Sentences with phrase «complex nature of power»

Along with Derrida's deconstruction, Michel Foucault's study of the complex nature of power and truth and Fredric Jameson's neo-Marxist analysis of ideology have been deeply influential on postmodernism in biblical studies.

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Nevertheless, by virtue of our collective human powers — our capacity for complex symbolic thinking, the sophistication of our tools, our ability to steward nature, and our demonstrated interest in telling both nature's story and our own — human beings also transcend nature.

But whoever wants, on the other hand, really to behold and receive all truth, and would have the truth - world overhang him as an empyrean of stars, complex, multitudinous, striving antagonistically, yet comprehended, height above height, and deep under deep, in a boundless score of harmony; what man soever, content with no small rote of logic and catechism, reaches with true hunger after this, and will offer himself to the many - sided forms of the scripture with a perfectly ingenuous and receptive spirit; he shall find his nature flooded with senses, vastnesses, and powers of truth, such as it is even greatness to feel.

This is a more complex scenario, though, because the extent and nature of the complicity between representatives of religious communities and expansionist colonial powers is often hard to assess, and conclusions about it must of necessity be context - specific.

If Universe came into existence suddenly, then how Science can justify the existence and creation of Nature, the Planets, the gamut of microorganisms to the complex human beings, males and females, the power to reproduce... I wonder if all these just appeared from nowhere!

Science has revealed God's plan of control and direction in the very fact of the laws of nature; in the unity of these laws which thus point to the oneness of God; in the developmental power of the laws which bring about all the rich diversity of the universe from stars and galaxies to complex life; and in the openness of these laws to higher synthesis and higher development within the spiritual order.

It differs from it, however, in a number of new and highly complex concepts which make it of a more theistic nature than the earlier Kabbalah and yet cause it to lay much stronger emphasis on the power of man to bring about the Messianic redemption of Israel and the world.

He added: «This power will give our law enforcement agencies the tools they need to tackle the increasingly complex and global nature of terrorism and gather and analyse evidence to prosecute terrorists who make ever greater use of new technology such as encrypted computers.»

«This is one of the very first studies of human iPSC models for type 2 diabetes, and it points out the power of this technology to look at the nature of diabetes, which is complex and may be different in different individuals,» says C. Ronald Kahn, MD, Joslin's Chief Academic Officer and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

All of us in the reading ecology — librarians, authors, repackagers, readers — are tied to the tracks by the Brobdingnagian power wielded by the highly consolidated publisher - industrial complex that is then magnified a thousand-fold by the conveniently elastic, virtual nature of digital publishing.

I do however think that many nuclear power proponents have a habit of glossing over the complex and demanding nature of the technology.

I have also come to understand, over the course of researching this book, that the shift will require rethinking the very nature of humanity's power — our right to extract ever more without facing consequences, our capacity to bend complex natural systems to our will.

It's an intriguing idea to perceive these bits of nature as «storehouses of information» — when viewed with this perspective in mind, these complex assemblages become imbued with an evocative power.

Though North Freedonia's institutional arrangements are more complex than Freedonia's, and include a measure of separation of powers, especially between judicial and other officials, the process by which its unwritten rules came to be, and thus their nature, is not relevantly different from those in Freedonia.

Expressing shock, offence, and disbelief, social media responses reminded the Herald of the often implicit nature of racism in the form of unconscious biases and stereotypes, and of the need to acknowledge historical and contemporary issues of power and privilege embedded within the systems and institutions of society in order to truly consider the complex expressions and forms of racism.