Sentences with phrase «not abolition»

This unity is not the abolition of the distinctiveness of the two, any more than the union of marriage abolishes the differences between man and woman.

What we need is not the abolition of the New Evangelization, but a recalibration.

It's not the abolition action people want to hear, but it is a practical and effective way to engage in counter-trafficking work.

As Oliver O'Donovan has put it, «New creation is creation renewed, a restoration and enhancement, not an abolition... God has announced his kingdom in a Second Adam, and «Adam» means «Human.»

Not exact matches

Because the abolition of some of the indirect taxes will not take effect immediately, the short - term effect of the package on the price level is likely to be larger than the long - run effect.

When Wycliffe and Hus took issue with mendicants and papal overreach, they were simply expressing a «long - standing frustration,» not making an innovative call for the abolition of «human institutions.»

I am not arguing for the abolition of the establishment clause.

CNN routinely partners with and praises the work of organizations like International Justice Mission, Not For Sale, and World Relief, and has issued several flattering portraits of «the new Christian abolition movement.»

Bottom line... a godless state and the abolition of Christianity ARE integral parts of China and Maoism, and you can not deny that.

Not until the Christian recognizes the Crucifixion as enacting and embodying the self - negation of the sovereign and transcendent Creator can he celebrate an atonement which is the source of the abolition of all confinement and repression.

Eventually the Church moved to the forefront of abolition because we understood this truth: Just because the Bible contained instructions about how to treat slaves in a context and culture where it was acceptable to hold slaves does not mean slavery is a godly practice or part of God's intended purpose for creation.)

For example, Moses Stuart of Andover Seminary in Massachusetts (who was sympathetic to the eventual emancipation of American slaves, but was against abolition), published a tract in which he pointed to Ephesians 6 and other biblical texts to argue that while slaves should be treated fairly by their owners, abolitionists just didn't have Scripture on their side and «must give up the New Testament authority, or abandon the fiery course which they are pursuing.»

This was true for the first wave of feminists whose priorities fueled not only egalitarian theologyand the Golden Era of Missions, but also social projects like suffrage and abolition.

It is sometimes argued that the prophets were not seeking the abolition of the sacrifices, but only their reformation, so that they should become the expression of a true spirit of worship.

The Catholic magisterium does not, and never has, advocated unqualified abolition of the death penalty.

Either A. God doesn't have the foresight to anticipate the abolition of slavery and murdering of children or B.

Yet such a forward movement can not culminate in an abolition of the opposites by returning to a primordial Beginning.

Resurrection is something different from this; it speaks of victory over death, but not of the abolition of death.

It was not until the late 18th century that William Wilberforce and others finally embraced abolition.

17 Sept To Representatives of British Society in Westminster Hall: Allow me also to express my esteem for [your] Parliament... your common law tradition [etc., etc.]... Yet... if the moral principles underpinning the democratic process are themselves determined by nothing more solid than social consensus, then the fragility of the process becomes all too evident... [e.g. the credit crunch lacked] solid ethical foundations... [whereas the British - inspired] abolition of the slave trade [did not].

Jesus makes it quite clear that divorce is not «God's Will», but no one I know is advocating the abolition of our divorce laws.

But despite the real gains in social morality that came in the wake of the abolition of the slave trade, despite the rise in the status of women, despite the benefits that came from the enactment of child - labor laws and the establishment of the welfare state, did not the nineteenth century also bequeath to us those proposed «solutions» to social ills that led to mass starvation in Russia and China, to the utopian nightmares of communism and fascism, to wars unending, and ¯ in those societies that actually managed to abolish most social evils ¯ to a hedonism that is undermining society from within?

In fact, social conservatives in the USA, led by Christian conservatives, have fought or disagreed with religious diversity, religious equality, abolition of slavery, Suffrage, desegregation, integrating the armed forces, Brown v Board of Education, mixed race marriages, respect and equality for Jews (not in MY country club!)

Does not such development presuppose, if not relative equality, at least the abolition of absolute poverty amongst the masses of the poor in the world?

The inexpressible sadness of our era is that as soon as the dream is revived it dies, overwhelmed by the harsh realities of a world where finally only military might settles international disputes and where even the prospect of total annihilation can not generate a sustained effort for the abolition of war.

The abolition of desire from the human spirit would produce a static life where human differences would not be allowed or noticed.

Haiti constituted a massive blow to the empirical (if not the moral) case for abolition.

This is why I believe it's so important to study both historical religious arguments supporting the abolition of slavery and historical religious arguments opposing the abolition of slavery (see my post on Mark Noll's The Civil War as a Theological Crisis» for a sampling), as well as historical religious arguments supporting desegregation and historical religious arguments opposing desegregation — not because I believe both sides are equal, but because the patterns of argumentation that emerge are so unnervingly familiar:

Although Christians might become social workers, that is not the vocation of most of us and the Church is not a Non-Governmental Organisation or NGO pushing through drastic social change, though again Christians have introduced radical social change, everything from the abolition of slavery to the promotion of education.

But when it comes to more basic values such as religous freedom and the abolition of slavery, Hutchens's argument isn't as cogent.

Such rapid abolition of ancient impulses and propensities reminds us so strongly of what has been observed as the result of hypnotic suggestion that it is difficult not to believe that subliminal influences play the decisive part in these abrupt changes of heart, just as they do in hypnotism.

The question is whether this suspension or abolition of a referential function of the first degree is not the negative condition for the liberating of a more primitive, more originary referential function, which may be called a second order reference only because discourse whose function is descriptive has usurped the first rank in daily life and has been supported in this regard by modern science.

Of course, this was not the first attack on racism, but it was the one that forced the attention of the entire nation, and especially of the churches, to a topic they had marginalized since the abolition of slavery.

It's obvious that such advances as abolition were a product of the Enlightenment, and that enlightened Christians then reworked their interpretation of the Bible to support this secular discovery, not the other way around, like preachers like to claim these days.

In Claiborne's telling, God's mercy then progresses in the New Testament, becoming even more manifest in Jesus Christ, and culminating not only in the case for the abolition of capital punishment, but for total non-violence:

C. S. Lewis identified this sort of discourse in The Abolition of Man where he explained how the grammar book of «Gaius» and «Titius» propagandizes rather than educates, having wormed into the inner recesses of the child's mind: «It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all.»

Not least is the question, Why did Yahweh commend, even require, the death penalty in the Old Testament for certain sins, including murder, but command its abolition in the New?

In his account of the movement toward the abolition of slavery, Whitehead faced this problem squarely, In his view the long delay in the abolition of slavery after the introduction of the idea of the human soul does not reflect only human willfulness and stubbornness in the pursuit of unjustified self - interest.

He knows that the abolition of slavery does not constitute the full meaning of the Platonic — Christian doctrine, but he takes satisfaction in the change that has occurred.

Lewis even claims that «dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery» (Abolition, p. 46).

His mission, he said, was not one of abolition but of completion, and those who follow him are to manifest such a mission in their behavior and relationships.

None of what Lincoln achieved — the eventual abolition of slavery, the preservation of the Union — would have happened had Lincoln not thought himself constitutionally authorizedto resist the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott; constitutionally obligated, by his oath, to resist secession; and constitutionally empowered, as commander in chief, to fight the enemy with the full powers at his disposal, which included military force, blockade, suspension of habeas corpus, arrest and detention, seizure of enemy property, and emancipation of Southern slaves.

But if you are openly critical of Israel - in particular, if you deny its right to exist, and support its abolition - you will not be viewed with suspicion.

The abolition of capitalism does not need to imply you can't earn more than your neighbour, or have different restaurants competing and / or serving different market segments.

The Indian Independence Act, 1947, and the Government of India Act, 1935, together with all enactments amending or supplementing the latter Act, but not including the Abolition of Privy Council Jurisdiction Act, 1949, are hereby repealed.

The abolition of the Regional Development Agencies - which helped draw in investment and stimulate growth in our regions — including from European funds to our regions - hasn't helped.

While some critics have called for the abolition of the PA and BP offices, of which Bloomberg himself has at times been a critic (although that depends on the day), Wolfson said: «I don't anticipate those being on the ballot.»

I wouldn't support, for example, the abolition of tax credits without making sure that no - one lost out (which, going about it by changing the tax system and raising universal benefits would be very, very expensive).

But the fact is that political achievement was overshadowed by what tenant advocates did not get in the final deal: an abolition of vacancy decontrol, or a repeal of the Urstadt Law, which would have returned control of New York City rent stabilization policy to the city.

Labour leaders since Attlee had long since ceased to take Clause IV seriously: they just thought abolition would generate more trouble among Labour supporters than the benefits to be gained at electioins since many in the electorate didn't know what Clause IV was until reminded.