Sentences with phrase «traditional arguments for»

Thus it is that over decades of Faith publications, symposia and youth catechesis we have and continue to put an extremely unfashionable effort into updating the traditional arguments for the distinction of matter and spirit, body and soul.

But first, what in fact have been the traditional arguments for life after death, as it has come to be called?

This is not a traditional argument for the existence of God.

The traditional argument for not using the internet to meet someone is that it is not natural.

The traditional argument for solid matchmaking is that it makes the game more interesting.

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Those expectations should be communicated to the client so that when a decision is made regarding whether to spend on traditional PR versus SEO or digital ads, data is available that makes an argument for why dollars should go toward the former.

An argument for or against the cryptocurrency and traditional money respectively can be better understood by thinking along these lines.

Convinced that the traditional Latin Mass was the prime reason for lay passivity, confusion, and clerical authoritarianism, his argument is perhaps more theological than literary.

Kant's moral argument for God demands a deity who exercises power in the traditional manner, but his principal moral theory requires that he become a process theist on the question of divine power.

And it is ultimately why the courts can decide that arguments for traditional marriage fail to meet even the minimum legal threshold of a rational basis.

Whitehead's argument for the existence of God, insofar as there is an argument at all, is primarily the traditional one from the order of the universe to a ground of order.

While I would hesitate to engage in a full - out debate of theism vs. atheism on this forum for reasons that I have already stated, I would be interested in hearing your response to the traditional ontological and moral arguments in favor of the existence of God as well as the argument from contingency.

He was making what we would now recognize as a non-establishment argument, one that was not exactly an extension of the traditional Anglo - American case for toleration.

The traditional churches do not always seem to realize that the premises for sensible argument, which are basic to themselves, are probably neither valid nor comprehensible in the world outside the Church.

The mistake in the traditional idealistic argument is not the method of searching for God in reason.

My main reason for giving up the traditional arguments is that I no longer believe in a dualistic framework in which these arguments were derived.

Religious arguments are, so they insist, superfluous in defending a traditional view of marriage: «Because marriage uniquely meets essential needs in such a structured way, it should be regulated for the common good, which can be understood apart from specifically religious arguments.»

Thus the writer does not give the traditional and classical arguments for belief in God.

Hartshorne offers a closely reasoned philosophical argument for a doctrine of God based, not on the classical metaphysical categories of traditional theology, but on process philosophy that allows some non-absolute aspects of God.

Many readers will be familiar with some of the traditional «arguments for the existence of God», such as that everything has a prior cause, but that the causal chain can not be continued back indefinitely, so that there must somewhere be a First Cause; or that since there are various degrees of perfection there must be a Perfect One by whom all lesser degrees are measured; or that all change in a thing is caused by something else which leads eventually to some Prime Mover.

Hartshorne declares that there are many possible valid arguments for the existence of God, but his writings concentrate on perfecting various forms of neoclassical versions of the traditional «ontological» and «cosmological» proofs.

[1][2] It is a contemporary adaptation of the traditional teleological argument for the existence of God, presented by its advocates as «an evidence - based scientific theory about life's origins» rather than «a religious - based idea».

On the one hand, he recognized the good in the traditional sense — that there are certain qualities of character that are worth having for their own sake, and goods that are self - evident in the sense that no argument or further justification is necessary for them.

I have yet to hear a compelling argument for changing the traditional definition of marriage; although, polygamy seems to be the coming form since it is getting increasingly more difficult to support a family on two incomes.

If Bell's book is not an argument for universalism, and that Bell's rhetorical questions are not meant to ridicule the traditional beliefs of eternal conscious suffering, penal substitutionary atonement, and salvation by faith alone in Christ alone, then the marketing mechanism is a paradigm example of what Harry Frankfurt has defined as «bull ****.»

As an advocate of traditional Christian practices of respect for human dignity, I have always called the attention of my ethics students to Immanuel Kant's argument for this dignity.

In a statement quoted by Hasker in his discussion of what he calls a «more subtle form» of the above argument (although it simply is my argument), I said that according to traditional free will theism it would have been possible for God to create «creatures who could enjoy all the same values which we human beings enjoy, except that they would not really be free» (Process 74).

Recognizing that I will not agree with his parity claim, Hasker closes his argument by commenting on my discussion about the need for a theodicy to have psychological appeal, seeking to turn this discussion to his favor by pointing out that traditional theism has been accepted by more people than has process theism.

Hasker's first argument begins with the supposition that process theists argue thus: Because the God of traditional theism «has deliberately chosen to endow his creatures with [libertarian] freedom,» this God «bears a heavy responsibility for turning loose upon the world a freedom that has had such devastating consequences,» but that this is not a problem for process theism because for it «freedom is not the result of a divine choice.»

In one important way, Intelligent Design's argument is in a much weaker position than traditional cosmological arguments, for empirical results in biology could show that the mechanisms of neo-Darwinism are sufficient to explain the existence of complex biological forms, and in this case the motivation for Intelligent Design's theory would collapse.

Blond is arguing for a reversal of this - to reassert a traditional rightist critique on social issues, but to combine it with a localist, protectionist economic argument which is a leftist economic shift.

Sunder: there are two main arguments for and against different electoral systems, both of which have featured in the traditional debate within Labour.

The traditional response to this argument is that it's a pet peeve of the middle classes, who can afford to pay more for their fruit and veg and don't respect how supermarkets have driven down the price of food for those on modest income.

After I launched the campaign to Save General Election Night to ensure that votes are counted and results delivered overnight at the general election, a number of spurious arguments have been offered for wanting to overturn the traditional Thursday count in favour of Friday morning counts.

The question then becomes whether the GOP is able to sell that argument to its traditional supporters, including business groups and the Conservative Party, which provides a critical buttress for Republican candidates.

Caroline Flint progresses the traditional Southern Discomfort argument, tweaked for post-2010 circumstances; and Joan Ryan looks at the electoral math in both Lib Dem marginal seats and in Labour / Tory marginals arguing that a focus on Lib Dem votes alone will not be enough, and we have to also attract Tory switchers.

«These findings are independent of traditional risk factors for diabetes and still show a strong connection between the increasing severity of psoriasis and the increasing risk of developing diabetes, which makes a strong argument for a causal relationship between the two,» Gelfand said.

Lentils make a strong argument for an alternative to traditional garbanzo bean hummus, as they are loaded with filling fiber and taste great too!

Throughout the film, compelling arguments are made for how Western forms of music incorporated the rhythms and vocal stylings of traditional Native American music.

An argument for using badges in makerspaces to recognize the skills students gain outside the traditional curriculum.

One of the arguments for maintaining the traditional sector is that a lot of people like having neighborhood schools of right.

To establish that the school was a «state actor,» he made five arguments: that Arizona law defines a charter school as a public school; that a charter school is a state actor for all purposes, including employment; that a charter school provides a public education, a function that is traditionally and exclusively the prerogative of the state; that a charter school is a state actor in Arizona because the state regulates the personnel matters of such schools; and that it is a state actor because charter schools, unlike traditional private schools, are permitted to participate in the state's retirement system.

The political argument for involving parents and other community members more substantially carries along with it an explicit challenge to the traditional, hierarchical leadership and power structures in schools.156 According to Leithwood and Prestine (2002), the policies and reforms that call for decentralized decision making rest on certain important assumptions about the role of the principal and other school leaders.

But the AFT will never make that argument because it opens up the door for expanding choice, voucherizing school funding, and putting traditional districts from which the union draws its very existence out of business.

Making a persuasive argument for moving beyond the long - established idea of operating schools with traditional classroom instruction to personalized learning for individual students, the authors detail six crucial elements of schooling — community, instruction, time, technology, facilities, and funding — and how to address them concurrently to improve secondary schools.

No doubt because charter schools have not proven to be better than traditional schools, privatization promoters are using the «waiting list» argument to explain the urgent need for Congress to pay for more charter schools seats.

You're inspired, you're passionate, you've just received your invitation for an in - depth interview and you're ready to sell your experience about why you're going to make an exceptional Fellow, but... BUT you're not really sure why Betsy DeVos was a controversial choice for Secretary of Education, the argument between charter school vs traditional public school vs school vouchers alludes you, and you once thought Common Core was a pilates ab workout.

Ms Stacey said that although the «traditional focus» of requests for papers had been on A levels, because of the «urgent need for confidence in results» due to their use in allotting university places, she felt there was an «equally legitimate argument» for extension to GCSEs «given the weight that's put on them as well».

Despite its traditional, low - slung stature, this particular car provides a good argument for ditching the skyscraper SUV for a modern, well - equipped station wagon.

As the federal government tightened fuel - economy and safety standards and global competitors became readily available, the argument for updating aging traditional body - on - frame, rear - drive vans quickly fell apart.