Sentences with phrase «formula for»

Instead, Stone's experiences became the formula for Vietnam War films to come (Full Metal Jacket, Hamburger Hill, Causalities of War).

Notwithstanding the fact that there is no easy formula for knowing how and to what immediate ends God is moving in the restless flux of happenings, the Christian confesses that the hand of God is behind, within, and against whatever transpires in the universe.

But for some of their members at least, community becomes more readily manipulated for personal ends, and the sacred is reduced to a magical formula for alleviating anxiety.

Bernal says that «genetics furnishes us with another quite independent means of modifying life through selective breeding and by the creation of mutations»; if individuals could be fashioned to specifications, who is to decide the formula for prefabricated man?

These convictions give no complete formula for the making and preserving of peace, but as they are pursued earnestly, both security and justice are enhanced.

There is more going on than fracking in North Dakota, and that «more» includes another explosive: the Briel formula for the reform of Catholic higher learning.

There's no formula for navigating the discussion when it happens.

Leibowitz, quite clearly, has hit upon a marvelous formula for reducing cognitive dissonance.

No such limitation of simultaneity as a physically relevant relation exists in his earlier philosophy of nature.12 In addition, Whitehead appends a note to this statement which has an oddly apologetic tone, especially when one reads the note (as I think one must) as explaining how the statement above is compatible with Einsteinian assumptions: «This principle lies on the surface of the fundamental Einsteinian formula for the physical continuum (PR 61 / 96).

Religion, it seems, is the oldest and has been the most lasting institution to serve the ritual restoration of a sense of trust in the form of faith while offering a tangible formula for a sense of evil against which it promises to defend man.»

We're always trying to find the secret to success (in order to secure it) and the formula for failure (in order to prevent it).

To take the most important case, where did Anselm obtain his formula for God as «that than which nothing greater can be conceived» if he did not, as Karl Barth says he did, derive it from meditation upon the meaning of the Christian revelation of God?

Hartshorne's translation of this Anselmian formula for God is «the Unsurpassable One,» which he acknowledges was partly derived from the demands of worship.4 But whence has the Western world obtained its idea that God is worthy of adoring love and ultimate devotion?

The formula for the latter is: You will remain in charge «donec aliter provideatur,» until we decide differently.

There is no exact formula for relationship success, as every relationship is different.

9.1), by whom he certainly means the risen Lord of the Damascus - road experience; and we should note that when he uses the technical formula for receiving and handing on tradition, and speaks of having received it «from the Lord» (I Cor.

There's no formula for people you should and shouldn't hang out with.

But the formula for stainless steel was worked out at this institution, and stainless steel is a beautiful product.

The only valid baptismal formula for Christians is in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, for that is the only formula Jesus is gave for his followers to use on persons they won through evangelism who desired to become members of Christ's holy church (Matt.

The prayer is wry and ironic but hardly a formula for personal success much less a substitute for the prayer of Jesus.

My formula for living with that burden was: utilize as much of one's strength as necessary to keep the inner turmoil subdued and to put up an appearance; the remaining energy will, in most situations, suffice to meet the demands of life.

What is clear to me is that prayer is not some magic formula for expressing control over the divine,

There's no fixed formula for senior - associate relationships.

In Moulton's volume on Greek moods in the New Testament, additionally, Moulton explains that the formula for wishing can be translated as «let it be x.» In this book, written in 1906, Moulton uses examples of anachronistic uses of the optative in colloquial English, including «would that it be so» or «be it so,» something comparable to the English translation of the vulgate's fiat, «let it be done.»

It must offer a formula for a new world mind with spiritual ends, involving evangelical affirmations in political, economic, sociological, and educational realms, local and international.

Edwards, despite his skepticism about those peddling the magic bullet against poverty, offers his own formula for foreign aid.

I certainly have no formula for the church or the minister setting out to «accept» groups like Negroes.

But when this strategic option was raised at his presentation, McChrystal said it was a formula for «Chaos - istan.»

But this is completely the formula for losing one's mind or understanding; to believe is precisely to lose one's understanding in order to win God.

Despair over the earthly or over something earthly is really despair also about the eternal and over oneself, in so far as it is despair, for this is the formula for all despair.

But the opposite of being in despair is believing; hence we may perceive the justification for what was stated above (I.A) as the formula which describes a condition in which no despair at all exists, for this same formula is also the formula for believing: by relating itself to its own self, and by willing to be itself, the self is grounded transparently in the Power which constituted it.

The gospel isn't a moral code or a formula for getting people into heaven, says New Testament scholar Tom Wright

When one reflects on Boethius» formula for the eternity of God, quoted with approval by Aquinas, 28 «the simultaneously whole and perfect possession of interminable life,» one may well be struck by its affinity to the Whiteheadian concept of an infinite concresence.

Kierkegaard's formula for the state of the self when despair is absent is this: «in relating itself to itself and in willing to be itself, the self rests transparently in the power that established it.»

Christian Reconstructionism offers a formula for reinstituting moral authority and control in a society supposedly faced with chaos and lawlessness.

down formula for the Lone Self, it is an aesthetically shapely scheme which may suffice the eye but does not save the soul.

This social structure, an extreme form of what characterizes several other parts of Latin America, is such a formula for social unrest that Colombia will experience continuing violence as long as it remains unchanged.

Of course great inequities and injustices will persist, but they are a lesser evil than «Global Governance and Democracy within the Global State,» which is a formula for the despotism of a self - appointed elite.

Whether we can offer a philosophical or theological formula for it does not negate it from being truth.

It is a simplistic notion, sort of like the shortcut you said you take in your bioinformatics, and do not learn the actual formula for the truth, you take a shortcut, you own logic.

Since, however, free riders make little contribution to what people are looking for in religion — in terms of inspiration, fellowship, strong conviction, and communal security — liberal groups tend to spawn apathy and a lack of direction, which is a sure formula for institutional decline.

And none of that give me a formula for helping people grow in their spiritual lives.

Elizabeth II is neither, and that could be the formula for banality.

Great formula for non life you've got there.

Christian teacher Joyce Meyer presents a similar formula for Christian living: «God cares about everything about you and everything that concerns you.

asks the warder; «With kings and counselors,» the lawyer replies in the formula for welcome death from the Book of Job.

«30 Hard work with sufficient time off for diversion and recreation has been and remains in America the basic formula for a meaningful life.

Przywara (1889 - 1972) finds the formula for the analogical foundation of the Catholic Church in the Fourth Lateran Council 1215 decree that, «One can not note any similarity between Creator and creature, however great, without being compelled to note an even greater dissimilarity between them.»

And that's just a formula for undue discouragement.

There is no magic wand or four - step formula for that one.