Sentences with phrase «nature of the opposition»

Satan is a thinking and intelligent being, but his nature of opposition and being fallen from Grace can not be changed or cleansed, unlike Man.

In spite of the threatening nature of the opposition's pre-Leipzig publications, Luther was in an «up» mood in May, at any rate as far as the University was concerned.

Probabilities of each happening may differ depending on the nature of the opposition but it remains a real possibility.

students think through opponents to «the reformation», using the analogy of sharks to create a graph showing nature of opposition and level of threat to Henry

But the nature of the opposition to acknowledging the climate problem was greatly clarified for me, and probably for others.

The highly public nature of this opposition has caused numerous investor groups and shareholder activists to call on 17 different banks, including Wells Fargo and TD Securities, to divest from financing the pipeline.

Not exact matches

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.

Or, as the French Neo-Thomist Jacques Maritain put it nearly a decade later, «There is nothing more illusory than to pose the problem of the person and the common good in terms of opposition,» for in reality, it is «in the nature of things that man, as part of society, should be ordained to the common good.»

Also the oppositions to a dualistic separation of mind and body or «mane and nature are comparable in the two movements.10 Process theology and feminist theology today overlap in a healthy way, and there is every indication that feminists will play leading roles in the further development of process theology.

And just as the primordial nature knows no negative prehensions, so too with the Deleuzean notion of the «virtual» as a kind of cosmic unconscious: «The phenomena of the unconscious can not be understood in the overly simple form of opposition and conflict... conflicts are the result of more subtle differential mechanisms....

Robert Boyle († 1691) also navigated the differentiation between science and religion with a style that did not also necessitate complete separation: «Boyle distinguished [the book of Scripture and the book of Nature] but without setting them in opposition.

Good intra-institutional diplomacy and public relations arc helpful in reducing opposition to a minimum — e.g., interpreting the nature and purposes of a proposed group and obtaining official approval.

A dualistic radical opposition of Grace to nature has led to bibliolatry, the denial of the human element in the process of Revelation.

The radical opposition of Grace to nature in classical Protestantism has resulted in a Western civilization that despises our humanity and ignores our responsibility to practice stewardship rather than exploit our natural resources.

Rather, liberalism is constituted by a pair of deeper anthropological assumptions that give liberal institutions a particular orientation and cast: 1) anthropological individualism and the voluntarist conception of choice, and 2) human separation from and opposition to nature.

It is dualistic, setting the complementary opposites of Grace & nature, Bible and Tradition, faith and reason, and Grace and faith in radical opposition to each other so that, becoming «spiritual» requires us to despise our own humanity — a humanity that God merely loved; but assumed in the Mystery of the Incarnation.

Its two revolutions — its anthropological individualism and the voluntarist conception of choice, and its insistence on the human separation from and opposition to nature — created its distinctive and new understanding of liberty as the most extensive possible expansion of the human sphere of autonomous activity in the service of the fulfillment of the self.

Every successful advance of the technological revolution has been spun, with little direct opposition, as further evidence of the nominalistic nature of the universe, the individualistic nature of man and the meaninglessness of metaphysics.

Since in the insecurity arising out of its awareness of its finite freedom, the self tends to absolutise itself and puts itself in opposition to its own nature as given by God in Creation and Redemption, self - alienation is an ever - present aspect of human reality.

The dualistic radical opposition of nature to Grace is probably the reason that Protestantism never developed a Marian Tradition.

Until then the relationship between nature and Grace was understood to be synergistic; not one of radical opposition.

This not only set philosophy in opposition totheology, it cast doubt on the ability of the faylasufXo truly grasp the philosophy of nature.

The Catholic speakers gave no clear account of the nature and mission of the Church and they were, for the most part, unable to counter the articulate objections and selective propaganda thrown down by the opposition.

Newman counseled that the man earnestly seeking to hear the conscience «must vanquish that mean, ungenerous, selfish, vulgar spirit of his nature, which, at the very first rumour of a command, places itself in opposition to the Superior who gives it, asks itself whether he is not exceeding his right, and rejoices, in a moral and practical matter to commence with skepticism.

This opposition of God and nature has been disastrous.

Thus, in a series of works published in 1919 and the early 1920s, in opposition to relativity theory, Whitehead argued not only that the geometry of the world was uniform, but that «the properties of time and space express the basis of the uniformity in nature which is essential for our knowledge of nature as a coherent system» (R 8, 29).1 Furthermore, he held that this uniformity was actually discerned there (H 14).

According to him, nature and human being are no longer two powers in opposition to one another, but two terms of one relation.

If then we further understand the human person as being within a personal environment, that of the living God, we can understand the autonomy of human nature without depicting grace and nature as in a «dualistic opposition» of the sort feared by OTWTL (p. 40).

In the Bible, the planes of human history and nature are never set in opposition as these interpreters seem to be doing.

We can never set the plane of human history and nature in opposition.

We welcome statements from the Government acknowledging the complex nature of the fight against obesity and their opposition to a beverage tax.

Nevertheless, given the nature of the injury, Spurs can't afford to take any risks with Kane regardless of the opposition, as the last thing that they'll want to do is aggravate the problem and see him forced to miss an extended period of time all because they tried to rush him back for the important showdown in Manchester.

There's definitely a case for the CBs bcoz we have a lot of them out but for the DM position it's so obvious that xhaka needs protection bcoz he's only good going forward and elneny was like a headless chicken yday he's positioning was awful and that nack for filling in the gaps left by full backs or pinching the ball of the opposition cant be taught over night it's a natural thing like nzonzi has that nature!

But the nerve wracking nature of another semi-final against lower league opposition should raise a few questions.

Only at times, mind, given that they made such hard work of beating such modest opposition, but still it feels like progress... The fervour of the celebrations reflected the nature of England's victory, in a back - and - forth game, rather than the significance of the goal.

Certainly the breezy, emphatic nature of this defeat of Watford suggests the ending of their record sequence on New Year's Eve has merely refreshed Pep Guardiola's side and made them doubly determined to resume their love of steamrollering opposition.

Perhaps it need not be a single player that makes up for Suarez, but a few: Daniel Sturridge can directly replace the goals that Suarez provided, and also has his individual flair about him, but that magical quality that Suarez had, whilst unique to him, is remarkably alike to a young Brazilian no. 10 with more than a touch of flair playing for Liverpool, a player very similar to Suarez in some ways — his quiet nature off the field, and dazzling on the ball skills when on the pitch — yet also different, a creative player rather than a destroyer of opposition teams.

To understand the nature of the social order and state power in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain (and their opposition to it), British socialists looked to the country's past and its evolution to the current stage.

The Syrian opposition's fragmentation is extreme, but the multiparty nature of the conflict is by no means unique.

«As you're stirring that pot and ginning up opposition and everybody is doing rallies and sending nasty emails, it's very much the nature of the beast,» he said.

Opposition parties expressed frustration with the limited nature of the report's findings and surprise at its quick turnaround.

«As you're stirring that pot and ginning up opposition and everybody is doing rallies and sending nasty e-mails, it's very much the nature of the beast,» said Cuomo.

He recalled the party's humiliating defeat at the last elections saying, «It was good we lost the 2016 elections for Ghanaians to feel the deceptive nature of the governing NPP then in opposition.

Recognizing the fluid and quick changing nature of potential legislation on gun control, the Executive Officers of NYSACC are hereby authorized to issue a letter of opposition for any bill that attempts to enact the above mention actions.

There's an element of grain in the image, though it's appealing to the eye and truthful to the nature of the film, which, like many gialli, derives its beauty in part from the opposition between lighting that appears to be found and that which is clearly and expressionistically contrived.

When her big firm boss (Sam Waterston) tries to strong arm her into working with the NRA to quash the proposed gun - control legislation... encouraging her to «get women excited about guns»... she quickly takes her competitive nature (and most of her staff) to the opposition, resulting in escalated political warfare.

The heroes must now hunt down the remaining elements, other Ultrons that is, of the opposition as replication is in its nature.

Despite the sweeping nature of Wednesday's judgment there remains opposition within the Maya community itself to the very idea of communal land rights.

Due to the nature of their magic, Sourcerors have been blamed for the emergence of the Voidwoken — demonic creatures and perversions of nature who exist in direct opposition of the powers of creation, those that wield it, and even the Gods themselves.

The «just a game» point of view isn't articulated outright nearly as much as it's opposition, precisely because those who maintain it don't see in - depth conversation about the «nature of the medium» to be all that important or helpful.