Sentences with phrase «criteria of»

We must be careful about claiming that beliefs — new or old — meet the criteria of Rule # 2.

There are even two short stories — Ruth and Esther — which satisfy the criteria of the new criticism, their characters and plot developed and brought to a climax and denouement within a few chapters.

Extrinsic religion lends support to exclusions, prejudices, hatreds that negate all our criteria of maturity.

But, as was already the case in the early Church, it raises the question of the criteria of truth.

(In this respect, Jesus himself is eventually shown by the Gospels to be the «good Samaritan,» that is, the one who is indifferent to criteria of religious belonging.

The criteria of charitable trusts could and I should properly apply only to the area of deductibility, which also represents the principal area of impact of the federal exemptions.

This objection rests on the claim that, given our present historical methods and knowledge, none of the writings of Scripture as such can be held to satisfy the early church's own criteria of canonicity.

The revelatory image allows us to accept without embarrassment our imperfections and our failures to fulfill all the criteria of worth that our familial, academic, social, or religious environments expect of us.

Children of the kingdom, those whose faith is pure, can rejoice in this subversion of our typical economic, cultural, or religious criteria of worth.

Loss of deductibility of contributions would have a much greater effect, and it is the only area to which the criteria of charitable trusts should apply.

We choose freely to shape our private lives by making concrete selections from the list of criteria of self - worth already available in society's inventory of values.

A society without at least some criteria of belonging could not be sustained for very long.

But this emergence from self - deception entails a critical look at those social criteria of worth that may have led us to self - deception in the first place.

What are the criteria of that?

The first possibility will bring them into serious consideration by the criteria of dissimilarity and coherence.

Versions of those religions are still around today afterall, which actually makes them older than Christianity, therefore more true if we are judging based on the criteria of age.

Seldom, for instance, does any advocate of just war address the issue concerning whether all the criteria of just war need to be met if the war is to be undertaken by Christians.

From a purely biological perspective, babies are absolutely helpless for a long time, and children are vulnerable, depending on what criteria of judgement you want to use, until at least their teenage years.

Process theologians argue for a «public» theology, not limiting truth claims to a confessional stance with its own internal criteria, but open to the public criteria of common human experience and rational inquiry.

But overemphasis on publication can lead to a stream of superficial articles and neglect of other criteria of evaluation; preoccupation with prestige in the wider professional community can displace concern for service in one's local situation.

Theology today must be articulated by means of philosophical concepts, and these should be evaluated according to purely philosophical criteria of consistency, coherence, adequacy, and applicability.

As a congregation's best trained interpreter of the message, the minister has a responsibility to test and retest his presentation of that message against criteria of healing and growth (see Chap.

-- matters if love isn't present... which means that love is the most - important doctrine we can ever embrace... which means that our willingness to love is the most important criteria of orthodoxy... which means that, if ever it is appropriate to label anything «heresy,» it is the failure to love...

The intellectual criteria of science are largely intrinsic to the discipline itself.

A constantly widening gap occurs between the reflexive judgment which produces the criteria of the divine by an entirely interior operation, and the historical judgment which is used to group together externally the meaning of the given testimonies.

This is why Aristotle tries as much as possible to link the logic of testimony to the logic of argumentation by insisting on the criteria of probability which can be applied to it.

Whitehead's conception is subject to the criteria of both being an adequate expression of the basic impulse and of being consistent with other things we claim to know.

As a matter of fact, definite criteria of its date are meager.

Is transcendence, either as self - transcendence or as ontological reality, so chaotic in consequence, so formless as to its dimensions, so blind as to direction, so vacuous as to structure, that only as we return to the realm of the ordinary can we make sense of it, introduce criteria of truth or falsity, beneficence or evil into it?

This answer is supported by a detailed comparison of the Evangelical experience with the psychiatric criteria of mental illness.

Its power lacks the determination necessary to specify the criteria of the creature to be created.

Rather, it is in the very manner in which he develops and emphasizes the distinctiveness of the Christian story — focusing on its own internal criteria for truth without reference to publicly accessible criteria of common human experience and rational inquiry — and the relation between the church and the world.

There are no available criteria of justice or injustice when it comes to the massive migrations of peoples over the centuries — whether in Europe, Asia, Africa, or the Americas.

By their reasoning, the discernment of the truth on which the Christian community established the university in question is trumped by presumably superior criteria of truth, discerned individually.

The real danger comes from a much larger group of persons who believe that Notre Dame can strive for ever - higher standards of academic excellence — and use the same criteria of excellence by which the best secular universities in the land are judged to be excellent — without forfeiting the Catholic character of the University.

In church, the first will be first — and they better have a good income, a good education, look pretty, all the worldly criteria of «success».

Such models do not create genuine pluralism; rather they perpetuate unity in conformity, meaning that the experiences of ethnic minority social groups are unacceptable when they fail to coincide with the normative criteria of human experience prescribed by the white majority social group.

In fact, the Catholic church fits every criteria of the antichrist....

That same secular world with its nagging empirical criteria of meaning and validity remains in power in academia and among the middle and especially the professional classes — and we who try to do theology are still ourselves very much a part of that same world.

The passion of God not only motivates us to eliminate whatever suffering can be eliminated; it also empowers us to accompany our brothers and sisters into regions of darkness where suffering can no longer be eliminated; it enables and invites us to share suffering where efforts to overcome it prove futile; it frees us to continue a ministry of compassion and shared grief at the point where those who are guided by criteria of utitlity and success cease their efforts.

Coupled with some of the tools of biblical criticism (such as the criteria of Embarrassment, Double Discontinuity and Multiple Attestation), he seeks to demonstrate the case for the origin of the Johannine tradition in the words and actions of the historical Jesus, as passed on by eyewitness accounts and possibly by John the son of Zebedee himself.

Most of all Berger finds highly problematic the assertion by John Hick, the famed scholar of world religions, that the baseline criteria of all religion is whether it reduces selfishness and promotes altruism.

Second, this possibility is valued by God for me on the basis of criteria of value that he entertains or creates or is.

What is therefore necessary, according to Cobb, is a Christian natural theology: a coherent statement about the nature of reality that recognizes its interpretation of the facts to be decisively conditioned by the Christian tradition, yet remains content to rest its case upon purely philosophical criteria of truth.124 Cobb offers such a statement in his important book, A Christian Natural Theology.

Vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Marc F. Plattner represents an organization whose definition of democracy is much more stringent in its demands with criteria of democratic inclusivity (as shown in a short essay by its funding officer, Louisa Greve, cited below).

All human societies are ranked» that is, organized in strata» though the characteristics and the criteria of the different ranks differ considerably.

As capitalism triumphed, these earlier criteria of rank increasingly paled in significance, naturally to the immense chagrin of those who had claims to them.

(Please choose the winner by the criteria of one whose name contains letters in an order you haven't seen before.

Close attention to such questions allows the careful reader to find and explicate the often merely implicit but nonetheless determinative methods and criteria of any particular theology.

Third, there are no rules for choice between research programmes, but there are independent criteria of assessment.