Sentences with phrase «rational account»

Origin of the Species is by far the most rational account of natural history.

However difficult it may be to give a fully rational account of what Christ's atoning death upon the Cross means to Christian faith, this mystery, never fully comprehended by and yet not wholly incomprehensible to faith, speaks to us of a mercy that transcends but also satisfies the demands of Justice.

If all «things are possible, there would then be a sufficient and rational accounting for the novelty within the universe in full accordance with the fundamental ontological principle of the categoreal scheme; the reason for novelty rests within actuality.

Benedict XVI is a scholarly, good, faithful man who tried his best and, by most rational accounts, did a great job.

We ought not to identify a rational account of the world exclusively with what the natural sciences describe.

Virtues, she argues, are not an alternative to rule - based ethics, but an integral part of a rational account of morality.

Being oriented to a «rational accounting» is foundational to the mandate of the church itself, as he understands it.

Becoming is given in experience, yes, and then we try to give a rational account of it.

Modern attempts to offer a rational account of the relationship between mind (its rational unity) and nature (understood as the realm of finitude, chance, contingency, and decay) have fallen prey to a seemingly simple yet extremely stubborn dualistic dilemma.

It can mean that a rational account of the universe as a whole and in each of its parts demands the existence of a divine being, intelligent and free, that foreknows or «plans» this universe, and executes Its plan such that what It foreknew does come to pass, whatever the subordinate means employed to forward this along.

As for the second reason, a rational account of twinning and the soul can be made without abandoning the idea that a «spiritual» individual begins at conception.

Leslie Lyons and J.B. Wilson draw inspiration from this art historical oddity, creating sublimated print tiles that both reference the «Unswept Floor» as well figurative tile works which «remove the trappings of mythologizing human behavior and return to a place of rational accounting and purification.»