and transforming of persons» identities this involves will in fact also bring with them movement toward fulfillment of their humanity.

A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society by Rodney Clapages InterVarsity, 251 pages, $ 14.99 paper A prolific evangelical Protestant writer, Clapp proposes an understanding of «church as way of life» along lines made familiar by the work of Stanley Hauerwas.

In other words, the teaching that the death of Christ was (a) for sin and (b) in accordance with the scriptures was derived by both Mark and Paul from the primitive church; the doctrine of the Atonement is not Paul's unique and distinctive contribution to Christian thought, for it is really pre-Pauline; further, it is not at all the central, cardinal doctrine in «Paulinism,» but a subsidiary one; (Indeed, it is a component one — it forms part of the doctrine of the new creation in Christ) finally, the conception of the way in which Christ's death becomes effective, as Paul conceived it, is peculiar to Paul and finds no trace in Mark or indeed elsewhere in the New Testament (Save in passages demonstrable dependent on Paul)-- Paul thinks of it as a conquest of the demonic powers in the very hour of their greatest aggression and apparent triumph.

No need to set our faces sternly against the massive cultural power of the academic and media establishment if we qualify any peculiar practices we retain by the qualification: We're open to change, that is, you progressives may be right» in fact it seems you are, so please excuse our very temporary clinging to old ways here, we're just waiting for the right (that is left) revelation to come along, let's hope sooner rather than later...

If anything is redemptive it is God's own peculiar ways of being present in history, and congregations are constituted by the practices in which they respond to that redemptive presence.

Indeed, many of the peculiar political, economic, and finally religious shifts that have contributed to the secularized cultures of today have been shaped by elements of these encounters, and (though we shall never know) may have taken place in their own way without what we call the Reformation ever having happened.

While much of the plaudits were hogged by Virgil van Dijk for his goal, Matip's peculiar reaction has since gone viral with Reds supporters in particular loving the Cameroonian's display of resentment in such a weird way.

So you could say by C.P. Snow's rather peculiar way of looking at the world that I've looked at two of the century's greatest Englishmen.

Virtually all animals show the peculiar «paroxystic respiratory cycle characterized by a standard cascade of movements over a five - to ten - second period,» which is the way the yawn has been defined.

However, one still wonders why on (Middle) Earth Jackson chose to shoot his new trilogy in this way and not allow the detailed world to be shown off in all its cinematic glory instead of it being masked by this peculiar effect (of course this won't matter in regular 24 fps 2D).

The special effects are only distinguished by a peculiar concern for verisimilitude — the initially snowy George gets really dirty on his way to Chicago, while the unnamed giant wolf appears to be suffering from mange.

«Blood Honey, and that's a great title by the way, derives from the peculiar hallucinogenic nectar produced by the bees on the island...»

, and that's a great title by the way, derives from the peculiar hallucinogenic nectar produced by the bees on the island...»

by Walter Chaw Delightfully, extravagantly bizarre, Robert Bierman's Vampire's Kiss houses arguably Nicolas Cage's most peculiar performance in the service of a piece the contemporary in every way of Oliver Stone's Wall Street and the precursor, in every way, to Mary Harron's American Psycho.

You feel the front start to ease into understeer and then bite again if you lift the throttle to restore balance; you sense the peculiar weight distribution through the small of your back and by way the R slips into mild oversteer on the brakes but then squats hard as soon as you accelerate, smearing its 305 - section Michelin Cup 2 tires into the road.

It is also a comical and entertaining account of A Man Called Ove and his peculiar ways... an honest man with strict principles who abhors «the men in white shirts» that have done him wrong, a man who fights for what's right, a man who will no longer be cheated out of a kroner, a man who eventually becomes (view spoiler)[a hero and loved by all.

Inspired by blogger / travel - writer - turned - novelist Ransom Riggs's collection of fantastical and grotesque vintage photographs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is already on the way to making it big.

With only a battered wall clock, her dead mother's gold ring, and a barnyard full of miserable animals to call her own, Bess is forced to make her way in a deceptively hostile world, tracing her father's path with arcane maps at the local subscription library and shrinking from the attentions paid to her and her aunt by their peculiar neighbor Elmer Jackson.

This is because of the interesting way that the campaign is presented; you will start off by playing as Claire and Moira, and once that part of the mission has been taken care of you'll then play through as Barry and Natalia — the latter a curious young girl with some peculiar abilities.

Through its frenzy of screens and motion wherein activities, both endearing and peculiar, take place, we see that at its core Yang's work relates to the confusion produced by changes in life, society and traditions that are inherent to all places in the world, and therefore do not necessarily need to be contextualized by the drastic shifts taking place today in China in order to impact viewers in meaningful ways.

In this historic and symbolic landmark of Milan, between la Scala Theatre and Palazzo Reale, the artist delves into her peculiar irony, determination, and candour, another perspective, another way of observing and experiencing the world, by - passing conventional thought systems and references.

Surrounded by such profusion, that initial shock gave way, for me, to the peculiar pleasure of being in an alien art environment, suddenly, newly alive to the stacks» rich offerings.

In a broader sense, he's now in the peculiar position of claiming to have been completely «exonerated» by an investigation that concluded his own work was «misleading» - or, as he puts it, «overly simplified» and, um, «artistic», which is one way of putting it.

According to paleontologists, an early species of horse was discovered to have responded to an extended bout of unusually hot temperatures million years ago in the most peculiar of ways: by going miniature.

What would be right, would be if the court had the URL http://www.supremecourt.ca or some such, but in our peculiar capitalist way, that URL has been snatched by someone and is being camped on, as are all sensible variants.

I don't understand where this aforesaid claim by Bruce comes from, in that his assertion could be thought to apply in a peculiar way to new practitioners.