Sentences with phrase «so far as»

In so far as this involved the body as a possible enemy of spiritual living, he counseled the utter subordination of the body, saying with characteristic hyperbole that hands and feet were to be amputated and eyes plucked out if they caused the higher life of a man to stumble.

And then in so far as it can be said more or less metaphorically that a love of all and of the All is possible, is not this inward activity, far from being specifically Christian, familiar to the mystics of India or Persia and to many more?

Not quite, at least not so far as Deleuze is concerned.

Comes very near to the position of Tödt, so far as the authenticity of sayings is concerned, but argues that Jesus thought of himself as Son of God and used the Son of man idea to denote himself «reinstalled in his heavenly seat... exercising his intercessory or judicial functions».

The answer to this question can not be found, as is so often claimed, in the inadequacies of the preacher so far as his rhetorical skill, his use of apt illustrations, his logical development of theme, and so forth are in view.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say that they're inseparable.

Everything remains the same so far as phenomena are concerned, but at the same time everything becomes luminous, animated, loving.

So too molecules, atoms and protons take account of that same source in so far as it is relevant to their being.

«In so far as one wishes to speak of a modification of faith before and after Easter, it can only be said that «once» became «once for all», the isolated encounter with Jesus limited by death became that presence of the exalted Lord such as the Fourth Gospel describes.»

The element becomes personal only in so far as (in imitation of that Omega point which draws it onwards) it becomes universal.

That is, what was the point of the incident so far as the original participants were concerned?

Therefore, it is only in so far as we are, as Paul expresses it, «in Christ», united with him by faith which responds to God's grace reaching out to us in him, that we may hope to be raised to a share in his risen life of communion with the eternal God.

So far as anything in Luke's Gospel indicates, he had not been in Jerusalem since he was twelve years old.

We need a Church that is committed to the Apostle Paul's instructions that «if it is possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men» (Romans 12:18).

No... People may now more commonly USE «Happy Holidays» or «Season's Greetings» let's not go so far as to make a blanket statement that they PREFER it... Political correctness has been pounded people to such an extent that they avoid «Merry Christmas» at all cost.

Thus, because we love, and in order to love more, we find ourselves happily reduced to sharing — we more and better than anyone — in all the struggles, all the anxieties, all the aspirations, and also all the affections, of the earth in so far as all these contain within them a principle of ascension and synthesis.

So far as the Bible is concerned, we may notice that it may be read in various ways.

They ignore the negative judgments on the world to be found abundantly in the Gospels and Epistles and take their stand on the text «God so loved the world...» They go so far as to suggest that the church is not really important.

So far as most of us are concerned, independence lies not so much in liberation from the past as in nonconformity with the present.

In so far as the mental spontaneities of occasions do not thwart each other, but are directed to a common objective amid varying circumstances, there is life.

Nevertheless, this coming reign of God involved the ending of social wrongs, and it is of importance to note that, so far as the records reveal, Jesus» concern about social iniquities always sprang from his indignant perception of their ill effect on individuals.

What are the conditions, so far as we can state them, for the empowerment which gives release to the person?

We got so far as to buy a house and set our moving dates but then for a few reasons, it all fell apart.

What so many Catholics seem to be saying is that, so far as we can determine with our unaided human intellects, according to even the «metaphysically modest» version of neo-Darwinism, there is no real plan, purpose, or design in living things, and absolutely no directionality to evolution; yet we know those things to be true by faith.

A real and sustained effort was made to reconstruct the whole social order upon the basis of the Law of God, not only by giving it statutory force, but by «writing it on the heart», so far as this could be done by positive instruction and through the ordinances of public worship.

So far as I can tell, our species continues to confirm that thesis.

Dating from the assumption of power by the French Third Republic in 1870, it meant having as little as possible to do with the rest of French society in so far as it seemed to be an expression of republicanism and anti-Catholicism.

There are many Americans who believe that the right to own their gun is the most important Constitutional right and will go so far as to carry their weapons on city streets.

I would go so far as to say that their argument was far stronger then.

At least in so far as I think men and women do have complimentary roles to one another in marriage.

That the rich grow richer without benefiting the poor is acceptable so far as the theory is concerned.

So far as I know there is no issue in our society today on which the old - line churches are giving effective leadership of the sort I have been outlining above.

The background assumptions that had given some plausibility to Christian affirmations about God through the eighteenth century were gone so far as the intelligentsia was concerned.

It provided a respite, a space for repentance, before the final stroke fell; and so far as we can see, it was because of that respite that the Jewish people, unlike their kinsfolk of the north, survived the utter destruction of their state, and lived to hand on a great religious inheritance to the wider world.

Some evangelicals have gone so far as to declare Trump «born again,» even though he says he has no need for God's forgiveness.

Thomas Jefferson, the main author of the Declaration of Independence, strongly oppo $ ed the religious right of his time, even going so far as to ed!

«Regarding homosexuals, it went so far as to pose the question whether the church could accept and value their sexual orientation without compromising Catholic doctrine,» said John Thavis, a former Rome bureau chief for Catholic News Service.

There is, so far as I can see, no reason why Whitehead's philosophy would not be enriched by adding Justice to its cultural aims.

They have even gone so far as to claim «We are a Judeo - Christian nation.»

So far as I'm concerned, gods are an explanation for the reason behind the Universe's existence, something which is unknowable and has no relation to what happens in the Universe.

Whitehead further holds that, so far as we know, specifically human existence enjoys the highest possibilities of freedom and importance.

One can accept an element of this if this doctrine does nt go so far as to have God decreeing some to believe and others not to believe.

[65] He sometimes retorted sharply, «I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God», [66] and at other times was more guarded, telling a young count studying with Haeckel that «Science has nothing to do with Christ; except in so far as the habit of scientific research makes a man cautious in admitting evidence.

Paul Dirac, one of the giants of twentieth - century physics, went so far as to say that it was more important to have «beauty in one's equations» than to have them fit the experimental data.

Work on the media is possible for an individual only in so far as it remains socially and therefore aesthetically irrelevant.

It thus becomes an objective datum in the world beyond itself, in so far as it is prehended by subsequent events.

You are correct so far as you are concerned.

After all, it is argued, the Romans themselves did not appear to take it seriously (Vespasian's famous deathbed joke, «I think I am becoming a god» seems to indicate as much): it could only be believed by those who were either insane, such as Caligula, who went so far as to sacrifice to himself daily and made his beloved horse a high priest of his cult, or irredeemably barbarian and by implication, stupid, such as the Britons of Colchester who built an enormous temple to the Divine Claudius.

Weeellll, I wouldn't go so far as to call the Catholic church the whore and the Protestant church the false bride, but I do see your point and agree with you that much of institutional religion is not at all what God intended or wanted from followers of Jesus.

I think that this counterargument is correct — so far as it goes.