Sentences with phrase «peculiar way of»

«Life has a peculiar way of setting us on paths that we never expected to travel.

This provides me an identity, this name and my own peculiar way of writing.

Pie charts struck me as a very peculiar way of representing population decline.

I don't believe it's true, but your insistence on a structured pursuit of «parallel lines of investigation», although a peculiar way of restoring to climate «science» the parsimony it should never have lost, is perhaps no less valuable for that.

Trained as a painter, Leyla started working with three - dimensional elements and generated a very peculiar way of thinking about the conditions of painting within a sculptural and architectural context.

Their hilarious antics and peculiar way of looking at the world capture our hearts and fill us with laughter, and when they leave this world, the love they have given remains with us forever.

We loved it when he played with a stick — he had a peculiar way of bounding at it with all four feet off the ground - rather like a fox.

The threat of mortality has a peculiar way of amplifying a person's regrets.

The 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid attests to Subaru's peculiar way of doing things.

How these schools are succeeding is important to note, says Chenoweth, and writing them off as outliers, as many in education have done, seems to her a peculiar way of thinking.

So you could say by C.P. Snow's rather peculiar way of looking at the world that I've looked at two of the century's greatest Englishmen.

I have a peculiar way of learning and I think it must be a peculiar man to teach me successfully.

But if the stated goal was to recruit new members, the Republicans sure had a peculiar way of showing it.

Each mountain — and each downhill — has its own personality, its own quirks and beauties, its own peculiar way of testing a racer.

In reading a text like the Bible, one is well aware of its special authority and its peculiar way of questioning us.

You have, to understate it, a rather peculiar way of referring to the perpetrator of a homicide, a murderer.

To the contrary, precisely because of the idiosyncratic reality of God and God's peculiar way of being present, interests in liberation from oppression, realization of our full humanity, and the righting of injustice are mandated as an integral part of interests in God.

The fact that interest in God's idiosyncratic reality and peculiar ways of being present are situated means, in short, that the conceptual growth they guide is always open to the suspicion of being in bad faith, of being more of an interest in using God for our own purposes than an interest in apprehending God for the sake of apprehending God.

(b) These abilities are guided by interests in God's peculiar ways of being present, interests in them for their own sake rather than for their moral, therapeutic, or redemptive consequences.

The capacities needed to apprehend God must be guided by interests in God's peculiar ways of being present and by God's idiosyncratic reality, not by persons» interests in realizing or fulfilling themselves; but the shaping and transforming of persons» identities this involves will in fact also bring with them movement toward fulfillment of their humanity.

The way to crimes against humanity was prepared by peculiar ways of thinking about humanity.

If anything is redemptive it is God's own peculiar ways of being present in history, and congregations are constituted by the practices in which they respond to that redemptive presence.

Unusually large gatherings in North American churches at Christmas and Easter tend to suggest that they are at least as much celebrations of loyalty to family and its tradition as they are response to God's peculiar ways of being present in Jesus of Nazareth.

Not exact matches

«Buying the yen because of a trade war in which Japan was going to be hit pretty badly, and Japan hasn't been exempted from the steel tariffs by the way, that seems to me pretty peculiar,» Giles Keating, managing director at wealth manager Werthstein Institute, told CNBC.

«Call of Duty: Black Ops 4» was announced in a peculiar way: NBA star James Harden wore a hat bearing the logo seen above, which led to speculation about a forthcoming announcement.

While, as McGraw reminds us, «a movie is not a driver's manual for the road of life,» Tarantino and Theology has opened up to its readers several concrete ways of appreciating Tarantino's peculiar form of religious devotion.

It is a way of dissolving, as it were, the detachment from place, a moment of rest from wayfaring in which, as Kate says, place reveals its «peculiar reality.»

What Runyon has failed to see here is the fact that Altizer, in his own peculiar way, is much a part of the «new hermeneutic.»

For the saving love of God to be present to human beings it would have to be so in a way different from how it is present to other aspects of the body of the world — in a way in keeping with the peculiar kind of creatures we are, namely, creatures with a special kind of freedom, able to participate self - consciously (as well as be influenced unconsciously) in an evolutionary process.

To say that God is not an item in the cosmos is a wholly negative remark; but to say, in traditional theological terminology, that one of the peculiar ways God is present to that cosmos is as the Holy One is to say something positive.

Any effort to understand God truly that is guided by an interest in the peculiar ways in which God is present involves acquiring capacities for critique of falsity, including the falsity of ideology.

At the same time, however, and more than any other in the company, he anticipates in two regards that succession of prophets beginning with Amos to which he is in a peculiar way the forerunner.

That is one of the peculiar ways in which God is present to us.

The peculiar circumstances of the English Reformation account in part for the gradual way in which marriage evolved.

The pastor went to Romans 12:2 («Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind») and explained, «One of the ways we show we are sons and daughters of God is there's been an inward transformation that has lead to an external, outward transformation that the world finds peculiar.»

I shall return to how he suggests we understand value arising from what is being called, in his peculiar way a «society,» but the point from Adventures of Ideas is clear enough: however we learn to appreciate the status of a complex whole comprised of constituents, it must be construed in a manner which permits that complex whole to serve in turn as constituent within a larger and more complex level of organic whole.

A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society by Rodney Clapages InterVarsity, 251 pages, $ 14.99 paper A prolific evangelical Protestant writer, Clapp proposes an understanding of «church as way of life» along lines made familiar by the work of Stanley Hauerwas.

This peculiar kind of hope itself opens up the possibility of a particular stance in the world: one of concern for others even at the expense of concern for the survival of our way of life.

rather than viewing each individual character or incident as only an instance of some collectivity or trend, is able to see the specific, the novel... the way even the «typical» diverges from type... [and can] recognize the peculiar dialectic between continuity and discontinuity in tradition.

Alliances have been forged between representatives of religious traditionalism and segments of the technical intelligentsia in a way that would have seemed peculiar up until recently.

And Mexico continues to have a widespread appreciation for the transcendental, but this appreciation is largely apolitical; it remains, in a peculiar way, the domain of the church.

We do not wish to ask such a question, for it reflects a perspective peculiar to our own way of thinking.

This peculiar particularity of the nexus between actual entities can be put another way.

At the end of the year I concluded that a group of people can not regularly gather for what they feel to be religious purposes without developing a complex network of signals and symbols and conventions — in short, a subculture — that gains its own logic and then functions in a way peculiar to that group.

It is true that «in the historical Jesus, God's will - to - value - and - fellowship «22 met a special fulfillment in a peculiar, reciprocal intensification of mutual involvement, but this in itself is not the way God became human, although from a human perspective it may make accessible to us the richness of God's concern for us.

Why is it necessary to transcend the language of history in this peculiar way?

Bultmann, however, will not admit these alternatives, and feels obliged to adopt a peculiar way out of his own.

Lewis never tired of explaining the peculiar and ultimate way that myths are true.

In this way, a peculiar completeness of summing up would be accounted for and the question of common characteristics would be seen as entirely secondary.

As far as the actual senses are concerned, ours is in many ways a culture of peculiar poverty, evident even — perhaps especially — in its excesses.