Sentences with phrase «basic questions as to»

Basic questions as to what is the optimal diet or weight gain during pregnancy need to be addressed.

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Instead, Raz recommends assigning another employee to show your new hire around, field basic questions, make introductions, and act as a sounding board, which can go a long way toward alleviating that dreaded «fish out of water» feeling during the first weeks.

Cogito CEO Joshua Feast, characterizes this stage as «pre-product market fit,» where the focus is on answering basic questions: «When we were at that stage we had to answer questions like «What does the market really want?

Also worth a look are customer feedback services such as Hively (basic plans are free, paid service starts at $ 15 per month), which prompt visitors to answer survey questions about their experience using your website.

Here are four basic questions that I have learned to ask based on my own experiences as a business owner when vetting experts to help with social media.

The goal, according to Y Combinator, is to «to answer a few key questions: how people's happiness, well - being and financial health are affected by basic income, as well as how people might spend their time.»

Trump, to be sure, is the most outspoken candidate on many topics, but his campaign also raises a basic question about the American CEO as an electable persona.

Officials who have been briefed on the inquiry described it as having made strikingly little progress in answering the basic questions of the case, with frustrated FBI agents reporting that they are running out of rocks to overturn.

Daniel Bolger: «Time after time, as I and my fellow generals saw that our strategies weren't working, we failed to reconsider our basic assumptions; we failed to question our flawed understanding... in the end, all the courage and skill in the world could not overcome ignorance and arrogance.»

But on a more basic level, if communities and workers are being left behind, the question is: Why privilege trade over other policy levers — whether that means restricting it, as Trump wants to do, or expanding it, as many economists advocate?

Housing is essential to meet basic needs, such as shelter, but it is not just a question of four walls and a roof.

Be sure to answer basic questions, such as: What was your team's experience before your current company?

You seem to believe that you are aware of what everyone is thinking, as this is the second time you have made a sweeping blanket statement... but to answer your question: I can assure you if that woman did see an angel telling her to kill her children, it certainly would have been a fallen angel, or demon if you prefer and not from God... If you had even a basic understanding of angels and fallen angels and the protection of God, this would be a moot point... but it appears that you want to play the game of how ridiculous can I be...

Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense of gods as we understand them After many centuries of religious domination, enforced through pain of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.

He «was one of the first great teachers to proclaim the basic principle of individualism» the inviolate sanctity of man's soul, and the salvation of one's soul as one's first concern and highest goal,» but «when it came to the next question, a code of ethics to observe for the salvation of one's soul... Jesus (or perhaps His interpreters) gave men a code of altruism, that is, a code which told them that in order to save one's soul, one must love or help or live for others.

It is never that someone with intellectual capacity such as yours has not responded to that basic question.

In this way of conceiving evangelicalism the issues may be focused on questions of anthropology where the basic starting point is an Augustinian tradition of human inability (the «bondage of the will») leading as a necessary consequence to the classic Reformation articulations of election and predestination.

Focusing on the most hyperbolic elements of the project, and totally ignoring the legitimate questions I raise throughout the book, Keller and others have chastised me as silly, unable to handle basic biblical hermeneutics.

He ought also to be familiar with some of the basic AA pamphlets such as «Alcoholics Anonymous in Your Community,» «Medicine Looks at Alcoholics Anonymous,» «AA, 44 Questions and Answers About the Program of Recovery from Alcoholism,» «Is AA for You?»

Dr. Polk reconceives the basic question of the relation of power and goodness by asking what kind of power is appropriate to a loving God, rather than the traditional way of framing the issue as how can a powerful God also be a loving God.

Questioning is fine, having different theology is fine, but if you do not submit to basic doctrine such as the ressurection, Jesus as God, Afterlife then don't say you are Christian.

theology's purpose is to give a «rational account of the truth of faith,» as Pannenberg stated in his essay «Faith and Reason» (Basic Questions in Theology, Volume 11 [Fortress, 197 11, pp. 52 - 53).

Stapledon thus brings together his basic concerns for a viable community and a metaphysic as his narrator questions the ultimate meaning of the only good he is able to perceive — the symbiotic love of two human beings.

Parents — and indeed all of us — would do well to question our seeming inability to ensure minimum standards of quality in a field so significant and basic as care for our children.

But when the account appears to distort some factor beyond recognition, the question must be raised as to whether the basic categories are not too narrow to embrace the whole of experience.

It begins where women in theology attempt to deconstruct basic ethical principles such as «the common good» and «the question of moral power and authority,» but from there it moves to the creative impulses we see around us, as women in faith and faithfulness reconstruct the future image and face of the Church as a «community of Christ, bought with a price, where everyone is welcome, «14 as Letty Russell describes it.

If we are to raise really basic questions about Brunner's position, we must direct our attention to his understanding of revelation in encounter as the basis for all theological reflection.

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Making the question about a stories creation (by a god or a man) is a complicating a more basic question about a gods existence, and attempting to present a lack of belief as a belief.

One of the basic questions in regard to the problem of negative prehensions has to do with the further question as to whether they exclude only eternal objects, or feelings as well.

Titled «The Basic Viewpoint and Policy on the Religious Question During Our Country's Socialist Period,» it reasserts the standard Marxist view of religion as a response to the human fear of the terrors of nature — a response manipulated by class societies to rationalize the power of the upper classes and justify the plight of workers and the poor.

Revivalism tended to ignore these basic questions as it concentrated on one great problem: Are you saved?

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has felt sometimes the WCC has not placed its thinking on the social content of salvation solidly within the perspective of the ultimate goal of salvation... the eternal life in God, «with the result that appropriation of eternal life is made to depend on social conditions rather than social conditions on the appropriation of eternal life»; and the Ecumenical Patriarchate has warned us that in «turning towards the anguish of the man today», the WCC must not forget the basic truth that man sees himself as hungering for an answer to a basic question over and beyond his acute interest in the most vital socio - political problems of the day.»

So, back to our original question: is this functional manner of identifying Jesus as the Christ — as he who is the focus of our basic attitudes and understandings — sufficient?

Either one accepts the basic Western ethical system of respecting other human beings as subjects and extends that respect to other creatures that are also recognized as subjects, or one asks much more fundamental questions about the assumptions of Western thought, rejects ethical thinking of this sort altogether, and develops a new sensibility more like the one Shepard finds among primal peoples.

Eschatological visions (such as Altizer's) are challenged by the question of the meaning of basic beliefs such as non-contingent times of triumph, which seems to require the end of cosmic process.

For his philosophy too is meant to be judged as an effort to give a new answer, from a changed situation, to this basic question about «substance,» about what «actually» and «properly» is.

As we continue to wrestle with basic questions of who we are in the modern world, Moots's essay is well worth our attention.

As to the question «what» it is evident that for Whitehead the whole burden of the answer rests upon the notion of creativity, in both of its «functions,» namely, as principle of unification and as principle of novelty The basic feature of reality is its creativity, and that creativity is always a particular way of bringing together the given multiplicity The way this is done explains why these actualities are the way they arAs to the question «what» it is evident that for Whitehead the whole burden of the answer rests upon the notion of creativity, in both of its «functions,» namely, as principle of unification and as principle of novelty The basic feature of reality is its creativity, and that creativity is always a particular way of bringing together the given multiplicity The way this is done explains why these actualities are the way they aras principle of unification and as principle of novelty The basic feature of reality is its creativity, and that creativity is always a particular way of bringing together the given multiplicity The way this is done explains why these actualities are the way they aras principle of novelty The basic feature of reality is its creativity, and that creativity is always a particular way of bringing together the given multiplicity The way this is done explains why these actualities are the way they are.

At the heart of the problem of consciousness, in other words, is the problem of qualia: to show how «brain processes, which are publicly observable, objective phenomena, could cause anything as peculiar as inner qualitative states of awareness or sentience, states which are in some sense «private» to the possessor of the state (MC 60).6 Searle thus prompts an even more basic question: whether it is possible to distinguish clearly and distinctly between private and public aspects of perception.

Foundational questions can, of course, be so formalized that we fail to get to the substantive, practical questions of day - to - day living, but unless we are somehow willing to cope with the basic assumptions and beliefs which serve as the justifications for what we think and do, we are virtually certain to become the victims of whatever forces happen to be dominant at any given moment of our lives.

As expressed in a national group report prepared by the Philippine delegation to the conference, «The basic question here is: for whom are we theologizing?»

Solve for us the question of the reasonableness of athiesm, where you get something (big bang) from nothing — there must be a first cause of everything; explain implications of the anthropic principle and the wildly unprobablistic likelihood that our universe could even form in such a fashion as to be capable of sustaining life (which has, interestingly, your athiest heavy hitters (i.e. Dawkins, Schwartz, etc.) necessarily positing multiple universe theories to get around the near probablistic impossibility of all conditions be present at time of big bang for life to be possible without acknowledgement of a divine designing hand guiding the process); explain The probablistic impossibility of non-irreducibly complex basic cells (life) coming together spontaneously (DNA, cell membrane, etc), even the most basic, simple forms of life allowing for reproduction, metabolism, etc...

As a matter of fact, the real dynamic of the Bible usually lies dormant until we bring our basic questions to it.

As we consider how to deal with the world of television, a basic question becomes, What kind of society do we really want?

Though some things in the book may strike the reader as unrealistic, the question in which it centers is not only searching, but basic to a true perspective.

Far more important than the question as to whether such occasional prayers can be answered as we wish is the basic need of all men to be sure that life has meaning.

Then he proceeded to answer his own question by proposing three basic postulates or principles that we do well to keep in mind when examining issues such as those that surface — or lie just beneath the surface — of Hiebert's «The Gospel in Human Contexts.»

The central «positive» moral about how best to negotiate between these two models is this: Focus on the nature of the basic movement of theological study as a theological question, not as a question about the psychology of learning, nor even as a question about the logical relations among various subjects studied in theological education.