Sentences with phrase «fabric of many»

His reign passed away like the «baseless fabric of a vision, leaving no wreck behind save the important lesson that ancient paganism was hopelessly extinct, and that no human power can arrest the triumphant march of Christianity.

That the spirit (attitude) of the Antichrist is so interwoven into the fabric of our society — its insidiousness — is quite possibly invisible to today's (North American) believer.

This witness and theology also played a significant part in the social, legal, cultural, and economic incorporation of the negative image of Jews and Judaism into the fabric of Christian culture from the time of the first anti-Jewish legislation at the Council of Elvira (306) until the time of the French Revolution (in the West)(see many of the above, especially FF).

But we do not some to have a way of talking about the fabric of life that technology stitches us into.

While the difficulty of the task makes it easier to accept off - the - rack conservatism, we need to be able to tailor our policies using the fabric of our faith as a guide.

This is a lie the real motive is to take God out of the US and to completely change the fabric of society.»

So obvious, therefore, does it appear to us that suffering is woven into the very fabric of creation and that the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, that a difficult tour de force of historic imagination is demanded if we are to understand the Old Testament's point of view.

And if revelation means the arrival of the future into the opening that our hope makes in the fragile fabric of the present, then our acceptance of this revelation is consistent with the critical demand that we face reality.

At the center of her domestic - professional crisis is the same dark reality revealed in Wolf's book: many families are living in a frantic spin that nourishes no one and threatens to unravel the thin fabric of family.

It's destroying the very fabric of a moral and civilized society.

Has gay marriage «changed the fabric of society» in the states where it's already legal?

A recognition of their need has been lodged in the fabric of our experience.»

This is the ultimate goal of the gay agenda to change the very fabric of society to allow any form of fleshly expression.

Although analogies drawn between civic and academic life are far from perfect, I would insist that something like Nash's analysis of Philadelphia better captures the fabric of his and others» academic lives at UCLA than does the language of Gesellschaft.

«For a long time, Christianity has sewn its teachings into the fabric of Western culture.

As human beings we are not, therefore, trapped behind the glass wall of our own subjectivity, because our brains are part of this same fabric of meaningful and interconnected reality that is the universe we live in.

Only insofar as the congregation as texture strengthened the fabric of urban community would it gain its true nature.

The fact that Jesus is the one redeeming Mediator between heaven and earth does not override the mutual belonging, influence and intercession of human beings upon each other: it is this whole fabric of humanity that he redeems and brings back to the Father by his perfect mediation between heaven and earth.

Of course racism functions on the individual level, but because it's embedded into the very fabric of our culture, it's not just a personal issue.

The fabric of goodness which he wove into all things has been torn, so it no longer reflects his own perfect Being.

It challenges them to live in the kingdom which embryonically is present among us, and to work for its permeation into the fabric of interpersonal relationships and the structures of society.

«Woven into the fabric of Christian theology,» he writes, «is the insistence that Jesus Christ is the truest, most perfect, most glorious human being who has ever lived,» and all the evidence suggests that Jesus lived as a sexual celibate.

They also both absorb aspects of the projects they criticize into the fabric of the enterprises they promote.

Everyone knows that evil is a real force in the world and cuts a hole in the fabric of Being; but that gash in Being is also what makes evil, in the metaphysical sense, a non «entity, a gap, a privation.

But it can tell us that many of these events are normal, part of the fabric of human perception.

The wars of religion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries devastated the social and political fabric of Europe, and nobody should want to flirt with a repeat of that tragic experience.

It would seem that no thought - through secular substitute for the philosophical and religious convictions which once helped give society a reliable fabric of civility has as yet won widespread support.

Leaders of GAFCON and the Global South met in Cairo last month to pray that «the outcome of the upcoming [Primates] meeting would be decisive and lead to coherent and responsible action regarding the issues which continue to tear apart the fabric of the Communion, issues that have eternal consequences».

It is this cultural role of the Church for its non-members, for all the Queen's subjects, which gives it such stature in the life of the nation — «woven into the fabric of our nation» as she put it — and which makes her so committed to it.

The Father has sown seeds of the Word into the fabric of human rationality, which, when enkindled by the muse of the Spirit, causes persons to participate in the praise of creation for its Creator.

«Being gay means pushing the parameters of s @x and family, and in the process, changing the very fabric of society.»

Liturgical criticism recalls points where the ritual fabric of worship is punctured by that which can not be contained by ritual forms.

This has caused enormous damage to the social fabric of the society, not to mention the material damage.

Of course, these gravimetric oscillations can only be observed indirectly, but by noting their influence on the sub-atomic quantum flanging, the ferfanational matrices of gestalt knoncleotides proves, beyond a doubt, that the entire fabric of reality as we perceive it is nothing more than the passing whimsy of quantum midichlorians.

We're most tempted to divorce — or as one apparently former evangelical put it, to «resign from evangelicalism» — when we believe that our particular political concerns are so woven into the fabric of the gospel they can not be separated from it.

Yet the same words struck fear into most thinking Europeans of the day, including religious leaders; they appeared then to threaten the very fabric of society.

This gradually strengthens the wholeness - sustaining fabric of a congregation and community.

The worst forms of tyranny — or certainly the most successful ones — are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness and the fabric of our lives as not to be perceived as tyranny.28

While following Augustine's lead, new threads were woven into the fabric of his tapestry, including both a refined understanding of the character of God's power and fresh reflections on the nature of God's love.

The past will bud forth into the future as part of the complex fabric of the successive presents.

Our criticism of ID is that itrestricts the evidence for Intelligence to only a certain class of cases for which no natural explanation is said to be discernable; in other words where there appear to be gaps in the fabric of natural causality.

Phenomenological reduction is thus a necessary device in loosening the threads of the fabric of experience.5

I have a problem with church leadership at the moment because I have sensed the control subtly woven through the whole fabric of the supposedly well meaning activity.

Any Catholic must be aware that anti-Christian «belief» is now part of the political and philosophical fabric both of modern Britain and of modern Europe.

«The 10 kingdoms, covering the regions formerly ruled by Rome, will constitute, therefore, the form in which the fourth or Roman empire will exist when the whole fabric of Gentile world - domination is smitten by the «stone cut out without hands» = Christ.»

This implies that the church exists primarily to support the moral fabric of the American democracy.

believerfred, humans are but a piece of the fabric of life both here on Earth, and in the universe.

One of the truly bright strands in the dark fabric of human history is the slow but real progress of the humanitarian ideal.

This claim can not, of course, cancel the formal array of power — we are a nation governed by laws and institutions — but there is nothing amiss in reminding those in offices that they can not stray too far for too long from the wishes of the majority without straining the fabric of authority in a democratic system.

If he / she acts as a good father / mother / son / daughter and helps build the fabric of the family of the church — is that heart - achingly reality worth the risk of leadership?