Sentences with phrase «made impossible»

Originally the Conference was to have met in Hangchow in China and plans were already far advanced when the outbreak of the war between China and Japan made it impossible.

But before we get into those, I want to spend a few weeks with Christian Smith's excellent book The Bible Made Impossible.

It is grotesque that their lives should be made impossible because of some unexamined fealty to economic principles that are impoverishing to us all.

We'll discuss books (like The Bible Made Impossible by Christian Smith and Inspiration and Incarnation by Pete Enns).

As part of the series, we're working our way through several books, and have already discussed The Bible Made Impossible by Christian Smith.

While the main concern in The Bible Made Impossible is solving the problem of pervasive interpretive pluralism, Wright's goal with Scripture and the Authority of God is to address the question: how can the Bible be «authoritative?»

And he made it impossible for man to get back in.

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Nevertheless, he maintains that by creating awareness of the social constructedness of religious symbols, the social sciences have made it impossible to rely on absolute religious claims for social integration.

In the ensuing centuries, some Protestants worldwide not only required many hours of worship services each Sunday, but also made it impossible for absentees to have any fun.

Justice Stevens labeled it «irrational» to ban partial «birth abortion but not D&E, despite the fact that it is the Court's own precedents that made it impossible to ban D&E.

Those who know everything already have made it impossible for themselves to be amazing, brought to wonder, to experience subversion.

The rest of Begin's story is better known — his inclusion and statesmanship in the National Unity government of 1967, voters» growing disillusion with the Labor hegemony, his massive heart attack on the eve of his elevation to government in 1977, and the many physical setbacks that eventually made it impossible for him to continue.

We discussed several books related to the Bible, including The Bible Made Impossible by Christian Smith, Scripture and the Authority of God by N.T. Wright, and Inspiration and Incarnation by Peter Enns.

The Bible Made Impossible by Christian Smith — Consider adding this one to you Christmas list because I'm planning to write a series of posts about it beginning in January.

We can say that it is not true, as suggested Erik Peterson, that the doctrine of the Trinity has made impossible any political theology.15 But it continues to resist direct deductions of political and economical systems from the Trinity even in its Boffian notion.

Best Analysis: Karl Giberson at The Huffington Post with «Why Evangelicals Are Fooled Into Accepting Pseudoscience» «The relentless assaults on the integrity of science by groups like the Discovery Institute have made it impossible for many people to understand the significance of a «scientific consensus.»

Protestantism made impossible a single ecclesiastical structure for Western Europe, but even had the outward unity of the Church in Western Europe been preserved, it is hard to believe that the Popes, as the spokesmen for that comprehensive body, would have had more voice in international affairs than they actually possessed or that a more effective unity of culture would have been preserved.

However, the editorial has made it impossible for me to remain silent.

The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture by Christian Smith Brazos, 234 pages, $ 22.99 How to Go from Being a Good Evangelical to a Committed Catholic in Ninety - Five Difficult Steps by Christian Smith Cascade, 205 pages, $ 24 Most of the time, Christian....

Barth's theology marked a complete break with the adjustments to modem culture and Prussian political order that Bonhoeffer had learned from his mentors in Berlin, and it provided the staffing point for the Confessing Church, which absorbed Bonhoeffer's pastoral energies after Hitler's ascendancy made it impossible for him to continue university teaching.

To do this, we're working our way through Christian Smith's The Bible Made Impossible.

(Note: If you have written reviews / responses to The Bible Made Impossible, please feel free to link to them in the comment section.)

In fact God has made it impossible to not be able to stand up tall.

His particular line of attack was to show that taken together these views made it impossible to define and describe motion with finite velocity.

Strauss must know that this strategy is quixotic, since as soon as he says we must be open to the excellence of philosophy and to the obedience of the pious, he has made it impossible not to wonder how these dispositions can be integrated, or at least held together in the same soul.

What I found was that there is some serious immorality and absurdity at the heart of Christianity which made it impossible for me to believe it any more.

«The Bible Made Impossible» shows how the traditional view of Scripture is can not provide the accurate and authoritative truth which it promised.

This historical fact, though, by no means implies that the mythological worldview has been finally made impossible, is «finished» or aufgehoben.

Thinking we are doing people a favor, we have made it impossible for people to have direct experience with Otherness.

The censorship made it impossible for citizens to assess, criticize or support the administration's actions from an informed standpoint.

But it was made impossible for them to do so.

Hence in the Church as else - where we can not do without rules which guide any conflict that has not yet been resolved in favour of one party in such a way that the dialogue between the opposing sides is not made impossible.

If the earlier liberals were guilty of distortion in their attempt to make Jesus over in the image of a historical evolutionist, Albert Schweitzer's work made it impossible for liberal scholarship ever again to ignore the authentically apocalyptic theme which is present in Jesus» teaching.

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Eat This Book by Eugene Peterson Inspiration and Incarnation by Pete Enns The Bible Made Impossible by Christian Smith How to Read the Bible for All It's Worth by Gordon Fee and Douglas Stewart The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight

Rather, Roe «made it impossible for the opposing views to live with each other.»

In light of my recent series on the the inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture, someone wondered if I had read The Bible Made Impossible by Christian Smith.

If you want to be challenged about how you read the Bible, and how to use it, I highly recommend The Bible Made Impossible.

This week, we're wrapping up our discussion of Christian Smith's excellent book, The Bible Made Impossible.

We've already discussed The Bible Made Impossible by Christian Smith.

The leader of the Hitler Youth stated «the destruction of Christianity was explicitly recognized as a purpose of the National Socialist movement» from the start, but «considerations of expedience made it impossible» publicly to express this extreme position.

Never, so far as I can tell, has modern historical study made it impossible for a contemporary person concerned about intellectual integrity to believe what the Church (or the synagogue) has long taught as necessary for true faith.

«They flooded Amazon with fake 1 star reviews and have made it impossible to sell a lot of coolers.»

They've claimed that balances on multiple credit cards, student loans, car loans, and mortgages have made it impossible to reduce their balances and that keeping track of the payment dates is a nightmare.

This made it impossible for outsiders to track whether JPMorgan was scaling up the size of its hedges in an ill - advised manner.

This made impossible to work out the sentiment of the community and when combined with selectively setting the sorting order to controversial it was possible control what information users were seeing.

In the end, Fox came up with two options: a structure for Sky News that made it impossible for the Murdochs to have any influence (even as they guaranteed its finances for up to 15 years); or a sale of Sky News to Disney.

Steam Spy was shut down because of new Steam privacy policies that made it impossible for the website to make accurate PC game sales predictions.

That formidable sum was assumed to have made it impossible for new software companies to even think of beginning with anything less.