Sentences with phrase «from anathema»
«For,» Calvin wrote, «excommunication differs from anathema; the latter, which ought to be very rarely or never resorted to, precluding all pardon, execrates a person and devotes him to eternal perdition; whereas excommunication rather censures and punishes his conduct.»
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That debt would become an anathema for the business, keeping it from making the investments it needed as the retail landscape rapidly transformed around it.
An anathema is a solemn recognition that holding certain beliefs involves us deliberately separating ourselves from God and the Church.
When the nature of Christ and his gospel was challenged in the church of Galatia in ways less radical than it is by the Church of Latter - day Saints, St. Paul wrote, «But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.»
When Paul writes about being anathema from Christ, he is not stating a desire to be eternally cut off or separated from Jesus, but is instead stating his desire, if it were possible, to give up his life and his ministry within the Kingdom of God if such a sacrifice would help Israel come to the knowledge that Jesus is the Messiah.
From the perspective of black theology, the prevailing classical Western (white) theism is logically, existentially, and religiously anathema.
In Galatians 1:8 - 9 Paul says, regarding anyone who preaches a «gospel» differing from what the Galatians had received from Paul: let that person be anathema, «accursed» or «cast out.»
He believes he (or his particular brand of religion) is the arbitrator and solution to man's spiritual quest and that any deviation from his proscribed beliefs is anathema.
But anathemas and condemnations are more than personal insults; they are assertions of a doctrinal identity that marks one group off from another in a division between right belief and heresy.
Our Road from Regensburg column later in this issue reports a prominent British Imam pointing out that the issue of infallibility, crucial for understanding Catholicism but anathema to the secular outlook outside and inside the Church, is an example of a good subject for discussion.
or sexual exploitation and they will be up in arms thundering anathemas and warning their constituents to stay away from certain cultural practices.
I would think that Martin Luther had heard of these verses: Galatians 1:8 - 9 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.
Of course culturally speaking, declaring someone's mere comments anathema and casting them from one's church is totally Christian, Pauline in fact, as if there aren't enough electrons for both of us on the internet, as well as the Christian practice of burning books, and Christian emperors declaring non-Trinitarians demented and insane and subject to the emperor's wrath right in the opening pages of Justinian's Laws, and executing people for keeping copies of Prophyry and Arius.
Between Newsweek in 1976 and Time in 2005, a remarkable thing happened to evangelicals: They emerged from their conventicles, storefronts, and crystal cathedrals to embrace» however tentatively, erratically, and sloppily» something their forebears would have considered anathema: an ecumenical quest for Christian unity that includes at its heart a serious and ongoing engagement between evangelicals and Catholics.
It's stated explicity in Mark 7:19, Romans 14:20, Colossians 2, and Acts 15:28 (with the proviso that they obstain from idolatry and thus anathema (food sacrificed to idols) and the meat of strangled and / or unbled animals — but compare that with Rom 14), and not only clearly implied but absolutely necessitated by the entire text of Galatians, Romans, and the Pastorals, and implicitly throughout the rest of Acts, the Pauline Corpus, and Hebrews.
Paul is so certain of his gospel that he writes, «But though we or an angel from heaven should preach unto you any gospel other than that which we preached unto you, let him be anathema» (1:9).
Siegal started the petition seeking to anathema a ammonia - based rubbish from propagandize menus.»
Just look at high profile cases such as when respect for precedent pushed Justice Rehnquist to defend Miranda rights, an anathema to the conservative movement from which he came.
These have the effect of preventing any changes to a machine from its standard specification which, given the independence and individuality of owners, is an anathema to many motorcyclists say the BMF.
The idea of a particular minister being higher in status than other Ministers of State is an anathema to our Constitution right from the beginning.
In particular some of his proposals are anathema to a free and safe Democracy based on free speech, a rule of laws protecting us from unjust imprisonment, and freedom of Religion.
But, unlike many parts of the western world where the slightest expression of prejudice is anathema, Nigerians have always derived entertainment from poking fun at each other's differences.
The group focuses on donations Republicans have received from special - interest groups that have been anathema to liberals, such as the energy and financial sectors.
Merit pay would be anathema for the U.F.T., and fundamental disagreements about pay based on performance prevented the union from agreeing to a contract under the Bloomberg administration.
The reason for these constant brushes with the highly compromised police is because the senator from Kogi has always spoken out his mind on issues considered as anathema politically by the fanatical supporters of the All Progressive Congress led Federal government.
Representatives and publications from the Islamic State group have said that statues and reliefs of animals and humans are anathema to their brand of Sunni Islam.
Any deal weaker than a treaty for shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energies is anathema to poor nations.
Though people had been present for thousands of years in the area that was to become the park, native American practices of hunting and planned burning were anathema to a view of nature as sacrosanct from human involvement.
Aside from the hefty price tag, the program's focus on a racially defined group would normally be anathema to the Bush Administration and Republicans who oppose affirmative action and controversial even among many Democrats.
Still, theorists don't automatically assume, as Geoffrey asserted in a recent paper, that «to learn something new about physics from astronomy» is «anathema.»
This poses a problem for the Paleo dieter who relies on unprocessed whole foods for nutrition and avoids the very foods most commercial protein powders are typically derived from such as soy, peas, whey and rice (not to mention that protein powders are highly processed — an anathema to the Paleo set.)
Gameloft's Dungeon Hunter franchise has gone through some major changes during its life on the App Store, the biggest one being the switch from premium to freemium, a move that was seen as anathema by many players.
From Russia with gore Horror and fantasy films have been a constant anathema when it comes to Russian cinema and the sheer suggestion that something involving impending peril could be considered as entertainment continues to be frowned upon there.
From these interviews, we flash back to Tonya's childhood in Oregon (Mckenna Grace from «Gifted» is wonderful as the young Tonya); her initially sweet but quickly volatile relationship with Jeff, and Tonya's emergence as a potential world champion, even though her look and style and personality are anathema to the judges and the old - school ice skating communFrom these interviews, we flash back to Tonya's childhood in Oregon (Mckenna Grace from «Gifted» is wonderful as the young Tonya); her initially sweet but quickly volatile relationship with Jeff, and Tonya's emergence as a potential world champion, even though her look and style and personality are anathema to the judges and the old - school ice skating communfrom «Gifted» is wonderful as the young Tonya); her initially sweet but quickly volatile relationship with Jeff, and Tonya's emergence as a potential world champion, even though her look and style and personality are anathema to the judges and the old - school ice skating community.
What viewers will easily recognize as a proto - punk rock band is, of course, anathema to the bell - bottomed swingers at American Century, who are focused on sessions for the next England Dan and John Ford Coley release and a Christmas album from Robert Goulet.
Far from being anathema to progressive values, high - quality charter schools demonstrate how to translate these educational values into practice by committing to college success, increasing teacher diversity, rethinking school discipline, and supporting vulnerable populations.
For me, it is anathema: I want to be able to access my data from any device I choose.
For Maurer the departure from Paris was painful, but he continued to increase his mastery of modernism, assimilating aspects of cubism and even venturing into abstraction at a time when such developments were anathema to popular opinion in the United States.
It was an important letter, and for all the consternation it caused in the art world, and the scandal in the mainstream media, it helped expose a clash between value systems that previously may have been seen as commensurate: that of the art world, in which the work of art is sacred and it is anathema to destroy it, and another, belonging perhaps to the real world, in which it is life and its commemoration that are sacred, yet under persistent attack, even from artworks.
Anathema, which as a word was historically used to describe a curse banning and ex-communicating persons or doctrines from the Church, celebrates that which is consigned to damnation.
That particular genre is in many respects the polar opposite of uptight perfection, with its canvases rumpled and littered by everything from cigarette butts to charcoal to sand — all of which would be anathema to the clean lens and the pristine print — yet here Labatte slyly rearticulates the painterly gestures in an ecstatic series of photographic prints titled «Spotting,» 2014.
Urban Video Project (UVP) and parent organization, Light Work, are pleased to announce the exhibition of «Anathema» by multimedia art collective The Otolith Group from November 5 — December 19, 2015.
His reply showed just how willing he is to endure slings and arrows from old allies by invoking another name that is anathema to many traditional greens:
Over the past nine months, however, the very phrase, «cap - and - trade,» has evolved from being politically correct in Washington to nothing less than politically anathema.
Without pronouncing on the merits of either outcome, it is the fear (and other emotions that come from the policy interface) that are the problem — quite anathema to the dispassionate observer status of a scientist.
This arbitrary legislating upon matters due to pressure from lobby groups who only consider their particular agendas in this specific time, are anathema to what scientists should support.
But I think there's one factor that is more important than all those mentioned above in causing cap - and - trade to have changed from politically correct to politically anathema in just nine months.
That has not deterred the climate Gnostics, sustained by their mystical insight into inner truths hidden from sceptics («deniers» in their language of anathema) and, increasingly, from scientists who have not taken the IPCC shilling.
In North America, the most promising attribute of cap and trade is that it is not a tax, and thus not instantly anathema to most of us from the outset.
In a province where there is a long tradition of opposition to clear - cutting forestry practices, pollution from mines, the construction of pipelines and the licensing of coastal marine tanker traffic, the Act came as a godsend to environmentalists and anathema to the resource companies that dominate the economy and contribute heavily to the right - of - centre provincial Liberal party.