Sentences with phrase «not efficacious»

Thus although individual CBT for persistent psychotic symptoms when added to medication may confer some modest benefits in reducing emotional distress, 2 and should continue to be offered, it is not efficacious in preventing further relapse among those recovering from a recent relapse.

If police are on the verge of charging someone, they will do so and explaining what rights of the suspect may or may not exist is not efficacious at that moment.

The death of Jesus is not efficacious for «my sins» because he died nobly, or because he showed confidence in God, but because the cross is believed to have fulfilled the purpose of God.

While Arminius can use the terminology of «sufficient» and «efficacious» to describe two types of grace, grace is not efficacious in the sense that it efficaciously moves a person to believe.

Not exact matches

In short, the very medical benefits that California doctors believed could not succeed based on Jahi's loss of all brain function instead proved physically efficacious.

A body theology must, in short, include, in a non-masochistic way, a theology of pain and suffering, a recognition that time and the healing powers of nature are not always efficacious; indeed, that in the final analysis, they are never more than temporarily successful.

Many of them agree that Jesus Christ is really present, that the bread and wine are efficacious signs of his body and blood, and that the presence is not dependent on the subjective faith of the participants.19

The Word may not yet be consciously defined as the entity, the effective, effecting, efficacious singularity which it is lyrically proclaimed to be in the sixth century:

This structure as bare possibility is not causally efficacious.

By efficacious, Balthasar means that because Christ is not just anyone but the divine «someone» his relationships transcend the normal conditions of purely human relationships.

A liturgical order of prayer exists because prayer as such exists, the former does not create the latter, but on the contrary presupposes it, in the same way as sacraments exist only because there is grace which precedes both ontologically and historically its social (though efficacious) expression in the sacraments.

Splendid ideals are common enough, but until the ideals are fused with a concrete embodiment their power is not causally efficacious.

In contrast stands the more basic perception in the mode of causal efficacy; which «is our general sense of existence, as one item among others in an efficacious external world» and «of derivation from an immediate past, and of passage to an immediate future»; its data «are vague, not to be controlled, heavy with emotion.»

The authoritative message, in other words, must not only have an adequate source in revelation; it must also be made efficacious through its reception.

We accept without special difficulty the idea that the Church was the visible efficacious sign of salvation for past ages anterior to Christ and the Church, when salvation had not yet appeared ecclesiastically although it was salvation from the Church.

As he parses it, «under God» is not in any sense a current, efficacious act of religious devotion; it is rather a historically «descriptive phrase,» taking account of the attitudes and beliefs of our ancestors.

Nevertheless, however efficacious this newly born faith of Man in the ultra-human may prove to be, it seems that Man's urge towards Some Thing ahead of him can not achieve its full fruition except by combining with another and still more fundamental aspiration — one from above, urging him towards Some One.

While this twofold claim is in accord with Cobb's interest in arguing for Jesus» «causally efficacious nonexistence,» or the «unmediated prehension by a presently concrescing actual occasion of occasions in the remote past,» it is not in accord with his remarks concerning the providential guidance of God.

Hobbs words did not simply talk about emotion they became vehicles for efficacious emotional expression.

Hence the priest who preaches must give attention not only to the Word of God as though repeating sacred words would in itself be efficacious, but also to the words of man.

Christian liturgy, like other forms of sacred rituals, is «an efficacious performance that invokes the presence and action of powers which, without the ritual, would not be present or active at that time and place.»

My point is that, at the time Leclerc wrote his interpretation of Whitehead, he understood Whitehead's systematic position to be that past actual entities function in the present concrescence only as passive perceived data, not as truly causally efficacious.

Love is not divine love unless it is potent, efficacious.

The being [Sein] of a natural entity points, as such, to other actual entities causally efficacious within it, since what it is, is just this process grounded in others and not an inert matter within which process takes place.

One way of dealing with the status of these entities is to say that they are theoretical constructions, but Whitehead doesn't take this way, because he wants them to be causal controls of what is perceived and he holds causes are efficacious, which theoretical entities can't be.

Moses» recently bestowed powers will not of themselves effect deliverance (vs. 21); inferentially, we understand already that this can result only from the efficacious Word of the Lord.

For the latter does not emphasize «images and narrative» as a sort of strategy to be more «evocative or efficacious.»

For conceiving God as an actual entity would imply, according to him, that God has not yet reached satisfaction, and therefore could not be efficacious towards world occasions (A Christian Natural Theology Philadelphia, PA: Westminster, 1965], 188; henceforth cited as CNT).

However, within Whitehead's conceptuality the participation of God's consequent nature is not needed simply for God's primordial nature to be efficacious.

Not sharing the Western doctrine of original sin, the Orthodox hold that every person retains an efficacious awareness of God, even after the Fall.

Ideas efficacious at some times and in some human surroundings are not so at other times and elsewhere.

The past is not so efficacious that it excludes the emergence of novelty; if it were, it would also exclude its own character as past.

At Nature's Answer, we wouldn't make a chewable gummy supplement until we could make one that not only tasted great, but is a truly efficacious dietary supplement.»

Prime, D.K., Garbin, C.P., Hartmann, P.E. & Kent, J.C. Simultaneous breast expression n breastfeeding women is more efficacious than sequential breast expression.

Just because it's been done for «centuries» doesn't mean it's efficacious.

«I see my job as figuring out what kind of legs a drug has, and sometimes the answer is that it isn't going to be efficacious or safe enough,» Gault says.

This provides information that is not usually part of standard interventions, and is what potentially makes NET an especially efficient and efficacious therapeutic solution for traumatic stress.

«The bottom line was we didn't find a good cutoff; if the dose was going to be efficacious you were going to lose some hearing.»

Because the toxin does not target the tumor cells themselves but rather the host - derived blood vessel cells, the strategy could be efficacious for a wide range of tumor types, the NIH team notes.

Lavandula oil preparation silexan is both efficacious and safe for the relief of anxiety disorder not otherwise specified.

The present study, with its efficacious dose, arms physicians with data to tell patients who have not had an MI and who don't have heart failure that n - 3 fatty acid supplementation with fish oil is not effective.

The doses of undenatured collagen Type II are very low and are not nearly as efficacious as the dosages of CellRenew.

A drug or device is no good to the public if it's not safe and efficacious.

An attractive vision and an efficacious one are not always one and the same.

Levels of intrinsic motivators — feeling efficacious and socially recognized — do not differ across grade levels.

It is not clear why reading interventions are less efficacious in secondary environments, and the lack of attention to grades 4 — 5 is a major gap in knowledge and practice.

I can spend a lot of time quoting figures on eBook and print sales (and analysing how efficacious they are, given the erratic quality of published numbers), but it isn't necessary for this discussion.

Viewed as one of eight possibly efficacious strategies around the world, we can not come close to rejecting that momentum's Sharpe ratio in Japan is ex ante equal to momentum and value's average Sharpe ratio everywhere.»

In fixed income, in high yield bonds, we have concluded that the most efficacious way, the most reliable way to pursue success is through the avoidance of defaults, not through the pursuit of upgrades or takeovers or other salutary events, but through the avoidance of negative events.

Modified live vaccines, which are much more efficacious, do not contain the cancer - causing adjuvants present in killed vaccines.