Sentences with phrase «as a phenomenon only»

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First, even the best social workers often lasted only three to five years before burning out, a phenomenon known as compassion fatigue.

Today, thanks to ebooks and Amazon (amzn), self - publishing is a global phenomenon — an independent route intentionally chosen by more and more authors — that has spawned not only mega-bestsellers like Fifty Shades of Grey, but also hits in other realms, such as the movie version of The Martian.

Rather than assuming that people understand their own interests and act according to them, the writers approach the negotiation process as a phenomenon that's only understood as a set of essentially irrational and emotional responses.

It is essential to understand that only having English on the website will limit the amount of the people the company can reach as initial coin offerings are a global phenomenon.

This points out that everything that you explained as being only aplicable to god, which is an explanation given because no other explanation is seen, saying this is amazing so god did it, is nowhere near close to looking at these phenomena, observing and collecting the data on it and saying this is our best understanding of it to date.

If, as I myself suspect, postmodernity is a purely negative phenomenon, so that such substance as our world may now have will continue to be that of the Enlightenment and later modernity's effort to «overcome» the Enlightenment, it may happen that Pannenberg's work is disregarded only long enough to be rediscovered.

This was the only commodity Frost and Eliot were capable of producing: the modernist phenomenon as product, mass culture's ultimate revenge on those who would scorn it.»

Otis Charles - described by the Times as «the only openly gay Episcopal bishop,» thereby implying that others are in the closet — says, «The new phenomenon is that we're no longer willing to remain silent and invisible.

The fact that it can not be measured is what qualifies it as supernatural and so your insistence that it be measured is closer to a symptom of mental illness than my assurance that you will never attain proof and that your only hope of experiencing the same phenomenon is to submit yourself to the experience of it by whatever path you feel «calls you».

Unfortunately for your side, there are countless examples throughout history where believers in supernatural beings such as god and evil spirits attributed various phenomenon to them, only to have science later debunk those explanations.

As I've pointed out, there have been instances in the past where people explained phenomena with spiritual answers, only to have those explanation later debunked by science.

Honest, probing analysis of the current economic organization and its economic, social, ecological, political and cultural consequences can only delegitimize this phenomenon which is paraded to the world as the paragon of progress.

America's intermixing of religion and politics, she continued, could only be regarded as a historically neurotic phenomenon, a stubborn holdover from less enlightened times.

However, the continuity of structure and function from nonliving matter to living and from the simplest forms of life to the most complicated strongly suggests that even the most characteristic human activities such as thought and consciousness have an explanation, as yet only partly known, in chemical and physical phenomena.

The whole point of my post was to say that many, many such phenomena are dismissed as being some mysterious but material event, when it is clear there is not only a violation of physical laws, but that some kind of intelligence is involve in the violation.

The naïve moralism in this area can be maintained only by ignoring the facts that inebriety is as much a symptom as a cause of the disturbed interpersonal life of the alcoholic, that alcoholism is a complex disease involving physical, cultural, and socio - psychological as well as moral factors, and that homelessness is in itself a complex phenomenon, not the simple product of excessive drinking.

In contrast to people in biblical times «modern man acknowledges as reality only such phenomena or events as are comprehensible within the framework of the rational order of the universe... the thinking of modem men is really shaped by the scientific world - view, and.

Those familiar with Hartshorne may immediately notice that Brightman's distinction between the given and The Given precisely parallels Hartshorne's distinction between relative and absolute — and the whole host of phenomena which may be distinguished as either externally or internally related to one another.39 In Hartshorne's language, The Given is only externally related to the given, while the given is internally related to The Given.

Among a group of professional journalists (all of them women) discussing the show on Slate, only one is willing to go so far as to say that Adam's rape fantasy is a «distasteful phenomenon.»

He insisted that religious phenomena can be interpreted only if they are studied as something religious.

Brightman insists that we must start with our own human experience and infer the metaphysical reality only of what reasonably follows from that experience, and the contents of these inferences will never be more than hypothetical — and it is difficult to be certain how adequate they are to the phenomena, since those phenomena are not given as they are in themselves.

In fact the biblical realist position is only possible as a post-critical phenomenon.

In the case of Psalms, there is a delicate issue of practical judgment involved because it is at least conceivable that by now millions of Catholic women — I have no way of knowing — have become so sensitive to textual phenomena such as pronoun usage that the only way to make these poems accessible to them as vehicles for prayer is to observe strict gender neutrality in the language.

Maybe during the time the story was written that was OK, I mean it's only an incredibly recent phenomenon that women have equal rights as men, and only in certain places.

But taken as a whole and in its essentials the phenomenon can only be interpreted as a basic transformation, that is to say a change of major dimensions in the human state, of which comparative biology suggests the cause.

We must persuade ourselves of the non-existence of all surrounding phenomena, destroy the Grand Illusion by asceticism or by mysticism, create night and silence within ourselves; then, at the opposite extreme of appearance, we shall penetrate to what can only be defined as a total negation — the ineffable Reality.

It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.

The idiom of resurrection can be genuinely used as an expression of hope for man only at the same time as one recognizes the finality of the phenomenon of death.

Only after the religious phenomenon has been described as a sigh which awakens concern and as a protest which calls forth sympathy, it is criticized as opium, a sedative and narcotic.

We define religious experience as a confrontation by man with Ultimate Reality — for no finite or relative phenomenon is worthy of adoration, only God is.

It could only deal with the world as it is given in our sensuous experience, that is, with the phenomena.

I do not believe it is merely by chance that all cultures assume the existence of something that might be called the «Memory of Being,» in which everything is constantly recorded, and that they assume the related existence of supra - personal authorities or principles that not only transcend man but to which he constantly relates, and which are the sole, final explanation of a phenomenon as particular as human responsibility.

«The scientific view of the Universe is such as to admit only those phenomena that can, in one way or another, be observed in a fashion accessible to all, and to admit those generalizations (which we call laws of nature) that can be induced from those observations.»

Sin is not an individual phenomenon, but a social phenomenon in the sense that each individual sin is only properly understood in relation to the backdrop of sin evidenced by the race as a whole.

«Language,» says Claude Levi - Strauss, «is a social phenomenon» and it «lives and develops only as a collective construct.»

Objective names such as Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism have only come into use in recent centuries; this phenomenon, implying that religions are «things», is described as «reification».

They may tell us that in dealing with such phenomena as «religiosity» or «humanism» it is irrelevant and out of order to inquire about the «something» that lies behind them, and thereby protest against the conclusion that the only answer to all ultimate questions is the Nihil.

The authors allow that rational choice theory is unlikely to explain a phenomenon such as Mother Teresa in «all its fullness,» but they conclude that, «While not sufficient by itself and certainly not the only interpretation the data will bear, rational choice theory provides a valuable addition to the arsenal of analytic approaches to religion.»

Now the connections between discrete phenomena can be apprehended only as metaphor — for once they were perceived as immediate realities — and it is the function of the poet to see these connections as immediate realities, and to make others see them, «again» (my italics).

A brilliant school of interpretation of Greek mythology would have it that in their origin the Greek gods were only half - metaphoric personifications of those great spheres of abstract law and order into which the natural world falls apart — the sky — sphere, the ocean - sphere, the earth - sphere, and the like; just as even now we may speak of the smile of the morning, the kiss of the breeze, or the bite of the cold, without really meaning that these phenomena of nature actually wear a human face.

I do know with some intimacy what it is to he an empirical scientist, but only as dealing with some very special ranges of phenomena.

(Exodus 20:5) Reward and retribution, therefore, were to the early Hebrews not individual but social phenomena, and only upon this basis could the doctrine of happiness as always reward for virtue and trouble as always punishment for sin have rested so securely and so long.

Concede that a dog's love is really only «instinct» masquerading as love and, surprisingly, you will find you can not prevent others from concluding that human love is just a more elaborate variation of the same phenomenon.

And almost any of our young psychologists will tell you that only a few belated scholastics, or possibly some crack - brained theosophist or psychical researcher, can be found holding back, and still talking as if mental phenomena might exist as independent variables in the world.

European culture was long distinguished by the thoroughness with which it coerced labor out of its population — slavery and industrialization, phenomena equally indifferent to such inconveniences as considerations of family, were natural extensions of feudalism, only more ambitious and ingenious in their exactions.

Both in The Phenomenon of Man and in The Divine Milieu, Teilhard indicated his conviction that the «end» for which man is intended — and not only man in the racial sense but each man specifically — was a relationship with God, conceived as the Omega - point or the goal and end of the creative process as well as the transcendent origin and initiator of that process.

Luther's world of thought is wholly distorted and apologetically misconstrued if his conception of the Devil is dismissed as a medieval phenomenon and only his faith in Christ retained as relevant or as the only decisive factor.

We know these things as phenomena, but of the «something or other» which lies behind them we can only speak in negatives.

Looked at from the outside, it is certainly not visible as love in the real sense of the word, but only as a phenomenon of spiritual or psychic history which is open to various interpretations.

On the other hand, if the action of God is not to be conceived as a worldly phenomenon capable of being apprehended apart from its existential reference, it can only be spoken of by speaking simultaneously of myself as the person who is existentially concerned.