Sentences with phrase «for affirming»

I think I may try my hand at 31 Days of learning to CARE more completely - C for Celebrating, A for Affirming, R for Remembering and E for Encouraging!

And for the affirming words to remind me of how important it is for me to do and that it is NOT being selfish... I needed that!

I am not advocating a narcissistic love that leaves no space for healthy relationships, but the type of love that offers space for an affirming and self - giving relationship with others.

Cf. Illinois v. Gates, 459 U.S. at 1029, n. 1 (STEVENS, J., dissenting)-LRB-» [T] here is no impediment to presenting a new argument as an alternative basis for affirming the decision below»)(emphasis in original).

Less dramatic reasons for affirming rather than swearing include no ready access to the appropriate holy book.

The Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, which intervened in the case, hailed the Supreme Court decision for affirming legal protection for women who are vulnerable to sexual assault by predatory men.

In a moment of potential transformation or whatever news, revelations and life - changing scenarios await us, The Therapist Office asserts the need in such environments for affirming, alluring and distracting artworks...

Thank you for affirming my instincts, Ruth.

Here are a few simple tricks of the trade for affirming the work of your teachers:

Thanks for the affirming words, Carrie!

Thank you for affirming my belief that leggings are not pants.

The Supreme Court on Monday adduced reasons for affirming Udom Emmanuel of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as validly elected governor of Akwa Ibom.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has commended the Supreme Court for affirming the election of Gov. Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom and Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia...

«To the Supreme Court, thank you for affirming the principle of equal justice under the law,» she said.

«Gay athletes and spectators attending the Winter Olympics held in Sochi in 2014 could potentially face fines or jail sentences for affirming their support for LGBT equality.»

You challenge thinkers like Stephen White who try to find a new basis for affirming the equality of human beings in our shared human mortality — in our common awareness of death.

If improving the human condition is the reason for affirming growth, would it not be better to let that be our aim?

Placher's answer to my question about the relative truth or falsity of religious claims touches upon my comment that current forms of epistemological relativism provide a justification for affirming the truth of beliefs without worrying about whether they are true for more than those who affirm them.

Are there any systematic reasons for affirming that God is on actual entity rather than a living person?

A now classic statement of confessional theology that turns historical relativism into a positive basis for affirming the centrality of Jesus Christ.

In Critique et Religion he criticizes Blondel for affirming that the revelation of the Trinity opens a path which is closed to pure reason.

The structure of actual occasions as perceptive, as actively inheriting and synthesizing the past, and leaving themselves open to synthesis by subsequent occasions, gives us a basis for affirming the continued influence of occasions on subsequent occasions in the cosmic process.

The only reason for affirming that there are more special types of social order is that we do, in fact, encounter entities that have such order.

The same is true for affirming God's goodness in light of bad things.

Creativity apart from its role in actual entities would violate the ontological principle, and there would be no grounds for affirming such an «isolated» abstraction.

I should now point out, however, that even if the entitative view can successfully maintain the freedom of God's primordial evaluation, we still have no grounds for affirming God's faithfulness.

Whitehead's philosophical reasons for affirming God and his attempt to show that God is not an exception to all the categories appear to me philosophically responsible and even necessary.

Are there any systematic reasons for affirming that God is an actual entity rather than a living person?

Hume showed that once one accepts the empiricist idea that knowledge of what is not our own experience comes to us only through the senses, there is no cognitive basis for affirming God's reality.

Once the door is reopened, Whitehead and Hartshorne both find convincing reasons for affirming the reality of God.

In order to resist this pressure, several religious alternatives for affirming one's Jewishness were proposed by such groups as the Essenes, Sadducees, Pharisees, and Zealots.

This stance puts me in opposition to those humanists who regard religion as an illusion, who seek to negate the divine reality as the necessary precondition for affirming the humanist gospel of human freedom, and who interpret the history of religion as only an instrument of oppression and dehumanization.

First, with reference to the topic of the last section, it seems that Whitehead is doubtful that so sharp a line can be drawn between animals and humans that there is real warrant for affirming total extinction of all animals and survival of all humans.

If we see that the very generation of such effective concrete lures is the incarnation (in this extended sense) of divine aims, then there is a deeply Christian reason for affirming the positive valuations of other traditions on their own terms.

A case can be made for affirming the logical priority of the former with respect to the latter, and thus a parallel case can be made for placing the arts at the fulcrum of the educative process.

The idea of Purgatory as purification is one possible answer, though we have no basis for affirming it as a doctrine.

(Its pastor is in jail for affirming this same creed.)

If Brunner will agree that factually the doctrines of God as Person and as Creator antedated Jesus in the Jewish community, he may still wish to argue that for us the encounter with God in Jesus is the only ground for affirming them.

We may say with orthodoxy that in encountering the person of Jesus we encounter also his nature as deity, but then we have no basis for affirming God as Person.

No system of ritual uniquely and exclusively qualifies as a vehicle for affirming devotion through symbolic acts.

This is a sufficiently important part of Whitehead's reason for affirming God that its successful rejection is «one reason for exploring the possibility of a naturalistic reinterpretation of Whitehead's basic categories» (PS 1:105; cf. 108f).

Modern scientific genetics offers an admirable empirical and conceptual base for affirming both human individuality and the essential unity of mankind.

Theists may be entering a time of great opportunity for affirming that understanding of reality, because the modernist idol's substance is dissolving a little more every day.

Further «A «process theology» that is true to Whiteheadian (and Hartshornean) insights does not provide a case for affirming certain limited affirmations about the reality of God which are then to be augmented by a distinct kind of «revelational theology.»

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.

Thank you Nathan for affirming the crazy campaign.

Such trades can be facilitated through ICE Link, an automated workflow and connectivity platform for affirming credit derivatives trades, or post-trade processing.

Customers throughout the U.S. will be able to apply for an Affirm loan online, and the site will then automatically generate a 16 - digit code that consumers can use like a debit card for purchases in stores using a phone app, as well as online orders.

At heart, Christianity is a robustly materialist religion, for it affirms that the sacred has entered the mundane.

The Bible itself describes heaven as part of the universe for it affirms that God made both heaven and earth.