Sentences with phrase «direct object of study»

The proposal does imply that congregations ought to be one of the subject matters that are the direct objects of study.

These are the various subject matters that are the immediate or direct objects of study in theological schooling.

A variety of other matters have historically been made the direct objects of study in trust that studying them would lead indirectly to truer understanding of God.

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Intellectual activity motivated by such interests may indeed make Ultimate Being and man its objects of study and so seem to share in the thought of the Church; but insofar as it is directed by a love that is not love of Being and of man it can not see or understand what love understands.

Historical study in theology, when theology is directed toward its chief objects, is always more like a conversation with a large company of similarly concerned and experienced men than like the tracing of a life history, whatever values there are in the latter procedure.

When communication is a one - way process, proceeding from an authoritative person to an immature learner who is not in direct relation to the object of the study, intellectual activity is at a minimum in both parties; such a school is not a community of students but a propaganda or indoctrination institution.

In a preliminary follow - up study directed by Lillard, 16 girls and boys, ages 3 to 6, chose between playing with 10 real objects, such as a microscope, or toy versions of the same objects.