Sentences with phrase «de facto»

Ultimately, only God has de facto authority.

The one with the greater authority has de facto authority.

Jesus is claiming de facto authority here.

Could you give us any examples of instances in which Jesus actually did claim de facto authority, in other words, examples where Jesus actually claimed to be God?

There are numerous other examples in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John where Jesus is clearly portraying Himself as an incarnation not only of God, but of Temple and Torah, two of the primary de facto ways that God interacted with His people.

Baptists take pride in having no written Confessions; but they have an unwritten, de facto tradition that is every bit as scholastic as the formal de jure traditions of the Confessional denominations.

You wrote,» I believe He could have claimed de facto authority, but in this case He does not.»

He concluded that the church could maximize the practical advantages of pluralism and minimize its dangers by resisting all attempts to erect an established church (whether de lege or de facto) and also by cultivating a somewhat tribalistic spirit among its members.

Some were convinced that some proposals would seriously undermine doctrine and lead to a de facto change in doctrine.

Moreover, as the 19th century progressed, evangelical Protestants availed themselves of the wide freedom accorded them under the First Amendment to form voluntary associations, the goal of whose activities was the erection of a de facto religious establishment in America.

The traditional lists of early Roman bishops indicate, according to Eno, that «the collective leadership counted among their number men who stood out from the crowd; people perhaps who frequently exercised a de facto leadership but without being monarchical bishops.»

Some thirty years ago Charles Hartshorne raised two questions concerning the Whiteheadian understanding of the temporal structure of God.1 He asked first if, in spite of relativity physics, there must not be a cosmic present, a divine immediacy in which the de facto totality of simultaneous actual entities exist.

I'm probably a de facto Hitler just because I point them out.

Whitehead, on the other hand, recognizes a de facto growth in world consciousness or the generalization of the religious impulse, but does not seem to see any necessity in it.

But what of situations where a dual - race system arose not de jure but de facto, i.e., in response to housing patterns in which public officials and public policy had little or no direct role?

In the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches there are clear statements of doctrine opposing ministry by persons with physical disabilities (and what is de jure in these two churches is de facto in Protestantism).

Bonhoeffer argued that the attempts to preserve the church often reflected a too - high veneration of the state, a de facto support of traditional social values, and an unduly weak view of human nature.

Prisons are also de facto mental institutions: a sizable percentage of those behind bars are mentally ill.

Atheism as practiced has become a de facto religion.

Those beleaguered moderates are beleaguered because their argument on the matter is reduced to politics; and a purely political matter is, de facto, not a matter of right and wrong, but of differing opinion.

But especially when a mature Christian art appeared, the question changed from one of whether such an art should be attempted to one of what to make of an art that has, de facto, been produced.

Mr. Nuechterlein sounds uncomfortably like those who attacked Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger for being intolerant of other religions when he affirmed the unique fullness of the Christian revelation in Dominus Iesus As Ratzinger wrote, «The Church's constant missionary proclamation is endangered today by relativistic theories which seek to justify religious pluralism, not only de facto but also de iure (or in principle).»

Now, following a number of seismic lurches over the past two years, M5S appears to be moving into a post-Grillo phase, having six months ago replaced the comedian as de facto leader with 31 year - old Luigi Di Maio, in what seems to be a sign that the movement is about to grow up and join the political mudbath (albeit with Grillo remaining in the wings as «guarantor»).

The second view, supported primarily by the new Third World nations, questions this de facto dominance of communication by the West, and calls for a «balanced flow,» which means that laws would establish a greater balance between the interests of the First World and Third World.

So in the final chapter, Lanzetta questions post-Conciliar approaches to ecumenism where the «dogmatic» (to do with knowing the truth) is juxtaposed to the «pastoral» «which starts out from the historic and pragmatic fact, and on behalf of this aims at possible dialogue, without changing teaching, but de facto neither improving understanding of it, but even with the risk of altering its significance by virtue of the dialogue method chosen...».

He says,»... the entity itself with all the reality of life it ever had, no more and no less, is added to the de facto sum of entities apprehended in the subsequent phrases of the divine life.

Because theological schools are the training ground for church leaders they are de facto the intellectual centers of the church.

In reality, we're seeing the decline of «cultural Christianity» — the version of faith that says nostalgic Americanism equals de facto Christianity.

The «consequent» actuality of deity is the sequence of determinate, contingent experiences expressing both the essence of deity and the de facto content of the world God experiences at a given moment.

The ODF has no problem recognizing the de facto existence of a number of world religions.

It was the accident of history, the destruction of the monarchy and the state, and then later the unhappy events, whatever their detail may have been, which weakened the prestige and power of the Jewish governor in the days of Darius I that by consequence elevated the priests into de facto leadership and rule of the Palestinian community.

Regardless of the openness with which one reads Balthasar's works or the sympathy one may have for him personally, it is undeniable that his theology of Christ's descent entails a de facto, and sometimes even conscious, rejection of Catholic tradition.

That being said, I would strongly question whether our de facto goals in Afghanistan are those of the «Good Samaritan.»

People do all kinds of disordered and downright kinky things and therefore are, says Mr. Sullivan, de facto sodomites.

Ideally, the denomination would finance this system, although this is difficult to imagine in today's world of de facto congregationalism.

Even though, according to Jewish theology, Jews can not, de jure, cease being Jews, they can, de facto, hide that theological fact from human eyes.

«Memory, inseparable in practice from perception, imports the past into the present, contracts into a single intuition many moments of duration, and thus by a twofold operation compels us, de facto, to perceive matter in ourselves, whereas we, de jure, perceive matter within matter» (MM 80).

Is it possible to really love our neighbors as Jesus commanded and at the same time withdraw into our Christian «tribe» where most of our neighbors are de facto excluded?

St. Tadros is a de facto church located inside a service building which was donated to the diocese in 2001.

The minute they did that, they were de facto endorsing the prayer.

Although it is often infuriating, at times when I can step back and see it for what it is, these childish temper tantrums by these types (I still have no idea who Matt Walsh is, nor do I care to remedy that) are really a reaction of fear for a world that they no longer de facto control.

Those who don't are, de facto, Protestants.»

It may be that what existed de facto becomes de jure.

Yet a proposition regarded simply in terms of its logical subjects admits too much vagueness to have a de facto truth value.

Of course, by refusing to consider the slaveholders for appointment, the Triennial Convention adopted a de facto anti-slavery stance.

87 Protestants got there first, of course, and some still level accusations of a de facto Protestant establishment.

The article describes de facto seperation, not segregation, which is a forced state.

Should a minister de facto accept an implicit «contract» with such a couple in which he said only «I see,» he would be making it impossible to help these people at this stage of their reconciling effort.

Therefore it is certain and true that he who first invented the notion of defending Christianity in Christendom is de facto Judas No. 2; he also betrays with a kiss, only his treachery is that of stupidity.

As a country it would be impossible to get every single holiday on the calendar, especially when some of them do not correspond to the 365 day solar calendar, and I have no problem with having to deal with the de facto Christian calendar which has become the de facto secular calendar.