Sentences with phrase «testimony of certain people»

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Some people are disturbed by the idea that Christian faith may rest only upon the testimony of certain individuals to have experienced a vision of Jesus after his death.

The purpose rather is to call up Paul Ricoeur's reflection on why we pay attention when certain people speak and why we find what they say convincing: «The term testimony should be applied to words, works, actions, and to lives which attest to an intention, an inspiration, an idea at the heart of experience and history which nonetheless transcend experience and history.»

For how else are we to carry a certain idea of justice or goodness to extremes if not by conforming our judgment of eminence to the testimony given outside of us in history by the words, the deeds, and the lives of certain exceptional people who are not necessarily famous, but who testify by their excellence to that very way of eminence that reflection attempts to reproduce in itself and for itself?

We have a newsletter that now we get on a monthly basis; we launched a newsletter on the congresses; we use the story file when we do certain acts, we have a book... Another key element: Audiovisual for testimonies, testimonies that cause goose bumps, that get people to know about others, not only through testimonies of professionals.

The robosigning issue brought to mind a Talmudic evidentiary rule that declares the testimony of certain types of people inadmissible: