Sentences with phrase «wider sense»

This is, of course, a very wide sense of religion, but it contains its grain of truth.

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However, we are all created as sexual beings and sex, or sexuality, also has a much wider sense in which the love held within the soul is expressed through our sexuality in warmth, affection and tenderness, without an erotic element, and done so in an appropriate way depending on the persons involved.

«I think the thing with Mrs. Clinton is that she was our Senator for a number of years and has a very wide sense of knowledge of the state.

But on the issue of the government forcing all schools to become academies, regardless of the views of parents, the NUT clearly feels it is tapping into a much wider sense of unease.

However, Jaeger argues, «it is clear that he applies it in a much wider sense in his letter and, while using Scriptural testimony, he himself conceives of paideia as precisely that which he offers the Corinthians in his whole letter....

Where truth concerns the whole man it has necessarily to do with the institutional, as far as this, taken in a very wide sense of the word, represents that reality through which the other has a true importance for myself even before being accepted by the arbitrary decision of the individual.

Just last week, I detailed that wider sense that Los Angeles» news institutions are coming apart at the seams.

I have used the word «work» in a wide sense, to stand for the activity of satisfying wants in a world like ours that can be made to satisfy wants but does not do so automatically.

I shall also use the word «play» in a wide sense, to stand for an activity that, because it is not directed to the satisfaction of wants, entails an attitude to the world that is not concerned to use it, to get something out of it, or to make something of it, and offers satisfactions that are not at the same time frustrations.

They were «sacramentals» in the wider sense, but they were not guaranteed as saving actions.

The Stoics regarded passion, impulse, desire — the emotions in the widest sense — as unreasonable, unnatural, and the source of evil.

The Church in its widest sense, then, is the entire community of men as related by the faith in God to which Christianity aspires in the name of the Lord Jesus.

It is ecumenical in the widest sense of the term.

In his 1849 manual on Church Polity, J. L. Reynolds defined the church in this wider sense: «It is this community of believers, the household of God, the whole family in Heaven and Earth, that constitutes the Holy Catholic Church, the kingdom of Christ in its internal development.»

The war of 1914 — in its effects on the Hapsburg Empire or on Germany's overseas possessions, for example — shook the very basis of such «legitimist» doctrine; and in a wider sense France and Britain should have the credit for the democratic ideas and the nationalist teaching which are working to their detriment at the present day.

There is no infallible «dictionary,» not even in the minimal literal sense of a collection of definitions for specific words and even less in the wider sense of what symbols, sentences, and social structures mean.

Yes, I feel passionate all the time in the widest sense of the word.

«I would hope what they want is for people to talk about faith in the widest sense, and I think they will achieve that,» she said.

These are stages in our sociological situation, taking «sociological» in the widest sense.

This is too narrow a view to be adopted, and in dealing with Muslim theology here the term «theology» is used in a wider sense to include the speculative thinking of orthodox and non-orthodox theological schools.

Social action here includes the usual meaning of sharing in movements toward social alleviation or reconstruction, and the wider sense of any deliberate effort to bring Christian faith to bear on the way we live together.

In the widest sense, the Church includes all the redeemed of all the ages, being the one body of Christ extended throughout time as well as space.

Cardinal Newman can be found arguing that in the widest sense of «Christendom» the Roman Empire had not passed away even in his times.

It is true that these questions link up with very general and fundamental problems of a philosophical and theological doctrine of man, and with problems of natural philosophy in its widest sense.

The union of persons, both in the more intimate sense and in the wider sense of degrees of sociality, requires that there be distinct persons, each marked by his or her own speciality, with whom association may be found.

Porneia is often translated as «prostitution», but it refers to prostitution in a very wide sense, i.e. every kind of illegitimate sexual union.

«It can be used in a wide sense to draw attention to problems, but not to solve them.

For all the differences between Christianity and humanism in the widest sense of the word, (I use the word «Christianity» because it is traditional, though I am aware of its vagueness and false associations.)

From a Buddhist perspective, harmony is more accurately seen as the fullness of nature in the widest sense, including humans and including terrible forces of destruction.

In other words, using Novak's terminology, the individual always comes from society (in the wider sense), not to it.

The main result of Professor Lohmeyer's investigation is to establish the probability that early Christian communities were found in Galilee, taking Galilee in the wide sense as extending east of the Jordan, north to include Mount Hermon, and northeast to include Damascus.

Suffering in its widest sense means the capacity to be acted upon, to be changed, moved, transformed by the action of or in relation to another.