Sentences with phrase «traces of»

The TÜV found no traces of oil in the output air stream.

«All religions bear the traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth.

He is the author most recently of Traces of the Trinity.

The «canonical» history of Hebrews is somewhat confused by the fact that while it was used by many early Christian writers, some of them were aware that as it stands it can not have been written by the apostle Paul (see Chapter xix) We first encounter clear traces of Hebrews in the letter of Clement to the Corinthians, written at the end of the first century; but Clement does not say what he is quoting from.

As this view is variously expressed by different writers, we find in it traces of Christian mysticism, of transcendental idealism, of vedantism, and of the modern psychology of the subliminal self.

Their only ethical task is to purge themselves of all traces of male influence; then their naturally good selves will be revealed and will re-create the world.

Indeed, as they would have it, the signifiers of which all discourse is comprised only bear upon themselves the traces of still other signifiers, so that the very distinction between the signifier and the signified proves in the end to be an utter delusion.

For some, the danger comes from a gnostic direction — abstracting from a particular time and place, and simply expunging the specific traces of that particularity (such as language like «father»).

If we suspect there is an execution behind this story, we can see many telltale signs: typical marks of the victim (he has a physical deformity, he is a foreigner), indications of social conflict (fire sweeping the city), traces of the accusations (incest, profaning holy things), the unanimity of the mob violence (stoning and burying the «seed»), and the positive benefits of the death.

Neil's profession is to test for traces of toxins among the wide fields of mid-America and among the neighborhoods of the poor.

To connect this to some of the previous discussions, I see some traces of dogmatism in Harpur's work.

Indeed, the notion of «fallen nature» suggests that, while traces of God's law and purposes are inevitably scripted into the deep character of all that is, the natural things of the world are out of order or confused of direction in one or another respect.

The embassy say there is no evidence for a chemical attack: «Russian services for chemical and radiological security visited the suspected site of the incident and did not find any traces of chemical substances.

If you regard the world as God's book before you ever take a particular look at it, any look you take will reveal, even as it generates, traces of His presence.

Nevertheless, the law given to Moses aims at protecting the wife from arbitrary domination by the husband, even though according to the Lord's words it still carries traces of man's «hardness of heart» which was the reason Moses permitted men to divorce their wives.

It is our contention in particular that the synoptic tradition, and related parts of the remainder of the New Testament, preserve traces of three exegetical traditions using Dan.

Traces of its composite construction still show (vv.

Other books contain traces of wisdom literature.

The causal traces of the past become least determinate upon us, and anticipation of all but the immediate future becomes irrelevant as every moment is endowed with an integrity of its own.

As usual, of course, the speech was too long for American ears, and there remained traces of Herr Hitler's somewhat bizarre views.

To assume that the early Fathers were immune from these influences or that traces of this cultural milieu are not to be found in the writings of the Church Fathers would be naive indeed.

I claim to be a feminist and yet presume I possess traces of misogyny simply because I am a male, raised as a male, educated as a male, ordained as a male, and served as a part of a male - dominated leadership of an institution historically dominated by male power, mindset and ideology.

Met office say it has found no traces of suspects, evidence or gun shots fired or causalities after incident at Oxford Circus.

A healthy grief experience, according to Freud, is one in which the deaths of loved ones will not leave «traces of any gross change» in the bereaved.

It may never be possible to say whether someone had a soul or not simply from their physical remains and the circumstantial traces of their lives many millennia later.

The first is that, as an instinctive Platonist, I naturally believe that every genuine act of human creativity is simultaneously an innovation and a discovery, a marriage of poetic craft and contemplative vision that captures traces of eternity's radiance in fugitive splendors here below by translating our tacit knowledge of the eternal forms into finite objects of reflection, at once strange and strangely familiar.

Hope is expressed in the poet's proud assertion that «the traces of his earthly days can not vanish in eons.»

But now, at last, the Jesus Seminar has come along to rescue «traces of that enigmatic sage from Nazareth - traces that cry out for recognition and liberation from the firm grip of those whose faith overpowered their memories.»

This explanation however does not suffice, because if Jesus had taken any interest at all in the construction of a social order, his predictions of the Kingdom would have shown traces of this interest, as the Jewish Messianic hope did.

life, in visions and ecstasies, as they are induced or furthered by such abstinence, the ascetic believes he already finds traces of this divine nature in himself.

The skilful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels or footsteps; the skilful speaker says nothing that can be found fault with or blamed; the skilful reckoner uses no tallies; the skilful closer needs no bolts or bars, while to open what he has shut will be impossible; the skilful binder uses no strings or knots, while to unloose what he has bound will be impossible.

The careful historian, we would maintain, is bound to come up against the traces of this revelation, and where they are obscured it is a sign that there is something wrong with his historical methods.

«15 The possible fading of our memory into complete oblivion where no traces of our having existed remain is what terrorizes us.

In spite of certain scornful references to Galilee and Galileans, even within the New Testament, there are traces of a higher estimation.

There are no traces of a «Calvin against the Calvinists» paradigm.

Such language makes sense only if we assume that «the original principles in human nature» are seen to be good, that traces of a «common humanity» remain, that humans have genuine free will, and that intentional deviation by individuals from what is natural is culpable.

However, Paganisms are organic religions and even if Christianity hadn't succeeded in eradicating most traces of historical Pagansims, they would not be the same today as they were centuries ago.

Instead, knowing that the artist is a monster should make us alert to traces of monstrosity within the work.

Removing all traces of prayer or religion from the military would remove the right to worship from soldiers & sailors at duty posts around the world.

Let me share an experience from a Dalit Christian community that exhibits traces of such a pluralistic model.

A large portion of Budapest's population consisted of families from the non «Hungarian provinces, and as a whole the country's folkways were so exotic, with traces of oriental ancestry (and its language being indisputably Asian), that in Europe Hungary was conventionally thought of as having one foot in the West and one foot in East.

In doing so, liturgy also becomes an arena in which the multifaceted traces of divine - human encounters in their relatedness to the world are preserved and celebrated.

In a tribute to Robert Penn Warren, the author traces some of the recurring motifs in the work of the late poet, novelist, critic and teacher.

Traces of common origins were everywhere: Humans even possessed a broken version of the gene that lizards and birds use to produce eggs.

Others might find traces of Irish history: their treatment at the hands of the British, the aftermath of (then recent) uprisings, the hounding of Charles Parnell by politically active priests.

Most New Testament students think that the Fourth Gospel, showing as it does clear traces of Greek influence, could not have been written by John the beloved disciple, but what John did write it — if, indeed, his name was John at all — is less certain.

The intelligible principles of finality — traces of the Mind of the Creator — discerned through a holistic analysis of the scientific data arejust as much a part of the substantial reality of the cosmos as the matter itself.

Interpreted at the level of joy all traces of anti-Semitism disappear.

And that oil prospectors look for traces of fossils that indicate there might have been life on that spot MILLIONS of years ago to help them determine if there's oil under there.

Just as there are traces of the Code of Hamurrabi in Leviticus, etc., there are traces of Leviticus in current civil and criminal law.