Experience the distinct teaching methods used by our dedicated faculty to bring challenging subject matters, such
as nature studies in elementary school and platonic solids in middle school, to life.
Not exact matches
«I will say that both pursuits appeal to a sense of aesthetics and elegance, and that the self - officiated
nature of Ultimate conforms to philosophies of truth and honesty which I hold
as a mathematician,» writes Peter Behr, a designer who
studied math, on Quora.
While statistical margins of error are arguably not applicable to online panels / online
studies of this
nature, we have assumed that the same margins of error apply
as if it were a true unweighted random probability sample with a margin of error of + / - 3.7 percentage points, nineteen times out of twenty.
«Colonization of the islands could have been possible thanks to natural rafts such
as floating mangroves that typhoons occasionally break off the coast,» said Thomas Ingicco, the lead author of a
study about the archeological site published in the journal
Nature.
Well I'm not a Gold Bug; I'm a realist and an economist who
studies not only the past but human
nature as well.
These
studies done with identical twins show that an individual's preference has
as much to do with
nature (ie.
It offers an oppor - tunity to
study systematically the interaction of several copyright issues: including the rights (or lack thereof) of exclusive licensees
as plaintiffs in parallel import situations, the distinction between exclusive licensees and assignees, the
nature of works of authorship, the characteristics of copy - right infringement, the status of copyrightable works when used
as trade - marked logos, the limits (if any) of concurrent copyright and trade - mark protection, and even the distinction between trade - mark, copyright, and patent
as autonomous yet related legal regimes.
It's not that I don't feel like I can, I can... but is that in the vocabulary of the one who I worship, if it's not then why would I
as His Son want to take on what is not His, my Father's
nature... The versions of the Bible I've read seem to think that words are powerful and speaking them is an action and can even change physics if used properly... Again, the scriptures speak for themselves and circumventing the topical
study with christiany cliche come - backs doesn't answer or annul anything that the Word has to say on the matter.
Similar essays include Ben Avery's
study of the ramifications of the Fall
as they play out in Jackie Brown and Russell Hemati's «Like A Man,» which illuminates the important role of group dynamics in the
nature of sin.
While economics
as a descriptive
study is not concerned with moral issues, the facts of economic life inescapably point to the moral element in human
nature.
It might be supposed that we could turn to the schools, since the task of the schools is constantly being enlarged, but the very
nature of the modern school precludes this,
as we have already noted in Chapter I. (For a careful and scholarly
study of this problem see Alvin W. Johnson, The Legal Status of Church - State Relationships in the United States with Special Reference to the Public Schools, University of Minnesota Press, 1934.)
Very seldom has anyone within a local church treated it
as a field of
study and reported out its patterns of culture because they constitute an important disclosure of the symbolic
nature of the group.
That which ultimately makes a theological school theological and provides the criteria of its excellence
as a school is not the structure of its curriculum, nor the types of pedagogical methods it employs, nor the dynamics of its common life, nor the structure of its polity, nor even the «sacred» subject matters it
studies; rather it is the
nature of its overarching end and the degree to which that end governs all that comprises its common life.
As debate continues over President Obama's assertion about the religious
nature (or lack thereof) of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, a new Pew Research Center
study finds that more Americans across the board believe that Islam encourages violence more than other religions.
That is why the effort to understand God Christianly, which must in the
nature of the case proceed indirectly, might best proceed indirectly by way of
study of the Christian thing in and
as Christian congregations.
The three questions can serve
as horizons within which to conduct rigorous inquiry into any of the array of subject matters implied by the
nature of congregations, disciplined by any relevant scholarly method, in such a way that attention is focused on the theological significance of what is
studied:
For example, on the one hand, when St Thomas Aquinas in his great mediaeval theological works treats theology
as the «queen of the sciences», yet «the subordination of metaphysics to theology did not necessarily entail an obstruction to the
study of
nature» (p. 81)-- it «had not resulted in a sterile fusion» (p. 84).
Indeed, the most recent
study of them, by E. Jüngel in his Paulus und Jesus, claims that the Kingdom of God actually becomes a reality for the hearer of the parables in the parables themselves, which are, by their
nature as parable, peculiarly well designed to manifest the reality of the Kingdom
as parable (E. Jüngel, Paulus und Jesus [21964], pp. 135 - 74; cf. J.M. Robinson, Interpretation 18 [1964], 351 - 6.)
I was actually giving you the benefit of the doubt when I assumed you didn't understand the
nature of the discussion — because the alternative of course would be to discuss a lot of earnest scholarship and
study by people gay and straight alike
as mere rationalization.
It shows how the
study of the Law is superior to the compelling attractions of any religion centered in the worship of
nature (i.e., the
nature deities of Israel's neighbors, the sun god, storm god, etc.) with a hymn celebrating the manifestation of God in
nature (
as his creation) in the first six verses, counterbalanced by verses which praise the Mosaic Law
as God's revelation of his will (vv.
In the latter regard, H. Paul Santmire whose
study of the history of Western attitudes toward
nature is one of the best available, provides perspective when he writes: «The theological tradition of the West is neither ecologically bankrupt,
as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained and
as numbers of its own theologians have assumed, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long - forgotten ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults,
as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crises and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find» (Santmire, 5).
... In his excellent article, Paul H. Liben defines science
as the
study of
nature.
Many — if not most —
studies — such
as literature, philosophy, history, religion, geography, and anthropology (to name only some of them)-- by their very
nature draw upon a variety of other fields of
study and thus are particularly suited to general education, provided they are not ruined for that purpose by professional zeal to make them into precise, technical, exclusive disciplines —
as occurs even in such a naturally general field
as literature, when its promoters restrict it to technical textual analysis.
Fulbrook's
study illustrates especially well the importance of resources such
as political support and economic patronage, both of which may depend less on the
nature of the popular audience than on macro-level linkages among institutions.
If the conclusions of this
study are accepted, the understanding of the
nature and function of the theological enterprise
as a whole will be affected.
If the conclusions of the
study are accepted, the understanding of the
nature and function of the theological enterprise
as a whole will be affected.
That is to say that not only the incentives to the
study of the history of religions have varied in the last century — the first of its existence
as «Wissenschaft» — but that ideas
as to the aim and scope, the
nature and the method of this discipline also have been changing.
He then turns to a significant
study of the
nature of the church
as not just another organization but the Body of Christ.
It will be shown that all three branches of knowledge have to do with all three of the traditional aspects of human
nature, and that every discipline in fact
studies man
as a whole, comprising body, mind, and spirit.
The reason for this is that such a position can itself be held in good faith,
as far
as it goes: one can, without logical inconsistency, maintain that the laws of
nature (if completely understood) do (or could) explain the phenomena
studied in the sciences.
Much
as the
Study of Theological Education in the United States and Canada, directed by H. Richard Niebuhr in the 1950s, became an influential inquiry into the nature of the church and its ministry, so the Danforth study, ostensibly of campus ministries, became an important resource for exploring the necessary relation of religious faith, social ethics and public - policy formula
Study of Theological Education in the United States and Canada, directed by H. Richard Niebuhr in the 1950s, became an influential inquiry into the
nature of the church and its ministry, so the Danforth
study, ostensibly of campus ministries, became an important resource for exploring the necessary relation of religious faith, social ethics and public - policy formula
study, ostensibly of campus ministries, became an important resource for exploring the necessary relation of religious faith, social ethics and public - policy formulation.
As Kenneth Cragg, an Anglican scholar who has spent a lifetime in the study of Islam, says, «The heart of the Christian revelation is the «event» of Jesus as the Christ, acknowledged as the disclosure in human form of the very nature of Go
As Kenneth Cragg, an Anglican scholar who has spent a lifetime in the
study of Islam, says, «The heart of the Christian revelation is the «event» of Jesus
as the Christ, acknowledged as the disclosure in human form of the very nature of Go
as the Christ, acknowledged
as the disclosure in human form of the very nature of Go
as the disclosure in human form of the very
nature of God.
The philosophy of
nature of Aristotle
studies material beings, i.e. bodies,
as capable of motion and change.
The universe,
as scientific
study has disclosed it to us, is open to this kind of subtle and vigorous movement of spiritual power working in and through human
nature.
Also see Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of
Nature; two recent
studies by Kenneth Boulding entitled The World
As a Total System (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1985) and Ecodynamics (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1981); and two works by Fritjof Capra entitled The Tao of Physics (Boulder, CO: Shambala Publications, 1975) and The Turning Point (New York: Bantam Books.
My journey went via evangelical Christianity,
studying with Jehovah's Witnesses,
study of other mythologies,
studying some in the mystical traditions and
studying and communing
as best I could with
nature.
Here we have the blind spot of creationism, for if we define science
as the
study of
nature, then to offer an opinion concerning what lies outside of it is to step entirely outside of the scientific realm.
But for the sake both of truth and continued human progress, the integrity and independence of science ought to be preserved against those who would compel it to state,
as scientific fact, that something exists outside of its sole field of
study, which is
nature.
As Paul Davies points out, «in Renaissance Europe, the justification for what we today call the scientific approach to inquiry was the belief in a rational God whose created order could be discerned from a careful
study of
nature» (Paul Davies, The Mind of God).
«In
studying nature we have not to inquire how God the Creator may, as He freely wills, use His creatures to work miracles and thereby show forth His power; we have rather to inquire what Nature with its immanent causes can naturally bring to pass.&
nature we have not to inquire how God the Creator may,
as He freely wills, use His creatures to work miracles and thereby show forth His power; we have rather to inquire what
Nature with its immanent causes can naturally bring to pass.&
Nature with its immanent causes can naturally bring to pass.»
With the passage of time and more mature
study of the
nature of scripture,
as disclosed by the application of the modern historico - critical method of investigation, it is seen that the possible borrowing of Bible writers from another source in no way affected its intrinsic worth, or even the belief that these writers were inspired in their writing.
Nature is usually seen
as a system which can be
studied, understood and controlled, whereas creation can only be understood
as a gift from the outstretched hand of the Father of all, and
as a reality illuminated by the love which calls us together into universal communion.
The
study of
Nature, when religious feeling is away, leads the mind, rightly or wrongly, to acquiesce in the atheistic theory,
as the simplest and easiest.
As for the adults who came to us claiming to have discovered their «true» sexual identity and to have heard about sex - change operations, we psychiatrists have been distracted from
studying the causes and
natures of their mental misdirections by preparing them for surgery and for a life in the other sex.
Morgan had earlier complained (EEV) about Whitehead's treatment of mind in CN
as wholly distinct from
nature, and objected to Whitehead's earlier claim that the
study of their relations constitutes metaphysics rather than philosophy of science.
It is evident that Smith's theology is «natural theology», a knowledge of God arrived at by the
study of
nature alone, without any reliance on «revelation»
as recorded in sacred scripture.
And
as a result of this vestigial dualism,
nature, the world
studied by the sciences, is denuded of anything mental — and therefore of the possibility of sustaining any universal meaning.
Rollins argues that «while approaching things in the world
as objects to
study and understand is vital for the development of technology, our faith can not be treated
as a detached object without fundamentally misunderstanding the
nature of faith itself.
Biblical
studies oriented to theological questions about the
nature and criteria of adequacy of congregations» common life are central to
study of congregations
as characterized by distinctive social space.
An interesting
study of christological models has been written by John McIntyre.4 The «two -
natures model» (which he takes
as a single complex model involving both divine and human
natures) has dominated Christian thought, but it has a number of limitations; it is tied to the Aristotelian categories of substance and attribute, and it tends to view the incarnation
as the assumption of an abstract human
nature rather than the personal individuality of a particular man.