Sentences with phrase «in view of»

God is not mentioned in the Hebrew text of Esther under any name.33 The story gives vent to a narrow patriotism (understandable enough in view of the age which produced it), a kind of patriotism transcended centuries before in Yahwism and, happily, never normative in Judaism.

In view of the problems it causes, it is no wonder that polygamy was unknown among the Jews after the Babylonian exile, and monogamy was the rule even among the Greeks and Romans by New Testament times.

In this perspective, and in view of all subsequent Jewish history, it is not difficult to understand why Esther was accorded a place of increasing prestige in Judaism until it came to be known not simply as one of the megilloth (plural, «scrolls») but the megillah (sing.)

This was inescapable in view of Israel's concept of the intimate relationship between God and nature; but at the same time it imparted to their understanding of the inanimate world, and to their poetic expression of it, a beauty and elevation, and withal a majesty such as, one may venture the judgment, to rank them with the best poets of any age.

In view of the fluid nature of this belief, and since, for the reasons outlined above, the disciples had been led to believe the Easter message that Jesus had been exalted to heaven, the divine raising of Jesus from the dead was not only a synonymous way of proclaiming the exaltation of Jesus, but the most natural way of doing full justice to the two foci of the Easter message, death and exaltation.

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They must also be helped to understand the measures required to maintain strict control of drug production and distribution, particularly in view of the incentives to delinquency, violence, and crime which unfortunately accompany general prohibition.

To prepare for mission, in this view of things, would require the members of a congregation to discount their self - serving stuff, attempting to slough it off in order to offer their more recognizably Christian hopes and actions, such as the grace and love witnessed in their Communion, to other people.

But in view of the oft - emphasized aphorism that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, it is certain that the author thinks of religious faith and conduct as holding also an honored, if not primary, place among such human treasure.

I think that in view of the present distress it is well for a person to remain as he is.

Such a being I can only consider grotesquely incredible in view of the excessive estrangement, conflict, destruction, pain and waste on the earth.

In view of this polarity it is clear that the work itself can not be identical with the text or with the concretization, but must be situated somewhere between the two.»

This focus on building Christian community will seem outrageous to some in view of the world's needs, but it is a strength for those who see the weakening of communal commitments and loyalties as modernity's fundamental disease.

In view of the importance which Whitehead himself attaches to this theory, the need for clarity about it becomes so much the more urgent.

In this view of Jewish chosenness — given its clearest expression, after the Holocaust, in George Steiner's 1999 novel The Portage to San Cristóbal of A.H. — envy of the Jews» claim made the Nazis do two things.

In view of the world believing when we are one in truth, so much at stake with holding less to doctrines and more to Christ.

The passage talks about the people of God so the question, in view of your post... are those people of God who do not enter saved?

The seriousness of this destruction must be emphasized in view of the devaluation of bodies, especially women's bodies, in traditional Christianity.

While not found amongst scientists frequently, this hubristic attitude is often explicitly and implicitly taken by engineers in their view of the physical world.

In view of continued presidential certification and support of the government of El Salvador, I would conclude, «There can be no peace in a world whose obsession with security leads to denying the claims of human rights and justice.»

The interrelated legs of his tripod — the development of an ethics of character and virtue grounded in a view of the self that is unclear and that lends itself to a substantialist interpretation, an essentialist understanding of the Christian story, and a separatist position on the church - world — are mutually dependent on each other for their internal consistency and coherence.

Here are a few things that are wrong in this view of what went wrong:

In view of Altizer's tenure, the University would have had great difficulty in firing him; so it deserves little credit for not doing so.

In view of Hartshorne's extensive discussion of the ontological argument for the existence of God, it must be emphasized that I am not suggesting that faith affects the operation of formal logic.

«Palestine is out of the question, in view of the failure of the British mandate to attain some modus vivendi as between Jews and Arabs.»

The exact nature of a theology of abandonment on the cross could do with clarification, in view of the extreme formulations of some contemporary theologies (which introduce distance and division into the Trinity), and bearing in mind that the cry of abandonment is a quotation from Psalm 21, a psalm of trust in God.

«In view of some recent disclosures of which we were previously unaware, we recently decided to end [his] employment,» Willow Creek Presbyterian Church in Winter Springs, Florida, told CT this morning.

There is a clear demand on the part of the Christians in India to work for economic justice especially in view of the swifter and greater marginalization of the poor as a result of economic reforms under globalization.

But in view of the fact that God entered into a covenantal relationship with animals as well as with men, this concern seems misplaced.

The Unitarian Universalist Association could revive such a slogan today in view of recent surveys.

In view of the other Sabbath prescriptions which exhibit sensitivity, imagination, eloquence, and theological insight (16:23 - 30; 20:8 - 11; 31:13 - 17; Deut.

But it is inherent in his view of time.

The road takes strange twists and turns, and leads through rough and uncertain places, but at any rate it reached the goal which is represented by the New Testament; and in view of that goal the incidents of the way disclose their meaning.

It is now Wednesday of holy week, and the priests and scribes decide to take Jesus at once, and privately, in view of the crowds gathering for the passover celebration.

In view of the author's standing in the intellectual culture that she criticizes, the book should precipitate a lively and better «informed discussion of the culture war in which, like it or not, we are all embroiled.

In the view of even the most faithful and sophisticated church members, including those who are close friends of the clergy, the theological seminary is a mysterious and awesome institution — familiar only to the privileged and spiritual elite, speaking an esoteric tongue, and turning out men and women in a highly specialized field — ...

In the absence of knowledge, the Clinton Administration is massively funding ignorance in the service of programs that, in view of the populations targeted, are inevitably laced with bigotry, xenophobia, and racism.

This touched a sore point; the official representatives of Judaism had been suspicious of the Baptist's goings - on, and yet in view of his immense influence with the people at large they did not care to repudiate him in express terms.

I would hope that belief systems will become more tolerant and understanding as we evolve but I fear that hope is much too optimistic in view of what I read here.

Also, in view of the latest developments, it seems that muslims world wide are persona non grata.

In view of these realities, one hopes that more politicians will emerge who have the wit to recognize the political advantage in advocating more protective abortion policies.

What our authors are saying through all this structure of imagery is that the obscure birth of a child to a carpenter's wife was, in view of all that came out of it, a decisive moment in history, when something genuinely new began, and the traffic of two worlds was initiated, to be traced by the discerning eye all through the story that was to follow.

That is the main difference, but we also have differences in our view of God, sin, human nature, what the Bible is and who Jesus Christ was.

In this view of Joshua (which, I should say, is not my view), Joshua «is a record of things as they actually were, and a true account of those things about which it speaks» even though this record does not accurately reflect who God is, or what He is like.

In view of this massive publication of scholarly opinion, I refrain here from 1earned - sounding discussions with the scholars, so as to keep in focus the text of the Saying Gospel itself.

In view of this I'm not convinced that faith is any more attainable than perfect goodness, for some people.

In my case I have undergone a life changing shift in my view of what Christ achieved for us (thanks to you) and so I agree with what you have proposed as a more accurate view of the atonement coming from scripture.

In view of this conflict between the misunderstanding of the mob and the testimony of the experts, we may justly make one claim: Christianity has a right to be judged in terms of its own noblest exhibitions and not in terms of its perversions and caricatures.

In view of the actual achievements of the Church in its early days, these marks could not be denied.

The mid-century has brought no basic revolution in our view of the sources, such as characterized the turn of the century.