Sentences with phrase «as single»

Each conscious occasion prehends the 100 immediately preceding generations of neural occasions as a single nexus.

I guess that earth time still remaines as a single day and it takes God 1000 years to equal 1 day earth time?

The new situation, which arose for the church as a result of the emergence of totalitarian doctrines in Europe, reinforced the conviction that the challenge must be answered by a total response of the whole church and that the ecumenical task must be conceived as a single whole.

This unwillingness is based primarily upon what he considers to be an undeniable and irreducible fact of human self - intuition: when one is directly aware of himself in a specific moment, he is aware of «himself» as a single unit of action and not of any system of cells.

So true is this that the whole spiritual movement of Hebrew - Jewish - Christian culture might in a certain perspective be thought of as a single event and might appropriately be called by his name.

Likewise the resurrection and the coming of the Spirit and perhaps also the creation of the community might be conceived of as a single element.

I really think that looking at the entire Bible as a single Cohesive story and coming at it from the idea of seeing how God is revealing a little more of His plan over time is much more appropriate than most traditional views.

However, modern science has shown us that the table is not finally understood as a single entity but rather as a society of entities exceedingly different in character from the smooth, hard, passive, still, impenetrable surface we seem to experience.

Become as single - minded in your devotion to God, as willing a vessel, as a sacred snuffer, spoon, or silver bowl.

But if I lived like that I would rapidly cease to regard myself as a single person - Iwould be constantly becoming someone else.

Members of the church do sometimes show a lack of concern and fail to understand our problems — for instance living life, for most of us, as a single person.

One big question I've been mulling over for the past five years or so is this «Is there such a thing as a SINGLE biblical world view, and even if so, is it a worldview that everyone should adopt?

It is an amazing process of refinement by which the exceedingly human activity that goes on in the laboratory — broken test tubes, bright ideas, discussions with colleagues — ends up as a single sentence in a journal: «The reaction was found to be aided by the addition of 3 % NaOH.»

«I had known how to live simply as a single woman in my 20s.

And then we'll spend eternity with God as single persons once again.

(With «earth» again understood as comprehensive of nature and society together as a single, complex community that is full of life but «under house arrest,» to recall the graphic description of Boutros Boutros - Ghali at the Earth Summit of 1992).

Sita thereupon says, «As truly as I have never, even with so much as a single thought, thought of another than Rama — may Goddess Earth open her arms to me!

A friend once told me, «If you're not happy as a single person, you won't be happy as a married person.»

Second, looking simply at style and phrasing, «Conceptions of natural law» (D. IV) has as its single subhead (in the published version), «uniformity, causation, necessity and contingency.»

Murray Straus's studies suggest that marital violence occurs in one out of four marriages, not as a single event but as a pattern (Richard J. Gelles and Claire Pedrick Cornell, Intimate Violence in Families [Sage Publications, 1985], p. 69) The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence estimates that one girl out of three and one boy out of seven are sexually abused by age 18, and that in half the cases their abusers are family members; that 1 million children are physically abused by parents or caretakers every year; and that 1 million elderly people are abused every year by their adult children.

As a single woman, my income could suddenly stop — depending on the ruling religion.

[1] He acknowledges that a truly historical approach is necessary, but while it only deals with the isolated past as past it «does not exhaust the interpretive task for someone who sees the biblical writings as a single corpus of Holy Scripture inspired by God».

I know that it's hard to understand and as a single mom on a very limited budget I know that when I am faithful to God, He is faithful and provides for me.

Further, it is not entirely clear in Whitehead's writings whether God is to be conceived as a single, eternal actual entity, or whether, after the manner of other personal beings, he is to be regarded as a personally ordered, temporal series of actual entities.

If they are promiscuous, they suffer the same limitations as single heterosexuals who are promiscuous in addition to the huge social risks that are unique to them.

I'm sure we've all heard this sentiment, but as a single person, this truth is something that I've had to hang on for dear life at times.

It should not be surprising then that Whitehead thought of God as a single actual entity immune to the possibility of loss.59 At least William Christian sees this as the proper Whiteheadian view.60 Nevertheless, Christian's position is challenged by Ivor Leclerc, who argues, in agreement with Hartshorne, that Christian's conclusion is incompatible with the categoreal scheme elaborated in chapter two of Process and Reality.61 Here, according to Leclerc, Whitehead «makes clear» that the category of «subjective perishing» is «necessarily applicable to every actual entity whatever, including God.»

We have learned, then, to think of death as a single phenomenon whose presence is indicated either by irreversible loss of heart and lung function (the traditional criterion) or by irreversible loss of all brain function.

He, too, defines metaphor as a single word, as does Quintilian in book VIII of his Institutiones oratoriae.

The two held together as a single action were to be the main Sunday service of worship for every Christian.

Tracy (played by Evan Rachel Wood) is angry at her well - meaning mother, Mel (played by Holly Hunter), whose harried life as a single parent makes her resort too often to responses like,...

Modern scholarship lays stress on parables as metaphors.104 The root of the study of metaphor is traced to the Greek classics, where it was understood as a single word.

In somewhat similar vein Leon Lederman, director of the Fermi Laboratory near Chicago, proclaimed that the objective of physics was to find «a unified theory of everything» so simple it could be written as a single formula that you can wear on your T - shirt (Davies 1989, p. 13).

It is the vision of a new heaven and a new earth, the eschatological projection of perfect order where all people live as a single family.

As a single Christian woman approaching her 30s, my «one thing» sometimes falls in the dating / relationship category.

Standing out as the single most important instruction Jesus left his closest followers in the Great Commission, it is arguable that today's Church has only a vague notion of how it should be done and a disjointed strategy in place to achieve that goal.

The educator, in contrast, recognizes each of his pupils as a single, unique person, the bearer of a special task of being which can be fulfilled through him and through him alone.

«What gives Buber his imperishable greatness and makes his life into symbolic existence,» writes Trüb, «is that he steps forth as this single man and talks directly to men.»

It must be admitted that Whitehead's view of God as a single infinite actual entity is incompatible with his principle that there is no prehension of contemporaries.

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Nevertheless, Buchanan is right in citing the globalization of the economy as the single most important factor in the destruction of the laboring middle class.

He sees pilgrimage not as a single practice but as a collection of practices: community, hospitality, communion, friendship, worship, prayer and encountering strangers.

A few critics feel that the American experiment has been so badly botched that it is even questionable that we can survive as a single society.

Home conditions become difficult: many mothers have to bring up children, as single parents due to divorce, labour migration and deaths in civil conflict.

Theology is thus the discipline that allows the secular sciences to be grasped as a single whole.

Further, in the consumerist market, while the bodies of the women are converted as commodities, they are also co-opted into the mechanism as the single largest consumers in commodity mass production.

Thus the variations in the grades of ideas is endless and it is not to be understood as a single line of increasing generality.

We experience time just as you say... as a single point of zero dimension.

Instead of having to learn to live as a single Orthodox Christian family with all the messiness — and possibility for growth — that that entails, we can just retreat into our respective comfort zones.

Because of the cultural changes of modernity, however, the just war tradition has been carried, developed, and applied not as a single cultural consensus but as distinct streams in Catholic canon law and theology, Protestant religious thought, secular philosophy, international law, military theory and practice, and the experience of statecraft.