Sentences with phrase «experiments in»

Verbal response from the congregation is not possible or desirable during the sermon, even though there have been some experiments in overt dialogue between preacher and congregation.

Because we do not live in a kind and tolerant world — at least not kind and tolerant to such experiments in self - government as ours — we are in need of a defense.

So, why is it that he refrained from calling the Castro regime and other such failed experiments in materialist totalitarian communism «the dung of the devil»?

Experiments in learning have shown that unless there is emotional involvement, relatively little is learned and that is readily forgotten.

Robert W. Long, ed., Renewing the Congregation (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1966); M. Edward Clark, William L. Malcomson, and Warren Lane Molton, The Church Creative (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1967); Waldron Howard, Nine Roads to Renewal (Waco, Tex.: Word Books, 1967); Wallace E. Fisher, Preface to Parish Renewal: Study Guide for Laymen (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1968); Gerald H. Slusser, The Local Church in Transition (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1966); Joan Thatcher, The Church Responds (Valley Forge, Pa.: Judson Press, 1970); William R. Nelson and William F. Lincoln, Journey Toward Renewal: New Routes for Old Churches (Valley Forge, Pa.: Judson Press, 1971); Anthony Wesson, Experiments in Renewal (London: Epworth Press, 1971).

They may guide new experiments in terms of established, but nonformalized, biological procedures.

There are no doubt many experiments in evolution going on in different parts of this big universe.

The timid experiments in social action, the easy decisions to «cool it,» the obsessive attention to maintenance, these point to the captivity of the church.

Augustine's experiments in school - founding were as much attempts to re-educate himself as to educate others.

We can't test such experiments in the real world (for obvious reasons), but our thoughts about the hypotheticals can reveal important insights into the real world and, more likely, our biases about it.

He abandoned the elite network of imperial educators at Milan to embark on new experiments in Christian learning, first in the lake country of Northern Italy, and later back home in Thagaste and Hippo, in his native North Africa.

Both parts are based on experiments in training at Case Western Reserve University in the Internship Program for Clergy.

Religious thinkers concerned with protecting the well being of persons must take account of these unprecedented scientific developments, particularly as they pave the way for further experiments in the modification of DNA molecules.

Never before in the dark history of mental illness treatment has there been anything like the present surge of imaginative experiments in new treatment modalities.

But if recent events in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe are any indication, single - party politics joined with centrally controlled economies are no longer viable experiments in political economy.

A skeptic would be justified in wondering how likely it is that family - and community friendly workplaces will become the norm, or that experiments in neighborhood design will slow suburban sprawl, or that changes in telecommunications will inspire us to rise from our couches in search of activity more demanding than channel surfing.

Tantalising hints have been seen by both experiments in the same mass region, but these are not yet strong enough to claim a discovery.»

It was not simply a question of more men going into the monastery (Cistercian monasteries did experience a phenomenal growth in that period), but the avant - garde journals of the day were filled with articles about liturgical prayer, Gregorian chant and experiments in community living.

Experiments in animal cells have shown that although these genes are required to form pluripotent stem cells during development, they are not powerful enough on their own to overcome the epigenetic programming of a mature cell and convert it to a pluripotent stem cell directly.

6 Dolphins have been shown to form the concept of novelty in experiments in which they are rewarded for maneuvers never before executed.

He would be an excellent subject for experiments in physiological psychology.

In recent years COCU conducted experiments in joint mission and worship among local congregations — experiments which made clear the value and possibility of such a concept of congregational mission and identity.

The onset of the Great Depression, in which the ranks of the worthy poor expanded dramatically, occasioned widespread experiments in the construction of housing projects sponsored by the federal and state government.

Rossman: There are cable TV experiments in which the audience, by pushing buttons, can change the outcome of the program.

Ever since the Enlightenment there has been a progressive tendency to deny original sin as an offense to human dignity, and to promote experiments in reaching for divinity.

Vic You are a total idiot, the experiments in the collider have been done and proven, hence the Nobel prize.

But if the twentieth century's experiments in a brave new world have taught us anything, it is that attempts to institutionalize a revolution in global human solidarity have a way of repeating and amplifying the permanent problems of humanity.

Whereas the dichotomy of subject and object has been challenged by experiments in modern physics, a Cartesian dualism still provides the philosophical background of modern molecular biology and, more recently, sociobiology.

For example, recent experiments with new patterns of authority seem to show, just as did similar communitarian experiments in the 19th century, that the more egalitarian the group, the more ephemeral it is.

He has achieved fame by experiments in which, after removing the amygdalae from the brains of cats, he observed that the cats veered «helplessly from one inappropriate affect to another, boredom where there should be fear... sexual arousal where there was nothing that would stimulate an intact animal.»

A companion volume is Sam Ewell's Building Up the Church: Live Experiments in Faith, Hope and Love (Cascade).

The doctors say that she's not capable of having children, so she's been going through these huge medical experiments in trying to do so.

The foundations of behavior therapies were constructed by the Russian physiologist Pavlov's experiments in conditioning animals early in this century.

(I do not wish to underestimate the significance or validity of some of the carefully done experiments in para-psychology, involving such phenomena as precognition and thought transfer.

Should this reflect cultural lines, or should there be more experiments in cross-cultural intentional community?

If there is any significant evangelical turn toward liturgy, it will take the form of experiments in worship among non-liturgical evangelicals.

Thus, for example, I will not address the question of whether we could rightly conduct the first experiments in human cloning, given the likelihood that such experiments would not at first fully succeed.

William, In the words of david berlinski: «Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for Zyklon B, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental ballistic missiles, military space platforms, and nuclear weapons?

Richard manned Soyuz TMA - 13 to the International Space Station, where he conducted a series of scientific experiments in an effort to expand commercial uses of space.

Recently, one of the bloggers I follow, Experiments in Finance, decided to try investing in tender offers.

Follow Newsonomics on Twitter @kdoctor First published at Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab Today, we'll hear official word of the demise of Project Thunderdome, one of the news industry's highest - profile experiments in centralized, digital - first, mobile - friendly, new - news - partner...

He sought knowledge from others and delved incredibly deeply into subjects and experiments in a quest to find answers.

To understand the levels of compliance to which most of us can be manipulated without even realizing we are being manipulated, just research the 1961 Yale University Milgram Experiment and the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, both experiments in human psychology that demonstrated extreme levels of compliance in ordinary human beings.

It will also enable financial institutions and fintech players to participate in pilots and experiments in a wide range of financial - services projects.

NIF will provide extraordinary opportunities for breakthrough experiments in a variety of fields.

Efforts to open up AR to wider audiences by Google, Apple and Facebook have real consequences for advertisers, which have largely passed on AR experiments in favor of less risky approaches like conventional branded mobile apps and immersive in - person activations.

Several experiments in digital cash circulated on the Cypherpunk lists in the 1990s.

In «Mounting Evidence: Findings from Natural Experiments in...

Zakaria suggested that these two theories are about to be tested in one of the greatest experiments in the history of world politics.

«Drivers are used to us doing experiments in different contexts.»