Sentences with phrase «not as a unity»

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As the party deepens its ability to cultivate «unity of thought» among citizens, «Amazing China» demonstrates the scope of China's propaganda machine, which not only crafted a stirring documentary about China's renaissance under Xi but also helped manufacture an adoring audience for it.

Upon his election as United Conservative Party leader, Jason Kenney expressed his thanks to Alberta Can't Wait for being an early proponent of conservative unity in the province and echoed the feelings of many Albertans stating that the province was «one step closer to renewing the Alberta advantage.»

um what are you nuts most of the people in BC has said they do not want another pipeline not ever so how is building a pipeline a matter of national unity i could see it as a matter of duty for us to stand in unity with the first nation people here in BC against the pipeline i really do nt see how building a pipeline could be a national issue because simply put pipelines do nt help the nation

MacIntyre takes the unity of liberalism, laissez - faire capitalism, Marxism, and utilitarianism not just as proof for his science - fiction metaphor, but also as a pointer to the teleological alternative that is, he believes, the only solution left.

That does not change the fact that mohamed conquored a large area and then brought unity and relative order with his new religion as a guiding force.

When we give in to this need for self exaltation, and organize others around our cause, then we recognize it as the warped type of social engineering you describe, where the goal is uniformity, not unity — promoting our own agenda, rather than participating in God's mission.

As brothers and sisters, we are one big family called to unity, not division.

It is certainly true, as the Declaration on the Way says, that the goal of complete visible Lutheran - Catholic unity has not yet been met.

He reminded the diplomats and dignitaries that the UDHR «was adopted as a «common standard of achievement» and can not be applied piecemeal, according to trends or selective choices that merely run the risk of contradicting the unity of the human person and thus the indivisibility of human rights.»

«Therefore, the Church, with a renewed sense of responsibility, continues to propose marriage in its essentials - offspring, good of the couple, unity, indissolubility, sacramentality - not as ideal only for a few... but as a reality that, in the grace of Christ, can be experienced by all the baptized faithful.»

In other words, this text is not about how to go to heaven when you die, but rather about how to go from slavery to death in this world as we war against others (Eph 2:1 - 3), to unity and peace with others as we live in the family of God (Eph 2:11 - 22).

To sum up, then, Wolf's article is important because it represents a «halfway house» between the traditional conception of a society as an aggregate of actual occasions with the dominant occasion providing the unity for the group and my own contention that every society, whether it contains a presiding occasion or not, possesses an objective unity in virtue of the dynamic interrelatedness of its constituent occasions from moment to moment.

Can not our unity in Christ be expressed in worshipping and working together as believers?

Matter does not control or direct itself, yet science as it progresses is gradually uncovering a sort of organic unity within the universe in which atoms become molecules, molecules link to form chemicals that form proteins, these link to form DNA, simple life forms evolve into more complex life forms, and so on.

Bishop Jezierski has decided that a fitting sarcophagus will now be designed for the remains of Copernicus that have been discovered, not only to honour this renowned astronomer, but as a testimony to the unity of deep faith and meticulous science which his life's work represented.

It is unliveable at the level of society: hence, in Britain we have a government that lauds the freedom of the individual (and it should be noted in passing, but noted very well, that our present generation of politicians rarely talk of the «human person» or just of the «person», but usually of the «individual») but which has brought in some of the most draconian legislation in Europe designed to control what people say and do on certain issues so that society can proceed in its life as a unity and not just as a mere collection of individuals.

«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

We should not try to downplay or deny this, especially since the very unity of the laws of Nature can point the modern mind so powerfully towards recognition of God as Creator, the Supreme Mind that frames the vast Unity of Meaning and Finality that is the material universe.

Science does not «find» God as such, because it is always and only investigating these secondary causes, their interrelation and unity.

While we do not have any exegetical basis for calling them «heretics,» we nevertheless can see their teachings as dangerous for Christian unity without condemning them to hell (They might end up there, but it's not our job to send them).

As a source of unity for contingent reality, the human person is not estranged from the world, but has an innate openness to each part of it, as a portion of his own existencAs a source of unity for contingent reality, the human person is not estranged from the world, but has an innate openness to each part of it, as a portion of his own existencas a portion of his own existence.

Hebrew thought developed this idea rather than immortality, first, because the Hebrews had a vivid sense of the goodness of material bodily existence; and second, because they understood the necessary unity of the person not as a soul - in - body but as a whole living, feeling, thinking personality.

«In the first place we must remember,» says Bromiley, «that the Bible is not to be abstracted from Christ and made the center of unity in its own right... Unity is grounded in Christ himself and... it is served by the Bible when the Bible is understood in clear relationship to Christ as the authoritative prophetic and apostolic testimony... We may go to the Bible with very different views of what it is and how it is to be understood or applied.

This organic whole that began from an initial high bang and eventuated into the present universe is distinguished by a form of unity and diversity radical beyond all imagining: infinite differences, and diversity that is marked not by isolation but by shared atoms over millennia as well as minute - by - minute exchanges of oxygen and carbon dioxide between plants and animal.

What I experience as I stand in face of — and in the very depths of — this world which your flesh has assimilated, this world which has become your flesh, my God, is not the absorption of the monist who yearns to be dissolved into the unity of things, nor the emotion felt by the pagan as he lies prostrate before a tangible divinity, nor yet the passive self - abandonment of the quietist tossed hither and thither at the mercy of mystical impulsions.

The moment in which the final note is heard is one in which the phrase as a whole attains a unity and completeness that was not present in any of the antecedent moments or in the final note taken by itself.

To envisage is not to [conjunctively] synthesize, to bring into prehensive unity, but to entertain as an ingredient for such prehension» (EWM 110).

Transformism as well as, if not better than, the theory of «fixed types» can give to the universe that grandeur and depth and unity which are the natural atmosphere for Christian faith.

«The equation could not begin unless it were poised meaningfully to its historic progress, but neither could the higher unity be there as a unity... unless at all times the Equation and its potential were relative to the necessity whose other name is GOD.

He will not require not merely that the new knowledge be used as the foundation of the proof, but that the very spirit and atmosphere of the new knowledge enter in such a way into thedemonstration of God's existence, that the complexities and confusions of human thought engendered by the new knowledge shall be resolved in harmonious unity in the postulate of God's existence, nature, and relation to created being.

Since Aristotle and Whitehead are at one in distancing themselves critically from entity understood as substrate, since they both have in mind the existence of a «self» as the decisive characteristic of entity, and since moreover they both turn in the direction of organic unities and not of «things,» it becomes all the more urgent to ask just how the Whiteheadian concept of an «actual entity» is related to the Aristotelian concept of «entity.»

Organisers say: «For over 20 years we've gathered together in a profound expression of unity which has not only shaped the New Wine movement, but also impacted the faith of countless individuals as they have encountered Jesus afresh.

First, she claims that the sacrament of ordination to the priesthood would not be threatened since «the unity» of the sacrament resides in the bishop: Scripture gives him the authority to delegate as necessary, and Tradition allows for several grades within the sacrament.

As I've said many times before, I'm not particularly interested in converting young earth creationists into evolutionary creationists.I believe that Christians should be able to fellowship together in love and unity regardless of their various positions on the interpretation of Genesis Being neither an Old Testament scholar nor a scientist, I'll leave that debate up to the experts.

[7:97] Did the people of the present com - m - unities guarantee that our retribution will not come to them in the night as they sleep?

The trip was another indicator that some circles within Eastern Orthodoxy are now interested not only in greater pan-Orthodox unity, but in ecumenical and interfaith dialogue as well.

Can one be sure of a unity of confession if all conceptual statements are regarded as mere optional interpretations (Interpretamente), while what is actually meant lies beyond and can not be expressed at all?

Modern ecclesiology, sanctioned by Vatican II, does not start its description of the nature of the Church, like Bellarmin, with its social organization, but with the people of God, the mystical Body of Christ, primarily constituted by the unity of the justified in the Holy Spirit, the community of the redeemed, as distinct from their organization in a «society».

And if the terrible thing happened (for religious edification should not, like a woman's finery be intended for a splendid moment) that you were buried alive, if, as you awakened in the coffin you seized upon your accustomed consolation, then even in this lonely torment, you would be in unity with all men.

For he who is not himself a unity is never really anything wholly and decisively; he only exists in an external sense — as long as he lives as a numeral within the crowd, a fraction within the earthly conglomeration.

Such theological differences need not destroy the unity of faith and confession, they need not be a cause for schism, and today neither side ought to emphasize them to such an extent as still to justify the separation of the Churches.

He is: • Supernatural in nature (as He exists outside of His creation) • Incredibly powerful (to have created all that is known) • Eternal (self - existent, as He exists outside of time and space) • Omnipresent (He created space and is not limited by it) • Timeless and changeless (He created time) • Immaterial (because He transcends space) • Personal (the impersonal can't create personality) • Necessary (as everything else depends on Him) • Infinite and singular (as you can not have two infinites) • Diverse yet has unity (as nature exhibits diversity) • Intelligent (supremely, to create everything) • Purposeful (as He deliberately created everything) • Moral (no moral law can exist without a lawgiver) • Caring (or no moral laws would have been given)

It is not, as James Hester argues, a digression from the narrative that brings the reader back to the conflict that might have gotten lost in the irenic settlement of 2.9 - 10.33 The conflict is a negative illustration following what has up to this point been a positive illustration of unity in the circumcision free gospel.

The Church is most faithful to its tradition, and realises its unity with the Church of every age, when, linked but not tied by its past, it today searches the Scriptures and orientates its life by them as though this had to happen to - day for the first time.

It is not easy to pin - point what constitutes the scientific endeavor as such, but that there is a unity and continuity which holds together the whole developing scientific exploration I think there can be little doubt.

Consequently, the word «society,» we believe, ought to be understood in the sense that Whitehead uses the phrase «organism» in Science and The Modern World, which is as a whole not reducible to the sum of its parts, an organic unity (SMW Ch.

From the beginning, Baptists, especially in the South, were not sure they were ready to marry other Protestants as much as Herberg claimed they were, and they wondered aloud about the unity of American Protestantism.

What I am proposing is that such regnant societies may not be necessary in every instance, that the structured society itself, as a process of a higher order than its constituent parts or members, possesses its own unity and exercises its own agency, quite apart from whether it is organized monarchically or democratically.

The first finding appears to exclude women on the grounds that deaconesses were not admitted to the same office as deacons, and the second finding names the problem the ordination of women as deacons would pose for understanding the unity of the sacrament.

The goal of ecumenism can not be unity in spite of differences; it must instead be to come to a point where doctrinal differences no longer exist, where doctrinal agreement has been achieved, and structural unity can therefore be enacted as a result.