Sentences with word «legitimately»

A third and final facet of the question relates to the possible forms that distributive justice can take in Catholic confessional states, which Dignitatis Humanae admits may differ legitimately from the shape that distributive justice typically assumes in liberal regimes.

While many sermons on verses 21 - 28 have legitimately focused on the Canaanite woman's persistence of faith, another way to view this text takes into account that her faith was great not only because she was persistent, but also because her persistence demonstrates her faith.

Each occasion feels its past, anticipates novel possibilities and fuses these together in a momentary «enjoyment» or affective intensity that we can legitimately refer to as aesthetic in nature.

The Gnostics allowed this immorality on three grounds: (i) Spiritual things are provided for the spiritual nature and carnal things for the carnal nature; the carnal nature legitimately and properly expresses itself in the things of the flesh.

We might legitimately question their strategies, their methods and their timing, but in most cases the charge of hypocrisy simply will not stand up.

By knowing that label, the student may legitimately infer little else about me and thus should not inquire into the label in so casual a manner.

Strait - jacket teleology has been legitimately scorned.

That is not what any of the major Reformers thought, even though they were sure that some secular music could legitimately be borrowed and adapted for religious purposes.

The Church (even with tax exempt status) is acting as an employer they come under secular laws, which legitimately trump any mystical authority.

As Hume taught us centuries ago, no «ought» can be legitimately deduced from an «is.»

Can one legitimately judge, as a matter of prudence, that the imperfect, though more protective, proposal is a «lesser evil»?

The LDS leadership fight any attempt of members to claim the right to legitimately have a controversy over them and their decisions.

To take one example, the author suggests that we might legitimately interpret his teaching on infused grace in a bottom - up fashion, so that infused grace becomes «the emergence of awareness of the ever - present presence of God» (p. 84).

Who says Zeus isn't still around «legitimately» R wording women right now?

Certain matters of ecclesiastical discipline may legitimately vary from place to place; but when one asserts the autonomy of an individual bishop to such an extent that his authority can be exercised against the norms of the universal Church, ultimately one fractures the unity of the Church.

The experts who have examined it do believe that it is not a modern product confected to appear ancient, counterfeit or forger, but is legitimately from somewhere around 400AD.

Thus, theologians are bound to disagree about reason's proper role in submitting to revelation, and differing positions on that initial point will legitimately generate different schools of thought.

People can choose to believe it, but that does not make it science and anything from it can not be legitimately taught as alternative theories of science, whether in astrophysics vs. the «big bang», biology vs. evolution or embryology, etc., or physics and geology in determining the age of the earth and universe.

On the other hand, the complexity of evaluation does point to the plurality of relevant ideals that may be legitimately espoused and to the inevitable conflict between those who cling to the simpler harmonies and those who would risk their sacrifice for the sake of greater massiveness.

Above all: in what sense might we legitimately attribute «helplessness» to an allegedly all - powerful God?

It can legitimately employ an objectivating, comprehending and controlling epistemology.

Maybe the only comfort we the comfortable can legitimately embrace lies in the realization that God can not be forever mocked — that his grace will not forever endure ridicule, that the mockery of easy American Christianity will not endure forever.

Philosophers under the sway of such empiricism continued to say that religion can legitimately make no cognitive claims.

Therefore, God has communicated truthfully the whole Bible (OT and NT), whereas no other religious literature can legitimately claim to be of divine origin.

In that sense, we can speak of the science of religion just as legitimately as we speak of the science of psychology, biology or physics.

To be sure, the Christians understood that the state legitimately wields the sword.

Moreover, each human being must be constituted of many millions of these «unit - happenings» or «experiences,» because Hartshorne affirms that persons have about ten new ones per second and that they fit together so smoothly that the transitions between them go largely unnoticed.12 And inasmuch as everything in the universe is composed of similar unit - experiences or actual entities, the number of them that occurs at any given instant of time (if we may legitimately speak of such instants) must be stupendously large.

If something like this may legitimately be asserted on the basis of a philosophical world - view such as process - thought has developed, we have reason to be grateful.

If you're really legitimately seeking that truth, I would encourage you to pray that God enlightens your heart that you would truly come to know his salvation through Jesus Christ.

George uses an apt environmental metaphor to support his point: just as the state restricts apparently private activity in order to protect its natural ecology, so also may it legitimately enact laws to protect the «moral ecology.»

Because Nietzsche's thought was appropriated by Hitler and Nazism (however legitimately or illegitimately the Nazis understood that self - contradictory philosopher — and the jury is forever out on that question), Nietzsche came under a cloud in Germany immediately after World War II.

Thus George concludes that «government may never legitimately coerce religious belief; nor may it require religious observance or practice; nor may it forbid them for religious reasons,» although it may legitimately «encourage and support religious reflection, faith, and practice.»

I'm thinking that all of the Christians who walked out on Dan Savage should maybe watch this and understand why a gay man might legitimately feel that way about Christians and the Bible.

Moral wrongs, violent or not, may legitimately be criminalized; legislative prudence must determine when they should be.

For, in this way, as Hurtubise comments, one can legitimately speak of God as immanent within the world of creation without stipulating that the finite actual entity somehow objectively prehends God in the moment of divine concrescence as a precondition for its own self - constitution.

Can the Arabs legitimately bring the whole world to its knees simply because the world's oil reserves are basically underneath Arab land?

But it can legitimately be asked whether many of these characteristics are unique to the modern period, whether they are intensifying, or whether they might not also have characterized Western religion a century or even a millennium ago.

Why, then, do liberals insist that the state may not legitimately outlaw immoral behavior?

Utyon... NEVER quote the bible if you're trying to legitimately defend your faith... you have to work from common ground, not Christian ground.

However, Chad, if I were in a position to place a bet on your ability to sustain or successfully defend a claim on the reality of the God of Israel, those are qualities I could legitimately refer to.

(2) The Hebrew tense system is such that these words can legitimately and properly be referred, as they were in later Jewish interpretation, to past, present, or future, or to all three at once: «I was», «I am», and «I shall be.»

Could Protestants directing culturally leading institutions legitimately discriminate in any way against people from other traditions?

Liberalism stands for «freedom and the rule of law,» he writes, «a system of «negative rights» that no government may legitimately infringe (as in the U.S. Bill of Rights).»

What this means for the study of religion is that we can no longer legitimately isolate it as a peculiar expression of the human mind or focus on it as though psychology and the social sciences, or even theology, were the privileged roads to a contemporary understanding of it.

Much has been made, legitimately, of Wieman's first lecture before the Chicago faculty in 1926, in which he masterfully demonstrated the relevance of Whitehead's philosophy for current theological endeavors.

And almost any English relative can legitimately be used to translate the connecting relative in Hebrew: «I am as I am», «I am who I am», «I am where I am.»

Do you legitimately not understand that when you call someone's deeply - held beliefs a «cult» that you are not being insulting?

Nevertheless, space, or rather space - time, is a real and important factor in the only world we know, and we may legitimately inquire how God is related to space - time.

This ranges from legitimately reconnecting people with the natural world, to, in varying ways, providing a «spiritual journey».

You really, legitimately, believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim?