Sentences with phrase «between modern living»

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The report said these Chinese women are pulled between two worlds: their traditional Chinese families (which remain important) and the modern life of independence and self - reward.

The modern intellect sees through Augustine's «accident» in the same way it scans Frankl's bit of rubble and has a ready explanation for the link «discovered» between the Hebrew, the Decalogue, and the crisis in a random life.

«Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages — the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity — are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.»

Above all, the council addressed the gaps in life and thought that had developed between a largely medieval, defensive Catholicism and the modern world.

Much of the discussion of the first directive has concentrated on the issue of non-violence, but it also says that «the lives of animals and plants... deserve protection, preservation and care».18 The church's record on this issue has been subject to criticism, and certainly modern European society has tended to exploit the natural world and to emphasize the gap between human and other forms of life.

Now, at the end of the modern age, the success of that missionary project (and especially of the apprehension of the gospel along the indigenous side of the line between missionary and convert) emerges as perhaps the most important factor in world Christian life today.

Also in the face of the ecological disaster created by the modern ideas of total separation of humans from nature and of the unlimited technological exploitation of nature, it is proper for primal vision to demand, not an undifferentiated unity of God, humanity and nature or to go back to the traditional worship of nature - spirits, but to seek a spiritual framework of unity in which differentiation may go along with a relation of responsible participatory interaction between them, enabling the development of human community in accordance with the Divine purpose and with reverence for the community of life on earth and in harmony with nature's cycles to sustain and renew all life continuously.

In his book The Secular City, theologian Harvey Cox in 1965 presented a significant challenge to Western theological thought by highlighting the difference which existed between the natural agricultural environment in which biblical thought had developed and the urban social environment of modern life.

It is thus very plausible to say that there is a living, organic continuity between Christian revelation and modern science.

Paul clearly states that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities in high places; He is suppose to be setting a principal and he is in fact destroying the thing that God stand for, serving the flesh and the creation more than the creator who is blessed forever; Man will always have a battle between flesh and spirit; he is more flesh than spirit ever in his dress muscles and tight shirts; which has no place in the spirit;» dealing with matters of the holy ghost «he can speck it but he can «t live it; which is the trouble with a lot of modern day Christians; do as i say not as i do... old fashion parents had the same concept, its not just Eddie he got caught, he was just falling weak to the flesh and his own desires; only thing is, he is responsible for the souls of those under his leadership; He must answer and atone to God for those actions, you think for a moment we are being hard on him; God has a way of letting us know when we are wrong that lets us know we need to change.

If they are from a biblically conservative tradition they are likely to use selected references to sexuality, marriage, and family to communicate the ideals of God in a way that will encourage and motivate people to strive for the ideal.6 This didactic use of the Bible fails to distinguish the radical difference between family life and the religious practices of ancient and modern cultures.

If they were asked they would probably admit that there was a special affinity between the classical world view and Greek religion or the tragic view of life, whereas the modern world view - is so contaminated and corrupted by idolatry that it can not provide a basis for the Greek view of life.

To confess our sin, after all, is a theological and moral accomplishment., Perhaps nowhere is the contrast between the account of the Christian life I am trying to develop and most modern theology clearer than on this issue.

Since every culture is a living, changing entity, we may use an analogy from biology to help explain the relationship between the modern secular world and its Christian past.

within virtually all modern nations - between people who are prepared to live with others who are different, on terms of equal respect, and those who seek the... domination of a single religious and ethnic tradition.

Modern mathematicians like Sir James Jeans can find in God, the Thinker, the final explanation of the starry heavens and of man's life; and a modern philosopher like Alfred North Whitehead can find God to be the vision of the whole and of what can be, and the mediating thought between them, as he contemplates or «envisages» the possible beauty of the harmonies among the worlds ofModern mathematicians like Sir James Jeans can find in God, the Thinker, the final explanation of the starry heavens and of man's life; and a modern philosopher like Alfred North Whitehead can find God to be the vision of the whole and of what can be, and the mediating thought between them, as he contemplates or «envisages» the possible beauty of the harmonies among the worlds ofmodern philosopher like Alfred North Whitehead can find God to be the vision of the whole and of what can be, and the mediating thought between them, as he contemplates or «envisages» the possible beauty of the harmonies among the worlds of flux.

The beginning of the movie illustrates a sharp contrast between the bustling modern city and the simpler village life of an African bush tribe.

Your prayers are simply wishes, hopes, dreams, and while it is important to have an active fantasy life, being unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy is an essential part of modern society (and being an adult).

Under the influence of theories of progress or decline or development in history such study has frequently been carried on for the purpose of explaining the differences between Biblical and modern life before God.

Uncompromising support of a sensible alliance between traditional approaches to vineyard management and a modern understanding of the life cycle of the vine.

... Road cycling began life in the Olympic Programme at the birth of the modern Olympic Movement in 1896 before a brief break between...

Road cycling began life in the Olympic Programme at the birth of the modern Olympic Movement in 1896 before a brief break between 1900 and 1908.

She found that the natural age for modern humans based on our size, development, and life span is between 2.5 years and 7 years.

Between her kids (who are nine years apart) she's been working in the natural health industry, which has opened her eyes to the down side of many aspects of modern life.

A clash between the modern human's perceived right to do whatever she wants with her life and the hard work of constant diapering, feeding and soothing of a new baby.

Modern living often means you'd like to be able to switch between the breast and the bottle with minimum of fuss with as little disturbance to your baby's feeding routine.

The Fitted diaper category lives in the space between Prefolds (flat, square, cotton / bamboo diapers that require folding and pining to fasten onto baby and need a cover to be waterproof) and the more modern Pocket Diaper or All In One (waterproof, has either snaps or hook / loop features so that it can fasten onto baby.)

The religious marriage would be for the reactionaries and the dinosaurs who want to live in the past, while a civil marriage, whether it is between a man and a woman, a man and a man, or a woman and a woman, would be modern, secular and progressive.

@Chad except that a major difference between modern China and the USSR is that migrants living without registration illegally was not common in the USSR (except unregistered couples of lovers, usually from the same city).

Dick Wettenhall, current director of the institute, and others wanted to establish a unique multidisciplinary center that would expand opportunities in the modern life sciences and provide a link between academia and industry.

It is interesting that the most similar skulls in our sample come from recent Africans on the one hand, and on the other hand from those modern humans that lived in Europe between 20 - 30,000 years ago as, for instance,... [in one location] in the Czech Republic.»

One of the earliest birds, Archaeopteryx lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period, spanning the evolutionary gap between modern birds and feathered dinosaurs.

Researchers sequencing Neandertal DNA have concluded that between 1 and 4 percent of the DNA of people today who live outside Africa came from Neandertals, the result of interbreeding between Neandertals and early modern humans.

His own studies of the DNA of people living today have uncovered, for example, a stretch of DNA that seems to have come from encounters between moderns and H. erectus.

Based on the mutation rate and assuming an average of 7 years between each generation, Wallner estimates the most recent common ancestor to 18 of the 21 modern breeds lived about 700 years ago.

The researchers used high - resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT) at the Museum's Microscopy and Imaging Facility, the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and the Biomaterials Science Center of the University of Basel in Switzerland to scan the skulls of 21 felid specimens, including seven modern cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) from distinct populations, a closely related extinct cheetah (Acinonyx pardinensis) that lived in the Pleistocene between about 2.6 million and 126,000 years ago, and more than a dozen other living felid species.

There's no telling what kinds of fishermen's tales they told, but the early modern humans who lived on tiny Okinawa Island between mainland Japan and Taiwan nearly 30,000 years ago are the world's oldest known anglers.

Denisovans, Neanderthals and modern humans descend from the same population of ancestors, who most likely lived in Africa between 550,000 and 765,000 years ago.

The hypothesis on dietary differences between modern humans and Neandertals is based on the study of animal bones found in caves occupied by these two types of hominids, which can provide clues about their diet, but it is always difficult to exclude large predators living at the same time as being responsible for at least part of this accumulation.

Dr Nick Lane (UCL Biosciences) who led the study said, «I find this work just beautiful — it constrains a sequence of steps going from the strange cell that seems to have been the ancestor of all life today, right through to the deep division between modern cells.

Unearthed between 1949 and 1963, the controversial artifacts were made during a transitional time, when modern humans were sweeping across Europe and the Neandertals who had lived there for hundreds of thousands of years were dying out.

Over decades, the researchers have documented correlations between the ability to delay gratification and life outcomes as diverse as SAT scores, body - mass index, the frequency of drug abuse, and measurable differences in brain functioning, which are visible thanks to modern functional MRI techniques.

The results suggest that all modern humans can trace their origin to a population that lived near the border between South Africa and Namibia — although Tishkoff stresses that these people may have moved into the area from elsewhere.

Evidence suggests that the interface between humans and technology will only become more central to modern life.

But genetic studies of modern animals had suggested that all of these creatures evolved from a single - celled ancestor that lived at least 100 million years before that, leaving a huge gap between the estimated origin of animals and the appearance of the earliest known animal fossils.

To him they resemble spore sacs formed by modern single - celled organisms called mesomycetozoeans, which sit between animals and fungi on the tree of life.

When the team scanned hand bones from four members of A. africanus that lived in South Africa between 2 million and 3 million years ago, they found that the pattern of the trabecular bone was asymmetrical, as in modern humans and Neandertals that use tools frequently (as they also show in their study).

Now, at an open - air archaeological site called El Salt in Alicante, Spain, researchers have gathered fossilized feces in the sediment where Neandertals lived at different times between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago, before modern humans arrived in the region.

I had been working with Archean astrobiologists since 2014, exploring the link between early life habitats on Earth and the hot springs that I study (Jurassic - modern) in different parts of the world, including New Zealand.

Genetic analysis of the mandible of an anatomically modern Homo sapiens who lived in what is now Romania between 42,000 and 37,000 years ago reveals that...