Sentences with phrase «forces would shape»

It was too soon to know, of course, what sort of civilization these new forces would shape.

As Lawson explains, Darwin was fascinated by Charles Lyell's theory that geologic forces had shaped Earth over millions of years.

Ms. Phung: My research broadly focuses on understanding how different evolutionary forces have shaped the genetic variation observed within and between species.

Jin's book first provides a brief genealogy of Chinese Web literature and Chinese popular romance, and then investigates how large socio - cultural forces have shaped new writing and...

Jin's book first provides a brief genealogy of Chinese Web literature and Chinese popular romance, and then investigates how large socio - cultural forces have shaped new writing and reading practices and created new subgenres of popular romance in contemporary China.

Bringing together the work of over twenty artists — including Joel Andrianomearisoa, mounir fatmi, Kendell Geers and David Goldblatt — The Progress of Love at The Menil Collection in Houston considered how technology, economic systems, and other forces have shaped ideas about love and their expression.

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Swinburne has been called «the architect of Mifid II» for her role in shaping the far - reaching European financial legislation that took six years to complete and came into force in January.

This trilogy promises to be hugely timely and challenging, it has never been more important to engage with the forces shaping modern America.»

The impacts of the major technological forces that will shape the 20th century are not yet clear, but their capacity for disruption will be so great that your company has only roughly 50 % chance of surviving the next decade.

Today, I will offer a framework for assessing the forces that have shaped the recent performance of the U.S. economy.

As we have said in past commentaries, the historic levels of quantitative easing following the global financial crisis — that is the expansion of the Fed's balance sheet from around $ 900 billion to nearly $ 4.5 trillion today — was one of the most dominant market - shaping forces over the last decade.

As I've noted before, the greatest act of respect for American troops would be for the Bush Administration to extract the U.S. from the role of occupier and to legitimize its role as peacekeeper; to abandon the objective of unilaterally shaping Iraq, shift enforcement to a wider force of NATO troops, and expand the role of the United Nations in civil matters.

He believes that an exception can be made in every case, so that the principle will be preserved even as it loses all force — as if faith need not shape practice, and practice would not remake faith.

Step by step I have been forced to realize how very patriarchal indeed our tradition has been, at levels far deeper than language, and to how great an extent my own thinking had been unconsciously shaped by masculine biases.

The shape of his utterance (he had been likening acceptance of God's will to freedom and resistance to imprisonment) can exert more force than its content.

As an existing force, these traditions, which have shaped the ethos of so much in the United States, have never been more than one tradition among many.

I want the Church to have a voice in shaping the emerging world consciousness and I suggest that the Church needs to change in several ways in order for it to be a vital force in influencing the shape of the future.

We move quickly to arguments that express views that have been shaped by other forces and only subsequently grounded in theology.

The ever more desperate attempts to force the world into the shape of a text has been translated and mistranslated a million times into as many languages over thousands of years are the vicious attacks of a cornered animal.

Most strikingly, it faults colleges and universities for the kinds of students they enroll, shaped as they have been by the forces of the larger cultures from which they come, while paying no attention to the kinds they graduate.

Although it would be false to reduce an individual to the societal forces that shape his behavior, it would be an act of blindness to ignore their influence.

More significant, though, has been the continuing impact of Benedict XVI, who at the beatification Mass in September 2010 paid «particular tribute to [Newman's] vision for education, which has done so much to shape the ethos that is the driving force behind Catholic schools and colleges today.

We have to make our way through monstrous evil, and make endless concessions to what is actually there in the forces which shape our destiny.

Such considerations are all valid; still it remains that the Bible has been the vital, creative force operative through these Centuries, shaping our life far more deeply than all else.

All of these forces have a dynamism of their own and will continue to shape the future.

I've also started listening to NPR's Invisibilia about the unseen or unconscious forces that shape us like our ideas, assumptions, beliefs, and emotions.

In Modern Fantasy: Five Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1975), C. N. Manlove has argued that the use of the supernatural — and I would include magic — is not simply a possibility in the fantasy tale; it is a driving force in the story and takes a central role in the development and shaping of characters as well as plot.

a set of cosmological and anthropological views that owed not a little to the vast mélange of Hellenism and Orientalism flooding the world where he grew up, and providing him with the unique setting for still other ideas, of sin, Satan, death, of the sinful and therefore mortal nature of man — as «flesh» — of the «spiritual» forces arrayed against God and his Messiah and all the faithful, of the victory to be won by the Messiah when he should at last appear — all these ideas were shaped to the mold of certain half - Jewish, half - pagan ideas which Paul seems to have derived from the world about him.

It's when people take THEIR vision and force it and shape it and twist it and try to pass it off as God's vision that I've struggled with.

They see the technological way of reasoning and of solving problems as one of the great forces that have shaped the modern world.

Our understanding of how the current soul of the American universities has been shaped by these forces can then provide a foundation for considering where Christians and other religious people should go from here with regard to mainstream American higher education.

The challenge before us is to navigate the hyphen and be prepared to explore our varied histories, discover the outside forces, question the economic compulsions, be astounded by the cultural diversity, empathise with the experience of marginality, marvel at the memories that have shaped all these various selves, and offered, and continue to offer us, an identity or identities across the hyphen, as the various embodied selves that make up the assorted group of people who are called Indian - Christians.

It is a matter of 1) coming into a proper relationship to our technologies, and 2) understanding how our media have a powerful shaping force on our communities, our cultures, our societies, and our selves.

The Internet is an abstraction to the world that we inhabit; yet it is also intimately tied to our world as a technology having a shaping force on the world.

Thus one is forced to look mainly at the internal logic of Christianity, the legacy of Reformation Protestantism, and theological debates of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to understand what has shaped the character of American religion.

Indeed the incredible shaping force of technologies such as the Internet and television have been widely documented and explored already.

[xxi] His point here is that our environments are invisible to us unless we step outside of them, and following, that our technologies have a very salient shaping force on what our environments are.

If this is the case, even if we do not conclude that technology determines but only conditions culture, we must take seriously the claims and the shaping force it has on our rationality itself.

[vi] Thus Postman takes a middle way between the technophile and the technophobe in order to critically engage the introduction of new technologies into culture as each new technology has a profound shaping force on our conceptions of the real, truth, and rationality.

It is this impingement which has shaped the history of human beings and thus, being beyond history, it is the most dynamic force in human life to transform the world.

While it may very well be true that Heidegger sounds as if he is arguing for a pre-modern, pre-mechanized society, perhaps leaning toward a Luddite perspective, and while it also may appear that McLuhan is arguing for the continued evolution of technology that will enhance society, perhaps smacking of a full - blown techophilism, both theorists come together on the primary assertion that they make - technology has a profound and invisible shaping force on our epistemic values, perceptions of reality and truth, and cultural values and norms.

Paul Schubert, in a symposium devoted to the The Idea of History in the Ancient Near East writes: «When it comes to the idea of history, it must be said that Israel, through its sacred scripture... has proved to be the strongest and most influential single force observable by the historian in shaping the idea of history throughout two millennia of Western history.»

It has seldom critically reflected upon the social forces that shape its practices and concepts of personhood.

Over the past two centuries, Old Testament theology has been shaped by two countervailing forces: since the Reformation, the church has been reluctant to free the Bible from its doctrinal interpretations; but since the Enlightenment, the history - of - religions approach that prevails in the academy has refused to be limited by the constraints of faith.

Their target is the general educated reader who seeks to understand «the Bible as a work of great literary force and authority, a work of which it is entirely credible that it should have shaped the minds and lives of intelligent men and women for two millennia or more.

The creative force of existence is not sheer on - rushing energy It has a character, a shape, a moment - to - moment vectorial direction of each pulse of becoming, even if it lacks overall direction as a whole: «The many become one, and are increased by one» (Whitehead, Process 21).

They are like bakers who have mixed the ingredients for bread, worked it into the shape of a loaf, but are forced to deliver the bread before it is baked because the customers have arrived and demand immediate delivery.

That is, Whitehead does not believe that the construction of a cosmology or natural theology is a purely «rational» activity, if that would mean that it is not profoundly influenced and shaped by all sorts of historical and personal forces.

I think that's part of what it means to be human — we have free will and are shaped and influenced by both internal and external forces.

While I would insist that «God» expresses a concept and is not only a proper name within a certain historical tradition, I believe that Hartshorne pays insufficient attention to the force of that tradition in shaping Anselm's meditation.