Sentences with phrase «objection to it which»

The wildly revolutionary Christians, on the other hand, must be patiently taught that also today and in the future the Church is an authoritatively teaching «absolute system», and that we can modestly yet frankly make only those objections to it which she formally recognizes as belonging to this system, even though nothing is said about their contents.

But whatever one can say about it, there is one objection to it which ought not to be raised: that this is a concept of stagnation and resignation or even a renunciation of ecumenism.

Not exact matches

Fujifilm, which saw its shares drop 5.5 percent in Tokyo after news of the ouster, said it planned to file an objection with a court over the settlement.

Jacobson, a career diplomat, was nominated for the post by President Barack Obama in June 2015, but her confirmation was held up for 10 months in the Senate — led by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez — over objections to the Obama administration's reestablishment of diplomatic ties with Cuba, which she helped negotiate as assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs.

David Scoffield, lawyer for the bakery's owners, argued Tuesday that the family should not be compelled to create a product «to which they have a genuine objection in conscience.»

The companies join gay - rights and human rights groups as well as the American Civil Liberties Union in attacking the law over its broad language, which could be used by business owners to use religious objections to deny same - sex couples wedding.

which acknowledged that «[t] he objections raised by [the MSMB investors with whom Retrophin had settled] related solely to actions undertaken by MSMB and its related funds,» and that the MSMB settlements «should not have been assumed by the Company,» i.e., by Retrophin (the «Internal Controls Memorandum»).

The fact that we can take some satisfaction from the responses to various crises can not divert concern from the reality that a financial sector, which has the objection of spreading and mitigating risk, has been a repeated source of instability over the last generation.

The ability to recognize these smokescreen objections and respond appropriately will allow you to ask the right question to uncover the true, underlying objection, which will undoubtedly fall into one of the six categories.

On the other hand, the main objection to the rule seems to be that it will be difficult to calculate the median worker's pay, which is a somewhat absurd objection.

Over continued objections from the FBI, the White House declassified a version of Republican Rep. Devin Nunes's four - page memo on Friday, which alleges serious abuses of power by the FBI during its investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.

@ talullah: it sounds like your objection is to the very existence of chaplains, and not simply the way in which a chaplain performs his / her job.

For Whitehead «the great difficulty of philosophy is the failure of language» (MT 67) and to compensate for the defects of the linguistic tradition he saturates the rendition of his thinking with terminological novelties, which leave an impression that his work is highly stylized, but also that its stipulations and theoretical definitions make it almost impregnable to objections.

There is a third way to answer the question — by asking which objection is based on a more important commitment.

The essential moral and theological objections to such a characterization would be with the adverbs «completely» and «entirely,» which are necessary to the materialist metaphysic but render the latter unhelpful as a foundation for any coherently imperative human moral sensibility (including environmental stewardship).

Swinburne recognizes the limits of his case for theism in his epilogue: «I am well aware of objections other than the ones I have discussed which can be made to almost every sentence which I have written.»

The first thing to note is that the problem of suffering in the world is not really a logical objection to God's existence, which can still be argued from the unity and coherence of creation on rational grounds.

(By the way, if you have a presentation of the Gospel which never gets the Romans 6:1 objection, then I submit to you that you are probably not teaching the same Gospel Paul was.

The Abortion Act has a clear provision to respect the conscience of staff: «No person shall be under any duty, whether by contract or by any statutory or other legal requirement, to participate in any treatment authorised by this Act to which he has a conscientious objection.»

Post-argument predictions will continue to pour out regarding Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Sebelius, cases in which business owners (the Green and Hahn families) have voiced religious objections to being forced to pay for certain types of contraceptives.

I am using the term «dialectic» in its ancient and etymological sense, and it seems appropriate to describe the process by this word; for instead of an aprioristic, deductive method of procedure, the process was one of answering questions and objections as they arose, not in anticipation, and not as the unfolding, more geometrico, of a system implicit within a body of axioms or first principles which one needed only accept and then all the rest followed logically to the final Q.E.D..

My objection to Che Guevara or Stokely Carmichael is that incitement to violence is (or was) a factor in their strategy — which is to say that they betray the people whose suffering drives them into anger and brutality.

The sober analysis of Feser and Bessette is totally devoid of the «bloodthirstiness» with which he charges them, and his objection to the «grisly detail» of their descriptions of capital crimes resembles the complaints of abortionists when shown pictures of infants» body parts.

I believe the main objection to the Midianite slaughter is the killing of the children which I have addressed in previous posts.

Contemporary atheist objections to Christianity are often posed with an intellectual smugness which implies that religious belief is based on naive and even delusional optimism.

The religious objections have mostly aimed to protect God's sovereign freedom to do what He pleases with his creation, a freedom which, the dissenters argue, would be limited by the existence of universal and unbreakable laws of nature, or indeed of inevitable laws of history or human behaviour.

Of course, the evidence of Paul, at first hand, and of many others which we know about primarily through Paul (his letter to the Corinthians is considerably older and closer to the events than the earliest of the written Gospels), is open to the objection that we have no guarantee that the appearances were not hallucinations.

He has other objections of this same sort to traditional theological interpretations — objections with which one must have a large measure of agreement.

When Martin Luther nailed his lengthy list of doctrinal objections to the church door in Wittenberg, he probably never imagined that his actions would set in motion a train of events which would rend the Western Church in two for the next 500 years.

Through his work on the concept of God he has also shown that the choice between them may be a genuine one since it is possible to meet those objections to the theistic alternative which claim that it is not a genuine option because of internal incoherence in the concept of the reality of that than which a greater can not be conceived.

Such is Locke's conclusion, a conclusion which one might conceivably interpret as an objection to the very possibility of a philosophy of organism along the lines laid out by Whitehead.

(PS 6:237 - 48) J. Brenton Stearns raised some objections against the basic thesis of contemporary process philosophy according to which strict determinism, when consistently thought through, implies a complete elimination of becoming or, at best, a relegation of succession to the realm of appearances.

Yet since the account of substance offered is of a route of occasions or a personally ordered society of selves rather than of, say, a changing continuant, the objection may be raised that this atomization of substance involves an enormous multiplication of entities which in the case of selves at least goes well beyond necessity — though this would have to be shown.

Firstly, you did not even respond to my objections to the «God hypothesis», secondly, I made no specific claim as to which multiverse theory I was appealing to (there isn't only one), and you simply assumed I was talking about a specific one, one that I do not care to defend.

This clarification arises in the context of an objection which Aristotle poses to himself.

The Crossbench peer's Conscientious Objection (Medical Activities) Bill - which is being supported by the Free Conscience campaign - would apply to the withdrawal of life - sustaining treatment, human embryo research and activity linked to preparing, supporting or performing an abortion.

Nor, it might be pressed, is this objection avoided by appealing to Whitehead's explicitly adopted method of metaphysical construction, the method of imaginative generalization (of which his plea here as in effect an expression).

Officially removing that stigma is a step toward normalizing certain actions, or at least delegitimating objections to them, which is much the same thing.

Now, with that in view — which I think is a reasonable objection to a document which wants to be seen as, above all things, «reasonable» — why would I object to the whole thing as «obscuring the Gospel»?

Jüngel wrote an extended essay - review of the first volume of Pannenberg's Systematic Theology in which, while praising his achievement, he raised some fundamental objections to his program.

Take any traditional objection to accepting the old Platonic analogy of God as the World Soul and it can be shown that the objection stands or falls with aspects of a tradition which philosophy has been moving away from since the middle ages — for instance ideas of sheer infinity, sheer immutability, also what is usually meant by omnipotence.

I do hold very strong objections to you selling a community, which is the only reason why I'm not a part of it, as you know.

Hartshorne notes that an important ethical objection to classical theism is that it tends toward a faith which disarms criticism of and struggle against predominant social arrangements.

This became painfully clear in 1996 when the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the Alaska Supreme Court's Swanner decision, which held that the state's interest in preventing discrimination against unmarried heterosexual couples is sufficiently great that it trumps the objections of landlords who believe they are forbidden by God to permit «fornication» on their property.

«This objection has force... against any simple - minded attempt to identify as the living soul the regnant, personally ordered society which we uncritically have been calling the analogue of the soul.

I think the reason for this objection is that Cobb has not kept in mind the distinction I have made between inheritance from a dominant past occasion and oblique inheritance from occasions in the past which are contiguous but «at a slant,» so to speak (PPCT 328).

In these ways, the objections to the idea of truth as correspondence can be cleared away, and we can explicitly reaffirm this notion, which we all implicitly affirm in practice, and we can therefore reaffirm that the task of the theologian involves the attempt to formulate the Christian faith in true doctrines, and to defend the truth of these doctrines by showing them to be self - consistent, adequate to the facts of experience, and illuminating.

An adequate formulation or expression of this, free from objections, is fraught with immense difficulty because of the inevitable ambiguity of words, which is not easy to eradicate even in technical usage.

The objection that much of pornography is demeaning to women surfaced early in the contemporary feminist movement, particularly in Kate Millett's 1970 book Sexual Politics, which analyzed some of Henry Miller's limited and negative portrayals of women.

I will now raise some fresh objections to Sherburne's model, many of which, would apply also to the undeveloped suggestions of Whitehead.