Sentences with phrase «priority of many»

The notion that private property is «most important» may reflect a vestigial Marxist bias about the priority of the economic component in social change.

Moreover, the priority of the first and more passive aspect of trust to the second and more active aspect of loyalty is absolute.

Further, since work is for the enhancement, and enrichment of the person and not the reverse, the encyclical is critical of a capitalism which denies this truth; it upholds the «principle of the priority of labor over capital.»

I believe that cultivating a culture of grace should be the main priority of the church, universal, as well.

Both proceed from the priority of what is preached over the event in itself: in the beginning was the Word.

To account for this priority of historical testimony over self consciousness, I would refer you to the description Kant gives of «aesthetic ideas» in the Critique of Judgment.

One element of originality is what we have just encountered: the thesis of the priority of the word over the event.

He goes further, however, and argues for the epistemic priority of practical knowledge to speculative knowledge.

To this reviewer, these conclusions» epistemic priority of practical experience, and a speculative element within every practical knowing» seem to clash.

All judgments based on the theory of discontinuity in the tradition and on the assertion of an evolutionary priority of the «simple» over the «complex» can thus be immediately called into question as lacking foundation.

Thus we assume the priority of material «stuff» over experience and make experience a passive reception of «matter» by our senses.

The growth in their treasure cities, Pithom and Rameses, was faster than that of New York and they sought priority of space over time.

In History and Hermeneutics, Carl E. Braaten criticizes Bultmann for not recognizing the «ontological priority of historical reality,» and for refusing to accept the fact that it is «the nature of faith to look to past fulfillment as well as future possibility.»

Consequently it would be erroneous to see Bultmann's theological position with regard to Jesus as a belated appendix to his historical position; if one were unwilling to concede that the theological and historical factors are inextricably intertwined, then one could equally well argue the priority of the theological.

In both cases, the priority of scriptural narrative itself was overturned.

One can observe the priority of practice, as a hermeneutical principle, in his sermons, essays, and books.

The Church can not sanction any act of sex outside of true, ie male / female, marriage, because it directly goes against the Church's primary vocation as the Bride of Christ, i.e. that Body of believers who spend their lives seeking «him whom my soul loves» (Sg 3:3) and making him the first priority of their lives.

Such an approach would neglect the temporal priority of empirical theology to process theology, as well as the relative independence of empirical theology over the years.

The sacramental principle, in which created matter and form can be apprehended in some authentic way as images of God, and as ways towards union with Him, is fundamental to the Catholic and Orthodox attitude to art, whereas the Protestant theological system relies on the priority of the word over the image as the medium through which God communicates Himself to us, and by means of which we apprehend Him.

Balthasar obviously argues for an analogical, archetypal and ontological priority of the Marian dimension.

A free society of civilised people could generally expect to see that the intervention of political society is a light one given the priority of society over the element dedicated to its governance.

The number one priority of Jesus was His relationship with God, and so He spent lots of time communicating with God through reading the Bible and praying.

It is not a question of the priority of self - transformation over systemic societal change.

The first Latin American pope has made fighting poverty a top priority of his papacy.

The approach taken in this book, however, emphasizes the theological priority of a disclosure of mystery as the whence of revelation, prior to doing Christology.

Do they feel complete in a religious institution that teaches deference to men and the priority of wifely duties, and that prescribes a dress code that may include a burka?

With regard to the evangelical insistence on the priority of evangelism, Thomas said that people are not isolated individuals but are social beings inextricably related to the structures of nature, history and cosmos through which they express the creativity of their freedom as well as the sin of self - love and self - righteousness.

The love ethic of Jesus had the effect of challenging the priority of all bloodline family relationships.

Given the priority of the moral and cultural questions that have redefined contemporary politics, most conservative Protestants might welcome the assurance that a Catholic candidate would take inspiration, if not «instruction,» from the pope.

While the state portrayed itself as a peace society that had exterminated the causes of war, capitalism and fascism and opposed NATO armaments, the church spoke of the priority of peace in personal and interpersonal life because God has reconciled the world through Jesus Christ.

Christians today often de-emphasize the importance of works because we don't want to diminish the priority of grace in salvation.

Over against what he perceives to be Weigel's giving too much away to Protestant ideas of communion as personal friendship and encounter, Cavadini reasserts the sacramental priority of grace as grounded in the connection between Christ as primordial sacrament and the church as sacrament (the Totus Christus).

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

The newness and expansiveness of the Internet, which techies laud, imperils the pedagogical priority of parents, and by extension the church and its authorities.

The word «result» is written with caution: there is no priority of moments in any temporal sense here, as if the Trinity is an emanation of the divine nature.

In the late 1990s, «gender equality» was transformed into a transversal priority of international cooperation, leading into the Millennium Development Goals forged by the UN Secretariat in 2001.

To appeal to any further authority to distinguish between text and theme is to set aside the priority of the Spirit - illuminated Word.

We point out in our editorial that «According to Catholic tradition the priority of Wisdom is found in God Himself».

• Not all of us aspire to heaven as quickly and completely as that holy man, but Our Lord does insist on the absolute priority of letting nothing come between us and our salvation.

This solidarity gives me hope — and is, I believe, a very important model for the church of prioritizing relationship in the Body of Christ in the midst of diversity over the priority of being right, certain etc..

Averroës proposed to correct Avicenna in two ways: first, that the essence of corporeal form lies in indeterminate dimensions, thus asserting the priority of spatiality in the abstract over the particular incidental form of a body, its so - called determinate dimensions; second, a characterization of corporeal form as «merely the capacity of prime matter for natural motion and as merely the tendency to move to its natural place» (CM 40), a harbinger of the formalities of dynamics to come.

Third, the structure of the sermon demonstrates the theological priority of grace.

(1) The priority of «the spiritual,» and of theology, is a paramount thrust in the analysis and description of preaching in the preceding chapters.

Hobbes» radical materialism, which accompanies his rejection of the priority of natural law to human rights, invites Rousseau's idealism, or his craving for a comprehensive moral order not grounded in nature but created by human beings.

Throughout the previous pages (and preceding chapters) we have been speaking about the priority of theology and its critical role.

- the priority of unity over plurality (uniformity) One - way communication «from above to below» corresponds to the hierarchical system of strict superiority and subordination.

The nine benchmarks also accept the contemporary understanding of time, the role of unpredictability (novelty), persuasion as a higher form of power than coercion, and the priority of evolution and change (instability) over equilibrium or stasis.

In addition to the priority of experience in process philosophy, many feminists have noted the importance of Whitehead» s attempt to overcome classical dualisms.

In their place one puts the ontological priority of the concept of a person and the properly derivative nature of the mental and the physical.

But both must come after the supreme priority of becoming a disciple of Jesus.