Sentences with phrase «gives historical understanding»

North Island Discovery Centre gives historical understanding for large forested area of British Columbia.

Not exact matches

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

My own approach to a radical Catholic understanding of analogy or analogia entis was by way of giving it a dialectical meaning, and a meaning that hopefully would be dialectical and historical at once.

For example, if one understood by the church simply the historically given communities with their multiplicity of beliefs and practices, the view of theology as the articulation of the church's faith would lead to a plurality of theologies that could hardly escape the recognition of their relativity with respect to historical factors.

If the data of philosophical reason are natural, that is, if they are given for human experience independently of historical conditions, then natural theology as commonly understood becomes a major possibility.

If the meaning of our principle of historical aetiology, as opposed to an eye - witness report by someone who was himself present at the event, has been understood, we presumably also possess a criterion for judging what was correct in the description given by traditional theology of the blessed, supernatural, original condition of man, as opposed to what was a simplified projection into the past, into human beginnings, of the state of man as it ought to be and will be in the future.

Liberal education is in trouble today, he contends, because its proponents do not know its past and do not understand the historical tensions that could be exploited to give it new life.

The ultimate reality upon which our hope depends is therefore the eternal truth and power of God, breaking into the flow of historical events, qualifying it, transforming it, yet always to be understood as giving meaning to life through its relation to that which is beyond the time form of the world process.

Given the form - critical view of the tradition, it is evident that the way back from the tradition as we have it to the historical Jesus will be a long and arduous way, and there will be many instances where it will simply not exist, since much of the tradition will have been created in the early Church and will lead us at most to an aspect of the Church's understanding of the risen Lord.

But all this [unity in the one Lord of the Church] can not be asserted without understanding that the unity given to the Church in Christ, and gifts given to the Church to help and enable it to manifest its given unity, are not for the sake of the Church as an historical society, but for the sake of the world.

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

The early modern view of knowers as conditioned only by the known has given place to a far more insightful understanding of every act of knowledge as conditioned by the particular historical, cultural, economic, gender, and racial situation.

Christian understanding of God's transcendence raises questions about the extent of the claims of every historical community or movement or ideal, but these questions are given clearer focus by the fact that they are asked in the light of the revelation of God's solidarity with all men in Christ.

However one looks at Scripture, as the «word of God» or just old writings, understanding the historical and cultural context in which the writer's lived and wrote can give us lots of insight.

Wright has an advantage over many other Jesus questers in that he gives full historical weight to the importance of the last week of Jesus» life in understanding who he was.

Today Protestant, Catholic and Jewish scholars are united in the historical - critical study of the Bible and the use of the comparative method, which has given us a vastly enlarged understanding of the Bible, its background and its meaning.

One, like the other, is obliged not to lose touch with the given facts; they follow empirical methods; their goal is to understand «situations» — personal situations in the case of the psychologist, historical situations in the case of the historian of religions.

As we have been urging that historical understanding goes beyond literary and textual criticism in the direction of subjectivity, we have neglected the objectivity which is given our study by the existence of what we may call the phenomenon behind the phenomena.

However, given the extraordinary pressures I feel in the divorce process and the privileges apparently given to mothers, regardless of historical involvement with the children, I can understand how some men can be pushed to the limit to think that the only bearable path is abandoning the children.

Here, author Twomey, an official with Postpartum Support International, gives us insight into the psychological, personal, medical, legal, and historical perspectives on this little - understood mental illness, which is both preventable and treatable.

While I understand that four of the five boroughs are finally being asked to take on their fair share, I think that the Bronx has to be given particular attention due to the historical, emotional and psychological encumbrances before us.

In a recent paper published in EPJ H, Fritz Wagner from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany, gives a historical perspective outlining how our gradual understanding of improved confinement regimes for what are referred to as toroidal fusion plasmas — confined in a donut shape using strong magnetic fields — have developed since the 1980s.

Likewise, for a student to give an inspired performance of Shakespeare, she must understand social, cultural, and historical events of the time.

Consider linking to references that will give them a better understanding of the story's real - world historical, cultural, and geographical context.

Great historical fiction gives the reader deeper understanding of the times and people depicted; Vanora Bennett allows me to finally comprehend the deep differences between the French and English explored in both Shakespeare's Henry V and the tragic tale of Saint Joan.

I was very appreciative of the historical background given by Ms. Rivers and so I have a better understanding of what was real in the lives of the women who struggled to survive in the South when their husbands were away in battle.

Great historical fiction gives the reader deeper understanding of the times and people depicted.

The sentence reads: «Given that safe withdrawal rates are based on historical worst - case scenarios, and given the information we have about how bad those historical scenarios have been, we can begin to understand how bad returns would really have to be, from here, to lead to a safe withdrawal rate that is worse than anything seen in history.&rGiven that safe withdrawal rates are based on historical worst - case scenarios, and given the information we have about how bad those historical scenarios have been, we can begin to understand how bad returns would really have to be, from here, to lead to a safe withdrawal rate that is worse than anything seen in history.&rgiven the information we have about how bad those historical scenarios have been, we can begin to understand how bad returns would really have to be, from here, to lead to a safe withdrawal rate that is worse than anything seen in history.»

Museum visitors are now offered more historical context and in - depth information, giving them a better understanding of the life story of Anne Frank and an enhanced experience of the hiding place while leaving the authentic character of the house intact.

Museum visitors will be given more historical context and in - depth information so they can gain a better understanding of the life story of Anne Frank and a deeper experience of her hiding place.

Well, after some years the cannon and capstan were given to the fully established Cannon Beach Historical Society with the express understanding that the artifact would be stored with the highest museum standards.

Our tour managers gave us a thorough historical, cultural and geo political understanding of their countries.

To one of them, the absurdist Daniil Kharms, Malevich gave a copy of his own 1922 treatise «God is not defeated» — which in this context can only be understood as an angry parody on historical materialism's exclusive claim to truth.

With the present - day consciousness - raising on the part of feminists, I understand the need to give a kind of historical perspective to female artists.

Vertigo Sea — the new three - screen film installation — by John Akomfrah (Ghana) is one of the strongest works, meditating on our relationship with environment, depicting tragic historical moments (slavery, transatlantic trade) and giving keys to «understand the trauma and sense of alienation of displaced subjects».

Alternatively, more direct observations of that radiative imbalance would be nice, or better theoretical and observational understanding of the water vapor and cloud feedbacks, or more paleoclimate data which can give us constraints on historical feedbacks, but my guess is that ocean heat content measurements would be the best near term bet for improving our understanding of this issue.

Reading his PDFs will give you a comprehensive understanding of the argument for GW, explanation of forcings (particularly CO2, which you asked about) and of the difference between historical evidence vs computer models.

Given that «causes of the earlier warming are less clear ``, our understanding of Earth's climate system is rudimentary at best, and our historical record is laughably brief, it is confounding how the IPCC can be so «extremely» sure «that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century», which is «not statistically significantly different» from the natural warming that occurred between 1910 — 1940.

Studying theology and religious studies gives you a thorough understanding of the major world religions, their historical development and their relationship with the world we live in.

Given the new arrangements... there is a need for agencies to institute training programs, particularly to those that have a direct role in servicing Indigenous clients or manage programs with a significant Indigenous component / focus, which include some form of cross-cultural training, an Indigenous historical component to understand how to assist in building community capacity.

The family stories that seem to originate in folklore, entirely circumventing the historical, may give newer generations a different kind of knowledge — an understanding of the way their teller sees themselves and their family in relation to the world.

Knowing and acknowledging this history is particularly important for health systems and professionals, given that current Australian health dialogue supports the development of culturally safe services and practices, and this requires an understanding of one's own profession's historical complicity in such events.