Sentences with phrase «certitudes seem»

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.

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The Protestant Reformation seems to have started and progressed inevitably, with the certitude of predestination.

Only so, it would seem, was the certitude of orthodoxy attained; when questions of his reality and his nature had been honestly met, then, and then only, could the best thinkers affirm: «All the gods of the nations are vanities; but the Lord made the heavens» (Ps.

In the context of Christian theology, the problem of faith and reason asks this question: What is the relation between the certitude that God enters into a saving relationship with man (most effectively and uniquely in the historical existence of Jesus of Nazareth) and those certitudes that seem to spring from man's commonly held ability to abstract and verify the forms of events and processes in the world?

They seem to be trying too hard to balance ecclesial magisterium and subjective authority in order to avoid the («pre-Vatican II» again) ultramontanist «attempt to conjure certitude out of doubt by the assertion of an ecclesial authority» (pp. 43 and 38).

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.»

The idea of artistic social services seems to stand in stark opposition to Bock's oeuvre, which violates all certitudes and conventions.