Sentences with phrase «mass of»

The Crime myth of being crucified beside other things became a religion formula to cool the mass of angry prophet followers and to drive the masses to convert into it.

The great mass of clergymen remained true to their primary calling but they were puzzled.

After sorting French, German, and English excerpts from scholarly literature in chronological order, we have been meeting up to three times a year in America and Europe to evaluate that mass of scholarly opinion and thus to work out what seems the most objective reconstruction of the sayings, one by one.

While the question of a direct Petrine source, therefore, can never be fully answered, there are a number of signs that the author of the gospel put together a mass of material, some of which was already in small collections, whether written or oral.

Human nature is not subjected to corruption and depravity through the fall of Adam, as if Adam's fall has made humankind a mass of sinners.

To look at that writhing mass of religious confusion and say «Yeah, I think that one gets it right» is beyond lunacy.

ours, of which, we were created happened to end up on this mass of materials that rotates around a light / heat source just far enough away to support life.

Gravity is different depending of the mass of the planet that you are on.

Perhaps a book such as this could not have been written before now, before a critical mass of articulate black thinkers began to express their spirited dissent from the racial orthodoxies of the last thirty years.

Using the newly developed tropes of the tenth century, priests began to improvise brief dramatizations, each appropriate for the mass of the day, to be performed before the Introit, or later just before the Te Deum.

I'm not talking about the gravity on this planet, as that would vary depending on the mass of the planet.

The real debate is when does a baby become a baby, and for some they feel it's at the «twinkle in the eye» stage, i.e. moment of conception, and for others it's when the mass of cell's inside the womb are able to live outside the womb (the current legal definition).

It is sometimes taught in Christian circles that when we stand before the judgment seat of Christ, God will replay all of our sins and mistakes before the entire mass of other Christians who are there as well.

Partly because of bad luck in the sinking of a ship containing Wallace's collection of specimens, he produced nothing remotely like the immense mass of facts assembled by the primary founder of the new science of living things.

To some, the human fetus (Latin for «unborn child») is a mass of protoplasm which has no personal rights.

Given many entities, perceived en masse rather than individually, each entity of course in a slightly different place, the mass of entities will appear as extended, and indeed will be extended.

A critical mass of people — enough of us need to go in order to become the teachers of the teachers, and the teachers of the parents in the Church.

Soon, there was nothing left of Jesus, only a black mass of ants.

The Records of Ancient Matters is then the oldest extant book of the Japanese people — indeed, according to W. G. Aston, it is the first book written in any Turanian tongue.3 Chamberlain regards it as the most important book in all the mass of Japanese literature.

With the advice of some colleagues I tackled a mass of materials ranging from Aristotelian ethics to contemporary analytical philosophy and phenomenological thought.

That is why I believe that this coming together, from all four corners of the intellectual world, of a great mass of naturally religious spirits, does not portend the building of a new temple on the ruins of all others but the laying of new foundations to which the old Church is gradually being moved.

If we were to read even that biased evidence more critically, we would notice the professionals upbraiding the mass of ordinary people for lack of faith, as if the gift of which, we are told, modernity has deprived us was always rather the exception.

Central and eastern Europe didn't break free of the shackles of totalitarianism without trying, failing, and then trying again: It took a critical mass of people, determined to «live in the truth» no matter how difficult, to implode the communist culture of the lie and give a new birth of freedom to the lands Stalin claimed as his prize for helping beat Hitler.

Since there are only 10 to the 80th power baryons in the universe, this means that an addition of just 10 to the 21st power baryons (about the mass of a grain of sand) would have made life impossible.

As a gay man who has lived in NYC since the 50s I found Signorile's picture of gay male life in the Fifties and Sixties and the judgements he made about those years to be a mass of threadbare cliches.

The mass of humanity live under horrendous conditions.

Not all this damage is permanent, of course, and much of it is in part desirable; yet, after all allowances have been made, an irreducible mass of evil remains.

A churchly school should not teach religion as if all religions were equally true or false, or appoint a critical mass of its faculty from secularists, and undoubtedly in certain situations a functioning magisterium will say so with force, but such mandates are nevertheless mere preliminaries.

As the evidence for the theory increased he stubbornly debunked it until he finally conceded under the mass of evidence.

As expected, the mass of ants swarmed in and they ate Jesus alive.

As they climbed, more and more ants swarmed up out of the ground so that by the time the first few ants had reached the bloody feet of Jesus, all the ground around the cross and the lower portion of the beam was a roiling mass of blackness.

Forbidden to look upon her, he nevertheless lighted the tooth of a comb for a torch and saw her, now a mass of corruption.

In Israel, there is not the critical mass of Christians necessary for authentic dialogue, and the Palestinian Christians native to the area are politically traumatized and, to put it gently, disinclined to dialogue.

A critical mass of citizens are clamoring in pain and hurling accusations and jeering at their opponents, and holding grudges and threatening one another.

In our increasingly angry culture, it's time for a critical mass of Christ followers to start imitating Jesus in His anger.

Though some intellectuals might be able to order their lives around arbitrary moral principles, the great mass of society, Eliot thought, needed something more substantive.

He is not lost in the mass of humanity, in which he would be so utterly submerged that he would also be in danger of losing whatever it is that gives him personal identity.

Ironically, Plato's dialogues, intended as a challenge to the notion that paideia would be accomplished by ways of conveying information, were themselves included in the mass of information conveyed in the name of teaching knowledge of the Good.

He was, like most of us, a mass of contradictions.

Similarly, she says that «it is becoming increasingly clear that a critical mass of faculty, administrators, and staff really committed to the Catholic mission of the institution is essential if the character of the institution is to survive....

But suppose your temperament is a mass of contradictions and that you find it extremely difficult to be kindly and tolerant.

Pope John Paul II points out that «if the promotion of the self is understood in terms of absolute autonomy, people inevitably reach the point of rejecting one another... society becomes a mass of individuals placed side by side, but without any mutual bonds» (Evangelium Vitae, 20).

According to James, we are a mass of conflicting desires, each one screaming for priority and action.

Things like chairs are not just a mass of moving electrons and protons but have a unity, with a form and a nature.

The capitalist who, operating from his headquarters, exploits the mass of workers or colonial peoples is just as violent as the guerrilla; he must absolutely not assume the mantle of Christianity.

Eventually, the skin on the back hangs in long ribbons, and the entire area is an unrecognizable mass of torn bleeding tissue.

But life in a vast, solid mass of buildings and streets is intolerable; so large areas must be opened up for greenery and recreation.

«The animal appears to be less sexually conscious, certainly less sexually addicted, than the mass of mankind».

The doctrine of Inspiration creates a whole mass of people who think the words themselves are God's Word, and so simply by quoting a verse, they are speaking the words of God, even if they don't have a clue what the words mean.

«I bless you, matter, and you I acclaim: not as the pontiffs of science or the moralizing preachers depict you, debased, disfigured — a mass of brute forces and base appetites — but as you reveal yourself to mc today, in your totality and your true nature.