Sentences with phrase «concern with the teaching»

While some programs also encourage abstinence or noncoital sex, most are concerned with teaching techniques for «safe sex»; offspring (and disease) are thus treated as (equally) avoidable side effects of sexuality, whose true purpose is only individual pleasure.

The religious schools, which are only concerned with teaching the Qur» an, Islamic doctrines, and Arabic, have greatly declined in the cities and villages because of the spread of modern schools and are now found chiefly in the desert and the lodges of the Sufi orders.

He just sounds like a cruel dictator, more concerned with the teaching than the child he used and abused for the lesson.

Generally speaking, there are three kinds of educational institutions which are concerned with the teaching of the history of religions.

Today, you have said we aren't so concerned with the teachings of Jesus, what you believe to be God incarnate's directions to humanity — what we have been called by God to live by, because we aren't going to bother with it anyway.

I'm not that concerned with teaching you how to do a perfect backbend or offering intricate alignment cues.

Most importantly, it takes seriously what it means to understand the relationship between how we learn and how we act as individual and social agents; that is, it is concerned with teaching students how not only to think but to come to grips with a sense of individual and social responsibility, and what it means to be responsible for one's actions as part of a broader attempt to be an engaged citizen who can expand and deepen the possibilities of democratic public life.

When a problem arises in a school setting, it is important that school leaders have the skills to effectively and respectfully discuss the issue or concern with the teaching staff involved.

Yet, the discipline remained traditional in the sense that it was still primarily concerned with the teaching of literature, composition, and oratory.

Some of the workshops were concerned with teaching about Anne Frank and the Holocaust.

Those three levels I sampled were taken from the opening two sectors of the game and were primarily concerned with teaching the fundamental controls and introducing game concepts.

Natural language processing As its name implies, natural language processing (NLP) is a form of AI that is concerned with teaching machines to understand and even converse in natural human language.

Not exact matches

After beginning her career with Chevron, Gordon has managed an active energy and environmental consulting practice, taught at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and directed the Energy Policy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Evangelicals and Catholics alike are concerned with these questions — What does the Bible authoritatively teach?

The document criticizes «doctrinal or disciplinary security,» «an obsession with the law,» «punctilious concern for... doctrine,» «dogmatism,» «hiding behind rules and regulations,» and «a rigid resistance to change,» while reprimanding those who «give excessive importance to certain rules,» overemphasize «ecclesial rules,» believe that «doctrine... is a closed system,» «feel superior to others because they observe certain rules,» have «an answer for every question,» wish to «exercise a strict supervision over others» lives,» «long for a monolithic body of doctrine guarded by all and leaving no room for nuance,» believe that «we give glory to God... simply by following certain ethical norms,» and «look down on others like heartless judges, lording it over them and always trying to teach them lessons.»

Rather, the new NIV here makes it possible for English readers to discover a more Catholic or Orthodox or truly Lutheran Paul, one who teaches that the problem with the Jewish law is its ethnic and temporary character and that human salvation concerns our real sacramental participation in divine life, real transformation, and ultimate resurrection.

«My concern was that the council was acting with seeming disregard for the teachings of Scripture.

We lasted 9 months, and in that short time, I became extremely concerned with many aspects of what the pastor was teaching.

The first has to do with personal consumption and takes seriously the Bible's concern for the poor, its teachings on the dangers of possessions, and its call to sharing.

Had they stuck to the spiritual teachings unpinning the faith — AND actually bothered to even attempt to live by those tenets — and been less political, less angry, less hypocritical, less concerned with everyone's bedroom habits but their own... I imagine my live and my spiritual path would have turned out very different.

Your statement that «all the comments on this subject (concerning atheists) do not come from happy people... who despise, are upset, have nothing, are not thankful and... have nothing to live for» goes against the very way that both Jesus and the apostles taught when speaking with individuals who do not share their view.

His concern, he said, was an SBC - affiliated bookstore carrying a film with language that the convention teaches is inappropriate.

The training begins with teaching the child to repeat lessons concerning Islamic beliefs and to perform correctly the worship rites.

It is unfortunate that «Mapping the Future» seems so concerned with preserving post-1970s approaches to unmasking ideologies that it takes precedent over «salutary teaching.»

And yet he is the object of the God's love, and the God desires to teach him, and is concerned to bring him to equality with himself.

It remembered and taught what Jesus had said about God and man, about the kingdom of God, about human moral responsibility, and the like, because it was primarily concerned with something else.

While couched in different language, Catholic social teaching has much in common with this approach, in its overriding concern to safeguard the unique dignity of every human person, created in the image and likeness of God, and in its emphasis on the duty of civil authority to foster the common good.

Americans are only concerned with Muslims who believe in Muhammad, how he lived his life, and what he taught in Qur «an.

So too today, instead of engaging with the entirety of the twentieth century Magisterial teaching concerning artificial contraception — Pius XI, Pius XII, Paul VI, John Paul II — The Tablet focuses on Humanae Vitae and seeks to knock that down so as to knock the whole edifice of teaching in this area.

We are only concerned with the possibility that the Church's official ministry may over-estimate the scope and significance of the correct teaching which it propounds and inculcates.

I'm not so concerned with where the money came from as I am with him living a lifestyle that doesn't really follow what Jesus taught us about humble living.

Nicolas Berdyaev declared that ethics should teach a man how to die, but philosophical ethics is not concerned with this.

Our Churches, with common consent, do teach that the decree of the Council of Nicaea concerning the Unity of the Divine Essence and concerning the Three Persons, is true and to be believed without any doubting; that is to say, there is one Divine Essence which is called and which is God: eternal, without body, without parts, of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, the Maker and Preserver of all things, visible and invisible; and yet there are three Persons, of the same essence and power, who also are coeternal, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

If you are not Catholic or don't study or believe in the teachings of Christ why do you concern yourself with attacking Catholics?

If only right - wing Christians were more concerned with PRACTICING Christ's teachings than spouting off about them.

Jeremy Myers, i think you are wrong and David is right, so many out there are preaching you can live any way you want and be right that Grace covers any sin, they really believe that, that is not what the bible says, God was very concerned about sin so much he sent Jesus his son to die on a cross for us, if we accept Jesus as our savor then we are to obey his commandments, not break them, we are to live a righteous and holy life as possible, the bible plainly list a whole list of things if we live in will not to to heaven unless we repent, if we die while in these sins, we will not go to heaven, what is the difference, between someone who said a prayer and someone who did not, and they are living the same way, none, i think, if we are truly saved it should be hard to do these things let alone live and do them everyday, i would be afraid to tell people that it does not matte grace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hates sin,

Do not really concern myself with what is or is not «Lutheran teaching».

With the advent of National Socialism the official philosophical and racial teachings of the Third Reich, prepared by its ideological forerunners, began to make themselves felt in all disciplines concerned with the study of religion and of sociWith the advent of National Socialism the official philosophical and racial teachings of the Third Reich, prepared by its ideological forerunners, began to make themselves felt in all disciplines concerned with the study of religion and of sociwith the study of religion and of society.

While I am in sympathy with your plight and suffering you endured while traveling in the Middle East, if you are truly a present Christian you should be a follower of Christ's words and life and be concerned for men who face eternal damnation as Jesus taught.

First, we are told that this passage teaches that Jesus is not so concerned with the amount a person gives, but with the percentage.

The only cure for this crippling influence is a strong and independent organized teaching profession, whose members are protected against outside interference in the performance of their professional functions and who recognize and accept their responsibility for dealing knowledgeably and impartially not only with the proximate issues of life but also with the ultimate concerns of faith through which the particulars of life gain their deeper significance.

Though the early Church was quite concerned with social justice as a sign and fruit of the teaching of Jesus, over the centuries Churches have had different perceptions on rights, according to their social alliances and theological elaborations.

That has been especially true of Christians concerned with the anti-Jewish character of so much Christian teaching.

«39 Remove the probability of error as one's starting point and instead substitute a «scientific» (inductive) approach to Scripture, one beginning with the Bible's own teaching concerning its infallibility, and building criticism of it from there, and even these more difficult problems dissipate.

Those of us who are concerned with the rights of extrahuman creation would do best to listen to what nature has to teach us about itself and its needs before we venture to determine its rights.

It is his message with which we are concerned, his message of the love of God and love for neighbors as expressed in the way he taught and in the way he lived.

As the Benedictus Trust website explains: «In his book The Idea of a University Bl John Henry Cardinal Newman asserts that the primary purpose of a university should be to teach theoretical knowledge, following the distinction made by Aristotle in the first book of the Nicomachean Ethics between moral and intellectual virtues; the moral life concerned with practical knowledge and the intellectual life primarily concerned with theoretical knowledge — that is, «knowledge for the sake of itself».

If Church teaching were to be wholeheartedly accepted by the Church as something that should be promoted with enthusiasm, if Humanae Vitae becomes seen as teaching that will make people's lives holier and happier, several consequences follow for education concerning sex and relationships.

It involves studying the holy truths and meditating on the impurity of the passions: in meditating on friendliness — in order to destroy hate; in meditating on dependent origination — to disperse error; and, finally, in studying all the teachings concerned with the nature of things.

Also compare the penetrating echo of the teachings of Jesus in the New Testament with something as mysterious and utterly confounding and void of human - to - human concern as the Dao De Jing.