Sentences with phrase «in a certain sense one»

In 2000, as the tech bubble was peaking, Nobel laureate Franco Modigliani observed that the late stages of a bubble can be «rational» in a certain sense, provided that investors are inclined to self - reinforcing behavior.

That nice steady blue line looks appealing in a certain sense, especially around the start of 2009 when the S&P dropped so drastically.

If you read the bible as God's Final Word to mankind (which it is in a certain sense), you end up where Piper is.

In a certain sense, there would not be any difference when compared with a sin committed with full awareness and deliberate consent.

In the first part he says: «Barr claims that «[w] hen scientists say that certain things in nature are random, this does mean that Nature is in a certain sense blind; it does....

The way he situates marriage alongside virginity is, to my modern eyes, certainly sobering; it's unromanticized, as it is made clear that the chief purpose of marriage is the begetting of children, and that is, in a certain sense, inferior to virginity.

I was, therefore, surprised to find that such subtlety and attention to nuance was not duplicated in Neuhaus» review of The Evangelical Moment («The Public Square,» August / September), a book that in a certain sense chronicles my own transition from Roman Catholicism to evangelical Protestantism.

In summary we can say that the heart principle of the sacraments is the Self - giving of God to his creatures according to the nature of the creature which raises them into perfect union with himself, One could even argue that God the Son is «sacrament of the angels» in a certain sense for He is their principle of Life and blessedness.

In a certain sense they were.

We will suggest below that further development should involve a return, in a certain sense, to the traditional precedence of procreation.

Although simple and, in a certain sense, practical, for me this moment is rich in meaning: the Archbishop will call me by name to serve Jesus and the Church in St Andrews and Edinburgh, confirming aloud the calling I heard in my heart many years ago.

In a certain sense, this perspective puts everyone on an even playing field.

Passivity may in a certain sense be seen as prior to activity.

Lewis goes on to relate: «That night my imagination was, in a certain sense, baptized; the rest of me, not unnaturally took longer.

But the longe antecellere refers only to this and is therefore justified in a certain sense, but not absolutely.

In the light of such a critical function of theology in relation to the generalizations of metaphysics, metaphysical «principles,» «laws,» and «categories» do not appear as (transcendental) conditions of any possible experience, but as that of real experience.35 In a certain sense, Whitehead found a way to initialize a theological project without developing it; and he grounded it in the imperfection of all metaphysical systems in relation to actual events that have the power to reconstruct categories in the passage of the events.

Hence we have the right and the duty to think about this new task, and Bishop Lilje is right in saying that in a certain sense the old doctrinal differences have been relativized.

He proposes that humanity is in a certain sense naturally religious, for the structure of the individual human person and of corporate human life is pervaded by religion., This is consistent with his view that one can expect to find the mark of the Creator in creation.

Discerning that vocation is in a certain sense one's primary job; and if you do not have a strong interior life, you lack the foundation for that discernment.

Elitist in a certain sense, it is, nonetheless, not to be belittled.

In a certain sense, the self is a groundless ground.

When scientists say that certain things in nature are random, this does mean that Nature is in a certain sense blind; it does not imply anything about God's knowledge or purposes.

primordial and direct communications of God, they have a derivative character and in a certain sense they are already theology, that is to say, they are not primary Revelation.

It is enough to provoke both laughter and tears — not only all these protestations about having understood and comprehended the highest thought, but also the virtuosity with which many know how to present it in abstracto, and in a certain sense quite correctly — it is enough to provoke both laughter and tears when one sees then that all this knowing and understanding exercises no influence upon the lives of these men, that their lives do not in the remotest way express what they have understood, but rather the contrary.

On the other hand and in a different aspect it is quite certain that just by being brought up strictly in Christianity a man has in a certain sense been plunged into sin, because the whole Christian view was too serious for him, especially in an earlier period of his life; but then in another sense this is again of some help to him, this deeper apprehension of what sin is.

For just because this despair is more intense, salvation is in a certain sense nearer.

Once again literature is becoming heterogeneous and, in a certain sense, limitless, as in the Middle Ages.

In a certain sense, the postmodern way of thinking frees the text from the burden of being private property, returning it to what Karl Krumbacher called the «literary communism» of the Middle Ages.

He starkly observes that, in a certain sense, Christ does not need us: «Jesus is Lord because of who he is, not because he has followers....

At a fundamental level all science is tentative, so, in a certain sense, a «definitive» answer is unattainable.

Both in this article and more extensively in Beyond Humanism, Hartshorne argued that in contrast with the new supernaturalism emerging in European theology the new «theistic naturalism» recognizes that in a certain sense nature is God.

In a certain sense and within certain limits the statement is true, you are what you believe yourself to be.

In a certain sense the historical critical paradigm has been, like Paul's notion of the Law, our pedagogue till now.

[7] Final causes, i.e. ends or purposes, are also «back on the table» in a certain sense.

In a certain sense Professor Dewey sums up in his own philosophy the present stage of development of American culture.

Abraham I can not understand, in a certain sense there is nothing I can learn from him but astonishment.

If he abandons himself to this demoniacal influence, he then perhaps makes still another attempt to save Agnes, in such a way as one can, in a certain sense, save a person by means of the evil.

He will not spare himself any torment; for this is the profound contradiction in the demoniacal, and in a certain sense there dwells infinitely more good in a demoniac than in a trivial person.

The universal may in a certain sense help the tragic hero to attain this, but the knight of faith is left all to himself.

Shame is a universal human phenomenon, and in a certain sense it is a necessary response to the facts of social existence.

And if he does it, he is nevertheless no Tamberlane, he is in a certain sense warranted and has the warranty of thought.

The representation of time has something in common with that of color perception, so that both the one and the other can be considered as representations of sense.6 For in a certain sense the experience of time and color can not be meaningfully communicated, and for that very reason there can be scarcely any meaningful explanation of them.

As to what he must say, I can form no conception beforehand; after he has said it I can maybe understand it, maybe in a certain sense can understand Abraham in what he says, though without getting any closer to him than I have been in the foregoing discussion.

Everyone who has deeply loved it becomes in a certain sense unhappy, but he who has never loved it is and remains a pecus.)

Pope John Paul II insists on the distinction: «the perennial call... and, in a certain sense, the perennial mutual attraction on man's part to femininity and on woman's part to masculinity, is an indirect invitation of the body.

All right, in a certain sense it is clearer to us, because the word usage and the syntax are ours.

The natural world is in a certain sense «free»» (quoted by McDaniel 1983 p. 300).

TV is in a certain sense far, far more sophisticated today than it was when I grew up.

Now while the recipe or instruction set for process production is, or may in a certain sense be, a timeless item, nevertheless the process itself must be temporal.

Television, on the other hand, compels attendance indirectly by being attention - centered: «In a certain sense, it has no goal other than keeping the attention of its students.