Judaism's distinction as a faith, he says, comes from its commitment to belief in an invisible God, and from this commitment, many consequential things follow.
If such a reduction can be successfully undertaken, the constructive empiricist can avoid commitment to belief in the truth of the relevant modal facts.
Commitment to beliefs, whatever those beliefs may be, is probably common among Mills Brothers".
It stems in part from the belief that this generation has little to offer in terms of culture, that everything has already been done, or that serious commitment to any belief will eventually be subsumed by an opposing belief, rendering the first laughable at best and contemptible at worst.
Mr. Uhry nonjudgmentally presents a figurehead of genuine faith, of total commitment to absolute belief that God has all the answers.
Ernesto's atheism is one of the strongest feelings he knows; it's both a commitment to a belief and a way of rejecting his mother.
His strong commitment to and belief in education was reflected in his work as Director and Chairman of the Panasonic Foundation, as a life trustee of the University of Chicago, and as trustee of Smith College, California Institute of Technology and the Aspen Institute.
A reaction against Lewis and Oxonian medievalism - a commitment to the belief that the classical tradition was the creative key to the greatest age of English literature - became the driving force of Hunter's writing and teaching.
From the experience of armies and dogmas and death that shaped her early life, she found a new commitment to the belief that the poetic impulse, however small its objects, is always saner than the polemical imperative, however passionate its certitudes.
"From the CEO downwards, there's a commitment to the belief that basic research will deliver the medicines of tomorrow.
It should be noted, therefore, that underlying More's argumentation is a commitment to the belief that matter is essentially passive (capable only of inertial motions), and that only immaterial entities are active.
