Sentences with phrase «book about the perspective»

At the AAR meeting, theologian Delores Williams noted that this book is not a book about theology but rather a book about perspective.

A quiet, graceful book about the perspective - changing wonder of humble, everyday pleasures.

Not exact matches

I related to the book in ways that I was not expecting and it did what only truly great books do — it made me think about things that I wouldn't have otherwise, and it made me see the world from a slightly different perspective.

Robert Kiyosaki (www.richdad.com), author of the Rich Dad series of books, is an investor, entrepreneur and educator whose perspectives have changed the way people think about money and investing.

So again, the book struck me as being fairly vague about the very concept of «inequality» because it does not provide a very insightful perspective into the meaning of «wealth» and how it really relates to our living standards.

What I particularly love about this book is that it contains a wide range of perspectives — anthropologists, marketers, designers, psychologist, CEOs of large companies, and more.

If everyone is talking about a book, it's unlikely to provide you with a fresh perspective or completely contrarian viewpoint, after all.

You had talked about the increase on delinquencies on the student loan book being a function of seasoning, and it's a little bit out of whack with what you would expect from a seasonality perspective.

But when I took the opportunity to re-read these books in the light of my later findings about the depth of financial difficulty out there, it was obvious that — whilst from my own perspective those statements were true — for possibly the majority of ordinary individuals, my efforts to open up and explain the mysterious world of personal finance had failed.

The Book of Hosea in the OT reveals this same Divine perspective that Jesus» testimony about his Father reveals, a God of Unconditional Love & Mercy who always keeps his covenant with us even when we fail fulfill our obligations to God.

I admit I am usually skeptical about books that claim to offer a «Christian perspective» on popular culture.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

For more on Diana's perspective, check out this recent interview from Jonathan Wilson - Hatrgrove, or this article on the Huffington Post about the future of faith, or one of her excellent, informative books, particularly Christianity After Religion or The Practicing Congregation.

From a Christian perspective, one of the striking things about the film and the book series is the absence of explicit religion or references to God.

Great stuff Jeremy - your book «Skeleton Church» changed my perspective on a lot of things about the church - I am an aspiring author hoping to be published someday

The book also approaches the life of Jesus from a perspective that is not found in most other books about Jesus.

I work with people from many different religions, and have read books about all of these religions from the Christian perspective.

I have also read books about Christianity from the perspective of these other religions.

My usual impression of these books — whether written by Christians about another religion, or written about Christians from the perspective of another religions — is that they are harsh, overly critical, and tend to unfairly treat and quote the religion that is being critiqued.

Even when Dianna and I don't agree 100 %, Dianna always engages with kindness, intelligence, and respect, which is why I continue to read her blog religiously and why I'm especially excited about the February 10 release of her first book, Damaged Goods: New Perspectives on Christian Purity....

But if you can get past that, the book will encourage you to ask questions about church that you may have never asked, and to see certain church practices from new perspectives.

Publishers have responded to the demand with an array of books aimed at nonspecialists who want to know more about Islam in historical and contemporary perspective.

He recognizes that he is addressing mainly the Catholic situation in the United States, and even that from his Irish - American perspective, but he believes that his core argument about the Catholic imagination and its cultural potency has wider application, and I expect he is right about that, although in this book it is asserted rather than demonstrated.

However, with one exception (the feminist Mud Flower Collective's God's Fierce Whimsy, discussed in Chapter 4), book - length essays about the nature and purpose of theological education written from any of their perspectives have not yet been published.

If you want to learn more about prayer, or want to get another perspective on prayer, this book is a good place to start.

This is a useful book which gives practical advice and does so from the perspective of one who really loves the Church and is active in spreading the Good News about Christ and about why we are all here.

We recently spoke with McManus about the book and how every Christian can benefit from shifting their perspective on life.

But a body of newer work on the apostle — including, perhaps, as Hurtado notes, Wright's own new books (which I haven't had the chance to finish reading yet)-- reveals that Paul may, after all, look less like a liberal Westerner than the New Perspective has taught us to think and more like a Christ - haunted figure whose radical social practices arose directly from his pioneering, innovative thinking about the identity and achievement of Jesus Christ.

My comment about the importance of this book for Pentecostalism has been published in the Journal of Pentecostal Theology 4,1994, pp 41 - 49: (A Global Pentecostal Dialogue with Jürgen Moltmann's The Spirit of Life: A Universal Affirmation «The Perspective of Chilean Pentecostalism.»)

They're celebratory doughnuts because my gurl Ashley over at The Edible Perspective decided to write a cookbook ALL ABOUT DOUGHNUTS (RAMONAEYES LIKE WHOA) and she asked if I'd like to be a part of the the blog book tour.

The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell - a fascinating book about the history of New York City, from the perspective of the oyster trade.

I will agree that he could retire gracefully, maybe even go out with a bang and make his own book talking about all the stuff that happened behind closed doors so us fans can know his perspective without a boss telling him what to say.

Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child is an informative, holistic, and comprehensive book about common childhood illnesses and injuries; offering the unique perspectives of conventional medicine, herbal treatments, and homeopathy in one volume.

There were a lot of other helpful tips in the book for minute details like that, but those were the most helpful and eye - opening for me and helped me to get the right perspective about how I should be teaching every.little.thing to Benjamin instead of watching him struggle by himself.

This book is just a wonderful resource and the world would do good to understand the different perspectives and needs in such often not talked about family dynamics.

I don't know if you have The Fussy Baby Book by Sears, but it will help you get a little perspective about the fact that there are plenty of other babies like yours, and plenty of other parents going through the same stuff.

I relate in that books have definitely affected my own perspective about parenting and our home life as well... I am so very thankful for the vast amounts of info out there (even though no book is a «perfect fit» necessarily and I don't always agree / relate to every single thing!).

Also love the book «Buy, Buy Baby» to put it all in perspective of who's controlling the conversation about what kids «need» for brain stim.

I wrote the book that I wished I'd had - with everything a parent needs to know about colic: clearing up the misconceptions, written specifically for a sleep - deprived parent and giving a balanced perspective on the options to address the underlying causes of colic.

Moreover, Mayim has published three books «Beyond the Sling» about attachment parenting, «Mayim's Vegan Table» (vegan recipes by Bialik) and «Girling Up» about the struggles girls faced when they grow up from the perspective of science in a fun way.

However, rather than simply accepting the opinion of states and critical Western scholars as the point of reference, the edited book Responsibility to Protect: Cultural Perspectives in the Global South by Rama Mani and Tom Weiss addresses the important and so far under - researched question of what scholars and activists from the global south really think about the R2P principle and how the R2P implementation process can account for those southern concerns and insights.

From the UK perspective, there's been no shortage of books about the fighting on the ground, frequently in the form of personal memoirs of servicemen very much in the «tactical weeds».

About this Book: Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology After the Genome Sarah S. Richardson and Hallam Stevens, Eds.

Her recent book, «How to Clone a Mammoth,» offers a critical, pragmatic, perspective about de-extinction that is rooted in her ancient DNA expertise, Dr. Shapiro is a protagonist for the appropriate, ethical, and responsible application of de-extinction technologies for conservation of living species and their ecosystems.

The book doesn't pull punches about the fact that a transition to a healthier lifestyle can be tough at first, but they put it in perspective.

Way back in Chapter 3, I talked about how Mark Sisson gives an excellent perspective on the conundrum of stress and endurance training in his book «The Primal Connection» — in which he describes how a major factor at play in the success of some pro endurance athletes is relatively lower amounts of work stress, deadlines, office obligations, etc. in the life of those who are able to devote most of their time to training.

Let's say your solar plexus is out of balance, or your throat, or your third eye, and we'll share with each other different tips and tricks that we've done along the way, and be sure to check out my book, «Idiot's Guide to Ayurveda» where I've really, really gone into depth about all of the chakras from a Vedic perspective, and I think it'll really, really benefit you if you're interested in learning more about them.

To put it in perspective, I started writing this book when #squad was happening, about two years ago.

But one of the good things about a book club is getting others» opinions and perspectives.

Now, with the same honesty and thoughtfulness, Gilbert shares her generative process, wisdom, and perspective about creativity in her new book Big Magic: Creative Living Without Fear.