Sentences with phrase «about ideas of nature»

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The collection of scientific publications out there make up a marketplace of ideas, hypotheses, theorems, conjectures, and comments about nature.

Despite our postmodern sophistication and our wishful thinking about perfectibility, our nature is immutable — not least in its fickleness, its embrace of irrational ideas and practices, and its suggestibility.

Namely that the idea that each of us has the luxury of using rationality exclusively to come to any deep conclusions about the nature of our lives and the world.

I am asking theologically about the relation of the ideas that seem now to constitute at least the beginning of a theology of nature to the ideas by which the church is accustomed to living.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

Kuhns delineates five areas in Bonhoeffer's thought that hold particular fascination for Roman Catholics: (1) «his idea of community» (the church is the community where Christ is); (2) «his search for the true nature of the Church's authority» (in the concrete situations facing the church who can speak with authority about wrong or right?)

In his idea of «dual transcendence,» which is later terminology for dipolarity, Hartshorne attempts to hold together the two aspects of his thought about the divine nature.

This difference is an extremely important one to note for the simple reason that the ideas of the new reformers enjoy an increasing appeal» their notions about moral agency and the nature of the moral life cohering so well with the views about these matters that now are characteristic of American culture.

The Holocaust was, in largest part, the consequence of ideas about human nature, human rights, the imperatives of history and scientific progress, the character of law, the bonds and obligations of political community.

The elite's response between 1640 and 1660 was increasingly to downplay the idea of sin and, indeed, to discourage reflection about the nature of God more generally.

I once cite «Realism and Idealism,» the passage about objective idealism in which Collingwood clearly states his conception of the world of nature: «Thus it conceives the world of nature as something derived from and dependent upon something logical prior to itself, a world of immaterial ideas; but this is not a mental world or a world of mental activities or of things depending on mental activity although it is an intelligible world or a world in which mind, when mind comes into existence, finds itself completely at home.

This conclusion also leads to a more general point about the nature of culture that is consistent with the previously mentioned criticism leveled by Zaret against the idea of abstract values legitimating practical ethics.

Pietism in Wurttemberg took a politically passive turn because it was largely tolerated by the state church, which was somewhat independent of the king and capable through the involvement of the aristocracy of incorporating new ideas about the nature of the polity.

THIS, faithless, is the nature of so much belief: «The amazing thing about apocalyptic thought is that a specific prophecy can be disconfirmed, but the idea can never be discredited.

Philosophers have largely abandoned the expectation of discovering a single system of ideas that will contain the ultimate truth about nature, man, cognition, and values.

As with everything Dr. Enns writes, this book was full of deep insights and helpful ideas about the nature and authority of Scripture.

This optimistic approach to man's virtue and the problem of evil expresses itself philosophically as the idea of progress in history.17 The empirical method of modern culture has been successful in understanding nature; but, when applied to an understanding of human nature, it was blind to some obvious facts about human nature that simpler cultures apprehended by the wisdom of common sense.

Most knew that Protestant and Catholic ideas about the nature of the «Church» can differ sharply, and why.

Methodius of Olympus (died c. 311) refuted Origen's ideas about pre-existent souls and the nature of the world.

Second, materialist physicalism's acceptance of causal determinism, along with the correlative acceptance of the idea that «science» provides precise predictive laws, 5 excludes the idea that a partially self - determining mind could affect the physical course of nature, It is these two metaphysically - based exclusions that, as we have seen, prevent materialist physicalism from doing justice to our inescapable presuppositions about the reality and efficacy of our mental life.

a set of cosmological and anthropological views that owed not a little to the vast mélange of Hellenism and Orientalism flooding the world where he grew up, and providing him with the unique setting for still other ideas, of sin, Satan, death, of the sinful and therefore mortal nature of man — as «flesh» — of the «spiritual» forces arrayed against God and his Messiah and all the faithful, of the victory to be won by the Messiah when he should at last appear — all these ideas were shaped to the mold of certain half - Jewish, half - pagan ideas which Paul seems to have derived from the world about him.

Calvin understood that doubt was a part of the faith experience, because human nature itself finds ideas about God and His goodness so outside of what we can understand: «For unbelief is so deeply rooted in our hearts, and we are so inclined to it, that not without hard struggle is each one able to persuade himself of what all confess with the mouth: namely, that God is faithful.»

In both cases psychicalistic ideas were useful in arriving at some empirical facts, for example, about the composite nature of «loudness» as a variable of sense experience (Hartshorne 1934, pp. 61 - 72), or the biological significance of «highly developed» bird song, or of contrast and uncertainty in the sequence of songs or phrases (Hartshorne 1973, pp. 106 - 112, 117f, 119 - 136, 151 - 188).

The direct evidence consists of what Whitehead himself tells us, first, about how his books are meant to be read and understood, about the genesis of his ideas, and about modifications in his views; and second, about the nature of his thinking, about his difficulties in translating his thoughts into words, about the sources of his philosophical terminology, and about the peculiar manner in which he composed his books.

This paper will examine the arguments on each side, indicate what the societal view implies about the nature of God, and suggest an additional argument for the societal view based on the idea of God's freedom and faithfulness which this view implies.

For those who have the patience, the chief reward of Participant Observer is a first - hand account of the wars of ideas about human nature that have dominated much of the intellectual history of the past half century.

The «Law» part only applies to the mathematics of gravity's effects... not it's nature (which we still have no real idea about).

Like Habermas, he has immersed himself in the growing literature on language, discourse, and communication, coming increasingly to conceive of society itself as a vast system of communicative action, and this perspective has given him a number of novel ideas about the nature of religion.

In the dominant world view the inclusion of human beings in nature meant that all these ideas about God acting in the hearts and minds of believers became irrelevant.

Despite our postmodern sophistication and our wishful thinking about perfectibility, our nature is immutable — not least in its fickleness, its embrace of irrational ideas and practices, and its suggestibility.Charles Mackay's classic work, Extraordinary Popular....

As you say, Marx appears to talk about ideas that are good, and you don't notice the essential elements that are missing from his ideologies — such as the rightful place of humans under God and in relation to one another — the recognition of imperfect and sinful nature of humanity, the inherent dignity of created things.

Let me spell out two very clear ideas about the nature and destiny of human - ness.

The growth of paid - time religious television and its many affiliated religious services, industries, and practices presents a radical challenge to established ideas about the nature of the Christian church.

There have been a variety of ideas about the nature of desirable change that have influenced political thinking in the past.

In policy documents like the 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States and this past November's National Strategy for Victory in Iraq, the Bush administration» convinced that the attacks of September 11 defined a pivotal moment in world politics» has laid down a sharp challenge to certain well - entrenched ideas about the nature of «realism» in international affairs, even as its policy on the ground has challenged numerous conventions of post-World War II international public life.

(3) In its most limited sense «theology proper» (as it is sometimes called) consists of ideas about God's nature and work - often the very first topic for a treatise on systematic theology.

They object, that is, to the idea of any religion which is concerned with affirmations about the nature of things, with affirmations about historical personalities and their significance; and they prefer a religion which is concerned more with how we feel and think, or how we think we ought to feel.

Many of them had definite ideas about the so - called essence of each religion, such as its concepts of deity, of the nature and destiny of man and of the world, which have been handed down to us through manuals and handbooks that are abundant in the European tradition of Religionswissenschaft.

We must keep clear the nature and limits of our metaphysics, that is, our ideas about what it means to be.

Since the followers of Jesus regarded him as essentially human, statements about his divine nature or function have been added to the authentic gospel, often by use of ideas derived from «mystery religions.

On Monday the Rockets sent White down to the D - League and White released a statement that said: «In hindsight, perhaps it was not a good idea to be open and honest about my anxiety disorder due to the current situations at hand that involve the nature of actions from the Houston Rockets.

No that's right Robert Mugabe would have never left lacazette on the bench, I'm only joking of course, I think so many of us are so annoyed, depressed and frankly really jacked off we're venting our frustrations and saying and doing things that aren't in our nature, I know I have and that's the real calamity of all this, a few old men have managed to divide our massive fan base in half, we all care about the Arsenal and have our own ideas of what's going on and the saddest thing of all is it's only going to get worse.

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«The idea that the chair of the ethics committee has never had the opportunity to mark up a bill, has never had the opportunity to hold a hearing,» Mr. Bharara said, «tells you everything you need to know about the enabling nature of all the people in the State Legislature who may not have been convicted of crimes, but seem not to care that they're going on.

One Berkeley evening in 1990, while my friend Bill Poirier and I were sitting around speculating about the ultimate nature of reality, I suddenly had an idea: Our reality isn't just described by mathematics — it is mathematics, in a very specific sense.

In any event, 1744 has forced astrophysicists to rethink basic ideas about the nature of bursters and pulsars.

One type of symmetry, he writes, called gauge symmetry, «has allowed us to discover more about the nature of reality at its smallest scales than any other idea in science.»

Although nothing in the laws of nature appears to rule out time travel, physicists have always been uneasy about it because it makes a mockery of causality, the idea that cause always precedes effect.