Sentences with phrase «debated questions about»

I am not now debating the question about what Bultmann means nor about what the word should mean.

In his most infamous moment, Dukakis had provided a bloodless, wonkish reply to a debate question about whether he might reconsider his opposition to the death penalty if his wife were raped and murdered.

ALBANY - A debate question about a best - selling but racy book has left Republican U.S. Senate candidate Wendy Long turning 50 shades of red.

Of course, that's not saying much, given last year's presidential election didn't feature a single debate question about climate change.

Not exact matches

With this simple question, you would be exacting revenge for all the simplistic rhetoric and cynical policy proposals that have dominated the debate about the economy to date.

At one point in the CNN debate, the two candidates actually debated who grew up poorer after a question about raising the minimum wage.

Of course, it's never good to start a debate simply to cause a ruckus or play devil's advocate — «It's not just about questioning simply to stir the pot.

It's also worth noting that of the 42 questions asked during the most recent Democratic presidential debate, hosted by MSNBC, only five were about the economy, taxes or jobs (not including one about Hillary Clinton's paid speeches to Wall Street firms).

Ken Bone (C), a power plant employee from Belleville, Illinois, waits in the audience to ask a question about energy policy and jobs during the presidential debate between Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, October 9, 2016.

Trump also boasted about his permit to carry in New York at an early GOP debate, when responding to a question about that Oregon shooting.

This debate raises profound questions — probably not for the last time — about the effectiveness of the Fed's easy - money policy.

Last year in one of my blog posts I argued that although I remained very skeptical about the sustainability of the China growth model I nonetheless believed that China bulls could make a plausible argument but were failing to do so largely because they did not address the three questions that were fundamental to the debate on the sustainability of the Chinese growth model.

Federal Government MPs who support a constitutional monarchy question an address by the Prime Minister to the Australian Republican Movement, criticising the timing of the speech amid debate about power prices, pensions, and the economy.

The ongoing debate about data and privacy is directly related to the question of encryption in some important ways, as Mossberg's tweet notes: messaging content is data that users would like to keep private, and encryption accomplishes that.

Leaders» debates — like the one last night — are all about what those asking the questions think is important.

by Anita Anand At root, the debate over whether Canada should have a cooperative securities regulator (or some version thereof) stems from questions about the appropriate institutional supervisory structure for Canada's financial system.

The team conducts couple's court with a couple that is debating on the perfect time to meet the parents, gives advice on how to improve your relationships, answers a listener's question about a couple with separate bank accounts and a lot more!

The column in question concerns only the intra-Catholic debate about divorce, remarriage, and the reception of Holy Communion.

Let me just ask one question: Can we PLEASE start the debate in the country about how «God», «Hell», «Heaven», «Satan», «Muhammad», «Jesus», «Angels» «Ghosts» «Demons» and «Spirits of the Dead and or / Nature / Mother Earth» do not exist in any rational form as the way they are presented throughout world history?

The other day Joe Carter linked to a BBC item about a debate that was held in Philadelphia, on the question whether the Declaration of Independence was «illegal.»

Forty - nine percent said they think churches should have a say in public debates about political and social questions.

The scholarly orgy of debunking has obscured the importance of the facts that such ideals were professed at all, and that debate about them helped to focus the attention of a large, diverse, professional community on the question of what kind of life a lawyer ought to try to live.

Its up to the people asking question to have a meaningful debate or just another bunch of irrelevant talk about nothing important to the future of our nation.

The debate over Calvinism is not so much about theology, but about this question: «What is God like?»

If we recognize that in order to draw conclusions about matters of this sort, we must ask questions not answered by faith in any direct way, the tone of our debates can be improved.

But because of political circumstances and the way Gingrich parried a question about the accusation during Thursday's CNN debate, the episode may cause relatively little fallout among evangelical voters, who are expected to make up about 60 % of the vote in Saturday's South Carolina primary.

Animal experiments will resolve the question of what manipulating nanog can accomplish, and until then, unsupported and inflammatory assertions about producing «a crippled embryo» do not contribute to a reasoned debate.

The debate about how seriously to take Whitehead's intuition, even when he has not fully systematized it, is different from the question of identifying the meaning of the passage in which the intuition is expressed.

In any case, the major debate about the first question was whether the Logos was a creature or was truly God.

While the practical theology movement has provided important new direction to debates about theological education, serious questions have been raised about its approach to theology and ministry.

Stephen Dingley examines an essential question, frequently raised in debates and discussions about the nature of human life, and why humans matter.

Questions such as whether torture is permissible in Tolkien's world view, whether war is glorified (with a side - debate about how the films differ from the books in this respect), and how victory and defeat are characterised, are worth considering and will encourage readers to think more deeply about LOTR and appreciate how nuanced Tolkien's treatment of these issues is.

Old debates about evolution often turned on the question of whether a million monkeys could accidentally type Hamlet in a given amount of time.

The principal critics of practical theology therefore advocate a radical rejection of modern questions about reason and practice in favor of a discussion in which the most important questions about the meaning and validity of the Christian message are assumed, precisely so that the details can be intelligently debated.

My piece was not a «lament,» but essentially a defense of Pope Benedict (as was my brief follow - up here) against just the type of over-the-top criticisms cited elsewhere in Allen's article, even as I raised one respectful question about the pope's prudential decision not to meet with leading dissidents — a legitimate, good - faith debate among sincere Catholics.

In a second article about the practical implications of the justification debate, this question was asked:

Besides questions about the unity of God there were also long debates about how Jesus could be both God and Man.

What the ancient debates on the question of the embryo have in common is a scientific adherence to what is empirically known about the embryo.

And it's also a great way to keep the age - old debate about God going, as it raises such interesting questions.

You say you don't know gods will because to try and think like god is too hard (which for the record I think is a cop out in any debate or discussion about god that I understand you really believe it and are not trying to duck around a question, but to say I don't know, god is too powerful to understand sort of halts discussion from there)

You say you don't know gods will because to try and think like god is too hard (which for the record I think is a cop out in any debate or discussion about god that I understand you really believe it and are not trying to duck around a question, but to say I don't know, god is too powerful to understand sort of halts discussion from there) but you also are saying to speak with him on a daily basis.

There are many more issues of more weighty importance that they might talk about in the debate, but CNN moderators seem bent on sticking to the gotcha questions.

(CNN)-- On Friday we posted a story about U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann responding to a question about a biblical admonition for wives to be submissive to their husbands during Thursday's Republican presidential debate.

Much of the literature generated by and about postliberal theology has debated these questions.

Yesterday we looked at a famous theological question from the days of Jesus, and I suggested that Jesus hated the question, especially when the person that the debate was about was standing right in front of Jesus with a need that could be met.

Stephen Davis's book The Debate About the Bible is a response to Lindsell's attack and seeks to answer the question, «Must a person believe in inerrancy to be an evangelical?»

The chairman of Christian Aid also appeared to blame the ongoing debate over Europe on a growing sense of nationalism in the UK, he said: «With the Scottish independence agitation and all the questions about a federal UK quite a lot of people feel we need to affirm now what we are, what we distinctively are as English even more than British and that imperceptibly I think strengthens some of this unease about that mysterious entity called Europe which is over there.»

Per the Book of Galatians, the question of «sin or not» is a valid point to debate in Elementary School; but we can graduate from elementary debates of the Law, and enter into the great dialog about «how» to live the Law of Christ and «how» to experience the Unity of All Believers.

Although decisions about this relationship had significant effects on the whole project, the debate itself could become very abstruse and remote from the questions asked even by those most personally and intellectually concerned about their faith.

As Christians we need to think seriously about these questions and engage in the debate.»