Sentences with word «implicitly»

But any doctrine which does not implicitly presuppose this point of view is assailed as unintelligible.7

Now such a position requires a doctrine of God which need not be formally defined and stated, but which deeper analysis can show to be implicitly present.

Since the judgment stands, and is no doubt explicitly represented in the thoughts of many of us as it is implicitly represented in the value standards of the great dominant majority of Americans, of American Christians and of American intellectuals, we must ask by what right, with what rightness can we honor Jonathan Edwards today?

Although they are in conflict on the relevance of Darwinism, Groups 2 and 3 apparently agree that Darwinism and theology — assuming intelligent design to be at least implicitly theological — must compete for the single explanatory opening available.

Pre-Darwinian natural theologians believed that God fashioned the features of living beings for precise functions; hence the scientific detailing of these functions implicitly glorified the Creator.

In the first place, even when a definite proposition must be regarded as revealed by God, it is still possible to inquire whether precisely that proposition as it stands derives from the direct communication of God to the human spokesman of Revelation, or whether it was revealed by being implicitly contained in the direct primordial Revelation which itself primarily concerned something else.

(Brutus in a convoluted way turned out to be a darned god predictor, and I could maybe show that Hamilton implicitly acknowledges Brutus may well be right — but that's not, for Hamilton, a bad thing.)

The fact that you implicitly call someone a «victim» despite the fact that they are dealing with THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR OWN ACTIONS tells me your a communist liberal who cries about everything and stands to whittle away at everything AMERICA used to stand for!

Jesus of the Gospel accounts was compatible with the classic confession of the true humanity o There my point was that the book's emphasis on the concrete historical - political humanity of the f Christ (i.e., the core meaning of «incarnation»), whereas those who deny that humanity (or its normative exemplarity) in favor of «some more spiritual» message are implicitly Docetic.

We receive Christ in his totality in the Eucharistic bread; we share Christ's peace implicitly when we approach the altar together.

That Catholicism could be regarded as pacifist is in many ways an odd notion, but the adherents of this position argued that the Second Vatican Council, in calling for the spirituality of the religious life to be expanded among the laity, implicitly extended the traditional non-involvement in war of the religious to all faithful Catholics.

Implicitly, Whitehead compares the potential of education for every individual with the important aspects of his own early life: an exquisite feeling for beauty and a dutiful sense to act on knowledge.

However, Sherburne follows this quote with the following statement which is at least implicitly critical of the doctrine of the human soul that I developed in A Christian Natural Theology.

In these ways, the objections to the idea of truth as correspondence can be cleared away, and we can explicitly reaffirm this notion, which we all implicitly affirm in practice, and we can therefore reaffirm that the task of the theologian involves the attempt to formulate the Christian faith in true doctrines, and to defend the truth of these doctrines by showing them to be self - consistent, adequate to the facts of experience, and illuminating.

Scenes implicitly portrays this cultural pattern: the wide - scale personal withdrawal after the respective political optimisms of the «50s and «60s.

In any event, Swaggart Ministries v. California raises disturbing questions about the expansion of government control of religion and, at least implicitly, of all the institutions of society.

First, note that the «holistic» approach of macroevolution implicitly incorporates the geologic time scales within the fossil record, allowing for comparison and contrast of the relatively minor and major morphological divergence of various forms (i.e. morphometric cladistics).

But implicitly, at least, certain international human rights groups and the European Court of Human Rights are making just such a claim.

The Pope is not saying anything that is not explicitly or implicitly spelled out in the Bible.

Our circle of friends will be open to anyone who shares the interest that binds us together, and in that sense friendship is implicitly universal.

As long as concrescence is (implicitly) understood to be nontemporal, this model will work.

Implicitly denying the validity of the promise of divine protection, he seeks to guarantee his own security during an emergency sojourn in Egypt (12:10 ff.)

What seems to be argued for implicitly in this tradition is the positive assertion, «I am a scholar; a scholar is one who pursues a specialized field; and since I am a theological scholar, what I am pursuing is a special field of theology.»

I hope I do our Continental brethren no injustice in suggesting that this tradition has also, implicitly, rejected a particular image.

In some images explicitly, but in all implicitly, the ministry is to all sorts, ages, colors, sexes, and conditions and attitudes of men.

One can therefore read Sullivan's theory as a subset of Whitehead's ontology or conversely see it as a concretization of what is only implicitly stated in Whiteheads vision.

Instead of attending to Aristotle's own careful preliminary definition of what he means by» (present) in another,» Harts - home allowed this notion of «presence in» to float ambiguously, unexamined, until it became implicitly transformed into a notion of sheer logical inclusion.

If metaphysics is defined as the human intellect's self - understanding, then metaphysics comprises contingent as well as necessary truths — although even the contingent truths it comprises are such that in one sense they can not be coherently denied and, therefore, must be believed, if only implicitly or nonreflectively..

Deconstruction attempts to dismantle such structures in order to show their artificiality and the inevitable ways in which any such structure of thought implicitly «decenters» its central term and undermines itself through internal inconsistency and contradiction.

Santayana implicitly agrees with Whitehead about solitariness, for the love of life in the consciousness of impotence is an utterly solitary experience — as solitary as death, to which it has some other dismal similarities.

In each age of the world distinguished by high activity there will be found at its culmination, and among the agencies leading to that culmination, some profound cosmological outlook, implicitly accepted, impressing its own type upon the current springs of action (AI 12; cf. AI 83).

Perhaps the major difference between Wood and the other proposals we have examined (except for the Mud Flower Collective's proposal) is located here, at the point of explicitly or implicitly assumed anthropology or view of what a human being is.

The most interesting aspect of any argument is not what it explicitly states, but what it implicitly assumes.

At the same time, it's permitted to write about how you shouldn't flaunt it, not - so - implicitly flaunting it.

Mission, therefore, is implicitly questioned on moral ground as its understood goal is aiming at the ceasing of other religions.

Structuralism tended to display its results in terms of charts — an implicitly spatial understanding of the text.

In English we expect a sentence beginning with these words to refer to the previous sentence and reach it's logical conclusion, and many times this is how Paul uses οὖν, but unlike English it can implicitly be referring to something he was talking about earlier and then reach the conclusion.

The consensus in the scientific community was that the universe was always just sort of there until additional discoveries led to the Big Bang theory of creation which implicitly (if not explicitly) acknolwedges a beginning.

Any genuine theological proposal that really means what it says about God implicitly addresses all three publics.

It is the problematic character of this step which makes the ontological argument unsatisfactory as a proof of God's existence although in the case of Hartshorne himself it was perhaps taken, implicitly if not explicitly, when, as he tells us, «about the age of seventeen, after reading Emerson's Essays, I made up my mind (doubtless with a somewhat hazy notion of what I was doing) to trust reason to the end» (LP viii).

Rabbinical Judaism has drawn big fences that implicitly prohibit these exercises with anybody other than one's spouse.

For in rejecting a culture's gods by rejecting the language used to characterize them, a mystic is implicitly rejecting an entire symbol system, including the projection of that system into the culture's institutions.

Jesus, while not explicitly condoning the use of violence in self - defense, implicitly suggests the need to be prepared for it when he tells his disciples to buy a sword if they do not have one, «now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.

You are right that the vast majority of Scripture either explicitly or implicitly teaches the reality of free will.

In the former passage, a surrogate of the love - commandment functions as the eschatological criterion of salvation; at 11:25 - 30 the human insensitivity of the pharisaic attitude is implicitly contrasted with the «easy yoke.»

After all, do not the most popular theories on the meaning of Jesus» death implicitly authorize the holy wrath of the father or the just torture and punishment of the son?

Isaac acts in faith and implicitly understands that he bears the covenant.

This does not mean that the interpreter must become a metaphysician in the sense of making metaphysical judgments — although, at some point these become unavoidable and are in fact implicitly at work from the beginning, as in all thought — but rather that he or she is responsible for recognizing the metaphysical question which the thrust of the text implies.

It is making more explicit what one held implicitly or what one has experienced.5 Ideally, doctrine should express adequately and faithfully what one grasps at the preconceptual stage.

Each theologian, to repeat, is related implicitly to all three publics.