Sentences with phrase «point of criticism in»

The biggest point of criticism in Unlimited World Red Deluxe is, by far, regarding its controls.

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Ali, moreover, points out that planners, because they work so often with members of the public, need to be versed not just in the technical elements of the job; they must also possess exemplary communications skills, and have to be able to respond to criticism or skepticism from residents.

A number of people pointed out in response to Telnaes» tweet that most newspapers leave President Barack Obama's daughters out of their political criticism and editorial cartoons, even though they regularly appear with the president at political events.

The source of criticism lies in the 2 points just above — namely, ethical critique and moral disagreement.

One popular criticism of market - cap - weighted stock - market indexes is that they reinforce overvaluation, and if you are worried about occasional oddities in Chinese stocks — stocks that go up by their daily limit every day for weeks after they go public, for instance — then adding those stocks to international indexes at this particular point in the valuation cycle might worry you.

To the extent that I understand it, this criticism seems odd to me: after all, money flows around (and around and around) the economy, and is taxed at various points along the way (and is then injected back into the economy, of course, in the form of government spending).

DiCaprio has been the target of much criticism and ridicule in the media, especially on Twitter, with posters pointing to the hypocrisy of someone who makes $ 50M from a single movie, owns a private j...

O'Malley pointed out that he was not on the ballot and, in an implied criticism of Brown's campaign, said candidates always have to defend their records.

@Christine, Points well - made; your criticisms are indeed valid in some respects, arguably way off in others, but I get the gist of what you're saying.

When some asshat like you, just sayin, HeavenSent, Bob, etc. make blanket statements and refuse to respond to corrections, criticisms, or valid points refuting those statements, then there is no point in bringing up any kind of argument.

I would say Evans, and many of the commenters, are missing the point that several hundred years of scholarship in the fields of literary and textual criticism enable us to arrive at at - least reasonable interpretations of religious texts driven by context, the literary genre, etc..

It's to the point with some Christian posters here that any criticism of their actions and religious beliefs garners the immediate judgment that the person doing so is being hateful when, in reality, they are only fulfilling that very same Bible observation made by Jesus.

When we apply this position to Diem's original criticism of Käsemann, that the latter presented Jesus as only teaching general truths rather than the kerygma, it becomes clear that Diem has overlooked the crucial point: Käsemann went beyond the view that Jesus taught God's fatherhood and man's freedom, to the assertion that «God has drawn near man in grace and requirement,» and Jesus «brought and lived the freedom of the children of God».

On this point, he placed himself in alliance with Arthur Holmes and quoted approvingly of Holmes» criticisms that Clark had not properly understood the purpose of philosophy to elaborate a vision of life through a number of sources, including the philosopher's own historical context.

To suggest that total voluntary exclusion and participation in an individual's self selected religious practices and spiritual life is somehow politically incorrect or wrong, or making it a target of criticism or political point, is nothing less than a display of ignorance and disregard for individual rights.

Screenwriting is deemed to be part of «Literature,» as I said, so Guest rakes in points there and in «Visual and Performing Arts» Criticism and Practice (including Art, Architecture, Sculpture, Music, Theater, Film, and Dance).»

He believes there is some point to the criticisms that Bultmann dissolves Christology into soteriology, 3 for he has been unable «to express in an adequate way the «objective» reality of the revelatory event Jesus the Christ «4 even though he does «intend a divine act in the fully real and «objective» sense.

In my judgment both these criticisms have been overdone to the point of neglecting what Bergson was really about.

Anderson's best points are made in criticism of Fukuyama's determinism and inexplicable faith in mankind, but he displays the same weaknesses.

That went on for some time with only minor hiccups such as happens whenever humans gather until at some point, unbeknownst to me, we seemed to have slipped into this point where we were expected to have an affinity for the denomination and thus automatically hold its leadership in high regard and limit our criticism of such.

To this imbalance we shall need to address ourselves in other connections For the present we must only point out that whatever just criticism may have been made of theological schools in other countries and times because they were too remote from parish and national church activities and because they overlooked their responsibility for training preachers, pastors, evangelists and priests, the North American schools with which we are concerned have not erred in this direction.

The central point of the preceding criticisms is that it is not possible to understand human violence without acknowledging that human beings are addressed by the Word of God, and live their lives in reaction to this Word.

Some of Barr's criticisms are quite plausible, such as his point that Childs uses the word «canon» in several discrete and not self - evidently compatible senses.

In this last point we can see a family resemblance between deconstruction and political criticism, which practices a somewhat more traditional hermeneutic of suspicion.

[2] In expressing this point Ratzinger subtly shifts the debate away from an assessment of what the historical - critical method has achieved or not to a new openness for something which goes much further than historical - criticism itself.

I'm just grateful that he is someone I can point to as an example for my sons so that they can see that they are not alone in taking a stand for what they believe in, even in the face of hatred and criticism.

Two points of concern frequently cited are the Pope's praise of Walter Cardinal Kasper, who has proposed that divorced and remarried Catholics be allowed to receive Communion, after a period of penance and conscientious reflection, and the Pope's criticism of legalism when dealing with Catholics in troubled situations.

One of the points in which the criticism of the last century was most notably at fault was its assumption that the line ran from Mark through Matthew and Luke to John.

Scientists can be very pointed in their criticism of other scientists» methods and results.

The pagans in the Roman empire resented the Christian criticism of pagan polytheism by pointing out that the Christians themselves are polytheists:

Referring to the criticism made by Peter Beyerhaus and some others that in the World Council's emphasis on social and political justice there is present a social utopianism which denies the fact of sin and affirms a self - redemptive humanism, Thomas admitted that the danger is always present, but pointed out the opposite danger of not admitting the fact of divine grace and the power of righteousness it releases for a daring faith in the realms of social and political action.

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

This relationship is of some importance, for Weiss developed a point of view that is steeped in New Testament textual and historical criticism but is more far out than that of his father and much at variance with the nineteenth - century liberalism of Ritschl.

Erich Fromm's criticism of Christian ethics is fairly representative of the point of view of many who find the basis for a philosophy of self - realization in psychology.

In his presentation at the First International Whitehead Symposium at Bonn, August 25 - 28, 1981, Leclerc repudiated his earlier interpretation and criticism of Whitehead on this point, recognizing that Whitehead seriously intended to affirm the causal efficacy of past occasions.

So far as religious conceptions were able to touch this reality - feeling, they would be believed in in spite of criticism, even though they might be so vague and remote as to be almost unimaginable, even though they might be such non-entities in point of whatness, as Kant makes the objects of his moral theology to be.

Our criticism of them [the new points of view], and our attempts at a solution of our own we must then view in the light of the insecurity of the present situation, as attempts, not as final words.

In addition, Cox issued a new and revised edition of The Secular City in 1966, «to correct some of the more egregious overstatements, tone down an occasional vivid passage, and respond at points to helpful criticisms the book has elicited.&raquIn addition, Cox issued a new and revised edition of The Secular City in 1966, «to correct some of the more egregious overstatements, tone down an occasional vivid passage, and respond at points to helpful criticisms the book has elicited.&raquin 1966, «to correct some of the more egregious overstatements, tone down an occasional vivid passage, and respond at points to helpful criticisms the book has elicited.»

Somewhere in the depths of my confused soul, the previous point has a bit to do with why I've never converted to Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy even while finding many of their criticisms of my evangelical Protestantism convincing.

In doing so we do not wish to imply criticism of the Cardinal, who scored some effective points and gave impressive witness by his willingness as a Prince of the Church to engage seriously with Dawkins on live TV.

Henry P. Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary, New York, in another article in the Christian Century entitled, «What Stanley Jones Missed at Madras» tried to answer the criticism of Jones.38 Van Dusen pointed out that Stanley Jones was guilty of an «elementary confusion of thought» in his discussion of Kingdom and Church.

In The Beguiled, he works to charm each female member of a small seminary school in the Confederacy while the men are away and the slaves have run off (a plot point that has earned a lot of criticism for its inherent white - washingIn The Beguiled, he works to charm each female member of a small seminary school in the Confederacy while the men are away and the slaves have run off (a plot point that has earned a lot of criticism for its inherent white - washingin the Confederacy while the men are away and the slaves have run off (a plot point that has earned a lot of criticism for its inherent white - washing).

In reply to this criticism one must grant the point that a metaphysical account of experience, taken by itself, does not and can not give a fully adequate description of the nature of man, especially of man in his religious dimensioIn reply to this criticism one must grant the point that a metaphysical account of experience, taken by itself, does not and can not give a fully adequate description of the nature of man, especially of man in his religious dimensioin his religious dimension.

Some things are worthy of criticism — and my point is to do it in a Christ - honoring way.

This is the whole point of form criticism — or tradition criticism, as it ought to be called: the units in the evangelic tradition were handed down orally, in separation, and in the form given them by the earliest preachers and teachers of the gospel, the «gospel» being, not the total story of the life of Jesus, but the proclamation of the message of salvation through him, a salvation fully to be effected in the future, though it could be realized in anticipation even now, before the final Parousia.

But Buchler, again like White - head, does much more than find fault with traditional metaphysics — he elaborates an alternative system of categories.1 Because his alternative categorial scheme is very different, the points Buchler makes in criticism of traditional metaphysics are interestingly different from those made by Whitehead.

It concerns the justification of punishment, an ethics of obligation, and the existence of guilt — all important points in Professor Weiss's criticisms of Whitehead.

(I might say in this context that I find Muray's apparent criticism of Hauerwas on the point that the latter focuses too much on Christianity's «internal criteria of truth without reference to publicly accessible criteria of common human experience and rational inquiry» (87) somewhat ironic.)

From a more abstract point of view, as we have seen, Aquinas puts out a very stringent criticism, sober and terse, though it is in the final sentence on the subject.

But a deeper reason than mere contrariness motivates Fish's literary criticism; and to read his earlier work in the light of his latest Milton book points to a feature of his thought too little noted in the past.