Sentences with phrase «debate about the nature»

The Boston Marathon bombings and the faiths of the Tsarnaev brothers have renewed the debate about the nature of Islam, so this week I am reposting my review of Miroslav Volf's Allah: A Christian Response, from the Patheos archives.

And rather than reviving the old debates about the nature of Being itself, wouldn't it be better to think about matter in terms of the incarnate Christ?

Most but not all Christian sects thank so but there is debate about the nature of that miracle, even among members of the Catholic church, the original Christians.

If the church did not maintain a voice in the contemporary debate about the nature of reality and the purpose of human life, it could not hold or attract the kind of leaders it needed for the future.

It is now almost twenty years since, among other things, an article by Christopher Duraisingh in Religion and Society, laying emphasis on the hyphenated character of Indian - Christian identity, [3] sparked off a debate about the nature of this identity of Indian - Christians in the contemporary context.

I think those are mostly debates about the nature of the government and Parliament that we elect - likelihood of single - party majority or coalition government, etc - and the issue of individual candidate selection is a relatively low priority (though I accept some, particularly STV supporters, might give that a higher priority).

[60] In April 2012, in the midst of a debate about the nature of political party funding, Miliband called on David Cameron to institute a # 5,000 cap on donations from individuals and organisations to political parties, after it had been suggested that the government favoured a cap of # 50,000.

Here's a potential treat for our UK readers and anyone else going to the eCampaigning Forum in Oxford later this month: an extended live debate about the nature and effectiveness of digital activism.

In it, the projection of compassionate conservatism, or appeals to the grandchildren of Essex Man, or debates about the nature and extent of modernisation, will be useless - as antique as the certainties of Edwardian England must have seemed in the depression - wracked 1930s.

On criminal justice and asylum, the Lib Dems give a different weight to rights and responsibilities, and they favour more proportional voting systems, although with Labour's support for a referendum on the alternative vote this is now a debate about the nature rather than the principle of reform.

This study relates to the long - standing debate about the nature of the superfluid state in Fermi systems.

Alike and different in ways that scientists can dissect, twins provide grist for the long - running debate about nature and nurture.

The findings weigh in on theoretical debates about the nature of human consciousness, the researchers say.

The whole point is to encourage discussion and debate about the nature of responsible public engagement, how different folks fare, how much these things matter, and how to accurately measure a policy scholar's value.

The aim of this module is to: - Introduce utilitarianism and deontology to students - Foster debates about the nature of morality as well as specific moral issues.

For more than a century, American educators and education policymakers have chosen sides in a great debate about the nature and function of American high schools.

The Forum developed in 1997 out of a sense of urgency that middle - grades school improvement had stalled, amid a flurry of descending test scores, increasing reports of school violence, and heated debates about the nature and purpose of middle - grades education.

The unified state was the culmination of centuries of intellectual debate about the nature of government and the rights of rulers.

Current Exhibitions Forthcoming Exhibitions Past Exhibitions Publications The Museum's temporary exhibition programme regularly juxtaposes the work of leading, well - established figures with that of younger - generation artists to create a debate about the nature and function of art.

The prize always attracts fierce public debate about the nature of art.

Singapore - born but Australian - based, Gill's work adds a concern for foreignness and displacement to the debates about nature and culture, masquerade and the body.

Kippin's photographic artwork has contributed to debates about the nature of post-industrial landscapes, national and regional identity, forgotten spaces, and the power of the state and commerce to reshape the world.

The Museum's temporary exhibition programme regularly juxtaposes the work of leading, well - established figures with that of younger - generation artists to create a debate about the nature and function of art.

As it turns out that the role of impartiality in mediation has become the center of a growing debate about the nature and future of mediation.

Then, for some reason, there was some mild debate about the nature of vaping, but you'll have to listen to fully grasp that thread.

Further work will benefit from a clearer distinction between the study of phenomena (both recovered and FM) and their mechanisms (suggestion, repression, and dissociation), and direct and forthright debate about the nature and weight of types of evidence.

This debate about the nature of therapeutic effectiveness and the need for evidence - based psychotherapy has led to the formation of task forces to define, identify, and disseminate information about empirically supported psychological interventions.

Not exact matches

However, in the ongoing AMA, hosted by Bitcoin.com, Shrem opened up about a range of topics including the ongoing debate over bitcoin's block size, adjusting to prison life and why he believes the transparent nature of the bitcoin blockchain will lead to more repressive government regulation.

Let me just ask one question: Can we PLEASE start the debate in the country about how «God», «Hell», «Heaven», «Satan», «Muhammad», «Jesus», «Angels» «Ghosts» «Demons» and «Spirits of the Dead and or / Nature / Mother Earth» do not exist in any rational form as the way they are presented throughout world history?

For example, the church had to argue and debate about the Trinitarian nature of God for close to 300 years before that issue was settled, but it was settled.

In the debate about design in nature, sola fides takes on an entirely new meaning.

Stephen Dingley examines an essential question, frequently raised in debates and discussions about the nature of human life, and why humans matter.

As debate continues over President Obama's assertion about the religious nature (or lack thereof) of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, a new Pew Research Center study finds that more Americans across the board believe that Islam encourages violence more than other religions.

I wanted to share this summary from Christianity Today about the current debate between theologians N.T. Wright and John Piper regarding the nature of justification.

It is an astounding detail when you think about it: The God of all creation, the One who knows every corner of the cosmos and fathoms every mystery, the One who could answer every theological riddle and who, I suspect, chuckles at our volumes of guesses, our centuries of pompous philosophical tomes debating His nature, when present in the person of Jesus Christ, told stories.

These are some of many subjects that competent and well respected scholars continue to debate and vigourously disagree on.That is the nature of the animal we call theology... if everything we come to believe about the Christian faith is a product of infallible indisputable revelation, then the case is closed.

In The Self and the Dramas of History Niebuhr returned to the debate about man's nature and freedom, and this book may be read as Niebuhr's public reply to Tillich.

By then defining «nature» in terms of relationship (instead of either static concept or unlimited dynamism) he was able to offer a solution to the old conundrum about the relationship between grace and nature, in a way which avoids the excessively arid and abstract terms with which this important debate has so often been carried on.

Second, it's important to know that there has always been a lot of debate among theologians about the nature of the future and God's knowledge of it.

The debates occurred at a time when there was enough Enlightenment talk about «Nature's God» to compromise evangelical talk about the God of the Bible in the affairs of the United States.

Such actions on the part of God should give us moderns pause when we reason about «nature» in the same - sex attraction debates.

Note also how within process theologies there are the debates about the relationship between God's primordial and consequent nature.

The debate among Christians about the meaning and nature of the resurrection of Jesus has moved from the appeal to inerrant scripture, which was regarded by most until a century ago as being quite sufficient, to the arena where the tools of historical and literary criticism are regarded as legitimate.

I don't care very much to debate the nature of the Iranian revolution then and now but one thing that seems to be a hard fact is that their revolution of 1979 has left the west disoriented, delusional, and in a fixed state of constant fantasy about its nature and eventual collapse.

I am particularly concerned about the attempt to wed so closely this debate over the nature of the church with religious and political communion.

The debate is an argument about the nature of the spirit realm, specifically, about whether or not beings of the spirit realm took up any «space.»

We debate endlessly about Peace, Democracy, the Rights of Man, the conditions of racial and individual eugenics, the value and morality of scientific research pushed to the uttermost limit, and the true nature of the Kingdom of God; but here again, how can we fail to see that each of these inescapable questions has two aspects, and therefore two answers, according to whether we regard the human species as culminating in the individual or as pursuing a collective course towards higher levels of complexity and consciousness?

Division also arose about a serious debate that arose about the nature of Jesus.

Out of this came a lot of debate about original sin, the evil of human nature, and all the mental gymnastics to sustain that stuff.

The concept (and rhetoric) of a profound dichotomy between nature and nurture was superimposed over the more flexible and synergistic «traditional» understanding of the matter, markedly polarising and distorting the entire, many - sided debate about the role and weight of heredity and experience in both the natural world and the human situation.