Sentences with phrase «central claim of»

Because it directly undermines the central claim of their whole series — the charge that has been picked up by the activist echo chamber and others — that we definitively knew enough in the early 1980s to support curbs on fossil fuel use.

In essence, at the very time when the IPCC was relying on WWF literature to substantiate its claims for the end of the Himalayan glaciers, satellite photos were being taken which would disprove the central claim of Pachauri's IPCC regarding the fate of those glaciers.

The notion that an «emerging awareness» can reveal hitherto unknown rights is, of course, the central claim of the famous «living Constitution» theory.

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.

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..

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.

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.

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.

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).

Civil servants complained that the central claims of the report were not backed up by the evidence within it.

The potential match between Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Massey could bolster one of the central claims of the mayor's campaign: that moneyed interests and «powerful forces» are bent on booting him from power.

One of the central claims of (Mann, 2008)-- as stated in the abstract — was that «Recent warmth appears anomalous for at least the past 1,300 years whether or not tree - ring data are used.»

As this series of reviews unwinds, we see a landscape in which the central claims of mainstream climate science is judged to be untouched: a landscape in which man - made climate change is very likely happening, and its effects are projected to be significant in many regions of the world, particularly in regions populated by the poor.

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Herbalife is trying to get regulators and prosecutors interested in investigating Ackman for market manipulation, and while there is a lot of blather (both Ackman and Herbalife seem to have been astroturfing some of their respective allies), the central claim seems to be that Ackman knew in advance about a letter that now - Senator Edward Markey wrote to regulators urging them to investigate Herbalife.

The document in question details the assets and liabilities of a startup Uber acquired in August 2016 that has become a central part of Alphabet's claims that Uber stole proprietary information.

Many experts within the foreign currency community claim that the US Dollar is manipulated and controlled by the major central banks of the world.

The central innovation that sits behind all of the beneficial claims about digital currencies is the

The ability of the central bank to buy a bond directly from the govt would avoid any contractionary effects while the new money used to pay claims clearly increases the money supply which may help during downturns (when this helicoptering mechanism should be considered for use to some degree).

The following social democratic successor, George Papandreou, was then accused of claiming the deficit was higher than it really was in order to prompt the intervention of the troika, the tripartite body composed of the European Commission, European Central Bank, and International Monetary Fund.

Trump also used the event to make claims that women were raped at «levels nobody has ever seen before» as part of their journey north from Central America.

Instead, synthetic gold, sourced in pyramids of credit extended to bullion bankers by central banks with little or no claim on physical substance, have provided a more efficient, better - camouflaged form of intervention.

KRG says independent tanker loadings to begin The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has announced that it will market crude from oil fields under its control sent autonomously of Iraq's central government to the Turkish port of Ceyhan in a pipeline it claims as its own, with the first shipment up for sale before the end of January.On the KRG's website late on Jan. 8, the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) gave «public notice of the commencement of the sale of its first shipment of crude oil exported via Kurdistan Region's new...

The Wildrose Party can lay claim to playing a central role in ending the careers of PC Party premiers Ed Stelmach, Alison Redford and Jim Prentice.

The eurozone's lack of organic growth and its reliance on continued central bank stimulus likely increased market sensitivity to a report claiming the ECB might be considering tapering its $ 80 billion monthly purchases of bonds, though the claim was quickly dismissed by the ECB.

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».

But if the main bright spot in our economy is so dependent on the Federal Reserve, we should be wary of getting too giddy about a recovering housing market, and be aware that reversing central bank influence once the economy recovers may be more difficult than the Fed claims it will be.

We should demystify Zionist claims that the Jews» ancestral homeland is Israel, rather then North Africa and Central Asia, and that there is no historic basis for the Right of Return.

Fifteen percent of rescuers claimed religious commitments as central in their motivation.

''... the Zionists with the support of the Ottoman Empire settled in Palestine, then the Jews claimed independence from the ottoman empire and retained control of that part od Palestine which is now Israel...» My understanding was that the Allies took control of Palestinian lands after they defeated the Central Powers, including the Ottoman Empire, in WWI.

One of the central stories of the book of Mormon claims that the Americas were populated by Jews from Jerusalem that sailed across the Atlantic ocean to america.

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.

2.10 — 11 is effectively subversive of the claims of the emperors: it flatly contradicted one of the central claims made for them.

Even if the date and place of Jesus» birth may be uncertain, the claim that God entered human history is central to traditional Christian belief, as the British poet Sir John Betjeman (1906 - 84) indicated in his poem «Christmas»:

The central element of the resurrection — Jesus of Nazareth's triumph over death — does not qualify as Christian Myth for the simple reason that we claim it is true.

It is central to this proposal, however, to stress that when a school makes such a decision to be «open,» «interconfessional,» or whatever, it should not delude itself into claiming that it merely provides a «theologically neutral arena» and «level playing field» for free theological inquiry and exchange of opinion.

Violence between Christian farmers and Fulani herdsmen has claimed thousands of lives across Nigeria's central states over the past few decades.

Central to scripture and this literature is the claim that to understand the economic domain of life we must apply moral and religious categories to it.

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.

According to James Juhnke, this engagement is good for both sides: Mennonites are forced to consider how nonviolence relates to issues of justice and how it can be applied in terms of public policy, while the broader church must take seriously «our claims that peace is central to the gospel.»

Central and eastern Europe didn't break free of the shackles of totalitarianism without trying, failing, and then trying again: It took a critical mass of people, determined to «live in the truth» no matter how difficult, to implode the communist culture of the lie and give a new birth of freedom to the lands Stalin claimed as his prize for helping beat Hitler.

If man is simply trying to exalt himself and is seeking to claim for himself the central spotlight of the universe, then it is worse than presumptuous; it is blasphemous.

Ultimately, classical Pentecostals will have to follow the charismatics in discarding some of these claims, but the process will be slow because these teachings have been so central to identity that most classical Pentecostals are unable to see what might lie beyond them.

are you really claiming you are missing the central thrust of everything I've said?

Nevertheless, in the midst of his reshaping still lies the central story at the heart of the (original) Book of Mormon — that a 19th century treasure hunter called Joseph Smith claimed to have discovered a new revelation of Jesus appearing to South American tribes inscribed on golden plates which only he could translate, and became the self - appointed prophet of a new religious movement (and yes, that whole story comes in for a lot of ridicule along the way).

These and other less central activities of the ministry of all periods are carried on by the pastoral director, but the work that lays the greatest claim to his time and thought is the care of a church, the administration of a community that is directed toward the whole purpose of the Church, namely, the increase among men of the love of God and neighbor; for the Church is becoming the minister and its «minister» is its servant, directing it in its service.

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.

It is to claim that for the purposes of addressing our three central issues about theological schooling it is the decisively important mode in which the Christian thing is present.

The claim of Biblical authority stands central within evangelical theology.