Sentences with phrase «fundamental affirmation»

It was Isaiah's fundamental affirmation (7:9).

Brueggemann seeks to undo this cultural ideology by pointing to Israel's fundamental affirmation of the justice of God.

In brief, my response to this fundamental affirmation of liberal Protestantism would he that the idea of the ultimate value and reality of the individual is historically limited to the classical period of modern Western culture, and that it can have neither a living meaning nor a truly human form in a post-modern or post-liberal period of history.

It is true that the really fundamental affirmation of God and of absolute obligation never takes place without some conceptual content before the mind, though this need not necessarily be that of God or an actually moral topic.

It is, whether the fundamental affirmations of the apostolic Preaching are true and relevant.

Taylor's broadest aim is to articulate these fundamental affirmations.

Not exact matches

Some recent developments in physics are moving toward the affirmation of the reality of irreversible time at the level of fundamental physics (PUST).

Let me begin with an explicit affirmation that discloses a fundamental methodological presupposition of this interpretation the religion of the Paraiyars is much more than a compliant and unreflective internalization of the beliefs and practices of caste Hindus.

All three features are contained in the affirmation which is generally agreed to have been fundamental to Christianity from the beginning, namely, that God raised Jesus from the dead.

At the outset, it recognizes as fundamental the Protestant idea that reason, starting from outside the circle of faith, can not work its way to an affirmation of the central Christian truths.

Variety in theological expression, as Guarino rightly notes, «must be commensurable with the fundamental creedal and dogmatic affirmations of faith» because different systems can not hold positions that are fundamentally contradictory.

The changes which the patient was experiencing, with much travail, are nonetheless precisely those sorts of changes predictable throughout the human life - cycle, about which the fundamental task is to maintain an affirmation of the natural order, with all its vicissitudes.

Modernity is represented by three forces - first, the revolution in the relation of humanity to nature, signified by science and technology; second, the revolutionary changes in the concept of justice in the social relations between fellow human beings indicated by the self - awakening of all oppressed and suppressed humans to their fundamental human rights of personhood and peoplehood, especially to the values of liberty and equality of participation in power and society; thirdly, the break - up of the traditional integration of state and society with religion, in response to religious pluralism on the one hand and the affirmation of the autonomy of the secular realm from the control of religion on the other».

The film plays with the ambiguities of Luke's attraction to Erica, her attraction to Will, and the questionable details of Luke's accusation in a way that's compelling enough but resolves in an unsatisfyingly glib affirmation of Erica and Luke's fundamental goodness.

In so holding, Sedley LJ said that, once a fundamental breach has occurred, «all the cards are in the hand of the wronged party» and «the option of acceptance or affirmation [is left] in the innocent party's hands».