Sentences with phrase «constructed by our beliefs»

«The work on the whole seeks to reveal that a reality constructed by our beliefs and one determined by actual events are one and the same,» she has said.

Not exact matches

A theology of «privilege» might be a constructed belief for them, in that they inherit the Kingdom of God by means of divine grace once they've accepted Jesus into their hearts.

This very belief hinders us to live in spiritual freedom as the prison is constructed by the mind itself.

It's entirely valid to reference the being constructed in those pages, because people believe in him, believe he exists as described in that text, and their behavior in the real world is influenced by that belief.

Rationalism and scientism (belief in the epistemological supremacy of reason and especially of scientific method) produced the conjecture, in some quarters at least, that the symbolic / mythic / poetic / narrative modes of expression employed by all the religions are perhaps nothing more than our own subjective projections or constructs, and not representations of an independent sacral reality.

But as many «culturist» critics of science note, this belief is belied by the fact that apologists for science tend to defend their position by passionate appeals to the universality and immutability of the «laws of nature» that science progressively and objectively discovers: laws that it would be absurd to view as socially constructed.3 Such an objection, however, fails to take note of the fact that, as Whitehead puts it, «Nature is patient of interpretation in terms of Laws which happen to interest us» (AI 136).

In the third lecture we are shown what Christians did with that original belief, why they constructed impressive but perplexing dogmatic formulations, and what relation these credal structures have to the faith by which the Christian community actually lives.

Responding to the space and internal structure of the building itself, the works explore states of lust and belief, described in the press release as «constructed by the desire that birthed it, forever in a state of restructuring: communicating vessels, pouring into one another.»

This may be one of the first attempts by the Supreme Court to begin to construct a doctrine of «reasonable accommodation» of conscience / belief, a potentially very useful and sensible idea which Lady Hale discussed in a speech earlier this year (we noted it here).

Moreover, DSM - 5 trait dimensions also add features such as eccentricity, perceptual dysregulation (dissociation), unusual beliefs and experiences, deceitfulness, and manipulativeness to individualized case - formulations, which are not covered by schema therapy constructs.

Bowen further expanded his family systems theory with the belief that the behavior of each family member was influenced by his or her birth order and position in the family construct.

By constructing more flexible and moderate (but still accurate, not necessarily positive) beliefs, clients would still feel annoyed and upset, but hopefully not enraged.

First, the present study affirmed that positive youth development is comprised of fifteen inter-related constructs, namely, bonding, social competence, emotional competence, cognitive competence, behavioural competence, moral competence, self - efficacy, prosocial norms, resilience, self - determination, spirituality, clear and positive identity, beliefs in the future, prosocial involvement, and recognition for positive behaviour (Catalano et al. 2004), with beliefs in the future having the strongest influence on positive youth development, followed by spirituality (Fig. 6).