Sentences with phrase «essential expression of»

The artists in this hour are united by their steadfastness and persistence in creating; their art serves as an essential expression of their experience of the world.

Positive fidelity is an essential expression of commitment to each other's full growth.

Yet liberalism as a political theory, understood as a cooperative enterprise for mutual advantage among free and equal persons, is considered by friend and foe alike the essential expression of what it means to he a political animal in the modern West.

Thus new ideologies of the Future and of being a chosen people and commitment to a mission in world history to bring about that future, taking sides and fighting to determine the world's future in one's own terms, have become essential expressions of the spirit of modernity.

If indeed the incarnation and death of Jesus are essential expressions of God's nature, then Muslim and Christian understandings of God are truly very different.»

Not exact matches

Interactivity and feedback loops (along with the need for self - expression) are growing into essential components of any communication programs which want to build and maintain consistent and continuing connections with consumers and customers.

Then his disciples and the Jewish Christians faced the inevitable universalization of its essential spirit so that religious expression became vastly diverse.

However we take the doctrine of the Trinity, as ontological affirmation or as symbolic expression, it is essential to the way in which the New Testament sees the relation of God's love to his redemptive action in Jesus Christ.

(d) The essential characteristic of this time of salvation is clearly seen in Matthew 11:5 and Luke 7:22, where the signs of that time are listed, with expressions common in that epoch but which are remarkable for their powerful novelty: «the poor are brought good news».

It is the expression of care which is essential in one's relationship to significant others within one's own generation.

Prophetism is the total achievement of that unique movement spectacularly witnessed in concentrated power in the eighth, seventh, and sixth centuries, but developing from the time of Israel's birth as a people out of Egypt and continuing to find essential expression in the final six or seven centuries of biblical time.

But is there no essential difference between the two expressions hitherto used as identical: to despair over the earthly (the determinant of totality), and to despair over something earthly (the particular)?

General readers are perhaps best acquainted with the philosophy and the art of Mahayana — which are certainly two essential areas of expression.

For Nietzsche, on the other hand, the essential unity which may be said to underlie all things is not a complete totality which we can grasp through reason (as it is with Hegel), but an open - ended, incomplete process or chaotic flux which finds expression in the contingent, finite, temporal process of growth and decay which are characteristic of nature.

the essential features and «truth» of the historical faith are identified with one of its specific historical expressions.

The moment of the immediacy of the manifestation (I will return later to this expression which is Johannine before being Hegelian) is essential to the constitution of testimony as testimony.

Thus the principle of self - giving in God, which is acknowledged to be essential, can find expression only ad extra, in relations with creation.

The very expression «postulate» should not mislead us; it expresses, on the properly epistemological level and in the language of modality, the «hypothetical» character of the existential belief involved in the demand for completion, for totality, which constitutes practical reason in its essential purity.

So the sacraments of the church are primary formal expressions — that is, art — of the essential statement of the Christian myth.

Hartshorne's dependence upon Whitehead finds clearest expression in his enthusiastic adoption of Whitehead's view of the universe as essentially one of perpetual change and becoming, in opposition to the dominant views of traditional Western philosophy and theology that the basic realities of both God and the universe endure permanently without essential change.

Rouault saw in the clown the expression of the essential loneliness of the human spirit.

This means first of all that a certain economy of expression is essential in our theology today.

No good purpose is served by concealing this fact, as is often done today when things that are really incompatible are combined by the following type of over-simplified reasoning: that whatever in early Christian teaching appears to us irreconcilable with the immortality of the soul, viz. the resurrection of the body, is not an essential affirmation for the first Christians but simply an accommodation to the mythological expressions of the thought of their time, and that the heart of the matter is the immortality of the soul.

A complete meditation on the word, on the claim of the word by being, and hence a complete ontology of language is essential here if the expression «word of God» is to be meaningful or, in Bultmann's terms, if this statement is to have a nonmythological signification.

Consequently, the search for consensus and convergence on these three issues and the common understanding that mutual recognition of baptism, eucharist and ministry is an essential requirement and expression of the visible unity of the church have marked the work of Faith and Order since 1927.

The latter is described by Whitehead as the condition essential for attending to the «individuality of the details» necessary for expression.

Daily meditation became essential; he saw that dogmatic theology needs never to be viewed in isolation from the moral and spiritual; radical Christian life and witness is the interpenetration of ex opere operato and ex opere operantis; effective expressions of faith and liturgical rites call for fervent inner spiritual life.

The history of Christian thought has been a process of continual evaluation of new expressions of traditional faith to determine whether these new expressions adequately preserve the essential aspects of the faith, or whether they have sacrificed essential elements under the pressure and demands of the immediate cultural environment.

Therefore, we can not say that it is always wrong to take control of nature and turn it in directions we think good, for such self - transcendence is an expression of the freedom that is essential to being human.

That Marr imagines that the evils caused by capitalist «excesses» are a «betrayal» of something more essential to capitalism, rather than just natural expressions of the possibilities inherent within it, demonstrates a deep incoherence in his reasoning.

He did not specifically cite the congregation as the locus of the worshipping Christian community, nor was he sanguine about the long continuation of any institutional form of the church, but his acuity in aligning the essential faith of Christianity with its cultic expression in specific communities provides an explanation for the present strength of the local church.

An essential component of human organization, from religious communities to constitutional democracies, public opinion depends on public expression and public assembly.

And Jesus gave expression to this devaluation in his own life: he broke the Sabbath when he felt that God bade him act; he excused his disciples (at least) from the custom of fasting; and the burning national question whether one had really to pay the poli tax to the foreign power of occupation (in Judea and Samaria) he answered in the affirmative, but he viewed it as a secular concern and pointed his questioners to the essential duty, «Give to God what belongs to him.»

They firmly believed that, though some changes in the expression of Christian doctrine were needed, the essential truth of Christianity would stand firm and would be expressed again in new and more appropriate forms.

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

«Our support for freedom of expression, development of independent civil society and our conviction that the transparent and consistent application of human rights under the rule of law, are essential prerequisites for China's long term prosperity and stability,» No 10 said before the summit.

SERAP believes that articles 17 and 19 of the Covenant are closely connected, as the right to privacy is an essential requirement for the realization of the right to freedom of expression.»

The study of gender differences in the brain and the resulting differences in behavior dates back to the mid-1800s, with the classic experiment of German physician Arnold Berthold, who showed that testicular secretions were essential for the normal expression of male actions.

Knocking down expression with RNA interference showed that 30 % of newly arisen genes are essential for viability.

«Because many broadly expressed genes that play key roles in essential cellular functions are under the control of cell - specific enhancers, the ability to affect enhancer function by knocking down eRNAs could potentially provide a new strategy for altering gene expression in vivo in a cell - specific manner,» said Glass, noting that in his research, anti-sense oligonucleotides were developed in conjunction with Isis Pharmaceuticals, which suppressed enhancer activity and reduced expression in nearby genes.

Scientists at NYU Langone Medical Center and New York University have demonstrated that a specialized DNA - binding protein called CTCF is essential for the precise expression of genes that control the body plan of a developing embryo.

Rhythmic expression of key genes is essential for maintaining proper timekeeping of the body's clock.

In a non-disease state, TDP - 43 is an important protein involved in various aspects of the metabolism of RNA, a molecule essential in various biological roles in the regulation and expression of genes.

Homozygous lethality of the XPCS allele is likely due to reduced levels of expression of this essential protein as a result of gene targeting (Figure 1A) rather than to the mutation itself.

In addition, A-to-I RNA editing is involved in control of the expression and function of microRNA (miRNA), which is a small RNA essential for the RNAi mediated gene silencing mechanism.

Hsiou - Chi Liou and colleagues find that c - Rel, a lymphoid - specific member of the NF - kappaB / Rel family of transcriptional factors, is essential for B lymphocyte survival and cell cycle progression, [i] and that it is important for inducible cytokine and cytokine receptor expression and a key regulator of early activation and proliferation in T cells.

Essential role of IRF - 3 in lipopolysaccharide - induced interferon - β gene expression and endotoxin shock.

Restricted expression of cdc25a in the tailbud is essential for formation of the zebrafish posterior body.

Conditional expression of Mycobacterium smegmatis ftsZ, an essential cell division gene.

SOX2 continues to be expressed in the inner ears of mice lacking Math1 (also known as Atoh1 and HATH1), a gene essential for hair cell differentiation, whereas Math1 expression is absent in Lcc mutants, suggesting that Sox2 acts upstream of Math1.