Sentences with phrase «hierarchical understanding»

A structural therapist seeks to establish a hierarchical understanding of the family within their formulation, but that emphasis is not so explicit with the McMaster model, which is more empirical e.g. as long as the family's necessary roles are filled, who does what, etc., is of less importance (providing they have a say in whatever responsibilities they carry).

While Tertullian's disillusionment could be due to the rapid decline of Christian community life, which he traces back to moral laxity in the sphere of sexual behaviour, the decline, as he understood it, could also be due to a tension in the life of the community provoked by a more and more hierarchical understanding and ordering of life, which neglects the horizontal relationships, affecting the very texture of Christian communities.

On the other side, Gladys Hunt, in her discussion of Ephesians 5 which is meant to support a hierarchical understanding of family authority, conveniently ignores Paul's advice to the husband.

Even if such teaching can not be derived directly from the Bible, the hierarchical understanding that supports it is quite explicit.

The answer is centered in a misunderstanding of what an apostle was in the first place (in the Greco - Roman social context), and is based on a hierarchical understanding that places apostles at the top of the church structure when the New Testament clearly places them at the bottom.

Not exact matches

Communism westernized the Russian political imagination in a perverse way, to be sure, but its triumph put a complete end to older, more traditional ways of understanding society as a hierarchical system underwritten by a sacred authority.

As presented here, the hierarchical scheme shows why «scientific» models of explanation, based on invariant relationships between abstract properties, have failed to satisfy the historical understanding.

It is obviously very difficult for the hierarchical teaching office, with its understanding of benefiting from the assistance of the Holy Spirit, to recognize that its teaching might be in error.

It is obviously very difficult for the hierarchical teaching office, with its understanding of benefiting from the assistance of the Holy Spirit, to recognize that its teachings might be in error.

The picture is a sharply mixed one, inasmuch as relationships were limited and colored by the hierarchical framework, a boundary well understood by both.

The individualistic and essentially Protestant culture of America, he observes, would seem to be inhospitable to the inescapably hierarchical character of Catholicism in both its self «organization and its understanding of the Christian life.

From Boff's presentation it becomes clear that the specific image of the Trinity is being moulded by the needs of society which, in turn, is being viewed from a socially understood Trinity.12 The former becomes clear from his starting point which lies with the needs in church, society and cosmos, and with the opposition to a hierarchical church, an undemocratic society and a disregarded natural environment.13 The latter results from his dogmatic and historical treatment of the doctrine of the Trinity, especially from his developing the notion of perichoresis.

As more Christians understand that following Jesus involves not just going to church, but caring for the needs of the poor and oppressed in our world, the hierarchical boundaries in the church start to melt away.

The possibility of purpose in the universe may be understood in terms of a hierarchical conception of the cosmos.

In the previous chapter I suggested that the possibility of purpose in the universe may be understood in terms of a hierarchical conception of the cosmos.

Moreover, their notion of a complementarity leads to an integral and hierarchical view of the contributions of diverse structures to religious understanding.

Our experience also helped me to understand the distortions of perception and personality that result from being the «superior» in a hierarchical structure....

Or you could have a world - wide network defined by connections between communities, which are defined by buildings, governed by a complex constitution, rules, and hierarchical structure, where people spend more time, money, and effort maintaining the institution and its holdings, and understanding its rules.

Historic understandings of respect based on habit or law can lead to relationships that are static, hierarchical, or constraining, whereas real respect should be grounded in individual reciprocity and engagement.

My group focused on understanding brain mechanisms and the brain's hierarchical organization in controlling the various activities that humans execute, including motor control and behavioural changes upon fluctuations in the environments.

The authors suggest that monkeys probably know the hierarchical status of their own group in relation to other groups, and that their sense of smell therefore helps them to better understand their social environment.

Leung describes a hierarchical framework to systematically evaluate climate simulations at regional scales and insights from several studies that analyzed simulations generated as part of the hierarchy to understand discrete challenges in regional climate simulations.

Brewer seems to understand that youth culture, both as performed and as consumed, is no longer hierarchical in quite the same way that Hollywood has been portraying it as since the»50s — that high school, like so much else on the planet, no longer operates according to the traditional power pyramid.

Critical pedagogy departs somewhat from constructivism, first in its emphasis on the affective - normative domain at the expense of the cognitive - empirical domain - it is more interested in engaging students in understanding the world as it ought to be than in how it is - and, second, in its acceptance of the hierarchical, judgmental classroom, where the teacher's role is not to facilitate value - free inquiry but instead to use the bully pulpit to preach doctrinaire gospel, with schools performing the function not of political socialization but of counter-socialization.

Author, inventor, and «restless genius» Ray Kurzweil explains in How to Create a Mind that the human capability for hierarchical thinking — in other words, our understanding of how elements can be arranged in a pattern and also represented by symbols — separates us from all other animals.

When such test scores are reported via press and media outlets, more than just test scores, hierarchical rankings of test scores, and the like are to be reported, given the people of Vermont more holistic understandings about schools in their state.

Five conceptual domains, integrated in a hierarchical manner, are included in PATHS lessons at each grade level: self - control, emotional understanding, positive self - esteem, relationships, and interpersonal problem - solving skills.

First, at the risk of sounding ageist, because of the hierarchical nature of Japanese companies, it winds up being that the most senior executives at the company cut their teeth during NES and Super NES days and do not really understand modern gaming, so adopting things like online gaming, account systems, friends lists, as well as understanding the rise of PC gaming has been very slow.

The quality of the material, as in the processing of the fibers within the paper pulp, carries a certain hierarchical significance accompanied by traditional methods of working, which are commonly understood by artists trained in one or more of the great classical traditions in Asia.

It's a simple matter of understanding the hierarchical arrangement of the spatiotemporal constraints.

What papers, if any, describe how the «little understood» Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling was employed within the BEST process?