Sentences with phrase «ancient concepts of»

We've incorporated ancient concepts of nutrition into a modern day relationship with food.

Far from the realm of esoterica, ancient concepts of physiology and the human experience are now being validated by modern science.

Debt by David Graeber Graeber, an anthropologist, chronicles the history of debt, revealing how ancient concepts of money have influenced our basic ideas of right and wrong.

And ancient concepts of psychology and sociology indicated the head of the group — normally the king — as protagonist in this sociocosmic struggle.

The ancient concept of the true church within the visible church seems irrefutable in the shadow of Rwanda's killing fields and the crematories of Auschwitz.

The ancient concept of a «simple sense» of Scripture to be played off against the «fuller sense» and the allegorical sense of the text is obviously over simple, but the concern which it represented is still appropriate.

His vision was like the ancient concept of the organic community that underlay tribalism, feudalism and early American Puritanism, but it expanded the community to include the whole earth.

It is a form of explanation which made use of the ancient concept of God's Wisdom, pictured almost as a distinct personal entity, God's agent in the creation of the world and his intermediary towards his rational creatures, who enters into the souls of men and makes them the friends of God.

Behind the fifty third chapter of Isaiah, in which the true Israel is personified and the Suffering Servant's willing, uncomplaining assumption of punishment due to others is dramatically described and exalted, lies the ancient concept of corporate personality.

I'm really tired of this ancient concept of God.

In today's world, the ancient concept of sovereignty survives only in a qualified way.

Understanding that problems come about when we somehow interfere with the capability of our bodies to self - correct shifts our perspective from fixing the problem to the ancient concept of prevention.

Further works on display are from the Cut - ups series, the Colourfield paintings cut into strips and reassembled into a new logical entity, the Potato pictures, oval forms, profiles, triangles and rectangles overlapping freely and irregularly, and works from the series of small - format paintings entitled Anima mundi, alluding to the ancient concept of the world soul.

Not exact matches

When James characterized «reality» as made up of eaches and suches, of concrete particular facts and abstract relational concepts, he added a third element: «the whole body of other truths already in our possession» (P 96), the «ancient stock» of truths I have called our «social canon.»

It is beyond ridiculous to claim that the ancient Greeks had a word for homosexuality since the concept of sexual orientation was the stuff of the very distant future.

For example, the concept of an ancient earth seemed incomprehensible to people 500 years ago.

While it's a pretty irreverent take on nativity scene decorations, whether the creators of the «Hipster Nativity Set» were intending to or not, the concept offers interesting commentary about the intersections of modern millennial culture with the ancient holiday.

In view of the importance we attached to our discussion of the Son of man concept in ancient Jewish apocalyptic, above, we would like to point out that Colpe accepts the German contention that such a concept is to be found, but finds that the existing sources (Daniel, I Enoch, IV Ezra 13) are inadequate to present it to us.

Such a view presupposes the ancient two - or three - story concept of the universe — with the flat earth in the center, the «heavens» above and usually various forms of nether regions either in the depths of the earth or below the earth.

The result of a sabbatical grant from the Templeton Foundation to Celia Deane - Drummond, Professor of Theology and Biological Sciences at Chester University, Wonder and Wisdom takes several steps back from the rather narrow philosophyof ID to examine the relationship between these two ancient concepts.

Instead, (according to Walton), Genesis One concerns functionality, and the seven days relate to what he calls the «Cosmic Temple Inauguration»... ancient concepts that are a bit too complicated for me to tackle here, but which are clearly and concisely articulated in the rest of The Lost World of Genesis One.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

Indeed, in view of the extraordinary variety of forms in which this concept is expressed in ancient Judaism, and the endless variety of phenomena expected to be a feature of its manifestation, (Illustrated in N. Perrin, Kingdom, pp. 164 - 7.)

The more one perceives in ancient literature, whether of Judea or Greece, values of permanent validity, the more one tends to lift them out of their original frameworks of concept and present them in modern terms and ways of thinking.

The reason SAME SEX ACTS were condemned because the concept of same - sex relations would be a foreign concept in ancient times.

But such behavior on Odysseus» part should not lead us to think that ancient Greece was without concepts of right and wrong.

His doctoral dissertation was on Duns Scotus on predestination and his habilitation (the second dissertation required to teach in the German universities) addressed the concept of analogy from the ancient Greeks through the medieval period.

In the hands of a prosperous people, whether ancient Israel or America, this notion has tended to foster a concept of election that claims a corner on God's presence.

With deep roots in both ancient Israel and classical Greek and Roman political thought and practice, the origins of a specifically Christian just war concept first appeared in the thought of Augustine.

An early example of the Golden Rule that reflects the Ancient Egyptian concept of Maat appears in the story of The Eloquent Peasant, which dates to the Middle Kingdom (c. 2040 — 1650 BCE): «Now this is the command: Do to the doer to cause that he do thus to you.»

3, page 157) «Furthermore your ideas, as we understand them, appear to contemplate the intermarriage of the Neg.ro and White races, a concept which has heretofore been most repugnant to most normal - minded people from the ancient partiarchs till now.

«The concept of same - sex orientation did not exist in the ancient world.

As people come to realize that the concept of «God» is just an ancient human fabrication «spiritual but not religious» seems to be a rational way to deal with this dichotomy.

«Furthermore your ideas, as we understand them, appear to contemplate the intermarriage of the Neg.ro and White races, a concept which has heretofore been most repugnant to most normal - minded people from the ancient partiarchs till now.

We have almost no concept of the culture and day - to - day lives of those ancient people, so how could we take what they said and apply it to the 21st century?

For some of those people, and I am one of them, that will no longer be in the concepts and language of the ancient world.

How is it possible that two such mutually exclusive concepts of man could be championed from ancient until modern times — man, an animal; man, a God?

In later chapters we shall show, with extracts from ancient writings, that far from there being only one view of resurrection, there was in fact a remarkable diversity in the way in which this concept was understood.

And which of these «ancient doctrines» contain the concepts of sin and grace?

For the science of the ancient East we must look to Egypt and Babylonia, from whom Israel took her concepts, modifying them profoundly, it is true, in their religious aspects, but making little change in their scientific content.

Nowhere in the ancient East do we find such sublime concepts and descriptions of nature as in Israel.

The concept of a Triune god was stolen from the ancient Egyptian's and has no place in pure worship.

The Greek term psyche (soul), which Christians naturally found themselves using in order to describe the spiritual aspect of a man, already implied the dualistic approach to human nature and introduced a concept for which there had been no verbal equivalent in the language of ancient Israel.26

For rooted and molded in the cultures of the ancient East, Israel yet far transcended them and attained a world of thinking and of concepts much like our own.

«How can anyone pay any attention to a doctrine that grew out of a Greek conceptual system being imposed on Jewish Scriptures, that was as foreign to Jesus as it is to us, that depends on concepts and a common sense that have gone the way of the Roman Empire, and that is about as understandable as if it were still written in ancient Greek?»

Both stories appear to serve as commentaries on the ancient Near Eastern concept of hospitality.

Our ancient forebears stood in such awe of the forces of nature that they created concepts, symbols and a language by which to understand them.

The appropriate response is implicit in the concept of faith itself as it was understood in ancient Judaism, for there the primary meaning of faith is certainly trust.

The Kingdom of God teaching diffen from both the early Church and ancient Judaism in its use of the key concept, Kingdom of God, and in aspects of its eschatology, where, incidentally, it is in agreement with the eschatology of the parables.

Perhaps in this process we have some hint as to the way in which the mind of ancient man, less adept in handling abstract concepts, was led to express the conflicts he felt among the unseen forces about him in the form of stories of the gods and spirits.