Sentences with phrase «imposed by»

For far from being a deviation from biblical truth, this setting of man over against the sum total of things, his subject - status and the object - status and mutual externality of things themselves, are posited in the very idea of creation and of man's position vis - a-vis nature determined by it: it is the condition of man meant in the Bible, imposed by his createdness, to be accepted, acted through... In short, there are degrees of objectification... the question is not how to devise an adequate language for theology, but how to keep its necessary inadequacy transparent for what is to be indicated by it...» Hans Jonas, Phenomenon of Life, pp. 258 - 59; cf. also Schubert Ogden's helpful discussion on «Theology and Objectivity,» Journal of Religion 45 (1965): 175 - 95; Ian G. Barbour, Issues in Science and Religion (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1966), pp. 175 - 206; and Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).

Is it possible for human beings to revere an arbitrary line in the same way they respect a divide imposed by nature?

It is twenty - five years later and most Americans still do not believe how radical is the abortion regime imposed by Roe.

God is bound by love and grace; — God is bound by the conditions imposed by the act of creation by a God of love and grace; — and God is bound by the conditions imposed by a God of love and grace being in relationship with creation.

Niebuhr considered the relation of agape to the struggle for justice to be as profound a revelation of the possibilities of God's grace and the limitations imposed by man's sin as any facet of existence.

Divine persuasion is highly opportunistic, seeking to maximize possibilities for increasing complexity which are consistent with the actual conditions imposed by the past through efficient causation.

A wider reading of the New Testament, especially John and Paul, suggests that such injunctions are only a moment of eschatological delay within a wider promotion of gift - exchange beyond the fetishized limits upon such exchange imposed by most ancient societies.

The new order imposed by the Court is abortion on demand.

The intimacy imposed by marriage makes the stakes so high that serious conflict can lead to divorce.

Maximum humiliation of the kind imposed by Versailles on imperial Germany is wrong.

But variety of factors - Sudan's legal system, differences between its constitution and Sharia law imposed by the sentencing judge, her pregnancy - ensure there will be no execution any time soon.

Finally there is the need to strive for perfection, to overcome the inferiority imposed by the limitations of our bodies, our resources, our minds.

Some folks are confident that they are steering themselves from a more pure moral compass than that of those imposed by organized religions which have, unfortunately and due to a few bad apples at the margins, proven themselves to be corruptible.

Nazi racist ideology has its roots in hindu, pagan Egypt, ancestral home land of Saxons, meaning tied to or forged with essence, meanings god's, subcontinent never was part of hindu denial of truth absolute but hinduism, racism was imposed by force by hindu's, criminals of Egypt and Persia on nomadic population of subcontinent by declaring themselves to be god's, while native's of Europe were slaughtered to extinction by hindu Gaul's, criminal self centered after they were defeated as hindu, deniers of truth abolute Pharaoh's by the king's of Sudan.

The most notorious example is the reparation imposed by the Allied Powers at the end of World War I on Germany by the Versailles Treaty.

In 1921, reparations were based on the damages inflicted by outright war, not social or political wrongs, and they were imposed by the winners on the losers.

Accordingly, the social sciences may be expected to play an increasingly important role in liberal learning, as it becomes ever more evident that the conditions of human existence are not simply imposed by fate, nor the results of the interplay of blind, impersonal forces, but the consequences of deliberale human action.

The person who knows this Word of, God in his life and exalts it with wonder, or the one who has not experienced this liberation, who has perhaps been crushed or coerced by a family or ecclesiastical structure, and who considers this law abominable because he has known nothing but the slavery imposed by other people?

The cards which have been produced by the major publishers have various problems because of conditions imposed by the National Liturgical Committee.

Russia will not participate in this year's competition, for the first time in 42 years, after a ban imposed by the hosts Ukraine.

I would accept this stress on the importance of the categories of understanding imposed by the knower, but I would want to attribute them less to the given structures of the mind (as in Bohr's neo-Kantian view) than to the limitations of our experience and imagination.

Throughout the region, the Greek language and Greek culture were a binding force, while political unity was imposed by the Roman administration.

* What other restrictions, both inside and outside, are imposed by the cage?

He holds that classical concepts are «forms of perception» imposed by man.

Can we moderate Christians tell the world that most Americans don't believe that you should devote your energy to judging others, that you should try to focus to improving yourself; that most Americans want religion protected by keeping it separated from «State» rather than the extremist push to make biblical law the law of the land; that each individual's morality is between him / her and God, not a morality imposed by Christian extremists?

John Paul says, «I would probably maintain that Eastern Europe could lose more, with regard to its identity, because Eastern Europe, through all its experiences imposed by totalitarianism has matured...» Gawronski can not keep himself from interjecting, «Thanks to communism, then!»

Nominalists share with Scotus the voluntarist understanding of divine and human will, the unboundedness of possibility, the view of creation as an order imposed by God's arbitrary will, and the rejection of the doctrine of analogy.

This approach contrasts markedly with the bureaucratic or hierarchical restrictions imposed by state institutions and traditional churches.

These policies, often imposed by the IMF and the WB on debtor countries, and together called Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAP) and include

They are seen in the struggle against the MAI for the cancellation of Third World debt, the struggle against embargoes imposed by an imperial power, the United States, on entire populations who are paying the price.

So high is this God's valuation of human liberty of conscience that, even though He has launched a divinely commissioned religion in history (in two Covenants, Jewish and Christian), He would not have either of these religions imposed by force on anyone.

Every individual in any society is free to break that morality at any point in time, but it is a risk / reward senario, as the consequences imposed by the society would then be applied.

The party with close ties to the Serbian Orthodox Church said: «Is it possible that the ruling majority has no other candidate for the prime minister - designate but the one imposed by the West, which dictates all the moves by this government?»

You still seem to think you know what's best for me, and completely ignored the fact that I am a happier and better person without the Christian god of violence, bigotry and hate and the constant, unrelenting guilt trip imposed by Christianity.

Once an ardent political activist, Marianne is now in law (a career imposed by her parents), but she is not pleading the cause of the oppressed as she had once dreamed.

If successful, I fear that Snyder's lawsuit would set a dangerous precedent whereby anyone who felt offended by a distasteful message could silence unpopular speech through massive fines imposed by the courts.

God only asks us to be as god - like as we can be given our own particular strengths and weaknesses and within the circumstances imposed by temporal existence.

Trump was elected partly in response to the ideological and social constraints imposed by the establishments of both parties.

Tell me how is your plan not different from that of Chairman Mao's or Comrade Stalin who know what was best for society and imposed it by force?

Or it may take on the expansive qualities of insatiable demands, frantic intensity, and encroaching suffocation of others, in which case solitariness is resisted and the inevitable restraints imposed by the totality are felt with the inimical and threatening qualities of an enemy.

When there is economic pressure on a people due to the policies imposed by the globalization process, there could be an accentuation of the differences among them based on cultural or religious factors.

And then there was a different form of poverty: the «spiritual poverty of our time»; that poverty is most evident in wealthier societies and manifests itself in what Benedict XVI often called the «dictatorship of relativism»» the worship of the false god of me, myself, and I, imposed by state power, often in the name of a misguided and coercive concept of tolerance.

... Nicaragua's early progress in curbing imports, raising grain production, and other reform and austerity measures were undermined badly by new needs for foreign borrowing imposed by the burgeoning defense burden....

Indeed the word is one imposed by Europeans on the religious life of India.

From the bad man's standpoint, obligations imposed by legislation or court decisions are no more deserving of respect than those imposed by a robber at gunpoint.

Yet another view accents the plight of the woman who undergoes an abortion: her right to privacy, the tragic necessity imposed by unwanted pregnancies, the sociocultural milieu with its polarized emotions.

During this time Egypt continued to be a center for continuing cultural and commercial emigrations from neighboring Arab countries as well as a crossroads for the infiltration of Western culture — an infiltration which remained within the bounds imposed by the desire to maintain the Arabic and Islamic character of the culture of Egypt.

Christ's sufferings were imposed by the conspiracy of demonic malice and human weakness.

Since then, not only has the number of such nations increased but, more importantly, the violations have been institutionalised by law and imposed by authority.

Moreover, they claim that celibacy was never really essential to being a priest but was a later addition imposed by the Church.