In an age of atom and hydrogen bombs — an age when the destruction of the whole world is possible — we are
finally accepting the view that the church must take a clear stand for peace.
Not exact matches
After relating his personal experience with homosexuals in counseling and after analyzing the contemporary movement toward gay liberation, Williams devotes successive chapters to a discussion of four social scientists»
views of homosexuality, to an analysis of the Biblical teaching, and
finally to a presentation of the positions of three representative theologians - Barth (traditional), Thielicke (moderating), and McNeill (
accepting).
There is little reason
finally to
accept Cobb's
view of human subjecthood unless we are in agreement with the exceptions he makes in distinguishing the role and properties to be associated exclusively with God.
Finally, there is cognitive surrender, in which, in Berger's terms, «one simply
accepts the fact that the majority is right, then adapts oneself to that point of
view.»
Cloning is sometimes
viewed as dangerous or unethical, but many new technologies are initially perceived that way, then
accepted and
finally widely embraced — airplanes, for example, or in vitro fertilization.
Finally, there are the well - meaning individuals who believe that in
accepting the alarmist
view of climate change, they are displaying intelligence and virtue.
However remiss they may have been to
accept so uncritically what Climategate has shown to be a contrived consensus, it's important, now that authoritative dissent is
finally being allowed to see the light of day, that they can look to it, for support in expressing what are still socially and politically risky
views.
Whose point of
view was
finally accepted as the correct one?