What they don't want is trying to find excuses or justifications or ways in which you are relativising this conduct. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Possibly some of the above mentioned relativising tendencies influenced the Liturgy too, undermining the centrality, the sacredness, sense of mystery as well as the value of what the continuous action of the Holy Spirit in the bi-millennial history of the Church had helped ecclesial liturgical life to grow into. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But you do suggest that allowances be made for Muslim atrocities every time you post one of your inimitable relativising homilies about "how the west does it to". ❋ Unknown (2011)
It also let to the ascendance of Biblical Criticism relativising, to a certain extent, the veracity of the Holy Scriptures, which in turn had its negative influences on theology, generating a questioning attitude vis-à-vis the objectivity of established Truth and of the usefulness of defending ecclesial traditions and Institutions. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"But you do suggest that allowances be made for Muslim atrocities every time you post one of your inimitable relativising homilies about "how the west does it to"." ❋ Unknown (2011)
What is out of touch is making the sort of relativising justifications that you have for that conduct. ❋ Unknown (2011)
NyÄya avoids the threatened violation of the law of non-contradiction by relativising the notion of occurrence. (1) is thus analysed as “the occurrence, of the property being-in-contact-with-the-monkey in the tree, is delimited by (avacchinna) the branch”. ❋ Ganeri, Jonardon (2009)
That sort of commitment means relativising your own sense of what you as an individual need so as to discover what might be good for you and the other; and parenthood is one of the contexts where most people learn this most lastingly if they learn it at all. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In the light of this, both Christian martyrdom and Christian asceticism, including the experience of 'abandonment' by God in certain sorts of Christian prayer, make sense; and the available models of love of neighbour are likely to emphasize the relativising or near-cancellation of self-interest or self-protection. ❋ Unknown (2008)
All too often, in many nations, this tradition is seen as somehow relativising or reducing the authentic voice of a people by introducing a note of moralising or generalising. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In the nineteenth century, the project of relativising knowledge was designed to shield tradition against the claims of universalism. ❋ Bill Kerr (2008)
And that place in the world is also a place where, because of that relativising of the self there is also a directness of mind and heart towards the other. ❋ Unknown (2007)
On such occasions, it warms my heart to think of the brave warriors of culture who are quick to defend precious institutions against the relativising onslaughts of modernity. ❋ Sean (2006)
But it would be misreading this passage – controversial as it undoubtedly is – to treat it as relativising the covenant with Israel as such. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It is certainly, in intention, a relativising of theology. ❋ Unknown (2004)
But to talk of this as a place where God is lodged - and remember her insistence on letting go of the embarrassment at the word 'God' - this is to perform the most radical relativising possible of the individual ego, to say that I am answerable for all I do and say to what I do not control or grasp. ❋ Unknown (2004)
But, by relativising simultaneity to reference frames, STR gives us lots of different ways to cut the four-dimensional object into three-dimensional slices, just as there are lots of different angles at which to cut the cake. ❋ Hawley, Katherine (2004)
We're learning that the relativising, or undermining, of marriage doesn't work to make people more mature. ❋ Unknown (2003)
