Sentences with phrase «experience of a particular people»

Any nation is a nation among nations, each being defined by not being the other, and by the culture and experience of a particular people.

In asking who Jesus is, does it make sense to start with the experience of a particular people and inquire how Jesus is good news for them?

Not exact matches

One experience in particular started out pretty good because this person had lots of industry knowledge and connections.

A new study has found that nearly half of all Americans feel lonely — with young people in particular experiencing the brunt on the pain.

«We walk into a store and people know our name, ask us personal questions, and tell us how great we look in a particular pair of shoes...» This got them to consider how we can transfer this experience to the digital landscape, something we know they've been thinking about.

But I was just amazed by how everyone, young and old wanted to be involved... and was so deeply enriched and touched by the experience and the laughter and the love I experienced from the people I met and how women would in particular open their hearts to me and tell me the stories of where they've come from, particularly because I have the language and was coming there as a woman and just how touched they were that I was there as a woman from England who's learned the language and who's an artist and running this project and come all the way to see them so they didn't feel forgotten I think that was pretty much what they felt... that their stories were being heard so they don't feel forgotten knowing the tents would be around the world.

(ii) persons whom the SEC determines by regulation to have demonstrable education or job experience to qualify such persons as having professional knowledge of a subject related to a particular investment, and whose education or job experience is verified by FINRA or an equivalent self - regulatory authority.

These include a much better customer experience (especially on mobile, which is a key driver for e-commerce in emerging markets), better privacy (particularly relevant for cross-border payments), the ability to do smaller transaction sizes, a global and fast - growing merchant acceptance network, and of course, for many people in emerging markets, the ability to transact online whereas otherwise they would not be able to, either because they don't have a credit card in the first place, or their credit card is rejected because of fraud risk associated with a particular country.

The disease experience, as opposed to the experience of disease, allows us to view patients not as people who are ill or infirm but instead as people undergoing a particular unpleasant experience.

As the living person draws upon a wider bodily experience, so the conscious ego, if there should be one at a particular moment, draws upon a vast ocean of unconscious feeling which sustains it.

At the same time, as members of a living person, they experience their predecessors with particular intensity and also are capable of high anticipatory feeling.

Raimundo Panikkar in his great collection of Vedic texts for modern man or woman called The Vedic Experience, whilst recognising that the Vedas are «linked for ever to the particular religious sources from which they historically sprang», also says that the Vedas are a monument of universal religion and therefore of deep significance for all people.

If you're considering help from a private practitioner, check on going rates in your community for persons of that particular training and experience.

I began this chapter by stating that through my experience as a pastor I have been moved out of a rigid, moralistic legalism into what I believe is a more loving and more compassionate attempt to discover the best alternative within the particular circumstances of each person's life.

Might I suggest that what writers as poets have to offer is a unique penetration of universal issues via carefully chosen particular experiences and persons.

Thus Lifton indicates that one characteristic distinguishing the rap groups from traditional therapy was «that of affinity, the coming together of people who share a particular... historical and personal experience, along with a basic perspective on that experience, in order to make some sense of it.»

As is always the case, it is difficult for people to recognize the significance of a particular form of experience when it does not arise from their own lives.

In particular, the denial that epistemology is wholly prior to ontology; the denial that we can have an absolutely certain starting point; the idea that those elements of experience thought by most people to be primitive givens are in fact physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our conscious attention, are conditioned by our purposes; the idea that the so - called scientific method does not guarantee neutral, purely objective, truths; and the idea that most of our ideas do not correspond to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itself).

In this essay the word «person» will refer to a particular series of experiences extending from physical birth to physical death considered as a whole.

The experience has the flavor characterizing the particular defining characteristic (s) of myself as a living person.

But I think the drawback will always be that their people are not experiencing the faith of the early church itself, intact, but rather the selections from the early church that fit the taste of this particular contemporary leader.

For many theologically literate people, the «place» of religious experience is a local church, a particular building on a particular street in a particular town.

In one case the thinking and experience of the people produced a written record of God's dealings with the Jewish people in particular.

But in my experience, the most unkind people I have met on the internet are those who are a particular combination of anonymous and atheist.

To be a person is to be a particular routing of experiences toward goals that satisfy latent potentialities special to each of us.

Religiously, it knows that the symbols, stories, doctrines and liturgies offered by its own traditions are inevitably partial, limited to a particular people's experience of God and incomplete.

What the person who is experiencing organic wholeness enjoys is not some particular pleasing sensation or experience, regardless of how sensual or how sublime it may be.

Consequently, just as an actual occasion in the immediate past influences a newly concrescing occasion through its aim at fulfillment for it, God likewise influences individual persons through the particular propositions or aims at fulfillment which he entertains for them in each moment of experience (PPCT 386f.).

Christianity in particular has been interpreted as the religious experience of the peoples of Europe, constantly nourished by the life, teaching and personality of Jesus of Nazareth, and as the dominant force in the unit of Western civilization, holding together its constitutive Hebrew, Greco - Roman and Germanic elements.

But to be of full value for all people in all ages these insights must be understood as illustrations and particular embodiments of general aspects of universal human experience.

Most of the differences among the religions have to do with their understandably one - sided attachment to the particular sacramental images, events, experiences, or persons that they choose as representative of mystery.

Since the particular experience in its richest state is largely uncapturable (what can be reasoned misses the full reaches of what can be said, what can be said misses the full reaches of what can be known, what can be known misses the full reaches of what can be experienced), the more significant conclusions by which a person lives can not be methodically and precisely induced, but must be put forth largely as speculative theories that mayor may not derive from something said and known.

I am thinking in particular of the disgrace and imprisonment of one previously held in high esteem: an experience so horrific that in this country such a person would be placed under a 24 hour «suicide watch».

The study of the existential issues that aroused individuals and peoples to particular responses and solutions stimulated students and enhanced their own understanding of the experience of disillusionment in comparison with the sensibilities of the past.

It is true, as Hall points out, that for Whitehead ordering principles are «immanent» within particular occasions (see UP 261 - 70), but in most cases those ordering principles also reflect the «mutual relations» of individuals, as well as the «community in character» pervading groups or societies of individuals (AI 142).13 This is particularly true of persons: the relations between occasions which constitute the human body and brain, and the «community of character» of the succession of personal experiences, give an essential element of unity to human experience.

And the «mighty deeds of God,» which constitute the experience of God's power, are no longer limited to a particular people, a particular language or cultural group.

We should instead anticipate that if all reality is somehow ingredient in our experience at the pole of primary perception, no particular expression could fully retrieve it, and different peoples will represent their primary perception in radically different ways, depending on cultural and historical conditions.

The concept of «presence» means really being there with the other, experiencing vividly that particular person's emerging uniqueness in that moment.

When applied to religious television, we might predict that religious television programs will have their greatest effect on a viewer when the viewer is aroused because of a particular need; when the recommended action on the religious program becomes salient to the person because of a lack of other options within their repertoire; when the action is perceived as being a realistic and rewarding solution to the need; when the viewer has experienced favorable consequences as a result of the action in the past; and when the program presents options for action that the viewer has opportunity to perform.

This view holds that each person's unique phenomenal field, the total «world» of that particular person's experiencing, determines her or his behavior.

For a fine exposition of the process - relational vision, appropriating the insights of psychology, and concrete in its orientation, dealing with the issues of death and dying, loss and bereavement, see Kinast, Robert L., When a Person Dies: Pastoral Theology in Death Experiences (New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1984); also by the same author, an excellent delineation of the major tenets of process thought and process theology in particular, is «A Process Model of Theological Reflection» The Journal of Pastoral Care 37 (June, 1983), pp. 144 - 156.

The only people who will experience rapid onset of any sort of effects are those who are sensitive to particular ingredients.

This program gathered the many people who were successful in participating in international agriculture development projects overseas, and thus promoted experience sharing and dispersed fruitful information of this field to the audience and scholars in particular.

Even when I was younger, I remember experiencing a particular sense of shame over how much my dad seemed to thrill in our money - saving ways as I was in the corner of the booth wondering why we couldn't be like normal people and get four individual sodas; or why I wasn't allowed to order the Crunchwrap Supreme I so desperately coveted; or if the Dunkin' Donuts cashier was judging us for getting far too many Munchkins for four people.

Young people, in particular, filter much of their experiences through their phones, so turning phones off for extended periods of time may actually cause them to feel less connected.

Women's childbirth experiences are located in a particular cultural and political environment, and it is clear that individuals and groups of people involved in maternity care construe childbirth experiences differently.

Finally, I think that the move towards abstraction has been catalysed by the need to overcome what people see as the dead end of identity politics and its parochial focus on particular group experiences to the exclusion of wider issues of democratic solidarity.

Through my experience in schools and talking in particular to head teachers, I saw that there is a group of young people who aren't just disadvantaged economically.

The chance to meet people from widely differing backgrounds is one of the best aspects of the PhD experience in general and this tour in particular.

In other words the values, opinions, experiences, and preferences of the particular people on the committee — and the politics and dynamics of their interactions — come into play.