Sentences with phrase «role for many»

Concern for human welfare will play little or no role for the man whose only motivations are curiosity and technical interest.

It would be difficult to imagine the strict complementarian position now represented at Cedarville University as acknowledging this role for women.

Given longstanding tensions between Mormons and evangelicals - Mormons consider themselves Christians, but many evangelicals do not - it seemed an unlikely role for Beck.

Also it would hold to the basic understanding of science that I explained earlier — a self - contained system that excluded any role for subjectivity or God.

By approaching the question of mind and nature in this way Whitehead is able to provide us with an aesthetically rich understanding of nature, which at the same time preserves a necessary role for reason and the search for truth as an indispensable element in the determination of conscious experience, the enhancement of our aesthetic sensibilities, and the general advancement of civilization as such.

Could Christians handle a less supernatural Jesus and a lesser role for dogma and ritual?

That is, Hartshorne's virtue ethics offers an alternative from «above» to most contemporary ethics in that he sees an essential role for metaphysics in ethics, even in applied ethics, whereas most virtue ethicians offer an alternative to contemporary ethics from «below,» from a perspective which emphasizes the sorts of community and habit that are conducive to the development of an ethos.

By contrast, the phenomenological awakening to the mystery of being reserves a unique role for thinking, which both elevates and humbles its mission in contrast to any regional investigation.

Even in the most empirical of sciences, we find that there is a significant role for trust.

Whether Gingrich envisions a role for the Vatican in his diplomacy with Iran (the Vatican has amicable relations with the current regime, which it presses for religious tolerance «especially of the hundreds of thousands of Christians who live in Iran) is unclear.

The church, certainly, can play a vital role for the transformation of society.

He is described as «a prominent and politically astute priest with a reputation as a modernizer» and «a politically savvy figure who may seek a more muscular role for the church.»

In either case, why does love play so central a role for Christian existence, whereas other forms of existence can be more or less adequately treated without special reference to it?

In «The Church of Darwin» (June / July), John G. West correctly takes issue with «new atheist» writers such as David Barash and E. O. Wilson, who wish to deny any role for God in evolutionary processes.

This muted moral rhetorical role for governmental institutions is illustrated by Mexican judicial behavior.

«And there's another group who really liked Santorum,» Green continued, «and were quite excited about him not only because of the social issues but because they saw him as representing this positive role for faith and values in a society.»

However, basing on Josephus (AJ 18.35 f.), Oakman argues for a dual role for Jesus that included the role of a village farmer and of a travelling tradesman.

The proper role for the study of the diachronic dimensions of the text lies not in fragmenting or in replacing the synchronic level, but in using a recovery of a depth dimension for increasing an understanding of the theological substance that constitutes the biblical narrative itself.

Others claim more of a role for the pre-Schechter Jewish Theological Seminary and more direct influence by Frankel.

There is a positive role for apocalyptic as well as its better - known negative.

The proper role for oldline churches is not that of criticizing these responses to popular needs.

The Pauline school caught the same master role for miristry and continued it in terms of parenting (Eph.

By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN)- Retired New Orleans Archbishop Philip Hannan, who served in that role for 23 years and gave the eulogy at the funeral Mass for President John F. Kennedy, died in his sleep Thursday.

That produces a limited role for Washington, but still an important one...

Personally, I think that intelligence does indeed play a role for some people's gullibility to silly beliefs — religious or otherwise.

In addition, Berns largely ignores the practice of the founding generation, which accommodated a far more public role for the free exercise of religion than the American Civil Liberties Union now tolerates.

For in accepting such responsibility for the next generation, in allowing ourselves even to suppose that it could be a fitting role for human beings, we lose the fundamental human capacity to love — to say to our children, to the next generation, «It's good that you exist.»

Because the idea of a universal historical perspective leads to a totalizing role for philosophy, any search for a world - historical philosophical order contains the seeds of a secular state religion.

(The enaction of the recent synod in Rome has disappointed those who support a full role for women in the church.)

Very conspicuously, and perhaps understandably, the Board has little to say about a role for the USCCB in any believable program of reform and renewal.

Eight in ten of the theology educators said that «to give meaning and purpose to life in a material universe» was the most significant role for theology.

One of the dominant eschatological views within evangelicalism is premillenial dispensationalism, a system that carves out a significant role for an earthly Jewish state in the events at the end of days.

In the 1986 Cooley Lectures at the University of Michigan Law School, Greenawalt defends a limited role for religious convictions in a jurisprudential culture whose ruling paradigm, called «liberalism,» is roughly identical to what I have been calling modernism.

This particular topic is singled out, in so far as it plays a key role for understanding both Whitehead's notion of personal maturation and Sullivan's theory of mental disorders.

The primary answer is that modernist thinking assumes the validity of Darwinian evolution, which explains the origin of humans and other living systems by an entirely mechanistic process that excludes in principle any role for a Creator.

This opened a role for Jews to become money - lenders.

Hebrew traditions and Jewish faith of 3600 years ago did not provide a Levitical role for women [probably because they did not have time to perform a lot of ritual sacriices because they were busy doing all those jobs that feed and clothe a family.]

Since all believers are spiritually unified into one body around the entire globe and throughout time, we each serve in our particular role for our God - designed purpose.

He clearly sees a role for Marxism, which, he thinks, has enriched the myth of Golden Age found in many religious traditions by working towards building a classless society.

This piece helps put Brothers K into a transformative role for the reader: we should read The Brothers Karamazov in order to love others more acutely and actively.

As it stands, the Roundtable is a collaborative effort of wealthy East Coast Catholics, academics, editors, and Church activists who are determined to devise a strategy for establishing a major role for the laity in the governance of the Catholic Church in this country.

A long time for a great evil — the religion of Paul which has spread across the world encouraging persecution of dissenters, slavery, an inferior societal role for women, persecution of homosexuals and criminalization of ordinary sexual behaviors of both gay and straight people, quite a few wars, poverty and ignorance.

I would want to distinguish between a ministerial and a magisterial role for science in theology, just as for reason in theology.

«Although there is certainly an important role for Jewish organizations to play, and it is critical for them to do a better job of contacting Jewish young adults and connecting them to service, it is also imperative to understand that participation through Jewish organizations is unlikely to form the conduit toward volunteering for most,» the poll said.

Still, in a fruitless effort to induce U.S. participation, backers of the ICC at Rome offered numerous concessions, including a significant role for the Security Council.

A practical theology of virtue and character must be supplemented and supported by a practical theology of procedure and one, I believe, that also builds an important role for ethical principles in theological reflection.

The church, certainly, can play a vital role for the transformation of the society.

Schuller's Institute for Successful Church Leadership did (and does) fill the role for an older generation of church leaders that the Willow Creek Association now fills for the younger.

But some Pure Land thinkers do not see that acknowledging a wider role for the Sambhogaya would violate any fundamental Buddhist principle.

Nisbet favored a thoroughly utilitarian and safely domesticated role for religion and morality that stick to their last in cultivating conventional virtues.