Sentences with phrase «simply affirming»

Simply affirming that lawyers will always have critical roles in ensuring access to justice isn't enough, particularly when so many people can't get the legal help they need today.

They were simply affirming a decision that was already made.

Could we say perhaps there is not much if anything to figure out but just simply affirming that different environments call for different needs and as long as someone comes at things with the right attitude it's cool?

Professor Cahn is simply affirming Adam (Genesis 3: 5).»

When we affirm our faith with the Creed, are we really simply affirming our faith in the faith of others, past, present and future?

Sad to say, many churches have permitted the revolution to redirect the faith away from the hard path of obedience to one that simply affirms everyone without seeking to transform their affections and their lives by God's word.

At the very end of the philosophy of science in Part I of this book Caldecott simply affirms, without adducing evidence or argument, the crucial importance of such an «intrinsic difference».

This structure, in my view, fails to acknowledge our deep interconnectedness as members of the church and simply affirms the notion of a hierarchical structure and the expectations that go along with it.

He simply affirms that making this affirmation is the only way of remaining loyal to the revelatory encounter itself.

God's reality is posited rather than simply affirmed, and it is removed from the realm of theory and located in that of practical thought.

He simply affirms his faith in the sole Lord.

There I voiced my total dissent, because it seemed to me that the conference had not tackled any of the basic problems of our society, had simply affirmed purely purely demagogic theses (for example, those about the so - called underdeveloped countries), had proposed remedies some of which were in fact inapplicable, and had adopted a theology of revolution without taking theological thought at all.

«Dust thou art...» says an old text, and process thought simply affirms our continuity with all the world.

The court could clarify the uncertainty surrounding the outer limit of an auditor's liability, and elaborate on the significant and novel public policy considerations broached by Justice Blair of the Court of Appeal or simply affirm the lower court decision.

Evidently someone else found this ruling curious because on August 1, 2014 the Court of Appeals modified its ruling, and simply affirmed the family court's order.

Two appealed issues were simply affirmed.

N.B., on August 1, 2014 the Court of Appeals refiled its opinion and simply affirmed the family court's no - fault ground for divorce: Court of Appeals reconsiders its decision and reinstates no fault divorce.

The court then may send the case back to the district court for further application of that standard or simply affirm the injunction.

You may simply affirm your research or you may hit the jackpot with inside information about the background and experience they're really seeking, salary range, upcoming projects, likes and dislikes of your interviewer - all priceless intelligence!

All members are taught this upon joining and if you already know how, we simply affirm it to ensure you comply with your real estate registration.

Not exact matches

What I'm noting is that you are simply doing the very thing you criticize in these bishops: in your authority, you affirm that she's «transcended» their authority.

We were affirmed in our belief that we can not simply learn about Muslims, we must learn from them.

The covenant was not simply a piece of paper affirming partnership no matter what, but instead a means to secure the «robust accountability» and «gracious restraint» that characterize deep relationships rooted in mutual recognition of catholic faith and order, grounded in creedal doctrine, and answerable to the authoritative word of Scripture.

That is, while Griffin acknowledges that Plantinga affirms limitations on God's power in relation to possible worlds containing free human beings, he believes Plantinga to hold «that an actual world devoid of beings with some power of self - determination would be possible» and thus that God could have created a world containing no evil simply by creating a world containing no self - determined beings (GPE 271).

But it would allow Whiteheadians to affirm the unitary reality of atoms and molecules simply as democratically organized societies of occasions rather than as mini-organisms requiring a dominant subsociety of occasions for their ontological cohesiveness.

Ascension Theology by Douglas Farrow T&T Clark, 177 pages, $ 27.95 Simply put,» writes Douglas Farrow, «our choice is between a doctrine of the Ascension that truly affirms our humanity in Christ and one that secretly or openly denies it.»

But to affirm as Mr O'Donnell does that the celibate «is more available and can give himself more to the service of the Lord and his people» (and that this is St Paul's understanding of the «higher vocation of the celibate») is simply to recognise that the celibate priest is freed to love the Lord and his people in a way that is closest to Christ's own loving who «gave himself to the point of laying down his life and came «to serve and not to be served».

For Nash, presuppositionalism was simply a way to affirm first the presence of forms of human knowledge in the mind and second the beliefs that emerged from those forms.

4 The answer to this question will depend (as Deleuze clearly recognizes), not simply upon an analysis of the nature of monadic units, but on confronting the issue at its most sensitive point, namely, with respect to the difference between the Leibnizian God who «compares and chooses,» and the Whiteheadian God who «affirms incompossibles and passes them through.»

Instead of simply stating the law and reacting in panic when it is widely broken, those concerned for traditional moral wisdom would do much better to affirm the high possibility of the life of faithful love, and to understand with love what is happening to people in ghettoes, in college campuses, in the life of the family today.

«The goal is simple: Let's affirm a business that operates on Christian principles and whose executives are willing to take a stand for the Godly values we espouse by simply showing up and eating at Chick Fil - A on Wednesday, August 1,» wrote Huckabee, a former pastor.

In the face of this it is not enough simply to affirm traditional Christian views.

They prefer to have this on going supposed argument because they are atheists (but somehow need to be affirms in it and are not content to simply be one)

By the same token, to affirm the necessity of exercising human responsibility is not to express a naive confidence in our ability to solve all our problems if we simply put our minds to it.

3 In the only passage from The Problem of Christianity where the doctrine of the Trinity is discussed at length, Royce does not make clear whether he affirms an ontological triunity of persons within the Godhead or simply a distinction of divine persons within the religious experience of the believer (PC 135 - 39).

Worship is not simply a matter of the head, affirming various creeds or acknowledging normative beliefs.

It is perfectly possible for a preacher simply to affirm that «God is Love» as if it were an interesting significant speculation about the nature of the divine reality.

Introduction:... multiculturalists who strive to constitute non-discriminatory minority identities can not simply do so by affirming the place they occupy, or by returning to an «unmarked» authentic origin or pre-text: their recognition requires the negotiation of a dangerous indeterminacy, since the too - visible presence of the other underwrites the authentic national subject but can never...

The claim that Christian existence also is different from all the others is a denial that it is simply a subdivision of one of them, such as the prophetic, and it affirms the importance of choosing between Christianity and other alternatives.

And so, theology typically affirms that we simply don't know God's ways well enough to offer specific answers.

That does not mean that the idea of Purgatory is necessarily true and it must be assessed in the light of scripture as a whole and, in my view, there's simply not enough biblical support to affirm it as an established doctrine.

There remain the differences among those who advocate a faith above learning, those who simply place faith and learning side by side, and those who affirm a faith for learning.

Setting aside those persons who would insist, whether explicitly or implicitly, on a choice between faith and learning, there remain the differences among those who advocate a faith above learning, those who simply place faith and learning side by side, and those who affirm a faith for learning.

The term moderate evolution might therefore be applied to a theory which simply inquires into the biological reality of man in accordance with the formal object of the biological sciences as defined by their methods and which affirms a real genetic connection between that human biological reality and the animal kingdom, but which also in accordance with the fundamental methodological principles of those sciences, can not and does not attempt to assert that it has made a statement adequate to the whole reality of man and to the origin of this whole reality.

But if it is to be possible to give a dialectical answer affirming that man is «original» and «underivative», and yet that he is also a component in a cosmic history and consequently also has an origin within the world as a whole, then spirit and matter can not be envisaged merely as disparate entities and seen as purely and simply different.

«9 We now realize that whatever is real and important must somehow include the present world of becoming which we most certainly know and affirm; and this means that we find the classical form of Christian theism simply incredible.

Rollins writes, «A faith that only exist in the light of victory and certainty is one which really affirms the self while pretending to affirm Christ... Only a genuine faith can embrace doubt, for such a faith does not act because of a self - interested reason (such as fear of hell or desire for heaven) but acts simply because it must.»

Their content, to describe them very simply, may be said to affirm the validity of Christianity in so far as it assures the fulfilment of life or the best possible moral living.

The Humanitas Award and others such as the National Council of Churches «annual Film Awards, the Christopher awards to productions «affirming the highest value of the human spirit,» and the Southern Baptist Abe Lincoln Awards, encourage producers, directors, and writers to devote time to their craft which the media industry itself, because of its profit considerations, simply does not reward.

Almost a century and a half after Clement of Rome, Clement of Alexandria and his brilliant student Origen were self - consciously affirming, not that Christianity was like paideia, not that it could simply make use of received paideia, but that Christianity is paideia, given by God in Jesus Christ, turning on a radical conversion possible only by the Holy Spirit's help, and taught only indirectly by study of divinely inspired Scriptures in the social context of the church understood to be in some ways a school.