Sentences with phrase «radical claims of»

Of course, there are also questions about how the results were created and given the radical claims of the author, it is surprising that this data is not clearly presented in the papers:

Or is living in «reasonable» comfort under such conditions a cop - out, with the only faithful response being obedience to the radical claims of the Sermon on the Mount?

Not exact matches

«At the minimum [Duterte] shouldn't be seen as giving up our claims to Scarborough, or seen as backtracking given the favorable ruling of the Arbitral Tribunal,» said Renato Reyes, the secretary - general of radical grassroots coalition Bayan, according to Hayton.

In a series of responses over the weekend, Trump alternately called Khan's son a hero, while claiming that the argument was a matter of «radical Islamic terror» and also suggesting that Khan's wife stood silent during his convention speech because their religion forbade her to do so.

Yes, this will make them God's people, but it will also mean a death of the self, and a radical transfer of allegiance from all systems and claims.

To claim that the Republican Party (or any political party for that matter) represents the holy, radical teachings of Jesus Christ is just plain ridiculous in my opinion, perhaps even blasphemous.

Hence a radical faith claims our contemporary condition as an unfolding of the body of Christ, an extension into the fullness of history of the self - emptying of God.

A theology of women's experience may not make quite so radical a claim.

We make no claim concerning the motives of our radical adversaries, but we do not hesitate to insist that their ideas range from the merely silly to the deeply pernicious.

The claim that the concrete contains the abstract can not overcome the problem of radical particularity.

Although the formulation of the question was not always precise, the everyday experience of black suffering, arising from black people's encounter with the sociopolitical structures controlled by whites, created in my consciousness a radical conflict between the claims of faith on the one hand and the reality of the world on the other.

They share with others the discernment of a theocentric and radical Jesus who looks very different from later claims about him.

The second part of the book is theological rather than critical or historical, and it advances the claim that it is precisely the most radical expressions of the profane in the modern consciousness (Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Freud, Proust, Kafka and Sartre) that can be dialectically identified with the purest expressions of the sacred.

We must be willing to assert the increasingly radical claim that there are some things too sacred to be bought and sold, that there are spheres of human life into which markets can not be permitted to enter.

Just like certain radical, hate - filled, and violent people claim to be «Christian,» but have nothing to do with the teaching of Christ, so also, some racists claim to be Pagan but are not representative of the entire group.

That our laws permit the killing of unborn children is already a sign of the barbarity which arises from radical individualism, albeit it dressed as virtue in the claim to be ensuring the «right to reproductive health».

I think the primary difference between Coots as being representative of Christians and Pol Pot representing atheists is that Coots, like many Christians, claimed to believe in a specific creed whereas there is no atheist creed, Pol Pot pushed a radical form of agrarian socialism on his people.

The charity said because of the legal ambiguity, the laws have been abused by radical Hindu nationalist groups to «harass and intimidate Christians while claiming to be under the auspices of state law.»

In Weber's typology, a prophet is an agent of radical social change, a charismatic figure claiming a personal, divine call to act and sometimes attracting followers.

The doctrine is found to be nothing less than the comprehensive statement of the gospel's most radical claims, and — as I have often put it — is therefore not a theological puzzle but the framework within which to deal with theological puzzles.

Since the thought of God's claim and of decision is more radically conceived by Jesus than it is in Judaism, his concept of sin is also more radical.

In Just War Against Terror Elshtain argues «that true international justice is defined as the equal claim of all persons in the world to having coercive force deployed in their behalf if they are victims of one of the many horrors attendant upon radical political instability....

Second, preparation for leadership in academic disciplines that claim to be scientific and rarely includes the kind of study that facilitates radical self - criticism.

First from the point of view of those who claim the building will be an insult over the event of 9/11, I don't think any one can take away from them that feeling, be it genuine or otherwise, the fact still remains, that a group of radical individuals, who claim to be Muslims, killed innocent individuals from all walks of life; race and religion and country, in the name of Islam.

The Catholic instinct correctly realized the radical character of the Protestant proposal, for the reformers claimed the Church had misunderstood its own Bible.

But even they show that the contrary is the case, as Altizer himself demonstrates when he claims that he is talking about the absolute immanence or «presence - in - this - world» of the Word or Spirit, in consequence of the radical kenosis or self - emptying of the transcendent deity usually denoted by the word «God».

Proudfoot's dilemma presumes that just such a pure account of religious experience is claimed by all theologians who talk about religious experience; but this simply does not apply to American radical empiricists who assumed that experience is always already an interdependent combination of facts and values, objects and subjects.

However both Whitehead and Derrida's critique of modernism present a noble and exciting possibility for decentering the domination and absolutist claims of modernity; opening the way for other philosophical perspectives without necessarily falling prey to a radical relativism.

Singular psyches are better conceived, in the view I have been sketching, as fleeting nodes in a multi-layered semiotic network whose connectivities are both ensured and characterized by shared modes of symbolization, or signification, such as language supplies.24 Here the «We» often claims the last word, but so long as some vestige of radical imagination remains, singular psyches are not subservient to public customs, institutional definitions, entrained instincts, ingrained habits, and soon.

These curious claims by Albert Schweitzer (in The Philosophy of Civilization [Macmillan, 1949]-RRB- lead one to wonder what he means by mysticism and whether, in the face of being variously labeled «idealist,» «rationalist,» «existentialist» and «radical» free - thinker, he is a mystic after all.

For, claims Wills, «the opposite of hierarchy is equality, and Jesus was a radical egalitarian.»

Radicals, they claim, selectively criticize Western - oriented dictators and seldom denounce the flagrant abuse of human rights in communist countries.

Is it not the claim of our Lord that his radical new birth brings about just such change?

Albert Schweitzer's curious claims lead one to wonder what he means by mysticism and whether, in the face of being variously labeled «idealist,» «rationalist,» «existentialist» and «radical» free - thinker, he is a mystic after all.

The apparatus of scholarship is there, but the book's each and every claim represents a radical reduction of social reality and experience, particularly Faludi's presumption that any rethinking undertaken by any feminist at any time, if the thinker in question comes out at some place Faludi dislikes, constitutes a prima facie case that the woman in question has become a backlash pawn.

The unfortunate effect of this is that governments and more radical Catholic priests in turn claim that the Church does not care for the poor.

The exclusiveness of Yahweh's radical claim upon the people of the covenant calls us out of any symptom of manmade security.

Not only do such actions represent a radical departure from past times in America, when government refused to legitimate ethnic - group rights and claims, but they also encourage a polarization rather than unification of our diverse population — a trend that can result only in the eventual creation of de jure ethnic and racial geographic enclaves and political parties, with the appointment and election of individuals mandated along racial, religious and ethnic lines.

Instead, it is a tradition that claims in radical fashion that it strives to live by «the Bible alone» — and then admits that it has no final interpretation of that Bible and no final authority that can guarantee any interpretation, only a plural, ambiguous and dynamic confessional tradition.

Ironically, it is the orthodox Christian view of Jesus that remains the most radical of all that a first - century Jewish teacher described himself as the Son of God and rose from the dead in vindication of that claim.

DE: Whitehead called his view a radical empiricism because it claimed to be more radical than sense - data empiricism, as going back to a more primitive kind of experience.

While Tinder never explicitly equates his notion of agape with rights - based claims, he is not as careful as he might have been to make clear the radical distinction between these two ideas.

One is the assessment of their claims made of situations of radical change in behavior

Bergson's radical objection to this whole series of moves is that it rests on a positive idea of absolute disorder, an idea which he claims to be nonexistent.

Radical Christian communities like the Sojourners Fellowship draw his admiration as a form of witness, but he disagrees with leaders who claim such fellowships are «very much on the way up.»

But some of the people had radical apocalyptic hopes claiming to know the secret activities of the divine!

The social gospel made a novel, radical and far - reaching contribution to Christianity and society by claiming that Christianity has a mission to transform the structures of society in the direction of equality, freedom and community.

The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks, a radical offshoot of the PKK which criticizes its policy toward the Turkish state for being too lenient, claimed responsibility for the attack and has continued to launch attacks on military and civilian targets thereafter.

My central claim in the book is that the «ontological turn'taken by a number of thinkers of radical or agonist democracy, in the belief that reflecting on the essential dynamics of political being would engender a revivified understanding of possibilities for democratic action, created a particularly influential strand of socially weightless theorising.

If, in a few years» time, the SNP is legislating for a citizens» basic income and has embarked upon a thorough reworking of the fiscal status quo then it would have a good claim to be «radical» and «bold», but hinting at such widespread reform is rather different from actually implementing it.