My proposal is that what unifies this set of practices, making them genuinely «theological» practices and providing criteria of excellence, is that they are all done in service of one end: To understand God more truly
by focusing on study about, against, and for Christian congregations.
Our first sideways step was to refine our thesis by making it more concrete: The overarching end is to try to understand God more truly
by focusing on study through the lens of questions about Christian congregations.
By focusing on studies of these within - country differences in education systems, I discovered a clear pattern: it is the freest and most market - like systems that best serve families.
Not exact matches
The striking example I
focused on then was the cancer drug Avastin, developed
by Genentech (now Roche)-- which, at the time, had been
studied in at least 400 completed human clinical trials for various cancers.
Some small
studies have suggested that synbiotics could provide benefits to a range of other conditions influenced
by the gut microbiome as well, including obesity, diabetes, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, but larger - scale clinical trials
focusing on each of those conditions are needed.
With no time to convene
focus groups, Perkins and Selbert relied
on Connolly's sense of the market, which he had gleaned — over a two - month period — through industry contacts and
by reading various magazine
studies.
Fullbrook's presentation
focused on an interesting
study recently completed
by the Clarkson Centre.
In fact, a recent
study undertaken
by the Blackbox seed accelerator found that many tech start - ups failed because they
focused more
on their product than
on their potential customers.
In another
study conducted
by psychologists Jane Vignovic and Lori Foster Thompson that
focused solely
on electronic communication, writers of the message were found to «be less conscientious, intelligent and trustworthy when the message contained many grammatical errors.»
The average fund lost about 1 percent in 2015, the
study found, noting that many actively - managed funds
focused on macro strategies were beaten
by computer algorithms.
A 2010
study conducted
by Cone Communications, a public relations and marketing agency
focused on social causes, reported that 80 percent of consumers are more likely to purchase a product that supports a cause during the holiday season.
One
study by Sheffield Hallam University found that an organized workspace with plenty of light and free of distraction contributes greatly to your ability to
focus on the task at hand.
The
study was produced
by Accenture and commissioned
by the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), a partnership of information and communication technology (ICT) companies
focused on sustainable development.
And a recent
study by Kristen Schilt, a University of Chicago sociologist,
focuses on exactly those experiences among female - to - male transsexuals.
Last year, for example, a
study conducted
by Unilever — a company that does have an admittedly vested interest in knowing this kind of information — polled 20,000 consumers in five countries and 33 percent said that given the option, they would choose to buy from brands that are
focused on sustainability.
In a
study, a group of researchers found that
by taking a 40 - second break and simply looking at a computerized image of a green roof, employees»
focus on a particular task improved.
I was happy to see a real
focus on preparing for tomorrow highlighted in a new book, Start a Successful Business,
by Colleen DeBaise, who has made a career of
studying and writing about entrepreneur challenges.
A prior
study focused on Uppards Island predicted that Uppards would be completely lost
by 210020.
Instead of
focusing on credit scores alone, On Deck also studies cash flow charts generated by the companies» Visa and MasterCard customer transaction
on credit scores alone,
On Deck also studies cash flow charts generated by the companies» Visa and MasterCard customer transaction
On Deck also
studies cash flow charts generated
by the companies» Visa and MasterCard customer transactions.
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In a 2014
study examining the career paths of more than 34,000 current and former regulators, New York Fed economists showed there was a revolving door, but not necessarily driven
by the quid - pro-quo that critics are
focused on.
Many scientific
studies, including research
by renowned psychologists Robert Emmons and Michael McCullough, have found that people who consciously
focus on gratitude, experience greater emotional wellbeing and physical health than those who don't.
The most recent
study in 2015
focuses on S corporation ESOPs
by Dr. Robert J. Carroll.
Commentary is produced
by the Center for Strategic and International
Studies (CSIS), a private, tax - exempt institution
focusing on international public policy issues.
Business Strategies and Free Trade:
Focus on Corporate Adjustment, Policy
Study 5, edited
by Maureen Farrow and Alan M. Rugman.
Another
study by Mark DesJardine, now a business professor at HEC Paris, showed that when analysts go away, companies can better
focus on the longer term.
In recent
studies by IBM and other research
studies on CEO sentiments, customer insight and understanding are identified as a top
focus for CEOs.
The book
focused on young people's perceptions of Christianity, based
on studies conducted
by The Barna Group.
Policy must be justified
by «
studies,» which typically
focus on determinants that are more impersonal, particularly adverse economic conditions and insufficient government training programs, support services, or income benefits.
In this chapter the author proposes courses of
study unified
by designing every course to address the overarching interest of a theological school and pluralistically adequate
by designing every course to
focus on questions about congregations.
The three questions can serve as horizons within which to conduct rigorous inquiry into any of the array of subject matters implied
by the nature of congregations, disciplined
by any relevant scholarly method, in such a way that attention is
focused on the theological significance of what is
studied:
A Christian theological school is defined, we have repeatedly stressed,
by its interest in truly understanding God
by focusing study on the Christian thing; but as a matter of contingent fact it happens that the Christian thing is most concretely available for
study in and as Christian congregations.
Hence a theological school does
focus study on congregations, but is not defined
by an interest in doing so.
The one constraint this proposal does lay
on decisions about the content of the course of
study is that it be
focused by rigorous and sympathetic
study of a pluralism of types of Christian congregation.
That a theological school inescapably has some concrete identity and ethos does not mean that it schools
by focusing study only
on congregations whose own identities bear the strongest family resemblances to the school's identity.
It is largely
by virtue of his influence that I have
focused on Zen in my own
study and teaching, and that I emphasize Zen in this essay.
Rabbi Soloveitchik's theological outlook is distinguished
by a consistent
focus on halakah, i.e., the fulfillment and
study of the divine law.
The
study, conducted
by Pew Internet & American Life Project, also
focused on American's use of technology.
One of the consequences of the
focus on the role of interpretive communities has been a renewed appreciation for the forms of interpretation practiced
by Jewish and Christian communities before the rise of modern biblical
studies during the Enlightenment.
Studies of Whitehead's metaphysics usually concentrate on the category of actual entities, and consider the category of nexus incidenrally.2 My aim in this paper is to supplement these studies by focusing on the category of nexus.3 Let me indicate why it is of value to investigate his metaphysics in th
Studies of Whitehead's metaphysics usually concentrate
on the category of actual entities, and consider the category of nexus incidenrally.2 My aim in this paper is to supplement these
studies by focusing on the category of nexus.3 Let me indicate why it is of value to investigate his metaphysics in th
studies by focusing on the category of nexus.3 Let me indicate why it is of value to investigate his metaphysics in this way.
Study of the intellectual origins and ideology of crusading had been placed
on a wholly new footing
by Carl Erdmann's Die Entstehung des Kreuzzugsgedankens (1935), followed
by studies into the spiritual and religious context of the First Crusade
by Étienne Delaruelle (1941) and Paul Rousset (1945), both revealing the limitations of the materialist
focus.
By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would
focus our attention
on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other
studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.
By focusing on «the religious practices of today's undergraduates,... and the extent to which the
study and the practice of religion are made available to undergraduate students,» they offer a systematic report of each campus's ethos, inherent religious practices and religion courses.
A
study by JAMA Pediatrics, which
focused on children in Denmark and Sweden, found that those who'd experienced the death of a sibling before age 18 were more than 70 percent more likely to die during the course of the nearly four decade
study than those who had not lost a sibling.
Leaving aside the mandated programme of
studies required of seminarians worldwide
by the Holy See, I want to
focus briefly
on the human formation programme now in place at Good Shepherd Seminary, Sydney, Australia.
Mainline Protestant losses are especially severe, a fact that has inspired several recent
studies, including those contained in Beyond Establishment, edited
by Roof and Jackson Carroll, which
focuses on the erosion of denominational culture and identity.
More significantly, these
studies tended to
focus on «how - to» concerns, or the application of what was taught in the «theoretical» fields of biblical, historical and theological - ethical
studies (each also separate from the others and supported
by its own professional associations, journals, degree programs and faculties).
By refining its
focus on «performance» as both cultural and aesthetic phenomena, the discipline formerly named «oral interpretation» has employed dramatistic and theatrical metaphors to broaden definitions of «texts,» «speakers,» «audiences,» and «events» (or sites) in the
study of performance activity.
If a community of persons sets out to understand God more truly, it is going to have to go about it
by focusing on something else whose
study is believed to lead to truer understanding of God.
Theological
study focused on congregations is not just accidentally related to the things
studied by sociologists, anthropologists, economists, and social psychologists; it inherently involves such matters.