Sentences with phrase «good deal of»

It proves only that the text of Luke has been subject to a good deal of modification — in various directions.

The sense of history's promise required that Abraham abandon, we may assume with a good deal of pain, the home of his ancestors.

It is a nice question, of course, whether a good deal of the teaching was based on these texts, or whether the texts were discovered, after careful searching, to bolster up ideas that had slowly gained acceptance.

however, a good deal of the old romantic flame yet alight in Harry.

The famous observer of the American scene, Lord Bryce, testified that the position of minister carried with it a good deal of prestige.

In his Life, then, Boniface proclaimed victory over spaces considered by a good deal of early medieval literature to be inhospitable to Christian civilization.

In our defensive posturing we have been guilty, I think, of a good deal of faulty logic.

A good deal of the power of the main - line view was in reality reason as the capacity to transcend our actual situation.

The process took us two years, and I spent a good deal of that time talking with Jewish scholars, reading about Judaism, and reading the works of and finally interviewing candidates.

Here perhaps is the kernel of the repressions that vitiate a good deal of natural philosophy.

In addition to extensive reading it required numerous papers and a good deal of old - fashioned memorizing.

In our situation, Sabbath keeping will require a good deal of inventiveness.

I will be using a good deal of poetry, referring to a musical work from the literary point of view, and the way an artist works will come into consideration.

Most people approach TV news with a good deal of skepticism.

The entire story is given to us in the Old Testament material, including as it does much genuine history as well as a good deal of legend and myth, not to speak of poetic expressions of the relationship between Jahweh and humankind but with reference also to non-Jewish races and nations.

It is interesting that the initial contact between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism in the American scene was provided by Bible scholars and that a good deal of the leadership in the Vatican Council also came from Bible scholars.

This little academic exercise should help us see that a good deal of talk about education as primarily a «bringing out» of latent knowledge, with consequences for the entire process of instruction, is beside the point.

The methods are often applied with a good deal of prudence, and the radical hermeneutics of the kind I have just described have already been disavowed by a large number of exegetes.

So there is a good deal of truth in the argument that conversion to other religions has lost its social logic.

The issue that aroused the greatest public interest and a good deal of irrational zeal on both sides involved the problem of Bible - reading and the saying of prayers in public schools.

I think... [Coles] is projecting a good deal of himself, a kind of good - hearted Colesian decency which may apply to him but not exactly to me.

Administrators, who have been said to be able to resist any temptation but money, clearly had a good deal of self - interest in recognizing the values of pluralism and disestablishment.

I have spent a good deal of my life studying religion, and man's desire for faith.

This last has been forgotten in a good deal of traditional analysis of human life, and failure to see that we have those «feeling - tones» is bound to produce a sadly distorted idea of personality.

BREWER: This is the sort of question that really underlies a good deal of the problem: the question of the nature of the evidence for the Resurrection.

I am convinced that a good deal of talk about prayer is vitiated by the assumption that God is an intolerant, indeed we might say an intolerable, tyrant who must be cajoled rather than addressed; and this is tied in with a picture of his nature or character that is fundamentally unchristian or subchristian, even if many Christian thinkers have fallen victim to it.

The document received wide publicity and stirred up a good deal of controversy.

The last six months before the General Election saw a good deal of political activity on «life» issues.

A good deal of my writing since these two episodes has been about justice.

The extracts flesh out a good deal of what was lost, and thus hint at what was gained, in that act of literary «compression.»

This is an issue that I try to approach with a good deal of humility.

Up to a point, they were able to adopt a good deal of the basic criticism and counsel which serious moralists of other schools were urging on their contemporaries,

That makes a good deal of sense.

With apologies for what must seem a tired cliché, it was as if, after a good deal of journeying, he had now come home.

The fact is, I think, that we have both gone through a good deal of similar trouble» (LWJ 129).

I for my part have devoted a good deal of time to the understanding of the Hegelian philosophy, I believe also that I understand it tolerably well, but when in spite of the trouble I have taken there are certain passages I can not understand, I am foolhardy enough to think that he himself has not been quite clear.

As at Brideshead, Evelyn reported that «there was a good deal of family embarrassment, with Marcella and Ellen on one side with a disgusting Canadian doctor, and Lady Curzon and I and the angels on the other side.»

For all of its over-simplifications, Joseph Fletcher's Situation Ethics (1966) prompted a good deal of ethical rethinking.

Because our sense of God is usually overlaid with some aspect of those powers that we attempt to please in our ordinary heroics, we may acknowledge that there is a good deal of illusion in concrete theistic religion.

Thus, a good deal of its interest and appeal is as a fragment of an intellectual autobiography of Elshtain herself, one of our most original and perceptive political theorists.

He knew by his cleverness exactly what his frivolous people needed, in order that they should not simply take the earnestness of the Good in vain, and thereby be led to pay the wise man a good deal of money as a reward for having deceived them.

«It takes a good deal of deception and manipulation to get an improper submission through the safeguards we have put in place,» LDS Church spokesman Michael Purdy said in a statement Tuesday, responding to the report about the Anne Frank baptism.

After much trial and error, not to speak of a good deal of somewhat unseemly controversy, it was generally agreed that the divine Action in Christ was not to be restricted to Jesus alone, although in him it found what I have styled a «focus»; rather, that Action worldward is present and at work everywhere.

A good deal of theological writing lately has made politics a central category.

Christians almost invariably take a «Pharisaic» attitude toward Pharisees «Pharisaism,» Nietzsche observed, «is not a degeneration in a good man: a good deal of it is rather the condition of all being good.»

The din of many a theological battle has raged round these words, the writer of which would have probably needed a good deal of instruction before he could have been made to understand what the fight was about.

We necessarily conduct a good deal of our lives on this level, making choices which only temporarily exclude other possibilities.

Furthermore, we need to recognize the plain fact that a good deal of physical and, even more obviously, of psychological suffering is made possible through exactly the same human (and other) conditioning that makes it possible to enjoy the sense of well - being, even of joy.

Without the slightest feeling of annoyance or impatience, I have seen a train that I had planned to take with a good deal of interested and pleasurable anticipation move out of the station without me, because my baggage did not arrive.

Birth stories told by women who were active participants in giving birth often express a good deal of practical wisdom, inspiration, and information for other women.