Sentences with phrase «rejection of»

It would furtherrequire the rejection of two thousand years of Jewish and Christian history since at no time has homosexual intercourse been proposed to or found acceptance among the People of God.

That becomes understandable, to me, specifically as a-theism, much more the rejection of theism's God than of a God more accurately conceived.

Human self - adoration and self - assertion as the measure of our own truth and goodness is actually the negation of that destiny, the rejection of the One in whom it is given.

«The tree of Abolition is evil,» declared Reverend Henry Van Dyke in 1860, «and only evil — root and branch, flower and leaf, and fruit; that it springs from, and is nourished by an utter rejection of the Scriptures.»

Bohoeffer's postreligious Christianity took the form of an atheistic rejection of the metaphysical God combined with a belief in the suffering God.

The traditional morality surrounding procreation and sexual relationships in the so - called free world is sadly out of touch with present reality: witness the Roman Catholic rejection of all artificial forms of contraception and the still widespread moral condemnation of clinical abortion.

I'd submit that the SBNR, like the atheist, is defined first and foremost by their rejection of structured belief systems they find invalid.

The ultimate integrity of the world requires the deepening consciousness of those involved in its systemic outworking and their rejection of alienating canonic structures.

This rejection of nature is manifest in the now orthodox distinction between sex, which is «merely biological,» and gender, defined as a construct either of oppressive social norms or of the free, self - defining subject — one often finds protagonists of this revolution oscillating back and forth between those polar extremes.

On the formal question, however, I agree with the rejection of natural theology as defined above.

All of these motifs are united in Whitehead, and all but the clear rejection of substance as relevant to ethics and as implying the primacy of unit - events rather than unit - things or persons, were in Peirce.

His total giving of self is the antithesis of sin, which is the rejection of God through the adoration of self.

Even as the absence of a feudal order and established church have shaped American institutions and political habits, the dialectic of a feudal order and established churches and of secularist rejection of religion has structured European attitudes toward the United States, particularly toward the American experiment in religious freedom and toward the seemingly unabating religious vitality that this system has produced.

These latter are good in themselves but become dangerous (n. 31, 34, 68, 74) when materialistically interpreted (e.g. «the rejection of metaphysics by the human sciences» n. 31, & cf. 53, 77) and abused (n. 5, 28, 75).

The Christian Zionists tried to counter this rejection of Israel by establishing in Jerusalem what they call the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ).

«The excessive segmentation of knowledge, the rejection of metaphysics by the human sciences, the difficulties encountered by dialogue between science and theology are damaging not only to the development of knowledge, but also to the development of peoples, because these things make it harder to see the integral good of man in its various dimensions.

His rejection of independently existing substance in favor of a universe in which all entities are related, the idea of actual entities as valuing subjects prehending and creating themselves Out of the feelings of other subjects, the declaration that the most basic form of order is aesthetic, and the insistence that the lure toward beauty and adventure is a primary drive in the process of reality, are all examples of Whitehead's fundamental insight that to be is to be related, to exhibit some degree of beauty in those relationships, and to have the power both to affect and to be affected.

It's a constant process, a rejection of what's wrong inside you, a making of space so that God can come in.

The rejection of the «clerical paradigm» in favor of a reflection on Christian practice broadly based in the whole Christian community requires a changed concept of pastoral leadership and a new pattern of preparation for it.

But systematically to make positive judgments of politics or technology leads to the rejection of all realism in regard to them and to a belief in progress.

... Those of you who are non-believers challenge believers... by your rejection of any distortion of religion which would make it unworthy of man.

And there are ways in which God's actions upon us still leave us free, such as our acceptance or rejection of grace.

-LSB-...] Poverty is often produced by a rejection of God's love, by man's basic and tragic tendency to close in on himself, thinking himself to be self - sufficient or merely an insignificant and ephemeral fact, a «stranger» in a random universe.

Confusion surrounding Vatican II had led to a culture of dissent, symbolized by the widespread rejection of Humanae Vitae.

The letter showed that my rejection of classical theism was something like an elaborated repetition of what Father went through fifty or sixty years earlier.

To further the rejection of two thousand years of Christian teaching?

Occasionally I listened to radio and TV preachers, and that only confirmed in me my parents» rejection of faith.»

Despite Hegel's rejection of pre-Kantian dogmatic metaphysics, there is reason to see in the Hegelian method a new dogmatism, to see it as perhaps the final attempt to produce a metaphysics in the traditional style, namely the last attempt to directly establish a metaphysical position.

What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.

It is a rejection of God.

Lest this should be taken as a wholesale rejection of Hadith, Sir Sayyid advocates closer scrutiny of the Hadith relating to the personal habits and social circumstances of the Holy Prophet, as well as the Hadith bearing on political and administrative matters.

Living at home for a time is, therefore, a rejection of an ideal that no longer exists — if ever it had — and a practical approach to an emerging socioeconomic reality.

What is there in Keen's analysis which makes his play - therapy theology - particularly given his acceptance of the death of God (i.e., his rejection of the Christian story as rendering life ultimately meaningful)?

The topic is the salvation of human beings, and God's judgement of individual humans regarding their acceptance or rejection of a divine savior.

The Whiteheadian actuality, the occasion, represents a complete and thoroughgoing rejection of the substance - attribute conception, and is entirely relational in its essence.

Homosexual behavior is a rejection of God like any other sin.

For Whitehead, given his implicit rejection of the Hegelian distinction between a logic of the understanding and a logic of reason, and given his conception of the nature of the metaphysical argument, God is not, and can not be the inevitable culmination of such a logical progression.

Many people would say that my dis belief in a god that is described by any organized religion, and my rejection of jesus christ as our savior, and feel he was just another person, those two things alone would be sufficient to keep me out of heaven.

Let me point out also that there is a connection between the death - of - God theology and rejection of the theology of reconciliation; and this rejection, as we have said, is in fact denial of the Incarnation.

But this is the same polarity that we found operative in the concrete universal, though the conception of logical form, and thus the logical basis upon which the rejection of separately persisting externally related individuals rests, is entirely different.

- succeeded in stirring up fear and rejection of others, intolerance and hatred through conflicts between civilisations which they cynically allow to be presented as a form of conflict which will dominate the future of the world.

As late as the early «60s, Altizer believed Christianity to require of us a total rejection of all that the modern world understands as reality and creativity.

Among the doctrines which caused conflict between the Qadianis and the general body of Muslims was Ghulam Ahmad's rejection of jihad, holy war, as one of the principles of Islam.

A suitable reformation of logic involving a rejection of the subject - predicate paradigm could, Hegel seems to have thought, overcome the problem of externally related aggregates, while at the same time retrieving logic from the subjectivity into which it had fallen, and restoring it to its rightful place as the formal science of being.

Is your rejection of other gods that you do not believe in also «nonsensical and void of meaningful discussion»?

(Lawrence reports the reactions of Russell, Stebbing, and Murphy For the second half, he has earned the rejection of most theologians.

In the final consummation of God's saving plan, will evil find an everlasting holdout in the rejection of that plan by those who are everlastingly damned?

Thus Sir Sayyid created a trend in Muslim thought toward the rejection of Hadith and toward a theology based exclusively on the Qur» an, a trend which ultimately resulted in the formation of the school of thought which rejects all other sources of authority than the Qur» an.

But the Christian missionaries also did not like the book because it repudiated the doctrine of the Trinity and condemned the Christians for their rejection of the Prophet of Islam.

He called for a rejection of the creeds and beliefs of the Churches of his day «too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice.»