Sentences with phrase «focus its study through»

Clearly, if a theological school is going to focus its study through the lens of questions about congregations as the way to truer understanding of God, it is dependent on there being congregations to study and refer to.

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With no time to convene focus groups, Perkins and Selbert relied on Connolly's sense of the market, which he had gleaned — over a two - month period — through industry contacts and by reading various magazine studies.

Both in practice and in his research, the Mexico City native is focused on improving the world, whether through studies on social enterprise and microfinance or a TED talk on brand management and Mexican drug cartels that accumulated more than 1 million views.

That was the driving force behind both the Georgetown research and another recent study out of the University of Pennsylvania which focused on improving language skills through the use of tDCS.

A MERE two per cent of Australian businesses with an Internet presence reported a profit from transactions generated from and through their websites during 1999, according to a study by Marketing Focus research team leader Barry Urqhuart.

Since I completed my Rich Habits study in 2008, my focus has really been to help as many people as possible by getting my research out there through my writing (books / blog), media interviews and speaking engagements.

In my coverage of these shootings, I've always focused on solutions through studies and policy ideas that would tamp down on the number of shootings.

BOEM's Marine Minerals Program (MMP) is multi-faceted, focusing on coordinated leasing of sediment for extraction, inventorying sediment resources through geological and geophysical surveys of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), and environmental studies and reviews to inform decisions.

Leblanc, Richard, «Good Teaching: The Top Ten Requirements,» The Teaching Professor (June - July 1998), 1,7 and reprinted in: Insight: Advanced Learning Through Faculty Study, newsletter of the Teaching Excellence Centre, Rutgers University, Camden Campus (Fall 1998), 1, 2; The Point, newsletter of United Faculty of PBCC, (November 1998), 6; Briarcliffe College Faculty Newsletter, Briarcliffe College, Bethpage, NY (January - February 1999), 2; and Focus on Teaching, Newsletter of Buffalo State University of New York (Spring 1999), 2.

Our first sideways step was to refine our thesis by making it more concrete: The overarching end is to try to understand God more truly by focusing on study through the lens of questions about Christian congregations.

The relation between the two, however, and in particular the meaning of the proposal that a theological school's study be focused through the lens of questions about Christian congregations, will not be developed until the next two chapters.

God can not be studied directly, so understanding of God must come through a focus on something else whose study is believed to lead to better understanding of God.

Clearly, the proposal that a theological school's study be focused through the lens of questions about congregations does not mean that somehow congregations become the sole or even the central subject of disciplined inquiry.

To the contrary, the proposal urges that the best way to affirm any school's theological identity is through study focused on as a wide theological and social - cultural diversity of Christian congregations as possible.

The proposal that study of various subject matters be focused through the lens of questions about congregations introduces pluralism into the heart of the course of study.

That will allow us to explain more exactly how a theological school's study can be focused «through the lens» or «within the horizon» of questions about congregations.

On the other hand, if we focus on coping with a theological course of study's inadequacy to pluralism, are we not driven to deny that the Christian thing has any one underlying structure or that it is any one thing in and through all of its diversity?

A way to make this point is to exploit two metaphors: We could think of questions about the communal identities and common life of diverse Christian congregations as the lens through which inquiry about all the various subject matters studied in a theological school could be focused and unified.

In 1985 he published Melville and the Gods (Scholars Press), a scholarly but elegant study that focuses on what Hamilton calls Melville's pilgrimage through «deconversion.»

«Focus study of all of the above through the lens of questions about Christian congregations in all their diversity and often appalling ambiguity.»

That is the reason for urging that study of all the subject matters to which theological schools attend, in the hope of understanding God more truly, be focused through the lens of questions about particular Christian congregations.

There is a good deal of well - founded knowledge about these matters, and theological study focused through questions about congregations and their constitutive practices must attend to it too.

Our proposal is that what makes a theological school theological is that it seeks to understand God more truly by focusing study of these matters through questions about Christian congregations.

Willow Creek has been a leader through their Reveal study at humbly showing the failures of focusing too much on contextualization and not enough on discipleship.

The «we - they» theme runs through much of his writing on Islam, coming perhaps into clearest focus in a paper read to the Conference on Near East History held at the School of Oriental and African Studies London University, 1968, not yet published.

This can be seen in relation to three of the characteristic features of a school: the subject matter that focuses its common endeavor; the «understanding» it seeks through study of that subject matter; and the kind of community the school is.

Additionally, through case studies, focus is laid on assessing the technical and economic feasibility of cooling and processing technologies.

Through successful case studies, roundtables and 1:1 meetings, our forum aims at focusing on the most up to date trends in Asia, while discussing common challenges and successful developments like sustainable, engaging, functional packaging, and solutions to develop innovative packaging.

The focus will then shift to solutions to food loss, which will primarily be highlighted through the case studies being offered by the additional speakers in the session.

Justin attended both UW - Madison and UW - Milwaukee where he focused on studying cultural anthropology through food justice related issues.

Stratum Nutrition, a Novus International business focusing on nutrition through functional and specialty ingredients, will be presenting findings from application studies incorporating ApuraGreen kiwifruit paste during the IFT Annual Meeting 13 - 16 July in Chicago.

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

The study of science in the first two grades focuses on nature, life and environmental sciences through story, song, walks, other movement, class games and activities.

Through our focus group studies we have found that babies using a Slumber Swaddle ™ sleep on average more hours per night than with other swaddle blankets.

Rogers and her team plan to follow the babies in the study through their first several years of life to see how they grow, focusing on their motor, cognitive and social development.

Known as Betty, her contributions to public health policy came during her tenure from 1992 to 1998 as president of the William T. Grant Foundation, a social science research nonprofit focused on inequality and improving the lives of young people, and through her earlier work in 1977 as the director of studies of the President's Commission on Mental Health during the administration of President Jimmy Carter.

Her research focuses on global change ecology and climate adaptation; she was among the first to propose and study ways to reduce the impact of climate change through new techniques in conservation management.

Hatha yoga is an ancient spiritual practice that involves meditation and focused breathing while an individual moves through a series of stylized postures, said Neha Gothe, who led the study with University of Illinois kinesiology and community health professor Edward McAuley.

In a study published in the June American Journal of Psychiatry, Saxena reported that hoarders have lower activity in the cingulate gyrus — a structure that runs through the middle of the brain, front to back — particularly in areas known to be involved in decision making and focusing attention.

The population - based observational study using patients from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Medicare database focused on 41,275 men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer between 2004 and 2007 and observed through 2009.

This is one of the first and most extensive studies that instead focused on the characteristics of the plant defensive traits through fieldwork and laboratory analyses of the anti-herbivore chemicals.

In a report published in this week's issue of Nature, scientists argue that the FTO gene, discovered back in 2007 and the focus of hundreds of studies since then, exerts its effects through an entirely different gene called IRX3.

Through the fMRI brain scans, the study revealed the striatum of students without ADHD to be much more active in anticipation of the reward, potentially helping to focus onto the task at hand knowing reward was likely to follow.

«It makes it much easier for researchers working with barley to be focused on attainable objectives, ranging from new variety development through breeding to mechanistic studies of genes.»

So our focus will be to study the genome through the transcripts in biological systems, to understand the genetic architecture of Pan-Asian populations, and finally to focus on the intersect between genomics and human medicine.

Now a new study shows that screening for the disorder and providing short - term, relationship - focused therapy through weekly home visits can relieve depression among minority mothers, even in the face of poverty and personal histories of abuse or violence.

As he worked through his undergrad studies, he made his laser - focus on getting a job in Nike's research division clear to his professors, who advised him that his next step should be a Ph.D..

Many studies have focused on damage that tourists cause reefs physically — from stepping on coral to interacting with wildlife — but this is the first to look at the effects of consuming the same fish that tourists are looking at through their dive masks.

We are testing new payment and service delivery models focused on prevention and population health, such as our Million Hearts initiative, through the CMS Innovation Center,» says Dr Patrick Conway, another study author and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Quality, in Baltimore, USA.

«Currently, there is a lot of focus on the use of antibodies transferred passively or through a vaccine to prevent infection in infants, however this study cautions against that and suggests that broadly neutralizing antibodies may actually aid in enhancing transmission from mother to child,» added Sagar, an attending physician in infectious diseases at Boston Medical Center.