Sentences with word «construal»

To speak of a variety of construals of Christianity or of social and economic locations is to suggest a set of variations on a theme.

Effect of Individual Differences in Construal Level on Procrastination: Moderating Role of Intelligence Theories

In short, arguments for a particular construal of Christian justification influence and shape views about marriage among Christian believers.

That will mean that the ethos of its common life as a school will tend to privilege certain answers to the questions about construal of the Christian thing, community, and understanding God.

In contrast, they predicted that sex — which is often about the here and now, living in the moment, and enjoying the experience — would be associated with a more concrete construal level.

There was also some support for a positive construal component as suggested by Palmieri & Smith [29].

A symposium at SPSP's Annual Convention presented four talks on how subjective construals of inequality and status shape political motivations, beliefs, and behaviors.

These findings extend prior reports and shed light on how individual differences in self - construal affect SWB.

On the freedom exercised and the choices made in such construal, see David H. Kelsey, The Uses of Scripture in Recent Theology (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975).

His interlocutor defends «a particularly colorless construal of the beatific vision» which has the consequence of preventing any pesky animals from passing through the Pearly Gates.

The unity of theological schooling need not rest on an implicit or tacit privileging of one construal over others.

Epstude and Fӧrster2 hypothesized that love — which, as we all know, is supposed to lift you higher, take you further, and last forever — would be associated with an abstract construal level.

Process measures reveal that a moderate (vs. low) level of noise increases processing difficulty, inducing a higher construal level and thus promoting abstract processing, which subsequently leads to higher creativity.

-LSB-...] The experience isn't inherent in the event; it resides in the event's psychological construal.

Aside from a passage from the Catechism of the Council of Trent, he observes that «there is nothing else in the tradition of which I am aware (or of which Pitstick is aware: if she had been she would have told us) which suggests the possibility that her preferred construal of the glory of the descent should be elevated to doctrinal status: nothing creedal, nothing conciliar, and nothing magisterial.»

And so there are many reasons why Christian wisdom has a hard time gaining a hearing among environmental thinkers who are in search of a religious or quasi-religious construal of reality that can comprehend their concerns.

However attentive [Scalia's] theory is to a reasonable, contextual construal of the written law, his position, nevertheless, is rather clearly an expression of legal positivism.

A «true» model of God will be one that is a powerful, persuasive construal of God as being on the side of life and its fulfillment in our time.17

The sacramental voice of the priests (identified in scholarship as «the priestly tradition»)-- a kind of language markedly absent in our shrill moralisms — insists that when old patterns of meaning are destroyed, one may find refuge in liturgic construals of ordered holiness.

It is not so much a method, of course, as a theoretical construal of the field.

The tradition or position is valued as a true construal of the Christian thing.

Which historic construals of the Christian thing does it explicitly own?

How, and for what reasons, is it different from other available construals of the Christian thing?

It is a conviction based on the theological warrant that any seriously theocentric construal of reality demands publicness.

(Their Hebrew philology on the whole is excellent, with only an occasional construal that strikes me as dubious.

Far from being a new construal, this way of putting things goes to the very heart of what it means to be a genuine Protestant, a true Evangelical, and an authentic Baptist.

Theological education thus ends up being inadequate to a great many construals of the Christian thing that have not been privileged, and is also inadequate to a great many «worlds» in which the faith is actually lived.

While this may be true, what is at least equally significant is the closed and determinate construal of meaning at the time of the speech event.

But please don't rush to critique what is merely the modern / atheistic construal of theocracy.

Often it appears in symposia about the relative incapacity of anyone to say much of anything with security about God, since everything we can say is a perspectival construal conditioned decisively by the sociohistorical situation from which one comes — a view that, oddly, always seems to be coupled with a plea to discuss the matter a lot more.

It would seem, then, that a possible construal of valid induction» (inferences to predictions and theories scientists find to be good inductions) might be the following inference pattern.