Sentence examples for theological status from inspiring English sources

It is a matter of theological status.

Bishops were also disconcerted by John Paul's insistence that episcopal conferences (or national benches of bishops) had no mandate to teach and no theological status.

If humans are supposed to be created in God's image, what will be the theological status of aliens - especially if found to be peaceful, sophisticated and culturally more advanced than ourselves?

These days, with the wealth of its leagues, the theological status that fans accord star players, its diasporic outposts in Sharjah and New Jersey, cricket is still used as a lens through which to assess the country's fantasy life and its realities.

They grow organically from the themes that animate "Freedom," beginning with the title, a word that has been elevated throughout American history to near-theological status, and has been twinned, for most of that same history, with the secularizing impulses of "power".

Rather, the motion says, "they were all under investigation by undercovers or other infiltrators based on their theological views, status and association".

The general schema for a particular theological voluntarist position is 'evaluative status M stands in dependence relation D to divine act A' (cf. Quinn 1999, p. 53, which I follow here except to substitute the more general 'evaluative' for Quinn's more specific 'moral'moral

Consider, for example, theological voluntarism about the status of acts as obligatory or non-obligatory.

And it is not as if the view that some normative statuses are not to be explained in terms of God's will must be repugnant to a theocentric metaethics: for, after all, one might understand such statuses in theological, even if not voluntaristic, terms.

Dante seems to emphasize this double status by mingling theological and philosophical language, and invoking Aristotle and the neo-Platonists side by side with the poet of the Psalms.

The unprecedented protests that followed the elections presented serious challenges not only to the political credibility of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but also to the moral status of the theological sovereignty and its legitimacy in the world.