Sentences with phrase «what is at»

Best Point (nominated by Micah Odor): John Wilson at The Wall Street Journal with «No One Reads the Bible Literally» «What is at stake in these disputes is not a choice between following biblical authority on the one hand or science on the other, as the matter is often misleadingly framed.

And what is at stake in these questions — what, exactly, is endangered if we get the answers wrong?

Charles Davis has made a useful attempt to mediate between the unwillingness of political theologies to accept a role for philosophy and the human drive to understand what is at work in any cultural phenomenon, among which theologies must be counted.3 Davis distinguishes between «original» and «scientific» theology.

What kind of faith you have is what is at question.

It means responsibility toward what is at hand, but it also means responsibility within God's atoning work as we, with all our limitations, understand that work.

What is at stake is nothing less than the «liberation of life» (LL Chaps.

What is at the core of all this?

While we should no doubt seek to do justice to all concerned, one can not help but note the dramatic disparities between what is at stake for the unborn child, the mother, and the politician.

They have clarified what is at stake.

What is at issue here, is that a White supremecist went into a Sikh place of prayer, and shot them, clearly targeting people with beliefs different from himself.

Consequently, each ideal aim represents God's constant adaptation of specific situations to all of what is at work in the universe, and all these together are entertained within the larger context of what we might call his «universal aim» (CNT 180f).

What is at issue is the possibility of relative freedom or freedom within certain limits for both man and God, and it would appear that Cobb has maximized the occasion for such freedom in God while severely minimizing it for man.

Mr. Nuechterlein misses entirely what is at issue in the disputes over the Benke prayer.

What is at stake here is the social contextuality of God's Word in Scripture.

In short, history weighs us down with considerable force, but the importance of what is at stake forces us to take a different approach and, all over the world, we can see the emergence of new reflections, proposals and experiences.

What is at issue is whether David Benke is guilty of any of these failings because of his participation in the September 23, 2001 event at Yankee Stadium.

That's what is at stake here.»

It is more than just a special word for honesty, for what is at stake is an elementary respect for the other and its rights.

What is at stake is the enormous temptation to demand credit - in the form of the approval of others - for faithful behavior.

I believe that is a major part of what is at the heart of your original question.

But what is at once apparent, I believe, is that the diagram portrays an onward movement towards continually greater realization of the purpose or «subjective aim» of Deity.

Strategy seeks for concrete ways and means to affect change that will move the real toward the ideal, the bad toward the better, the intolerable toward what is at least bearable.

However, what is at issue here is not bad things done but bad things undergone, not sin but evil.

What is at issue is who is going to pay the bill.

In this passage the animistic idea of «unclean spirits» that can invade individual human bodies and distort individual human spirits is not in view; but the idea of demonic systems and structures that exert enormous power in the world, that can invade the body politic and other human corporeities and dehumanize them, is what is at stake.

What is at least analogical in the scheme is the idea of prehension as dependence of an actuality on other actualities, or of participation, feeling of feeling, experience of experience, together with sense of futurity.

Of course, this is a claim fully embedded in German Idealism, and above all so in Hegel, but now what is at hand is a Catholic universal reason and a Catholic universal faith.

For if his sensibility is recognized as a material yet conscious reality, what is at issue is thereby fundamentally conceded.

In the last analysis, what is at stake is human forgiveness, which is preceded and empowered by God's forgiveness, but which at the same time solidifies God's forgiveness.

Now notice what is at issue here.

One measure of the practical relevance of every theology should be how it helps us to find God's grace in the food we eat, so that our mealtime prayers really speak to what is at hand.

But just because of this, what is at stake also goes beyond Anglicanism, as I tried to suggest.

You have learned something about Paul's situation and realize what is at stake for Paul at this point.

Rather, I believe that what is at issue here is good stewardship and its resultant health; therefore, virtue is exactly what we are talking about.

While this may be true, what is at least equally significant is the closed and determinate construal of meaning at the time of the speech event.

And this problem regarding the «public» comparison and verification of diverse «private» sensations is precisely what is at issue in the first place!

«What is at stake here is the future of humanity itself,» underscored Archbishop Francis A. Chullikatt, who serves as the Holy See's permanent observer to the U.N.

Hence, the striking last sentence of Sacred Causes: «On the whole, I conclude this book as an optimist, although certainly not of the Panglossian variety, since the increasingly sharp definition of what is at stake is itself surely part of the solution.»

What is at stake, then, is not only the renewal of moral theology called for by the Second Vatican Council, but also the formation of young men who enter our seminaries.

What is at stake here is not a single text, but the entire meaning of the whole revelation: the opposition between YHWH and «the» figurative representations of the gods, and the very definition of the God of Israel.

What is at the core is how much a culture can survive being divided by accommodating every possible pluralistic view.

Those who are leading us in this reflection point out that what is at stake is not only the nature of the authority of the New Testament but also our whole understanding of what it means to be Christians.

What is at stake in the discussion of women is more than the surface issue, important as that is.

Despite what many, many of the comments here sound like (and how hate - filled they are), that's not what is at the core of the issue.

He always sees clearly what is at issue.

You can not be a Christian in a hostile environment like that and not know that your life is forfeit at any time, and no Christian who has a clear idea of what is at stake will ever recant their beliefs.

That ominous sense of what is at stake is not uncommon among evangelicals, and it should be more evident among Catholics, as we reflect together on the Christian mission in the Third Millennium.

The form in which men recognize God and the conception which men have of Him can not, to be sure, come into being without the cooperative participation of the creativity of a human person, but what is at work there is no myth - projecting fantasy but man's way of going forth to the meeting.

What is at stake is the preservation of the very foundations of life itself.

What is at first heard and perhaps scoffed at, if it is true gets listened to, thought about, and finally accepted by enough people to place behind it the power of public opinion.