Sentences with phrase «many radical claims»

Or is living in «reasonable» comfort under such conditions a cop - out, with the only faithful response being obedience to the radical claims of the Sermon on the Mount?

A theology of women's experience may not make quite so radical a claim.

We must be willing to assert the increasingly radical claim that there are some things too sacred to be bought and sold, that there are spheres of human life into which markets can not be permitted to enter.

Growth has been seen to be as vulgar and plastic as Disneyland and, furthermore, sure evidence that the gospel is not being preached with its radical claims; e.g., «Blessed are you when men revile you...» (Matt.

The doctrine is found to be nothing less than the comprehensive statement of the gospel's most radical claims, and — as I have often put it — is therefore not a theological puzzle but the framework within which to deal with theological puzzles.

The exclusiveness of Yahweh's radical claim upon the people of the covenant calls us out of any symptom of manmade security.

And many radical claims about the necessity of inviolable animal rights are brushed over fairly quickly in order to get to the main task of moving the animal rights debate from ethics to politics.

Worldwatch's radical claim is that around the world there are «growing political pressures to replace a barely functioning democracy with something closer to technocratic oligarchy».

While the team's more radical claims are in doubt, the new skull does help confirm the importance and success of H. erectus.

This fitness myth is mostly perpetuated by the radical claims that supplements, both natural and unnatural, make.

As a group, they share a belief that public education has not done well by immigrants or poor students, hardly a radical claim.

Implicit in Michelangelo's outburst is a radical claim: the painter or sculptor was no longer just a humble craftsman but a shaman or secular prophet, and the work of his hands was akin to holy writ.

But does Smith's work lose its radical claims when employed by a politician?

And we have said that Paris should ALSO launch a process to work seriously on goals, which is hardly a radical claim since the Cancun agreement quoted by Stefan above calls for the same thing.

Of course, there are also questions about how the results were created and given the radical claims of the author, it is surprising that this data is not clearly presented in the papers:

Answering his own question, Buterin made his famous and rather radical claim: «there will be no «killer app» for blockchain technology.»

Not exact matches

But while there is some evidence that using a compassionate audience to keep yourself accountable can be an effective way to reach your goals (be cautious, though; science also suggests that telling all and sundry your aims can backfire), that's not why Reddington claims his experiment in radical to - do - list transparency was so effective.

«At the minimum [Duterte] shouldn't be seen as giving up our claims to Scarborough, or seen as backtracking given the favorable ruling of the Arbitral Tribunal,» said Renato Reyes, the secretary - general of radical grassroots coalition Bayan, according to Hayton.

The latter move would be particularly radical, and has been bitterly resisted by banks who claim it effectively forces them to make losses.

In a series of responses over the weekend, Trump alternately called Khan's son a hero, while claiming that the argument was a matter of «radical Islamic terror» and also suggesting that Khan's wife stood silent during his convention speech because their religion forbade her to do so.

Militants from the radical Islamic group ISIS (who have taken to calling themselves «The Islamic State») reportedly made good on threats to destroy sites and shrines they claim are «un-Islamic.»

He also claims that radical Islamist preachers are often unable to defend their views when they are subjected to extreme scrutiny.

Muneef you know these people are so quick to call out the radicals, they do nt know what radical is, there for they cant identifiy it if they wanted to.Why is that because the truth is a work in progess and if someone at sometime in their life claimed to have recieved it there will be a good difference in their lives that will effect those around them, and if there is not, and all you have is someone repeating scriptures and playing a role Well thats all you have.

You have that report that the Pope allegedly claimed that 1 in 50 priest are pedophiles, you have that sickening incident in Arizona where radical FLDS members allegedly half buried a kitten in cement as a warning to a former member (the poor thing was trapped for hours and later died).

The argument is clearly one which purports to establish radical and fatal paradox in the claim that divine experience is or even might be nontemporal.

Yes, this will make them God's people, but it will also mean a death of the self, and a radical transfer of allegiance from all systems and claims.

To claim that the Republican Party (or any political party for that matter) represents the holy, radical teachings of Jesus Christ is just plain ridiculous in my opinion, perhaps even blasphemous.

Hence a radical faith claims our contemporary condition as an unfolding of the body of Christ, an extension into the fullness of history of the self - emptying of God.

Theology in the past, he argues, has not taken with radical seriousness the claim, in Phil.

We make no claim concerning the motives of our radical adversaries, but we do not hesitate to insist that their ideas range from the merely silly to the deeply pernicious.

Radical theology isn't everything and doesn't claim to be.

The claim that the concrete contains the abstract can not overcome the problem of radical particularity.

Although the formulation of the question was not always precise, the everyday experience of black suffering, arising from black people's encounter with the sociopolitical structures controlled by whites, created in my consciousness a radical conflict between the claims of faith on the one hand and the reality of the world on the other.

They share with others the discernment of a theocentric and radical Jesus who looks very different from later claims about him.

My empiricist rejoinder will be informed epistemologically by Whitehead's radical empiricism, and aesthetically by the claim that the beautiful speaks in ways not entirely susceptible to rational analysis.

The second part of the book is theological rather than critical or historical, and it advances the claim that it is precisely the most radical expressions of the profane in the modern consciousness (Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Freud, Proust, Kafka and Sartre) that can be dialectically identified with the purest expressions of the sacred.

Radical empiricism is to be distinguished from a Humian or positivistic empiricism which claims that atomic sense data alone are perceived and that they are perceived through the five senses alone.

It's claimed Hindu radicals assaulted the believers after saying they were trying to convert people to Christianity.

Just like certain radical, hate - filled, and violent people claim to be «Christian,» but have nothing to do with the teaching of Christ, so also, some racists claim to be Pagan but are not representative of the entire group.

That our laws permit the killing of unborn children is already a sign of the barbarity which arises from radical individualism, albeit it dressed as virtue in the claim to be ensuring the «right to reproductive health».

I think the primary difference between Coots as being representative of Christians and Pol Pot representing atheists is that Coots, like many Christians, claimed to believe in a specific creed whereas there is no atheist creed, Pol Pot pushed a radical form of agrarian socialism on his people.

Black radicals scorn Rhema and claim that only upwardly mobile, middle - class blacks attend.

The charity said because of the legal ambiguity, the laws have been abused by radical Hindu nationalist groups to «harass and intimidate Christians while claiming to be under the auspices of state law.»

In Weber's typology, a prophet is an agent of radical social change, a charismatic figure claiming a personal, divine call to act and sometimes attracting followers.

Since the thought of God's claim and of decision is more radically conceived by Jesus than it is in Judaism, his concept of sin is also more radical.

In Just War Against Terror Elshtain argues «that true international justice is defined as the equal claim of all persons in the world to having coercive force deployed in their behalf if they are victims of one of the many horrors attendant upon radical political instability....

Second, preparation for leadership in academic disciplines that claim to be scientific and rarely includes the kind of study that facilitates radical self - criticism.

First from the point of view of those who claim the building will be an insult over the event of 9/11, I don't think any one can take away from them that feeling, be it genuine or otherwise, the fact still remains, that a group of radical individuals, who claim to be Muslims, killed innocent individuals from all walks of life; race and religion and country, in the name of Islam.

The Catholic instinct correctly realized the radical character of the Protestant proposal, for the reformers claimed the Church had misunderstood its own Bible.

But even they show that the contrary is the case, as Altizer himself demonstrates when he claims that he is talking about the absolute immanence or «presence - in - this - world» of the Word or Spirit, in consequence of the radical kenosis or self - emptying of the transcendent deity usually denoted by the word «God».