Sentences with phrase «established beliefs about»

``... her groupings provide fresh insights and evoke quiet chuckles as she gently challenges our established beliefs about art history.»

ideas of the deity, and the love of Christ has been direct contrast to the Pulayas» established beliefs about the deity.

Not exact matches

How do you feel about the politicians who are blocking Chik from establishing businesses because of the religious beliefs of the president of the company?

The fundamental mission of the messengers of God has been to teach true belief about the one God and to establish justice among men.

The fact that later Christianity effected a link between the two beliefs and that today the ordinary Christian simply confuses them has not persuaded me to be silent about what I, in common with most exegetes, regard as true; and all the more so, since the link established between the expectation of the «resurrection of the dead» and the belief in «the immortality of the soul» is not in fact a link at all but renunciation of one in favour of the other.

In this chapter we have established two general rules about Christian beliefs.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

Such caution in generalizing about both the brain and belief makes cross-disciplinary talk more valuable as suggestive speculations about loose associations than as firmly established causal connections.

A scholar - theologian who once taught on a theological faculty and later went to a department of religion in a secular university has written poignantly about his pilgrimage through the kind of identity crises I have just described: one who in college had a kind of neo-fundamentalist faith, went through graduate school, established peer relationships with scholars, and then found himself in a crisis of belief, now speaks about the morality of belief — the importance of being true and honest in what one can actually avow and affirm with integrity.

«The secretary of state acknowledges that clauses 2.43 and 2.44 of the Funding Agreement, and clauses 23E and 23G above do not prevent discussion of beliefs about the origins of the Earth and living things, such as creationism, in Religious Education, as long as it is not presented as a valid alternative to established scientific theory.»

The studies tested interventions such as training GPs in specific communication skills to establish patients» concerns and beliefs about the need for antibiotics, their harms and benefits, and to agree a management plan with patients.

They first sought to establish a link between beliefs about scientific progress and perceptions of the world as orderly, predicting that the more people believed, the more order they would perceive.

Previous research has established that factors — other than the insertion of needles — play a part in the effectiveness of acupuncture, such as the relationship that the patient develops with the acupuncturist and the patient's belief about acupuncture.

So far, the candidates» beliefs about how best to improve America's schools, though seemingly rooted in personal experience, are also predictable, hewing close to established party lines.

When we seek to establish, valorize, or impose one set of beliefs about student discipline as the «right» one, we are functionally communicating that all others are «wrong.»

More important, however, is the larger implication I take from Mr. Bedrick's thesis: that private school choice advocates in America, Mr. Bedrick among them, have failed to establish a coherent, prevailing belief system about the role of private schools in providing an education of measured quality, at scale, for the nation's most disadvantaged youth.

Teacher leaders are often right in the middle — at the crux of important conversations about teaching and learning that can feel like they are between a rock and a hard place as they talk with colleagues and friends about altering long - standing practices and challenge established beliefs.

After about a five - minute opening cut - scene showing off the kind of people and landscape the game takes place in they show a bit more with a hurried blessing - baby naming - ritual, again establishing the primitive take on how religion and beliefs run a society, the story skips a few years and you start the game off as a six - year - old Aloy.

«Aaron was one of the first people I met who I could talk about Picasso with,» adds Houseago, who credits a high school trip to view Picasso's late - period paintings with establishing his belief in the «sublime» potential of art.

Thus in 1963 Jasper Johns and John Cage established the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts based on the belief that visual artists — painters and sculptors — were sufficiently concerned about the state of the performance arts — dance, theatre and music — enough so to donate artwork to benefit performing artists.

In his post, Thaler elaborates a bit on his definition of «beliefs» and stresses that he's talking about established examples from the past:

So, as I see it, it is forces such as Dissonance Theory and «belief complexes» that establish people's «beliefs» about particular things (eg AGW), and then it is in the stage of «post belief rationalisation / defence» that Dunning - Kruger has its day.

The defence lawyer Joseph Neuberger established through cross-examination at trial that P.L. had in fact inquired about age and because of the overlap in messaging, P.L. had the reasonable belief that the alleged escort was actually 25, when in fact the undercover officer was referring to an amount of money in his messages but without the use of a dollar sign.

The problem is that even under the U.S. copyright regime, considered to be the most robust, Ashley Madison would have to establish a good faith belief the things they are complaining about are actually copyrighted.

What I would say to the sceptics and the critics is to broaden your mind, view the conversations, examine the statistics and make time to «listen» with an intent to learn and let it start a process of personal transformation in you to challenge your established perceptions and belief about Indigenous people and Indigenous health.

Specifically, you'll learn: (1) the differences between adaptive and unhealthy dependency, and between secure attachment and dependency; (2) ways to understand what the dependent client is actually seeking and to empathically communicate with the client about those needs; (3) clinical missteps or beliefs that could lead to unhealthy dependency; (4) guidelines for establishing boundaries and setting limits that encourage a felt sense of security, while avoiding unhealthy dependency; (5) and specific strategies to support secure attachment and ease the client's yearnings or demands for caretaking by the therapist.

The study applies an established conceptual model of parent - teen sexuality communication to extended family, which recognizes both direct talk about sex and indirect (less straightforward) sexuality communication, which predict teens» sexual beliefs and behaviors.

As therapists, we seek to uncover how a person's values and identity were established, how they developed coping mechanisms, their covert thought processes, their beliefs about themselves and the world, how their value of self - care was determined, and what they need to restore their identity.

«It is our belief that an entertaining and fun learning environment where virtual simulation will allow interested agents to learn more about their career, as well as let established agents earn their continuing educations credits, will be well received by our members.