Sentences with phrase «traditional concern with»

In this collection, Kalil and DeLeire begin by questioning the traditional concern with the greater significance of either parental behaviors or community resources in child outcomes.

The premise of Rethinking School Finance is that the financial issues raised by today's broad - scale education - reform strategies represent a school - finance agenda that is «dramatically different from the traditional concern with fiscal disparities across school districts within states.»

The drawing to the figures only shows what happens when you go BACK to figuration — how really weird all the traditional concerns with tone and volume, proportion and depth look once you're locked into a certain kind of facture.

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Some seem concerned with maintaining traditional corporate hierarchy.

The loss of Starz hit Netflix's share price hard, since investors were concerned not just about losing access to the company's library of movies and TV shows, but about whether the move signaled that distributors and traditional networks were going to start playing hardball with the streaming service.

A number of concerns have been raised regarding the cryptocurrency and ICO markets, including that, as they are currently operating, there is substantially less investor protection than in our traditional securities markets, with correspondingly greater opportunities for fraud and manipulation.

Tesla is hampered by concerns over its relatively tiny charging network compared with traditional gas stations or charging stations in overseas markets.

While there is readily available software to assist you with your accounting, it's an additional task that traditional employees do not have to be concerned with.

WND previously reported concern that the decision of the Federal Reserve to quit publishing a traditional index, «M3,» a broad measure of the money supply, signaled a decision to pump the economy with excess liquidity.

For this reason, much of traditional ethics has been concerned with familial relationships.

Those concerned with Luther thus have little reason for concern with tradition, which — as «scholasticism,» «mysticism,» or «traditional dogma» — serves mostly as a foil for Luther's «discovery.»

Schweitzer's disenchantment with theological conceptions of God and his passionate belief in the reality of human spirituality involved him in a quest that inevitably forced his intellectual and moral concerns to move beyond traditional theism.

From the 1930s through the 1980s Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik represented the alternative: an Orthodoxy centered on the service of God even while engaged with and concerned for the rest of humanity, deeply, almost obsessively devoted to the traditional study of Torah even while confronting and learning from the liberal arts.

This is a clever move because in addition to undercutting traditional sexual morality it also suggests that those who are concerned with the topic are acting on some secret ulterior....

Instead of simply stating the law and reacting in panic when it is widely broken, those concerned for traditional moral wisdom would do much better to affirm the high possibility of the life of faithful love, and to understand with love what is happening to people in ghettoes, in college campuses, in the life of the family today.

(I recognize that there may be legitimate pastoral concerns about breaking with our traditional patriarchal images, but there are also legitimate pastoral concerns that join with a correct theology and proper symbolism to impel us to gender - neutral language.)

From the 1930s through the 1980s Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik represented the alternative: an Orthodoxy centered on the service of God even while engaged with and concerned for the rest of humanity, deeply devoted to the traditional study of Torah even while confronting and learning from the liberal arts.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

Obviously, Serial isn't a traditional newspaper article, and the form (serialized, long - form audio) dictates some new rules, but it does raise the question: Is Serial more concerned with journalism and advocacy or entertainment value?

Rather, our cultural bias toward work and the Bible's primary concern with God's «work» of salvation have blinded traditional critics to the biblical discussions of play that are in fact present.

More recently, the idea of plausibility structures has been employed in several studies concerned with the question of how American evangelicals are able to maintain their traditional religious beliefs within the secular, pluralistic context of modern culture.

It is hardly surprising that not only fundamentalists but also even some fairly traditional thinkers and theologians look back to the Enlightenment with grave concern.

Both Sartre and Merleau - Ponty build on Bergsonian along with Husserlian foundations and succeed in answering, to a significant degree the questions surrounding this first concern.77 The second aspect is the metaphysical issue of the concrete relation of the vital and the inert (or being and non-being, if you prefer a traditional vocabulary), including the role of consciousness treated as «a substance spread out through the universe,» to use Merleau - Ponty's description of Bergson.78 In the first aspect we ask what consciousness does and what it experiences or «knows» as a result, while in the second we ask about the relationship between what consciousness is (in relationship to everything else that is) and what that has to do with what it does.79

A second area where the traditional theology stimulates relational thought concerns sin and its connection with death.

It deals with Christology and the doctrine of God, as well as prayer, the resurrection, heaven, etc. and it provides a general introduction to Whitehead's thought.128 The Task of Philosophical Theology by C. J. Curtis, a Lutheran theologian, is a process exposition of numerous «theological notions» important to the «conservative, traditional» Christian viewpoint.129 Two very fine semi-popular introductions to process philosophy as a context for Christian theology are The Creative Advance by E. H. Peters130 and Process Thought and Christian Faith by Norman Pittenger.131 The latter, reflecting the concerns of a theologian, provides a concise introduction to the process view of God together with briefer comments on man, Christ, and «eternal life.»

Thus in our present situation the hermeneutical problem (how traditional words, concepts and symbols are to be interpreted intelligibly in our cultural present) on the one hand remains the problem for those concerned with the theoretical issues of theology, and on the other the issue of liberation represents the center for those concerned more with the meaning of theology in life and in action.

While I share your concerns and disillusionment with much of what is practiced (or not practiced) in «traditional churches», you don't seriously believe that the «Open Circle» concept is the solution do you?

With respect to the problem of power in relation to human sexual differentiation, I am not concerned to defend either traditional or modern versions of the roles of men and women, or to deny or affirm their distinctive natures, regardless of whether these differences are understood to be inherent or culturally derived.

They are very concerned that Muslims are out - reproducing them: some recent estimates fix the Nigerian population at 49 percent Muslim and 41 percent Christian (with the remainder practicing African traditional religions), so the Christians may have some catching up to do.

More recently, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) established a Committee on the Social Aspects of Science, whose 1956 report spoke of «the pressing need that scientists concern themselves with social action» and urged scientific organizations to abandon their traditional isolation from public problems.

Using historian Eric Hobsbawm's notion of invented traditions, Howard illuminates the solution that the wedding industry has worked out concerning its central dilemma: «how to persuade consumers to accept new goods and services in connection with a ritual that was ostensibly «traditional» and «noncommercial.»»

Thus far our discussion of some of the traditional religious ideas in the light of an analysis of religion in terms of actual human experience has not been concerned exclusively with any one religious or sectarian movement.

The record isn't overly concerned with traditional song structures or creating catchy choruses — it's about reimagine what a song can even be.

I understand her fear, and see why some northern - world Christians might have concerns about the emerging patterns of global South Christianity, with its charismatic and traditional quality.

He says we should concern ourselves more with the well - being of people like Larson and their spiritual growth than with the maintenance of our traditional ways of being church.

Rather I start with the 1981 publication of a book by an American Jewish rabbi that rocked the sensibilities of Christian pastors across the U.S. and initiated an exciting new dialogue on the problem — in traditional Jewish and Christian thought — of theodicy, and then look back at other earlier contributions along a similar track, concerning a possibly limited God.

That they are able to combine the traditional feminist concern for women's well - being and justice with a nuanced attention to families, children and men is particularly commendable.

If Christians and others with religious concern expect to contribute to this redefinition of goals and values, then they will have to go beyond expressing those goals and values in terms of the traditional forms of provincial and protected truths.

They are able to do this in a meaningful way, because they are concerned with the view of the secular world as modified by the latest scientific insights, and they speak religiously without being limited to traditional forms of language.

Members increasingly criticized three aspects of what seemed to them arrogant behavior of pastor and church: neither Sid nor the congregation adequately participated in Methodist conference functions; they gave scant evidence of traditional Christian piety; they did not, except in some personal ways, concern themselves with the poor.

Many theologians who follow Whitehead and Hartshorne are largely concerned with questions of logical, theodicy, and compatibility with biblical and traditional theology.

Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, for example, proposed that the study of religion is concerned with «the traditional acts and observances, regarded by the natives as sacred, carried out with reverence and awe, hedged around with prohibitions and special rules and behaviour.

In searching for meaning and application of his thought, Bonhoeffer plays down the traditional idea of repentance as a religious act, concerned with one's own needs, and stresses rather the positive side of «allowing oneself to be caught up into the way of Jesus Christ.

The degree to which modern philosophy represents a radical break with all traditional ideas is only gradually becoming clear, in part because the early modern philosophers were concerned to disguise the full implications of their teachings.

Luke himself is not greatly concerned with the parousia; although he echoes it (Luke 21.27 [= Mark 13.26]-RRB- as a traditional Christian hope, his own concern is with the ongoing present of Christian experience and Christian work, rather than with the future of the parousia.

Emphasis upon an «unbound» Christ already present among people of various religious faiths may sound as though it fits more congenially with traditional mission language; and emphasis upon the saving action of God's spirit with people of other faiths may sound more congenial to those of the dialogue tradition, who are concerned that the dialogue partners be affirmed in their own right.

Christians need have no alarm about this, for the other - worldly concern with a supernatural unseen heaven, which has dominated traditional Christianity, is really foreign to the witness of both the Old Testament and the New Testament.

Answering consumer's growing health and environmental concerns, the break - through Beyond Burger looks, cooks and satisfies like a traditional hamburger, but with all the upsides of plant - based protein, including nearly half the saturated fat and being naturally cholesterol free.

As far as I'm concerned, there is only one good time of year (in the Northern Hemisphere) to make traditional tomato - based gazpacho: in the waning months of summer and through September, when the gardens and farmers markets are overflowing with warm, fat, vine - ripened tomatoes and shiny sweet peppers.

If you struggle with lactose intolerance or have concerns over bone health and cancer prevention, it's likely that you should select a dairy - free protein powder instead of the more traditional milk - based options.