Sentences with phrase «point at issue»

What, then, are basic points at issue between the schools and Christian ethics?

However, the very point at issue is whether the universe does have the necessary mode of being.

I had one lawyer outright lie to a judge in chambers on a key point at issue, a lie for which I was ready with materials in response.

His lack of control on the very point at issue was the reason for the litigation.

So the real point at issue between Christianity and modern man is not mythology but the Krisis: it is man's rebellion against God.

In the attempts to persuade the polytheists to accept this pure monotheism, the chief point at issue is the question of the proper object of worship.

If Bultmann's concern for demythologizing is a valid one, and if the sole point at issue is where exactly the line is to be drawn between myth and kerygma, the only way forward is to take certain specific problems of exegesis one by one.

Well, yes, but that rather misses the whole point at issue, which is that the ban on contraception has created a crisis of conscience among Catholics who on every other point of faith and morality are obedient servants of the Church but who, as I put it, «find themselves unable to conform their beliefs or practices to Humanae Vitae.»

There are still deeper points at issue.

(The misconception hardly needs exposing for readers of Process Studies, but reference to it serves to bring into focus the basic point at issue.)

The discussion mooted can take place only when the preliminary question of mythology has been settled, so that it ceases to side - track or obscure the real points at issue.

However useful such arguments may be as a rallying cry, they are nevertheless unhelpful in understanding the point at issue between liberals and radicals or the stakes in their disagreement.

If they did not find the answer to their question in either the Qur» an or the Sunnah, they pondered the points at issue — guided by their knowledge of the aims and guiding principles of Islamic legislation — and came to conclusions which are consistent with the Qur» an and the Sunnah, and have the authority of legislation.

The point at issue is how we understand the fall.

For here the point at issue is not the relationship of an isolated God to an isolated man in Christ, but the relationship of the already given God - man to the likeness of man.

But the acceptability of his characterization of these two «trends» is one of the points at issue in this discussion.

He should indicate the major alternative viewpoints that are live options in our pluralistic culture; this may require an effort to inform himself concerning the current thought of scientists, theologians, and philosophers on the point at issue.

The point at issue between the poet and Christianity can be quite accurately defined in this way: Earthly love and friendship are partiality and the passion of partiality; Christian love is self - denying love, therefore it vouches for this «shalt».

The point at issue is that you have one distinction which is not in spatial terms and another which is in spatial terms.

Every church of the Reformation era (the Roman Church not excepted) fell in love with the idea of confecting long - winded confessions of faith — binding documents that spelled out in mind - numbing detail the correct positions to be held on all points at issue (Robert Farrar Capon in The Astonished Heart).

This second passage helps O'Connor's case only if we assume the point at issue, that when St Thomas says the Eucharist contains Christ who has suffered, he means the Real Presence contains Jesus in a wounded condition.

The double saying has no earlier history in the tradition; the point at issue is the question of repentance in face of a challenge, certainly a major concern of the message of the historical Jesus; the references to the queen of the South and the men of Nineveh are vividly apposite and absolutely in accord with Jesus» use of unlikely good examples in his comparisons (the Good Samaritan); and the element of warning in the saying coheres with a major aspect of the message of the parables.

But whether the Court's decision is rooted in the Constitution is precisely the point at issue.

There are two points at issue: first, a satisfaction which was a component in the process of an occasion would never truly be complete, for it would require successive modifications according to the new data made available through its relative effectiveness.

So maybe forehead had a point at some issues AW simply ruin some players» careers my evidence is Podolski, this guy can score goals he never misses three chances his left foot is a real killer but leProf cant use him the guy is not a winger (why not try OG12 as a winger and see what he can do), he cant find a way to get a lot from this guy he NEVER give him a lot of second chances either.

History tells us that companies with profit - margins to consider will generally put cost - price before nutrition, and whether or not sufficient subsidy could be raised to alter this approach is the point at issue.

The point at issue has never been whether personality is important, but rather the appropriate degree of attention that this one aspect of politics receives.

Instead of standing apart and leveling blame at each other as the problem, imagine you are standing together, side by side, pointing at the issue.

Ayres puts his finger on the point at issue: