Sentences with phrase «exercise in»

A presidential campaign is, ideally, a time for reassessing where we are as a people — a quadrennial exercise in pulse - taking and planning.

From the earliest discussions with the sisters, the architects realized that their faith was a living tradition, not an exercise in nostalgia.

Using a fictional «zombie virus» to illustrate how quickly an illness can become a global pandemic is an exercise in the mathematical principle of epidemiology.

Yet Scenes is not just an exercise in simulated sensitivity to the imaginary pains of the affluent.

In that sense the unity of the power I exercise in an act that contributes to self - integration is not fully explicable on the basis of the I that existed prior to that advance.

Theology is not a dry exercise in conjecture — the answers really do matter.

Recently, when I was invited to speak on spirituality to a Protestant group, one well - intentioned minister objected: «I hope this isn't going to be an exercise in belly - button gazing.»

His program of a thoroughgoing interpretation of the Christian message under the rubrics of history and eschatology looked like another interpretive tour de force, another exercise in killing the Oedipal father (or fathers, in the form of Barth and Bultmann) so that the children are free to pursue their own projects.

Choice, something Americans expect to exercise in everything from TV programs to marital partners, is hardly a bad thing in itself.

The communicative enterprise would become a vast inductive project — a complex exercise in theory - building, leading tentatively and provisionally toward something which, in fact, the imputational groundwork of our language enables us to presuppose from the very outset.1 Only by using the resources of thought to free our communicative resources from the spatio - temporal processes of their employment can we manage to communicate with one another across the reaches of space and time.

A very simple exercise in logic for all of you who are so intent on the need for a «creator» to exist to satiate your wonder is: if you think there needs to be a «creator» for existence, then who created your «creator»?

Perhaps just not the same fields of study» Second — if one can't see these questions as an exercise in thought and rationale then that person has failed the test... placing opinion in the mix as to thwart the morons is just another test to see truly how moronic people can be!

Impelled by a need to find the roots of their form of Mormonism, leading historians of the Reorganization have embarked on an exercise in higher criticism, subjecting to close scrutiny Joseph Smith's story and Mormon scripture as well as the two official versions of church history.

A common criticism of church plants is that they can become an exercise in rearranging the deckchairs, with Christians leaving their existing congregations and moving to a new church plant.

What he meant was that our entire doctrinal endeavor must be understood in the context of knowing God, as an exercise in spirituality, as an expression of our love and worship of God.

His tireless efforts to revive a Lincolnian understanding of the American proposition are not a mere exercise in theoretical reasoning, but an eminently practical endeavor that has helped to shape pro-life litigation and legislation.

I read about a professor who gave his class an exercise in which he wanted them to prove that there was no such thing as an invisible leprechaun (or some such) in the classroom.

As I fly cross-country to visit my parents, I find myself engaged in an admittedly pathetic exercise in yuletide nostalgia: I'm listening to Miracles, Kenny G's Christmas album.

It should be the guide of life, not merely a technical exercise in the analysis of logical problems, but a bold attempt to grasp the structures of reality within the limits of human knowledge and frailty.

Those who think it's just an exercise in whiny self - indulgence are blind or fools or fortunate to have never been exposed to the very real harm — not annoyance, not hurt feelings, but real harm — that is sometimes done in the name of Christ.

The show goes back and forth between trying to parse whether or not being unfaithful to your romantic partner is actually a bad thing, or if it's simply an exercise in letting yourself feel young again.

Influence on the block heads that frequent these blogs is an exercise in futility.

There is no substance or proof the sun doesn; t revolve around the earth, it's just a exercise in translational mathematics... a perspective... or call it relativity.

This is not some sort of masochistic exercise in self - hatred.

This renewed vision of Catholicism is unashamedly intellectual, but it is not an exercise in navel - gazing academia.

This just seems like an exceedingly silly exercise in sophistry.

How is the interpretation of the Bible an exercise in process hermeneutics?

One: What makes interpretation of a Biblical text an exercise in process hermeneutics — that is, is it the application of process theory of interpretation, or that it involves the use of process categories?

One: What makes a mode of interpretation of texts an exercise in precisely process hermeneutics — that it is the application of some distinctively process theory of interpretation, or the use of a characteristically process conceptuality to formulate a proposal about the «meaning» of a text?

Now meditation as an exercise in prayer is no different from this sort of natural and normal human experience, except that it is thought about God, about God's character and his activity in the world.

Confusion of the preaching office of the ministry with the work of the pastor as teacher has been a bad thing and has produced bad results; for no sermon is long enough to be, nor is its purpose properly envisaged as, an exercise in teaching.

All too much of the time we consider our preaching to be an exercise in theological teaching, in moral exhortation, or in pious meditation.

In the absence of that truth, the Universal Declaration is an exercise in sentimental delusion.

By the time this column appears, the harsh winds of winter may already have scattered the demonstrators to their several lairs and subdued the clamor of their detractors, so this may come across as an exercise in l'esprit d'escalier.

What I'm about to say is my exercise in just this kind of discernment.

This looks like an exercise in mutual disrespect for the sake of getting more popularity.

The revelational rap against apologetic theology is that it either engages in a sellout to the «world» (the self - disclosure of God being so utterly relativized by human wisdom that Christians are unable to tell atheists anything that they don't already know), or it is an exercise in various intellectual imperialisms, such as: «We can prove the existence of God» or «If human culture really understood itself, it would find that it is striving toward that which we already have.»

Mark Zuckerberg fails to understand that church - going is more than an exercise in human community - building.

Is the resurrection, however «mythological» or demythologized our view of it, even remotely an exercise in human heroism?

This is a hard thing to write about without sounding like this is an exercise in boundary - marking and legalism.

There are even Oz - like moments when one suspects that all the elaborate concealments exist to conceal precisely nothing, and the story is an exercise in mockery, put forward by an author who himself felt perpetually misunderstood and undervalued.

if every single day is an exercise in «oops, didn't write today!»

Each successive Avengers movie has felt like an exercise in how many characters can fit into one film before it breaks down.

This is the kind of power that parents and teachers want to exercise in relation to youth.

It was an exercise in religious fun, the day before Ash Wednesday.

You know — every time I see religion debated on a public forum, the whole thing is an exercise in mental futility as both the atheists and even some of the Christians make the same type of mistakes over and over again and just yell back and forth at each other.

Fighting Halloween, trying to put Christ back into Christmas, get the Easter bunny out of Easter and so on are an exercise in silliness, a diversion from what we should really be doing as followers of Jesus.

This week, pick some area of the Christian disciples that needs more exercise in your life and begin working on it.

Is this an exercise in parody or are you really this blind to the incredible irony in your words?

Confession can be an acknowledgement of guilt or an exercise in self - justification, the difference being that the latter usually results in a compulsive need to repeat the story over and over in a kind of morose delectation not far removed from today's «tell - all» talk shows.