Sentences with phrase «by imagination as»

Of course, political horizons are fuelled as much by imagination as by lived experience.

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Derivatives trading is the culmination of a wild year for bitcoin, which captured imaginations and investment around the world, propelled by its stratospheric gains, and its anti-establishment mission as a currency without the backing of a government or a central bank, and a payment system without a reliance on banks.

Eclipsed in the popular imagination by Apple and battered by the earthquake in Japan and floods in Thailand, Sony looks as defeated as ever, predicting another loss for this fiscal year, this time to the tune of US$ 1.2 billion.

Instead of just taking «no» as an answer, they will attempt a different approach by using their creativity and imagination.

As a virtual marketing assistant I am certainly not a link building expert by any stretch of the imagination but I know what makes sense.

Communism westernized the Russian political imagination in a perverse way, to be sure, but its triumph put a complete end to older, more traditional ways of understanding society as a hierarchical system underwritten by a sacred authority.

This, perhaps, was the dream of a generation that was not only full of energy and fascinated by an enterprise in which it thought of itself as a pioneer, but whose imagination more readily embraced satisfactions than the new wants those satisfactions would generate.

Rekindling the Christic Imagination: Theological Meditations on the New Evangelization, by Robert P. Imbelli (Liturgical Press): For those who've watched (as every sentient Catholic should have watched) Father Robert Barron's Catholicism series, here's the next step — a theologically rich, entirely accessible walk through the great themes of Evangelical Catholicism, keyed to four masterpieces of Christian art.

Here's the rest of it:»... Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.

It's anything you need it to be, anytime you need it, 24hours a day, boundless only by ones imagination, as the bible can be interpreted in so many different ways.

Let us think of process philosophy as a method designed for use on such occasions, evoked by such disputes as an instrument of reasonable good sense and creative imagination, one that will serve to fix what had broken down and to get things running smoothly once again.

As a citizen of the United Kingdom I can acknowledge collective responsibility for how Palestine was administered before 1948, and can understand how difficulties faced by Jews and Palestinians today were fed by characteristic failures in the British colonial imagination....

In these stress - filled times, virtually all of us, as we get older, will seek relief by visiting, in our imaginations, a childhood Christmas of impossible perfection.

As Jesus» subjects, our work together is not limited by the boundaries of our imagination or by the world's expectations.

To this day there is a brass box in our bedroom that served for years as «the gift of gold» borne up the aisle, as did two of our pottery jars, both of them filled by the congregation's imagination with frankincense and myrrh.

St. Francis's churchmanship, if we may call it that, was closely related to his radically incarnational religious imagination, which is his second important legacy to our times, beset as we are by new forms of Gnosticism.

While a novelist's artistry is limited «only» by his own imagination and abilities, God as artist is limited by the lack of sensitivity or concern on the part of the creatures God seeks to persuade.

Human imagination as a whole provides the particular idiomatic and narrative construction of a congregation; its members communicate by a code derived from the totality of forms and stories by which societies cohere.

That the holy God should have prearranged the punctilious offering of beasts as a technique by which his own feelings and attitudes were to be affected involved an imagination of God far too childishly anthropomorphic for the prophetic mind to credit or respect.

Because of the tendency of the illiterate to want religion presented to him in a way which suits his imagination, we find that educated Muslims today disapprove of the innovations invented by the Sufi orders, such as veneration of saints, seeking blessings from tombs, seeking the mediation of religious leaders, and excessive asceticism.

Just as St. Paul's letters gave early Christian commentators examples of how to interpret the Old Testament in light of Christ, so the Church Fathers stretch our exegetical imagination by showing how other passages can be read in that way.

Induction is here defined as a movement of ascent and descent, from particulars to a universal principle and back again, which is accomplished by means of a structured use of the imagination.

A belief in sheer observation, unaided by imagination, is precisely the core of the Baconian method of induction, which, as Whitehead notes ironically, «if consistently pursued, would have left science where it found it» (PR 5/7).

Your hypothesis remains as A POSSIBILITY, but not the only possibility by any stretch of the imagination.

And yet we find ourselves in the strongest agreement with the German scholar, Professor von Rad, whom we have cited before, in his own expressed feeling that after all, legend is not an adequate term, so long as it is commonly understood simply as a mixture of history and unrestrained popular imagination (one part history, nine parts imagination — our comment, not his) We much better understand legend as a combination of history and meditation, and as motivated primarily by a concern to give expression to the meaning of history, as that meaning is conveyed by the faith that God makes himself known therein.12

These others could be actual living persons, or else personifications derived from them, such as dream images or the characters created by a child's imagination.

For Hartshorne, the difference between a self and its past (and other selves) is understood as a matter of degree, and known by how much inference and imagination is required in order to make the idea of that other self distinct.

A story sustains the precariousness and openness of the situation until it reaches its end, and does so by virtue of that power of imagination, or what I called memory that penetrates the future, to envisage a stretch of time as both sequentially related and also developing through human opportunity, intention, decision, and being acted upon.

The right of Pulaya Christians «to assemble for learning, or to take Sabbath for a rest» were shown as evidence of such privileges.47 Similarly, George Mathan, the pioneer of the anti-slavery movement, preached to the Pulayas about their wretched condition and of the benefits they would derive, temporally as well as spiritually, by embracing Christianity.48 Such messages linking Christianity to certain privileges that the Pulayas might enjoy definitely caught their imagination.

Thus the interests of the church were identified with opposition to an enlarged curriculum, and were defended by men who appeared as nay - sayers to all that smacked of imagination in higher education.

At last, the gorgeous surface of things comes to appear as a true mystery, a sacrament destined to transform our imaginations, leading us to reread the world as a poem produced by the one idea, the one who imagines things into being, the sun who is also and always the Son of God.

Human solidarity is to be achieved «not by inquiry but by imagination, the imaginative ability to see strange people as fellow sufferers.

Whether the stars are as near as they seemed to the Psalmist or are removed by the millions and billions of light years to which we must accustom our imagination, still the question is the same: «When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established; what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?»

It should be very clear now that to speak of the enduring object which constitutes the life of an electron is not by any stretch of the imagination to identify electrons as enduring objects, as Cobb claims, which is the sole point that needs to be made about this passage.

The prophet's description, read with some imagination, suggests the fruitful idea that God is to be worthily served, not by individuals in isolation, but by a community, and yet a community so completely united in his service that it can be spoken of as a person.

Raising Abel: The Recovery of the Eschatological Imagination By James Alison Crossroad, 203 pages, $ 19.95 Drawing on the now familiar Girardian themes of the necessity of sacrifice and Jesus as the end of sacrifice, Alison makes clear the «eschatological difference» these themes can make in our understanding of creation.

That the transcendent reality is experienced by the religious imagination as a commanding will may be conceptually problematic.

As for Mr. Kuhl, I can only express my deepest regret that his spiritual imagination is impoverished by old Protestant prejudices.

I would accept this stress on the importance of the categories of understanding imposed by the knower, but I would want to attribute them less to the given structures of the mind (as in Bohr's neo-Kantian view) than to the limitations of our experience and imagination.

7 Such questions are idle except as a help to the imagination, by way of making concrete, in an actual historical situation, the bearing of the principles that Jesus laid down.

But, starting from the symbol, by means of contemplation and true imagination with its evocative power, such knowledge grasps the figurative presence as an epiphany of the transcendent.

The Lewis whose imagination produced these three episodes is the same Lewis who described himself in Surprised by Joy as having been dragged struggling and resentful into faith, «the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.»

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Bill — as long as the Catholics, or any other religious cult, continue to denigrate women and gays, you can not, by any stretch of imagination, claim they are liberal.

Henry is thought plain by everyone, until his charming and flirtatious ways, as well as his large income, begin to inflame Maria's and Julia's imagination.

Economics as practiced today can not by any stretch of the imagination claim to be for the common good.

A church of friends, a world of compassion without domination or privilege, winners or loser — we dismiss that as impossible because our imaginations, conditioned by unexamined political and economic assumptions, can not grasp it as a practical possibility.

In the same way, public nakedness is shameful because it incites lust, and se.xual sin is rooted in desire (the imagination of a sinful act), as implied in Exodus 20:17 and addressed by Christ in Matthew 5:28.

Out of her own experience of diminishment by males, she unflinchingly wrote of «castrating God» and «cutting away the Supreme Phallus» 6 as an important part of the process of transforming the collective imagination.

The symbol of the Father God, spawned in the human imagination and sustained as plausible by patriarchy, has in turn rendered service to this type of society by making its mechanisms for the oppression of women appear right and fitting.