Sentences with phrase «is at best»

To those who still say that such a critique is invalid, I would reply that their view is at best totally un-Heideggerian and, at worst, contrary to the results of the careful analysis of someone like Karsten Harries, whose views I have tried to present.

• Intentional physical violence of any kind against a person made in the image of God solely for entertainment and recreation can not be justified (some pro-lobbyists and Christians cite the Just War thesis, which is at best woefully naive).

The name Muhammad here is at best a mere traditional label referring to the pre-existential archetype containing the intention or thoughts of the possible existents.

This is at best a sort of backward science that begins with a conclusion and then proceeds to try to demonstrate it.

In a very interesting chapter, «Playing the Bishop, Capturing the Queen,» Coontz is at her best as she chronicles the wild maneuvers of European royalty as they tried to protect their holdings and amass political power and fortune by arranging marriages with royal families of foreign provinces and nations.

The common habit of using the Bible by concentrating on one verse at a time (which may or may not be a complete sentence) is at best a very slow, plodding way to get at the author's main points, rather like playing dominoes or checkers at the rate of one or two moves per day or per week, and at worst a fragmentation and distortion.

This history is at best only a clue to what the text says; the text is not supposed to be used as a clue to this history, for then the text would only be indirectly related to the meaning of the Christian faith.

In any case, from the viewpoint of Christmas Spirit theology, Santa Claus theology is at best an heirloom of Greek metaphysics, and at worst a hypocritical avoidance of the theological dimension of life as it is experienced today.

So do you agree the Biblical representation of «God» is at best stretched and more likely just flat out wrong (if not impossible)?

Legutko is at his best when explaining, in the manner of Jon Elster, the subtle causal mechanisms that underpin this relentless drive for conformism, which constantly works to extinguish the illiberal.

Yes arguing for homosexuality is at best a slippery slope, because the only parameters you can use to justify it could as well exist in other relationships which are likewise condemned by scripture.

This is at best a matter of uncertain inference.

Osteen is at best extremely naive and at worse a false teacher and heretic.

We believe the Church is at its best when it sacrifices and serves.

A theology of gratitude that doesn't allow for grief is at best misguided, if not downright egregious.

This is at best a foretaste of the real thing, which must bear fruit in a truly personal decision affecting the whole life.

Of course, Turner is at his best when he turns the joke on himself and connects his personal stories to the universal so that the reader can really relate.

All my life I've been taught that the Church is at its best when the theology is consistent and everyone agrees with one another, but when my very faith was on the line, it was the diversity of the Christian tradition that offered me so much hope.

It reminds us that studiousness requires the self - discipline to exclude frivolous pursuits (including the pursuit of frivolous knowledge); that the pursuit of knowledge is at its best when motivated by a genuine desire for the truth, not self - aggrandizement.

This is at best misleading: Writing in the cultural context of the liberal West, Soloveitchik often devoted more words to emphasizing the necessity of humility and surrender for a genuine religious life, but he had no more esteem for a purely submissive religious posture than for an exclusively assertive one — a point made clear by his frequent condemnations of mystical self - abnegation.

It is at best a prolegomenon which seeks to suggest an element in the ministry of Jesus that gives it a constitutive as distinct from an exemplary character, that makes it the supreme action of all history (action that is fully and entirely human, yet unique), action which crowns a ministry in which the ambiguities of human life are progressively articulated, being action in which their burden is endured à l'outrance.

Repentance is at best only an incentive to this turning, and it may even stand in the way of it if a man tortures himself with the idea that his acts of penance are not sufficient and thereby withholds his best energies from the work of reversal.

If the initial aim is at the best possibility, must it not be quite specific and must not its development in subsequent phases be a deviation away from this specific ideal?

One is based on the Campbell work, which is at best controversial.

(The way we «do church» today is at best ineffective, and possibly sinful.)

Thus, to claim the Reformers as heroes and at the same time deride those who hold to their beliefs on Christian discipleship is at best misleading.

This line of apologist argument is at best a draw, but perhaps doesn't even rise to that level because at least we have physical evidence for the singularity.

It is at best bittersweet to be forced to say to one's own parents, «Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?

Live music is at its best when the crowd takes ownership over the band and treats it as their own.

That is at best a half - truth.

It is at best, a book describing the evolution of the Jewish mythology, at worst it is the definition of an evil deity I could never again revere.

Clearly, for Farrow, this - worldly understanding of time and space is at best analogically suitable for speaking about that astounding reality for which we aim.

The greatest confusion of American parents: they believe they teach their children truths about those things as gods when it is at best an indoctrination of unknowable mysteries.

He is at best a nominal Christian who would more accurately be described as embracing a secular Marxist worldview.

The hearsay that you so heavily, even exclusively, rely on, is at best, from a couple of generations after the alleged «facts».

Your stance upon copied scripture is at best only a rhetorical euphemism hardly worth its incitement.

We can therefore say that the right of religious hospitals to object to performing abortions, which is rooted in their right to free exercise of their religion, is at best on hold in Alaska.

this is another example that indicates your «scholarship» is at best flimsy.

The beaches nearby, especially Chalkidiki peninsula, are extraordinary, and the Greek Frappe is at its best.

Now, it looks like the multiplier is at best zero and even possibly slightly negative.

However, the card is at its best when you are using the points for travel - related purposes.

«It is at best a Band - Aid,» Kantrowitz said.

«The Liberal record on job creation is at best mediocre.

The bottom line for our purposes is that on a large, universal scale, even a proper application of a Golden Mean interpretation against a triangular pattern is at best using abstract past data to predict a precise and concrete future movement.

McKinna says the Jets» annual revenue is at best $ 8 - 9 million and that Lee covers a fiscal loss each season.

Too often, companies overplay the benefits of their new products, touting as revolutionary what is at best evolutionary and rarely acknowledging that they are really playing catch - up.

Google is at its best when its product focus follows its business model; for too long Android was a detour.

If we want to design agriculture for local ecosystems, suited to the specific soils, climates and cultivation practices of local people, editing is at best a partial solution.

1 In particular, don't miss paragraph 124, in which Allergan says that Valeant «Contacted Allergan sales representatives and welcomed them to Valeant,» «Visited Allergan customers, announcing that they were Allergan's new sales representatives» and «Offered rebates on both Allergan and Valeant purchases,» all of which is at the very least incredibly rude, though its connection to insider trading is at best unclear.

Comprehensive measures of the labor market are deteriorating and growth is at best mediocre.