Sentences with phrase «as a lens by»

But again, if Jesus claims to reveal God to us (John 1:14, 18; 14:9 - 11; 2 Cor 4:4; Php 2:6; Col 1:15; Heb 1:2 - 3), then why would we ever reject the perfect revelation of God in Jesus Christ as the lens by which we understand the actions of God in the Old Testament?

... discerned through the phenomenon of gravitational lensing — matter acting as a lens by bending space and distorting the passage of background light.

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So, as you start to grow, spend your money on glass, and by glass, we mean lenses.»

Pretty soon, your smartphone will be as quaint as an eight - track player, replaced by a pair of computerized contact lenses that can predict the weather or deliver your Facebook feed.

Bignall stresses that Americans» perceptions of robots is altered by a cultural lens which depicts them as an existential threat — one that costs blue - collar workers their livelihood and down the line could endanger society as a whole (think the dystopian future in «Terminator»).

In truth, social media is not a telescopic lens — as the telephone actually was — but an opinion - fracturing prism that shatters social cohesion by replacing a shared public sphere and its dynamically overlapping discourse with a wall of increasingly concentrated filter bubbles.

It would be otiose to give examples: a distant thunder is in the past as much as a distant star; but no matter how far in time - space a star or galaxy is, it is always faintly immanent in my Here - Now even when its action is below the threshold of human perception; its action can be made visible by a combination of lenses or a prolonged photographic exposure.

Better to understand Chesterton's idea that Jews were not naturally a part of English culture without the inevitably determinative intervening lens of the Nazi holocaust, we might compare it with modern English perceptions of the problem of multiculturalism as it applies particularly to the Moslem community, still widely seen as being impossible to assimilate: thus, there is understood by many decent and tolerant people to be what might be termed a «Moslem problem» (just as many decent and tolerant gentiles in Chesterton's day thought there was a «Jewish problem»).

Only thereafter, when it has «perished» as a subject, moved away from in front of the lens, is it available as an object to be grasped at by other subjects.

Additionally in my case, interpreting scripture through the lens of Christ is the key as previously mentioned by Jeremy.

Christology — I have had to learn to refocus all my theology upon the cross of Jesus Christ, and have come to see Jesus as the center of God's revelation, the lens by which Scripture is read, and truly the «image of the invisible God.»

Be that as it may, we should not stop seeing Jesus as the link between the Testaments and the lens by which both are read.

In America its very easy to frame Jesus through our «American lens», this of course has significant flaws, as noted by Jeremy.

This view was given a great deal of support through the use of the lens, which provides in principle (as shown in Fig. 2) a point - to - point correspondence between object, O, and Image, I. By creating such a correspondence, the

The objection was that congregations are by and large far too ideologically captive to their host cultures to be suitable as the lens through which theological schooling is focused.

This lens is defined by the single universal conception known as the non-aggression axiom.

As the seminar returned to the original briefs in Roe v. Wade, seeing them now through the lens of our concern about conservative jurisprudence, something now sprang out: The lawyers for the state of Texas had set forth in their brief an even richer form of the essay produced earlier by Paul Ramsey.

If an anecdotal analysis of our social consciousness and spiritual formation leaves us with the realization that, as Brown says, «there are some selective lenses by means of which we read Scripture, and... those lenses need to be torn from our eyes,» (15) then how do we tear them away?

The bun placed by an anonymous hand model atop thick, good - looking mushrooms, melty cheese and moistened beef as the camera sneakily edges closer, initially catching a little ramekin of mushrooms and a nice block of cheese before the lens is too close to see the background.

Our internal teams are complemented by a network of professional institutions such as Monell and other leading universities and our Technical Expert Advisory Council, which is composed of sensory and consumer science experts who provide an external lens into the challenges that affect the food and beverage industry.

Deploying the format used by Nige Tassell in his recent book The Bottom Corner, as well as an approximation of the approach of Michael Calvin in his recent trilogy of volumes, Hughes devotes a chapter each to the majority of the North West» senior clubs, tackling matters through the lens of a single interviewee and interlacing that person's thoughts with his own impressions on the fortunes of a club, both current and historical.

While the effects of UV light are well - known (sunburn, skin cancer), UV light does not sufficiently reach the back of the eye or retina as it is blocked by the cornea and lens.

By understanding these parenting practices as a part of the parent - child relationship and through a developmental lens, parents can see exactly how «experts» have been wrong in much of what they peddle.

In Part 2, listen in as Julietta digs into the challenges brought to us by the Joyful Courage community through the lens of development.

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Our culture has shifted to understand artificial feeding as the norm, when actually so many of the things our babies do are normal but we misinterpret them because the lenses through which we see our babies are smudged by unrealistic expectations.

Hyperopia, also known as hypermetropia or colloquially as farsightedness or longsightedness, is a defect of vision caused by an imperfection in the eye (often when the eyeball is too short or when the lens can not become round enough), causing inability to focus on near objects, and in extreme cases causing a sufferer to be unable to focus on objects at any distance.

Of course, your credentials are impeccable, but according to stereotype threat, your achievements and abilities did not filter through the lens through which you were perceived, which was clouded by your identification as a black male.

«By moving aberration estimation and correction out to computation, we can create a compact device that gives us the same surface area as the lens we want without the size, weight, volume and cost,» said Cossairt, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Northwestern.

Many dolphins and whales seem to be able to narrow or widen the beam at will by deforming a lump of fat in their forehead, known as the melon, the way a glass lens can shape a cone of light.

Ordinarily the area you can shrink to will be limited by the wavelength of the light you are using, as an ordinary lens is.

The only way to correct this is by bending each ray of light differently as it falls on each location of the lens's surface.

The center's goal is to restore vision to some portion of the 65 million people worldwide — about 1 percent of the world population — considered to be legally blind, which the National Federation of the Blind defines as a central visual acuity of 20 / 200 or less in the stronger eye, even when aided by a corrective lens.

Some of these people have vision problems caused by currently untreatable diseases, he notes, but others simply because they can not afford or do not have access to relatively simple fixes such as surgery to remove cataracts (clouding of eye lenses).

It has long been routine to treat cataracts, as they are called, by replacing the lens with an artificial one.

The researchers are now working to increase the system's light energy utilization by making improvements to the manufacturing techniques, such as incorporating lens coatings, used to make the optical components.

The lens may produce multiple or distorted images of the background object as seen by the observer.

This giant cluster acts as a powerful natural lens by bending and magnifying the light of far - more - distant objects behind it.

Video lenses are inestimably far off, Parviz concedes, but in the next few years he expects to build contacts with preprinted, illuminable characters and icons as well as an eight - by - eight array of LEDs.

In the end success was secured by the fact that the stone - dead galaxy was positioned behind a foreground cluster of other galaxies — a cluster which functioned as a «natural lens» by amplifying as well as enlarging the image of MACS2129 - 1.

«This should reduce overall costs for the energy industry because, rather than creating large, expensive solar cells, you can use much smaller cells that produce just as much electricity by absorbing intensified solar energy from concentrating lenses.

However, through the phenomenon known as «gravitational lensing,» a massive, foreground cluster of galaxies acts as a natural «zoom lens» in space by magnifying and stretching images of far more distant background galaxies.

The answer by Haskin: «Rudolf W. Mandl was recently announced by Dr. Albert Einstein as the discoverer of the space - lens theory.»

That dip was caused by blobs of hot plasma emitted by the galaxy's black hole, which were magnified by a cluster of stars acting as a cosmic lens between Earth and the galaxy, researchers suggest.

Newton was sufficiently encouraged by this to offer the society another paper on light, which included a description of the way coloured rings of light (now known as Newton's rings) are produced when a lens is separated from a flat sheet of glass by a thin film of air.

An international team of astronomers has found the most distant gravitational lens yet — a galaxy that, as predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, deflects and intensifies the light of an even more distant object.

Instead of approaching the problem by creating better imaging software that helps to increase the resolution after the fact, as most high resolution microscopes do, Shroff and his lab developed a microscope with better lenses and mirrors so that the higher resolution is captured in the original image.

Dong also envisions that these lenses could be used by doctors in underdeveloped areas for diagnostic imaging or by field scientists as portable microscopes.

The Copernican view was shared by others: stars would be seen as points if the telescope's lens was darkened by smoke, wrote Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens in his book Systema saturnium, published in 1659, 17 years after Galileo's death.

Another survey, led by a private social science institute in Istanbul, used the protests as a lens for examining the demography of dissent in the country.