Sentences with phrase «focusing its study within»

In this chapter, the author refines the thesis that a theological school is a community of persons trying to understand God more truly by focusing its study within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations.

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The three questions can serve as horizons within which to conduct rigorous inquiry into any of the array of subject matters implied by the nature of congregations, disciplined by any relevant scholarly method, in such a way that attention is focused on the theological significance of what is studied:

By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussion).

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.

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

The genuine conflict between theological paradigms operative in the debates of the Second Vatican Council during my own formative years of theological study in Rome focused the question for me initially as one within my own Roman Catholic Church community.

The study text asks for a twofold hermeneutics: On the one hand, it focuses on the understanding of the Gospel; on the other hand, on the understanding of the context, inasmuch as faith should come to its concrete expression within a particular context (see para. 4).

Working in groups in western Europe, North America, and to a lesser extent elsewhere, the study team produced and encouraged many papers and books on the problem of the local church.7 Naming as its focus the Missionary Structure of the Congregation, the study proposed that radically different forms of Christian assembly and witness be fostered within the secular context.

The proposal that has been partially elaborated in this chapter is that a theological school is a community of persons trying to understand God more truly by focusing its study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations.

We need to identify criteria by which to judge which groups belong within the circle of Christian congregations so that we can tell concretely just what it is that we recommend theological schools select to focus their studies.

[4] If a theological school wants more truly to understand God, surely it would be better — to make a counterproposal — to focus its study on that greater tradition than on individual congregations within it.

Although most studies of parental depression have focused on mothers, the impact of depression in fathers has received increasing attention.2, 3 Using data from the 2002 National Comorbidity Replication Survey, the Institute of Medicine report also estimated that 4.3 % of men with a child under 18 years old had a major depressive disorder within the previous 12 months.1 In addition, a recent meta - analysis4 suggested that the prevalence of paternal depression within the first year of a child's life was 10.4 %.

Within the subgroup of studies which specifically focused on social support, they found that 14 studies showed no association between marital or partner status and depressive symptoms or diagnosis whilst 13 studies showed that women who were married or cohabiting with the baby's father had fewer depressive symptoms or a lower risk of postpartum depression compared to women separated from their partner or not in a relationship during the first postpartum year.

The study of ideologies as serious forms of political thinking is a growth area within the discipline of politics as more and more research focuses on the «small print» of political thinking and on the comparative contexts in which it takes place.

The purpose of the Study is to define sub sectors within the food processing sector to focus economic development attraction efforts.

Gaucher works within the Evogenics Focus Group, which attempts to interpret genomic information from a historical or evolutionary perspective in order to study the origin and adaptation of life on Earth, and perhaps other planets.

The study — which looked at the action of Substance P within nerve cells in the lab and in animal models — focused on acute pain, but Professor Gamper aims to look at its role within chronic pain as well.

NASA's Acting Administrator issued a statement last week about the budget proposal, saying, «We remain committed to studying our home planet and the universe, but are reshaping our focus within the resources available to us.»

While other studies have focused on caregiving within the home or between specific groups, such as middle - aged parents and young children, most have not looked at caregiving by subgroups of people, or a range of caregiving scenarios both inside and outside the home — for example, babysitting a friend's children or taking a niece or nephew out on weekends.

«The impetus of this study was to better characterize resource use, which is rising, by focusing on how the number of transplants performed within a center influences cost and early hospital readmissions.»

Most scientists who study the transport of materials within a cell have focused on the drivers of that transport — namely, molecular motors, a family of biological agents that actively convert a cell's energy into mechanical work to move cargo across a cell.

The results of the study, which focused on metabolism, complement anecdotal examples and take an initial step toward quantifying exaptation's contribution, at least within this system, said researchers not involved in the work.

A new study focused on describing genetic variations within a primary tumor, differences between the primary and a metastatic branch of that tumor, and additional diversity found in tumor DNA in the blood stream could help physicians make better treatment choices for patients with gastric and esophageal adenocarcinoma.

The study, co-authored by Brian Kiessling, associate instructor and Ph.D. student within the Recreation, Parks and Tourism Department at the IU School of Public Health - Bloomington, focused on how people regard activity trackers, how the trackers affect behavior, and how they can be effectively integrated into programs that help people increase movement in their lives.

Previous studies have focused only on bird diversity within a tropical forest stand and not analyzed how the community changes from one stand to another.

Morteza Khaledi, dean of UTA College of Science, noted that Dr. Passy's research breaks new ground among biologists studying how biological communities respond to their environment and contributes to the university's increasing focus on global environmental impact within the Strategic Plan 2020: Bold Solutions Global Impact.

We remain committed to studying our home planet and the universe, but are reshaping our focus within the resources available to us — a budget not far from where we have been in recent years, and which enables our wide ranging science work on many fronts...

This may be because, at the referral center studied, there is a dedicated program that provides support and counselling, focusing mostly on breast cancer patients within the first year of cancer diagnosis.

As to the larger study's suggestion that the Red List focus on viable habitat within a species» range, Butchart writes that IUCN is planning to do just that in future iterations of the list.

If you choose to study at another university or programme instead of the internship, you can supplement your existing knowledge within tourism with new knowledge that is not offered at Aalborg University - for instance courses focusing on the economics of tourism or service management.

The focus of research within the Coffey lab is the study of the role of the EGF receptor (EGFR) and its ligands in GI neoplasia.

Further studies will include more detailed analyses to focus on differences within breeds and between related breeds.

A physicist turned computational scientist, Graber comes to the MDI Biological Laboratory from The Jackson Laboratory, also located in Bar Harbor, where he focused on computational approaches to understanding post-transcriptional gene regulation and interactions, while also working intensively to process, analyze and interpret the genome - scale data sets generated within the Patient Derived Xenograft (PDX) cancer study program.

Genetic studies to date have focused the search on human genes within our genome.

PHILADELPHIA --(April 18, 2018)-- An international team focused on HIV cure research spearheaded by The Wistar Institute in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania and Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) in Barcelona, Spain, established that the CD32 molecule is not a preferential biomarker to identify HIV silent reservoirs within the immune system of patients undergoing antiretroviral therapy (ART), as proposed by a recent landmark study.

Varga's research focuses on the interaction of lasers and matter at the atomic scale and is part of the new field of attosecond science — an attosecond is a billion billionths of a second — that is allowing scientists to study extremely short - lived phenomena such as the making and breaking of chemical bonds and tracking the real - time motion of electrons within semiconductors by probing them with attosecond pulses of laser light.

REU participants will conduct original research via specially designed student projects within three main foci: 1) Microgel and Hydrogel Nanoparticles: Designing environmentally sensitive nanoparticles for a variety of applications and fundamental studies of volume phase transitions; 2) Anisotropic Soft Matter Thin Films: Driving self - assembly of soft matter to develop thin films with unique properties tied to the shape anisotropy of the materials; and 3) Soft Matter Fluid Flow: Striving to better understand and to improve mixing in liquid soft matter systems and use liquid flow to test and understand biological phenomena.

In a study focused on yoga therapy and schizophrenic patients, oxytocin levels were measured within two groups, a control group and a group of yoga practitioners.

The study focused on neutrophils — immune cells that both defend against bacterial infections, and produce inflammation — and how they adhere within your blood vessels.

Our studies have shown that when you build up that amount of CarnoSyn ® within your system, about 90 grams, is when you really start to see the performance benefits - building more muscle faster, by extending endurance, expediting recovery, and enhancing mental focus.»

One study, focusing on castor oil's effects on our lymphatic system, found a «significant» increase in the number of T - 11 cells within patients after performing a castor oil treatment.

Working from a brilliant screenplay by Steven Zaillian, Fincher's take on the story focuses more on what I've come to understand is really a classic locked room mystery in the Agatha Christie mode — in the case of the murder / disappearance of Harriet Vanger, the locked room is an island whose sole entry point is blocked by an overturned tanker truck — that is concealed within a study of unlimited misogyny and sidetracked into the discovery of a serial killer.

«While schools» focus, quite rightly, is focused on providing quality teaching to hit exam targets, studies show that the physical environment within schools can have a massive impact on its learning outcomes.

According to studies, 12 minutes is the maximum amount of time within which a person can focus on a particular topic.

Within those case studies, the focus is twofold: decentralization of decisionmaking and the quality of the superintendent.

This study focuses on articulating possible solutions to specific problems and on providing a framework within which these problems can be identified and resolved by accentuating the concepts of moral and social responsibility.

By focusing on studies of these within - country differences in education systems, I discovered a clear pattern: it is the freest and most market - like systems that best serve families.

He explains today there are many types of lesson study activities in terms of the context, focus and size — intra-school (in elementary schools and some secondary schools), within whole school districts or cities, at a prefecture level and national events where thousands of teachers visit a school to observe and discuss.

The traditional classroom focuses on textbook reading and instructional method of study which results in less comprehension and less engagement within the classroom.

In the context of these deep whole - school changes, studies that focus on a specific micro aspect of the use (or non-use) of technology in schools, particularly in schools still operating within a paper - based paradigm (Lee and Broadie, 2015) adds little or nothing to the creation of apt digitally - based school ecosystems.