Sentences with phrase «chief evil against»

As the officers doubtless knew, physical entry into the home is the «chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed.»

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Webster argues against Kavanagh's prioritization of liturgy, saying that the chief evil of fundamentalism is not, contra Kavanagh, that «scripture has been severed from its liturgical context, but that it has been severed from its Trinitarian context.»

My contention is that this places Ivan's sensibility much nearer to the authentic vision of the New Testament than are many of the more pious and conventional forms of Christian conviction today The gospel of the ancient church was always one of rebellion against those principalities and powers — death chief among them — that enslave and torment creation; nowhere does the New Testament rationalize evil or accord it necessity or treat it as part of the necessary fabric of God's world.

Later, «the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders... realized that he had told this parable [of the evil tenants] against them, they wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowd [ochlon].

One of the chief differences between the two fundamentalisms is that Christian fundamentalism is fighting against something which has its seeds within Christianity, whereas Muslim fundamentalism has set itself the task of eliminating all the evil influences which have come from the outside.