Sentences with phrase «insistence on»

Of these, which for the Christian are of paramount importance as the incomparable instances of divine love and suffering, it can not be said that they, as «the characteristics of intuitive realization, nondogmatic toleration, insistence on non-aggressive virtues and universalist ethics, mark Jesus out as a typical Eastern seer.

It stresses, more than either Buddhism or Hinduism, ascetic practice as a way to salvation, and its insistence on the principle of non-injury, Ahimsa, is more absolute and far - reaching than that of any segment of Hinduism or Buddhism which also hold it.

The monarchial model of God as King was developed systematically, both in Jewish thought (God as Lord and King of the Universe), in medieval Christian thought (with its emphasis on divine omnipotence) and in the Reformation (especially in Calvin's insistence on God's sovereignty).

The third major methodological problem, closely related to the second, is the Jesus Seminar's tendentious insistence on finding a «non-eschatological Jesus.»

This insistence on immanence is an important factor in any discussion of the knowledge of God.

Bellah, he wrote, challenged the mainstream insistence on the fact «value distinction and its elimination of religion from public life and discourse, which were the usual conventions of his discipline.

Far down in history such insistence on uniform custom has commonly emerged when any group, especially if it has conceived itself to be a theocracy, has faced a severe struggle for existence in which social cohesion was indispensable.

The kind of fastidious insistence on purity that characterized the politics of the period goes far toward explaining the ultimate meagerness of its achievements.

This tenacious insistence on life — an ability to attend unremittingly to the particular — is what I find especially compelling in Annie Dillard's writings.

His insistence on monism was not aimed to reduce the particularity and materiality of the world to ideal «principle» in some subjective sense, although he did misstate his case when he called for seeking principle within oneself instead of in external things.

Catholics in this century have been as ready as Protestants in the last to embrace, without sense of contradiction, the belief that actions characteristic of faith could be guaranteed on their campuses without any unseemly insistence on guaranteeing that the personnel belong to their church.

The Protestant insistence on clarity pertains to a preference for discursive or propositional thinking, not auditory - vcrbal expression.

The term is used, perhaps more properly, to denote the special Jewish insistence on «the end», «the good time coming», the Kingdom either in its final appearance (with some) or in its «anticipated» or «realized» form (with others).

This will satisfy Brightman's insistence on the uniqueness and irreducibility of persons.

One can affirm a bodily resurrection without such literalistic smugness; however, such a dogmatic insistence on a bodily resurrection is often indicative of a vague grasp of the problems involved.

if we say that this is only a mystical or spiritual meditation on the meaning of Jesus, we come up against the insistence on the very unspiritual idea of the flesh of Jesus.

He prefers to meet the skepticism of his day about the second coming with a sturdy insistence on the old doctrine.

As I see it, both the Epistle to the Hebrews and the Fourth Gospel (not to mention I Corinthians) provide evidence of the early church's insistence on human communion, even in the face of persecution and death.

Their denial that God is «stuff» is, of course, sound, as is their insistence on the sovereignty of God's grace.

I completely understand dcs's insistence on returning to how «what matters» is the message given.

In either case, it results in a flight from religious pluralism and an insistence on rigidity of belief, conformity with biblical literalism, acceptance of often sterile dogma.

Fundamentalism has been characterized by (1) vigorous resistance to developments in the world of science that appeared to contradict the Biblical text; (2) Biblical literalism; (3) individualism; (4) moralism; and (5) insistence on belief in certain «fundamentals» such as the inerrancy of the Scriptures, the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, and his second coming.

Your insistence on repetitively spamming the blog with your collection of extremely one sided sources is childish in the extreme.

But in spite of the above criticism of Toulmin's analysis, the present investigation embodies his insistence on the relation in Newton's Principia between his theory of dynamics and absolute space and absolute time.

The rational strategy of the spirelike contributes to clarity and the insistence on what ought to be, which means belief in an imperative mode of what is yet to be — or proclamation.

Lernoux points out that Rome's insistence on appointing bishops is relatively recent, a product of the centralization that followed Vatican Council I (1870) Traditionally, bishops were chosen locally and approved by Rome.

The libertarian rhetoric of Luther's reformation pamphlets, with their insistence on the freedom and dignity of every Christian and their onslaught on ecclesiastical corruption and established religious authority, certainly fueled and probably helped trigger the peasant uprising.

Your insistence on preparing for only one particular fate exposes your premise as a lie.

Despite his insistence on the personal character of revelation and its correlate, faith, Brunner did not deny the importance of doctrine.

The increase could translate into an increase in political support for food aid, even with the insistence on needed reforms.

One of Hartshorne's signal contributions is to have made metaphysics somewhat more respectable than it was, by virtue of his insistence on logical rigor and clarity.

The popular picture of Jesus as one whose purpose was to proclaim truths about himself most often construes loyalty to him as insistence on the truth of those claims.

But it must be understood that by this insistence on a direct return to the great Act of God on which Christianity is founded, I am by no means implying that all modern churches have lost their vision or reduced the revolutionary Good News to dull orthodoxy.

Barfield's insistence on the more - than - utilitarian implications of regarding language as metaphoric is matched by the later Heidegger's statement that language is the «house of Being.»

From there, for instance, comes their insistence on the importance of a central bank legally and totally independent of all governments or again on the inscription in the constitution of the prohibition of any budgetary deficit.

Whitehead is seeing that if you are having a radical view, starting from events and flying to get space - time, with his insistence on sense - awareness and durations for the strong notion of an event, this is going to affect everything all along the line.

For as Archbishop Chaput said: «If we want a different kind of country in the future, we need to start today with a conversion in our own hearts, and an insistence on the same in others.»

Furthermore, in the New Testament generally, this Jewish insistence on keeping the body, however rarefied and spiritualized, as part of the future hope, was associated with the Jewish apocalyptic drama — the sudden arrival of the Messiah on the clouds of heaven and the resurrection to eternal destinies.

The battle around the graves has become a symbol of the struggle between the secular community's insistence on taking care of the needs of the living verses the religious community's impassioned defense for the sanctity of the dead.

Time and history appear to be reduced to nothing, if Altizer remains true to his insistence on the Nietzschean Eternal Now.

You will recall my insistence on defining the hermeneutic task not in terms of the author's intention supposedly hidden behind the text, but in terms of the quality of being - in - the - world unfolded in front of the text as the reference of the text.

These men were largely ignored, but later on, male - centered grammarians took up the cause, and insistence on the use of «he» became a strong issue among grammarians in the early 19th century.

To my mind, the insistence on the almightiness of God and creation ex nihilo are indispensable for an adequate understanding of the Bible's witness, both to God's lordship and to his capacity to save what he has created.

Further, using «they» is an acknowledgment that the insistence on «he» as the normative personal pronoun was what constituted the original attack on the language, made on the dubious grounds of strengthening some «natural order.»

This refusal to act as a magistrate illustrates both Jesus» scorn for preoccupation with material possessions and his insistence on the individual's responsibility for his own decisions and conduct.

And this is evident in the insistence on judgment, spirit as against flesh, and the second birth.

His colleague George Lindbeck added an insistence on the primacy of language over experience and a theory about religion as a cultural - symbolic medium.

Furthermore, if by way of preparation for the meeting, some preliminary reading has been done by the participants, if the leader lets them feel that they are not just «lecture - fodder» but part of the whole enterprise, and if there is insistence on something more than being at the «receiving - end,» the discussion and the questions and the desire for further exploration will almost inevitably follow.

The marginalization of people and nature is due to our insistence on worshipping a deformed god presented by a deformed society.

To such insistence on the complete justice of God to every individual Job's friends repeatedly returned.