Sentences with phrase «heuristic power»

One major criterion of revelation's authenticity will be its heuristic power, that is, its capacity to bring the now unintelligible, forgotten, and even absurd aspects of our experience into the framework of a continually expanding and deepening intelligibility.

We must re-appropriate the doctrine of original sin in such a way that it speaks to our condition, and lends heuristic power to our personal and corporate forms of addressing evil.

But it is a «report» of an already - existing «condition» and has great ex-post-facto heuristic power.

Not exact matches

Hence, while heuristic theology is not limited to interpreting texts, it is concerned with the same «matter» as the classic texts, namely, the salvific power of God.9

Because most theologians» own training and preoccupation has focussed on the rational discrimination of ideas, the concept of the mass media as integrated power and meaning - generating systems which are actively creating a mythological and heuristic milieu to serve particular social and economic interests is foreign to most theological educators.

But a hermeneutics without dialectics can not engage in the heuristic and critical questioning of latent value - conflicts and power - complexes whereby the very raising of further relevant questions itself is socially repressed or oppressed.

The first is that interreligious polemics, in addition to the moral and intellectual benefits already mentioned, is a heuristic tool of very great power.

Moreover, since, in my view, the value of Darwin's theory was primarily heuristic and not probative (because he lacked the knowledge of genetics necessary to give explanatory power and certain evidence to the theory), there can be no question that biochemistry now represents the real frontier of evolutionary theory.

I want to suggest here that the heuristic value of the «exit, voice and loyalty» model can only be preserved if one assumes that modes of power in relation to which exit, voice or loyalty gain meaning remain more or less the same.

The aim was to test the predictive powers of the Recognition heuristic.

The paper, titled «Heuristic drift - based model of the power scrape - off width in low - gas - puff H - mode tokamaks» can be found here.