Sentences with phrase «defend their position of»

Ruether, who holds that anti-Judaism has developed within the church as «the left hand of Christology» — that it is really the reverse side of the Christian confession that Jesus is the Christ — defends the position of an «unfulfilled messianism.»

Does someone defend the position of playing Ramsey?

Their failure to defend the position of a democratically elected leader also signalled to the interim military government that the international community was prepared to tolerate democratic backsliding.

The story went viral with thirty - or - so tweets from Tinder defending their position of helping singles also find love online, and not just as a hookup app.

According with the Bloomberg report, AT&T defends its position of acquire T - Mobile USA will increase competition, improved voice and date and will bring iPhone 4 to the 39 million T - Mobile customers.

Fisher also discussed his experience sitting on various panels, and noted that advocates use a variety of approaches when defending the positions of their clients — including sarcasm.

Not exact matches

The Department of Education has seen the surge in waiver applications because its Office for Civil Rights has «exceeded its legal authority» by taking the position since 2013 that the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination applies to transgender students, Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Gregory Baylor said.

She added that Thiel should assume more responsibility and resign from his role at YC «to focus on his work getting his candidate elected, instead of putting his friends in the position to defend him.»

But during a freewheeling press conference on Tuesday, Trump returned to his original position, labeling multiple parties as complicit in the Charlottesville unrest and seeming to defend some of those seeking to protest the Confederate statue's removal.

The corollary of that is an enfeebled fin de règne in which Merkel defends a centrist legacy against attacks from both sides, accompanied by a gradual loss of party discipline as potential successors jockey for position.

As the head of the National Economic Council Cohn didn't have responsibility for Trump's social positions, and he wouldn't have to defend them publicly.

We cognicenti know that national debts are not of any great economic consequence, but it's impossible to defend that position in public debate.

NEW YORK Wells Fargo & Co's two biggest competitors have been nabbing market share in lending to commercial and industrial customers in the American heartland, a sign of how difficult it has become for the scandal - tarnished bank to defend its position against rivals.

A price tag of $ 43 a share is «probably the cheapest and most efficient way for Google to get a strong IP position in wireless and defend the Android eco-system against legal challenges,» he writes.

Following a streamlining of its Northern European investment banking business that dramatically enhanced its fundraising ability in 2012, Goldman Sachs defended its number - one position in M&A by advising clients on 13 deals worth a total of $ 20.6 billion.

It is a powerful example of how corporations work with startups, invest in ideas and talent, and, in turn, defend and grow market position.

But I am game to hear how you defend such a position of being anti-gay rights in the church (and it seems in society as well — ie: marriage).

What I was sure you could never know I now know, and now I am in the uncomfortable position of knowing this and having to defend it to all of my atheist and agnostic friends, who think I've probably lost my mind.»

In the name of a higher morality, their argument went, birth control could be defended as the lesser of two evils (a position argued by the dissenter Charles Curran, among others).

I'm surprised she didn't impress us with her use of the word «libtard», that mark of true intellectuals able to intelligently defend their positions.

Perhaps, but I can't help but believe that when people in a position to defend a belief system for this they have no evidence after a while there must be some shred of doubt that sneaks in.

On the one hand, of course, all human relationships have some sort of drama, but it often seems that it get magnified in church because people try to defend their positions with pious spirituality.

Yet christians are as eager to kill as any non-christian, and they twist the bible in all sorts of way to defend that position.

Both sides have lots of verses which seem to defend their position, but only one side can be Biblically correct.

[In light of his position on gender roles, Piper could not bring himself to endorse Sarah Palin as a vice presidential candidate in the 2008 election, but conceded that «defending abortion is far worse a sin for a man than serving as Vice President is for a woman.»]

Defending his position, he said the introduction of the bonus scheme pre-dated his appointment and he had not sought out the bumper pay awards.

We therefore don't need to defend the position that death appears to be the end of us because that's all that seems to be happening.

57 The consequence of this understanding is the adopting of a position that I have termed «hard determinism,» controlling every element in creation, in contrast to «soft determinism,» in which God's final victory gives definitive shape to all that we have provisionally worked out by our own exercise of freedom along the way.58 It is what finally renders Pannenberg's attempt to defend Augustine by shifting God from Eternal Present to Ultimate Future an unsuccessful effort to resolve the issue of theodicy.

With these reservations we might well be of the opinion that the Church in Germany, and not only there, is, on the whole, still tempted to defend old conservative positions rather than to surrender them in order to prepare even now for an inevitable future, despite some conciliar courage to start anew and risk an uncertain future.

For we shall neither defend her former social position as far as at all possible, nor shall we want to make her give up whatever is still left of this historical position as fast as possible and of her own free will.

Chip argues forcefully that the bishops, in their policy statements, are too sanguine about the burdens of immigration on unskilled workers and government coffers, while Scaperlanda forcefully defends the bishops» position.

For if he had truly grasped the position Arkes defends he would understand that his own judgment — that Arkes is mistaken at points — is itself dependent on moral notions not contingent upon relative circumstances or the contingencies of history.

7Whitehead's position could be defended on other grounds as well: e.g., it gives us a single type of experience for all existing things; it provides a single metaphysical basis for the natural and social sciences; it stresses the difference between the becoming of a not - yet - existing occasion and the relations between existing things.

The construction of a building must no longer be the default position in local churches, where those who do not want to build must defend their position to those who do.

In a moment I shall defend my account from this charge, but let me first point out that Cobb's theory of regional inclusion leads to a position that is equally as absurd as the conclusions with which he attempts to saddle my presentation.

Personally, I believe the position all Christians of today should be to obey Romans 13 but also believe the lesson taught in Romans 13, that the ministers of God (government) have the right to built an army from among its citizenry to defend our nation against the forces of evil.

DeGioia has weighed in on recent campus political controversies, defending the decision to invite Sebelius - saying «we are a university, committed to the free exchange of ideas» - and defending Fluke against attacks from Limbaugh, which the college president described as «as misogynistic, vitriolic, and a misrepresentation of the position of our student.»

Week by week she fought for an evangelical view of scripture, in spite of the liberal disposition of her tutors, having to work harder than her fellow students in order to defend her position in one - to - one tutorials.

His religion was a reflection of his state, and Chauncy was, in reality, defending this position.

And, indeed, apart from this necessity of doing so, I am interested in defending that position.

George N. Boyd argues against the traditional position of the opponents of capital punishment that no crime ever «deserves» the death penalty, and suggests that the debate is not over what murderers deserve, but rather about how society should express and defend its fundamental values.

The positions he has taken with candor and defended with clarity do not bind the conscience of the reader, but they do challenge the reader to make his own equally clear and equally dedicated responses.

In Christology Reconsidered (London, SCM Press, 1970) Pittenger restates and defends his christological position in response to criticisms of his earlier statements.

Whereas confessional Lutherans defend the historic Christian position of the church on hot - button issues such as same - sex marriage, the ELCA and its partners have embraced the secular world's positions on these issues.

The proponents of the latter position believe that there are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

If you properly engage in this work, you will be interested in arriving at a position on whatever it is that interests you (philosophy, critical theory, history, philology, literary criticism, or whatever) that is preferable to any other that you know of on that question, and you will concomitantly want to be clear as to what the position that you construct and defend is, what it excludes, how best to show that its competitors are less adequate than the one you want to defend, and in what sense this is true.

The position which has been defended in this book is that Jesus was influenced by the apocalyptic expectations of his time and probably did speak some such words as these, expecting an imminent day of the Lord which did not occur.

Proponents of «intelligent design theory» refuse to answer such questions, because it is rhetorically advantageous for them to take a purely negative position in which they criticize Darwinian theory without defending a positive theory of their own.

I don't know of a more profoundly failed position, or a more poorly defended one, than the assertion that a particular God is real, alive, and intimately involved in the lives of people.

I think the gospels are in very good shape and I think they are as reliable as they do they were first passed out (problem isn't those scriptures — but churches use of those scriptures — out of context a lot of times — to defend their positions).