Sentences with phrase «of much significance»

The city of Altun Ha is not that easily marked on the map and is not of much significance from that point of view.

Nevertheless, though it has an interesting premise, The Paddy Lincoln Gang isn't given enough substance to tell a story of much significance.

Personally I hardly remember Giroud doing anything of much significance.

Whether Christians ought to have agreed to that contract is an interesting historical and theological question, but not really of much significance in our present circumstances» for agree to it Christians did.

I can't imagine anyone with even a glimmer of insight into the meaning of Christ's life feeling that the «mordant laughter» of a Foucault or a Derrida is of much significance.

Not exact matches

Despite the significance of EQ, its intangible nature makes it very difficult to know how much you have and what you can do to improve if you're lacking.

The significance of this is not so much the new level of the exchange rate as the apparent change in direction and market sentiment.

The idea is that Christmas is in danger of losing its edge because we are focusing too much on the holiday hustle and bustle and not enough on the holy significance of Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus.

So just like many Republicans, they're overstating the significance of the election of 2012 as much as they overstated the significance of 2010.

Lest aspiring writers get too inflated with notions of their significance, however, the Book of Ecclesiastes adds with a sigh, «Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.&raquof their significance, however, the Book of Ecclesiastes adds with a sigh, «Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.&raquof Ecclesiastes adds with a sigh, «Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.&raquOf making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.»

I have always thought that this was part of Jewish rubrics, but Pitre highlights its much greater significance.

What I dare to query in Professor Lampe's argument is a bias in the direction of exemplarism; this though he insists that the Resurrection of Christ has much more than a purely cognitive significance.

But in fact Newman's significance sweeps wider than that, for he throws much light on that burning issue which now goes under the umbrella label of «relativism,» an often vaguely used term that I tried to define here.

Rather, the existential pain of black people's suffering was so much a part of my reality that I had to explore first its significance before moving to a larger dimension.

The endeavor to recover the significance of character owes much to H. Richard Niebuhr's emphasis on the «self» as the phenomenological center of theological ethics.

Something much more fundamental is called for if we are to grasp the significance of what has taken place during the past 500 years and to comprehend what is taking place.

I did grow up christian, however, in Sunday School they never taught much more than «Love Jesus» and told us some of the stories without really explaining the significance.

There is no longer any significance to any particular concrete new thing, but there is significance in the fact that there is so much quantity of the new.

Of course if that writer intended something else, as he may well have done, namely that the «times», in the sense of the particular segment of history in which he lived, were indeed «evil» and were marked by wickedness, with a collapse of standards and the denial of all that is of abiding significance; if he intended that, there may well have been much truth in his statemenOf course if that writer intended something else, as he may well have done, namely that the «times», in the sense of the particular segment of history in which he lived, were indeed «evil» and were marked by wickedness, with a collapse of standards and the denial of all that is of abiding significance; if he intended that, there may well have been much truth in his statemenof the particular segment of history in which he lived, were indeed «evil» and were marked by wickedness, with a collapse of standards and the denial of all that is of abiding significance; if he intended that, there may well have been much truth in his statemenof history in which he lived, were indeed «evil» and were marked by wickedness, with a collapse of standards and the denial of all that is of abiding significance; if he intended that, there may well have been much truth in his statemenof standards and the denial of all that is of abiding significance; if he intended that, there may well have been much truth in his statemenof all that is of abiding significance; if he intended that, there may well have been much truth in his statemenof abiding significance; if he intended that, there may well have been much truth in his statement.

In general, however, men attach too much significance to work performance and recognition of their achievement, while women doubt their ability to function in the public work world.

If the Bible is nothing more than a true and accurate record of human ideas, then it doesn't help us much at all in knowing anything for sure about God, ourselves, our condition, or anything of eternal significance.

The independent springing up of other writers who have sought to answer this need in a similar way is as much a testimony to the significance of the general trend of Buber's thought as is the rapidly increasing number of thinkers who have been directly or indirectly influenced by him.

The result is that much of the broader significance of the original contribution has been missed.

The focusing of attention is closely associated with significance, and much of what is not attended to in the visual field is also significantly ordered.

11:24 - 25), or only that they continued Jesus» practice of a fellowship - meal with his disciples, is much disputed, but the testimony of Paul (I Cor.11: 23) taken in conjunction with the firm tradition that Jesus had given to bread and wine a new significance at the Last Supper, support the view that from the very earliest days Christians repeated the substance of that rite.

Much work still needs to be done by physicists to determine the precise nature of the Higgs particle and its significance for our physical understanding of the material universe.

«49 Meland is convinced that intellectual and emotional sensitivity to culture, to its depth significance, to its transcendent qualities and felt reality can bring one to the realities of faith, to the meaning of realities which can not be contained within merely rational structures, to realities which have not so much to be defined as to be acknowledged.

Everyone will be talking about it over the next few weeks, but how much significance do the nuptials of Wills and Kate actually hold?

The native genius and character of the several peoples of the Western world; the profound significance of the Greek intellect still potent in the analytic mood of the present; the constructive, organizing genius of Rome: all these and much more have gone into the making of the modern dwelling of the human spirit.

The phrase «Son of God with power» there carries much the same ideas as the phrase «Lord and Christ» in the Jerusalem kerygma, for its significance is Messianic rather than properly theological.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin has made much of this in his widely read The Phenomenon of Man, but long before the publication of that volume C. Lloyd - Morgan in his Gifford lectures had indicated the significance of such «emergents», along with the «importance» (although this is not his, but Whitehead's, word) which they possess both in the ongoing movement of the world and as a way of our grasping of the meaning of that world in its on going movement.

To learn to put up with this empirical church is the way both of Christian humility at its best and of Christian growth in God's grace, not to mention the patent fact that such cooperation may do much to make the empirical institution more conformable to its intention and significance as the Body of Christ.

So much for an attempt to interpret several important strains in early Christian reflection upon the significance of Jesus.

I welcome very much the reference he makes, towards the end of what he has written, to the significance of the book of Hosea.

So the real way Burke succumbed to «historicism» — or something like it — was in attributing too much significance to a particular political event, and so in having too little confidence in (or at least faith in) in the resilience of human nature.

There are a limited number of instances where the parable in very much its original form made a point of significance to the early Church, even if that was different from the point originally intended by the historical Jesus, and in such cases the gospel form of the parable may approximate to the original, e.g. the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son.

This summary of certain phases of the Pauline theology — a summary much too brief to do even scant justice to the power and majesty of Paul's thought — is necessary as a background for the fuller discussion, to which we now turn, of the way in which Paul interpreted the significance of the earthly life of Jesus as related to this saving act of God.

As I hope is evident, none of the above meant to reduce or dispute the cultural significance, much less the real orientation towards peace of «A Common Word».

Here in fact a new principle is enunciated which permits a much deeper anthropological and theological analysis of the conjugalact: the principle that its unitive significance and its procreative significance are inherent to it, in inseparable connection.

Perhaps what we should look for is not so much a perfect pattern of living for every human age - group, but a revelation of truth which will illuminate the heart and center of human life and give it a new significance and purpose.

The deepest convictions of men in favor of future hope, therefore, have come not so much from those who have framed arguments for it as from those who have heightened life's spiritual value, given it new meaning, made it wealthy with fresh significance and purpose until it has seemed as though it ought to go on.

All great Christian writers assign considerable significance to such experience, Luther and Calvin as well as Teresa or John of the Cross, and for good reason, for without some experience, however humble, few people would be religious, particularly today now that the social pressure for actively belonging to a religious body has become so much weaker.

«I think the organization that owns the Empire State Building seeing this as a religious request is really missing much of the significance of the life's work of Mother Teresa, across the world and in New York City,» Quinn said.

The command, for example, to love one's neighbor loses much of its urgency if the distinction between you and the neighbor is «empty;» If the whole world is present in this «here - now,» and if this «here - now» is present throughout the whole world, then the significance and even the reality of the particular developments in history have been radically compromised.

So Mr. George Henry Soule says of the Puritan revolution in the sixteenth century: «The conflict of religious ideas was indeed important, but it was important not so much because of the abstract significance of these ideas as because they represented the mechanism of attack and defense between economic and social classes who were struggling for power.»

Globalization in fact has unleashed a social revolution the significance and impact of which is at least as much as those that the Industrial Revolution which took place in the last century brought about.

The italics are Teilhard's own; and the succeeding pages of the essay from which the quotation comes show that for him «what has gone wrong» was the failure of much traditional Christian teaching and preaching to see that the world — the whole created order in its materiality, along with man's grasp of the importance of secular effort and achievement — is an ongoing movement in which significance is given to human life.

Granted that from the point of view of understanding the faith of ancient Israel these are not critical questions, we of typically Western frame of mind, who put so much significance upon delineation of fact, can not but regret this kind of frustration.

The primary problem with the way communion is practiced in churches today that believe the Lord's Supper is a symbolic memorial is that we have adopted the practices of churches which think it is much more than a symbol but have stripped away most of the mystical significance of the elements.

When we read Genesis in an awareness of what is to follow, we know that these stories of origins were created and preserved through the centuries not so much to inform ancient Israel about the past as to inform about the present; not so much to speak of what once was as to make clearer what now is; not so much to show interest in what had gone before the history of the people of Israel as to make that very history clear in its significance and meaning.