Sentences with phrase «assumptions of»

Population planning for «development,» it seems, is easiest to envision under the assumptions of total technological stasis, absence of social change, and rigid restriction of social choices and alternatives.

There will usually be enough overlap between the assumptions of the two parties that a common core of observations - statements can be accepted by both — even, I would argue, in a change as far - reaching as that from classical physics to relativity.

He entered his parish with the moralistic assumptions of optimistic liberalism, the goodness of man and the inevitability of human progress, but he soon saw that corrupting self - interest is inextricably involved in the human situation.

Feminist theology has for 30 years been concerned with overturning the misogynist assumptions of the Bible and the Christian tradition, from Paul to Augustine to the present.

Thus the Inconsistency between Bohr's quantum theory and the assumptions of classical physics worried some physicists very much when it was first proposed, whereas others thought this inconsistency of little importance compared to the accuracy of the predictions which it yielded.

The assumptions of secularism are not a reliable guide to the way the world works.»

The underlying assumptions of consumerism have significant religious overtones: that satisfying one's needs and wants is the desired goal of life; that each individual has a right to have their needs met regardless of the cost to others; and that most needs can be met by acquiring a product or service.

Now these theories are interesting, although as theories they are indemonstrable and can only be accepted on the basis of a particular way of reading the New Testament material, differing according to the assumptions of those who study this material.

However, in recent decades a new generation of evangelically minded scholars has been overhauling the assumptions of Higher Criticism, showing that the Gospels have a lot more going for them than Bultmann and his movement were willing to give credit for.

But starting with Peirce and Frege in the nineteenth century and continuing with Wittgenstein, Ryle, Austin, and a host of others in the twentieth, the fundamental assumptions of this framework came under consistent and, I think, effective attack.

In the first place, it helps to underscore the ludicrous assumptions of hetero - reality.

Though many quarters within the churches are only beginning to catch on, the structures, assumptions of patriarchy and rote responses have long ago fallen away - of necessity - in secular life, and I write this as a post-Christian-christian, a post-Anglican-anglican, which can be a pretty raw and challenging if interesting place to be at times.

The bible is fake and is man - made by just regular men like me and you 2000 years ago (not god) thus any and all assumptions of god written within scriptures are not real but merely just ideas and imaginations of what man thought god may be like.

The principal advantage of accepting initially the assumptions of the historical consciousness in religious or theological discourse is that one is not committed from the outset to possibly meaningless language regarding some realm of the supernatural.

That one word speaks volumes about the assumptions of the Clinton campaign and many of its supporters.

Despite the assumptions of our individualistic age, no new relationship can be without consequences for the broader community — just as no new baby could be.

Preaching became associated with the context of worship; so that it takes a strong reminder that preaching may also be evangelistic, i.e., the message addressed to those who do not share the assumptions of the preacher.

As it happened, the texts reflect a relatively brief period of the dominance of a variation of Enlightenment thought — although, to be sure, those texts must be understood, as the framers certainly did understand them, against the background assumptions of what in fact was a Christian society and culture.

You are just basing your assumptions of your biases.

This movement, associated with the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, is above all a critique of the metaphysical assumptions of Western philosophy, and only secondarily an analysis of the nature of texts and tile interpretive process.

The point is that if spirit - filled Christians want to communicate effectively with those who do not share such experiences, then they should heed the assumptions of the secularists, for it is a safe bet that if another person's deepest presuppositions are ignored, the possibility for meaningful dialogue diminishes rapidly.

It should be apparent without any lengthy argument that race discrimination, any assumptions of class superiority, or cleavages based on a self - righteous pride of national origin must be utterly abhorrent to God.

But Yglesias actually shares many of the assumptions of the supporters of Bernie Sanders.

The dark side is only the madness of the imaginations, misgivings, and assumptions of humans, fueled by the deceiving lies of the demonic adversary.

Because the same media managers were at war with the fundamentalism of the religious right in this country, the reporting and commentary tended to become a running polemic against undifferentiated «religious fanaticism» that threatened the secular assumptions of Western elites who had been miseducated to believe that religion is a vestigial phenomenon from the unenlightened past.

This fact significantly changes some of the assumptions of many Christians about the viability of promoting contraception as a part of the pro-life fight for life.

It is better to ask for clarification than to fill in the blanks with assumptions of one's own.

Kant was responding to the earlier challenge of David Hume, who showed that the underlying assumptions of both science and theology were not supportable empirically.

What Kate Kelly and Meriam Ibrahim have done is what all religious people must do: challenge the patriarchal assumptions of institutional religion and governments alike.

Nevertheless, Whitehead's philosophy provides the most systematic and explicit account of the basic assumptions of constructive post-modernism.

The assumptions of this approach are that problems between people always reflect problems within them (which is true) and that the problems within must be dealt with to improve their relationship (which is not always the case).

It is somewhat — to use another imperfect analogy — like the discovery in geometry of the independence of the parallel postulate from the other assumptions of Euclid; though in the theological case it is not really independence but inconsistency which is involved.

[The] social structures and attitudes in our society draw legitimacy from the central assumptions of Western religion and philosophy.

Not psychology, but the materialistic assumptions of some psychologists, have tended in this direction.

The illusion that Christian institutions can survive based on unspoken assumptions of shared beliefs has been shattered by cultural revolution and legal transformation.

In the parentheses following each of these assumptions, I will contrast them with the assumptions of traditional, psychoanalytically oriented therapies:

Too frequently the attempt is made to teach Christian morality without foundations other than the ordinary assumptions of our culture.

Some theists have accepted this challenge, arguing that it is the mechanistic assumptions of modern science rather than any empirical data that lead to this conclusion.

Some of these groups conform to the assumptions of my graduate school days.

It challenges some of the comfortable assumptions of evangelicalism and Protestantism.

The assumptions of these people, -LRB-(who say «life begins at conception», (when they actually mean, «life begins at fertilization»),....

As Bernstein discusses, the dominant intent of Easton and others has been to develop a study of politics «modeled after the methodological assumptions of the natural sciences» (EPA 8; see RSPT, part I).

Thatcher has constructed a systematic Christian vision of marriage that is substantive, provocative and eminently clear - sighted — a vision that prods us to reexamine the entrenched assumptions of modernity that have led to the current crisis of marriage.

Whitehead's metaphysical system offers a political vision beyond liberalism and its assumptions of economic success.

One of the most insulting assumptions of many religious persons is that agnostics / atheists are incapable of having morals.

Though rejecting some of the fundamental assumptions of the new feminist religions, the reformist Christian takes these religions seriously.

I am amazed by all the assumptions of those who comment about Kerry's wonderful learning experience.

On the street it is acknowledged that we are equals but, once back in the surgery - in that uncomfortable position of service provider and client - the receptionists become wary of a potential shift of power and are quick to squash any assumptions of superiority.

In this context of aughties - unease, older conservative assumptions of a natural alliance between more libertarian Americans and more socially conservative ones, around the supposedly shared attributes of religious Liberty, economic Liberty, and political Liberty, with the threat of Islamist terror cast as the substitute for that of Communist domination, fell flat.

Unquestionably, this is a serious and important debate — one that calls the ultimate assumptions of the American regime into question.