Sentences with phrase «thoughts on the nature»

The word that changed Augustine's life was a biblical command whose message it took no special hermeneutic sensitivity to hear: «Spend no more thought on nature and nature's appetites»» what could be clearer?

Also Abstract of «Second Thoughts on the Nature of God» by Joseph Donceel, ibid., 171.

Augustine may have been addressing issues and ideas that are political, but he offers no theory of the state and few thoughts on the nature of political institutions.

Siding with the advocates of relevance, both personally and vocationally as a Christian songwriter and performing artist, I want to share some thoughts on the nature and importance of our endeavor.

My inclination for science increased during high - school, thanks to spectacular experiments in the chemistry laboratory — so many different thoughts on nature and behaviour of matter: the replacement of a metal by another in the reaction of iron and copper sulfate, the formation of a visible solid by the combination of two liquid solutions with the formation of a precipitate and the violent reaction of alkali metals with water were some of the things that impressed me in those days.

Comic Charlyne Yi (Knocked Up) is touring the nation asking passersby from all walks of life their thoughts on the nature of love when a chance encounter with young gadabout Michael Cera (Michael Cera)-- more or less Yi's ideological soul mate — convinces her documentary's director, Nick Jasenovec (played on camera by an affable Jake Johnson), that they've found the perfect opportunity for romantic skeptic Yi to experience love first hand.

The former inspires existential thoughts on the nature of sentience; the latter generally inspires boredom.

Unorthodox Thoughts on the Nature and Mission of Contemporary Educational Psychology.

That is what Eric Hoffer wrote in the The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements.

Russell explains why marketing is absolutely not a dirty word - and has some great thoughts on the nature of indie games in his intro, too.

Metal Gear Solid 2 is an infamous troll on the player's expectations and thoughts on the nature of reality.

Sugimoto's work is reminiscent of that of the Flemish primitives - true precursors of photography - with whom they share many characteristics such as richness in details and depths, surprising light effects or thoughts on nature.

The title of the exhibition is meant to juxtapose the term «Minimal Art» with its antonym «Maximal», not as a paradox or contradiction, but rather as a combination of thoughts on the nature -LSB-...]

The work of Dr Mann and his colleagues have been argued over numerous times during the last decade, but it is his findings that underpin current mainstream thinking on the nature of our climate during previous centuries.

In tackling the question whether good legal writers are born or developed, below I compare the expanded views of two authors on opposite ends of the writing spectrum — Bryan Garner (legal writing and usage) and Stephen King (fiction)-- to discover their thoughts on this nature - versus - nurture controversy.

His thoughts on the nature of that challenge are set out in https://www.practicepro.ca/2018/01/perspectives-on-the-future-of-law/ which should be mandatory reading for law society regulators across the country.

A bit of thought on the nature of your particular job should point you toward the ideal business laptop.

With pleasure: Thoughts on the nature of human sexuality.

Not exact matches

Because of my work on Fiverr, creating solutions for businesses is now second nature to me and I am completely confident in my ability to offer a service I once thought slightly out of my league.

These three brands have tapped into something deeper in all of us with their spot - on video advertising campaigns that, respectively, inspire our love of nature and adventure, our need for human connection and the desire for creative thought and expression.

But he's wrong if he thinks the tone, volume, or nature of that coverage isn't having an impact on the profile Trump has and the way he is seen by TV audiences.

«I think this is going to trigger «Sputnik 2.0», a biomedical duel on progress between China and the United States, which is important since competition usually improves the end product,» he told Nature.

Which way you lean in this Presidential campaign depends a lot on whether you think government spending is capable of doing any good, or whether it is by its nature obstructionist.

Its human nature to always be on the lookout for something newer and better, and unfortunately we have a tendency to associate the two together in our thinking that technology can provide the perfect answer to all of life's problems.

GE — General Electric — We always try to use our views on the option market to illustrate the forward thinking nature of investors who use them.

I think it depends on the nature of the investor, of course.

Why does the same science that rejects or supposedly debunks religion because of the preposterous idea of an almighty, all - knowing, always present creator, yet licks their lips at the thought of an ultra intelligent extra terrestrial with the capability to answer question break the laws of nature, have mind reading capabilities, so on and so forth?

It's not that I don't feel like I can, I can... but is that in the vocabulary of the one who I worship, if it's not then why would I as His Son want to take on what is not His, my Father's nature... The versions of the Bible I've read seem to think that words are powerful and speaking them is an action and can even change physics if used properly... Again, the scriptures speak for themselves and circumventing the topical study with christiany cliche come - backs doesn't answer or annul anything that the Word has to say on the matter.

Your brain, with its ability to think, reason, and meditate on the meaning of life, would simply be an accident of nature.

There's Arkansas, bounty hunters, snakes real, human, and symbolic, being rescued from a snake pit by a very errant knight, a display of the gratuitous slaughter that comes when you take the law in your own hands, a deep commentary on place, displacement, the state of nature, and the techno - forces of the modern world and modern government, solidly American thoughts on law, property, justice, and keeping your word, and so forth and so on.

Yet, thinkers from Edmund Burke to Russell Kirk have shown the deeply anti-conservative bases of the social contract theory of Lockean (and Hobbesian) origin, one that is premised upon a conception of human beings as naturally «free and independent,» as autonomous individuals who are thought to exist by nature detached from a web of relationships that include family, community, Church, region, and so on.

They may say that modern (or postmodern) thought has «moved beyond» what Aquinas, for instance, had to say about the interaction of nature and history, but in fact they typically have not the foggiest notion of what Aquinas said, or even whether he said anything at all on the subject.

It's humorous watching all these atheists weighing in on a situation that shouldn't concern them but I think it's like the story of the scorpion and the frog... it is in the nature of an atheist to spew hate even if they have to go looking somewhere you would think they wouldn't care about.

They attack because the modesty of one group shines a light on the immodesty and dark nature of their own doings / thoughts.

I think the idea that the «nature» of Christ was ever a question or that it has had a huge impact on current events is such a minefield (this article is a perfect example) that it is, and has been, ignored.

Regarding Ryan's ruminations on S.M. Hutchens» review of E.O. Wilson's The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth (warning: I've read neither the book nor the review, just Ryan's post about them), I think Ryan has it right in concluding that in Wilson's account of Christianity «nature has become only a vehicle for supernature.»

(Note: I don't think I wrote this by myself as it is not in my nature to elaborate on such a subject???????)

Perhaps if he were to follow through on the thought patterns of John Calvin and Herbert McCabe, he might more freely acknowledge that transubstantiation can not do justice to the absence or» since I think the term absence is unfortunate» the provisional nature of Christ's presence in the Eucharist.

On the other hand, political theologians are sometimes prone to the opposite danger, so historicizing their conceptualization of reality that nature comes to be treated, as it generally was in 19th century continental Protestant thought and on into the 20th century, as a mere stage for historOn the other hand, political theologians are sometimes prone to the opposite danger, so historicizing their conceptualization of reality that nature comes to be treated, as it generally was in 19th century continental Protestant thought and on into the 20th century, as a mere stage for historon into the 20th century, as a mere stage for history.

But Catholic thinking rejects the genetic fallacy applied to the natural world and contains instead a holistic understanding of reality based on all the faculties of reason and all the causes evident in nature» including the «vertical» causation of formality and finality.

Equally important is the violence worked on the nonhuman world because of the virtual absence of nature from economic thinking.

Throughout his life, these essays on Judaism and the Jews provided Kristol with a forum both familiar and provocative enough for exploring his thoughts on religion, society, and human nature as a whole.

Of paramount importance to the Hegelian perspective on this relation is the well - known distinction between understanding and reason as two levels of thinking, for involved in this distinction is the view that logic, as it has been traditionally conceived, is merely a logic of the understanding, and that reason, or speculative thinking, employs a higher, more inclusive logic, one that is «dialectical» in nature.

I have been concerned to demonstrate that Camus» writings leave open the possibility of God as understood by Whitehead, and that Camus» thoughts on rebellion and its source in the beauty of nature are compatible with and made consistent by a process notion of God.

Goss is not concerned here with the validity of Whitehead's conception of God, but rather to demonstrate that Camus» writings leave open the possibility of God as understood by Whitehead, and that Camus» thoughts on rebellion and its source in the beauty of nature are compatible with and made consistent by a process notion of God.

Although, the various orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy have different views about the nature of Vedic revelation, they accept the authority of the Vedas and claim that that their thinking is based on these scriptures.

One thinks of his reflections on the Second World War, on pacifism and belligerency, on laws regarding obscenity, and on the nature of criminal punishment.

Based on what I know of God, I don't think it is within the character or nature of God to separate anyone from Him eternally simply because they were unlucky enough to live in an area that didn't have a Bible.

We have thought that survival in nature means increasing our ability to shape the environment while becoming increasingly immune to its influence on us.

Though I have no desire to deprive experts of their pleasures and I do understand the joys of fluency in a another tongue, in terms of expediting interpersonal contactual points in time, the aspects of which appear on first examination to be of a nature so non-effective as to be thought hardly worth facilitating, hopefully, the sum of these co-optations, possibility-wise, are thought to be so negligible, that while on the surface appearing deep, in terms of clarity what I have said is not.