Sentences with phrase «of hicks»

Well, we've had people tell us, «Well, what do you think a bunch of hicks, you know, out here in Riesel, Texas, can do against a billion - dollar plant?»

And every time Penn delivers an allegedly rousing speech to a gaggle of hicks, proposing to nail the entrenched fat cats in the Big Easy's beleaguered senate to a rail, Horner's tiresome score endeavours to drown him out in a flood of sugared plastic emotion.

Increasingly, students were obsessed with the track record of this hick investor from Omaha, whose company Berkshire Hathaway, had beaten the S&P 500 for two decades in a row and counting.

Because of this and other elements of Hick's theology, it is doubtful whether Hick has a consistent commitment to DP3.

Despite these important strengths of Hick's position, I do not think it offers us a place to rest in our quest for an adequate Christology for our time.

If we turn to the religions of India, the individualism of Hick's unifying vision and the centrality of personal change is not the problem.

But imagine parents following the model of Hick's God and putting their children in an orphanage so that they will be free to decide whether to believe that their parents are alive and whether they love their parents.

Because of this trade - off I questioned the success of Hick's theodicy in justifying the divine decision, saying:

My critique of Hick's theodicy would also seem germane to Hasker's with regard to the question of divine deception.

I'm tired of hick upstate Senators taking big money from NYC landlords / developers to look out for their interests (force rents higher).

Hi Bella, Because of your hick - up with the links, I have uploaded my mint green booties twice.

Taken by slavers and sold to Proximo (Oliver Reed), a master of gladiators, Maximus appears destined to end his days in the Roman equivalent of hick - town cockfighting.

Certainly a fully fledged character in his own right, the documentary makes use of Hick's personal photographer, interviews with his family and friends (all too willing for the great), and footage of his sets, some well done as they are his HBO specials, and others are mere scratchy images of his times in small clubs around the country.

Taken from Hick's seminal work & «Evil and the God of Love &»;, the full film, available from Ethics Online, is dedicated to the memory of Hick.

Not exact matches

By Graeme Hick If you are starting construction on a commercial site, here is a safety checklist of what to wear, things you should do and actions you should avoid.

Much of the background material and the presentations at Canberra, in the vein of such recent literature as that by John Hick and WCC Mission Director Christopher Duraisingh, posited the spirit without the Logos.

reality quotes arrogance, «John Hick, a noted British philosopher of religion, estimates that 95 percent...» What's the methodology used in to reach this Hick conclusion?

Unity In Suffering Jesus» uniqueness as a deity who saves through suffering may resolve in part the questions of salvation outside of Christianity and / or the Church that John Hick posed (Gavin D'Costa, «Remembering John Hick,» May).

If anyone of you ignorant hicks took the time to read or educate yourselves, you would know that.

Let's get rid of all these backwater hicks first — put THEM behind an electric fence and keep them from breeding.

If that makes me a hick and all of the other derogatory statements made then so be it.

BTW I'm in the beautiful state of NJ and we have our fair share of «hicks» ourselves.

15I have deleted «gift of» from «uncontrollable gift of freedom» to eliminate Hick's implication that free - will is derivative rather than originative.

It does recognize, however, that any such evaluations will prove more difficult than they would if, as Hick proposes, they can all be evaluated by their success in promoting the achievement of a common goal.

John Hick has done us the great service of formulating a persuasive hypothesis as to the answer.

John Hick and Arthur C. McGill (New York: Macmillan, 1967) for an informative exposition of Blondel: «In the very depths of the act in which we become conscious of what we are, we recognize an interior beyond, since this is constitutive of the dynamism of our souls» (p. 281).

John Hick appeals to a deep commonality in the great religious traditions despite his keen awareness of their differences.

Library of Philosophy and Religion Series, edited by John Hick.

Hick is the target of his analysis: the concept of truth is confused; pluralism should not be allowed to claim the ethical high ground; and the whole outlook has striking parallels with some of the confusions endemic in postmodernism.

Pluralism and Particularity in Religious Belief By Brad Stetson Praeger, 145 pages, $ 45 In the Christian theology - of - other - religions debate, John Hick's pluralist hypothesis dominates the field.

These people come across as a bunch of cross bred country hicks.

Hick, John, Headnote and Appendix, Classical and Contemporary Readings in the Philosophy of Religion, Second Edition, ed.

John Hick may be the most original and the most interesting spokesman of the «pluralist» position.

It stands in contrast to that of his colleague at Claremont, John Hick, who turns away from this theme, essentially leaving it out in the dialogue among world religions.

The problem can be illustrated by citing a recent widely publicized book, The Myth of God Incarnate, edited by John Hick (Westminster, 1977).

The editor, John Hick, is professor of theology at Birmingham University and the only non-Anglican in the group.

Some modern Christian thinkers, such as John Hick or Raimundo Panikkar, in their interpretation of the Trinity as a metaphor come close to Muslim thinking, but as the distinguished Muslim scholar Professor S. A. Ali observes, Muslims will always be uneasy with the language of «Father, Son and Holy Spirit.»

Most of all Berger finds highly problematic the assertion by John Hick, the famed scholar of world religions, that the baseline criteria of all religion is whether it reduces selfishness and promotes altruism.

See the critical reviews by John Cobb in Religion in Life, XXXII, 2 (Spring 1963), 294 - 304; Julian Hartt in The Review of Metaphysics, XVI, 4 (Jane 1963), 747 - 769; John Hick in Theology Today, XX, 2 (July 1963), 295 - 298; and H. W. Johnstone in The Journal of Philosophy, XL, 16 (August 1, 1963), 467 - 472.

For example, C - alone is ambiguous between «the modality of God's existence is contingent and God exists» and «the modality of God's existence is contingent and God does not exist» — the former describes the theism of John Hick whereas the latter describes the atheism of J. L. Mackie.

By 1983, John Hick had included, in his justly influential introduction to the philosophy of religion, process theodicy as one of three main Christian responses to the problem of evil (Hick 41; Griffin, Evil 1).

Neither theologian wishes to suggest sheer universalism, and both remain critical of Knitter, John Hick and others who recognize saviors apart from Jesus Christ.

, seven years prior to Norman Malcolm's «Anselm's Ontological Arguments» which evoked more than a dozen replies within the first two years of its publication (Hick and McGill 367 - 68).

Then John Hick's solution is incorrect: «We have... found it to be an inescapable conclusion that the ultimate responsibility for the existence of sinful creatures and of the evils which they cause and suffer, rests upon God himself.

«18 Hick has characterized this as an Irenaean type of theodicy which «accepts God's ultimate omni - responsibility and seeks to show for what good and justifying reason He has created a universe in which evil was inevitable.

Hick lacks a metaphysic that recognizes the partial self - creativity of all creatures and hence responsibility.

Hick recognizes that a basic grasp of modem science makes naturalism an honest option.

Hick stands above the theological crowd in seeing that this is a serious modem challenge to classical theism and in systematically attempting to justify God's lack of clearer revelation.

John Hick has seen far more clearly than most that the ambiguity of the world is part of the problem of evil.

In fact, although John Hick does appear to believe that some types of evil are allowed to develop moral and spiritual character, most FWTs have not even explicitly stated they agree with this more minimal claim.