Sentences with phrase «nothing less than»

63 And Burnaby saw that «Augustine never realized that his own conception of grace required nothing less than a revolution in his thought of the divine omnipotence.»

He has called for nothing less than a mass uprising so large it could set itself against Mugabe's army.

In the words of Richard Bauckham, the biblical story is about nothing less than the whole of reality, and thus it can not be «reduced to an unpretentious local language game in the pluralism of postmodernity.»

He seeks there, as we have already seen (p. 62), nothing less than the final decision.

Yet oddly enough — in another biblical curveball — the promise of God is fulfilled by a kingdom and its king, who brings with him nothing less than eternal life.

What is called the «history of our salvation» is not an event in the midst of other events, but is nothing less than the krisis of all history.

The problems connected with them are so complex that nothing less than a complete presentation of our proposed solution would do justice to it or to them.

Reforming fundamentalism was a means to an end, and the end they had in mind was nothing less than the «rescue of western civilization by a... revival of evangelical Christianity.»

The impious pop culture phrases — «Jesus is cool,» «he's top of the poll» — supply the shock ingredient to the perception, for piety is so heavy that nothing less than impiety allows us to see the man in the midst of «Mr. Wonderful Christ.»

Ellen Charry of Princeton called it «nothing less than a theological breakthrough.»

Nothing else than God in person, nothing other than what God has promised, nothing less than the total transformation of the conditions of our life: the new heaven and the new earth.

Gnostic teaching, with its emphasis on spirit and its condemnation of matter, came preaching either that it did not matter what a man does with his body, or that it was nothing less than a duty to give the fleshly nature its full sway.

In a letter to a friend at Zwickau, Luther wrote about Eck's text in desperate apocalyptic mood: «The book... is nothing less than the malice and envy of a maniac... Rejoice, Brother, rejoice, and be not terrified by these whirling leaves... The more they rage the more cause I give them...»

But that cause, it may be, is nothing less than Jesus Christ and the unity of the Church.»

The middle paragraph deals with the historical facts of Christ, but with something else too — namely, the relation of Christ to God, so there can be no mistake among Christians as to the major insistence of all Christian experience, that when we meet Christ we meet nothing less than God Himself.

There should be no room either for a sectarian theology, be it Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, or Christian, a theology that takes its own experience and tradition for nothing less than the very oracles of God.

Nothing less than a cultural transition was under way, with protests led by the disenfranchised: the young, the Afro - American, the poor, the aged.

William, I expected nothing less than the filthy perversion you wrote.

Yet the biblical promise demands nothing less than the widening of our social visions and our sense of justice so as to include all those elements that we normally suppress.

Nothing less than conflagration appears to have broken out in...

Contrast this with John's gospel (90 - 100)- like Mark, no birth narrative, but no mere human either and we've moved up and out of the old neighbourhood... nothing less than the pre existent Word which is one with God.Now, that's a serious leap in real estate.Does this not suggest development rather than the monolithic thud of a «faith once given»?

Like Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Kim Il Sung, he believed it was his task (appointed by history, destiny, or whatever sanctioned his willfulness) to do nothing less than change human nature.

If the German Appeal to the Nobility, written to the propertied, pedigreed, privileged and powerful in the German lands with their varieties of inherited responsibilities, created consternation, the new Latin piece written to the educated of all Europe brought the realisation that nothing less than a religious revolution was afoot.

zhillia, I'm more and more convinced that the right wing in this nation seeks nothing less than a Balkanized Amurka (tm) as the pretext for Civil War Part II.

What is at stake in the present many - faceted crisis in America is nothing less than the nation's soul.

From now on they are to live «as if» and «as if not,» since the present form of the world is passing away It's nothing less than the end of the world as they know it.

If the unborn child is a living human being, then abortion is nothing less than the killing of an innocent life.

He understands that the Putin propaganda machine aims at nothing less than deconstructing the very idea of «Ukraine» as an independent nation, expressive of a distinctive culture and worthy of independent statehood.

Many leaders confidently looked forward to completing a mission that was nothing less than the Christianization of the world.

For Barth this drama is nothing less than the being - in - act of God.

Though Jenson is often thought of as an ecclesiastical conservative — and with good reason — this aspect of his appropriation of Barth's theology is nothing less than radical.

This formula, whose instability is very quickly discernible, unites the claims to privilege — nothing less than a substructure of the universe is offered — with a relativization which permits concessions to other conceptions of the world: The substructure of the world is only «hypothetical.»

In its own estimation, this postwar paganism is indeed nothing less than Christianity's supplanter and successor.

Nourished intellectually by John Henry Newman and Christopher Dawson, Briel has aimed at nothing less than creating, in twenty - first - century circumstances, the «idea of a university» that animated his two English intellectual and spiritual heroes.

Subsequent studies by a group of twenty biologists, headed by Paul Ehrlich, showed that the predictions meant nothing less than the extinction of much of the Earth's biosphere.

For in its spiritual meaning asceticism stands for nothing less than for the essence of the twice - born philosophy.

He takes on nothing less than «the western human condition,» arguing determinedly and, to my mind, persuasively that the....

Grace must not be thought of as simply a theological formula because it is nothing less than «a participation in the divine nature» (2 Pet.

The reason, it seems, is that distributism is very difficult to live out because it is about nothing less than ordering man to his final end in contemplating God.

We hear from him a mention of summertime, a pointing to nothing less than a kingdom, a plea for alertness, a determination to stand firm.

The cord running through Western theology, from Ambrose to Anselm and beyond, that only the violent sacrifice of a perfect and sinless Jesus could appease a God whose honor has been affronted and whose anger has been aroused is, as Michael Welker says, «nothing less than destructive of faith.»

This could have been brought about because of nothing else and nothing less than Jesus himself.

To swear in something not proven, is nothing less than a lie, no matter how accepted by culture... and such lying faith logic is often the eventual cause of mental illnesses.

For some conservatives, bracing themselves on the night of the election, the evening offered nothing less than a miracle unfolding.

It can be nothing less than simple, ruthless, ultimate negation.

For the event was known to be nothing less than the revealing, reconciling, redeeming act of God.

What these symptoms reveal is nothing less than the breakdown of the cultural values that glue society together, because in that society there is no longer a culturally accepted norm for what is right and what is wrong.

My sake and Christ's sake have become identical, and that is nothing less than self - idolatry.

Exploitation is nothing less than a form of stealing.

These are nothing less than murderers hiding behind a cloak of false faith and ideals.