Sentences with phrase «coherent ways of»

And the company will likely continue to be criticized for not having a coherent way of dealing with them.

But as the cave dwellers of MacIntyre's dystopia emerge into the light, what they see is not the Sun of Plato's ideal world but mere shards and fragments of the past, with no coherent way of putting the pieces back together again:

A highly sophisticated society educated to no coherent way of life is likewise by its very learning made the more prone to disease and degeneration.

Some of our best philosophers and social critics have thought that our troubles do indeed stem from our loss of any consistent and coherent way of talking about the things that matter deeply.

Are our prayers diffuse and amorphous and so incapable of forming a coherent way of life?

More precisely, we're going to have to actually work out a coherent way of assigning responsibility for the fundamental deadlock in the international climate negotiations.

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But that would require a fundamental change to the Elections Act — eliminating the requirement of a party leader's endorsement to run as a party's candidate, then fashioning a more coherent rule — and a change in the ways our political parties do business.

Metaphysical realism, understood in a processive way, requires this triple sense of objectivity: novel human doings in need of guidance, long - enduring systems of belief that provide the schemata of interpretation by which that guiding can be done, and opportunistic skill in sculpting act and theory, fact and canon, into a coherent, fruitful basis for intelligent action.

As opposed to evolution that gives guesses and hypothesis, the 1st chapter of Genesis lays out how the earth was prepared for human habitation, in a logical, coherent and chronological way, just as when a builder lays the foundation for a home and proceeds to build it in an orderly fashion.

Only in this way can we give a coherent explanation of the unitive dimension.

The difference between a metaphor and a model can be expressed in a number of ways, but most simply, a model is a metaphor with «staying power,» that is, a model is a metaphor that has gained sufficient stability and scope so as to present a pattern for relatively comprehensive and coherent explanation.15 The metaphor of God the father is an excellent example of this.

I love how you and so many other atheist / agnostic individuals accuse «believers» of acting in emotional, unscientific ways, yet it is often your side that fails to debate in a coherent, logical, and civil manner.

It adds to the plural but coherent portrait of Jesus that emerges from the four gospels in a way, I am convinced, that does not significantly damage or deface that portrait.

Thanks for the pep talk, but Obama will win because he has the most coherent and acceptable view of the way forward for our country.

Even if one can conceptually affirm both sets of insights in a coherent way, the existential and religious developments informed by these insights often remain different.

Indeed, all of them are definitions of evil that are mutually coherent in respect to the basic nature of evil, but the definitions differ as to the way the nature of evil is expressed.

10 If we interpret the system ideal in this way, we will find ourselves, per necessitatem, building up from the parts in the effort to construct larger and larger coherent theories and sets of theories, in a manner reminiscent of Nicholas Rescher's «coherence machinery.

The speaker's drama in preaching is both a search for a language of lived experience and for a way of speaking sermonic texts that are «believable» at a time when coherent, theological frameworks have collapsed.

This is not to say that Christianity was not in fact accepted in part because of its intrinsic convincingness; after all, Christian theology from the beginning was always adequate to many facts of experience, and was always formulated in a somewhat coherent way.

In other words, theological education still has not found a new paradigm for the nature of theology, reasons for the way it organizes its course of study, and a coherent version of the routes students take through their studies.

As a consequence, whatever might have existed of a carefully crafted, philosophically coherent curriculum gave way to an academic smorgasbord, or what some analysts have called the «academic supermarket.»

In the nature of the case the evidence needed for reasoned proof on empirical grounds is not accessible, and we had better frankly admit that our faith in immortality is a faith, coherent with what we know of God and his ways with men, and not a conclusion from scientific evidence.

Having thus posed all sorts of questions, legitimate enough if we grant the usual position about resurrection, it is now our task to set forth what may be a more coherent and credible way of thinking about «Jesus risen from the dead».

But the way in which we perceive things, the meaning we attach to them, the way we integrate these sensory impressions into a coherent whole involves, as Kant would say, the spontaneous activity of the mind organizing its sensations.

However, the Church's theological discourse can not be so intimately bound to any one scientific theory, as «the final way» to explain something, that it becomes difficult to separate itself from such a theory, either because a theological doctrine itself can no longer be explained without it (which it can) or because a scientific theory has been superseded by a more coherent scientific theory (better able to explain reality) as is the nature of progress in science.There is a precedent for this in the Galileo controversy from the 1600s.

In most of this book he finds this grounding in the religious choice for a meaningful and good life — but he admits that there are other coherent ways.

I also wish to assemble from its several expressions a coherent statement of Sacks» notion of narrative as «the science of the concrete,» for it seems to me that he offers important new ways of understanding the philosophic status of narrative.

You seem incapable of writing even your simple thoughts in any coherent way.

Reflection on practices can be one way of drawing the pieces of theological education into larger and more coherent wholes.

In God's single coherent plan the foundation that has been laid by the process of material evolution is not swept away or disregarded; rather, it is built upon, and in this way the lower process serves God's single overarching design.

It is coherent with the call of Jesus to the way of love as he states it in the two great commandments which lie at the base of our moral and spiritual obligation (Matt.

The accounts we have of the ministry and teaching of Jesus of Nazareth fit together in a coherent way to portray a remarkable and insightful individual.

If I can not get Jesus and the God of the Old Testament to fit together in a coherent way which maintains the love, grace, and mercy of God, then I may find myself within the ranks of those who simply write off much of the Old Testament as hopelessly full of errors.

It may well be that, in addition to requiring a coherent picture of ministry, recovery of unity in a course of study requires profound changes in the way in which critical inquiry is conducted in disciplined ways within theological schools.

To posit a subjective capacity to feel at the heart of all the moments that make up the cosmic process goes beyond the limits of scientific ways of thinking, but it is not a position that in any way conflicts with a coherent cosmology.

I am in no way suggesting the absence of intelligent, coherent supporters of same - sex marriage who capably utilize metaphysics or ethics.

He does deal with death in a way that is logical and coherent in his theoretical synthesis and in a way that is open to a variety of imagery for pastoral purposes.

Lepard offers a way for religious and legal understandings of morality to reinforce one another — perhaps a necessity for formulating a coherent policy regarding humanitarian intervention.

Alaso, ArthurP seems to be engaging in a form of personal «transference» by ascribing his own feelings and then «transferring» them to other people who he doesn't know, and then making assumptions about the way things «should be» without asking them, or, in fact, assuming that they were somehow better off killed and then goes on to say things that to a human who is basically coherent, can appear fatalistic and perhaps even suicidal.

The ability, in faithfulness to one's heritage, to display the universal relevance of the wisdom of all traditions in a coherent way has a certain relative advantage once the aim at universal relevance is thought through in a pluralistic context.

It has the unity, not of a single coherent system of doctrines, but of a single way of being «set» in the world as a person.

Probably everyone can admit that this is a valid way of reading a text like Arrested, which is the work of a coherent group of writers who plan together the network of associations.

Unfortunately, with Russia and China obstructing meaningful United Nations action, the «Friends of Syria» conference in Tunisia this February offered no coherent way out of the conflict.

Rikers Island, never a garden spot, devolved into a seething snakepit after the mayor settled a federal suit in 2015 by effectively stripping corrections officers of the ability to maintain order in coherent, predictable ways.

He admits he does not have proof «in the classical sense of the word» that the detention centres exist, but insists that a «number of coherent and converging elements», such as flight data and sources from within various intelligence agencies, point that way.

Labour is calling for a more «coherent» way of running the different types of state - funded schools in England, including academies and free schools.

But a year after that declaration, Accra is still submerged under piles of rubbish and I don't see a coherent way forward.

In particular we could see that a stream of stars is moving around differently than the rest in a very coherent way.

The team thinks Lagrangian coherent structures could provide a better way of identifying and classifying atmospheric rivers.

This area is still a long way from being a coherent unification of quantum and classical physics.