Sentences with phrase «even affirm»

Is this all to this adventitious occurring in the world of EdTEch that promises to satiate the knowledge - hungry earthlings and even affirm itself as the next best business venture.

, we didn't try to correct or balance them or even affirm their developing belief.

To accept — even affirm and honor — such limits in our coming hither and our going hence is to accept suffering we might possibly relieve.

We can confront our weaknesses, and even affirm with Paul that «when I am weak then I am strong» (2 Cor.

Not exact matches

Emily's journey began long before Yelp reviews or «That's So Raven» and hearing her story affirmed the depth of her intuition even more than what she'd communicated to me.

In Brown's very readable law review article, she explains why — and cites another scholar, Puneet K. Sandhu, who sums up a few reasons why it would be challenging to affirm even if the framers had hoped to do so.

Even Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman affirmed this consensus: «The hot hand is a massive and widespread cognitive illusion.»

But even as it repealed the law, the state affirmed its prohibition of local antidiscrimination ordinances.

As even the news this week affirms, America and other western nations are grappling with one financial crisis after another.

Its commitment to the super-project is profound, and even includes a series of slick, new, multi-language YouTube propaganda reels featuring singing children and an animated history lesson for the world's high - school students affirming the benefits of the project.

This session affirmed that for us even more!

If you believe at all that Christ was the son of God and came to save the world, you are a Christian, even if you don't pray a specifically worded and ho ll ow prayer that affirms publicly that you are «born - again» in Jesus» blood — which in itself is sad is tic and doesn't ensure that the person doing the public profession of faith actually believes or will suddenly become so changed that they will lead a better life.

Yes, there are welcoming congregations, but even in some of those, things are not life affirming.

I think almost everyone on this blog would even claim to follow that approach, making the distinction that they refuse to affirm anyone's sin.

Pope John Paul II forcefully articulated this logic in his great but oft overlooked encyclical of 1980, Dives in Misericordia, where he affirms the importance of justice» meaning rights and desert» but goes on to argue that justice alone, detached from love and untempered by mercy, is prone to collapse into spite, hatred, and even cruelty.

Even though Jesus affirmed the law and the commandments, he called on men to abandon ties of family and clan (Matthew 19:29), even to abandon their natural inclinations: «For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye?&raEven though Jesus affirmed the law and the commandments, he called on men to abandon ties of family and clan (Matthew 19:29), even to abandon their natural inclinations: «For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye?&raeven to abandon their natural inclinations: «For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye?»

Jew and Christian alike can affirm that this moral law is consonant with morality constructed on the basis of natural law, general revelation, or even studiously «secular» reasoning.

Even among those who attend Mass regularly, only 30 percent affirmed a future resurrection.

Therefore, I felt that my philosophy and theology should not be permitted to separate, but that within their unity it should be possible to affirm the awe - inspiring otherness of God even more uncompromisingly than Barth had done, since he returned to reasoning by analogy.

Pope Gelasius I (492 - 496) expressed his vision of the West in a famous letter to the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I, and, even more clearly in his fourth treatise, where, with reference to the Byzantine model of Melchizedek, he affirmed that the unity of powers lies exclusively in Christ: «Because of human weakness (pride!)

The model of Jesus, John the Baptist, and Paul has not yet enabled even biblically serious Evangelicals to shape a theology that would affirm celibacy as anything more than a regrettable alternative to more - or-less mandatory marriage.

Totally agree for many of us there is a «never - ending drive to protect the self» and also that there is a glorious freedom in resting from that drive and letting someone we trust past the defences with permission to modify, or heal or dismantle or even to affirm our hidden selves.

I want to be known as one who speaks life, not death; who empowers and affirm and speaks even the hard truth in love and invitation.

People instinctively avoid that person and if that person shows any outward signs of anxiety, anger or even crying it serves to affirm their diagnosis.

That Luke did so by replacing this cry with a statement of exemplary piety should not tempt us away from the paradox of the Markan and Matthean reports, which invite us to affirm that God was present although not even Jesus could see that this was so.

To the best of my understanding, the deposit of faith clearly affirms the following: that God desires the salvation of all and offers the real possibility of salvation to all; the offer can be accepted or rejected and, if accepted by faith, such faith is recognized as the gift of God; if the offer is knowingly, freely, and definitively rejected, even at the very last moment of life, one goes to hell, which is eternal; but the deposit of faith does not tell us clearly that anyone is in fact eternally damned.

Since all that we have known as Christian existence, or personhood, or even humanity is swept away in the new visions of our time, faith requires that we affirm their death.

Couples should be encouraged to «shape» new desired behavior patterns in each other by affirming even very small steps toward those goals — e.g., «I really appreciate your hanging up your clothes, dear» (ignoring other messy behavior that hasn't changed).

When a man is ordained to the sacred ministry in any of the Reformed churches — and this includes the Anglican Communion, which even the staunchest defenders of its «catholicity» must acknowledge is a «reformed» catholic communion — a form of words is used in which the centrality of the preaching office in that ministry is affirmed.

Permit me to preface my remarks by saying that I do not wish to take a position on the thorny doctrinal question whether we know that some (unknown) persons will be damned, although I take it for granted» as do von Balthasar and Neuhaus» that Catholic theology does not hold or teach that we know all will be saved, a proposition it is unlikely even the optimistic Origen affirmed with certainty, and is surely difficult to square with Jesus» repeated teaching on the «two ways» (e.g., Matthew 7:13 «14), especially his answer to the question whether only a few would be saved.

He even denies that religious experience provides adequate warrant for affirming the actuality of God, since «the Eastern Asiatic concept of an impersonal order to which the world conforms» is given equal status with other doctrines.

The fact is that although Mascall quite explicitly affirms the purely analogical character of even causality and existence as applied to God, (Existence and Analogy, p. 87.)

Often it's a little poem, the embarrassment of love made bearable in playfulness, but even a brief phrase can affirm and bless.

In this way, the volume is designed to affirm Hartshorne's contributions to the wider metaphysical enterprise even while it recognizes his chief interest, philosophical theology.

Statements affirming particular facts may be found to have value as pictorial expressions of spiritual truths, even though the supposed facts themselves did not actually happen.

Even Aquinas's enhancement of Aristotle's foundational / «primary» «final cause» and his attempt to apply it to God was still was not enough to affirm God as creator and sustainer of every bit of cosmic existence.

Even this account has a legendary coloring; but possibly it preserves an old saying in which Jesus affirmed the certainty that he would celebrate the next (Passover?)

It is affirmed in prophetic faith - knowledge even before the third event — the purification.

Hence, it would be absolutely meaningless to affirm a substance even if evidence could be adduced.

Even more of them than the donors (76 percent versus 70 percent) affirmed that conversion to Christianity could help a poor person get out of poverty.

There are over 300 moms in the group and many of them have been very wounded by the church and left the church because they don't think it is a safe place for them and their families — some have found affirming churches and now attend there but many don't even want to attend an affirming church as church in general is related to too much negativity for them at this point.

Even if one can conceptually affirm both sets of insights in a coherent way, the existential and religious developments informed by these insights often remain different.

We, the president and the members of the commission, wish to affirm that our obligations under civil law must certainly be followed, but even beyond these civil requirements, we all have a moral and ethical responsibility to report suspected abuse to the civil authorities who are charged with protecting our society.

For instance, Christians disagree about the equal rights of men and women — which the Universal Declaration affirms — even as some Christians differ on this point with some Muslims (who also differ about this among themselves)

On the other hand, Erwin Chargaff, retired biochemist at Columbia University and an outspoken opponent of the research, says that «anyone affirming immediate disaster is a charlatan, but anyone denying the possibility of its occurring is an even greater one» (quoted in «Recombinant DNA: The Argument Shifts,» by Tabith M. Powledge, the Hastings Center Retort [April 1977], p. 19).

Another woman, who was straight, was not even granted an interview for membership because she could not affirm the church's stance on homosexuality being a sin.

3) Evidence of Jesus» Claims through logistics: We have many historical documents, outside scripture, that affirm the life of Jesus, and death of Jesus (even at Pilates hands!)

The scriptures to which the bhakti poets so frequently refer affirm the hierarchy, yet they also recount efforts of God to cut through the hierarchy and sometimes even to reverse human and divine roles.

To live at all is to affirm the value of living (even the act of suicide affirms the value of human action and of human life); similarly every animal acts as if the world were orderly.

Many contemporary Baptists would be surprised to learn that venerable shapers of the Baptist tradition such as Andrew Fuller, Richard Furman, B. H. Carroll, and even E. Y. Mullins often spoke in an affirming way of «the Baptist creed.»