Sentences with phrase «only laymen»

This tension, this puzzlement about how to grapple with meaning, has affected not only laymen but also the clergy.

I am only a layman in such terms, but Day really makes a good case for further examination.

I haven't seen a good answer to that — but then, I'm only a layman trying to understand these reconstructions.

Not exact matches

Its only being revived by laymen, not scientists.

But there are surely many possibilities to make it clear also by legislation that laymen have not only the right to receive the sacraments from the clergy, as the present Code of Canon Law states.

Evidently intellectuals are no better men only because they are educated; this shows itself especially in the case of theologians, no matter whether they are priests or laymen, who have chosen theology and spirituality as their profession or even as their intellectual hobby.

A bishop must defend his own authority by also acknowledging his failures; a layman must plead for greater rights for the laity by also regretting the frequent indifference of the laity; we all should not only praise our own plan but also show up its weaknesses.

Inebriety has been a simple moral problem to the layman for so long that the underlying problems are only now receiving attention from physicians.

All liturgical renewal, all changes in the education and way of life of priests, all adaptation of the religious orders to contemporary conditions, the activities of mature laymen as well as the frank dialogue with the present world, all these must only serve the love of God and one's neighbour in the unfeigned faith which will always be foolishness and scandal to the wise and prudent of this world.

And indeed, as the Sunday schools developed, their administrators as well as teachers were laymen; and only on some special retreat did the teachers have direct contact with the ordained minister about the content of their task.

Indeed, the impression that many laymen have is that the only message preachers have is the one of what is wrong with the world, with the result that they are left wondering what the «Good News» is, if any, in relation to the analysis.

The familiar liberal view of a self - limited God whose ends are altogether good and whose means are orderly still seems to me the best solution, and one which not only can be but ought to be made clear to our laymen.

Laymen also make comments which show that they feel the need of more direct address in preaching and less talking about the faith as if it were only a set of optional ideas.

One of the most constructive emphases of the Amsterdam Conference was that it is the whole Church — not professional evangelists or even ministers only, but laymen as well — that is called to witness to the gospel and transmit it to others.

Thesimple fact is that the Press Office will only be improved by bringing in a replacement from the outside (as was Fr Lombardi's predecessor, the much more impressive layman Joaquin Navarro Vails).

Orban and Balog, respectively a Protestant layman and a Calvinist pastor, were the only non-Catholic members of the group whom Pope Francis received in a private audience in August.

Furthermore, when ministers get discouraged and seem to be accomplishing nothing, again and again their hearts are warmed by the fidelity of those laymen — perhaps only one or two in a congregation — who can always be depended on, who see at least partially what the minister is driving at, who in an unpretentious way are genuine Christian saints.

These approaches not only increase the relevance of sermons but give laymen a sense of genuine partnership in their preparation.

We have scarcely touched the possibilities of lay witness to the gospel within the conditions of the common life, and we are not likely to have any far - reaching, deep - going evangelism until laymen realize that it is their responsibility, and not the minister's only, to present the living realities of the gospel to their fellows and win them to Christ.

Far too often, professionals and laymen a like have been deluded into thinking there is one and only one way to get and stay clean / sober - «find God».

Only as laymen decide they care enough about the applications of the Christian faith to unite in study under leadership, or to unite in discussion to learn from one another in a fellowship, are we apt to get far toward bridging the gap between the Church and the world.

One hears not only physiologists, but numbers of laymen who read the popular science books and magazines, saying all about us, How can we believe in life hereafter when Science has once for all attained to proving, beyond possibility of escape, that our inner life is a function of that famous material, the so - called «gray matter» of our cerebral convolutions?

Nevertheless, the layman's common - sense view of reality is baffled by such conundrums as the nature of time and space, the reality of human freedom, quantum jumps in physics, or the claim of modern science that colors are not really present in the objects of perception but only in the mind of the beholder.

They said that women and laymen could preach, that the Church of Rome, being corrupt, was not the head of the Catholic Church, that only priests and bishops who lived as did the Apostles were to be obeyed, that prayers for the dead were useless, that sacraments administered by unworthy clergy were of no effect, that taking life is against God's law, that every lie is a deadly sin, and that oaths, as in courts, are clearly contrary to Christ's command.

Only by getting out of the center of things and helping laymen learn leadership skills can a minister enable his church to avoid the tragic waste of human capabilities so common in churches.

Laymen are not only capable of becoming mental health aides; they can serve as volunteers and do the housekeeping chores, so that their pastor might receive clinical training and become more professionally qualified.

Only in 398 did Emperor Acadius for the East and in 408 Honorius for the West limit the scope of the episcopal court in respect to Christian laymen to those cases in which both parties sought it in preference to the regular tribunal.

I actually wasn't sure whether only debt issued over Government bond is in the scope of this question so I just decided to add arbitration to my answer - for the layman that is some form of debt and proper legal advise is beyond my capabilities.

But even the layman or committee member can appreciate only a few things need to go wrong to bring the whole ponzi scheme tumbling around our ears.

The Lex - Warrier: Online Law Journal which seeks to focus on the burning issues in the legal scenario and to promote legal awareness not only among legal professionals but also among layman.

Morton Meyers's style is totally accessible to the layman and very readable, filled with anecdotes and enhanced by the occasional illustration; not only providing an enlightening read but leaving the reader with a wealth of bite - sized «did you know» facts to share on any occasion when the subject of health and medicine comes up, which tends to be an increasingly popular topic as we get inexorably closer to shuffling off our mortal coil!

Not only that, but the company is making a big push through convenience stores in order to reach the layman who has no idea about tablets.

I know the ps4 is beastly and yes gddr5 is the better choice In laymen terms gddr5 Fat pipe slow stroke the fat pipe allows for parallelism and large chunks but can afford high latency due to the fact that it can do other things while its waiting like «rendering» on a gpu cough cough gaming with tons of gpu accelerated post processing etc etc. ddr3 Skinny pipe Fast stroke not too skinny but smaller I / O channels and only writes or reads per cycle however the latency is much lower meaning compute intensive tasks can access ram in smaller chunks much more quickly.

First things first, The parity clause as it stands in laymen's terms means that Developers can only release their games on all consoles simultaneously or on the Xbox One first, if it hasn't already been released on other systems.

Layman observation: My area receives 720 Megga litres of rain per quare km per year, but the law only allows about 6ML of water in dams.

I only possess a layman knowledge of climate science, I am in no position to debate the science and neither is 99 % (I'm guessing) of the general population, we simply have to take your word for it.

My laymans» viewpoint is that as the Arctic ice has thinned (due to global warming, climate change), it has moved to where it only now responds to the weather (will the North Pole be ice free this year?

I really thought all 24 comments were excellent.I am not reassurred.I've posted a few times here on the RealClimate comment areas about the threat of methane melting from the ocean floor in the Arctic.I still believe that the potential feedback mechanisms will be worse than described here in the article by Gavin.I am a layman only, Harvard, 1982, Boston College Law School, 1987.

It was only after the explosion that many layman accepted the science.

Speaking only as an interested layman, I do not think your claim obtains.

No matter HOW reasonable the terms «ritual» and «ceremonial» and «temple» SOUND to us as laymen, please be aware that there were many very practical people living in those old societies — carpenters, farmers, metal workers, bricklayers, architects, etc. — and the archaeological view that the societies were run predominantly by priest castes is only one point of view.

If the 4W / m - 2 figure for the surface warming bear is heading for 8W / m - 2 or 12W / m - 2 or 20W / m - 2 (I have no clue how big this is supposed to be, as a complete layman with no background in the field), while there's only ever going to be + / -0.02 W / m - 2 of cranky rhino and + / -0.0006 W / m - 2 of red herring, where is the issue?

As I see it, even laymen can be made understand, that the anthropogenic CO2 emissions control only about 4 % of atmospheric CO2 content at the most.

In layman terms this means that the Mann hockey stick study is only one of many studies and many lines of evidence that shows that the climate is warming.

People, including NASA people only showed positive results and used «colorful fluid dynamics» to convince laymen that the results were right.

Why isn't there out there someone who possesses not only expertise in the science, but an awareness of the needs of the intelligent layman?

Civic responsibility is a sense only garnered by a few and for the most part is exclusively held by laymen.

That is the kind of issue I was groping toward from my layman's perspective, that it * might * matter by more than a tenth or two if a temp record is only (Tmin + Tmax) / 2

My educated layman's physicist's gut (layman as far as climate science goes, not physics) tells me 2W / m2 out of the ocean seems pretty high given that the temperature difference is generated by a peak forcing of only -3.4 W / m2 - it implies that the ocean response is of the same order as the atmospheric response, which seems unlikely given the «impedance mismatch» between the ocean and atmosphere.

Subsampling is laborious and easily avoided for laymen working with spreadsheets only (like me).