That misconception, together
with the elevation of the Bible into godhood, blights the Christian's spiritual development.
Along
with this elevation of the thought of Yahweh as god of the sky went the even more practical idea that, however geographically bounded he might be within his people's land, he still could display his power outside it.
After our picnic, we continued north on Route 108, which unbeknownst to me is the «notch road» and goes through the Smugglers Notch, which is a mountain pass,
with an elevation of 2,170 feet (660 meters), separating Mount Mansfield, the highest peak in the Green Mountains, from Spruce Peak and the Sterling Range.
With the elevation of Emily Thornberry, the Labour leader's Islington North constituency is now sandwiched in between the constituencies of two of his top shadow cabinet colleagues.
«Cardioprotective Effect of Intermittent Fasting Is Associated
with an Elevation of Adiponectin Levels in Rats,» The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, 21 (5), 413 - 417.
Fever is an initial sign of feline distemper;
with an elevation of the body temperature to104 — 107 degrees Fahrenheit.
With an elevation of 1,856 meters, it boasts plenty of sunny days yet it never gets too hot.
They are asked to stay away within a six - kilometer radius from the top of Mount Agung
with an elevation of 950 meters from sea level and additional sectoral expansion to the north, southeast, and south - southwest for 7.5 kilometers.
Irazu Volcano is the highest volcano in Costa Rica
with an elevation of 3,430 meters (11,257 feet) above sea level.
Climbing Santa Ana Volcano — El Salvador Volcan Santa Ana is El Salvador's highest volcano,
with an elevation of 2381 M / 7857 ft. at the highest point of its crater rim.
With the elevation of the sculpture hall by one office floor in 1927, the Kunsthalle complex assumed the exterior appearance it presents today.
The Dome C is located on the eastern half of Antarctica, on the polar plateau
with an elevation of 10,607 feet.
This will lead to a rise in Median Sea Level,
with the elevation of that oscillation of relative Sea level «then» maintaining «high and low» points both much higher than that «presently seen».
The third highest mountain in the world,
with an elevation of 28,169», Kanchenjunga is on the border of the easternmost part of Nepal and the northern part of the Indian state of Sikkim.
With an elevation of 1,020 feet, Tiller has an exceptional year around mild climate.
Not exact matches
The trip was awesome overall but one day we had to cover something like 15 very rough miles
with a lot
of elevation change.
In contrast to Tosi's departure, it was well known the company had been looking for a COO, and the
elevation of Johnson should not surprise anyone familiar
with the behind - the - scenes leader seen as Chesky's most trusted adviser.
Though little known in the Canadian industry, her
elevation to country CEO made sense because
of her background: 17 years in supermarkets prepared her well to guide Walmart's food expansion, as did her Sam's experience
with so - called combination stores that stock both food and general merchandise.
According to Bloomberg,
Elevation Partners has invested $ 1.76 billion,
with a 12 % net internal rate
of return.
And when Riccitiello left
Elevation to head up EA, he obviously took a lot
of the firm's video game expertise
with him.
The
elevation of stock prices has had much to do
with unusually wide profit margins resulting from a depressed share
of GDP going to wages and salaries.
At that
elevation of earnings (indeed, even when earnings have been within 20 %
of that 6 % trendline), the P / E ratio for the S&P 500 has historically averaged just 9 or 10, compared
with the current level
of 18.
The tension I mean is in regard to texts like 1 Tim 2 & 1Cor 14 alongside Christ's
elevation of women in the Gospels & how women served
with Paul.
He answers
with exact fidelity to these inward drawings, either by an
elevation of his heart toward God, or by a meek and loving regard to Him; or by such words as love forms upon these occasions, as for instance, My God, behold me, wholly Thine: Lord, make me according to Thy heart.
Cool congregations can get so wrapped up in the «performance»
of church that they forget to actually be the church, a phenomenon painfully illustrated by the story
of the child
with cerebral palsy who was escorted from the Easter service at
Elevation Church for being a «distraction.»
On the one hand, this dignity consists in the supernatural
elevation to union
with God in Jesus Christ, which determines the ultimate finality
of the existence
of every person both on earth and in eternity.
He understood that when the effect
of past oppression has been to leave people in a diminished state, the attainment
of true equality
with their former oppressor can not much depend on his generosity but must ultimately derive from an
elevation of their selves above the state
of diminishment.
In a scene near the climactic
elevation of the cup, the presiding priest, who himself is infected
with doubts and confusion about the faith, elevates the ceramic chalice filled
with wine.
I think the true problem
with these kinds
of states is their
elevation of an elite, their dehumanizing
of large section
of their population, and their need to label parts
of their society as the enemy within.
Who would not put up
with many things that seem odd, exaggerated, or circumstantial —
with many things that to us, born under a different sun and in a different time, seem to be tasteless or even laughable — for the sake
of human enrichment and
of aesthetic and religious
elevation?
R. Bultmann wrote, «according to the oldest view, Christ's resurrection coincides
with his exaltation to heavenly glory».23 G. Bornkamm agrees, saying, «What is certainly the oldest view held by the Church made no distinction between the resurrection
of Christ and his
elevation to the right hand
of the Father, while only later was there developed, in addition, the theory
of the resurrected Christ walking the earth for a time and only subsequently ascending into heaven.
This was inescapable in view
of Israel's concept
of the intimate relationship between God and nature; but at the same time it imparted to their understanding
of the inanimate world, and to their poetic expression
of it, a beauty and
elevation, and withal a majesty such as, one may venture the judgment, to rank them
with the best poets
of any age.
Anyway Jonathan was a prime example
of loyalty which sounds like royalty, but has nothing to do
with Kings and Queens as loyalty is not high on their agenda, that can also be said for people in high places who lose their sense
of direction through their
elevation, ending up
with their heads in the clouds as did Gods chosen Kings Saul and David.
Relevance might simply mean wanting to understand why so many young people have said that attending U2's
Elevation Tour and hearing Bono close the show
with choruses
of «Hallelujah» was like being in worship (but a whole lot better).
In a wonderfully concise passage in his 1940 preface to Adolfo Bioy Casares's The Invention
of Morel, Jorge Luis Borges — taking issue
with Ortega y Gasset's
elevation of «psychological» fiction over the «fantastic» — offers a devastating critique
of the pretensions
of a great deal
of modern «psychological realism»:
Little is said
of his imprisonment, and almost nothing
of his
elevation to vice-regent
of Egypt; but the experience
with the Egyptian woman has been expanded and embellished to the point
of completely dominating his last will and testament.
The rest
of Begin's story is better known — his inclusion and statesmanship in the National Unity government
of 1967, voters» growing disillusion
with the Labor hegemony, his massive heart attack on the eve
of his
elevation to government in 1977, and the many physical setbacks that eventually made it impossible for him to continue.
Christianity without [the]
elevation [
of music] is as an eagle
with broken wings.»
On the other side
of the railroad tracks, quite literally, is Khotso House, the headquarters
of the South African Council
of Churches -LCB- SACC -RCB-, which provided Desmond Tutu
with the strong and secure anti-apartheid platform which led to the Nobel Prize and his
elevation to the Anglican Primacy
of South Africa.
Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically evil, Wright details some
of the problematic consequences
of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the
elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense
with an overall view
of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings
of scripture that cast Christianity as out -
of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing
of the problem
of evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction
of the act
of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..
Pierce lists (pp. 2 - 20) three main views (each
with varying nuances) that have been advanced over the centuries concerning the subject, object, occasion, and message
of Christ's announcement (ekeryxen, 3:19) in connection
with his death, resurrection, ascension to heaven, and
elevation to God's right hand.
(14) This message
of elevation of the socially despised is,
of course, antithetical to current commercial advertising and the consumer society, though it is likely that should such genuine Christianity become a powerful expression again the industry would mold it into a new image as it did
with the counter-culture movement in the 1960s.
[3] On the day
of the announcement
of Vincent Nichols»
elevation to Westminster the Editor
of this magazine was in a radio discussion
with John Wilkins, former editor
of The Tablet, a journal well respected in Church establishment circles.
Obama's
elevation of bodily suffering above all other considerations, as he articulates it in his remarks to the press following his new executive order on stem cell research, is clearly an expression
of this Cartesian legacy,
of a modern science pregnant
with moral attachments.
Its attitudes are found in every branch
of Christendom: the quest for negative status, the
elevation of minor issues to a place
of major importance, the use
of social mores as a norm
of virtue, the toleration
of one's own prejudice but not the prejudice
of others, the confusion
of the church
with a denomination, and the avoidance
of prophetic scrutiny by using the Word
of God as an instrument
of self - security but not self - criticism.
Since his
elevation to the episcopacy, and especially since becoming pope, Francis has promulgated a «theology
of sin»
with force and clarity.
After years
of partaking in complementary in - flight meals and dealing
with the resulting, brutal stomach aches, I realized that it's the always - questionable food that was making me feel unwell, not so much the
elevation as I initially suspected.
Temecula Valley Wine Country has been blessed
with a unique microclimate providing cooler summer nights, well - drained decomposed granite soils and a 1500 - foot
elevation all
of which are ideally suited for growing premium wine grapes.
A favorite is my hiking muffin recipe loaded
with protein used for 20 miles and thousands
of elevation feet gain days.
The course is challenging and enjoyable
with five tee boxes and the largest
elevation drop
of any California course on the signature Hole 6.