Sentences with phrase «estrangement rather»

«A psychologist and forensic examiner explained that the child was exposed to parental estrangement rather than parental alienation.

Most experts would concur that such cases are better viewed as cases of estrangement rather than alienation.

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I rather suspect that the real danger for faith lurks in its estrangement from rationality.

In the Roycean view, grave fault was not, as in the Christian tradition, a fall from grace; rather, it evidenced an estrangement in the relationship between the individual and the community.

People's anguish is not over the alienation between the soul and God but rather over the estrangement between black and white, rich and poor, male and female, East and West.

Actually, Christian theology at its best has recognized that sin is not fundamentally an act but rather the condition of alienation or estrangement out of which harmful acts may arise.

«First, I want us to be brothers again,» Francis states, implying the shared estrangement is something that can be fixed with words rather than actions.

It was rather an attempt by two people who had for a number of years happily lived together to resolve the costly litigation that had followed their estrangement.

Thinking of family law dispute resolution as family restructuring rather than family breakdown allows «family» to be treated as an organic whole that changes and evolves over time as new family members are added through birth, adoption, marriage and remarriage; as parents separate and the family transitions into new domestic arrangements; and, as existing family members are subtracted through abandonment, estrangement and death.