Sentences with phrase «on the contradictions of»

From desert scrub to cold blue sea, it carries an eloquent yet hard - edge take on the contradictions of a place so difficult to define.

He thrives on the contradictions of pictorial facture.

«To Cuba and Back: Glexis Novoa Dwells on the Contradictions of the Communist Country», Miami New Times, October 21, 2014.

«Like Noah Hunting the Animals He Saved On the Ark»: Mark Dion on the Contradictions of Environmentalism

As a result, the work and the performance are poignant comments on the contradictions of China's modernization.

(Read our interview with the artist: «Like Noah Hunting the Animals He Saved on the Art»: Mark Dion on the Contradictions of Environmentalism)

And we had a lot of fun sending journalists to that place, and basically catching them on the contradictions of what they said; and eventually, we basically started promulgating the idea that there was a race going on for what carmaker was going to be first, and which carmaker was going to come to market first.

Not exact matches

A resolution of the Argentine debt situation has been stuck on the contradiction between a concept of «equal treatment» based on the law and the concept of «equal treatment» based on financial criteria.

For not only had he convened a symposium on hilarity, but within that gathering he had a struck a sub-committee dedicated to digging up things Liberal MPs had said that might be read aloud for the purposes of asserting a contradiction or change - of - mind on the part of the Liberal party.

Now your suggestion of `... is to point out as loudly and publicly as possible the many untruths and contradictions he is trying to pull over on the Alberta public» is what we need to do before next election — In a website it would be preferable and in the newspapers.

Religious believers are likely to get further in discourse with the current generation of secular academics by 1) continually demonstrating, as Posner himself seems to intuit, that only a moral theory founded on God can actually «work,» in the sense of bridging the gap between «is» and «ought»; and 2) demonstrating the inherent self «contradictions of the moral theories advocated by the «secular liberals.»

It doens» t have a consistent theme or message or mission statement... the musical catalogue of Bob Marley holds together better than that mishmash of contradictions and highly unlikely scenarios written by people who although they were ignorant on ALL other subjects were somehow experts on this god... what a laugh

Growing up a true, on fire Christian, it was only when I tearfully and joyfully realized the maginitude of the love of God (in the Bible) that I was forced to face the exclusion and contradictions that were woven into the very foundations of this faith.

If this one religion of three movements does not have the capacity to unequivocally renounce its own contradictions in violence, then perhaps it's time to move on to another set of beliefs that work for the good of all mankind.

The «four gospels» are rife with contradictions about the sermon on the mount, the wedding at Cana (Jesus» wedding to Mary of Bethany) and numerous other matters.

The Catholic Church cherry picked whatever BS was laying around, written generations after the time of the supposed Christ and stuffed it into a book with contradictions on every page.

We can go on forever trying to come to terms and that's the point, the bible is a ridiculous jumble of passages and contradictions.

Where the critical point in his earlier theology of grace is God's crucifying contradiction of sinful human nature, here the point on which everything hinges is the authority of Christ the Savior, exercised concretely in the sacramental signs of the Church.

The bible is full of contradictions, so no surprise it contradicts itself on the topic of the role of women in the church.

The biggest contradiction is plugging a cross into the site where Jebus was a notable no - show on 9-11-2001 when a ton of prayers must have been sent out, and then went UNANSWERED.

It's a cherry - picking of scripture used to address what's happening right now in popular culture,» says Knust, author of the recent book «Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surprising Contradictions on Sex and Desire.»

However, for those who insist on trying to find some meaning from it, they are forced to decide which side of the contradictions to take and since much of it is untrue, they also must guess as to what part of the bible they should accept and what they should ignore as just a fable.

They also represent the perfect paradox of an age built on so many fundamental contradictions.

I am doing my best here to try to convert you heathens into a loving relationship with Jesus, but you are all like, «blah blah blah, atheism, blah blah blah, bible contradictions» Do you even know how many of you there are on this forum?!

On the one hand, the comrades take refuge in outdated forms of communication and esoteric arts and crafts instead of occupying themselves with the contradiction between the present constitution of the media and their revolutionary potential; on the other hand, they can not escape from the consciousness industry's program or from its aesthetiOn the one hand, the comrades take refuge in outdated forms of communication and esoteric arts and crafts instead of occupying themselves with the contradiction between the present constitution of the media and their revolutionary potential; on the other hand, they can not escape from the consciousness industry's program or from its aesthetion the other hand, they can not escape from the consciousness industry's program or from its aesthetic.

- hyp · o · crite noun \ ˈhi - pə - ˌkrit \ - 1: a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion - 2: a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings

a) instead of * agreeing * that there are no contradictions, see if you can actually understand the argument being made (in this case: that there are NOT contradictions — especially since that is a widely held opinion of those on the opposite end of this debate).

hyp · o · crite noun \ ˈhi - pə - ˌkrit \ 1: a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion 2: a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings

SUM: there are * legitimate * discussions to be had on the question of contradictions.

Is there a contradiction in Scripture, or is something else going on in one (or both) of these passages?

Yet, once again, contradiction rares its ugly head, in their book of hate, murder, intolerance... their god can't decide on anything.

The Bible in and of itself is a contradiction... read me the one about how a slaughtered goats blood odor is pleasing to god, or the one about how the guy who works on sunday should be put to death by the stone.

The oft - iterated theme of Cheever's stories is that human life is caught in a contradiction which may be comic on the surface but is tragic deep down.

Rather than explicitly invoking consciousness to effect the reconciliation of opposites as he does in the Phenomenology, Hegel here interprets Aufhebung (sublation) as a purely logical movement, in which the «contradiction,» or opposed or «dirempted» elements, are as «matter» to the «form» of the resolution on a higher level.

On the 26th January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions.

He and I did not see eye to eye on certain issues of soteriology, and it was not long before he expressed some some serious logical contradictions.

For a better understanding of the history of the Papacy and the spirit the Pope serves we invite you to read the articles «Papal Infallibility, Contradictions and Spiritual Blindness», «The Mystery Babylon» and «Popes and the Princes of This World», listed on our website http://www.aworlddeceived.ca

But what a richness there is in the contradictions — in those two different stories of creation, or those four portraits of Jesus, or in the divergent views on faith and works that we find in the book of James and the letters of Paul.

From a mere reflection on the notion of evolution, it is not easy to see the contradiction in the notion of a self - transcendent and self - sufficient universe.

The post is so full of historical inaccuracies, theological problems, and contradictions that it's hard to know where to start, but I want to make clear from the get - go that my response to this post should not be seen as an attack on Tim Challies himself, (who I respect and like), but rather a response to the general belief that God's presence is limited to the pages of Scripture and that all forms of contemplative or experiential spirituality should therefore be dismissed out of hand or regarded with suspicion.

But in pure logic it is not true that there is sheer contradiction between the joint admission of divine perfection of goodness and divine perfection of power, on the one hand, and the fact of real evil on the other, for the simple reason that the greatest possible power (which by definition is «perfect» power) may not be the same as «all the power that exists united into one individual power.»

Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI has no rival in successfully combining the reputed opposites of rationality and faith - thus showing science and religion not as contradictions but as two things depending on one another: only in cooperation can they reveal their true greatness.

Second, these children and infants were expressly judged and executed for the acts of their parents in direct contradiction of the basic Christian tenet of divine judgment based on an exercise of free will to choose evil or reject god.

He then insists that any attempts to revive myth as a viable organ of belief are doomed to failure: «For we must remember that belief in myth is not a personal attainment alone; it is more, much more so, a social phenomenon and depends for its efficacy on group acceptance and adherence; a private myth, however admirably expressed in whatever form, is therefore an ultimate, irreconcilable contradiction.»

Humor, on the other hand, is born from an altogether higher recognition: that tragic contradiction is not absolute, that finitude is not only pain and folly, and that the absurdity of our human contradictions can even be a cause for joy.

Analysis of an apparent contradiction between these two passages of scripture, indicating a «wicked sense of humor on someone's part.»

In the Abbasid period Muslim culture became society - oriented, with emphasis on such subjects as the sciences and engineering and architecture; but no contradiction was felt between these fields and religion, for all scholars combined religious knowledge with mastery of other fields of learning.

There are a lot of contradictions on his own network.

According to that analysis, it has been characteristic of John Paul II's diplomacy that his dramatic acts of public witness to the importance of freedom» in Poland, before the United Nations, in Cuba, and so on» have stood in tension with the continuing, more traditional, diplomacy of the Vatican, even to the point of contradiction.

And if such a contradiction does occur, can the apparent meaning be reasonably rejected on grounds other than merely its contradicting some implication of our interpretive scheme?