Sentences with phrase «be useful to someone»

Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining: it will be useful to have that bus pass and 10 % off everything at BQ on Wednesdays.

At the moment it will be useful to speak of the presuppositions with which that faith starts in giving its account of men in such a situation.

This is new territory for me, doing a book - length study of Jesus and the origins of Christianity, but I have read everything I could get my hands on, weighed all the scholarly debates, and hope my book will be useful to the book - reading public in explaining what we can really know, historically, about Jesus.

He was at the conference to talk to us about chaos theory, and in particular about how the science of complexity might be useful to us as parish leaders.

Given the high level of anxiety in the industry, it may be that the awards process will continue to be useful both to the film - maker and to the church.

I didn't find clear statistics for drug use which would be useful to substantiate these claims.

would be useful to people who read these posts.

It might be useful to distinguish between responses for humanitarian reasons and those for political reasons — a distinction Rieff himself has made.

Although he is fully aware that the thesis of his book is at odds with the self - interpretation gays and lesbians generally present, he believes his alternative portrait will in the long run be useful to the homosexual movement.

Niebuhr's categories have been subjected to numerous critiques and present a number of problems if we are to continue to use them, Without attempting to be exhaustive, let me summarize what I see as the major criticisms that bear on our purpose, which is to see if we can refine and clarify his categories so that they may» be useful to future generations.

If you agree that environmental deterioration is important, that net international capital is a significant consideration, and that a nation is better off economically when the gap between the rich and the poor is narrowed, then our figures will be useful to you in evaluating how much correlation there is between changes in per capita GNP and economic welfare.

It will be useful to examine his criticisms, and to reexamine Whitehead in their light before presenting Hartshorne's contribution to these central issues.

It can be useful to clarify times of being particularly aware of his presence.

To better appreciate the nature of the enterprise that Kurzweil and Leibowitz engage in as Orthodox intellectual cranks it would be useful to consider the categories employed by sociologist Peter Berger, the leading academic analyst of the modernization process.

The child's key growth task during this stage is to achieve a sense of «industry» — derived from beginning to acquire the skills which will be useful to him as a man or woman.

These and other findings of Trice's research can be useful to the counselor in his efforts to reduce the resistance of an alcoholic to affiliation with AA.

To understand the continuity that underlies the many discontinuities among creatures, it will be useful to attend to what goes on in human decision.

He was convinced that people with a scientific background would be useful to the Church and this was something no one had ever said to me before.

A third way in which the minister's counseling skills can be useful to the recovering alcoholic's re-synthesis of his life is in helping to further his spiritual growth.

As this debate proceeds, some specialists in human rights law have suggested that it might be useful to rethink the whole process of innovation that the United Nations system constantly presents to us.

Whereas both types of analysis apply to existential, rather than to merely logical claims, it will be useful to take the former to apply within either the noetic or ontic poles of theological and philosophical discussion, the latter to the relation between them.

It will be useful to draw them out here before using the two types to analyze current proposals about theological education.

Yet it may be useful to show how and why I have now come full circle to a fundamentally revised set of questions and how they mesh with the present dilemmas of pastoral care.

It will be useful to begin this chapter by giving due consideration to this broad fact about us and to see our human sexuality, in its deepest sense, as having much to do with how we respond.

It may be useful to conclude, then, by suggesting some guidelines for theology as we move toward the next, inevitably global, century.

Perhaps it would be useful to consider next what ballerinas are for.

Following Hume, it might be useful to ask, «What are the spiritual effects of believing that psychological problems are fundamentally biochemical in nature?»

The habit of assumptional analysis would be useful to them whatever their professional goals.

Although this is not the place to do the history in great detail — others have done it, and excellently — it will be useful to hit the high points.

It can perhaps be useful to say something about the kind of language employed in this document and, indeed, in all the documents of the Council.

It's a book that would be useful to share and discuss in a Catholic young mums group, especially for those who need a good general introduction to the idea of daily prayer and friendship with Christ.

Hence Keck's baleful assessment of contemporary Christianity: «The opening line of the Westminster Confession is now reversed, for now the chief end of God is to glorify us and to be useful to us indefinitely.»

Despite the peculiarities of modern American Christian fundamentalism, there are surely movements among the world's other religions that have roughly comparable contours, and it may be useful to reflect briefly on these similarities and contrasts in a broad and hypothetical way.

For evidence, it will be useful to look at the other passage on which McHenry draws:

It will therefore be useful to review briefly some main findings of this fascinating science.

So I'm trying to provide a hermeneutic that could be useful to all.

These are distinct dimensions, and it may be useful to draw a sharp contrast between the two.

Despite my firm belief in the principle that one should trust the tale, not the teller, I must conclude that they will be useful to the literary critic and the scholar.

It may be useful to cite two exemplary witnesses to the continuing importance of a critically appreciative approach to the work of Thomas Aquinas.

Finally, it may be useful to ponder whether thinking about death from the perspective of our nature as finite and free can give us guidance about how we ought to live as we grow older.

Imagination and fantasy * can * even be useful to the rest of us, even scientists, when brainstorming for solutions; but those solutions must be verified in reality to be truly useful.

There is a limit to how far it will be useful to pursue the niceties of «structured» versus «corpuscular» versus «personal societies,» but it will help to recall the context in which Whitehead observes (not unlike Earley) that there can be many ways in which Nature coordinates these societies such that they can persist over time.

Yet in the brief span before now and the day itself, it might be useful to examine what an exceptional thing our faith is.

Therefore I think it might be useful to distinguish between two different types of civil religion, both operative in America and distinguishable perhaps more in the minds of the analyst than in the consciousness of the people.

How can my life be useful to anyone now?»

The imagery of mechanism proved to be useful to sciences, such as biology in the late nineteenth century, which were only beginning to achieve measurability and predictability.

I want to be useful to people who need or want help on their personal spiritual journeys.

It is very accessible and would be useful to anyone exploring Newman and his writings as a beginner.

Love evidently is not just a feeling but is indistinguishable from the willingness to help, to be useful to one another.

In addition, it may be useful to point out that in his valuable book Understanding Whitehead, Victor Lowe states (UW50) that Whitehead's «conception of growth has points of similarity with Hegel's, but differs in having no use for «contradiction,» and in presenting a hierarchy of categories of feeling rather than a hierarchy of categories of thought.»