The dualistic
radical opposition of nature to Grace is probably the reason that Protestantism never developed a Marian Tradition.
The radical opposition of Grace to nature in classical Protestantism has resulted in a Western civilization that despises our humanity and ignores our responsibility to practice stewardship rather than exploit our natural resources.
A dualistic
radical opposition of Grace to nature has led to bibliolatry, the denial of the human element in the process of Revelation.
Not exact matches
In the last few days
Opposition Labor Leader Bill Shorten has proposed a
radical transformation
of dividend imputation.
This means that theology can reach a true coincidentia oppositorum only on the negative ground
of the realization
of the
radical opposition between Existenz and faith.
And true «practice» in
radical opposition to theory is not the mere execution
of something planned and hence merely theoretical, but opening oneself to and risking the unplanned, so that the true possibility
of what is risked appears only in this practice.
Innate hostility within the Republican hierarchy towards Mr. Trump, combined with the inevitable virulent Democratic
opposition, will see many
of his more
radical policies blocked in Congress.
His desertion
of experience in favor
of «pure reason» thus sets Kant in
opposition to both Tradition and
Radical Contingency.
Many in our age who discover the inadequacy
of the simple moral
opposition between good and evil tend to reduce evil to illusion or objective error, or to absolutize it as something
radical, pure, and unredeemable.
We encounter the
radical, abyss - wide
oppositions of life and death, beginning and end, innocence and Fall, the light
of Spirit and the darkness
of flesh, the certainties
of primordial Being and the uncertainties
of history, the abstract and the concrete, God and the world.
It is dualistic, setting the complementary opposites
of Grace & nature, Bible and Tradition, faith and reason, and Grace and faith in
radical opposition to each other so that, becoming «spiritual» requires us to despise our own humanity — a humanity that God merely loved; but assumed in the Mystery
of the Incarnation.
There is an irreducible conflict, a
radical opposition, between the creative operation
of each
of these qualities, corresponding each time to a thetic16 judgment, and the ambition that human consciousness can have
of verifying them for itself, by itself.
«Where these movements differ from the ones identified by Shinn and Symanowski is in their sobriety about the future, their acknowledgment
of radical opposition, their limited immediate expectations, and even their sense
of historical horror.
Until then the relationship between nature and Grace was understood to be synergistic; not one
of radical opposition.
There is no question that communism, as a total system
of life and thought, and Christianity are in
radical opposition.
This line
of thought suggests that the products
of minds are best conceived as issuing from constructive acts performed by «embodied psyches,» in which psyche and soma resolve their tensions and
oppositions with the help
of «
radical imagination.»
Radical conservatives would more frequently criticize the evils
of U.S. policy at home and abroad, defend economic justice as vigorously as they do liberty, and refuse to allow their valid
opposition to Marxism - Leninism to lead them to regard all Third World movements for social change as Marxist - Leninist fronts.
(If a considerable number
of Psalms go back to the prophetic period or earlier, as some modern critics hold (in
opposition to the view which prevailed thirty years ago), then there is additional support for the view that there was no such
radical change from collective to individual conceptions at the Exile as has often been asserted.
We support and ARM the «
opposition forces in Syria» which include al Qaeda and other
radical elements, the looting and destructiion and killing
of Christians occurred.
So far it has been debated only in the Lords: but what has so far been said gives no confidence that what has surely to be seen as a major step towards the
radical de-Christianisation
of English culture will come up against any
opposition that has a chance
of success.
A prolific writer on the theological, philosophical and ethical issues related to the faith - science debate, Jaki's work can safely be summarised as the intentional repudiation
of the modern, secularist agenda which seeks to place science and Christian faith in
radical, philosophical and historical
opposition.
He further ordered that emancipated Southern slaves «be received into the armed service
of the United States,» a truly
radical measure for the day and one that provoked great political
opposition in parts
of the North, and massacres
of captured black Union troops by the armed forces
of the South.
That is why we must insist on a
radical plan for fair tax which we developed in
opposition through the Tax Commission: lifting low earners out
of tax; shifting the tax base from income to wealth, especially high priced property; and cracking down hard on the shocking tax dodging culture - personal and corporate - which disfigures our country.
Radical nationalist
opposition to Putin's decision to return to the presidency was evident in the political makeup
of the protests that took to the streets
of Russia's cities, in particular Moscow.
The logic goes that, once Jezza starts espousing
radical left - wing policies as leader
of Her Majesty's official
opposition, the First Minister will have a proper fight on her hands.
The party also advocates the substitution
of council tax by a land - value tax; extra funding for the NHS and public transport; the scrapping
of road - building schemes; massive investment in renewable energy; a
radical reduction in carbon dioxide emissions; and
opposition to GM crop initiatives and fracking.
What he won't have is the option that many
of his activists might prefer,
of going into
opposition in order to revive their
radical credentials unsullied by the inevitable compromises
of office.
, a PM who can recognise spoof economics when he sees it, and an
Opposition (post-New Labour) bold enough to develop
radical policies that are not just a pale shadow
of the Tory conventional wisdom.
A resolution calling for the MTA and the DOT to Suspend the
Radical 14th Street Transportation Plan Imposed by the Shutdown
of the L Train Tunnel, ran into some strong
opposition.
And we're not going to get out
of opposition unless we have a
radical, ambitious, bold project and capture the imagination and ambitions
of the next generation.»
Their background
of radical opposition to overty and oppression is rather lacklustre, especially over recent years.
At the state level, suggestions that the «first - in - time» water rights policies might be modified triggers an equally
radical reaction, conjuring fears
of property seizure and a nearly religious
opposition to change.
It's logical but
radical, says Robin Lovell - Badge
of the U.K.'s National Institute for Medical Research in London, who argues the «yuck factor» accounts for much
of the
opposition to such research.
But Coogler and his co-writer, Joe Robert Cole, reinvent this second - string villain, plucked from back issues
of the Black Panther comic, into a complex voice
of opposition, seductive in his
radical reasoning.
But if the reform movement continues to push a
radical plan for dismantling the district, it will turn potential allies into a unified
opposition, and all
of its proposed innovations will be distrusted rather than embraced.
In Compton, the only other city where the Parent Trigger law has been tested (it's currently tied up in court due to similar backlash), an
opposition built
of teachers and PTA parents turned Parent Revolution's conversation about the need for instant and
radical change at California's most neglected schools into a political attack on the tight - knit Compton community.
Using the services
of the American agency Harris Media, which has already helped Brexit and Trump last year, the far - right party is hoping to appeal to nationalist resentments and win 15 %
of the votes, becoming the strongest
opposition group and gaining space for normalizing the right -
radical ideas.
In a broad sense their
radical individuality stood in
opposition to the emergence
of mass culture, which Rosenberg discussed in a 1948 essay entitled «The Herd
of Independent Minds.»
/ / / If it were true about North the Korean leader un being all in for
radical carbon cutbacks, he'd be right in league with his possible military
opposition in US Admiral Samuel Locklear, commander
of U.S. Pacific Command.