Sentences with phrase «by praxis»

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First it is important to understand the distinction between the Core Battery portion of the NTE and the subject - matter portion of the NTE, both of which have been replaced by the Praxis exams.

Human life is defined, not simply by intellectual acts, but by praxis, by a complex mix of those acts that are different from purely intellectual acts and, while analogous to many activities of animals, are generically different from them.

By praxis, we do not mean rejection of theory.

I am under - standing by the praxis model loosely what he calls «critical praxis correlations».

Yet those so insistent on stamping political correctness on the churches and being guided by praxis apparently find themselves more comfortable with the spirits of the age, or the «new age,» than with the paraclete.

These three statements may all sound like timeless, unavoidable truths, but according to a recent Medium post by Praxis founder and CEO Isaac Morehouse, the last one is actually a fallacy.

Diving straight into the humorous rebuke of her minimalist contemporaries and their heyday exhibition at New York's Jewish Museum in 1966, Lynda Benglis's opening installation in Bergen, «Primary Structures (Paula's Props)», 1975, inaugurates the yearlong inquiry into her practice by PRAXES.

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When we launched Praxis, we were viciously opposed by a number of academics in our circles who were formerly good friends or acquaintances.

Going chapter by chapter through Atlas Shrugged with good Praxis friends, having late night conversations that were at once insightful and hilarious.

Begin with the thought that human development appears these days driven entirely by scientific and technological advances (knowledge) as influencing and influenced by economic, political, and social uses of that knowledge (praxis).

Although modern academic theology prefers the mystical world of Baudrillard's praxis of location and the semiotics of a post «Saussurean world of self «referencing signifiers, it is clear that the issues raised by the Reformation simply will not go away.

Therefore it is not surprising that theological thinking and mission praxis in recent years is influenced by globalization.

But the praxis model does not work well in the interaction of diverse communities informed by different experience, different practice, different theory and different horizons of meaning.

Nevertheless, process theology can never adopt this praxis model for theology without qualification.35 Political theologians are right to warn Christians against the temptation to be drawn into abstract thought for its own sake in a world characterized by starvation and oppression, and thought that lacks relevance to the salvation of the whole world is a luxury the world can not afford.

The variety of ways theologians have conceived the relation of theory and practice are analyzed by Matthew Lamb in «The theory - praxis relationship in contemporary Christian theologies», CTSA.

Metz's practical fundamental theology «is a theology that operates subject to the primacy of praxis».22 This practice is informed by memory which leads to the imitation of Christ.

Latin American theology today lives by «hope against hope,» in the apparently absurd confidence that small and humble practices of faith such as singing together or remembering the stories about Jesus can work toward rekindling a viable praxis of structural change.

Against the sort of picture of theological education illustrated by Stackhouse's proposal, Wood rejects the view that theology bears on action as theory applied to praxis.

As we have seen several times before, the criterion of genuine hope in God's promise consists of a willingness to temper the sacramen - talism of our dreams by a willingness to look mystically into the future symbolized by our images, by a steady posture of patience and silence, and by a transformative praxis that refuses to escape from the troubles of present history.

No, in the sense that fundamental theology, of and by itself, does not include a complete Christian systematics or a full delineation of Christian praxis.

Hence liberation theologians should take seriously the metaphysical framework for a praxis - oriented theology implicitly offered to them by process theology.

The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.

Briefly, contemporary post-empiricist philosophies of science call attention to the fundamental importance, neither of theoria nor of technique, but of the concrete praxis of performance of reason constituted by the raising of ever further relevant questions within communities of inquiry (SAFT).

The questions, drafted by Denis Goulet, can serve as guides for a praxis that works within a biocentric and geocentric theological frame.

Aided by judicatory and seminary personnel to whom the congregation seems more beneficiary than source of Christian praxis, local churches usually assume that a more definitive form of church life exists somewhere else.

The other thing I know is that she, in every part of her life from diet to family to work to worship, exercises a discipline and orderliness and obedience that I could never attain to in a hundred lifetimes and that, by her own admission, those ways of being and doing come up out of her Mormon faith and are her praxis.

By technology I mean not only machines or pills or techniques but the central praxis of modernity — the most consistent and self - consciously methodical way of using contemporary science to alter the natural order so that it will serve human desires and needs.

This is especially true of his practice of table fellowship with sinners and social outcasts, a habit for which he was severely criticized by those whose religious heroism was implicitly put in question by such inclusive praxis.

To the liberation theologian, deeply influenced by a hermeneutics of suspicion, knowledge can not equal virtue, unless that knowledge be a product of the praxis of solidarity with the oppressed.

As the «revolution» subsequently petered out — perhaps as much because of the lack of any real praxis among its firebrands as because of the tendency of the establishment to co-opt some of its slogans and platforms — its place was taken by a quest for greater metaphysical truths overarching the merely political.

We may realize these demands by way of following a vision and «praxis» of shared hope.

Do the discontents spawned by conversion arise from memory, or from praxis, or a combination of both?

The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human person, male and female, is created in the image of God.

Theoria and praxis are conjoined by aisthesis» (El 99).

Where a central problematic for all prior evolutionary cosmologists had been accounting for the evolutionary emergence of self - conscious mind, Whitehead presupposes the full - blown existence of human reason sundered initially by the apparently unlike functions of theoria and praxis.

Among white males involved in the process, we find at least two distinct types of theology — the one empowered by biblical praxis, the other determined by secular priorities.

In praxis empowered by the New Testament, it is not we who create theology, but the God of the poor.

[xl] The praxis of this mission was to reverse the abstractness of spectacular life by détournement - «the fluid language of anti-ideology (that) occurs within a type of communication aware of its inability to enshrine any inherent and definitive certainty.»

Rather praxis is correctly understood as the critical relationship between theory and practice whereby each is dialectically influenced and transformed by the other» (Blessed Rage for Order: The New Pluralism in Theology [Seabury, 1975], p. 243).

In other words, contextual theology requires revision of the dominant understanding of the universal which is still very much marked by the ecclesial praxis and attitudes of 19th century Europe.

Though driven by the Spirit to speak and act, our expectation of the perfect freedom of the reign of God can be uttered and our praxis realized only in terms of particular metaphors, projects or cultural prejudices.

Liberation theology, by contrast, was about «praxis»» the Marxist term for the revolutionary project of removing the oppression of the poor.

He writes: «My criticism, then, is principally directed against the attempt to explain the historical identity of Christianity by means of speculative thought (idealism), without regard to the constitutive function of Christian praxis, the cognitive equivalent of which is narrative and memory.

And this praxis is concretely demonstrated by «open commenssality» The significance of this practice of open table fellowship as a hallmark of the kingdom is aptly explained by Crossan within Jesus's context by pointing out the regulations and taboos involved in eating meals.

By taking this approach to understanding social forces, a way may be open for developing a social ethic and pastoral praxis that recognizes the complex character of collective power in black people's experience of oppression.2 As McClendon has made clear, the idea of a «social ethic» must not stand alone.

Scotus has very nearly revived Aristotle's notion of praxis, with the glaring difference that because Scotus does not define praxis by reference to the public realm or the common good it lacks any political connotations.

The praxis required by authentic hope had been ignored.

Stackhouse's proposal can be read to urge that theological education must shape the will by a paideia that forms in students dispositions to «right action,» to Christian praxis.9 The «basis» of this praxis is a piety structured by institutions, policy, and principle.