Sentences with phrase «essential structures of»

They mark the essential structures of meaning and value in which that group participates.

The solution they advocate, therefore, can be said to be «modernist»: it believes in essential structures, and proposes that we recover the old and proper integrity of the undergraduate curriculum by reaffirming the centrality, and hence the authority, of those essential structures of understanding that have been defined by the traditional educational canon.

Therefore we can not adopt the suggestion that the structure and movement of a theological course of study should simply reflect the essential structure of Christianity.

34 - 35) the essential structure of the Jacob narrative is reiterated.

Furthermore, this subject matter was said to have an essential structure of several dimensions that dictate a structure to theological study.

However, this factor is not part of the essential structure of experience as such; it lies rather at the base of experience.

As for the other, strictly metaphysical implications of faith and justice, I propose to explicate, first, what they necessarily imply for the essential structure of the reality of God.

Martin weighs the merits of his «all truths are timeless,» or can be so formulated without loss of truth, against what he takes to be my view (for no reason in my writings that I can see) that all are time - bound; he ignores the moderate or less extreme view that some (namely, truths about extremely universal and abstract, eternal and necessary things, including the essential structure of time as such) are timeless, and others (those about less universal and abstract, also non-eternal and contingent things) are time - bound, but this not in every way a careless thinker might suppose but in a definite and logically intelligible way.

According to Streng, myths show «the essential structure of reality, manifest in particular events of the past that are remembered from generation to generation».

Stripped to their most essential structure of standing, resting or hanging in suspension, the works together create a landscape that invites viewers to construct a meaningful whole out of discreet, fragmentary parts.

In today's society, these ideas are highly relevant as well as explosive: on the one hand, they reflect an essential structure of life in the digital age, on the other hand — by casting many possible views on one and the same thing — they symbolize openness and tolerance as basic principles of peaceful coexistence in a society.

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Find out the essentials of the different legal business structures you can choose for your new business.

The organizational structure of the company is an essential element within a business plan because it provides a basis from which to project operating expenses.

But instead I had to warn them that there were several essential elements of their corporate structure they had to get right now to maximize their probability of success.

Investment Manager essential duties are: 1) Leadership of transaction execution — oversight of all advisors (financial, legal, market and technical), oversight of all financial modelling, pro-active management of timeline and primary point of contact for investment team; 2) Strong input on transactions sourcing; 3) Managing multiple transactions; 4) Negotiate and create optimal commercial, financial and legal structures; 5) Creation of materials for the Investment Committee («IC») sufficient to allow the IC to approve or reject activities, commitments, investments, and exits in accordance with company risk preferences, appetite, processes, etc.; 6) Creation and management of transaction closing processes; 7) Developing, instructing, training, mentoring, and coaching junior personnel;

Building fair and equitable structures, equity ownership and comp plans is an essential component of a successful company and an angel investor portfolio.

In addition, concerning proteins, that are essential to the structure and function of all living cells, the odds of one protein occurring at random has been calculated as 10 113.

When one puts the theory to the task of developing an account of divine experience, it therefore follows quite directly that temporal ordering and structure will be judged to be as essential to the divine experience as to any other.

Now, of course, we know that misrecognition is essential to the structure of the resurrection narrative; the playful game of «hide and seek» the Lord plays with his disciples is not accidental but pedagogic.

According to Balthasar everything in the Church is a movement between these two principles (Marian and Petrine): the Church as the bride of Christ is the extension and product of the living reality of Christ, which requires an essential structure (sacraments and ministry, which are founded by Christ Himself).

Although I agree that the maximum distribution of power and decision - making is desirable and growth - producing, it is clear that some structured authority is also essential in all social systems.

By contrast, the picture of theology sketched here implies that «theology» is not some one enterprise and may have no single core «essential structure.»

F. Ability to participate in and help mobilize community structures for essential social change through a working knowledge of the nature of communities and community structures.

Religious arguments are, so they insist, superfluous in defending a traditional view of marriage: «Because marriage uniquely meets essential needs in such a structured way, it should be regulated for the common good, which can be understood apart from specifically religious arguments.»

If metaphysics is indeed the elaboration of the first principles upon which all experience depends, then it is essential to get clear on both what those principles are and how one might proceed in securing a knowledge of their basic structure.

The organization of a group is not a bad thing, just an essential component in order to create structure and identity.

For example, in the atomic theory the essential particulars are the structures and arrangements of atoms.

But according to the theory I am describing, matter is no longer a «thing»; it is translated into the essential particulars as a structure of primitive events.8 You can see how Einstein's thinking was going.

If people saw themselves obligated to ensure that everyone has the essentials of life's opportunities, then the economic and political institutions of society would be structured differently.

The presence of traditional role models, conventional vocabulary and structure is perhaps essential to determine the identity of any religio - spiritual movement.

All external signs of identity, all structures, associations, and programs, valuable or even essential as they may be, ultimately exist only to support and foster the deeper unity which is, in Christ, God's indefectible gift to his Church.»

In a democracy these structures are quite different from those in nondemocratic societies, but they are nonetheless essential, and willing, intelligent observance of them is requisite to right behavior.

Thus mutual confirmation of men is most fully realized in what Buber calls «making present,» an event which happens partially wherever men come together but in its essential structure only rarely.

When our organizations, our beliefs, their essential purpose, their processes and structure by definition are bankrupt and when our beliefs go unquestioned or unchallenged and have become our «drug of choice» the confusion you describe mirrors the symptoms of any addict going through withdrawal.

So then, I take it that this is just a nice structured chat about what a person believes, what the United Church of Canada (UCC) believes, and about the essential doctrines of the UCC triumphing over, or changing to, or accommodating the essential doctrines of the individual.

Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert Merton have said: «To the extent that the media of mass communication has had an influence upon their audiences it has stemmed not only from what is said but more significantly from what is not said, for these media not only continue to affirm the status quo but in the same measure they fail to raise essential questions about the structure of society.

Here Niebuhr, Brunner, and Barth share the same general position, though with some differences in emphasis.13 They all agree that the social orders which form the structure of human history, such as the family, the state, the economic order, betray an essential separation of man from God.

We do not miss the loyalty of David's mercenary troops (15: 19 - 21); the narrator's conviction of the mature quality of David's faith (15:25 f.; 16:12); the essential gentleness of David in these most wretched hours (16:5 - 14); the brilliant, carnal symbol of Absalom's irrevocable usurpation (16:20 - 22) and its portentous recall of the David - Nathan encounter (II 12:11 - 12); the arch Old Testament realist, the remarkable pragmatist Ahitophel (17: 1 - 23); Joab, who always acts like Joab (18:10 - 15; 19:1 - 7; 20A - 13); David's pathetic concern, implicit throughout, for the defiant son (18:1 - 5); the moving grief of a father's utter brokenness in the loss of his son (18:33); the reassertion in this critical time of the old and always fundamental north - south cleavage (19:11,41 - 43); David's profound and probably chronic annoyance with the crude, brash, «muscular» ways of Joab and his brothers, the sons of Zeruiah (16:10; 19:22; see also 3:34 b; 3:38 f.); and finally, in a kind of pausal summary before the last scene of David's reign in I Kings 1 - 2, the statement of David's very modest bureaucracy (20:23 - 26; cf. the extensive elaboration of this structure under Solomon, I Kings 4:1 ff.).

Its warrant for this claim is that social changes, including recognition of the equal dignity and rights of women, «have worked deep transformations in the structure of marriage, affecting aspects of marriage once viewed as essential» (2, my emphasis).

For a philosophy of mechanism, these building blocks are assumed to be static either in being or structure (or at least to have static essential parts), and it is from such fixed structure that the mechanist seeks to predict the nature of the whole, normally by the laws of mechanics.

Moreover, in addressing «the nature of the academic calling» (as they significantly still put it), the AAUP argued that «if education is the cornerstone of the structure of society and if progressing in scientific knowledge is essential to civilization, few things can be more important than to enhance the dignity of the scholar's profession...» Scientific knowledge and free inquiry thus gained near - sacred status.

Let us strip Life of all its anatomical and physiological super - structure, bringing it down to the essentials of its physico - chemical nature.

Both Marxism and pragmatism, along with more recent analytic philosophies of action, help to make sure that the other moment of action or praxis in the self's essential structure will be brought out no less effectively than the moment of existence or self - understanding on which existentialist philosophy so sharply focuses.

But if the reality of the self indeed has this duplex structure, no anthropology that failed to attend to both of its essential moments in their difference as well as their connection could adequately explicate the anthropological implications of faith and justice.

This means that the inclusive whole of reality that we experience as strictly necessary in contrast to the radical contingency both of ourselves and of all others must also be distinctively dipolar in its essential structure.

The combination of chauvinism, mechanism and pietism built into this approach seems to contradict essential elements of the liberal Protestant character, especially its commitments to free and open inquiry, ecumenical theological ventures, and the critical exposure of what Paul Tillich called «distortions» of all kinds, including those built into its own structures.

If one takes the grounding of knowledge in the interrelations of real events and structures as an essential characteristic of Aristotelian realism, Whitehead turns out to be the Aristotelian willing to accept all the consequences of this seminal idea in an ontology.

And I think some understanding of dualistic mythology, philosophy and psychology may help explain the caesura of which Stace is speaking and the divorce of mind from nature that gives Klemke's ideas their essential structure.

The land is deprived of nutrients and organic matter which is essential for maintaining productive soil - structure.

Richard John Neuhaus often emphasized the essential role of «mediating structures» in society, but Fr.