Sentences with phrase «rather than unity»

Neither is population presented as a «silver bullet» for all the planet's woes: a presumptuous and off - putting meme that sows division rather than unity across the activist community.

Robert Pondiscio, senior fellow, and vice president for external affairs of the conservative - leaning education think tank The Thomas Fordham Institute suggests meanwhile that the trend toward emphasizing student differences could be promoting social division rather than unity.

Among these principles, the cornerstone is a constitution as a compact between different peoples, the idea of federation as union rather than unity, or the basic principle according to which loyalty or federal solidarity, for example, should express itself abiding by agreed constitutional rules (especially in the distribution of competences).

Rather than unity, dissension arose even out of this move.

It has created an increasingly complex - society in which the individual has found himself as part of a multiplicity rather than a unity, associated with many different groups and institutions of which the church is merely one.

They typically argue that Protestant and Catholic churches define the Church according to human criteria rather than the unity of the Spirit.

Rather than these unity - level «rational structures» being intrinsic to what «modern scientific reason» discovers a posteriori, the Pope argues that science's «methodology -LSB-... is] based» upon «acceptance of] the rational structures of matter and the correspondence between our spirit and the prevailing rational structures of nature as a given» (our emphasis).

Splintering rather than unity appears to be the theme of the 70s and may be this decade's legacy for the «80s.

All the added ritual and laws by the Catholic Church and politicized evangelical for example followed the footprint of the Jewish leaders of Jesus day that brought darkness, hate and division rather than unity and love.

Not exact matches

When we give in to this need for self exaltation, and organize others around our cause, then we recognize it as the warped type of social engineering you describe, where the goal is uniformity, not unity — promoting our own agenda, rather than participating in God's mission.

For, while Hartshorne allowed for the reality of structured societies and only specified that their unity as compound individuals was effected through the presence and activity of a dominant personally ordered subsociety, Ford equivalently wants to eliminate the reality of structured societies altogether, at least insofar as they function as compound individuals rather than as simple aggregates of occasions.

However, the «laws» of physics, the interrelatedness of being within matter that lies at the heart of all natural science, beg the question: Why is the universe ordered as a unity (rather than being random)?

Hebrew thought developed this idea rather than immortality, first, because the Hebrews had a vivid sense of the goodness of material bodily existence; and second, because they understood the necessary unity of the person not as a soul - in - body but as a whole living, feeling, thinking personality.

Nationalism can unite or divide, and when it is guided by the universal principles of Islam it can lead men to unity rather than to divisions.

For their part, AHA inserted «a brief description of the history of the Pledge of Allegiance, including the information that «under God» was only added as recently as 1954 in response to the Cold War and that some Americans feel that the Pledge should focus on unity rather than religion.»

From Mark: In these theological / political times, where it seems so important to be in the right «camp» lest we be cast out from fellowship with others because we do not hold the «correct» views, how do you suggest moving forward toward greater unity, rather than greater division?

Usually this is the moment in my story when I am told that my discomfort is solely my problem and my responsibility to wrestle with and get over, that everyone feels a little out of place when they are new, and that my identity should be first and always that of a Christian seeking unity rather than division, especially along racial and ethnic lines.

The tower and the city are misguided attempts to achieve unity on human terms rather than on God's terms.

These, then, are the several levels of unity that bind together the diverse topics of the chapters to follow: first, the curriculum of education; second, the major problems of contemporary civilization; third, the values by which education is seen as a moral enterprise; and fourth, a concept of value as devotion to worth rather than to satisfaction of desire, together with an ideal of democracy as the social expression of basic moral commitment.

For example, Pannenberg insists that we take as our starting point the three persons who are implicated in Christian revelation and expounded in the early creeds, rather than beginning with a single essence or any theory of the unity of God.

As the climax of the narrative it demonstrates how the consubstantial principles of unity and equality are betrayed when one chooses to base one's actions on the desire to please humans rather than God.

We can only pray such Christians evolve into an awareness of the unity of all life rather than continue to worship false idols.»

More disturbing to many, especially in the difficult ecumenical situation in Germany, where the shrinking number of Christians is almost evenly divided between Protestant and Catholic, he has said that the unity of the church perhaps requires a papacy and that quite possibly the only churches that will survive far into the third millennium are Catholic, Orthodox, and Evangelical rather than mainline Protestant.

Religion, therefore, becomes (as it has often been characterized in the press) a sectarian concern rather than a basis of unity.

Rather than a different idea of unity all together?

Church unity is expressed primarily in annual or quadrennial meetings rather than in integrated mission planning and cooperation.

Rather than seeking unity, we seek love.

There is a concerted effort by many of the world religions to create unity by focusing on the similarities rather than the differences.

Like Dostoievsky, he has embraced rather than chosen between the opposites of self - affirmation and turning to God, of the individual and society, but he has gone beyond Dostoievsky in his ability to bring these opposites into true unity.

There is, for this reason, a legitimate connection between the nation and socialism which supports rather than obstructs the international character of socialism as a force for world unity and peace.

«Rather than creating more unity [among Christians], we created more division, and that was not the intent,» said Stearns.

Rather than being a story of reconciliation and unity, it is now a document of judgment and division.

Considering the infinite complexities of the problem, a covenant to accomplish conciliar unity rather than the actual realization of the goal might be the most likely accomplishment.

Schools that are racially integrated — assuming that the way integration is achieved promotes unity rather than division in the community — will have the greatest need and opportunity to provide those daily experiences that make this real for children.

Considering the infinite complexities of the problem, a covenant to accomplish conciliar unity rather than the actual realization of the goal might be the most likely accomplishment of a «council» only 31 years away.

In such a world of sinful, broken unity, any participation in war is a compromise of what God intended and risks serving chaos rather than shalom.

«We speak on this subject very cautiously and diffidently,» he writes, «rather by way of discussion than coming to definite conclusions... We suppose that the goodness of God will restore the whole creation to unity in the end... If anyone thinks that matter will be utterly destroyed, it passes my comprehension how all these substances can live and exist without material bodies, since to live without material substance is the privilege of God alone... Another perhaps may say that in the consummation all matter will be so purified that it may be thought of as a kind of ethereal substance... But only God knows.»

But I do know this: Whenever I enter into discourse or debate or conversation, and I see the person as fundamentalist or Republican or homophobic or antagonist or (fill in the blank) rather than a human being with stories and ideas and passions, I almost always fail at being a promoter of unity.»

In the so - called practical fields the unity is even greater; here there is common concern for developing relevant, effective preaching in the local church on the basis of Scriptures; for a religious education Christian rather than either humanistic or denominational in character; for guiding men into pastoral work that meets human needs.

Of the pope, Frieling said, «My dream is of a servant of unity who, perhaps as president of a council, recognizes a reconciled diversity of the churches, who promotes dialogue and reconciliation rather than giving audiences and reaching final decisions.

Careful examination will reveal that most sermons rather than possessing unity, fall clearly into two parts, regardless of the number of divisions the outline may contain.

The teaching of church history is sometimes made the occasion for developing a sense of alienation from other groups rather than for developing a sense of unity.

You seek to divide and blame those you disagree with rather than calling for unity.

This can then lead to a genuine sensus fidelium, the harmony of the faithful on theological and moral issues that is genuinely inclusive and that strengthens the unity of the church rather than settling for the victory cry of momentary majority.

There is an interconnectedness of all things, the unity of the universe is organic rather than mechanical, all fundamental entities from atoms to humans contain life.

The preceding description may seem to emphasize integration rather more than Brooks does, But, just as Brooks's criterion necessitates some unity, 3 so the multiplicity of prehensions that constitute an occasion are minimally unified in that they do in fact constitute one occasion.

It is an «element» which echoes Whitehead's view of the global, rather than fragmented, character of nature — the unity of the general push of the creative advance of the universe — and the unity of causality and knowledge.

Since for Whitehead the present is momentary rather than instantaneous, possessing a temporal thickness, that moment is capable of formal subdivision in terms of what comes before another, so that it makes perfect sense to argue that incomplete phases of unification take place before the final unity.

The unity is one of intentionality rather than of causality.

Nonetheless the effort to construct a witness community based on unity and identity rather than opposition and oppression can itself have critical consequences in a society based on opposite principles.