Sentences with phrase «as interpreters of»

The courts, however, retain their role as interpreters of their respective state constitutions, meaning that any rules that violate the constitutional separation of powers can be stricken.

Where many artists of the past imagined themselves in a heroic role as interpreters of the world, distillers of reality, artists today face the difficult idea that the world is resistant to interpretation or structure and remains chaotic and incomplete.

Many described a common experience in the corps: In addition to the challenges of being a first - year teacher and the rewards of giving back, they felt the burden of serving as interpreters of minority cultures for their white, often affluent peers.

Pastors must function not only as initiators and facilitators of member participation in decision - making, but — even more important — as interpreters of issues from the perspective of Christian faith and ethics.

They turned from the authority of the church as interpreter of Scripture to the biblical texts themselves.

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In this emergent electronic era, the most advanced and powerful communication now takes place through media which the church as the interpreter of the revelation of God has not mastered.

A special problem has been the faithful presentation of the dialogue that has existed throughout Buber's creative life between Buber as original thinker and Buber as interpreter of tradition.

Though instruction concerning principles is the science teacher's primary function, he is also cast as interpreter of the scientific enterprise.

A careful critique of philosophical views claiming to be scientific is also his responsibility as an interpreter of science.

We must look now at the work of Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965), regretfully passing by his great work as an interpreter of Bach and as a medical doctor in the Congo to deal only with his contribution as a theologian.

It is, incidentally, unfortunate that modern Protestants have trusted Barth as an interpreter of Feuerbach.

To discover, elucidate, and apply what God... teaches and enjoins is the task of the scholar as interpreter of scripture.

The Court seemed as much a national school board as an interpreter of the Constitution's Establishment Clause.

Jane Austen served as interpreter of the privileged gentry to the rest of literate society in her time.

Brent: As an interpreter of the meaning and value of the American experiment, you are an outstanding animal welfare advocate.

Growing up, Kristalova considered abstraction the highest form of art, and struck out initially as an interpreter of such before turning to ceramics.

Not exact matches

As an interpreter, your job is to translate the words of a speaker exactly as they are, no matter how heinous and what an outrageous liar you find the speaker to be... You set aside all your personal emotions and become the speaker yourselAs an interpreter, your job is to translate the words of a speaker exactly as they are, no matter how heinous and what an outrageous liar you find the speaker to be... You set aside all your personal emotions and become the speaker yourselas they are, no matter how heinous and what an outrageous liar you find the speaker to be... You set aside all your personal emotions and become the speaker yourself.

The hiring of a schizophrenic man as the interpreter for Nelson Mandela's memorial service is a bold reminder that employers need to go the extra mile when screening job candidates.

The son of an interpreter for the Chinese air force, he moved to Hong Kong as a child, according to a March 2013 brief by HSBC.

The largest professional - interpreter employer in the world, LanguageLine Solutions maintains a large remote workforce of phone and video interpreters, as well as on - site interpreters and corporate employees.

He «was one of the first great teachers to proclaim the basic principle of individualism» the inviolate sanctity of man's soul, and the salvation of one's soul as one's first concern and highest goal,» but «when it came to the next question, a code of ethics to observe for the salvation of one's soul... Jesus (or perhaps His interpreters) gave men a code of altruism, that is, a code which told them that in order to save one's soul, one must love or help or live for others.

wiki,»... «Hermes» may be related to Greek hermeneus («the interpreter»), reflecting Hermes's function as divine messenger...» Of course it would turn out to be «hermeneutics».

This led Luther eventually to conclude that the Roman Church was irrevocably committed to the claim that the authority of the pope stood even above Holy Scripture and it was in this context that he came, over the next several years, to believe that the papacy was the prophesied Antichrist of the last days, a conviction he then held to his dying day with a literalistic fervor that his modern interpreters have rarely been willing to take as seriously as he did.

So while, when he focuses on the social context of suffocating patriarchy, Le Rider is no innovator, he is far more alert than many feminist interpreters in seeing how the cure - liberation from hierarchy and patriarchally assigned roles - could easily double back on itself, leaving, as it were, seven devils in the cleanly swept house where previously there had been but one.

But there is evidence — beginning with Genesis 1, where we are told that God looked at the whole creation and saw that it was good — that biblical thinking is not nearly so anthropocentric as many interpreters of the Bible have supposed.

The problem with this kind of interpretation is that these interpreters were mistaking phenomenological language, which describes appearances, with ontological language, which tells us about things as they really are.

Wesleyanism shares much with Reformation evangelicalism - so much so that many interpreters (William Cannon, Franz Hildebrandt, Philip Watson, George Croft Cell, and others) have emphasized the continuities and basically seen the movement as a recovery of the basic impulse of the Reformation.

For some interpreters, such as John Cobb, time is in the transition; for others, time is in both the transition across occasions and in the becoming of the occasion itself.

To suggest that King, Barbour's former student minister, is a model of the preacher as transformer as well as interpreter will come as no surprise.

What I am urging is that we understand the difference between the traditional interpreters and Ford as that between the effort to make sense of Whitehead's intuition in terms of Whitehead's categories and disallowing it because it conflicts with the simplest understanding of some of those categories.

Traditional interpreters have instead undertaken to develop the system in such a way as to make sense of the intuition.

Nevertheless, despite the blindness of his interpreters, Whitehead's own vision of causal immanence remains as lure for feeling, elaborated in a score of ways, and challenging our habitual assumption that one actual entity can not be literally, ontologically ingredient in another.

Ivor Leclerc, without doubt one of Whitehead's finest interpreters, allowed his interpretation to be guided by Whitehead's questionable classification of physical prehensions as a mode of perception.

Traditional interpreters seek a way of accounting for Whitehead's final intuition as expressed in his account of the fourth phase with minimal adjustments of the systematic position at which he had arrived.

The book of Job has served as a philosophical Rorschach blot for its most outspoken interpreters, from the Talmudic rabbis and Church Fathers through their medieval philosophical successors and down to modern philosophers, theologians, and creative writers.

Our guest today has suggested that the «principles of womanist preaching include affirming the dignity of Black women as legitimate interpreters of the Scriptures whether or not our interpretations converge with those of the dominant culture.»

The alternative to seeing Mendelssohn as an utterly sincere interpreter of a sacred tradition, however, is not to regard him as a trickster and a liar.

Other interpreters looked to verses in the New Testament presenting Christ as the «image of the invisible God» (Col. 1:15).

Priority went to Mormons in areas such as Border Patrol, FBI, State Department (supposedly Mormons all speak two languages but the rumor was there was a lot of incompetent interpreters hired).

An interpreter of the survey for the United States, the renowned German sociologist Hans Joas, comes to the accurate conclusion that in comparison with Europe: «The United States is very much alive as a religious society».

Last week you submitted over 300 questions for Wright, but we could only pick 6 as our esteemed guest is busy wrapping up work on the much - anticipated Paul and the Faithfulness of God and its two companion volumes, Pauline Perspectives and Paul and His Recent Interpreters.

Even so, the spirit of the academic community as a moral community, or, as Josiah Royce put it, a community of interpreters, is not entirely dead.

As one of his more perceptive interpreters have pointed out, «It is much easier to grasp what (Bonhoeffer) meant by «religious than nonreligious».

Without saying why, Wieman chose to take Hartshorne as the representative interpreter of Whitehead's thought rather than Whitehead himself for analysis.

Indeed, as some interpreters have noticed, Whitehead's cosmological vocabulary is «itself of an elementary theological meaning.

«37 Thus, whether the specialness of an event is due only to an interpreter of the event, or whether it is due to both a person who is speaking and acting and to someone receiving this as a special act, it is man who turns an ordinary act of God into a special one.

Here the specialist may serve as a consultant and interpreter to the professional psychotherapist in regard to the religious concerns and values of the patient.

A wise interpreter would set this verse aside as too vague and unclear on this particular issue and seek Biblical truth on this subject in the clear passages throughout the Bible that teach that God does not hold children to account for the sins of their parents!

In the one understanding of contextualization, the revelatory trajectory moves only from authoritative Word into contemporary culture; in the other, the trajectory moves both from text to context and from context to text, and in the midst of this traffic the interpreter, rather like a police officer at a busy intersection, emerges as the sovereign arbiter as to what God's Word for our time actually is.