Sentences with phrase «arguments about the nature»

The Catholic Church, to take one prominent institution devoted to the defense of human life from conception until natural death, makes no «theological» argument about the nature of the life in the womb.

The debate is an argument about the nature of the spirit realm, specifically, about whether or not beings of the spirit realm took up any «space.»

It no longer creates the kinds of visceral arguments about the nature of art that it did back in the 20th century, when Rachel Whiteread won both the Turner in 1993 and the K Foundation award for «worst artist of the year».

I believe in journalism, as Bob Friend did, and in honouring his memory by discussing this subject in front of a room full of potentially great journalists, I hope I can support the principle that journalism is a noble trade, maybe inspire a few to go into it, and above all prosecute an argument about the nature and future of journalism that I think deserves a hearing.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, humans seem to forget this fact when we find ourselves turning to nature to guide us through difficult choices, such as arguments about whether life begins at conception, or over the proper structure of the family.

Here's the penultimate paragraph: Unfortunately, humans seem to forget this fact when we find ourselves turning to nature to guide us through difficult choices, such as arguments about whether life begins at....

Despite some of his protests against the Reformed, Dawson's fundamental convictions about the social nature of the human person resonates with Abraham Kuyper's argument that the organic nature of life is the foundation of the social or ecclesial organisms that come after it.

The originality of Hartshorne's discussions about the nature of God, and particularly his daring and novel defense of the ontological argument, have led some to overlook the fact that, as he himself says, his primary interest lies elsewhere.

The argument is really about what precisely is the «intelligence» we find in Nature, and how it organises matter into a creative economy of inter-related entities.

So if what Jesus said to Philip can't be used to teach us about the nature and character of God because it's historical narrative, then this same argument applies to every text in the Bible, and you can also not use anything from the Law, the Writings, the Prophets, the Gospels, or the Epistles.

A developed argument about American exceptionalism and the nature of the American Founding would take us a long way toward understanding why we don't want religion to be pushed from the shared mainstream over to one side's shore.

Speculation about what nature is in itself, backed up by rational arguments, particularly about the mind - body problem, and empirical evidence from the sciences, is therefore a necessary dimension of a process Christian theology.

This paper will examine the arguments on each side, indicate what the societal view implies about the nature of...

This American - centered view is peculiar, given Greider's fundamental argument about the daunting, impersonal and, now transnational nature of economic forces.

The argument from suffering reaches beyond medicine's responsibility and competence; it extends into metaphysical questions about the nature of human happiness and what constitutes a meaningful life.

We need to make public arguments that touch directly upon the truth about human nature as available to human reason.

The latter form of the problem emerges with the space age; the former has surfaced before in the argument about «the two natures of Christ» and in the more recent «scandal of particularity» (it is scandalous to think God is uniquely incarnate in Jesus, but nevertheless true).

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.

The post is about God and the Nature (s) of Jesus Christ, and he engages in some good logical argument about what Jesus knew about Himself.

It is not my intention to defend everything the encyclical tradition has had to say about sex and marriage but rather to point out that that tradition, especially in Arcanum Divinae, at least had the argument in the right ball park — namely, that what one says about sex is correlative to one's understanding of the nature of the family and what its function is for the preservation of good societies.

For in the face of what appeared at the time (1929) to be the radical nature of Russell's views about sex and marriage, some of his most important arguments were, I think, misinterpreted and overlooked.

The level of stupidity of someone who can say what you did while being serious, is just the level needed to answer my arguments about the contradictory nature of defending the freedom to suppress freedom with that drivel.

Professor Ayala illustrates the very fashionable Catholic diffidence about the import of recent discoveries about the nature of the universe, whilst Clive Copus, who helpfully flags up the dominance of Ayala's school of thought at the Rome evolution conference last year, proposes the «Intelligent Design» (ID) argument that some parts of the universe point to God, and by implication that some don't do so nearly so well.

Most importantly, a book with this sub-title should have included arguments that confront the bishops» working presuppositions about poverty and wealth, the nature of the Christian duty to the poor, and such terms as «economic rights,» «redistribution,» and «social justice.»

Arguments were about who was the true god and about the nature or character of God.

I think Amy's assertion about land mammals is intended to demonstrate the cognitive dissonance suffered by some natural birth advocates that promote water birth, not as an argument that we should eschew it and follow nature.

The nature versus nurture argument about personality has always seemed a little futile to me.

This would seem to preempt your questions by answering the precise nature of the values espoused and defer arguments about the best means for advancing these values.

Instead of arriving at the position of either backing the government's welfare bill or forever being depicted as the friend of the scrounger, shadow ministers should have been making a big argument about the regressive nature of the Budget, the lamentable symbolism of effectively scrapping child poverty targets and the removal of in - work benefits to those eponymous hard - working families.

But his columns and features about the real thing are no less entertaining, even now, and the arguments Klein and Cuomo had back in the «80s and «90s about the nature of liberal government and personal responsibility reverberate, unsettled, in today's Democratic politics.

Physicists have argued about entanglement for decades; they offer all sorts of different points of view, explanations and arguments about what it means and what its consequences are for understanding the nature of physical reality.

Although there has been fierce argument about which is more important — the nature versus nurture debate — ...

The notion of family is seminal in human genetics for many reasons: the inheritance and genetic basis of traits is discerned from family patterns; arguments about heritability and nature versus nurture are derived from studies of family relationships; population genetic structure and social diversity are determined by patterns of mate choice; genetic information is typically delivered in the context of families.

But what about the argument that raw foodists make claiming that all animals in nature eat 100 % raw foods, but humans are the only species that eats cooked food...

If one is going to make an evolutionary argument for what a «natural» vitamin D level may be, how about getting vitamin D in the way nature intended — that is, from the sun instead of supplements?

So, there is little public argument about God and nature in «Creation,» no actual manifestation of the intellectual and spiritual tumult his theories would inspire.

Topics Include: - Christian Beliefs about God - Miracles - The Trinity - Effect of belief in God on community - Philosophical Arguments for / against - Comparisons to Buddhism - Design vs Evolution - Nature of Christian Worship - How to answer exam questions

Comprehensive Revision Notes that Cover: Ontological Argument, Weaknesses of the Ontological Argument, Theories about the Nature of Faith, the Relation between Faith, Reason, and Revelation as well as Propositional and Non-Propositional Concepts of Revelation.

Mainly, a conclusion summarizes what the research is all about, the nature of the main arguments, how the research was undertaken, what was discovered and the pre-existing views that were challenged in the course of the research.

Along the way, Isabel ponders or discusses: the nature of genius; child prodigies and pushy parents; our responsibility to future generations; the art of judging social cues; insincere compliments and heart - sink friends; dress codes and personal hygiene obligations; arguments about nothing; projectile vomiting; answering the telephone; the criminality of illegal parking; the morals of unearned money; the expiry date of sympathy; when does a reward become a ransom; loyalty to government, country and family; the ownership of leftovers; email expectations; and, of course, clouds.

Firstly his premise is mistaken, ebooks are not the disruption, merely the manifestation of the disruption (of which more below) and secondly even if we are to accept his categorization of ebooks as the disruption / sustaining innovation, he misses a key point about the nature of the trade publishing industry that undermines his argument.

If you have the same topic to write an essay about, you should develop the argument further and argue in favor of either nature or nurture.

In Hoskote's words, writing about «biennials of resistance,» the nature of the biennial is «neither exclusively nor even primarily a space of spectacular doing, but rather a discursive environment, a theater that allows for the straying of arguments, speculations, and investigations concerning the nature of our shared, diversely veined, and demanding contemporary condition.»

As I've written in the past, there are clear economic arguments for government funded, private sector executed basic R&D on various climate - friendly technologies (I'm talking about invention and innovation, not diffusion), namely the public - good nature of the product of R&D (information), which leads to under - investment, given price signals.

The argument is all about the nature of the change: negligible or significant?

Etc. (I have to say, I don't like where this is going (toward absolute zero — PS this wouldn't completely change the argument about CO2 causing cooling; the nature of the skin temperature is such that at equilbrium, the center of the CO2 band can never be saturated at TOA absent solar heating.).)

So instead of pointing fingers... at different sides of the argument as to who is to blame, and if nature just to blame, let's do something about it.

In the conclusion to his «Plan B» chapter (p 228), Bob Carter writes: «It is therefore time to move away from stale «he - says - she - says» arguments about whether human carbon dioxide emissions are causing dangerous warming, and on to designing effective policies of hazard management for all climate change, based on adaptation responses that are tailored for individual countries or regions... By their very nature, strategies that can cope with the dangers and vagaries of natural climate change will readily cope with human - caused change too should it ever become manifest.»

The Tobacco Strategy is a rather mundane observation about the nature of arguments.

This cycle is one factor in why arguments about the global nature of the Medieval Warm Period being a global event need to be looked at with some scepticism.