Sentences with phrase «structured by the conviction»

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By analyzing the structures and language of those practices, theologians can identify the basic convictions that operate within them and seek to subject them to analysis and criticism.

We may be inclining ever more toward a socially acceptable libertinism, but it is structured and defended by a conviction that pleasure is the means to happiness.

There was no sense yet of «Catholics» versus «Reformers»; a separate structure for religion was not thought of by Luther or anyone else, But Luther's own theology was now clearly committed to the importance of the local church, the relative unimportance of any centralising religious agency, and a conviction of the positive evil of the papacy as it was.

Schirman allows each man to explain his motivations unabetted by intruding or directing questions, but the proceedings have such a rigidly determined structure, amplified by chapter titles, that the power and conviction in their recountings deteriorate into a placid series of back - and - forths.

And complex relief structures in different paper supports, such as «The Plan of St. Gall» (1988 — 89) are placed with a study of interlocking hands by Guido Reni, to underscore the artist's conviction that mannerist abuse of conventional space accounted for her burgeoning fascination with mathematics and astronomy.»