Sentences with phrase «objects of»

Once again people are not on the agenda, except as objects of communication.

For the most part the thought of being was shaped around reflection on the objects of sense experience.

It is apparent in an art which is capable of turning even Campbell soup - cans into objects of artistic representation (Warhol), or in a music which discovers aesthetic value in common noises and in listening to silence (Cage), or in a photography which captures the beauty of doorknobs and cracked walls, driftwood and wrinkled faces.

They complain of SBC resolutions and programs that designate Jews as objects of missionary efforts.

For these are not regarded as merely passive objects of the saving activities of the ministry, but, on the basis of true Christian equality and freedom as collaborators of the hierarchy, so that actually the hierarchy must only serve the Christian life which is to be realized by the laity.

Otherwise, most humans on Planet Earth are only the objects of vengeance.

Its events belong to the sphere, not of history in the ordinary sense, but of the supra - historical; they can not be objects of historical research because they are discernible only by faith.

That's because Piper and many in the fundamentalist neo-Reformed movement are working off of a perversion of the doctrine of total depravity that not only teaches that human beings are depraved — that is, that our humanity is marred by sin — but that this depravity renders the world's men, women, and children into valueless objects of god's wrath, worthy of nothing more than eternal torture, pain, violence, and abuse.

Our description of value shows that faith is given through the nature of the responses actually generated in the inter-relation of persons with the objects of their loyalty.

No more does it help to suggest that God's value is wholly independent of his relations to the world, whether of knowledge or of will, for this only means that the particular characters of the objects of his knowledge, or the results of his willing, are to him totally insignificant, which is psychologically monstrous and is religiously appalling as well..

Recall the array of possible objects of inquiry implied in our discussion of Christian congregations in chapter 7.

What makes these objects of inquiry theologically significant is that together they constitute the Christian thing whose study is believed to lead to truer understandings of God.

And because of that, we were by nature, objects of wrath.

Rather what is logically repugnant is the denial of any ontological autonomy, any distinct reality, to life and mind simply because these are not formally discernible objects of physico - chemical scrutiny.

I can not imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.

Certain objects of inquiry, such as sermons and histories, will probably yield a higher proportion of world view data, but important insights may also be gained from other elements.

Secondary perception deals with spatially clear and distinct objects of sense perception.

(Deuteronomy 7:12 - 16) With these for the main objects of petition, prayer was naturally evoked by their lack, and it was typical of early Hebrew as of all immature praying that the negative rather than the positive purpose of prayer was prominent.

Further, it is emancipation, bringing inward freedom through detachment from all sensual objects of desire.

We all like to slum it, sometimes, but to get too enthusiastic about pop culture materials or, worse, to take them seriously as objects of aesthetic judgment — well, that was an abdication of the critic's responsibilities, not to mention a sign of vulgar taste.

The Faith movement's push for such coherence involves affirming, in a neo-Augustinian manner, the dynamic relationship of spiritual mind (whether of the absolute God or of the human soul in his image) with the objects of its knowing, as a metaphysical first principle.

For example, whereas the sun and moon were the objects of worship in pagan religion, the Book of Genesis taught that they were nothing but lamps set in the heavens to give light to day and night: not gods, but mere things, creatures of the one true God.

Informants are frequently anxious before the interview starts, persuaded that they know little of value to the interviewer and perhaps wary because of earlier experiences in which they were the objects of a catechism or experiment.

But if we do ask these questions, we will be led to answer in terms of some source of order that transcends the objects of scientific investigation, whether it be beyond or within the ordered world.

In this complicated milieu, he remained dissident but independent, anti-regime but secular and un-Catholic, and developed further a subtlety and restraint about rendering judgments on people as objects of politics, as actors in politics.

The objects of our beliefs are actually displays of our own imaginations.

In Matthew the Pharisees are included with the scribes as the objects of Jesus» denunciation (23:2), which begins in a moderate vein but becomes extremely bitter.

In the New Testament, beginning with Jesus himself, the projection of personal destinies into the future world plainly accentuated the importance of the individual and made souls the objects of solicitude and the subjects of salvation.

Objects of this sort often constitute the subjects of our sentences.

On this third option the presence of God is not in the king nor is it in the design of the system, but it remains in the people and the objects of creation.

The objects of vision and hearing dominate our conscious experience, and these are not found within the body.

But to the objects of its pacification it seemed like slavery.

Advocates of the social gospel slide more quickly through the first phrases, then put great weight on the nouns describing the objects of concern: the poor, the captives, the blind, the oppressed.

They derive from objects of sight and touch understood to endure through time.

If, as the Scriptures and experience tell us, all men are by nature in a state of guilt and depravity from which they are wholly unable to deliver themselves and have no claim whatever on God for deliverance, it follows that if any are saved God must choose out those who shall be the objects of His grace (Boettner, Predestination, 95).

23 For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription,» TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.»

In other cases this appeal alleges, not that there is any experience of the present self which grounds all experience of the nonself, but that the most immediate objects of present human experience are the immediately preceding instances of human experience (cf., e.g., MMCL 444).

It has been the sins of the Leviathan and Dynasau not only to make all humans as objects of exploitation and oppression, but it is also the sin to make the created things the object of the exploitation, for these sins are to turn the God's created garden into the jungle.

At all periods of Biblical history and in diverse strata of the Biblical materials we find the affirmation that what characterizes Yahweh in disfunction from the objects of men's worship which are mere vanity is his ability to hear the cry of the oppressed and to save him from his oppressor.

The position on abortion and euthanasia inexorably follows; justice requires the protection of both the unborn and those who are likely to become the objects of mercy killing.

But the objects of their generosity differed.

The rather straightforward reasoning was that, unlike the members of organized crime who are typical objects of RICO prosecutions, the antiabortion protestors did not obtain anyone else's property for their own use.

The consequence of this medieval view is that objects of knowledge seem simultaneously real and unreal.

Followers of other religions hold women in the highest esteem also, but that is because they are objects of the marriage and hence «property» of the men.

Corpses and live men become objects of it.

With a rapidly improving ability to manipulate objects of all shapes and sizes, they have the potential to replace human operators with better accuracy, better precision, and better efficiency.

The objects of its focus (whether it be pop drinks or pop stars) find themselves in the right place at the right time and exploit it.

Not - for - profits can engage in profit - making activities as long as those activities are compatible with the not - for - profit objects of the NFP, and the profits are used exclusively for promoting its stated goals.

There was simply no excuse for this, and the adjudicator was blunt: «Harmonious labour - management relations, which are one of the objects of the PSLRA, are not possible when one of the parties has no hesitation in ignoring provisions of the PSLRA designed to achieve labour relations peace.»

At the center of his efforts is a Roosevelt - era law called the Antiquities Act which allows presidents to designate «objects of historic or scientific interest» as National Monuments.