Sentences with phrase «frame of»

Archaeologists have found new evidence about the time frame of the biblical texts, based on what's essentially a shopping list.

By being culturally relevant to non-believers, we can establish a common frame of reference from which we can begin to look toward God with them as we reflect God to them.

So I'll stay within the frame of Scripture.

The Salomon and K2 both have shock absorbers within the frame of their skate.

They start the session to an imaginary being... ok this get them in the proper frame of mind needed to lie to the American people?

Shaffer has placed the action of Equus within the frame of two soliloquies.

For in the national frame of reference «intelligence» and command of the most efficient communications technology are deemed a prime essential of national security and power.

It reveals something which can not be destined for the worms... this is far from all theology, simply the fact that the poorest little woodcutter, heath peasant or miner can have moments of emotion and a frame of mind which give him a feeling of an eternal home to which he is near.

A compassionate frame of mind has a positive effect on our mental and physical health, as well as on our social life, while the lack of empathy has been found to cause or aggravate serious social, psychological and even physical disorders.

The Syllabus, then, is a perennially valid frame of reference for coming to grips with the revolt of modern thinkers and statesmen against the Church, from the Reformation through the Enlightenment and into the buzzing swarm of - isms of the past century and a half.

The frame of reference in the gospel stories quickly expands, as does the Old Testament, which chronicles the history of a nation that is sometimes swallowed by world - straddling empires.

Must be someone using his / her name but just in case in order to keep him or her in the right frame of mind:

Quite apart from the ontological status of these, how do we make the inferential leap from those actual, but diverse, private experiences to the normative or public veridical judgment, «That is a penny on top of the desk» (where «penny» now stands exclusively for the normative description just given, as opposed to the particular ensemble of sense data we happen to perceive from a particular frame of reference)?

In a world where political problems are thought of and worked upon within a frame of reference whose coordinates are nationalism and military power, these ecology - oriented organizations are regarded as peripheral.

By the time he's done exposing the unbelievers in our midst, they're furious with him, and in no frame of mind to listen to anything he has to say.

Such a phrase would lack precise meaning, as each entity would comprise its own time - frame of reference and exist in a forced «solipsism of the present moment,» in Santayana's famous phrase.

The man or the society, however, that passes over it is on the road to destruction, for grandiosity is greatness without realism, without tenderness, without sensitivity, and it produces the frame of mind that eventually becomes deaf to ominous messages of the real world.

Later that evening in my hotel room, I tried to frame some of my questions regarding the sociopolitical character of lower - class Punjabi Christianity: was it a movement of the oppressed, or a movement of the oppressors?

«24 In this frame of reference, flesh and history are not simply transparent media for linking us to a primordial reality.

Without that frame of reference, but instead taught from day one that women are always as ready to receive advances as they are eager to make them, the modern male always takes a «no» as a personal rebuke.

Of course, there will be disputes, but the debate can be carried on within a common frame of discourse.

One must judge that this topic is not readily assimilated into the Kantian frame of reference.

I see a middle - aged woman in the waiting room of the cancer clinic, her arms wrapped around the frail frame of her son.

HOLLOWAY»S REASONABLE EPISTEMOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT Dear Father Editor With regards to your September 2006 editorial («The Catholic Vision of Matter: Towards a New Synthesis») and the discussion arising out of it (recent Letters pages), it seems to me that a more fruitful frame of reference for the debate might be Thomas» epistemology.

Female modesty gave men a frame of reference for a woman's «no.»

In every age, in every endeavor, some agreed - upon frame of reference has informed the church's efforts.

I'm taking all history into account, and yes, atheists have always been on the receiving end, or does that not fit within the frame of history that's convenient for you?

People of the past knew this kind of love and many had such strong bound friendships, but because you are so depraved, you interpret it in you own frame of mind.

In relativity, however, mass is a property of the relationship between a body and a frame of reference, i.e., the mass of an object increases with an increase in its velocity relative to the observer.

Yet the novel does suggest, in curious and even captivating terms, that today the religious frame of reference has lost its controlling power across much of Western culture, but it hasn't quite disappeared.

«The sovereignty of God establishes the general frame of meaning for life and history.

Christian ethics has as its frame of reference Jesus» idea of God.

Special revelations — the only sort recognized by this kind of theology — have always needed to be checked by some more general frame of reference: the written Scriptures coolly and historically studied, the tradition and common experience of the church, and the still more general experiences and tested beliefs of mankind.

He defines two descriptions as complementary if (a) they have a common referent, (b) the logical preconditions for their use are mutually exclusive, and (c) each is in principle exhaustive in its own frame of reference.

It is unfair to those with whom one plays to undertake the game in a distracted and divided frame of mind, for the spirit of the game is a consequence of the common dedication of the players to the pursuit at hand.

In the face of grief or bitter, devastating pain people are in no frame of mind to think reasonably or to be instructed.

Primary qualities are viewed as objective, i.e., independent of the knower's frame of reference, while secondary qualities are judged to be subjective, i.e., involving the complicity of the subject imposing his own peculiar sensory apparatus on the bodies perceived.

It seems on first glance that, within this common frame of reference, the argument between the churches focuses most intensely upon the relation between authority and office (under which I include matters of jurisdiction and polity).

I think the plain answer is that the middle class is defined by middle age — by those who are no longer young but not yet old, and therefore completely break the frame of Emersonian generation - gap analysis.

Client - centred therapy stresses above all the counsellor's assuming the internal frame of reference of the client and perceiving both the world and the client through the client's own eyes.

They integrate the individual's biography by providing an overarching frame of reference that applies to all of life, that locates the individual ultimately in space and time, that specifies an ultimate purpose for the individual's life and thus permits daily activities to be organized around the fulfillment of this purpose.

As Berger puts it, «religion legitimates social institutions by bestowing upon them an ultimately valid ontological status, that is, by locating them within a sacred and cosmic frame of reference.

God is bigger than the human frame of reference which tries to talk about him.

What kind of a frame of things is it of which the best you can say is, «Thank God, it has let me off clear this time!»

But when I have seen this, my next task is to let the book's message universalize itself in my mind as God's own teaching or doctrine (to use the word that Calvin loved) now addressed to humankind in general and to me in particular within the frame of reality created by the death, resurrection, and present dominion of Jesus Christ.

I'm afraid that to say that my «frame of mindset» is a» lethal issue» looks suspiciously like a heart judgement that you have assured us is God's prerogative.

The white steel frame of the building is infilled with glass that is mirrored on the outside.

Paul's life is ostensibly the frame of the story, with Luke's interviews with the Apostle making way for flashbacks into Paul's stoning of Stephen and his Damascus road conversion.

This frame of mindset is one of the church's letal issues.

The very unmanageableness of the quantity of new things happening or described is the only frame of reference left.