Sentences with phrase «tendencies of»

It all depends on whether visionary reason can keep the logical tendencies of technological reason under control.

Gnostic ideas are also found in the dualistic tendencies of some churches to emphasize the spiritual realm over the physical.

The attachments that develop among the members of small groups demonstrate clearly that we are not a society of rugged individualists who wish to go it entirely alone, but are a communal people who, even amid the dislocating tendencies of our society, are capable of banding together in bonds of mutual support.

most of them German expressionists, were gathered in a large - scale traveling exhibition designed to illustrate what he termed the «degenerate Jew - boy» tendencies of those so - called «artists» who wished to inflict their «humbug» on the German people.

Luther seemed unaware of the best Catholic antidote to the Pelagianizing tendencies of Biel — the thought of Thomas Aquinas.

The problem, from Lortz's perspective, was that Luther seemed unaware of the best Catholic antidote to the Pelagianizing tendencies of Biel — the thought of Thomas Aquinas.

Biel (d. 1495) offered a third version of Aquinas, this one in complete agreement with the Pelagianizing tendencies of the school of Ockham.

While criticizing the nature - denying tendencies of religious homelessness, Haught finds value in that aspect of homelessness that elicits in us a sense of adventure.

Its suspicion of authority, of piety, of faith of all sorts, stems from its interest in being objective and from its cognizance of the capricious tendencies of human subjectivity.

At a time when delegates from all over the world are coming together in a variety of bodies for the purpose of attempting to sketch a first outline of future society, it seems to me essential to set forth the main constructive axes without which it is mere self - delusion to suppose that we can conceive or undertake any re-ordering or development of the Earth: general tendencies of advance and growth, that is to say, which in certain conditions — despite our freedom of choice, or better still, because of it — Mankind can not in any circumstances ignore, and must heed more and more as time goes on.

Ackroyd himself said of Eliot: «Both as a writer and a man, his genius lay in his ability to resist the subversive tendencies of his personality by fashioning them into something larger than himself.»

They exhibit, on the one hand, a radical openness to key aspects of the modern experience, and, on the other, a radical rejection of basic tendencies of modernity.

Instead, each national group was expected to be the foremost in criticizing the unjust and war - making tendencies of its own national government.

Thus Whitehead's theory of perception is unable to reconcile its opposing tendencies of realism and mediatism.

Furthermore, Christian teaching in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and especially among liberal Protestant theologians, accentuated the anthropocentric tendencies of the Western tradition.

The latter are needed in order to check the tendencies of the former to replace the natural world with an unsustainable and inhuman artificial one.

For as has been made vivid by the argument about evolution, two tendencies of thought are between them posing a serious threat to the continued health of scientific endeavor.

Just think Big Bro peeps as to just how much money can be made via taxation and what have you upon these three habitual tendencies of one's left to their own vices freedoms to choose.

Then, by the application of the criterion of coherence, it is possible to go on to accept as authentic that material from the earliest strata of the traditions, the tendencies of the tradition having been taken into account, which coheres with the emphases to be found there.

For this tradition nourished over the centuries the slow emergence of the ideal of a civilized politics, a politics of civil conversation, of noncoercion, of the consent of the governed, of pluralism, of religious liberty, of respect for the inalienable dignity of every human person, of voluntary cooperation in pursuit of the common good, and of checks and balances against the wayward tendencies of sinful men and women.

If the liberal religious tradition is to regain its place as a vital force in modem culture, the two tendencies of the postmodernist temper, which Nathan A. Scott, Jr., has isolated as «negative capability» (a «disinclination to try to subdue or resolve what is recalcitrantly indeterminate and ambiguous») and the «self reflexive» (a «retreat from the public world»), must be overcome.

But in most serious theology and the best sociology of religion, the mutually rejecting tendencies of Dionysius and Apollo, or of Rousseau and Kant, or of faith and science, are not taken with ultimate seriousness.

Out of this there arises first an irresistible grouping principle which, in its impact on the intelligence, almost automatically overrules the egoistical and mutually repulsive tendencies of the individual.

The danger is that as broadcasting becomes increasingly deregulated, the tendencies of the broadcast industry in this direction will intensify.

And most of what has been said would have been better unsaid: the delight in speculation without the slightest basis in evidence is among the worst tendencies of....

If you can understand yourself and your tendencies, as well as the cues and tendencies of others, you can raise your «EQ» — those emotional skills — and improve your life.

/ Praise God above, ye heavenly host...» but if the last line still says «Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost,» we have done little to counterbalance the patriarchal tendencies of our faith.

By means of his theological understanding he is able to reject doctrines of the Eucharist which are guilty of «psychologizing» it as merely a memory of a past event on the one hand, and «magical tendencies of some traditional doctrines» on the other (PPE 229).

His great achievement, contrary to the tendencies of his time, in marrying knowledge through faith with knowledge gained by reason, is mirrored in his understanding of Scripture's letter and spirit.

What is amazing is how such tendencies of thought could survive as they did in the face of both biblical and philosophical evidence of their inadequacy.

Of course, I had my own angle of vision, one that made me critical of the dominantly Neo-Orthodox tendencies of the Niebuhrian generation.

These concepts lead to critical attempts to understand our lives and nature as the scene of interplay of two contrary tendencies of disordering and ordering.

But it is also important that Europeans who come here are challenged, as well — particularly by our American cautiousness about the tendencies of states, institutions, and power structures in general.

It was also a continuation of the mystical tendencies of the German romantics who could trace their ancestry back through Goethe and Schelling to the Pietists and Jacob Boehme.

In the United States interest in the sociology of religion was stimulated by the encyclopedic tendencies of the earlier sociologists (William Graham Sumner, Albert G. Keller, Edward A. Ross) 19 and by the work of historical and systematical social theology (Francis G. Peabody, Charles A. Ellwood, Shailer Mathews, Shirley J. Case).

Even though ideologies may be advanced in the name of a small minority, rationalizing tendencies of the kind Weber observed may require conceptions of the relative statuses of people more generally.

Jacob Rees - Mogg's respect for local democracy and resistance to the centralizing tendencies of the European Union are consistent with the Catholic social teaching of subsidiarity.

Here are some of the tendencies of couples during these years, which contribute to nonrelating: The husband may get lost in his work and the wife in her children and outside activities.

And Whitehead says that he does not think it is inevitable that the human mind spatializes, though it often does this, and when it does, one way or another, whether through partiality or something else, it deforms the object of knowledge and of experience... [But] Bergson believed that, at least to some significant degree, the spatializing tendencies of the human intellect and of human intelligence, can be overcome by a biology and a physics that is less mechanistic.

The determinative feature of the view of Scripture conveyed in this tradition is found in a seldom articulated «suppressed premise» grounded not so much in exegesis as in the rationalist and scholastic tendencies of post-Reformation orthodoxy.

Given the «cocooning» tendencies of congregations in these postmodern times and given the theological amnesia in most modern Protestant churches that I know, I am not so reassured by Volf's defense of the kind of catholicity that he believes is attainable in local churches.

But now, Comfort is saying that it is not enough to just know what Papyrus 46 says and why it is preferable for reasons A, B, and C. No, now you also have to understand the tendencies of the guy who was making the copy of the text!

... Not only do we need to know the original texts, we also need to know the tendencies of the scribes who produced the texts

When Comfort stated that he is making his decisions based on his research into the tendencies of the scribes who produced the texts, it reminded me of the Parable of the Oyster and Ballerinas.

He ACTED UPON his SCIENCE - BASED tendencies of «reason» and «logic».

And most of what has been said would have been better unsaid: the delight in speculation without the slightest basis in evidence is among the worst tendencies of the postmodern commentariat.

Even world - class Greek scholars like Comfort «one up» other world - class Greek scholars by saying that the others didn't understand the tendencies of the scribes who copied the texts.

Behind McCabe's interpretation of the atonement and universal moral freedom loomed the semi-Pelagian tendencies of his doctrine of grace.

Comfort is saying that the reasons he chose the textual variants he did, is because he tried to understand the tendencies of the scribe who made the copies!

In this sense, they differ profoundly from the separatist tendencies of the older fundamentalism.