Sentences with phrase «writers who»

Writers who deal with the work of God in history can not always write with the preciseness of an Aristotle discussing categories or the habits of animals.

Probably everyone can admit that this is a valid way of reading a text like Arrested, which is the work of a coherent group of writers who plan together the network of associations.

I find that Catholic writers are amazing and have no doubt that God inspired their words, but I also think that of many writers who are Protestant.

Father Joe is a distinguished addition to the growing bookshelf of memoirs by prodigal sons and daughters, writers who chronicle their long journey home to the childhood faith they abandoned in search of liberation and fulfillment.

Then the longest section «Critics of the Culture» analyses the writings of Christian writers who have criticised the way that society is going: T.S. Eliot; Coleridge; Matthew Arnold; Maritain; Maurras; David Jones, the Welsh poet; Christopher Dawson; Chesterton; Belloc; and Tolkien.

Most writers who deal in the supernatural tend either to abandon the everyday in favor of landscapes (Poe's House of Usher, Anne Rice's New Orleans, Lovecraft's New England) that exist at a sharp angle to the real world, or else domesticate the supernatural so that it fits snugly in the confines of normal reality.

Gunter's essay once and for all sets to rest the most popular criticism of Bergson that is made by process philosophers and repeated in textbooks and popular media by writers who do not bother to read Bergson for themselves.

I received many, many messages from readers offering counter-evidence to my complaint in the form of notable contemporary writers who do engage faith matters in their fiction, and indeed Image journal has developed a list of what it calls «the Image Top 50 Contemporary Writers of Faith» in response to the essay.

In conducting dozens of interviews, she has failed to find a single convert who traces her or his conversion to the books, When she asked the publisher for proof of its claim, she received copies of seven letters by writers who said they knew of someone else converted through reading.

Without some sense of the everlastingness of the value achieved in the emergence of nature we might easily concur with the dour ruminations of those ancient and modern writers who have voiced an anguished pessimism as a result of their sensitivity to impermanence.

And it is far too short to be spent on writers who can't figure out how to grab a reader's attention without using the f - word.

Honestly, the only Christians I read on a regular basis are bloggers / writers who are willing to challenge the orthodoxy, the ones who tell the church it's wrong when it comes to science, homosexuality, its treatment of women, etc..

Aren't a asking a bit much from the writers who lived 2000 + yrs ago?

I am skeptical of writers who claim that we're all just one book away from a more fulfilled life, and speakers who promise to unlock the single secret to joy.

Witnesses of Jesus... once again check the post to Smurfette... I listed like 7 or 8 secular writers who wrote about Jesus.

St Francis de Sales (one of the first to see the dangers of heresy at Port Royal) and other saintly spiritual writers who advocated frequent communion saw it as a practice requiring regular confession and serious preparation.

One who wants to understand the medieval matrix of the present world must depend upon the works of scores of specialists and those few great historical writers who summarize and recast the former.

She's got a lot of good advice for writers who want to get published.)

I've known writers who were funny who stopped being funny, who became serious persons and could no longer make jokes.

There are Indian writers who maintain that the Indian church was not aware of the theological developments in the Persian church and was thus not influenced by it.

You were among the earlier writers who regarded the mystical tradition as a source of religious renewal.

Many Catholic writers who admit that the times have changed in this respect do so resignedly; and even add that perhaps it is as well not to waste feelings in regretting the matter, for to return to the heroic corporeal discipline of ancient days might be an extravagance.

But he'd probably exchange a few hundred of them for headline writers who actually read the story.

Nothing is more damaging to fiction, she wrote, than writers who try to impose their beliefs on their novels in a forced or unnatural way.

This «going dead» of the notions I have mentioned is stated plainly for us in the writers who speak of «the death of God».

Those are necessary for us; so I should wish to insist, in opposition to the contemporary writers who regard all religion, in any sense, as necessarily bad.

These passages give every evidence of being crafted by thoughtful and deeply experienced writers who are trying to communicate what it means to live by a radical trust in God in the midst of terror, enmity and death — some of the greatest challenges to faith.

And we make an enormous mistake when we project our modern, Enlightenment - shaped presuppositions regarding history and storytelling onto writers who were addressing ancient, pre-modern questions through ancient, pre-modern literary genres.

In my struggle, I followed other people and writers who had moved out the church.

Luke is one of the few writers who openly admits he used earlier writings (Luke 1:1 - 4), though the others clearly used them too.

Contemporary writers often reflect this sad reality, and it is helpful to point to (and to publish) the writers who grapple courageously with this dilemma, writers whose imaginations collide with the grim implications of life in a culture which has forgotten the future.

Munch (1863 - 1944) was a member of an extraordinary circle of artists and writers who were active in the last years of the 19th century and into the time between the world wars in Europe.

The congregation finds it simpler and less troublesome to believe the things God did as recorded by those few writers who survived the babel of conflicting proclamations of God's Word and achieved canonicity than to venture some faith - decision amid differing announcements of what God is doing in our time.

Of course, this is not totally the case, but those writers who have sought to extend the power of written words beyond this limitation have done so by developing an «oral style», seeking to involve the reader in conversation.

«When I go to SNL, they have really talented writers who are pretty good at what they do, who are not going to let a brother fall flat on his face.

Thus in the end, the apocalyptic writers who use the horizon of universal history have recourse to angelic instrumentalities of God's will.

they have really talented writers who are pretty good at what they do, who are not going to let a brother fall flat on his face.

So every now and then I like to use Fridays to 1) link to other bloggers and writers who have asked compelling questions during the week and 2) open the floor for you to share whatever questions you've been wrestling with lately.

One wishes that present - day Bible students would take Josephus more seriously — and also that writers who discuss the relations of Judaism and Christianity, or «the Jewish question» as a social - historical problem, would read and reread that profoundly tragic history until its full meaning sinks deeply into their minds.

But there are writers who, realizing that happiness of a supreme sort is the prerogative of religion, forget this complication, and call all happiness, as such, religious.

Modern writers who say they believe in the resurrection, while denying the empty tomb, are using the term «resurrection» in a novel sense of their own.

It is not a problem to be left in the hands of some virtually self - appointed, unaccountable publishing committee in New York or teams of writers who may not have seen or helped a «wet drunk» in years.

There are many other writers who have taken a crack at definitions — often with an apparent attempt to attack religion, Christianity, Alcoholics Anonymous, the «recovery industry,» addiction medicine, treatment programs, certain scholars, certain historians, and many other kinds of targets.

The most retrogressive aspects of contemporary society are religions leaders who have zero (ZERO) influence over extremists whose unending violence proceeds unchecked under their own banners, whose churches routinely abandon their principle mandates — the poor, infirmed, jailed, the hungry — to writers who view the thirst of people without spiritual homes as «cop outs».

There is no mention of the passage by earlier Christian writers who were familiar with the writings of Josephus and cited his passages yet never reference one that, if it had existed in their time, they would have referenced as support for Christianity.

Whatever limitations one might find in the work of the Nobel prizewinner, he has wrestled long and well against hopeless odds, and his accounts of the match emerge from a depth not discovered by equally good writers who have not known the blessing.

Indeed, Luther was not perfect; his ideas were a reflection of the society in which he lived just as were those of the unknown Gospel writers who merged Judaism and Hellenism in the creation of Christianity.

The soundness of the underlying tradition has been questioned by certain modern writers who object, quite properly, to the weight it has been forced to bear, not only by Papias in the second century but by many exegetes and interpreters since.

Friedman thinks a major change may be under way, citing the large number of younger Jewish intellectuals and writers who identify themselves as conservative.

It is important to underscore that the writers who focus on this issue stress that fragmentation of the course of study is unacceptable in a theological school not simply because it makes for bad schooling, but because it makes for bad theology.