But to go from here to the belief that those more sensitive to metaphor and language will also be more sensitive to personal differences is too great an inferential leap.

An uncompromising belief in the moral law has the advantage of making religion natural, even as physical law is natural.

Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

From this belief is derived the practical orientation of our policy on the `` uncommitted '' ( `` neutralist '', `` contested '' ) nations, especially on those whose leaders make the most noise -- Nehru, Tito, Nkrumah, Sukarno, Betancourt, etc..

While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.

There is little enthusiasm for spending money to develop more powerful engines because of the erroneous belief that the aircraft has been made obsolete by the missile.

Now, you probably share the widespread Western belief that the Lord Buddha is the most compassionate of the gods, much more so than Jehovah and Allah and the rest.

Data on the former are scanty, but there can be little doubt that the latter is sometimes born at a length greater than that of any of the others, thereby lending support to the belief that the anaconda does, indeed, attain the greatest length.

Even in the United States, with its freedom of religious belief and worship and its vast denominational differentiation, there is a general consensus regarding the basic Christian values.

It is our belief that this readiness to relinquish some control was evidenced by the Kohnstamm-positive subjects in some of the other experimental situations to be discussed below.

The threadbare notion that belief, unlike behaviour, is not subject to objective analysis, has placed intuitive metaphysics squarely against the sociology of knowledge, since it is precisely the job of the sociology of knowledge to treat beliefs as social facts no less viable than social behaviour.

Again, contrary to popular belief, there is nothing crazy or frantic about Parker either musically or emotionally.

Yes, he believed that the Jews were `` enemies of the Reich '', and such a belief is, of course, typical of `` patriotic '' anti-Semites ; ;

There is a difference in theological belief where there seems little chance of agreement.

It is because each side has sought to implement its distinctive theological belief through legislation and thus indirectly force its belief, or at least the practical consequences thereof, upon others.

The tragic irony of the play is that the very belief in and concern with a devil who could be met in the woods and combatted with formulae set out in books was the very thing that prevented them from detecting the real devil when he came among them.

And his belief is not to his discredit.

Modern Zen presentation to the West insists on the anti-authoritarian, highly pragmatic nature of the Zen belief -- scriptures are burned to make fire, action is based on direct self-confidence, and so on.

It is Field Marshal Montgomery's belief that in most Western countries about 60 per cent of the people do not really care about democracy or Christianity ; ;

Still, the notion of altruism is modified in such a world-view, since the belief is that such a practice promotes our own happiness: " The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes " ( Dalai Lama ).

An internalist about knowledge will likely hold that the conditions that distinguish mere true belief from knowledge are similarly internal to the individual's perspective or grounded in the subject's mental states.

Science began to stagnate until ultimately knowledge became grounded in traditions handed down from generations long ago, the belief that the universe was ultimately understandable slowly faded, and a Time of Darkness descended over the planet.

These restrictions are consistent with the grounded belief ( or assumption ) that causal influences cannot travel faster than the speed of light and / or backwards in time.

The belief that science is experimentally grounded is only partially true.

Zelda believed, her biographer Milford said, that Scott's work contained " an American temperament grounded in belief in oneself and ' will-to-survive ' that Scott's contemporaries had relinquished.

A large part of his following was grounded in the belief he was addressing vital problems largely ignored by the two major parties.

On a more detailed level, Holmes amplified his earlier criticisms of subjective theories of contractual duties ( which grounded obligation in a “ meeting of the minds ” of putatively contracting parties ), offering instead an objective theory ( which acknowledged that judges do and should give meaning to the language employed by the parties “ because of some belief as to the practice of the community or of a class, or because of some opinion as to policy ”).

His praise of Hitler was grounded in his belief that Hitler's rise to power that year heralded the end of the communist threat, as is illustrated by this excerpt:

Second, Hume claims that our belief in cause-and-effect relationships between events is not grounded on reason, but rather arises merely by habit or custom.

Justice Kennedy speculated in 2000 that both of those cases might have been written differently nowadays: " Pierce and Meyer, had they been decided in recent times, may well have been grounded upon First Amendment principles protecting freedom of speech, belief, and religion.

Perhaps the belief is grounded in an experiential belief, such as Plantinga ( 1993b ) describes.

According to Stan Rowe: The ecocentric argument is grounded in the belief that, compared to the undoubted importance of the human part, the whole ecosphere is even more significant and consequential: more inclusive, more complex, more integrated, more creative, more beautiful, more mysterious, and older than time.

*# The founding fathers ' idea of a checks-and-balances-state is grounded in their belief in the US middle class as the stabilizer and the pivot of the class balance in the US.

A and B make a contract grounded on the erroneous belief that a particular debt is barred by the Indian law of Limitation ; the contract is not voidable.

Much of the opposition to the granting of women's suffrage in the Act was grounded in the belief that, in the words of William Knox, " the main ambition of a woman's life should be to become the wife of an honorable and honest man.

But Hodgskin grounded his account of exploitation in a belief in pre-political property rights and was a committed proponent of free trade: the protection of property rights and free exchange would, he believed, uproot social injustice.

Carnegie wrote " The Gospel of Wealth ", an article in which he stated his belief that the rich should use their wealth to help enrich society.

He explains on his ministry website: " Inclusive Orthodoxy is the belief that the Church can and must be inclusive of LGBT individuals without sacrificing the Gospel and the Apostolic teachings of the Christian faith.

Here, one version of the Gospel of Barnabas also quotes Jesus as saying that the sacrificed son of Abraham was Ishmael not Isaac, conforming to Islamic belief but disagreeing with Jewish and Christian belief.

" In Muslim belief, before the Qur ' an, God had given the Torah to Moses, the Psalms to David and the Gospel to Jesus, who are all considered important Muslim prophets.

However, the doctrine of Origen and Didymus that was found to be the most " heretical " was not universalism, nor was it the reliance on the non canonical Gospel according to the Hebrews, nor even his belief that

A belief that the disciple whom Jesus loved would not die before the Second Coming was apparently popular enough in the early Christian world to be denounced in the Gospel of John:

Despite agreeing to enter the competition, the other members of the Gospel Cavaliers, who were " disheartened by their belief they were getting nowhere fast ," refused to enter.

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as ( in terms of the varying music styles ) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music.

From a Muslim standpoint, belief in the Injil ( the original Gospel of Jesus ) is an important part of Islamic theology, although Muslims view the current Gospels as corrupted.

According to its first issue, the magazine's purpose was to draw attention to Russell's belief that people of the time were " living " in the last days " " the day of the Lord "—" the end " of the Gospel age ," and that " the dawn of the " new " age, are facts not only discernible by the close student of the Word, led by the spirit, but the outward signs recognizable by the world bear the same testimony.

It also included ten of the Pauline Epistles ( but not the Pastoral Epistles or the Epistle to the Hebrews, and, according to the Muratonian canon, included a Marcionite pseudo-Paul's epistle to the Alexandrians and an epistle to the Laodiceans ) In bringing together these texts, Marcion redacted what is perhaps the first New Testament canon on record, which he called the Gospel and the Apostolikon, which reflects his belief in the writings of Jesus and the apostle Paul respectively.

* "… to form men for the Gospel ministry who shall truly believe, and cordially love, and therefore endeavor to preach, propagate, and defend, in its genuineness, simplicity, and fullness, that system of religious belief and practice which is set forth in the Westminster Confession of Faith, Catechisms, and historic Presbyterianism ; and thus to perpetuate and extend the influence of true evangelical piety and Gospel order.

McGuffey's family had emigrated to America from Scotland in 1774, and brought with them strong opinions on religion and a belief in education ; as a result, education and preaching the Gospel were McGuffey's passions.

Strong, like most other leaders of the Social Gospel movement, added strong evangelical roots, including a belief in sin and redemption.

The first recorded deathbed conversion appears in the Gospel of Luke where the good thief, crucified beside Jesus, expresses belief in Christ.

" Pagels remained fascinated by the power of Christianity, both for fostering love and for the divisiveness that can shadow the belief that one has received a divinely revealed truth .< ref > Beyond belief: the secret Gospel of Thomas Elaine H. Pagels-2003 " Distressed and disagreeing with their interpretation — and finding no room for discussion — I realized that I was no longer at home in their world and left that church.

His friend Andrew Fuller had previously written an influential pamphlet in 1781 titled " The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation ", answering the hyper-Calvinist belief then prevalent in the Baptist churches, that all men were not responsible to believe the Gospel.

The belief in baptism for all in the Church, including infants, was based on the words in the Gospel according to John: " Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.

The first Gospels were written against this background of Hellenistic and Jewish belief in miracles and other wondrous acts as signs-the term is explicitly used in the Gospel of John to describe Jesus ' miracles-seen to be validating the credentials of divine wise men.

One of the major emphases of the belief is that the Gospel can be communicated more effectively to unbelievers if accompanied by supernatural manifestations brought on by the Holy Spirit ( such as prophecy and healing ).