Sentences with phrase «from point of view»

Theological talk is thus made part of the world and is able to talk about the world — from the point of view of what it will be or ought to be.

And from this point of view it can and must be said that the way man's earthly origin affects the «soul» and how it affects the «body» are specifically different.

Although it is most obviously true of the Fourth Gospel that it is written throughout from the point of view of the resurrection, the same thing can be said in principle of the Synoptics.

Such a view is meaningless from the point of view of experiential understanding.

From this point of view, the Christianization of culture can be in some situations the churches» major contribution to feeding the poor, clothing the hungry and liberating the imprisoned.

The difference between you and me is that, when I read the Bible... I read it from the point of view of what I know about the natural world — as people know it today.

The important point is that openness not be viewed merely as tolerance or indifference, but as part of an aspirational search for the truth from every point of view — as a genuine outflowing of the spirit toward others, including those who are different.

If Hartshorne, from his point of view, wishes to call me a positivist then, from another point of view of perfect knowledge, he is himself open to the same charge.

(In short, charity, yet another fundamental Christian virtue, viewed not merely as a commandment or a disposition of the heart, but as a way of showing that one's view is true from every point of view.)

But from the point of view taken in this lecture, this interpretation is inadequate.

Here the subjectivist principle is seen to be inextricably connected to those «categories from another point of view.»

Aspiration would then involve a search beyond one's own selfish concerns and limited perspectives to find out what is true from every point of view (objectively true)-- an «outflowing of our spirit» beyond oneself.

Having stated his thesis that one must begin with Whitehead's diagnosis, Rorty quotes him as follows: «The difficulties of all schools of modern philosophy lie in the fact that having accepted the subjectivist principle, they continue to use philosophical categories derived from another point of view» (PR 253; WEP 134; italics mine).

This theory may be only an unverifiable inference considered from the point of view of a «perspective» theory of knowledge («objective relativism»), since we can know the past only through the eyes of the present.

Thus, while the two world wars may appear from a human point of view to have been evil, from the point of view of God's plan for restoration they were good and necessary.

For example, African American women describe themselves as «womanist» and criticize Anglo feminism from that point of view.

From the point of view of economism, on the other hand, these changes are highly undesirable.

From my point of view what is immanent is also transcendent.

The language in this quotation remains odd from the point of view of Process and Reality.

And from the point of view of economism, that points away from the conditions required by healthy and growing industry.

What from our point of view is chance, from God's point of view is His structuring of the universe.»

From the point of view of society, there is a gain in that the cost of training for jobs is no longer borne by the public purse.

Hence there was less attention to this set of papers, from my point of view the most important ones, than to earlier presentations, which covered more familiar territory.

From the point of view of process theology this change is a great gain, but it remains to be seen how fully it can be worked out without deeper alteration in the Kantian philosophy which thus far has shaped his thought.

From another point of view, our customary approach assumes that there are mutually exclusive options.

Finally, from the point of view of one committed to ecologism, the affluent could do with less.

From the point of view of ecologism, becoming much more efficient in our use of energy and other resources is but one of many changes that are needed.

I need hardly say that, from the point of view of any of the great religious traditions, the single - minded pursuit of wealth controlling the University of Phoenix is profoundly wrong - headed.

Still, the new sensitivity is important, and, from the point of view of process theology, profoundly encouraging.

To view political theology as one branch of theology alongside others would be, from his point of view, to miss the point.

From my point of view, the failure to consider this possibility has been astounding.

But from the point of view of ecologism, still more change may be needed.

From the point of view of serious Buddhists, the new religion of consumerism is a spiritual disaster.

These same private cars are the most wasteful form of transportation from the point of view of exhausting scarce resources.

But from the point of view of the ideals that have shaped higher education in the past, this is a disaster.

From the point of view of ecologism, paying a little more for goods, and having a smaller selection, would be a small price to pay for the reduced level of ecological destruction.

The overt lesson of the story from the point of view of the boy is that the tree always has more to give, not that one should become a giver oneself.

From this point of view the mere rejection of the established order, even if flamboyantly symbolized, has a strictly limited utility.

i agre with Dave and then some - christians (and other folks who are serious in their beliefs too) are comical, believing and praying to someone who can't be seen, can't be proven... (this is from the point of view of an empiricist, who is able to measure things) Christians (well, me for sure) are hypocrits - believing in fantastic ideals and guaranteed to continualy fall short - that is a fairly comical notion, but nonetheless, one I enjoy to continue to strive for - setting high ideals and striving towards them.

From the point of view of process theologians, justice requires that the rest of the creation should also be treated with respect and recognized to have reality and value quite apart from usefulness to human beings.

Thomas was aware of human beings as subjects and understood both world and God from the point of view of human subjectivity.

If further changes reduce demand still further, and hours are cut still more, surely that is not to be regarded as a loss from the point of view of true human wellbeing!

On the other hand, there is capitalism which, in its practical aspect, at the level of its basic principles, would be acceptable from the point of view of the Church's social teaching, since in various ways it is in conformity with the natural law....

On the other hand, his acceptance of traditional patterns of authority also constitutes a limitation from the point of view of this workgroup.

When surveyed from the point of view of Current evolutionary models, for example, our universe quite clearly has the character of a story.

The newborn infant is completely selfish from the point of view of an adult, but it does not love itself.

His total experience was, from our point of view, a selective synthesis of the outer and the inner worlds, but for him the experience was simply given with its meanings indissolubly a part of the whole.

There is no reason, from the point of view of physics, that these initial conditions and physical constants might not have been different and led to a universe incapable of such evolution.

The Gestalt of twentieth - century theology that I will offer does not exist objectively there in the data or, more accurately from my point of view, it is one of many Gestalts that can be truly discerned there.

As an example, from your point of view as a believer, I can assume you think atheists are wrong, and you are right in your belief that god exists.