Sentences with phrase «quite different»

But there is a tendency to exclude from Christian appreciation and appropriation experience and memory that could enrich us and add to our ability to attain solidarity with human beings who live with quite different meanings.

Practicing dogmatic religion at the expense of loving God and surrendering one's heart to God means something quite different.

And yet what I am pleading for when I urge a return to real religion is something quite different.

1830), Schleiermacher made a similar but quite different move, concentrating on the human self - consciousness, which he determined to be characterized by «the consciousness of being absolutely dependent, or, which is the same thing, of being in relation to God.»

Some concern abilities and capacities normally acquired by reflective participation in practices that comprise other quite different institutions, such as hospitals, congregations, agencies providing assistance to the disadvantaged, and the like.

Accordingly, there are two quite different sorts of capacities that qualify one to be a «teacher» in theological education as paideia.

In this chapter the author names two quite different models of excellent schooling.

This definition of the theological task is quite different from that of process theology.

It is as though there are two quite different claims that are being defended.

Even those who honestly describe themselves as «religious» do not in the least act up to it, and so they presumably mean something quite different by «religious».

One goes to church for purposes quite different from, even opposed to, analysis.

Overcoming of sexism or anti-Judaism requires that consciousness be raised through a challenge from a quite different perspective.

In this way Christian paideia, like paideia in Plato's day, bore on the public realm, but in a quite different sense of «public.»

Christian fundamentalists, of course, give solid support to Israel against the Palestinians for reasons quite different from those of Jews.

By faith Christians confess «that God has created me and all that exists,» which is something quite different than claiming to know that once upon a time in the far distant past God created the very same structures in which people now participate.

If we now understand religion and morality as forms of life and experience that are quite different from that of science, the same can also be said of our understanding of philosophy and metaphysics.

Brooke reminds us that «two quite different meanings could... be attached to Darwin's Origin [of Species]-- that it was consistent with a biblical religion (as long as one did not take Genesis literally) and, conversely, that it undermined it.

Two: It seems that these exercises in process hermeneutics are done as exercises in Biblical theology; but it is «Biblical theology» in two quite different senses of the term (although they could be interrelated).

This is «Biblical theology» in quite a different sense of the term.

Late - twentieth - century theological schools in North America, however, exhibit the strain of trying to appropriate two quite different models of excellent schooling, both of which are by this time traditional in our cultural setting.

It seems to me that Biblical texts are put to two quite different uses in these texts.

So «context relative» means something quite different in the fields of conceptual knowing and material being.

Likely their opinions would have been quite different with the knowledge modern technology affords us.

Realism would make us demur from the statement» «context relative» means something quite different in the fields of conceptual knowing and material being.»

We must read the Old Testament through the lens of Jesus, and see that Jesus shows us what God is truly like, even though much of the Old Testament portrays something quite different.

She spoke of the future: «You are young, and maybe when you reach my age the world will be quite different.»

Possibly, however, it originally had quite a different meaning, not incompatible with Jesus» purpose and attitude.

The secular view is quite different and more complex or nuanced, if you will.

But at the same time that I find Whitehead's thought so deeply satisfying, I realize that there are others, more intelligent and sensitive than myself, who see all things in some quite different perspective.

This «eye of the heart» sees freedom in a quite different way from the typical liberal idea of unfettered choice.

Historical Christianity, as a matter of fact, has taken a quite different line.

In the second place, this throws quite a different light upon the situation to which Mascall appeals as the real warrant for a doctrine of analogy.

In this respect, Allison is quite different from N.T. Wright, who has far more confidence in his ability to reconstruct a historical portrait that coincides with the picture depicted by the canon and the Church.

But from a logical point of view it is essentially quite different.

But to reject them and to want them silenced by church authority are two quite different matters.

I will further try to show that Whitehead the metaphysician displays interests in important respects not unlike those of Hegel, but that in his solutions to certain metaphysical problems, Whitehead not only evidences a conception of metaphysics quite different, and considerably more modest than that of Hegel, but also (and this will be my main point) develops his position in terms of a logic that is entirely non-dialectical.

I suspect she will lose that lawsuit, because issuing a license in her capacity as a county clerk is quite different from whether she herself believes that gay people should be able to get married.

In quite different ways, the names of Hume and Hegel suggest some of these reasons to those familiar with the history of modern philosophy.

... Is it not easily possible that Paul has placed something quite different or even his own concept of faith in the place of Jesus?»

Keep in mind the creator god that the Deists believed in (ala Madison, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, etc.) was quite different than the God fundamentalists believe in today.

In his treatise On the Trinity Augustine states that it is not «in the least relevant to salvation what our imaginations picture him like, which is probably quite different from the reality.»

Many students of humanity are willing for reductionism to have its way in the rest of the world, but most are determined to adopt a quite different approach in the study of human beings.

The leaven of bread is quite different from the leaven of theology.

He came from another seminary, he was single, and he had a quite different role on campus, working especially with international students.

«I've said that often enough, but it sounds quite different when you say it.

Just as Wesley does not fit today's model of the conservative evangelical, so also his liberalism was quite different from that of many contemporary liberals.

Contemporary environmentalists transform Francis's biblical piety about God's creation into a prototype of their worship of a quite different god, Gaia.

The strange thing is, our bags of rocks may look quite different.

Among past theologians, Troeltsch and Otto come closest to this theological method, but today, approximation to their approach leads to quite different results.

The result is a position quite different from both the idealism and the naturalism current at that time, or indeed at any time.