Sentences with phrase «classical definitions of»

Non-human taxa were chosen to match classical definitions of cursorial and non-cursorial evolutionary history based on morphological adaptations to endurance running (Jenkins, 1971).

The fifth chapter considers harmony, another element in the classical definitions of beauty, and he reflects on it in music, architecture, ecology, and astronomy.

The classical definition of New Testament studies essentially involves the historical - critical method.

Such is the classical definition of truth.

For something / someone to cause something else, that something would have had to exist before it in time, if we go by the classical definition of the word «cause».

The classical definition of justice was to «render to each his due,» but according to Augustine, this must be understood in light of the biblical precept, «Let no one owe anything except to love one another.»

The Oxford Conference on Church, Community, and State redeemed the classical definition of justice somewhat from ambiguity when it stated that justice is the «ideal of a harmonious relation of life to life.

A now classical definition of this term apocalyptic (literally, «uncovered») properly sees the transition from prophetic to apocalyptic literature as really scarcely traceable.

I want to suggest to you the classical definition of Christian prayer that is found first stated by a great theologian of the earlier days of the Church, St. John of Damascus, and taken over by St. Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century: «Prayer is the elevation of the soul to God.»

The classical definition of prayer, given by St. John of Damascus and taken over by St. Thomas Aquinas, is that prayer is «the elevation of the soul to God.»

The classical definition of a nation state requires territory, population, a formal body that can impose taxes and government policy, and recognition by (some number) of sovereign states.

The classical definition of a still life — a work of art depicting inanimate, typically commonplace objects that are either natural (food, flowers or game) or man - made (glasses, books, vases and other collectibles)-- conveys little about the rich associations inherent to this genre.

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We begin with an analysis of the continuing bailout of insurance giant AIG and Monday's stock market selloff; price and debt deflation; the two sectors of the economy; two definitions of «free markets»; the classical economists; revolution from the right and the former Soviet states; the threat of war; IMF / World Bank resurgence; the dollar versus the euro; analogies to Rome, neo-feudalism.

In a comment, Tim Nichols from Full Contact Christianity challenged my definition of Sola Scriptura, as not being the same definition that was used by the classical Reformers when they talked about Sola Scriptura.

In the classical definition, the sacraments are «outward signs of inward grace».

The term «prophet,» we think, referred to these in its common and primary connotation and was, therefore, only later applied to Elijah in an age when the definition of the word had been broadened to include the singular, classical prophet.

In Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation they recommend that the definition of rhetoric be broadened to its fullest range in the classical tradition, namely as «the means by which a text establishes and manages it relationship to its audience in order to achieve a particular effect.»

The general position of these writers, whose contributions vary considerably in approach and quality, is that Jesus made no claim of divinity for himself and that the doctrine of the incarnation was developed during the early centuries of the Christian era as an attempt to express the uniqueness of Jesus in the mythological language and thought forms of the Greek culture of the time.While recognizing the validity of the patristic theologians» work, which culminated in the classical christological definitions of Nicea and Chalcedon, the British theologians question whether these definitions are intelligible in the 20th century, and go on to suggest that some concept other than incarnation might better express the divine significance of Jesus today.

The manners appropriate for teachers and students in a democracy of worth are neither those of the classical authoritarian school, where it is presupposed that the schoolmaster knows the truth and is expected to inculcate it, nor those of the progressive school, which is built on the principle that truth is by definition what solves human problems.

As a man, I'm greatly concerned by subversive attempts to deconstruct all «classical» definitions of manhood.

As we have shown, prayer is to a large degree a matter of attention; we quoted a classical definition that said that «prayer is the attentive presence of God.»

Theology is dogmatic for Barth in that it embraces the classical dogmatic definitions of the ecumenical councils, and especially Chalcedon, as to the meaning and significance of Jesus Christ: in Jesus Christ we confront both what it means to be divine and what it means to be human.

While the impact of these classical theories has remained strong, I would like to point to a specific contribution that, in my view, has served as a kind of watershed in our thinking about the cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of inquiry.

The film adheres to the dictionary definition of a classical genre without ever attempting to subvert it.

Meek's Cuttoff is the very definition of a slowburn treat, a classical Oregon - set «oater» in which a wagon trail heading across vast, acrid prairies is placed in danger when its party decide to take heed of a short cut suggested by one Stephen Meek.

The lesson aims to explain the following key theory (including the different types of unemployment): * ILO Survey * Structural unemployment * Seasonal unemployment * Cyclical unemployment * Frictional unemployment * Classical unemployment Each type of unemployment includes examples and key definitions.

Definitions of different types of learning, such as habituation, classical conditioning and operant conditioning.

I'm guessing your using the modern definition of the term «truth», meaning «something that conforms to my beliefs», which is more akin to the term «faith» than the classical meaning of any definition of «truth».

A recent discussion over at Terra Nova also highlights that classical definitions and measures of inflation and deflation may not make sense for talking about certain game economies.