Yet, because its Christian tradition was relatively strong, Britain could not remain insensible to Gandhi's
preachment of nonviolence.
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.
The great nevertheless which we oppose to this of all diseases makes no sense except as
a preachment of Christ's mercy.
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.
Not exact matches
Not all Christology fits the contours
of our lives, not all Christology can be consumed without remainder in moral examples and ethical
preachments.
But not all Christology fits the contours
of our lives, not all Christology can be consumed without remainder in moral examples and ethical
preachments.
It was no better than the piety
of bourgeois idealism with its naive
preachments about moral optimism, its identification
of the ideal society with the Kingdom
of God, and its simple confidence in the possibility
of implementing in public life the absolutes
of the Christian faith.
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.
We officially make noises like the moralists, knowing that such
preachments are not effective in the face
of secular calls to absolute freedom.
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.
A certain degree
of bombast can be expected at these
preachments to believers.
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.