Sentences with phrase «weaker sense»

If you need a god to be moral you have a very weak sense of morality.

He will not, if he can help it, so openly depart from the original doctrine that thought is merely weaker sense.

According to Bosland, some elderly people wind up with a very weak sense of taste, while others maintain good sensory sensation in their mouths until they die.

In this perhaps very weak sense there remains something special about the way Catholics «do» marriage and the family.

We have a much weaker sense of covenantal bond.

We are all well aware of the impact divorce has on children (greater unhappiness, less life satisfaction, higher rates of depression, weaker sense of personal control.)

Pike has to acknowledge that both the instructor and the commission have the power to coerce in the weak sense only, while clearly the traditional God must have the power to coerce in the strong sense.

It seems best, accordingly, to begin our discussion of the process position on the use of coercive power (in the weaker sense acknowledged by process theists to exist) by attempting to discern the attitude of the God of process theism toward it.

It seems to me that given the power process theists grant to God, divine coercion in the weaker sense is possible.

But coercion in the weaker sense is not only acknowledged by process theists to be a possibility but also an actuality on the human level.

They seem to believe that God does not unilaterally restrict any individual's power of self - determination in any context — i.e., does not coerce even in the weaker sense.

Or it maybe that God could, like humans, coerce in the weaker sense but has decided never to do so for some reason.

Process theists do not deny that coercion in this weaker sense occurs, at least on the human level.

We can best begin to do this, I believe, by considering the following question: Would the God of process theism occasionally coerce in the weaker sense if this were an option?

A growing number of classical theists believe that although God could coerce in the weaker sense, God has chosen not to do so because a world in which there exists significant freedom and the potential for evil is superior to a world containing neither.

When speaking of universal salvation sometimes he used it in quite a weak sense — much in the way an Englishman might hope for a fine day (without any firm conviction that it will come to pass).

Christians do practice personal teshuvah on a weekly basis but have a weak sense of corporate responsibility.

Success leads to an ability to stay true to yourself, while failure leads to role confusion and a weak sense of self.

@FooBar: Knowing how to influence a former attorney general helps with future intelligence actions in only a weak sense.

On the spiritual plane we can consider that depression is imbalance in the vertical dimension with a h2er pull of gravity and a weaker sense of uplift from the cosmic pull.

The same research suggests that while students feel strongly attached to their immediate communities, they generally feel a weaker sense of belonging to national, European and international communities.

And the low - rolling - resistance rubber has such a weak sense of dead - ahead that the steering must be minded during highway cruising.

We would strongly suggest that you enlist the help of a friend (preferably with a weak sense of smell) to help hold your dog.

Asynchronous multiplayer relies heavily on a strong reciprocation loop to compensate for a weak sense of proximity.

Elsewhere, there is less money for adaptation and a weaker sense of urgency.

The Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment and the Parental Attachment Questionnaire were both used in this study and both found that the clinical groups demonstrated a weaker sense of attachment quality compared to their non-clinical counterparts.

Children belonging to less - advantaged class categories feel less potent, less virtuous, and possess a weaker sense of agency because of their identification.

Partners who require continual validation from each other to shore up a weak sense of self will never be fully known.