Sentences with word «emphatically»

Sixty years ago, A. J. Aver already agreed with Polkinghorne's partition, emphatically relegating religion to the unreachable realm of the subjective where its «meaning» is strictly emotive and its «values» are non-cognitive.

Certainly and emphatically so!

In July, Francis said, emphatically, that the «door is closed,» on women's ordination, a statement that disappointed many Catholic liberals.

Hamza, who was a member of the Qadiri order of Sufis even though he emphatically counted himself a follower of Ibn Arabi, traveled widely throughout Java and Sumatra expounding his mystical conceptions in symbolic and esoteric poetry.

It is also emphatically to be observed that in very fact the principle of exact retaliation is not normative in the Old Testament; that the law is demonstrably of Canaanite formulation as it appears here, borrowed for an interim period by Israel, and retained only for certain particular cases as a norm of judgment in specific instances of injury.

Islam, possessing much in apparent accord with Christianity, including a belief in one God and the ascription to God of many characteristics wholeheartedly accepted by the Christian, emphatically insists that God can not have a son, and that the gulf between God and man can not be bridged.

First, the church emphatically stresses that it is up to the individual person to decide who to vote for.

They emphatically gave full freedom to all other disciplines to pursue their studies without interference.

Against this tendency the Neo-Reformation theologians emphatically declared the primacy of the radically transcendent God.

The appearance is emphatically not an end in itself, although the concluding verses (2 1 - 24) try very hard to make it so, but with notable lack of success.

Farrer's answer to his question was emphatically negative.

Nothing like an article on religion to get the little komrade libs all bent out of shape With the way that the komrade libs emphatically state that there is no God you would think that this article would be a non-issue for them.

This leaves unsaid what must now be said, and said emphatically - that, given the perspective of faith, the formula of the Covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is absolutely true.

The wise Lao - tse emphatically demands the «reply to adversity with mercy and goodness.»

But on the fundamental point I have no qualms: I would hold emphatically that fruitful study must recognize this principle.

If this is true of the Gospels — where, if anywhere, the inclination toward a biographical treatment of the life of Jesus would have been present — it must certainly have been true in the oral period, and probably even more emphatically so.

But there is emphatically none of this uncertainty in verses 16 - 20.

I still emphatically deny most of what they say about my position.

And where in JE the sense of covenant is only implied, however emphatically, in P the term «covenant» itself is explicit.

I liked that he promised us emphatically that he will work to protect our religious liberties.

Also, let me say emphatically that I hold no brief for Puritanism or for sexual «repression.»

That is, I'm trying to agree with you emphatically.

... Disgust, self - contempt, self - hatred — rhetoric against the sin and (still more) vilification of sexuality or the body in themselves — are emphatically not the weapons for this warfare.

Nowhere is this brought out more emphatically than in the vision of the valley of dry bones (ch.

As for the preexistence of Christ, it is significant that St. Paul speaks of it most emphatically at the point where he is not speaking of it directly — viz., when he is speaking about the cross, in Rom.

Indeed, it emphatically insists

I emphatically reject a Jesus like that.

Paul's instructions for women to cover their heads in prayer are stated as emphatically as his instructions for them to submit to male leadership.

It's fascinating to me that no American president before Barack Hussein Obama has been challenged so emphatically on the veracity of their claim to nationality.

Yes, he has spoken, even though the fleet runner's coach does not believe God, and emphatically says so, not realizing — his acquaintance with Wittgenstein being slight — that not even the language of a Durocher can say anything.»

An unbiased observer can not emphatically conclude that all of the unexplanable complexities evolved out of nothing.

It is a process that has involved various levels of human invention, expressing itself mainly in the development of technology and various other fields of human knowledge and endeavor, and I should add emphatically the various stages of human hubris that has expressed itself in the oppression and conquest of peoples by other peoples.

God desires sons — in that idea his fatherhood is most emphatically made plain.

This overpassing of the limitation of externality, however, had it stood alone, might have led to a predominantly subjective religion, whereas the development of Biblical thought emphatically retained the unity of religion and ethics that Jeremiah stressed when he identified humane conduct with knowing God.

I stated this emphatically in the first paper in which I indicated my philosophical position, a review (1921) of a book by C. M. Child on The Origin and Development of the Nervous System:

The emphasis on love, with its sexual overtones, does not rule out the usefulness of moral law, but it most emphatically restricts such law to the role of guidelines or to a generally agreed consensus on ways in which love may best be expressed in human behavior and human relations.

Therefore, after extensive analysis of the many issues involved, he concludes emphatically that «we know nothing of a form of concreteness other than that of subjects» and that the only alternatives in ontology and cosmology are either panpsychism or agnosticism.32

Christian identity is largely bracketed in this process, so that it is emphatically not a requirement for participation in the academic guild.

It is emphatically not intended as a prediction of what will happen.

-- to which Godsey emphatically answers no, God is not a Christian.

What I have to say may apply to some other churches in some respects, but I emphatically do not have the Korean churches or the Black churches or the conservative evangelical churches or the charismatic churches in mind as I write.

the Bible says a lot of things emphatically, and says a lot of things are necessary, but it also gets contradictory and I personally can't take it as an authority.

Up to this point, David's life has been, on the whole, singularly blessed, emphatically triumphant.

Hence, none is defined exclusively in terms of any one trend, even if one trend is more emphatically relevant than another.

(«I think the problem with that is that the Bible does say emphatically that belief is necessary.»)

If I as an individual see a person in serious need, and I have to resources to help him or her, I may be called to do so, but I am most emphatically not called as a matter of universal principle to create and support a government program to help everyone similarly situated.

However, it also seems to me that at some points at least his arguments presuppose a complete disjunction between the technological and the aesthetic, a disjunction which I emphatically deny.

In the one situation where Jesus explicitly dealt with the question, he emphatically rejected the suggestion that blindness was caused by a man's sin or that of his parents (John 9:2 - 3) Rather, Jesus said that the reason for the blindness was to make manifest the works of God.

Again Savarkar puts this emphatically:

It is in the Lord's Prayer: it was emphatically stated by our Lord.