Sentences with phrase «general expressions of»

I often regard untitled artworks as general expressions of the insufficiency or irrelevance of naming.

It's unclear if Trump's tweet means he has decided against rejoining the TPP or if it's just a general expression of skepticism as the process is underway.

According to Humboldt the sexes approximate each other: each is a general expression of humankind.

Before the expiration of a year, there will be a general expression of wonder that we endured the enormous labor and inconvenience of our old complicated and incongruous system so long as we did.»

Overall, the general expression of this breed is of a lively, merry dog.

The more general expression of this problem is the «naturalisation» of social problems and phenomena.

«Sorry» is ambiguous: it can be a request for forgiveness for wrongdoing but it can also be a general expression of regret or an expression of sympathy.

First affected is the frontal lobe with immediate effects of increased enjoyment, euphoria, happiness, and the general expression of positive moods

Not exact matches

In general, the social platforms studied provided some significant benefits on the average, particularly in the areas of emotional support from others, awareness of others» experiences, self - expression, self - identity, and community building.

The demand «that rent should be handed over to the state to serve in place of taxes,» Marx explained, «is a frank expression of the hatred the industrial capitalist bears towards the landed proprietor, who seems to him a useless thing, an excrescence upon the general body of bourgeois production.»

This particular item can perhaps be dismissed as an oddity, but its appearance underlines the more general point that the most important intellectual and institutional expressions of the Christian faith, including Rome and Canterbury, have found almost nothing of value to say about the current Middle East crises, and more generally about the West's struggle against militant Islam and terrorism, and the terrifying possibilities now facing the entire civilized world.

At the other end of the spectrum, one might treat phrases like «equal protection» and «free speech» as an invitation to judges to fashion whatever rules best serve the general values that the phrases suggest: equality, free expression, and so forth.

The Conference examined the way sacred music has evolved in Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions, its different modes of expression, its contribution to deepening religious experience, and its place in wider musical and general culture of the three faith traditions.

Partly for this reason, some of his expressions of this preservation seem to suggest an element that the philosophical position in general does not clearly imply.

In large part this has been an expression of the general tendency of the academic world.

But the classic expression of general civil religion is surely to be found in George Washington's Farewell Address:

In agreement with most nonteleological expressions in the liberal political tradition, this theory affirms that rights articulate a universal or natural moral law; but, against the persisting weight of the modern natural law tradition, the universal right to general emancipation is not bound to the assertion that human rights are independent of any inclusive good.

The term «innate» comes to mind as an apt expression (after due qualification) of the fact that reason, sharing the general structure of action, exercises a supervening ontic power that can not be resolved into the conditioning ontic powers that mediate its relation with the world.

The general challenge perhaps finds its most explicit expression in the proposal that the homosexually active should be fully accepted into the ministry of the churches.

This category is one expression of the general principle that the one subject is the final end which conditions each component feeling.

Faith presupposes a context of certain practices and even bodily transformation» for our flesh is redeemed by Christ's own flesh» and can not be considered a general feature of human nature that finds diverse expression in all the great religious traditions.

In 1905 Buber used the term «das Zwischenmenschliche» (a now familiar expression which he was the first to employ) as the social - psychological in general, «the life of men together in all its forms and actions,» «the social seen as a psychological process.»

It is the task of general sociology to investigate the sociological significance of the various forms of intellectual and practical expression of religious experience (myth, doctrine; prayer, sacrifice, rites; organization, constitution, authority); it falls to the specific sociological study to cover sociologically concrete, historical examples: a Sioux (Omaha) Indian myth, an Egyptian doctrine of the Middle Kingdom, Murngin or Mohammedan prayer, the Yoruba practice of sacrifice, the constitution of the earliest Buddhist Samgha, Samoyed priesthood, etc..

In a sense it is these mores, these values and expressions of moral attitudes or what Toqueville called «the habits of the heart» which are at risk if the mass media in general, and television in particular, were to succeed in replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustained.

The causes for this are many, according to the authors (Rafael Cepeda, Elizabeth Carrillo, Rhode González, and Carlos Ham), including the recent recognition by the state of the need for new spaces for religious practice and expressions, and of the profound ideological and economic crisis facing socialist models in general and Cuban society in particular.

But without a specifically «ordained» or authorized ministry, composed of persons who have been «duly called, examined, and found qualified» to act for (but not instead of) that wider ministry of all Christian people, there would be lacking a sharp edge, a vivid and vital expression, of the more general mission and ministry.

Many possible causes have been suggested, among them a general conservative trend of our times, greater faithfulness by liberals to the radical demands of the gospel, and greater expression by conservatives of warmth, zeal...

The growing use of the internet, especially in social networking, meant that through the debates of the US Bishops» Conference (commendably held in public session) the general Catholic public became increasingly aware of just what thinking was behind what was coming to be known by consensus as the «lame - duck translation», an expression popularised by Fr Zuhlsdorf who has spent many years analysing «What does the prayer really say?»

General readers are perhaps best acquainted with the philosophy and the art of Mahayana — which are certainly two essential areas of expression.

New methods are needed, as are new expressions and new courage» (John Paul II, Discourse to the 19th General Assembly of the Council of Bishops» Conferences of Latin America and the Caribbean, 9 March, 1983).

But our specific question today is whether homosexual actions in general and as such are expressions of idolatry.

It seems to me that the current general statements made by historians, literary historians, and sociologists about American civilization often do not do justice to the fact that a considerable part of the American ethos is still, though less than in earlier periods of American history, expressed in religious commitment and its sociological expression.

It begins with a philosophy that endeavors to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas that combines a creative and unique expression of the nature and unity of God.

In general, the Christian feeling for the solidarity of believers and the expressions of this in prayer and devotion can stimulate relational theology to maximize the social - organic character of its reflection, and thus present death as less of an atomistic event and more as an occasion in a society of events that share a real union through internal relations.

Our sources do not permit us, finally, to adjudicate this claim, but at least it is clear that local authority was a continuing reality in Israel's life and that the popular assembly was a potent facility for expression of the general will.

The Latin word resurrectio appears to have been created for Christian use, and while the Greek equivalent anastasis is certainly pre-Christian, it does not seem to have been widely used until Christian times, some scholars thinking that, when Paul referred to it at Athens, his hearers mistook it for the name of a goddess.26 The idea of resurrection first came to expression in the form of a narrative, and until the advent of the above technical terms, words of very general usage, such as «raise», «wake up», «stand up», etc., served the purpose of relating it.

11) Typical expressions of the general viewpoint of neo-orthodox theology will be found in Karl Barth, The Knowledge of God and the Service of God According to the Teaching of the Reformation (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939), his Credo, English trans.

It finds varied expression in the philosophies of Whitehead, Bergson, Wieman, Hartshorne and others, in which the concept of process is held to be the most general and fundamental idea which we can apply to anything we know.

Certainly trust extended to the God known in the experience of forgiveness would lead naturally to the practice of prayer, and the existence of the Lord's Prayer itself is evidence enough that Jesus did, in fact, lead his followers from the general attitude of trust to the particular expression of it in prayer.

Early liberal responses to the new sexual freedom of youth had a tendency to present sexuality as the good gift of God without exploring general biblical guidelines for responsible sexual expression.4

This general view finds its fullest and clearest New Testament expression in the Fourth Gospel, was elaborated in the great creedal discussions of several centuries later, and was finally and definitively formulated by the Council of Chalcedon in 451: «One and the same Christ, Son, Lord, only begotten, acknowledged in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation; the distinction of the natures being by no means taken away because of the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved and concurring in one person.

New Testament theology is thus disqualified from playing a constructive role in the forming of a theological method which shall take seriously the problem of faith and history, and particularly this faith, rooted as no other religious faith is, in the very concreteness of history, and becomes nothing more than»... the first permanent expression of the distinctively Christian consciousness, and begs the question of the external history of that consciousness» (Ibid., 57, 58) «thus leaving... theology with nothing to discussion except the human need for self - understanding in general.»

This general view finds its fullest and clearest New Testament expression in the Fourth Gospel, as I have said, and in the First Epistle of John; (My friend, Ernest C. Colwell, argues very persuasively in John Defends the Gospel (Chicago: Willett, Clark & Co., 1936).

But if this belief is understood as the expression of the faith that God's will is not in general visible but reveals itself in special and particular events, then it belongs of necessity to his idea of God.

This is not a philosopher's expression of ultimate ignorance, or a matter of general skepticism.

For most heavy viewers of religious television, watching is both an expression of belief and an act of protest against the world of general television.

Because religious conservatives sense this conflict between general television and their own values and beliefs, their viewing of religious programs is both an act of protest against general television and an expression of support for the beliefs associated with religious programs.

The ancient tongues were but a small though important province in the realm which he explored tirelessly, testing his general theory of linguistic expression by an investigation not only of Indo - European and Semitic idioms but also of Basque and Hungarian, of American Indian languages, of Chinese and South Sea dialects.1 Visitors found the aged sage «pure and perfect like an ancient work of art.»

We are all the time retracing in the Universe what has happened and what does happen in a highly complex «going concern», and we can rest too complacently upon the discovery and mathematical expression of laws which are only the reduction of a general equation of relatives to its specific terms.

The classical expression of this is in the General Thanksgiving, which was included in the 1662 revision of the Prayer Book.