Sentences with phrase «intent on»

Outside the Tower of Antonia in Jerusalem the Jewish mob set upon Paul, intent on killing him.

It has a lot to tell us, not only Christian artists but Christian theologians, intent on crossing the boundaries separating Christianity and other religions.

The pity was that Northern churchmen were so intent on attacking the obvious sin of their Southern brethren that they did not see their own pharisaical sins of self - righteousness and vindictiveness.

But first on University affairs — Luther resisted the idea that Melancthon should take over the lectures on Aristotle's Physics, a suggestion from Frederick's Treasurer intent on resisting further escalation of salaries.

Matthew 19:3 - 9 3 — And Pharisees came up to him, intent on tempting him and saying: «Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife on every sort of ground?»

She was intent on holding her realm together and in order to succeed needed the loyalty of the majority of her subjects.

Ritschl was intent on helping to bring in the Kingdom of God on earth and reflected and influenced the optimistic belief in progress which characterized much of the Occident of that day.

He also noted the irony of so many premillenialists, convinced that civilization will steadily decline until the second coming of Christ working for all the world (as it were) like postmillennialists intent on bringing in the kingdom through hard, faithful effort.

Dear hippie poet, Yahveh is completely acceptable, just another step in the transliteration evolution, i assume you know all about this as you seem so intent on dazzling the computer screen masses with your staggering depth and profundity.

In the writings of the bright - flashing contemporary stars, including the more angry apostles of revolution theology, I find an unfilled cognitive vacuum, one that leaves the mind merely a mood ahead of those skeptical critics intent on killing the Almighty.

In 1685 Louis XIV, intent on being absolute monarch and determined to be rid of a religious minority who constituted an enclave not yet fully integrated under his rule, revoked the Edict of Nantes.

No problem though, we've been embraced by a wonderful community intent on living a missional and incarnational life together in the midst of the humanity that surrounds us.

along one's memory banks and names get buried under, so that he wonders now if God would know just who he was intent on praying for, but whose name refused to reveal itself, vanishing, alas, alas, into the land of Wonder.

But as soon as the God is represented as less intent on his own honor and glory, it ceases to be a danger.

The religious and political rulers of the day were very intent on outward appearances, and strict observance of the Old Testament law, but their hearts were far from God.

We would be natural allies against those abuses, but you seem intent on making yourself as objectionable as possible to people who'd otherwise sympathize with you.

You seem intent on blaming the victim.

However, your counselor should not be intent on finding lost memories.

It should rather be welcomed as a creative alliance between media producers and consumers against those commercial forces that are more intent on generating profits than on informing people properly.

The Roman Catholic Church, which opposes the use of contraception, continued Tuesday to signal that it is intent on resisting the new policy.

When I say that ecumenism is a central evangelical concern, I refer to the fact of evangelicalism as a global missionary movement intent on preaching the Gospel to every person in the world.

This is why Satan is so intent on destroying and obliterating the people of Israel.

More than a hundred million voters each had something in mind, but discerning their intent is no easy matter (and not only when, as in Florida, they failed to indicate their intent on the ballot).

Actually, most who seem intent on suicide are ambivalent and never carry out their decision.

then, what is suffering but the beauty of our surrender (ing) to God no matter what comes at us intent on destroying us.

If you are so intent on holding these toys in your hands why can't you buy them in your own town?

They were intent on determining the true personality of a Jesus who existed two...

The concept of «orthoselection» stresses organic - environment interaction of sufficient duration to reveal trends which follow environmental shifts — a neo-Darwinian blending of the Darwinian and Lamarcking approaches which obviates the need for the historical anachronism of «orthogenesis,» which is still of interest only to «literary intellectuals and religious philosophers» intent on discerning the working of higher purposes in the evolutionary process.

If once we get behind the prejudices and tastes of this or that group of modem Christians, and try to discover what the great continental reformers like Luther and Calvin — yes, and like Zwingli, too, for be has been much misunderstood and misinterpreted by many of those who have claimed to interpret his teaching — not to mention the English reformers with their rather closer contact with the Catholic tradition, we shall find that with varying emphases and in varying idiom, they were all of them intent on saying something very like the summary outline which I have just given.

Celibacy provides a refuge for GLBTQ believers intent on joining the rest of us onthe road to salvation.

As it spread around the globe, particularly in the American and African continents, Christianity was intent on incorporating the newly colonized areas into Christendom.

They did not see themselves as atheistic or anti-Christian, but were intent on taking the Protestant Reformation to what they believed was its logical conclusion by removing the supernatural additions.

The theme is a continuation of the preceding section: The consequence of a challenge to how God exercises power can indeed be a reversal of intent on God's part.

Or are you so intent on imposing your worldview on a 2000 year old world religion that you can't be bothered?

Because Scripture seems intent on combating legalism wherever it is found.

Patrick Leigh Fermor tells of Voodoo adepts who allegedly «reduce themselves to infinitesimal size and go rolling about the countryside in calabashes,» intent on dark mischief.

For a man so intent on destroying Christianity to rescind his beliefs and assume the mantle of an apostle shows that Christ was the son of God.

«The real issue is whether denominational leaders, of whom Land is perhaps the most public right now... have any intent on sharing real denominational leadership with Luter or other non-whites outside the traditional networks of denominational power,» said Bill Leonard, professor of Baptist studies and church history at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

Like a family with simple loves and noisy arguments, it was obsessed with the waywardness of prodigal sons, and as intent on their repentance (cf Joel 2:12 — 13).

But its greatest strength is also its biggest weakness: Luhrmann is so intent on dazzling viewers with his frenetic, over-the-top directing style that the film constantly threatens to overshadow, if not injure, the delicacy and profundity of Fitzgerald's exquisite novel....

When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down Roe v. Wade, it did not even remotely envision the surgical «assembly line,» commercialization, and exploitation which thousands of women say characterize their experiences with an abortion industry intent on maximizing profits.

Personally, I think this way of reading the text is way better than most of the alternatives, and is way better than the most common way of reading the Bible, which depicts God has a blood - thirsty, murderous tyrant intent on killing babies and committing genocide.

It's very difficult to be around someone who is so intent on hitting the self destruct button.

We shall, in fact, become provincial in a very genuine sense, losing sight of the ultimacies in existence while we are intent on concentrating on the immediacies.

Why are there so many zealots on both sides of the spectrum who are intent on converting the masses to their belief systems?

We may not even be aware of these aspects of our lives because we have been so intent on establishing our significance in terms of a clearly defined informational context.

I grew up in Decatur, Georgia, the son of an educator and a minister who were faithfully intent on ensuring I received a transformative education.

If the church is intent on being saved, then, from this point of view, it must direct its question to civilization.

This is both sad and scary, especially since they seem intent on transforming the USA in her image.

Yet by modern definitions, Jesus certainly was not too intent on pursuing pleasure or fulfilling His own needs at the expense of others.