Sentences with word «preachment»

T. Richard Snyder, for instance, suggests that the Christian preachment of reconciliation is unrealistic because it does not take account of the violence that is a necessary preliminary.

Not all Christology fits the contours of our lives, not all Christology can be consumed without remainder in moral examples and ethical preachments.

But if Bettelheim Is right, such preachments only turn the child off or at best are ignored.

We all know that mere preachments retain only a yawning audience at best.

From Plato's Republic to the several visions of H. G. Wells, the Utopias have served as the vehicles for the expression of wisdom about life, social preachment, and sheer imaginative delight.

The following example shows how one man moves with sustained interest and surprising force to a point that, handled otherwise, would have sounded like another dull preachment about «life's little things».

In some of the most vivid pages in The Fascist Revolution, Mosse describes Schuler trying to cure Friedrich Nietzsche of his madness with an ancient Roman spring rite, bizarre seances, theosophical preachments, and much other anti «Christian and anti «Enlightenment nonsense» seemingly harmless until one realizes the culture of irrational barbarism it did its part in conjuring.

Any other way is sweet but barren patriotic preachment.

This unfortunate dilemma could have been avoided if President Buhari had, immediately after assuming office, compensated political investors for their contributions to his victory without preachment on corruption of the past.

Yet, because its Christian tradition was relatively strong, Britain could not remain insensible to Gandhi's preachment of nonviolence.

We officially make noises like the moralists, knowing that such preachments are not effective in the face of secular calls to absolute freedom.

The great nevertheless which we oppose to this of all diseases makes no sense except as a preachment of Christ's mercy.

Supervised clinical experience further helped pastors and seminarians develop empathy and drop their preachments.

Inevitably, one must ask by what criteria one deems good the pronouncements of left - of - center geese while condemning the preachments of right - of - center ganders.

What we are seeing now is that the intolerant (religious proponents) are telling the world that THEY are the victims of persecution and hatred when in fact it is precisely the doctrines and preachments of the religions that are destroying our world.

A certain degree of bombast can be expected at these preachments to believers.