Sentences with phrase «certitude as»

The film, which is nominated for nine Oscars including best picture, has had an up - and - down ride through awards season, garnering predictions of best picture certitude as far back as September and its share of skepticism since.

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?»

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.

Not exact matches

The public sacramental life of the Church is now seen as the locus of assurance, of certitude, the place where an entirely undialectical salvific communication takes place.

As I have argued in my book Moral, Believing Animals, all human beings are believers, not knowers who know with certitude.

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.»

In order to avoid what he perceives as a misguided emphasis on certitude, Popper exalts the virtue of successive conjectures and refutations.»

This approach recognizes that the possibility of certitude decreases as the matter under consideration becomes more specific and complex.

Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

The Awakenings in America, for instance, couldn't have happened apart from the fact that great numbers of people, theretofore conscious of themselves as Christians in some sense, suddenly felt that the depth of their «certitude» had been disgracefully shallow.

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

The seventeenth century would surely count as the height of «religious certitude» in Europe: Wars were fought over religion ¯ or at least over the ecclesiastical form religion took in different national contexts.

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).

I love where he says «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;... depicting God as a monster (as in ascribing the death of loved ones to God).»

The remaining differences, however, should not obscure the fact that agreement has been obtained on some of the most hotly debated issues in the doctrine on justification, especially concerning the role of faith and concerning the certitude of salvation as based on God's promise.

According to the statement, there is no consensus on justification through the word of God and «by faith alone,» no consensus on the certitude of faith concerning our salvation, no consensus on the continuing sinfulness of the justified, nor on the importance of good works for our salvation, nor on the function of the doctrine of justification as criterion of the entire life and doctrine of the church.

Arguments for the existence of other minds can not be proven with certitude, yet most everyone accepts them as a given fact.

The claim for dogmatic certitude is vigorously denied and his own philosophy declared to be inadequate (PR 343).2 Whitehead thus takes criticism for granted; indeed he regards his philosophy as a success if it makes a new kind of criticism possible (ESP 114) 3 He himself provides the criteria according to which his philosophy is to be evaluated.

Leave aside for the moment such endearing theological opinions as the one that God refuses to accept the prayers of those outside one particular congregation of certitude — an expression not so much of anti-Semitism, one would guess, as of a peculiarly electronic conception of the divinity: «Sorry, sir, this number is unlisted.»

As a «critical science,» it claims an exactness and certitude similar to natural science.

We conclude, then, with an equal certitude, that the brain digests, as it were, the impressions; that it performs organically the secretion of thought.»

The shift envisaged is from the de-historical post-Tridentine model of theology as the bastion of certitudes to a model in which Christian understanding of faith takes place in the midst of changing modem situations.

He «had attained to the certitude he was to analyse one day in the Grammar of Assent» as Ian Ker remarks in his biography.

And as Moses knew would be the case, Israel's communal enclosure was in terrifying certitude penetrated by the same Word - a Word in fact ultimately responsible for the «ten words,» a Word in equal fact which was to appear in the fullness of God's time as the Word made flesh.

(21) Theologically, this means circumscribing God within a private sphere, viewing the church as a closed community, and putting a quest for certitude in place of authentic faith.

In one of the film's earliest scenes, Pryce breaks down at a congressional hearing as he speaks of the damage done to his hometown, and voices the outrage and moral certitude of a lone voice demanding justice from the giant corporation responsible.

for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.»

There is a certitude and a clarity about them, the end point of a hard - won evolution, as well as a wiliness; it's remarkable they were made by anyone semiyoung.

Other than a handful of people who appreciated my efforts, I think all my time was spent in vain as 90 % of the people there held a level of dogmatic certitude that was unassailable by logic.

«As science has gotten closer and closer to pinning down the reality of human - caused climate change and its consequences,» Cain writes, «our moral certitude has frayed.»

I know from my own personal life and friends, that he is what I would call, a «Thousand dollar an hour Lawyer gets what he Does to be Legal», but he's still as certainly a CROOK, as we may take certitudes.

As existing solutions were not capable of delivering perfect food, we decided to delete all certitudes, and think out of the box.

Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts... Perhaps if there were less certitude about our climate future, more Americans would be interested in having a reasoned conversation about it.