Sentences with phrase «by reflections from»

He is so fascinated by reflections from lights or shiny objects and tries to catch them.

Otherwise, you will become as gbaikie, will start involving the moonlight, maybe even the earth warming by the reflection from Venus... Save your sanity, Tomcat

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By focusing on the various skills — everything from observation and data gathering to analysis and reflection — Newnham and his colleagues developed a framework for teachers to use in their science classes, beginning as early as kindergarten.

That period of reflection appears to have emboldened Poloz's conviction in the story he's been telling from the start: that international sales of manufactured goods and services would lead a rotation away from the economy's reliance on high commodity prices and consumption by heavily indebted households.

Using PRIME's proprietary social media analytics methods and technology, the research firm identified 13 million relevant social media posts from March 2013 to December 2013 on the subject of mobile payment innovation in the context of MasterCard and its industry peers; sentiment analysis shows the majority of posts were driven by news - story sharing 92 % positive / factual, only 8 % negative tone overall which is a reflection of the original content as it appeared in traditional news outlets.

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The bible is merely a reflection of stories from other cultures re-packaged to make them more easily digestible by the masses as things shifted to a new power base.

• «From the Camp of the Incendiaries» is the wry title of a reflection by Hadley Arkes on why some friends reacted so negatively to the FT symposium on the judicial usurpation of politics.

What finally emerged in the summer of 1518 from this frantic rethinking — recall that Luther was trying to work through the theological issue while at the same time explaining to the world why he shouldn't be burned at the stake for heresy — seems to have been shaped primarily by reflection on texts such as Matthew 16:19: «Whatever you loose on earth is loosed in heaven.»

This reflection is enriched by readings from scripture (for example, 3 John; Luke 10:38 - 42; 15:1 - 32) and theological writers such as Henri Nouwen and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Again, Fr McDade is limited by the length of his paper from entering deeply into these questions, but he does offer some thought - provoking reflections.

When I realize that the particular conclusions generated by the serious reflection that arises from such assumptions have only the authority of those assumptions, then I feel free to turn to another philosophy that includes among its data human persons and their interactions; for my perception of reality is such that these seem to me at least as real and ultimate as sense data and mechanical relations.

In consequence one is the less disposed to reject as unscientific the idea that the critical point of planetary Reflection, the fruit of socialization, far from being a mere spark in the darkness, represents our passage, by Translation or dematerialization, to another sphere of the Universe: not an ending of the ultra-human but its accession to some sort of trans - humanity at the ultimate heart of things.

On the other hand, there is no God of a religious tradition cut off from critical reflection so that «it is wrong for religion's advocate to confound the object of this affirmation with the modalities of the affirmation; it is wrong for him to believe that the transcendence of the divine mystery is extended to the materiality of the expressions that it takes on in human consciousness; with greater reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendence.

Using biblical stories told by and about Jesus as his starting point, Cox offers a series of wide - ranging reflections on everything from the ethics of in vitro fertilization to the biblical accuracy of the Left Behind novels.

From such a soul - searching analysis and reflection would follow an option for the values of the reign of righteousness, taught by Christianity and the world religions.

But in vain he struggles thus; the difficulty he stumbled against demands a breach with immediacy as a whole, and for that he has not sufficient self - reflection or ethical reflection; he has no consciousness of a self which is gained by the infinite abstraction from everything outward, this naked, abstract self (in contrast to the clothed self of immediacy) which is the first form of the infinite self and the forward impulse in the whole process whereby a self infinitely accepts its actual self with all its difficulties and advantages.

His despair is that of weakness, a passive suffering of the self, in contrast to the despair of self - assertion; but, by the aid of relative self - reflection which he has, he makes an effort (which again distinguishes him from the purely immediate man) to defend his self.

By extension every good deed, every struggle for justice and deliverance from oppression, every effort to care for and show concern about those who are in need, will be not merely a reflection of the divine mercy and righteousness but also an instrument for the bringing about of just such shalom or «abundance of life» for God's human children, So one might go on, almost without ceasing, to show that response in faith to the action of God in this vivid moment has its implications and applications for the whole range of human life and experience.

In addition to multiple prayers from many different faith leaders, this vigil included short reflections from those touched by these tragedies, including April and Philip Schentrup, parents of Stoneman Douglas student Carmen, who was killed in the shooting.

It is after all rather important to emphasize that in a seventh - century text, predating all reflection on language, wherever that reflection may have occurred, we find this clear statement: the fact of human speech comes from God; but language is made up by the human race, which decides for itself — arbitrarily — the words, the rules, and the syntax.

While I'm not sure the syllogism above would withstand severe logical examination, it crystallizes my own more diffuse reflections on the failure of two well - established writers in two unusually inept and ugly books, Live From Golgotha, by Gore Vidal, and Jesus: A Life, by A.N. Wilson.

I come from «shameless» caretakers, abandonment, ridicule, abuse, neglect — perfectionistic systems I am empowered by the shocking intensity of a parent's rage The cruel remarks of siblings The jeering humiliation of other children The awkward reflection in the mirrors The touch that feels icky and frightening The slap, the pinch, the jerk that ruptures trust I am intensified by A racist, sexist culture The righteous condemnation of religious bigots The fears and pressures of schooling The hypocrisy of politicians The multigenerational shame of dysfunctional family systems MY NAME IS TOXIC SHAME

By working out a neoclassical theory of nonliteral religious discourse consistent with his neoclassical theism generally, he has not only overcome the notorious contradictions involved in classical theism's use of analogy and other modes of nonliteral language, he has also given good reasons for thinking that our distinctively modern reflection about God results from two movements of thought, not simply from one.

In this sense, the foundational assertions of Christian witness and theology, as distinct from their constitutive assertion, are all assertions about God; and this means that, in the very same sense, the concept expressed by «God» must be as indispensable to Christian theology as to the witness of faith en which it is the reflection.

In the first paragraph of the first essay of The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton introduced the basic theme: «It seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.»

Gaudium et Spes, as the constitution is normally referred to, based many of its reflections upon the following insight: «The human race is passing from a rather static concept of the order of things to a more dynamic, evolutionary one» (n. 5) Its authors, as well as Ronald Knox 20 years earlier and to some degree Rene Descartes 350 years earlier, recognised that such an understanding was invited by the method of the new sciences.

I will only recall that, by virtue of its convergent nature, hominization is scarcely conceivable (seen from the point at which we find ourselves) except as terminating, whatever road it follows, in a point of collective reflection where Mankind, having achieved within and around itself, technically and intellectually, the greatest possible coherence, will find itself raised to a higher critical point — one of instability, tension, inter-penetration and metamorphosis — coinciding, it would seem, with what for us are the phenomenal limits of the world.

The critical point of planetary Reflection, the fruit of socialization, far from being a mere spark in the darkness, represents our passage, by Translation or dematerialization, to another sphere of the Universe — not an ending of the ultra-human but its accession to some sort of trans - humanity at the ultimate heart of things.

Following are some of his more provocative reflections on that subject, excerpted from his recent book, Gravity and Grace (Augsburg Publishing House), copyright 1986; reprinted by permission.

This is that, under the combined influence of two irresistible forces of planetary dimensions (the geographical curve of the Earth, by which we are physically compressed, and the psychic curve of Thought, which draws us closer together), the power of reflection of the human mass, which means its degree of humanization, far from having come to a stop, is entering a critical period of intensification and renewed growth.

He makes some similar points, emphasising that from «Lebanon to Libya and on to Paris the speech by the Pope generated acute reflection on the part of very many scholars: to save the idea of God»».

Yet may we not claim, observing the precipitate growth of democracies and totalitarian regimes during the past hundred and fifty years, that it is the Sense of Species, which for a time seemed to have vanished from human hearts, dispelled in some sort by the growth of Reflection, that is now gradually resuming its place and reasserting its rights over narrow individualism?

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

For from the time of the church fathers onward, the reflections of theologians have been shaped by philosophical concepts and ways of thought — sometimes for good, sometimes for ill.

This cartoon was inspired by Noelle Marie's reflection of Anita Moorjani's book, Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing.

He turns to books by Northrop Frye and Susan Rubin Suleiman as sources which complement each other, offering critical insight for careful reflection on how persons from different perspectives can begin to understand one another.

For Harnack, the «content of the gospel» consisted in concepts which must be disengaged from the historical ambiguities of the Bible and then grasped intellectually, a task which can only be performed by «historical knowledge and critical reflection».

The second preparatory concept is that of participation or «belonging - to» (appartenance) which 1 borrow from Gadamer's Truth and Method.14 For me, the conquest of this concept marked the end of a difficult struggle with Husserlian idealism which was not yet broached by the preceding avowal of the mediated character of reflection.

Locke says that «the idea of the beginning of motion we have only from reflection on what passes in ourselves» and adds that the power of the mind by which it can move bodies is the will (E-I 311 ff.; emphasis mine).

«When our mindset is neither dominated by an anxiety regarding the weakening of one's own positions nor closed to possibly necessary corrections, then all sorts of questions, which early on were raised solely from an apologetical perspective, can now be raised on their own merits, with an honesty and open - mindedness, which is decisively necessary for all theoretical reflection.»

Great books and good books are still published and some even turn a profit, but the book business is increasingly prey to the bottom line which is enhanced by the reflections of, and narrations about, celebrities from other media.

Interviewed by the school's Reflections magazine, Avrain likened the Republican convention to a megachurch where President Bush spoke from a pulpit.

At this point, the poem could have provided a mildly ponderous reflection on the fragility of fame (Lana Turner's star was waning at this point) or life, but instead the speaker humorously disassociates himself from Lana Turner by wrongly attributing her collapse to bad manners.

Calvinist theology has long been hostile to pacifism, and most Reformed churches» reflections on war begin by distinguishing justified from unjustified wars.

(This will also involve an affirmative answer to a question posed by Donald W. Sherburne, namely, whether these Whiteheadian «conjectures» could «provide a systematic, rational framework capable of grounding the many insights into the relation of «mind» and «body» which have emerged from the reflections of such phenomenologists as Merleau - Ponty» [WPP 406].)

If a man in despair is as he thinks conscious of his despair, does not talk about it meaninglessly as of something which befell him (pretty much as when a man who suffers from vertigo talks with nervous self - deception about a weight upon his head or about its being like something falling upon him, etc., this weight and this pressure being in fact not something external but an inverse reflection from an inward experience), and if by himself and by himself only he would abolish the despair, then by all the labor he expends he is only laboring himself deeper into a deeper despair.

But theology is differentiated from other kinds of intellectual activity by being the reflection that goes on in the Church; it is therefore the kind of thinking that is directed toward God and man - before - God as its objects and which is guided by the love of God and neighbor.

I have a very good book that I've read a couple of times called Listening to the God Who Speaks: Reflections on God's Guidance from Scripture and the Lives of God's People, by theologian...

So too were the half - hour of meditation and the time of silence which he made the discipline of the entire seminary community: «A unifying arch swung from music and play to quietude and prayer...» Schönherr concludes his brief reflection by admitting to being «under the spell of that man who gave himself so entirely, heart and soul, whether in play or in theological discussion.