Sentences with phrase «illustration of all»

Augsberger's definition of an otherwise helpful idea, «interpathy,» is a good illustration of the problem.

The best illustration of this is when Jesus uses the Word of God in the wilderness against the temptations of Satan (Matt 4:1 - 11).

Furthermore, even the identification of the putative content of experience proves to be normed by whatever hermeneutical analysis is employed, for one can only imagine, much less recognize as present, what one can come to identify somehow.16 Finally, some hermeneutical analysis is also presupposed by and, therefore, normative of any argument from experience, whether of the individual or the communal type, since it is only experience as interpretable in terms of some description or other to which one can ever appeal either for the mutual corroboration of such descriptions or for their illustration of a theistic interpretation.

The great example of this, the illustration of it, is the central belief of all Christians; we call it the Incarnation.

Jesus» repertoire of images of the kingdom, his habit of presenting what we can hope for in the idiom of parables of God's reign, is an exceptional illustration of these four revelatory aspects of religion.

Indeed, such a form of argumentation ultimately proves to be as much required for a fully critical theology as are the others we have discussed, intended as it is to clarify what they necessarily presuppose concerning the applicability or capacity for existential illustration of the concepts they employ.

For illustration of this one need only read the daily newspapers and mark the space given to human rights news such as Pinochet's detention and alleged violations of rights around the world.

A good illustration of this point is the impact of age on the Catholic vote.

A practical illustration of this, developed at some length by Muirhead, is the history of «domestic service,» a form of work that became increasingly hard to reconcile with democratic equality in America.

For many of us — male and female alike, religious and nonreligious, churched and unchurched — pregnancy and the birth of our children are the most graphic illustration of otherness we will ever know.

The Beatitudes in Matthew chapter 5 are a good illustration of this.

«I fully agree with your comments on the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book.

That this is so is but another illustration of the extent to which the faith of the church has been confounded with the belief in the ideas, wishes and sentiments of men, and to which the word God has been made the symbol, not of the last reality with which man contends, but of his own aspirations.

This illustration of how I had to forgive my old friend does not begin to compare to the way God remains true to himself — but must be forgiven when we are disappointed or feel betrayed.

Does this great variety in Christian styles provide an overwhelming illustration of the way in which we simply foist our own perspectives, ideologies, needs and vanities onto Jesus?

We have no way of knowing, but we could not find a better illustration of the ambiguity that marks the Hebrew Bible.

An equally striking illustration of the influence within the Protestant churches of the movement of thought of which Professor Dewey is the foremost exponent is the book by Professor Baker, Christian Missions and the New World Culture, to which reference has already been made.

Matthew regards the parable as an illustration of the «last, first: first, last» principle, but we must assume that it was originally spoken in a context in which Jesus was being attacked for his attitude to «tax collectors and sinners», with all that this implied to many of his contemporaries.

But some illustration of how this process worked may be valuable now.

The mundane concreteness of the parable is to be taken seriously as such as such and not as though it were the shadow of the real, an illustration of some «spiritual» realm.

This is a lovely illustration of the context of holiness.

The reduction of every parable to a single point (read: idea) renders it a mere illustration of more primary theological meanings.

My favorite illustration of this point is the decree Omnis utriusque sexus of the Fourth Lateran Council, held in 1215.

Again, we see here an excellent illustration of how the static pattern of thought has been the source of much of our false philosophic and theological problems, problems that have lasted for centuries and even to our day.

But so that we, the readers, will know that this is a dream of substance, the story continues with the famous illustration of the King's wisdom in the disposition of the case of the disputed baby.

This, Leon Wieseltier explains in the New Republic, is «a fine illustration of the cognitive disadvantage of elites.

Another illustration of the effectiveness of lay pastoring is the sponsorship, over the past decade, of homeless alcoholics and ex-prisoners by a dozen or so Church of the Brethren congregations.

I hope it has served as a fruitful illustration of process theology's quest, in its encounter with the sciences, for the kinds of values and vision we need if we are to wrestle with the problems that threaten us with extinction.

J.B.S. Haldane pointed out in The Philosophy of Humanism (1922) that Einstein's theory of relativity is a scientific and exact illustration of a much wider principle: all our knowledge is relative to the human mind that produced it.

The cover boasts an illustration of young guy wearing a T - shirt that says «Jonathan Edwards is my homeboy.»

Another illustration of inerrancy and scapegoating in tension can be found in the NT story of Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1 - 11).

(As an illustration of this critical re-interpretation of myth cf. Hans Jonas, Augustine und das paulinische Freiheitsproblem, 1930, pp. 66 - 76.)

It is not an illustration of mythic truth, but the ground of its possibility and the realization of its fragmentary glimpse of the Real.

A classic illustration of this was noted in the Bhagavad Gita, where Krishna is the object of devotion.

9 A vivid illustration of the problem here raised for all moral judgments is given in the experience of a lecturer who asserted to a group of Southern people that no one could practice discrimination against another race and be a Christian.

Yet comparison of the two serves as vivid illustration of the French proverb that the more things are the same, the more they differ.

To say that God is omnipotent means that whatever is possible in the nature of things may be seen as an illustration of that experience by which God is defined.

A vivid illustration of the truth which we are driving at is presented in our modern young people.

However, if Job is a story, then it is simply man's flawed illustration of a fairly simple principle.

«14 He adds,»... we must break once for all with the idea of death as simple destruction of an individual... individuals are eternal realities... «15 Using the illustration of a book he says, «Death is the last page of the last chapter of the book of one's life... «16 And he comments,»... death, like «finis» at the end of a book, no more means the destruction of our earthly reality than the last chapter of a book means the destruction of the book.

As an illustration of the diverse ways in which the animistic peoples approach Christianity, a speaker tells of one who became a Christian, moved at first by the desire to secure a decent burial for his body.

The most eloquent recent illustration of a nation refusing to equate justice with revenge is South Africa.

This whole debate — one that David and others on this site seem hellbent on repeating, despite refutations to the contrary — is one long illustration of shortsightedness from both camps.

Several children from the parish were selected to have their feet washed by Catholic leaders during the ceremony, offering a visual illustration of accounts in the Gospels detailing how Jesus ministered to his closest followers shortly before his death - and how He urged the disciples to love one another.

In Luke 6:43, I used the illustration of peach trees.

This situation could constitute a rather grim illustration of Niebuhrian irony in that our very creativity may have resulted in the appearance of destructive historical forces too intractable for our capacities to manage or transform.

As one illustration of how Augustine reasons Dodaro examines his response to Volusian's judgment that non-violence was the teaching of Scripture.

The scene is an extended illustration of Revelation 3:20 («Behold, I stand at the door and knock.»)

The American experience in the leveling of a continent and the partial reshaping of the face of nature constitutes one large national illustration of this kind of force.

Mark Twain, who did entertain the possibility, presents in his later despairing writings a powerful illustration of this fruitlessness.)