Sentences with phrase «emphasis falls upon»

The whole emphasis falls upon that which is to come.

Instead, a primary emphasis falls upon the present: «Unmediated presence is always the characteristic of Jesus» words, appearance and action, within a world which... had lost the present, since it lived... between past and future, between traditions and promises or threats» (58).

When feminists first examined the Bible, emphasis fell upon documenting the case against women.

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If the doctrine of sin received a strong emphasis in his writings, it was because he was attempting to save modern Christianity and culture from the sentimentality into which it had fallen «by its absurd insistence upon the natural goodness of man.

In the preceding chapter the emphasis was placed upon the fact of the event; in this and the following chapter the stress will fall upon the necessity of regarding the event as one indissoluble whole and of finding its significance in its character as a whole rather than in some particular part or aspect of it.

Here the emphasis, as we have seen, falls largely upon the individual aspect of religion.

A self face to face with Christ is a self potentiated by the prodigious concession of God, potentiated by the prodigious emphasis which falls upon it for the fact that God also for the sake of this self let Himself to be born, became man, suffered, died.

Seriousness is not sin in general, but the emphasis of seriousness falls upon the sinner who is an individual.