Sentences with word «certitude»

However vigorously the Catholic Church defends human reason, a necessary presupposition of freedom for love, even defining that reason can know with certitude God's existence, the reason envisaged can not be a deterministic reason that would banish all ambiguity and freedom.

This necessarily alters the reality of the continuity that is the self, and it implies an absence of certitude about the future.

With her bow and arrow, eagle eye, and the moral certitude of Joan of Arc, Katniss takes the fight right into the heart of the Capitol, along with her band of renegades.

«Much of the weakening of religious certitude in the Christian West,» Weinberg says, «can be laid at the door of science.»

As evidence of the decline of religious certitude in the West, he cites his own experience.

Eighty years ago, the conflation of God's purposes in history, the Christian mission, civilizational progress, and American power was affirmed with dogmatic certitude by the most influential liberal religionists, Harry Emerson Fosdick prominent among them.

It may sound to some people who are hungering for certitude as if the church is promoting a faith that lacks moral discipline, debating but never deciding for right against wrong.

And he faced death with absolute certitude about the life to come.

«It drives me crazy — people have such certitude about this.

I suspect here though, they may also be questioning the preacher's exclamatory certitude as in «how can he be so arrogantly absolute / full of himself?»

What certitudes on which we rely will they hold up for ridicule?

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Conservative Christians go to the evangelical or fundamentalist churches that offer theological certitude, big youth ministries, men's groups, women's groups, and which help foster a paranoid right - wing political ideology (i.e., we're Christians, so of COURSE we hate Obama).

They may have had puzzling and confused days, saying as even Martin Luther said once, «Sometimes I believe and sometimes I doubt,» but underneath was a confident certitude like Paul's: «I know whom I have trusted.»

Even while not being able to offer certitude, he can suggest reasons why the faith of the believer is plausible, whether that faith be in the literal continuance of subjective experiencing in a heaven or hell, or in some kind of objective permanence in human history.

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Steve... it appears that yr subjective certitude as to what you think is the best interpretation is only tenable if you cherry - pick particular verses and downplay others.

What they have in common is that unity of religious and political certitude which, despite all the ideological differences, is uncomfortably reminiscent of the fanaticism unleashed by Muslim fundamentalists.

The old certitudes seem less certain; the old privileges are under powerful challenge; the old dominations are increasingly ineffective and fragile; the established governmental, educational, judicial and medical institutions seem less and less able to deliver what we need and have come to expect; the old social fabrics are fraying under the assault of selfishness, fear, anger and greed.

The old certitudes seem less certain; the old privileges are under powerful challenge; the old dominations are increasingly ineffective and fragile; the established governmental, educational, judicial and medical institutions seem less and less able to deliver what we need and...

(However, even in the pastoral letters there is a tendency to claim too much certitude at the level of principle.

If he knew he was God's son, then his human relationship to the Father had nothing in common with ours, for he would have lived in certitude while we must live by faith.

To his criterion for discerning satanic «Christianity» we might add these: hostility toward those who are different; projecting evil on other who are then demonized; claiming doctrinal certitude; breeding psychic dependency, unconsciousness, stagnation, fear, guilt, or hatred; depicting God as a monster (as in ascribing the death of loved ones to God).

First Things concludes that changing times call for «the bishops to reevaluate a program based upon the ideological certitudes of an earlier era.»

Without any additional information, and with more certitude than any government documentation or ritual jewelry could offer, On Kawara's record names his life partner.

Whether due to a rejection of the staggering certitude of Greenberg's formalism, the deep veins of racism / classism / sexism running through twentieth - century criticism and curation, or the closely guarded access to institutions of art, these historical narratives are undergoing an intensive curatorial corrective.

In that decision, WCAT was not patently unreasonable in rejecting the notion that it was required to have proof of causation to the level of scientific certitude, and in resolving the uncertainty in the worker's favour.

When no one has too many certitudes any more, processes become essential.

In the past we've described the propaganda campaign, which has included strong declarations that Iran will soon have WMDs — despite a widely acknowledged lack of certitude among independent experts.

Certitude languishes.

If we are genuinely baffled about how best to describe the moral status of that human subject who is the unimplanted embryo, we should not go forward in a way that peculiarly combines metaphysical bewilderment with practical certitude by approving even such limited cloning for experimental purposes.

With refreshing honesty and engaging passion Sarah Bessey reminds us that cheap certitude is a poor substitute for genuine faith.

It can learn to address these emotions to God, for it is God who is terminating our unjust privilege and deceptive certitude.

To many people, this intuition amounts to a virtual certitude.

It requires conservatives to quit appealing to philosophic certitudes.

Here is an excerpt from an article on Chantal Delsol I have forthcoming in Perspectives on Political Science: In the place of «true judgment» or prudence, the defenders of international justice satisfy their hunger for rational certitude and analytical specificity with mere....