Sentences with phrase «opponents of»

Benedict, who resigned Monday citing his advancing age, was one of the church's most visible opponents of liberation theology, a movement that began in Latin America in the 1960s.

No single man whose work and influence on the tradition we can trace shows any signs of the interest in historical reminiscence and accuracy which the opponents of form criticism ascribe to the «eyewitnesses».

A certain Fr Martin Rhonheimer, known for accusing opponents of «physicalism», has himself been accused by some prominent American writers of «intentionalism» and has laid the counter charge of «coming close to slander».

One goal for religious opponents of physician - assisted suicide is to keep the Democratic party at all levels neutral.

Opponents of circumcision argue the procedure can cause damage that ranges from nerve destruction and loss of normal tissue to infection, disfigurement and sometimes death.

Saturday's march called by the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua also drew tens of thousands of participants, including students, representatives of the private sector and opponents of the construction of an interoceanic canal.

Opponents of the measure were cast as religious bigots.

Let me just say that Yoder's The Politics of Jesus and The Christian Witness to the State are two classics that proponents and opponents of Christian nonviolence should check out.

«He believes in No - God, and he worships him,» said a colleague of mine of a student who was manifesting a fine atheistic ardor; and the more fervent opponents of Christian doctrine have often enough shown a temper which, psychologically considered, is indistinguishable from religious zeal.

Unfortunately, these are but a few questions which opponents of the current DOD policy do not wish to consider.

eg: «science doesn't explain what happened before the big bang, so God is real, ergo he created everything 6,000 years ago» — Opponents of abiogenesis belong here too.

Until then, the opponents of restrictions on contraceptive devices had failed to win a single legislative victory.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth granted the preliminary injunction because he held opponents of Obama's executive order had demonstrated they are likely to succeed at trial.

If we keep before us the self - revising imperative given by revelation we can hardly fall into the complacency of which opponents of the idea are understandably apprehensive.

Power and authority which determine the sphere of freedom without the free assent of the individual are indeed dangerous and only too often become depraved by the guilty selfishness of those in command, but they are not by their very nature immoral opponents of freedom.

Opponents of this view see for - profit corporations as fundamentally different from, for example, houses of worship.

The republicans (i.e., the reluctant supporters and anti-Federalist opponents of the new Constitution) supported a tradition of political thought that wanted to see government «make of its citizens the best people they are capable of becoming,» to inculcate moral virtue as it was defined by each concrete political community.

Gay activists «out» opponents of gay marriage and destroy their careers.

In fact, opponents of the ban allege that is its goal.

Political, or rather political - theological, parties appeared on the scene — the Kharijites, the Qadarites, the Shi`ites, the Murjites, and the Umayyads, who were the state party and the bitterest opponents of Ali and his followers.

Social critic Ernest van den Haag argues that any attempt to establish the moral wrongness of the death penalty must show that no crime ever deserves capital punishment; that is, he says, opponents of capital punishment must disprove the contention that there at least some convicted criminals who morally deserve execution.

For that reason, opponents of abortion must be ready to continue the struggle, no matter how efficient and privatized abortion becomes.

Only the Sanhedrin Jews and synagogue officials parade around in Jewish prayer shawls at all times, conveying the subliminal image that the «real»» the most religious» Jews were the most diabolically evil opponents of G - d's gift to Man.

George N. Boyd argues against the traditional position of the opponents of capital punishment that no crime ever «deserves» the death penalty, and suggests that the debate is not over what murderers deserve, but rather about how society should express and defend its fundamental values.

In fact, I think that opponents of capital punishment must do precisely the opposite.

But these opponents of evolution could not come to terms with the evidence for evolution, they could not reinterpret the Christian faith for the modern scientific mind.

Opponents of this view point to the overburdening of school curriculums with the most diverse conglomeration of subjects, to the detriment of the «basic» intellectual studies.

The tea partiers are taken as the latest conclusive evidence that the party of conservatism is simply the party of those who already have whatever human beings want to have — cosmic opponents of the party of those who do not yet have those things.

One suspects that the opponents of the Society would not have received these developments so tamely if Benedict XVI had implemented them.

For all its flexibility and its attractiveness to both the proponents and opponents of religion, the idea of a sacred canopy is not amenable to just any interpretation.

It seems that opponents of marriage equality always bring up this concept.

So also would religious opponents of medical treatment normally have to be overruled when the public health was endangered by neglect of treatment.

Supporters and opponents of the project will of course parse his words differently, but any reasonable person can see that he came across as a man both of peace and of principle.

What will those nasty, unscrupulous opponents of «social reform» think of next?

This reminds me strongly of the opponents of Jesus who would ridicule him on the finer points of keeping the Sabbath.

The genuinely subsidiarity - minded Porchers should be the most extreme opponents of the Pelosi / Obama health care reforms, even if they voted Obamacon out of anti-Bush spite or misty cultural concerns.

In the immediate context of The Challenge of Peace this conviction was focused specifically on the question of nuclear weapons and whether they might ever be morally used; the United States bishops» answer was No, and in this they concurred with a wide range of opponents of nuclear weapons around the world.

Thus when Prime Minister Julia Gillard (an avowed atheist who makes Nancy Pelosi seem like Margaret Thatcher) nonetheless announced that a «gay marriage» proposal would get a «conscience vote» in the federal parliament, she was accused by her lefter - than - left opponents of being... undemocratic.

That supporters and opponents of the president's policies have differing views is not surprising, and Is even desirable in a democracy.

One of the most passionate and articulate opponents of political control is Bernard Davis of Harvard University.

I believe Harpur represents one of the oldest opponents of Christianity: Gnosticism.

Richmonds Bishop Walter Sullivan, among the most outspoken Catholic opponents of U.S. aid to the contras, was so outraged that he publicly criticized Robertson, saying «I can not imagine Jesus reviewing troops.

Perhaps surprisingly, opponents of partial - birth abortion were able to use this doubt to their legislative advantage.»

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South.»

As the opponents of Marcion pointed out, right reading has as much, or more, to do with ecclesiology and confession as with method and virtuosity.

I will not deny that I give more weight than he does to the fact of the apparent inability of the opponents of the early Christian preaching to silence the message of the Resurrection once for all by producing Christ's remains.

The opponents of abortion would have more credibility if they also cared about babies after they are born, not only before.

Thus, argued opponents of this Marian privilege, to affirm Mary's Immaculate Conception was to belittle the redemption won by Christ.

Only in the last few decades has a genuinely alternative type of theology been at all widely considered — so unobtrusively, however, that many opponents of theism, even some of the most distinguished, are still fighting the older conception exclusively, convinced that if they can dispose of it the theological question will be settled.

In her eyes, by running ahead of the people, the now - infamous 1973 decision gave «opponents of access to abortion a target to aim at relentlessly.»