Sentences with phrase «now seem»

Liberation movements of some sort now seem imperative to more national, economic and ethnic groups.

Unfortunately these movements now seem to be a Protestant phenomenon, though it is a sign of the health of Protestantism that its national institutions are under attack by these Rightists.

The following comments by Vass might have been seen as possible twenty or thirty years ago, but now seem so out of date.

People now seem, on the whole, less sure of the meaning of their lives and less skillful in their relationships to one another than people of many earlier times.

However nerveless it may now seem, Christianity has been the dominant force of the Western world.

Informed by contemporary experience of the apparent eclipse of mystery, by the sorrow and oppression in much social existence, by the horrors of genocide, and by the modern threat of meaninglessness to the individual's existence, we now seem to be noticing more explicitly than ever before the image of God's self - emptying, or kenosis, that has always been present in Christian tradition.

After all, time and perspective often render these theological differences less important than they now seem.

Original sin conveyed a corporate problem that then yielded individual sins, Something like this would now seem necessary, but we no longer have access to the old myth of Adam and its corporate corruption.

We can expect that a revival will come from quarters which may now seem to us unlikely.

Assuming that it is possible to control finances without inhibiting speech, it may now seem that the justice of appropriate regulation is obvious.

Yet, on virtually every point in that sketch, the churches» views are in contrast to those which now seem to have been typical of Jesus!

But religion is giving way to reason, and old prejudices now seem hateful and immoral to good, conscientious people.

It would now seem entirely reasonable that we can tell grieving parents — especially those who are practicing members of the Church — that in God's mercy, their unbaptised children are now in heaven.

We are in a New Age, and there is an awakening to the fact, that the stories we were force fed as children (brainwashing), now seem quaint, and downright phony.

The five books that now seem to me to have been most important in this way are Reinhold Niebuhr, The Self and the Dramas of History; Mircea Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return; Erich Neumann, The Origins and History of Consciousness; Rudolf Bultmann, Primitive Christianity in its Contemporary Setting; and Karl Jaspers, The Origin and Goal of History.

Edwards is not so anachronistic on this point as he was, not so anachronistic as his 19th - century critics now seem.

(This trend has been aggravated by the many Catholic colleges and universities that now seem socially embarrassed by their religious identity.)

Now we seem to have been brought to a dilemma which prevents us from respecting either persuasive power (because we see it as incompetence) or coercive power.

At last we could get back to real morning devotions to start the day right, not the hasty scriptural snack to which we now seem confined.

But why do the life and thought of this early 20th - century man now seem so relevant?

We now seem to have a sliding moral scale when it comes to Islamic uprisings around the globe.

In a number of ways, his work remains out of fashion, but it is striking that at least four of his interests now seem much more in step with the times.

Denominational officials who once thought they were Elijah on the mountaintop now seem persuaded by shrinking budgets to speak their minds like shrinking violets.

The worlds of reason and revelation now seem hopelessly divided.

James Tolhurst claims that «it would now seem entirely reasonable» to tell the parents of infants who die without baptism that «their unbaptised children are now in heaven» (Other Angles, Faith, July / August 2007).

Most dramatically, they now seem to be increasing their emphasis on «fellowship,» reflecting a new sort of in - group solidarity.

It would now seem that those who were «by origin once a Catholic» have a need to turn on the Church in voice and in print, as somehow justifying why they are no longer part of her company.

Many practices long dormant in Christian worship now seem relevant and useful.

Now some seem to think that all translation is traduction; they would appear to assume that to translate is inevitably to betray the original.

The descriptions in the Old Testament of such acts of mercy can now seem childish, ritualistic and primitive.

Right now we seem to be in a bad spell.

These commandments were given at a time and a certain people were the justice of the time, would now seem cruel.

But arguments depend on intellectual constraints, which now seem lacking.

I'm agreeing with those who say that the Republicans now seem to have two principles: Don't raise taxes on the wealthy and cut the entitlements (particularly Medicare) that everyone....

It is Kevin Page's ability to remain non-partisan that the Conservatives now seem to open to mocking and it is his credibility that they now question.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards now seem to be using the forces and bases that were brought into the country to keep the Assad government in power to establish a front in its confrontation with Israel.

Yet investors now seem to expect that the reverse process will have little impact, if any.

The Harry Johnson and Milton Friedman quotes cited above now seem touchingly naïve, or at best outdated advocacy, overtaken by the experience of three decades of floating rates.

It went up on the prospect of economic reforms which now seem a lot less likely, and yet it is still limping upward.

Employers now seem to recognize that it will not be beneficial to business if tomorrow's seniors face major reductions in their purchasing power.

But those measures have been in place for so long, they now seem ordinary.

Now they seem to be aiming for US$ 100 a barrel as the IPO, according to Crown Prince Mohammed, should take place in late 2018 or 2019.

Home prices rose in most California cities over the last couple of years, but now they seem to be leveling off.

We now seem to have both major parties who accept that a large portion of the necessary, hard, unglamorous, and productive, but unskilled, jobs that keep the economy going every day; janitors, warehouse workers, gardeners, busboys, cooks, assembly line workers etc should work for poverty - level wages.

FOMC members now seem more eager than ever to «normalize» policy, that is raise short term rates into line with historic norms and, to the extent possible, unburden their balance sheet of the huge bond holding they had acquired over the last few years.

144,336 BTC: From $ 48 Million To $ 2.4 Billion During auctions in 2014 and 2015, funds confiscated from the defunct darknet marketplace sold to various bidders at what now seem like rock - bottom prices.

Lately, we seem to have done better: markets now seem to understand that policy rates will likely remain exceptionally low for a considerable period of time even after tapering is completed.

These now seem to be revving up.

Households now seem to have entered a period of greater financial caution, and this may act as a restraining influence on the growth of household spending for a while to come.

Although the two countries» central banks were initially cautious about cryptocurrencies and refused to officially recognize Bitcoin, they now seem more willing to explore blockchain technology.