Sentences with phrase «nature unalterable»

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Man was understood to have a telos, a fixed end, given by nature and unalterable.

Undergirding these two factors of contrast and estrangement and remorselessly immanent within all movements toward greater size, are at least four conditions which appear to be unalterable or categoreal in nature.

Peter Brown in analysing this and other texts from Tertullian writes that the «misogyny to which Tertullian appealed so insistently was, in his opinion, based on unalterable facts of nature: women were seductive, and Christian baptism did nothing to change this fact.»

[20] Peter Brown in analysing this and other texts from Tertullian writes that the «misogyny to which Tertullian appealed so insistently was, in his opinion, based on unalterable facts of nature: women were seductive, and Christian baptism did nothing to change this fact.»

What is Berkouwer's answer to the question he raises regarding the nature of continuity, between that which is unalterable and that which is alterable?

A man whose inevitable demeanor and presence on the witness stand, whose fundamental and unalterable and obvious nature, was completely inconsistent with the main theme of his defense lawyers — that theme being that he has a poor memory, and that he was so preoccupied with other matters that he simply forgot who told him what and when, or who he told what and when — would not take the stand.

In that theory, invariant developmental outcomes can not be identified with an organism's «nature,» if by that term is meant a set of predetermined and unalterable features, such as a genetic blueprint.