Sentences with phrase «in opposite»

Scientists and non-scientists frequently equate the materialist worldview with science itself, but Sheldrake argues that much of our everyday experience, not to mention recent scientific research, points in the opposite direction.

I am well aware that many Christians proceed in the opposite direction; from the «naïve» literalism of their youth they move to a modern, demythologized understanding.

Both attitudes are consistent, for each would have occasion to discover in the opposite the folly of its own procedure.

We can be buried by a «worm» theology, but our present danger seems to run in the opposite direction.

But going too far in the opposite direction could be harmful as well

When the prophet Jonah fled from God's instruction to go to Nineveh, he boarded a ship bound for Tarshish, in the opposite direction from Nineveh.

Peter Leithart describes Rupert Sheldrake's eccentric ideas: Scientists and non-scientists frequently equate the materialist worldview with science itself, but Sheldrake argues that much of our everyday experience, not to mention recent scientific research, points in the opposite direction....

I avoid it in the opposite way.

In fact, all my anxieties run in the opposite direction: that, in order to affirm the uniqueness of humanity within organic nature, as well as the unique moral obligations it entails, we will reject all evidence of intentionality, reason, or affection in animals as something only apparently purposive, doing so by reference to the most egregiously vapid of philosophical naturalism's mystifications — «instinct» — and thereby opening the way to a mechanistic narrative that, as we have learned from an incessant torrent of biological and bioethical theory in recent decades, can be extended to human behavior as well.

The Far East and Germany had already begun to travel in the opposite direction.

These things are not inherently bad, but they have the potential to pull us in the opposite direction of pursuing God's Kingdom.

The absence of my belief does not = a belief in its opposite.

living any other way will only get you going in the opposite direction.

The pendulum has begun its swing in the opposite direction.

Why would Jonah go in the opposite direction if God had told him to go preach fire and brimstone against his hated enemy?

Culture shock can also flow in the opposite direction.

The Incarnation then, in the process view, is not a «total and all - consuming act»; the «whole reality of Spirit» never becomes «incarnate in its opposite.»

A large segment of evangelicals look at Donald Trump and his followers and want to run in the opposite direction.

The gospel, when rightly lived, will not cause all Christians to look, act, and talk the same, but will cause all Christians to celebrate their diversity and follow Jesus wherever He leads, even if it is in opposite directions.

They are pulled in opposite directions by inner forces.

For the philosopher Richard Rorty, in the opposite camp, irony offers the proper detachment from ultimate aims and fundamental commitments or principles when we believe that everything is «a product of time and chance.»

I think in opposite and equal reactions.

An analogous relationship holds, though in the opposite direction, for concrete occasions.

This protest has, however, taken the form of an equally dangerous distortion of the gospel in the opposite sense which was brought forward in the most impassioned terms at various times in the course of the nineteenth century and then especially during the past twenty years.

Thanks for making the human race go in the opposite direction of progress.

We have only one instance of a movement in the opposite direction, Johanan ben Zakkai (died about AD 80), who doubted the mechanical aspects of ritual defilement and purification by water, etc., but felt obliged none the less to maintain the commandments concerned simply because they were commandments: (he said to his disciples) «By your life!

Every time a speaker's talk ended, a few thousand people had fifteen minutes to move from one session to another, using the same hallways and escalators and elevators, and inevitably with great numbers going in opposite directions.

The preacher may devote the message to a defense of the indefensible, each stage of his development moving his hearers progressively in the opposite direction.

To repent means to change our minds and go in the opposite direction (2:5).

John 1:18 compensates fully in the opposite direction, declaring Jesus God.

These attitudes affect the family life of pastors as well but often in the opposite way.

How surprised will he be that his hate headed him in the opposite direction from heaven when his time comes.

Do you believe that allowing gays and lesbians to same - sex marry will somehow diminish the example of those involved in opposite - sex marriages?

The SSRS position also seems to put disproportionate stress on individual witness, whereas Bridgman's viewpoint went too far in the opposite direction of relegating decisions to others.

I was told in the beginning to run as fast as I could in the opposite direction from the narcissist but he had already spun the web and I was willingly trapped for a long time.

It is another of those areas where the subtle and not so subtle cultural tide is coming in the opposite direction.

«I'm moving in the opposite direction of Hollywood.»

(My appointment was really in the opposite direction, but Annabelle didn't need to know that.)

In trying not to repeat the mistakes I made with Paul, I went too far in the opposite direction and found myself in a relationship that nearly drove me to suicide before God stepped in and helped me find my way out.

We «authentic», anti-legalists can become just as guilty of legalism in the opposite direction.

Not recognizing that, not keeping that central, risks imbalance just as bad in the opposite direction: accepting people where they are but not calling them to move closer to Christ; distorting Christ from Redeemer to mere community activist and organizer.

As events have developed since the waning of both the older liberalism and of neo-orthodoxy, the state of society has moved in opposite directions.

We are not to suppose that Jesus was counseling his disciples to be indifferent to such evil or acquiescent in it; his entire ministry looks in the opposite direction.

Indeed, the river almost always flows in the opposite direction: our informal, intuitive notions of cardinality, time, space, and causality in fact drive the evolution of abstractions such as functions, geometric spaces, real numbers, and coordinate systems.

The universe is through and through a realm of becoming and thus essentially temporal in character, but it moves in the opposite direction.

Further, if we consider the message of self - promotion that rap artists claim they are trying to communicate, God's word again pushes us in the opposite direction.

Perhaps it was inevitable that the first major departure from neo-orthodoxy was a drastic swing in the opposite direction, an acquiescence to contemporary modes of thought and a denial of transcendence and revelation.

(Two other fringes of the glacier at present shall meet a similar fate, both trying to pull in the opposite direction of Ayer and company.

It never developed a full welfare state, and it is now moving in the opposite direction.

This idea of God must be such that, in Metz's words, «the struggle for God and the struggle to enable all men to be free subjects does not operate in the opposite direction, but proportionally in the same direction».23 Process theologians believe they have found the conceptuality that is needed in the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.