Sentences with phrase «not as a sphere»

It exists to the human eye not as a sphere but as a colored star, as part of the endless outnumbering firmament, as the nightly whispered message that we may not reach what awe inspires us to grasp.

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Not only is the sector on more stable ground, but Canada is increasingly seen as bright light in innovation and technology spheres — something that's finally being reflected in funding availability.

Dr. Elzeyadi said he was intrigued by Amazon's sphere project, but not convinced it would be as effective as letting workers gaze at plants from their desks.

As transparency issues are ripe within the crypto - sphere, anonymity may be seen as a downside of Bitcoin and another currencies, while having (several) faces to the Ethereum project's name gives investors and users some assurance of accountability — for example, users can rest easy knowing Vitalik isn't overtly manipulating the market and Ethereum priceAs transparency issues are ripe within the crypto - sphere, anonymity may be seen as a downside of Bitcoin and another currencies, while having (several) faces to the Ethereum project's name gives investors and users some assurance of accountability — for example, users can rest easy knowing Vitalik isn't overtly manipulating the market and Ethereum priceas a downside of Bitcoin and another currencies, while having (several) faces to the Ethereum project's name gives investors and users some assurance of accountability — for example, users can rest easy knowing Vitalik isn't overtly manipulating the market and Ethereum prices.

In truth, social media is not a telescopic lens — as the telephone actually was — but an opinion - fracturing prism that shatters social cohesion by replacing a shared public sphere and its dynamically overlapping discourse with a wall of increasingly concentrated filter bubbles.

However, don't forget that the cryptocurrency sphere is increasingly crowded, and bitcoin is sure to face plenty of threats to its title as the world's No. 1 cryptocurrency from a host of well - organized and professionally backed competitors.

We both have struggles, trials, heartache, and pain as we both journey this life on this small sphere, reguardless of embracing religion or not.

Twenge and Campbell correctly lay much of the blame for the epidemic at the feet of the self - esteem movement, which has been enormously influential, not only in the spheres of popular psychology and education, but also as a central tenet of the «gospel of success» message heard in many evangelical megachurches.

Tenderness separated from the source of tenderness thus supports a «popular piety» that goes unexamined, a piety in which liberalism in its decline establishes dogmatic rights, rights that in an extreme» as presently in the arguments for abortion in the political sphere and for «popular culture» in the academic» become absolute dogma to be accepted and not examined.

While our founders greatly valued religion as a public instructor of virtue, Rousseau thought that religions should only have educational power in spheres not relevant to society at large, and further that the state should determine those precise boundaries.

«Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is the same as that of the religious fanatics, and it springs from the same source... They are creatures who can't hear the music of the spheres» — Albert Einstein.

If God is not much concerned about religion as a separate sphere of private or public life and if he is present where the needy cry out for help, then as Christians we can not fail to take most seriously the analysis of the concrete social situation in which we find ourselves.

In essence, Duddington attempts to liberate Christianity from the perception that religion is widely considered inimical to reason, and therefore can not operate as part of the rational, secular sphere of law and politics.

Any society, Christian or not, has both a sacred sphere and a profane sphere, a sphere in which love and obligation determine who gets what as against the sphere in which prudence and courage do so.

Phyllis, I am struggling as to why no one in his sphere of influence has not challenged him on his adulterous affair with Courtney Perry and his refusal to pay court ordered child support.

According to Mobley, Montgomery's «domestic feminism» preached that because women are uniquely equipped to run the home» not in spite of the fact» they are specially qualified to lead as «municipal housekeepers» in public social spheres.

Therefore, for an impression to ascend to the level of Aristotelian intuition or Newman's assent, it must be true as situated within the entire sphere of truth, not appealing to us only through its brilliance.

The deductions from it in this particular sphere of thought can not be looked upon as more than suggestions as to how the problem is transformed in the light of that system.»

In consequence one is the less disposed to reject as unscientific the idea that the critical point of planetary Reflection, the fruit of socialization, far from being a mere spark in the darkness, represents our passage, by Translation or dematerialization, to another sphere of the Universe: not an ending of the ultra-human but its accession to some sort of trans - humanity at the ultimate heart of things.

In other words, faith is not something superadded to reason from without in which reason is considered as perfect and self - sufficient in its own sphere.

If we make a demand on the Church, we must always examine precisely whether it is really addressed to the hierarchy and its members as such, or to the Church, that is, to all of us Christians, and precisely in the sphere where the official Church does not teach and act authoritatively.

First, for the process theist the natural order has value in itself and not just as a sphere in which free creatures can grow to moral maturity (as the Basingers imply for the classical theist).

Callicott does not deny that individual creatures can have a place as individuals in the sphere of ethical regard.

Certainly, in so far as he confesses his faith in God he is committed to a belief in the One who may properly be called supernatural and superhistorical — for God is not to be located in the spheres of what, by the use of certain limited and limiting frames of reference, we call nature and history — but such a belief does not relegate God to some alien sphere of splendid isolation and inaccessibility.

Just as there are scientific instruments to establish a «more» in the sphere of the material world, so too without instruments, but not without the higher development of spirit, there are experiences which grasp... eternity.

Others would not go so far but feel inclined to interpret ideologies as ideas originated from and hence in their validity limited to a certain sociological sphere.

It should be borne in mind that because religion conceived of as a vital force transcends its expression, it can not be unreservedly regarded as one among many spheres of cultural activity.

One could just as easily say they believed the earth was a flat circle (note they didn't say sphere) that rotated, and the quadrants of the Earth were the North, South, East and West.

Those who have not entered into this new sphere of ethical existence, those who continue to be trapped by the past, are seen by the revolutionaries as the enemies of this good which is coming into being in time.

cit., p. 91 f.; Two Types of Faith, p. 39) This exclusiveness makes it impossible to allow any part of one's life to remain a sphere separate from God, and it makes it necessary to recognize God as He is, and that is as not limited to any one form, image, or manifestation.

They show also that the root of the malaise of the Church, and of Christendom as a culture, did not lie and does not lie in structures, canon law, liturgy, or the use of the vernacular, necessary and urgent though reform in these spheres may have been.

If I remember correctly, it is described as a circle, not a sphere.

A related but not identical form of polarization is between the exponents of social action as a necessary form of Christian witness and those who would keep the churches only to the sphere of personal religion.

As Seyyed Hossein Nasr writes, «For traditional man, Muslim or otherwise, that is a man whose life and thought are molded by a set of principles of transcendent origin and who lives in a society in which these principles are manifested in every sphere does not have cause to question the teaching of his religion.

In the later 1950s, as I matured within the loving bonds of that society, Africa became for me not one side of a bridge but a whole sphere of redemptive life, sustaining within itself those features which earlier I had felt must come from outside.

But at the same time Revelation itself enters a sphere of reality which is also determined by other forces, which indeed derive from God, the author of Revelation, but which on that account can not, in the actual form they take and in their special character, simply be derived from Revelation, which itself can not simply be identified with God as he is in himself.

As you know, the sphere of things that can't be critiqued (dogma) are pretty small — and even then you could critique the dogma by saying it needs further explanation.

Whether something of the sort may be supposed to occur in the organic realm does not solely depend on whether in the organic (sub-human) sphere, substantial formal principles essentially higher than the principles constitutive of inorganic reality can strictly be postulated by natural philosophy, in the way claimed by Vitalism rightly understood, as entelechies of sorts, though of course in themselves these could not be the objects of perception, because a posteriori and experimentally it is only complete beings which are met with, never principles of being as such.

The chief points of change are, first, that the scene has been transferred from the supernatural world of the gods to the earthly sphere of human history; secondly, that It is not a god who experiences the renewal of life (for the God of Israel is not himself subject to death and resurrection, but on the contrary initiates and controls these events) but the people of Israel, who look in hope for restoration when their existence is threatened; and thirdly, that this hope is expressed as a metaphor describing the historical future, rather than as a myth of cosmic renewal.

But an outwardly homogeneous Christian society as the given sphere of freedom does not necessarily imply and guarantee that the Christian ethos is really realized in faith, hope and love and thus really produces eternity.

Hence we can not decide a priori the question how this common sphere of freedom can best be divided so that the freedom of each individual as well as of the whole community is preserved.

But the Christian scientist as such in his own sphere is bound as a matter of principle and method by the Church's magisterium as the higher and more comprehensive authority, in the sense that even as a scientist he may not affirm as established with certainty by his science something which would involve a definite contradiction of a doctrine taught officially by the Church as certain (Denzinger 1656, 1674 ff., 1681, 2085).

These assertions could perhaps be dismissed as a fanciful tantrum if they did not manifest a problem notably cited by Pope Benedict, namely that reason «manipulated by ideology» tends to the «marginalisation of religion» and its relegation to the purely private sphere.

Yet all this is within the sphere of divine governance, not outside of it; and so it does not make any sense to speak as if things can occur without God's causing them to be.

As long as I move in these spheres everything goes smoothly, but what is said here does not by any means explain Abraham; for it was not by sin Abraham became the individual, on the contrary, he was a righteous man, he is God's elecAs long as I move in these spheres everything goes smoothly, but what is said here does not by any means explain Abraham; for it was not by sin Abraham became the individual, on the contrary, he was a righteous man, he is God's elecas I move in these spheres everything goes smoothly, but what is said here does not by any means explain Abraham; for it was not by sin Abraham became the individual, on the contrary, he was a righteous man, he is God's elect.

Paul could safely assume that such teaching was given in churches outside his own sphere of influence, as appears from a place in his letter to the Christians of Rome a city which he had not yet visited.

The distinguished Cardinal Schönborn is frank in the Foreword of this book: «the period following the Second Vatican Council was one of confusion in... the Church,... not least in the educational sphere... teachers, professors, and administrators lacked an adequate understanding of their role as evangelists, charged with transmitting the faith to the next generation.

He makes pointed use of sociological distinctions, noticing that in modern societies religion usually «is separated off in a distinct sphere» from politics; as a result, such societies do not fight wars about religion as such.

He says «Just as in love I encounter the other as the other in all his freedom, and am confronted by something which I can not dominate in any sense, so in the aesthetic sphere, it is impossible to attribute the form which presents itself to a fiction of my imagination.

Of course such an experience as this does not connect itself with the religious sphere.