Sentences with phrase «legitimate interpretations of»

There are legitimate interpretations of the 7 «clobber passages» that state that loving, committed gay relationships are not sinful.

Tolbert does not in any way claim that this is the only legitimate interpretation of the parable.

And if this is a legitimate interpretation of the meaning of such statements, then there seems to be no irresolvable conflict between Hartshorne's metaphysical God and Karl Barth's triune God who is only known through his self - disclosure to the world through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.

This would seem to be a legitimate interpretation of Bultmann's argument.

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It has led to an interpretation of Title VII that functionally expands employer prerogatives regarding terms of employment, limits employee power, and legitimates the economic inequality and class subordination that Title VII should attempt to eliminate.

As far as it being condemned by God, you can see some of my earlier posts where we talked about there being legitimate theological interpretations of Scripture that allow for loving, committed gay relationships.

I don't know of any legitimate theologians or Scriptural interpretations vouching for humans and animals and tools to get married.

Our guest today has suggested that the «principles of womanist preaching include affirming the dignity of Black women as legitimate interpreters of the Scriptures whether or not our interpretations converge with those of the dominant culture.»

The world may or may not be as tidy as it is often possible to conceive it to be; but it is part, and surely a legitimate part, of our inheritance from the successes of science, quite apart from anything else, that given two otherwise satisfactory interpretations of which one is simpler then that simpler one is preferable even if there is no means of judging — by appeal to evidence, say — that it is not, in respect of its greater simplicity, mere plausible fantasy.

Childs has decisively altered the way in which interpreters like myself, who are situated in the church, do interpretation; moreover, even those who disagree with his perspective, sometimes vociferously, must struggle with the questions upon which he has insisted and the perspective he has legitimated by the power of his argument.

In view of the scarcity of the historical evidence, it is surely legitimate to indulge in hypothetical reconstruction of the provenance of the tradition, even though much of the hypothesis, brilliant and attractively presented as it is, remains a matter of speculation — that is, it is an interpretation of the surviving evidence rather than a discovery of further evidence.

Therefore, it is legitimate to say, as Nicholas Lobkowicz points out, that Marx's philosophy of man is a materialist interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology rather than a pendant of Feuerbach's anthropotheistic materialism.29

Under the latter interpretation, the legitimate use of self - defence in situations when an armed attack has not actually occurred is still permitted.

Despite a stated exemption for tax - exempt, nonprofit organizations in CROA, the broad interpretation of the statute adopted by the First Circuit may, unfortunately, lead to a wave of litigation against legitimate nonprofit credit counseling agencies that provide invaluable assistance to consumers in financial distress.

Even a legitimate new interpretation achieved through an adequate process would not have allowed the Department to simply ignore its prior eligibility certifications and purge borrowers» past years of qualifying public service.

There are legitimate skeptical climate scientists that have a different interpretation of the data.

As host Member States may not demand from EU citizens in this first period to have sufficient means of subsistence and personal medical cover, it is legitimate, according to the Court, not to require those Member States to be responsible for those citizens during this Following explicitly the opinion of the Advocate - General, such an interpretation would meet the objective stated in recital 10 of the Directive to maintain the «financial equilibrium of the social assistance systems of the Member States» (para. 45).

As a preliminary procedural point, the Amsterdam District Court statement that «there is reason to doubt the correctness of the interpretation... that the loss of status of citizen of an EU Member State leads to loss of EU citizenship» (Para. 5.25) indicates their judgment that activation of the preliminary reference procedure is legitimate.

I know of one potentially legitimate team move which was torpedoed because the partners concerned went straight to a leading QC, who gave them a very conservative interpretation of the LLP Agreement such that they were scared witless to proceed.

«Second, she erred in her interpretation of the phrase «legitimate purpose» in the current version of s. 163.1 (6) by inquiring solely into the accused's subjective purpose for possessing the material.

According to the Court, this is supported by an interpretation of the exceptions in light of Article 5 (5), which mandates that exceptions must only be applied in certain special cases which do not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work or other subject matter and which do not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the right older.

Jeremy Patrick states in the Tulsa Journal of Comparative and International Law that there is a hidden establishment clause on based on judicial interpretation of the Charter since its inception, and the reality of effecting a democracy in a legitimate and appropriate way,

The suggestion that the desire to avoid civil law majorities expressed the ad hoc rules should be carried over into an interpretation that it is only current membership at the time of appointment (or in the case of lawyers, even uninterrupted ten years membership) that ensures that the representatives will be seen as legitimate is laughable.

Ethics lawyer Gavin MacKenzie with Davis LLP says Harding's words were «ill - advised and discourteous,» but he agrees they didn't constitute a professional misconduct «particularly since he had a legitimate point to make about the inappropriateness of the law clerk engaging him in correspondence about the interpretation of case law.»

In interpreting, for example, fair and equitable treatment provisions, an interpretation of the ordinary meaning may replace the terms «fair and equitable» with similarly vague and empty phrases such as «just,» «even - handed,» «unbiased,» or «legitimate,» but does not succeed in clarifying the standard's normative content, nor does it indicate what is required of States in specific circumstances.

We are adept at not only challenging insurance company interpretations of policy provisions, but convincing insurers that we are prepared to wage a lawsuit for bad faith denial of legitimate claims.

The root of my disagreement with Ekins and Forsyth thus concerns the legitimate extent of interpretation, which sits on top of a deeper disagreement not about the existence of parliamentary sovereignty, but about the nature of the doctrine.

I know of one potentially legitimate team move which was torpedoed because the partners concerned went straight to a leading QC, who gave them a very conservative interpretation

However, it is in the consideration of the community sense of how legal constructions are perceived, which seems to be now recognized as a legitimate reference point in judicial interpretation.

In five days on the witness stand, Judge Bork had a chance to explain himself fully, to describe and defend his view that the Constitution's text and the intent of its 18th - century framers provided the only legitimate tools for constitutional interpretation.

However, in international law, as recognition of the existence of legitimate differences between racial groups has developed, there has been a broadening of the interpretation of the equal treatment obligation to approve the taking into account of «genuine difference».

In the Social Justice Commissioner's view, based on these principles and the interpretation of them in Australian courts, Aboriginal Customary Law could be recognised as a legitimate differentiation of treatment that does not offend the prohibition of racial discrimination in sections 9 or 10 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth).

However, the court looked to the Federal Trade Commission's Statements of General Policy or Interpretation, which states that the term «legitimate business need» includes «real estate agents who obtain consumer reports to assist owners of residential properties in screening consumers as tenants.»