Sentences with phrase «nature of the message»

A deeper appreciation of the nature of that message could help us understand and minimize these dangers, and might also bring us to a deeper appreciation of religious liberty itself.

Well, again, to some degree, this problem we face is due in part to the monologue nature of our messages.

It is a very real question whether the later decision to use the forms of Greek logical discourse did not of itself radically affect the nature of the message, the type of audience to which it would appeal, and eventually the constituency of the Church.

But this leads to the difficulty that there is a wide variety of opinions about the nature of that message.

But the nature of that message, along with his audience, has changed dramatically.

«The nature of the message in the Book of Mormon is such, that if true, no one can possibly be saved and reject it; if false, no one can possibly be saved and receive it.»

It is one way in which the economic structures of television shape the nature of the message broadcast by it.

Now may we all return to focus on the real nature of the message that has been put out by this pope and think about how we can make a difference in the lives of another human being that is not as fortunate as we are.

The people of Jefferson County and NY 21 had seen the Matt Doheny act before and recognized the callous nature of his message, the one where he decides what's good and fair treatment for his opponent, while he engages in any behavior he thinks benefits his campaign.

Therefore, in this case, the negative nature of the message would be perceived more as a call to action than as a threat.»

Captive admirably avoids being heavy - handed, but it still can not entirely shake the lurid nature of its story and the simplistic nature of its message.

The owners of the telephone wires, who are utterly ignorant of the nature of the message intended to be sent, can not be said... to transmit a message of the purport of which they are ignorant.

One of the first new turn - by - turn titles is Zynga's Words With Friends, which allows simultaneous chat, and is well - suited for the back - and - forth nature of a messaging app.

Aside from having to deliver on huge promises and overcome technological challenges, Telegram can also potentially run into regulatory challenges due to the encrypted nature of its messaging app.

Your recipient and the nature of your message are very important to you, but your reader may not remember who you are or what your ongoing dialogue pertains to.

Not exact matches

The regulator said: «Regardless of the medium in which an advertising or promotional message is disseminated, deception occurs when consumers acting reasonably under the circumstances are misled about its nature or source, and such misleading impression is likely to affect their decisions or conduct regarding the advertised product.»

The message to Syrians living in opposition - controlled areas, Hof added, would be the same as it always has been: «So long as we kill you, maim you, terrorize you, and drive you from your homes with ordnance that is not chemical in nature, that which is left of a hollowed - out West will do nothing to protect you.

The same outside adviser, who was unidentified in Tuesday's release, advised that a package of assistance programs to patients would: «force reporters to focus on the byzantine nature of drug pricing and health care and ensure the patient message gets out... specifically tie profits from Daraprim to the research and development of a new and more effective treatment for Daraprim patients.

Whittling down the meaning behind your message to its essentials — while avoiding shock value — will allow a prospective enterprise - level client to see the true nature of your company.

The message would only restate the nature of the broken commitment.

Businesses have a three - year «transition period» during which they can still send messages of a commercial nature if they can prove they've had a business relationship with the recipients, known in law as implied consent, in the past two years.

Fans of brands spend more, but so do their friends, thanks to the viral nature of Facebook and the ability to more widely disseminate brand messages.

Kinghorn, while not approving of Tarantino's violence, argues that his films can remind us of the tertiary nature of our mortal life, even though Kinghorn is not convinced that Tarantino's use of humor successfully communicates this message.

... The consequences, positive or negative, of decisions of a principally cultural or political nature in relation to the family touch upon the various areas of the life of a society and a country» (Pope Francis, Message to participants in the 47th Social Week for Italian Catholics, 13 September 2013).

For his intense nature this pressure of suffering meant debauchery, insanity, suicide — or the penetration of the sorrow for its message.

And while I celebrate the truth in this way of presenting the gospel, I'm also aware of some key aspects of the gospel that are missing, such as the nature and call to enter the Kingdom of God here and now, as well as the inherent challenge to religious systems embedded within the message.

The subjects were: «The Church's Message to the World — the Gospel,» «The Nature of the Church,» «The Church's Common Confession of Faith,» «The Church's Ministry,» «The Church's Sacraments» and «The Unity of Christendom and the Relation Thereto of Existing Churches.»

Certain Christian feminists, in an attempt to make a case for the liberating nature of early Christianity, played off the egalitarian message of Jesus against his Jewish background.

The message that Jesus sought to communicate through the parables from nature was that there is a similarity between the divine work of the Kingdom and that of the process of nature.

the link between the medium and the message in the parabolic language and the connection between the Kingdom of God and nature images.

The parables with their central message of Jesus regarding the rule of God, through their images drawn from nature, serve as the medium of generating understanding regarding that rule.

At the first Axial Period, the ancient nature religions reacted strongly against the rise and spread of the new world religions, just as the Maori tohungas, for example, strongly resisted the message brought by the Christian missionaries.

Jesus conveyed to his peasant audience the close relationship between their experience within nature and the message of the Kingdom.

«Pope Benedict XVI thawed his previously chilly image yesterday» wrote Bates, «by producing as his first message to his world - wide flock a notably warm rumination on the nature of love.

Furthermore, reflection about Jesus» message and life has led to still further reconsideration of the nature of God, to beliefs that were probably absent from Jesus» own consciousness.

Bonhoeffer rejects these views because Christ created all things (including man, state, economy, nature, etc.), has reconciled all things, and the church is placed in the midst of the world where this message may be heard.

When we freely proclaim the gospel as Jesus offered it to His hearers, the compelling nature of the free gift of God to all who simply and only believe in Jesus for it is recognizable to all as something that no religion on earth has offered, and hence, is no religion at all but is a message that can have its origin only in God.

Both their discernment of human affairs and their insight into the moral nature of God make their messages of incalculable and permanent worth.

These parables of judgment enunciate a very important aspect of the message of Jesus and of Christian faith as a whole — namely the reality of judgment as well as mercy in the nature of God and the nature of the kingdom.

In view of the fluid nature of this belief, and since, for the reasons outlined above, the disciples had been led to believe the Easter message that Jesus had been exalted to heaven, the divine raising of Jesus from the dead was not only a synonymous way of proclaiming the exaltation of Jesus, but the most natural way of doing full justice to the two foci of the Easter message, death and exaltation.

«The Easter message awakened Easter faith, and this expressed itself in the Easter narratives», writes Gerhard Gloege.1 Having discussed the rise and nature of the Easter message, and the Easter faith which it awakened in the earliest Christian community, we now turn to the Easter narratives with which all four Gospels conclude, and which are widely recognized to be a later development.

Whatever the nature of the appearances of Jesus to Peter and Paul, they did not so much initiate the Easter message as confirm it, and thus cause the Easter message to bring forth the response of Easter faith.

An element in the nature of this difference has a bearing on the message of Jesus as a whole, and the kingdom in particular, and thus forms a third reason for their importance.

On the other hand the purpose of the Amman message is described on its website as «clarify (ing) to the modern world the true nature of Islam and the nature of true Islam».

A middle position sees the biblical record as neither completely divine nor completely human, but as Involving both God and man; its authors conveyed profound insights into the nature Of God, but expressed this religious message in poetic form and in terms of the understanding of the world then currenOf God, but expressed this religious message in poetic form and in terms of the understanding of the world then currenof the understanding of the world then currenof the world then current.

All the rest of the contents of the text — such as knowledge of the soul, the sciences of the nature of the heavens and the earth, history, prophecy, warnings, and the like — are only means to strengthen the message of the Qur» an, to give it more weight and conviction.

The early church understood the catholicity of its nature and the universality of its message only when it was engaged in mission among the Gentiles in the world of pagan religions and cultures.

Since exegesis involves putting the text into the speech of the exegete, the message character of exegesis does not just appear later in the sermon but is intrinsic to the very nature of exegesis.6 Therefore, the exegete who denies interest in preaching may simply be wishing to distinguish himself from a body of unscholarly clerics, but if his disinterest is fundamental to his methodology, then his exegesis is a barren fig tree.

This is all quite sweet, of course, but it does totally obfuscate one essential part of the Deluge account, namely, that God is not willing to tolerate human depravity indefinitely and that human evil will bring destruction upon nature and upon innocent bystanders as well as on the evildoers themselves — a message that might seem particularly appropriate in an age of terrorism and environmental pollution.»

One can not argue from Jesus» resurrection to the immortality of people in general for two reasons: first, because people in general are not Jesus or even much like him — and there is strong presumption that Jesus» nature had everything to do with his resurrection — and second, because Jesus was not immortal, according to the Christian message.