Sentences with phrase «for certitude»

Bill is still searching for certitude in assertive father figures.»

(21) Theologically, this means circumscribing God within a private sphere, viewing the church as a closed community, and putting a quest for certitude in place of authentic faith.

Not exact matches

In spite of all that testing — at a financial cost of untold billions of dollars and an immeasurable time cost for the patients who volunteered — no one was able to say with any certitude whether the drug would work in any one patient or not.

It can learn to address these emotions to God, for it is God who is terminating our unjust privilege and deceptive certitude.

The gift of papal infallibility flows not from our need for certainty, but from God's desire that we know with certitude those truths necessary for our salvation.

For ancient Israel, it was the end of privilege, certitude, domination, viable public institutions and a sustaining social fabric.

Here is an excerpt from an article on Chantal Delsol I have forthcoming in Perspectives on Political Science: In the place of «true judgment» or prudence, the defenders of international justice satisfy their hunger for rational certitude and analytical specificity with mere....

However vigorously the Catholic Church defends human reason, a necessary presupposition of freedom for love, even defining that reason can know with certitude God's existence, the reason envisaged can not be a deterministic reason that would banish all ambiguity and freedom.

For the Church simultaneously insists that faith's certitude surpasses the certitude of reason.

Descartes, for instance, explicitly forbade himself any recourse to the world's testimony of itself; in his third Meditation, he seals all his senses against nature, so that he can undertake his rational reconstruction of reality from a position pure of any certitude save that of the ego's own existence.

Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

In intellectual matters, religious faith means devotion to truth, keeping inquiry open, foregoing the demand for absolute certitude yet not despairing of progress, striving for universality, publicity, and objectivity in knowledge, and being thankfully obedient to the disciplines of reason and of empirical evidence.

The Awakenings in America, for instance, couldn't have happened apart from the fact that great numbers of people, theretofore conscious of themselves as Christians in some sense, suddenly felt that the depth of their «certitude» had been disgracefully shallow.

And suppose now that this was not an external reality but an inward thing, so that factual proofs could not help the laborer to certitude, but faith itself was the facticity, and so it was all left to faith whether he possessed humble courage enough to dare to believe it (for impudent courage can not help one to believe)-- how many laboring men were there likely to be who possessed this courage?

Throughout the eighteenth century in Europe, the decline of «religious certitude» ¯ what is nowadays called evangelicalism or, less knowledgeably, fundamentalism ¯ was widely taken for granted.

If he knew he was God's son, then his human relationship to the Father had nothing in common with ours, for he would have lived in certitude while we must live by faith.

Second, the act of supernatural faith is a grace that allows us to accept divine testimony with an unfailing certitude, by an act of the will moved by charity, the love for God poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.

To his criterion for discerning satanic «Christianity» we might add these: hostility toward those who are different; projecting evil on other who are then demonized; claiming doctrinal certitude; breeding psychic dependency, unconsciousness, stagnation, fear, guilt, or hatred; depicting God as a monster (as in ascribing the death of loved ones to God).

I love where he says «To his criterion for discerning satanic «Christianity» we might add these: hostility toward those who are different; projecting evil on other who are then demonized; claiming doctrinal certitude;... depicting God as a monster (as in ascribing the death of loved ones to God).»

According to the statement, there is no consensus on justification through the word of God and «by faith alone,» no consensus on the certitude of faith concerning our salvation, no consensus on the continuing sinfulness of the justified, nor on the importance of good works for our salvation, nor on the function of the doctrine of justification as criterion of the entire life and doctrine of the church.

Arguments for the existence of other minds can not be proven with certitude, yet most everyone accepts them as a given fact.

Even for these indirect followers, Ibn «Abd al - Wahhab «represents an inspiring example of unrelenting struggle and certitude of faith.»

I entered into the earlier long discussion on ontology and epistemology in preparation for submitting and testing the following assumption: Let us assume that the way we come to faith in God and come to develop symbolic expressions about relationship to Him is not fundamentally different from the way we come to have certitude about and develop symbolic specificity about our other relations.

The claim for dogmatic certitude is vigorously denied and his own philosophy declared to be inadequate (PR 343).2 Whitehead thus takes criticism for granted; indeed he regards his philosophy as a success if it makes a new kind of criticism possible (ESP 114) 3 He himself provides the criteria according to which his philosophy is to be evaluated.

Leave aside for the moment such endearing theological opinions as the one that God refuses to accept the prayers of those outside one particular congregation of certitude — an expression not so much of anti-Semitism, one would guess, as of a peculiarly electronic conception of the divinity: «Sorry, sir, this number is unlisted.»

Written at a point of journalistic certitude about the imminent demise of this pope, and with his candidate, Cardinal Martini of Milan, ready at hand, Hebblethwaite wrote: «A conclave is a moment of freedom, a chance for the Church to make a fresh start.

That is to say, they are not isolated in time but become part of a homogeneous series, bearing witness to the same certitude about the efficacy of spiritual means in improving corrupted social and political situations with their sense of compassion for the universal.

And as Moses knew would be the case, Israel's communal enclosure was in terrifying certitude penetrated by the same Word - a Word in fact ultimately responsible for the «ten words,» a Word in equal fact which was to appear in the fullness of God's time as the Word made flesh.

The certitude that Descartes achieved was really of a rather trivial kind and a poor substitute for the wonder that he had forsaken.

On the other hand, for the dualist of Paul's day, ironically, the split between mind and matter was the basis of moral certitude.

Certainly one is the endless human longing for religious certitude.

First Things concludes that changing times call for «the bishops to reevaluate a program based upon the ideological certitudes of an earlier era.»

Faced with the certitude of defeat for the first time in his career, he yielded to a combination of vexation, exasperation and just plain futility and gave a demonstration that was shocking and unworthy.

Sterling already confirm in the first league, he is a certitude, we don't need another Walcott to keep 4 - 5 years and not confirm.I don't understand that part of fans who want that team to play with no name young players, but to win trophies.This is a young and a player who will play sure in the first 11, not who come to get some chances and play a match he, another Gnabry, another Welington, etc.Let's have a great first 11, and on the bunch young players, to can win something, not just play the game for fun, we have a profesional club, not an amateur one.

Rose doesn't hurt for confidence, but that certitude is belied by his quiet demeanor and unselfish attitude.

Ancelotti confirmed that Terry is fit for the match, and in all likelihood Chelsea will start with a certitude on the outcome of the match.

(How's that for critical certitude?)

The propensities for treacle and brimstone are cut by the realism of his portraits and the certitude in his voice.

The film, which is nominated for nine Oscars including best picture, has had an up - and - down ride through awards season, garnering predictions of best picture certitude as far back as September and its share of skepticism since.

He's keeping that to himself for the moment from his family, what with it being Christmas and his certitude that the deal that will save him is just around the corner.

for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.»

And I certainly see the professional advantages of overcoming it; one is a much more impressive candidate for a Duke deanship, a major award, or a big foundation grant if they can project that imposing air of utter certitude and self - assuredness.

We hosted around 30 service users, volunteers and staff from two local charities (Certitude and More Than Just a Choir) for a superb two course lunch cooked and served by the boys.

His hope is a certitude, for he knows that good is eternal and evil transitory.

For example, in 1964 we could state with certitude that Berkshire's per - share book value was $ 19.46.

At a time when the value of certitude is taken for granted, Kruger says she is «Interested in introducing doubt».

What's * not * a demonstrable truth is a certitude like «In a globalizing world, resources inevitably will flow to cheaper labor for processing into goods.»

This attitude combines the unlovely traits of religious certitude and fervor with political partisanship into a stew that produces appalling disregard for both one's opponents and scientific accuracy.

I've taken the epigraph for this column from the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, who knew something about the evils of certitude.

At the time, however, for all Galileo's certitude a MASSIVE consensus (90 % +?)