Sentences with phrase «precepts from»

What you have yet to «prove» is how you can get immaterial precepts from that which is purely physical in nature.

We got our basic precepts from somewhere.

But we don't need precedents or precepts from hagiography, since the Lord himself instructs us when we pray to say Abba, Father.

See: Mormons share with orthodox Christians some important moral precepts from the Bible.

Its virtue, to borrow a precept from Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, is that it refuses to treat its subject with a greater precision than is appropriate.

Why, he asks, have Christians not acted up to this precept from their highest authority?

DETROIT - With hundreds of millions of dollars of private and federal research work behind it, the Precept from General Motors, an experimental model to be introduced here Sunday, is probably the most expensive single car ever built.

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After explaining that she had picked up the precepts of medieval palmistry decades ago, from an art - historian neighbor whose specialty was Hieronymus Bosch, Atwood spent several disconcerting minutes poring over my hands.

Those of us who hang out a fair bit on blogs and online will be familiar with many of David's precepts, from his long, detailed and popular answers on the topic on Quora.

The topics and texts include some esoteric items, such as the ranking of churches and discussion about a common calendar; but they also include problems that emerge from adapting an ancient faith to a modern reality — like precepts of fasting and, in particular, regulations of marriage in a multicultural and interreligious world.

From this conviction stem precepts that are legitimate for all peoples, and in no way can they be abrogated.

Certainly the new element can not simply be separated from one's ordinary life, but by fulfilling the precepts of the catechism and the commandments of the Church and being in this sense a good Christian, we have not yet adequately responded to God's call to our concrete and unique person.

On this account, natural law is derivative from the right of nature, in the sense that the former consists in general precepts with which reason counsels the pursuit of self - preservation, and the social contract is based solely on those precepts.

Accordingly, the first precept of practical reason is that «good is to be done and promoted, and evil is to be avoided» (637, emphasis deleted), which means that the natural law is somehow derived from the comprehensive good defined by the final end or divine purpose.

To illustrate by a few examples from his precepts, note the reason given for the course of action that is enjoined, «Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven» (Matt.

Already in Nigeria, the Sudan, Indonesia and the Philippines as well as Brazil and Guatemala, rapidly growing religious factions are fiercely competing for converts, struggling for political power, inciting persecution and trying to legislate and enforce laws taken from various sacred precepts.

To those who take their moral imperatives from the consciousness movement and find their highest wisdom in its survivalist precepts, this film speaks a warning word.

The Gospel precepts, on the whole, differ from those in the Epistles in making no attempt to accommodate Christian obligation to the practical possibilities of the human situation.

«49 Mandates are different from ethical precepts, for the latter concentrate upon what is not permitted while mandates give positive instruction for the content of life.

It is indeed this capacity to exist, by belonging to a system of freedoms, which is postulated here; thereby is concretized «that perspective» (Aussicht), evoked from the beginning of the Dialectic, that view «into a higher immutable order of things, in which we already are, and in which, to continue our existence in accordance with the supreme decree of reason, we may now, after this discovery, be directed by definite precepts» (p. 112).

He was fashioning a «how it worked» program from the Akron success with the Bible and the precepts of the Oxford Group.

The gay rights movement has taken much from the pages of the civil rights movement, but, tellingly, it is rejecting one of the civil rights movement's most important (if not its most important) precepts: love your enemies.

«Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men» Isaiah 29:13

It seems unobscure that the species of human freedom endorsed here precludes, at the very least, an immediate movement from ontology to ethics, from the «is» to the «ought,» without the intermediate operation of our functionally ultimate valuation — thus affirming, in part, Sartre's claim: «Ontology itself can not formulate ethical precepts.»

This admixture appears based upon the conjunction of revealed religion with the natural law as set in creation by its Creator, at the head of which is the mind of man — law which defines nature's constitution from the physical to the structure of human society, including the general moral precepts by which it must be governed.

Speaking of the non-Christian religions, the Council taught that the Church «has a high regard for the manner of life and conduct, the precepts and doctrines which, although differing in many ways from her own teaching, nevertheless often reflect a ray of that truth which enlightens all men.

The lack of the authenticating thread for genuine natural law - the nonnegotiable insistence that there are some universally valid precepts derivable by nature and unable not to be known (however much we are tempted to overlook them or pretend we do not know them)» is most clearly evident in the sections of each chapter where Porter sketches what contemporary moral theology can discover from her medieval labors.

Apparently, the Inquirer and mayoral candidate Jim Kenney find it morally problematic that some Roman Catholics believe that those who are happy to take pay checks from Roman Catholic organizations and to use the Roman Catholic name to promote their institutions should actually uphold by precept and example the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.

He will rather tend to a state in which he is freed from the obligation of the content of the various moral norms and precepts themselves because he can grasp the saving forgiveness of God even as a sinner and while remaining one.

And in truth just this demand for complete obedience which involves the whole man takes a heavy burden from man, however paradoxical this sounds; for he is now set free from the endless and useless task of searching for commands and prohibitions which he must know in order to act rightly; from the fear of having failed here and there because he did not know the scriptural precept or its right interpretation; from the contempt which was felt for the people who did not know the Law.

On the lowest level are tactical precepts such as occupying the centre squares, avoiding loss of material through forks and pins, protecting the king — precepts which every duffer can master, but which the master is free to overrule by shifting his attention to the next higher levels of strategy, where material may be sacrificed and the king exposed in an apparently crazy move which, however, is more promising from the viewpoint of the game as a whole.

If they agree that faith alone in Jesus Christ is sufficient for eternal salvation then tell them that they are either divergent from stated Mormon precepts or that they don't really understand what they're «supposed» to believe.

They invoked God in their civil assemblies, called upon their chosen teachers of religion for counsel from the Bible, and recognized its precepts as the law of their public conduct.

This guidance seems like a first rough draft of the present Catholic practice of excusing ourselves from most disciplinary precepts, including those pertaining to fasting and abstinence.

Some of King's precepts come from teaching pros, some are a little bit Zen, and a lot of them she makes up as she goes along.

Instead, they continue to trumpet that the only authentic way to give birth is according to their extremely narrow precepts, and that anyone who deviates from them (or worse, adheres to them and is disappointed in her experience) is a «failure» at birth.

But police forces get their money from the local precept too.

This hike in the Parish precept, alone, will add # 50 to the average CT bill in the coming year - before including proposed rises from Herefordshire Council; the Police Authority, and the Fire & Rescue Authority.

Police authorities are funded from two key sources: central government grant and precept.

To raise this amount of money, Livingstone would need to find more funds from the council tax precept, and more revenue from TfL.

In consistently pursuing to keep his scientific opinions free from political influence and revision, Dr. Hansen has drawn attention to the broader issue of political interference in scientific communication; a process that he warns is «in direct opposition to the most fundamental precepts of science.»

From the simplest of precepts Japanese director Kore - eda Hirokazu spins a marvellously tender story of parents and children in Like Father, Like Son, as well as a subtle portrayal of the nuances of contemporary Japanese society.

Under the precepts of the decades - old, traditional public education model the district clings to, children are supposed to come to school well - fed, well - rested and from stable, middle - class families.

Richard X. Bove, an analyst with Punk, Ziegel & Co., called the plan «yet another idea to drive funds away from the markets,» adding that «the concept of forcing banks to keep bad loans on their books violates every precept of regulation in American banking.»

The 20 essays and book reviews that comprise Words For Art assess the practices and precepts of a wide range of artists, critics, and historians — from E. H. Gombrich's theory of perception and Walter Benjamin» views on color to the conceptual underpinnings of Mel Bochner's word paintings and the complications of Jack Tworkov's belief in the need for ethics in art.

Albers had arrived from Germany in 1933, bringing Bauhaus precepts with him: Focus on ordinary materials, what's close at hand; consider all materials and forms of equal value, and all combinations valid.

From the beginning I've always been excited by what I saw as the challenge of formal ideas, abstract precepts if you like.

The work, by its very nature, comes from an instinctual emotion, and relationships are formed on the same precepts.

Rather, it is placed in the context of works by a diverse array of artists that includes Sherrie Levine, Barbara Kruger, Lari Pittman, Nam June Paik, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Charles Ray, Sarah Charlesworth and Jasper Johns (some hailing from the Pictures Generation, others definitely not), a curatorial move that embeds Koons's Neo-Dada roots within a specific set of precepts that flow forward and backward in time.

During the 1960s, Jones developed a stylized visual language for painting the human figure which marked a departure from 19th century artistic precepts.