Sentences with phrase «intellect over the will»

To insist on the priority of the intellect over the will is not to reduce faith to a purely academic or intellectual concern.

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The context of Genesis 1:26 - 27 gives us the best clues as to what is meant by «image» and it probably refers to the things that set us apart from animals — our intellect, emotions, will, authority to rule over creation, desire for relationships, and other non-physical attributes and characteristics.

It has happened to me so many times and proven itself to me over and over again that when a deep question of profound importance troubles my intellect, I will just let it stay there and do its work.

He was, like Thomas Aquinas, an «intellectualist» rather than a «voluntarist,» in holding that the divine intellect has priority over the divine will, which then regulates the divine power.

Without committing himself to an existentialist doctrine which gives primacy to the will over the intellect, D'Arcy is attracted to this position, for it fits in with his doctrine of the two loves.

In my writing, which Colson professes to have followed «over the years,» I affirm in many places that man has a spiritual soul not reducible to matter, one that is conferred on him directly by God and is responsible for his spiritual powers of intellect and will.

Whatever Mr. Spitzer thinks and says will be viewed through the opaque spectacles and muffled hearing aides of those that are often clamoring for imagined intellect over demonstrated elitist behavior.

Others will view this as a victory of faith over intellect.

Over the next nine months, we'll ask you to show how you build the 4 I's in every student — Intellect, Inquiry, Imagination, and Integrity — by bringing the 5 Core Elements into your classroom.