Sentences with phrase «theological niceties»

Arguing precision and degrees of freedom in a proxy statistical analysis absent a predictive theory of tree response is like Christians and Muslims arguing theological niceties absent the analytical historical methods adjudicating whether Jesus or Muhammad ever lived.

When one is engaged in theological niceties, the contemporary martyrs who are dead or who are alive, raise, the following questions with enough legitimacy and justification:

Martin Luther's protest initially took the form of a public challenge to an academic debate on a swathe of theological niceties.

There is even a hint of idolatry about the cult of admiration for C.S. Lewis that began forming even during his life, with its shrines, sacred texts, keepers of the flame, and theological niceties.

Though the Western myth is that the Catholic Church in the Third World is retarding public health measures for the sake of a theological nicety, that is certainly not the case on this continent.