Sentences with phrase «beliefs about the nature»

We interviewed Scott Derrickson in our latest issue and the movie explores many of Derrickson's own beliefs about the nature of good and evil.

I know that wherever we are in our personal beliefs about the nature of Christ, he will draw all who praise him and accept his sacrifice into a perfect bond of union then everything will be clear (1 Corinthians 13:12)

The major reason for concern about Jesus» nature is his work, but beliefs about his nature affect the understanding of the work.

I will offer a somewhat systematic review of New Thought philosophy, considering textual sources and hermeneutics, beliefs about the nature of Divinity, humankind, christology, and universal creation, and how these beliefs inform the way New Thought addresses suffering.

This is true in two ways, (1) the self - definition and standard claims of science as a whole, and (2) the beliefs about nature that shape its inquiries.

They teach diverse beliefs about the nature of Jesus, God, the second coming, Heaven, Hell, the rapture, criteria for salvation, speaking in tongues, the atonement, what happens to persons after death, and dozens of other topics.

By speaking of «theory - laden» practices, Browning also calls attention to value orientations and beliefs about the nature of things that already reside in practice.

Beliefs about the nature of reality are presupposed in all the other varied uses of religious language.

They grow up with a belief about the nature of the embryo, so events in their lives lead them 10 believe that the embryo is a unique person, or a fetus; that people are intimately tied to their biological roles, or that these roles are but a minor part of life: that motherhood is the most important and satisfying role open to a woman, or that motherhood is only one of several roles, a burden when defined as the only role.

Their announcement in 1982 of the existence of a «ribozyme» — an RNA molecule capable of catalyzing chemical reactions — upset beliefs about the nature of enzymes, but soon other catalytic RNAs were discovered.

Among other anecdata, the director explains how working on location restricts the mobility of the camera, points out the film's trickiest special - effects work, and reveals his own personal beliefs about the nature of life after death.

The lesson includes an introduction to the idea the Trinity and how it links to Christian beliefs about the nature of God.

In this webinar, we will discuss: ● Current beliefs about the nature of reading comprehension ● The role of reading comprehension in the common core ● Classroom - ready teaching ideas to promote reading comprehension at deeper levels, with particular focus on the use of graphic organizers Join us for a discussion with renowned reading expert Maureen McLaughlin on how reading comprehension correlates with the common core and how we can teach students to comprehend to their greatest potential.

Sometimes these take the form of conscious beliefs about the nature of human beings.More often they are assumptions seldom articulated but ever present in her daily work.

Lisa, the Coordinator of the State Standards Project, indicated that she had some initial concern about Michelle's inquiry approach to the staff development; however, she eventually became enthusiastic about the results and adjusted some of her beliefs about the nature of teacher change.

The results suggested a connection between teachers» beliefs about the nature of learning and effective teaching practices to their technology implementation practices.

Individuals» epistemological understanding — that is, their beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing is thought to have important implications for critical thinking in both formal and informal learning contexts (CCSSO, 2010; NGSS Lead States, 2013; Kuhn, 1999; Burr & Hofer, 2002).

His intensely dogmatic climate writing and rage for justice stems in part from his religious beliefs about nature, and his personal conviction that American «hyper - individualism» and consumerism corrupt both the environment and humanity, exemplified by fossil fuels, industrial civilization and free market capitalism.

Chang and Davis (2009) further elaborate on this model by explaining how teachers» implicit theory of relationships (i.e., generalized beliefs about the nature of classroom relationships) are linked to habitual appraisals of problematic student behavior and, in turn, unproductive emotional labor, compassion fatigue, and burnout.

There were beliefs about nature... «Thunder is created because of the collision of clouds.»

Not exact matches

Over a recent breakfast, we talked about the infuriating and callous nature of this concept and our shared belief that it was actually counter-productive to the building of world - class businesses in our modern age of entrepreneurship.

to claim that is the essence of your belief (and it is a belief) about the nature of existence & live as though there is actually some subjective purpose... it's simply existential schizophrenia.

Why are there so many beliefs about god's nature, and why can't any believer prove his existence?

But such characterizations are misguided and one can not help assuming that it is, at least to a large extent, a consequence of mistaken assumptions about the nature of authentic religious belief.

But before expressing this belief, Fr Holloway makes a general remark about the nature of scientific knowledge which may serve as an introduction to Polanyi's refutation of Scientific Positivism and his proposal that science is Personal Knowledge: «It is most significant that here, as so very often in the discoveries of science, it was not the inductive data which was the real beginning of the breakthrough in knowledge, but a deductive vision glimpsed through scanty data which thrilled and excited the mind... from then on the hunt is up for the clues and the final proof.»

Bonhoeffer was adamant in his belief that it was impossible to know the objective truth about the real essence of Christ's being - nature (Christ the Center, pp. 30, 88, 100 - 101).

Whereas Orthodoxy made belief (doxa) its starting point, and Reform Judaism put ethical monotheism atop its theological pedestal, Conservative Judaism's worldview emanated from a specific assumption about the social nature of Judaism.

The danger of this position is that it leaves its adherents as a puzzle to themselves, because their beliefs about themselves will be at variance with their true nature.

Of course, for most people, before they can ever believe in Jesus for eternal life, they need to have other beliefs about themselves, the existence and nature of God, and some other biblical truths.

As a political principle, however, freedom to choose one's religion in this sense implies the freedom to choose one's explicit belief about reality and human purpose as such, even if that belief is merely philosophical or ideological in nature.

And, if we know anything about human nature, we know we have a desire for certainty, a fear of being wrong, a tendency to difine ourselves by our beliefs and to identify those like - minded, the «us» of the them / us divide.

I know it may be uncomfortable to think about ones beliefs and why we do the things we do but that is the nature of thinking for oneself.

Our faith generally also includes some assumptions (or «primary beliefs») about the metaphysical nature of the universe.

Collingwood's definition of the task of the metaphysician in The Elimination of Metaphysics must be understood against this background: «Metaphysics is primarily at any given time an attempt to discover what the people of that time believe about the world's general nature; such beliefs being the presuppositions of all their «physics,» that is, their inquiries into its detail.

People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste of time.

THIS, faithless, is the nature of so much belief: «The amazing thing about apocalyptic thought is that a specific prophecy can be disconfirmed, but the idea can never be discredited.

Furthermore, reflection about Jesus» message and life has led to still further reconsideration of the nature of God, to beliefs that were probably absent from Jesus» own consciousness.

In speaking about his views of eternity on Wednesday, answering a question from a caller based in Atlanta, Romney was echoing Mormon beliefs about the eternal nature of human existence.

If our most basic beliefs about the stuff of which nature is made preclude the existence of some other, radically different metaphysical stuff from which a transcendent deity might be made, then we must admit, as an inescapable consequence, that no such transcendent being exists.

These can be as simple as the Scandinavian belief in vaettir (nature spirits) or as complex as the poems and songs about the Aesi that were written and are still sung and performed in Iceland.

Before the developments at Nicaea and Chalcedon regarding he proper beliefs about the Trinity and the dual natures of Christ, the early church possessed what is known as the «rule of faith.»

Pastor Albert Mohler, a Southern Baptist, has commented that he respects the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's document Subsistitbecause it is consistent with previous Catholic teaching (with which he strongly disagrees), is honest about its inherent belief that the Papacy is integral to the nature of the Church, and that it shows a very sensible concern for the danger souls can put themselves in by being in serious error (as he believes Catholics are).

In the U.S., what I care about is when they want to crap all over different people in differing ways because they differ and don't agree with one another; and because this conflicted nature of the Christian belief system is thus often used as a weapon of bigotry.

The results are clear statements about the nature of belief, the God of Jesus, the Christian God, and the nature of prayer.

When this belief was coupled with the notion of a last judgement which would not occur until God «had accomplished the number of his elect», in words from still another prayer, it said something about the corporate nature of human life, the equally corporate nature of whatever destiny men have, and the need for patient waiting until our fellowmen have found their capacity for fulfillment along with us.

What is important, according to this line of thinking, is to let the adherents of each religion speak for themselves about the nature of their own religious experiences, their views of the world and of life, and their own forms of beliefs and worship.

Despite the many books that continue to be published on the topic, «New Testament ethics» is a misleading category, confusing historical constructions with normative judgments, eliding difficult questions about the nature of a scriptural canon, and above all failing to take with sufficient seriousness the dialectic between the formation of a community and the development of the community's norms of belief and behavior.»

In Japan I had Soka Gakkai Buddhists tell me the same about having faith in my inner Buddha nature and chanting with belief.

You HAVE to realize that your beliefs are based on dubious psychological assumptions about the nature of a child's psyche, and on top of that, they contradict themselves often.

Because decades of research show that our beliefs — about the nature of children and about how children best grow and develop — inform our daily practices.