Sentences with phrase «central claim»

To summarize my position: Its most central claim is that (2) as well as (1) is an essential element of the problem of induction.
In other words, the three central claims made in the Department of Energy paper quoted at the top of this column were misleading or wrong.
Jez Corden of Windows Central claimed on Twitter that Microsoft wants all versions to play together, but he heard from separate sources that Sony refused.
However, the article's central claim about charter school performance rests on a distorted reading of the data.
The (a) part of the sentence seems to suggest that if interpretations of realities from physics to psychology, from biology to dramas can not cohere with central claims from the Bible, then they are — what?
A new report from Android Central claims that Samsung has been overwhelmed by demand for certain color options of the Galaxy Note 7 and some customers are facing a wait of up to three to four weeks to get their hands on the new phablet.
And here I discuss the difference in public attention when the IPCC understated central claims (such as sea level rise, Arctic sea ice melt, and emission scenarios) to when they overstated a detail that didn't even make it into the technical summary — exactly how fast the Himalayan glaciers would melt.
Sanni's central claim concerns a donation of # 625,000 that Vote Leave ostensibly made to an independent referendum campaign organisation called BeLeave.
Jez Corden of Windows Central claimed via Twitter that Microsoft actually wants to unify all versions of Minecraft, but according to his other sources, Sony refused to be part of Microsoft's plans.
Both groups would immediately see such syncretism as a corruption of both communities and a violation of their most central claims, and they would be appropriately outraged.
The initial report by Windows Central claimed that it was able to obtain a partial list of the planned 4K games that will be coming to the Xbox Project Scorpio, with Forza Motorsport 7 being described as the headline title for the upcoming video game console.
Android Central claims the latest Nougat version may soon roll out, after noting the Canadian carrier Rogers has been testing its voice over LTE (VoLTE) service on Google Pixel handsets running Android 7.1.2 beta software.
We started with an overview of the problems that constituted two central claims: «there are no unique use cases for blockchain» and «the technology can't be trusted».
The insistence that United Methodism is a confessional church, a central claim of most conservatives, threatens the commitment to pluralism, diversity, and inclusiveness of the last generation of United Methodists.
A central claim of the book is that as «substantive reason withdraws,» it is replaced by «practical reason cut off from being, a reason reduced to a procedural or instrumental function.»
The central claim is made that moral evil... occurs because God — even though he is all - good and all - powerful — out of goodness decided to give freedom to human beings.
One might be concerned that antiabortion laws ignore and devalue women's interests, but if the unborn are full persons — and the court in Roe never really confronted that central claim — they surely are the most voiceless and vulnerable persons of all.
The case I argue in the first half of my book is simple, consisting of four central claims and a conclusion.
He goes on to say that blaming de Lubac and John Paul is «the central claim of the Thomist resurgence,» and he seems to have in view R.R. Reno's recommendation - in his review of Kerr's book in the May 2007 issue of FIRST THINGS - that neo-scholastic doctrinal teaching deserves to be revived, at least insofar as its goal was to offer a standard presentation of the Catholic doctrinal tradition.
And to press your point to the central claim of the Christian faith: think about the cross.
I continue to believe that the discipline of fundamental theology is necessary to investigate critically the central claims of Christianity.
Although proud of having read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason at the age of 13, Einstein, in all appearance, never reflected on a central claim made in that book.
The central claim of Christianity is that God is a God of grace, yet most of us still walk around tirelessly working to justify our existence through money, fame, adoration, success, etc..
My central claim, both today and tomorrow, is that being a Christian is primarily about a relationship with God lived within the Christian tradition as a sacrament — a claim to which I will return at the end of this talk.
It would seem that, with its reticence about pronouncements regarding the divinity of Jesus and about acceptance of him as the absolute locus of God's revelation, the historical consciousness as speculative philosophy of history utterly and explicitly contradicts the central claims of the Christian faith.
Christian Smith, for instance, introduces an important new collection of essays on The Secular Revolution with a bold statement about the importance of personal agency: «The central claim of this book is that the historical secularization of the institutions of American public life was not a natural, inevitable, and abstract by - product of modernization; rather it was the outcome of a struggle between contending groups.»
To say that Christians should allow the biblical world to absorb their own world, Placher explains, is to affirm that Christians should resist viewpoints and ideologies that are incompatible with the central claims of scriptural teaching and that Christians should consider whether scriptural narrative «might be unexpectedly helpful» in understanding their own lives.
In that lecture on «the necessity of witness» Hauerwas gives brief attention to three of his heroes — Yoder, Pope John Paul II and Dorothy Day — while reiterating his central claim that «witness is not simply something Christians «do» but is at the heart of understanding how that to which Christians witness is true.
That's the central claim of Lori Gottlieb's «Marry Him, now out in paperback and being marketed to Christian women.
High makes the same point: «The first step in making sense of religious belief - talk, and the central claim of Christian monotheism is to observe that the word God can be quite appropriately, and, indeed biblically, modeled on the personal pronoun «I.»» (Dallas M. High, op.
Nevertheless, I think it is worth trying to explicate some of the central claims and key issues that swirl around the discussion of gay marriage.
Not only have such men long since become convinced of the essential incoherence of this theism in its efforts to combine the religious insights of Christianity with the philosophical wisdom of the Greeks, but they are also deeply repelled by the central claim of Greek wisdom, that this world of time and change is somehow inferior or not fully real.
Give me a weekend, I told her, and I can shred Christianity's central claim.
There can not be sufficient evidence for the central claims of theism because religious language is meaningless.
There can not be sufficient evidence for the central claims of theism because the concept of God is incoherent.
One of the book's central claims is that this «saving faith» is but one species of a genus «faith» to be found in other religions and indeed in all human activities.
Nevertheless, it is not entirely without value for theology to attempt at the same time, in a subordinate and supportive manner, some kind of rational «justification» of the central claims of revelation.
So, what were the apparent inconsistencies in the resurrection accounts that cast doubt on their central claim — that Jesus rose?
At the same time, all of us can be enriched and inspired by central aspects of Cobb's «earthist» theology and ethics, most notably his central claim that «the Earth is a far more inclusive and suitable object of devotion than Christianity, a nation, or economic growth.»
Even if you disagree with most everything Capon says, you will still be challenged to think about the central claims of the Gospel.
Each show would debate a question, with the intention of testing the central claims of Christianity — could they stand up to scrutiny?
This is faith as believing the central claims of the Christian tradition to be true.
Unfortunately, this dilutes the impact of one of the central claims of the gospel: that in his resurrection, Jesus Christ has conquered death — the «last enemy» (1 Corinthians 15).
Among the many errors, confusions and misjudgments is the central claim that the Priory of Sion is of medieval origin, with a list of grand masters that includes Leonardo, his predecessor Botticelli, and the likes of Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo and even Claude Debussy.
According to Wright, the central claim of his book is that «the phrase «authority of scripture» can make Christian sense only if it is a shorthand for «the authority of the triune God, exercised somehow through scripture.»
The notion that an «emerging awareness» can reveal hitherto unknown rights is, of course, the central claim of the famous «living Constitution» theory.
My view is that none of the central claims made by any of the traditions are likely to be literally and exactly correct.

Phrases with «central claim»

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