Sentences with phrase «obdurate in»

By way of contrast, the non-Christian, deprived of supernatural revelation, was possessed only of natural knowledge, lived his life in the secular sphere, and performed purely secular or natural activities that merited him only a natural beatitude if they were naturally good.1 The atheist, however, being obdurate in his unbelief, was unregenerated and therefore considered unworthy even of a natural beatitude.

All you have to do is be obdurate in rejecting the Christian god and he will inflict a punishment upon you an infinite times worse than the death penalty....

Not exact matches

As the first pope after the end of Vatican II, Paul VI had a delicate task» that of faithfully implementing the Council in the face of resistance from obdurate conservatives and radical progressives.

Against all soft - centered optimism, Updike salutes the doctrine of original sin for acknowledging this obdurate fact: «The world is fallen, and in a fallen world animals, men, and nations make space for themselves through a willingness to fight.

The question that is put to Christians today where our christology is concerned is whether we can return our thought and the ethical consequences of our thought concerning Jesus the Christ to the ontological matrix in which it was originally enfolded — namely, the relational ontology of the tradition of Jerusalem; and thus overcome this obdurate temptation, neither biblical nor contemporary, of regarding the one at the center of our confession as the bearer of «substances» that are as incomprehensible as they are incompatible.

The Christian sees the Jew as the incomprehensibly obdurate man who declines to see what has happened, and the Jew sees the Christian as the incomprehensibly daring man who affirms redemption in an unredeemed world.

And now, in his majestic frivolity and obdurate impenitence, he is beyond our ken.

Sometimes if he proved obdurate, the god Re was besought to command the boatman to serve him: «O Re, Commend King Teti to Look - behind, the ferryman of the Lily - Lake, that he may bring that ferry - boat for King Teti, in which he ferries the gods to yonder side of the Lily - Lake, to the east side of the sky.

It is easy, of course, once a conceptual dualism of this kind has been established, to argue that culture can not be understood sociologically unless it is «explained» in terms of social structure — unless the «sources» or «causes» of religious beliefs are located within such obdurate features of the social world as class interests, power relations, social networks, family backgrounds, and the like.

But even so, there can be little doubt that Chelsea are the best team in the country: they have a terrifying defense, a midfield that is generally productive and always obdurate, a lethal - when - fit striker and, in Eden Hazard, the best player in the land.

Chelsea are the cleverest, most pragmatic, most effective, most cynical and most obdurate team in the PL hands down.

So could Rodgers be trying a bit of mind games here in an attempt to get Arsenal ready to face an obdurate side so they can take us by surprise early and get a lead to protect?

So if Arsenal lose — and remember that West Brom are managed by Tony Pulis, who is magnificently obdurate, and just dissected Chelsea, who are a significantly better team than Arsenal — and United win, then there's just the small matter of a seven - goal swing in goal difference to be made up.

Klopp's side are not quite as obdurate as that of the Rafael Benitez team that won the Champion League in 2005, but they possess more flair and cutting edge, and it is proving to be a perfect blend.

The 28 - year - old drilled home from 25 yards — a Premier League - high 17th strike from outside the penalty box since January 2012, when Sigurdsson made his debut in the competition for Swansea City — to crack the resistance of an obdurate Palace side.

The Minority in Parliament has taken judicial notice of the rather defiant, intransigent, stubborn, obstinate, obdurate, adamant, stiff - necked and unremorseful posture of Ghana's disgraced High Commissioner to South Africa, H.E. George Ayisi Boateng.

So he sexes up his narrative by presenting it as a battle between the «short, professorial looking» Emanuel, a «nuanced and sophisticated» man who talks in complete sentences, and the obdurate William Gray of Colorado State University, «a towering figure of American hurricane science,» who has for many years produced remarkably accurate forecasts of the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season and who repeatedly and loudly denies — in congressional hearings and everywhere else — that humans have any role in climate change.

Overall this book turned from an exciting window into the world of genetic engineering to one of bombastic predictions and obdurate hand - waving in the face of genuine concerns.

He delivers a portrait of obdurate strength and sensitivity, shading scenes with a flicker of an eyelid or an extra watt of brightness in the eye itself.

In other cases, parents became passive and complacent in the face of obdurate school bureaucracies and persistent problemIn other cases, parents became passive and complacent in the face of obdurate school bureaucracies and persistent problemin the face of obdurate school bureaucracies and persistent problems.

Timorousness in the face of obdurate teacher unions (Denver being a happy exception) is perhaps the greatest cause of our halting progress in this domain.

In paintings such as «Serenade II» (2015), «Meders Smoke» (2015), and «Fall North Branch Johns Bay» (2002), he embraces the obdurate world of mud and dissipation — the changing seasons of Seal Point, with its bracing tides, cold sunlight and washed up trash and debris.

What does it mean to craft these obsolete machine objects by hand, to cobble them together in clay, to paint them colors the Princess designers never dreamed of, to render them obdurate — and useless?

Even dedicated fans of his work have inevitably faltered at one or another of his forking paths over the past twenty years, while Bradley, on the other hand, shifts gears without pause: from starkly minimalist to gestural abstract paintings with stops in between, from discomfiting assemblage sculptures to boldly graphic silkscreens, and from jagged, sometimes comic drawings to obdurate geometric sculptures.

N. Dash's first solo museum exhibition was staged in the Hammer's distinctive Vault Gallery; with its diminutive, bullet - shaped floor plan and arched ceiling, the chamber is one of the museum's more unusual spaces, and the room's obdurate layout underscored the role of architecture within Dash's incisive painting practice.

While his use of simple, obdurate forms and new, industrial materials was decidedly modern, his settlement in the west Texas desert also summons the Arcadian impulses of nineteenth - century landscapists.

The best artists, the sculptor Donald Judd wrote, are «original and obdurate; they're the gravel in the pea soup.»

And yet, the works maintain an obdurate sense of object - ness, translated to schematic abstract forms: «There's a spatial or temporal proximity that induces the mind to perceive it in relation to its surroundings, while on the other hand [the work is seen] as a complete volumetric structure on the surface.»

The Frank Gehry - built museum in Bilbao — another sort of materialistic masterpiece, as shimmering and heady as the steel maze that it houses is dun and obdurate — is one such monster - cage.

★ Moira Dryer Project (through Feb. 22) The first exhibition in 20 years of the obdurate yet romantic wood - panel paintings of Moira Dryer (1957 - 92) is a two - part affair that is especially relevant at a time when younger painters, many of them women, are exploring new ways of getting physical with their medium.

The obdurate immobility of 1956 - D appeared in the same year as the clangorous, precariously balanced PH - 393.

Vaughan Pratt — Your latest long rambling point - avoiding response is nothing but an exercise in obdurate stupidity.

Rather, on the obdurate pavement, Ones feet grooved to a steady tread, Here in the town is one truly alone: Anonymous with the anonymous, Destructive with the destructive — Out there another world, ejected ghost Of a field that haunts our want Of substance, useless to intrude upon.