Sentences with phrase «which whole books»

Persuasion is another subject to which whole books have been devoted.

This introductory chapter will state the theme around which the whole book revolves and on which the widely diverse topics considered are so many variations.

Not exact matches

Now, at the centenary of that event, which has generated its own cottage industry, with several books, the media has gone in whole - hog.

«I wish I could memorize the whole book of Proverbs,» says one Amish businessman about the Bible book from which the above verses are taken.

I did not read this whole book, but did read the parts that applied to my development as a manager, which was most of the book.

Whole books have been devoted to what Stanford — which Reuters named as the world's most innovative university in 2016 — has contributed to our world, from antibody therapies to data analytics to DSL.

Perhaps the best - known example of this trend is Amazon, which has begun experimenting with physical stores in the categories where it has the highest online penetration (books) and which recently acquired the Whole Foods Market chain.

He compared it to looking at the page of a book, which is meaningless when taken in as a whole and instead needs to be looked at word by word.

-- Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind «In this valuable guide Chris Guillebeau shows that transforming an idea into a successful business can be easier than you think... You are in charge of which ideas deserve your time, and this book can help you wake up every morning eager to progress to the next step.»

They pick and choose the parts that make them feel comfortable, assuming they ever read the whole book — which 90 % of Christians never do.

Later, I did a whole series on «Gospelism» (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6) in which I argue many of the points that Scot McKnight made in his book, but which he referred to as «Gospeling.»

When someone is accused of «cherry - picking» verses from the Bible, it means that they have a particular doctrine or idea they want to teach to others, and rather than considering «the whole counsel of God,» they pick a choose a few select verses from various books of the Bible which seems to prove their point or present their case in the strongest possible way.

It also makes sense to hold every piece of Scripture to the whole of Scripture, and interpret every single passage according to the Spirit of the passage's context, the book in which it is found, and of the entire Bible.

To this end, he reviews the metaphysical situation to which the discussion of abstraction, along with the book as a whole, has led him.

«This book is for everybody who can't do the denial, reductionist route which says «you are just a finely tuned collection of atoms and this whole thing is just a material accident»,» Bell says.

Not only have they faced the difficulties of language, but they have all been required to cover in a few pages material which could scarcely be covered adequately in a whole book, and to fit that material into a common outline.

In these words he disingenuously glides over the fact (known to himself) that the earliest of those «other works,» Shakespeare's Religious Background, was published as early as 1973, when Eamon Duffy was presumably merely a student and when he might even have been influenced by my book» in which I devote a whole chapter to the «English Jesuits.»

It would be easy to identify the passages in the book that have caused the most offense: the section dealing with Mahound, which also deals with the whole question of the «satanic verses,» with reference to the well - known verses in the Qur» an (in surahs 53 and 21) that many commentators see as indicating a questionable Islamic monotheist compromise with Meccan polytheism.

Second: to say that this particular book is true is to say that we can trust it, trust it as a guide to faith and life which provides not only specific claims about God's faithfulness and how we ought to live our lives in response to it, but also a way of understanding the whole world and a language in which to speak about that world.

Nevertheless, in the midst of his reshaping still lies the central story at the heart of the (original) Book of Mormon — that a 19th century treasure hunter called Joseph Smith claimed to have discovered a new revelation of Jesus appearing to South American tribes inscribed on golden plates which only he could translate, and became the self - appointed prophet of a new religious movement (and yes, that whole story comes in for a lot of ridicule along the way).

His whole argument, particularly in the last portion of the book, is that they are priests after Christ, with priestly duties to perform, some of which are performed out in the world, and others of which are performed in the assembly of believers, gathered before God's throne on the heavenly Zion — and how dare anyone forsake priestly service on the heavenly Zion in favor of letting a Levitical priest do it for you on the earthly Zion!

As we make a survey of the whole book we find two major tensions which can be considered as an interpretation of the term «secret discipline.»

We must accept it as a whole or none at all because if the book or collection of books which I would rather say the Bible is wrong in geology then what good is its theology?

But in the ten years since I read that book, I have found a few other characteristics, or traits, or practices of Jesus which Yancey overlooked, and which has made Him come alive to me in a whole new way when I read the Gospels.

It is the whole life of a man from beginning to end, as written in the book of his life, which rises to God for judgment.

This is a big problem, to which in a sense this whole book is devoted.

Against the background of the struggles and protestations surveyed above, the progressive group in Judah, sometime apparently in the seventh century B.C, formulated their theory of government in a document which has come to us in whole or in part in our Book of Deuteronomy.

Some recount the things they've seen in life, some fill it with lies (there was this whole controversy accusing one book of being completely false I forget which one).

And if we review the book as a whole, we must judge that this excessive emphasis on the future has the effect of relegating to a secondary place just those elements in the original Gospel which are most distinctive of Christianity — the faith that in the finished work of Christ God has already acted for the salvation of man, and the blessed sense of living in the divine presence here and now.

Sometimes when we read a difficult book, seeking to follow a complicated argument, we come across a luminous sentence from which we can go forward and backward and so attain some understanding of the whole.

An attempt to explicate that understanding of theology and its problematic nature which underlies this whole book, and Cobb's own understanding of the nature of philosophy and theology.

The whole book, which keeps unusually close to concrete facts, is little more than an amplification of this text.)

(ENTIRE BOOK) Bultmann's famous essay, «New Testament and Mythology,» is contained here in which the whole controversy over Demythologizing is brought out in miniature.

A book about the one commandment Jesus gave, by which we live and love like Jesus and fulfill the whole commandment.

[On this whole question of a pre-existent Man, see the book to which reference has already been made in connection with the idea of the Son of Man: Kraeling, Anthropos and Son of Man.]

The theology of the cross which S. Mark Heim unfolds for us in this book helps us see God, Jesus, ourselves, history, culture, government, and all of Scripture in a whole new light.

It would not be difficult for me, however, to write a whole book, were I to examine the various misunderstandings, the preposterous attitudes, the deceptive movements, which I have encountered in my brief practice.

Careful reading of Book Z of the Metaphysics, to be sure, makes clear that there are at least two conceptions of substantial form in Aristotle's philosophy: one more Platonic in character whereby the form possesses its own substantial unity and communicates that unity to the material elements (stoicheia) from the outside, so to speak; the other apparently originating with Aristotle himself according to which the substantial form comes into being as it unifies the elements into an organic whole (cf. TKT 67 - 120).

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

The whole thought of the New Testament remains for us a book sealed with seven seals if we do not read behind every sentence there this other sentence: Death has already been overcome (death, be it noted, not the body); there is already a new creation (a new creation, be it noted, not an immortality which the soul has always possessed) the resurrection age is already inaugurated.

It would be invidious to mention the names of popular books which commend prayer and set forth techniques of praying, but are so alien to the whole Christian position — although written sometimes by ministers of Christian bodies — that it is astounding that they are accepted so readily by people who profess and call themselves Christians.

The problems with the book are not with the individual parts, many of which point towards (in the words of Pope Benedict XVI) «the beauty of human love, of marriage and of the family» (11), but with the rather uncertain whole that the parts construct.

This last is a rare instance of explicit theological reflection in the book, which tends as a whole towards the emotional rather than the intellectual.

So there's this whole level of subtlety and nuance, and I would argue like the book of Judges, which is just Game of Thrones meets a David Cronenberg film, I would argue that's the editor's point.

Nevertheless, it also alters the nature of the book, which becomes a tribute to the Franciscan life rather than a balanced presentation of religious life as a whole.

Vic Stenger in his book God: The Failed Hypothesis, quotes a private communication with Martin Wagner in which he points out that: «In fact, the whole argument from fine - tuning ultimately makes no sense.

Biblical or Nonbiblical: I was surprised to see that in the whole of the Paulsons» book only a half - dozen signs were composed of Bible verses — including one church in Corinth, Kentucky, which cut the Gordian knot of ever - changing signage by erecting a permanent red - brick diptych with the Ten Commandments engraved on it.

First: translation of the book in which every doubt and the right of each book, not the whole book «πασα γραφη».

This complacency, which Cobb acknowledges with his typical candor (supra), was being encouraged by Ford, albeit unconsciously, even before my use of the systematic approach had produced a significantly new interpretation of Whitehead's metaphysics — one gleaned from all of Whitehead's books from The Principles of Natural Knowledge to Modes of Thought, and one which, whatever its merits are finally judged to be, constitutes a strong, thoroughly argued, and well - documented challenge to the whole range of traditional interpretations.

And it is not just this passage which teaches that we are safe in Christ forever, but the whole book of Hebrews.