Sentences with phrase «in contemporary language»

Even though one of the most overused words in contemporary language is networking, it is sometimes the only way to get your way into your dream company.

Generally speaking, one is better off with an attempt to state a proposition plainly in contemporary language.

Rewrite the poem in contemporary language.

The Ancient Greeks asserted that theatre exists partly to help us as audience members experience catharsis, to put it in contemporary language — everyone needs to watch a weepy from time to time.

Do you prefer to rephrase the text in contemporary language and situations?

... if we are to be attentive to God's work in the world, we must listen attentively to the language of the people of our time... It is not only a matter of expressing the Gospel message in contemporary language; it is also necessary to have the courage to think more deeply - as happened in other epochs - about the relationship between faith, the life of the Church and the changes human beings are experiencing.

At the same time we agree with Bultmann that the kerygma must always be interpreted in contemporary language, and that means in terms of contemporary thought.

At worst the effort to exercise this authority becomes a servile representation of old forms, a religious antiquarianism; at its best, however, such communal authority speaks in contemporary language and to contemporary needs out of the long experience and painfully gathered wisdom of the Christian centuries.

These changes signaled not so much a rejection of tradition as an attempt to renew the tradition by placing it in the contemporary language of the world.

Not exact matches

Growing up in the evangelical subculture of the 80s and 90s, I was well versed in the language of the pro-life cause, as familiar with Roe vs. Wade and the silhouette of a tiny fetus as I was with Disney princesses and contemporary Christian music.

As we saw in the last chapter, popular poetry juxtaposes Christian language with contemporary analogues and contrasts and does thereby achieve a kind of ironic distance from that language; but direct contact with traditional language and symbols — what Donne, Herbert, and Hopkins achieved — is not easy, if it is even possible in our time.

«3 Theology today must attempt to reappropriate Christian tradition and biblical faith in terms of our contemporary situation and language.

In doing so this group is positively influenced by developments in contemporary philosophy and the social sciences that stress the impossibility of getting beyond particular languages to a reality of which they speaIn doing so this group is positively influenced by developments in contemporary philosophy and the social sciences that stress the impossibility of getting beyond particular languages to a reality of which they speain contemporary philosophy and the social sciences that stress the impossibility of getting beyond particular languages to a reality of which they speak.

This renewed theology would be conscious of others in the same way that contemporary students of language keep in mind and put to work the lessons of comparative historical or structural linguistics.

Yet it relates an occasion to its contemporary world, which in Whitehead's usual language can not be physically felt.

When we use such a vocabulary, we find ourselves thinking about the world in different ways — and sometimes, at least, we may find common ground with other Christians from whom we were divided when our only language was that of contemporary politics.

These contemporaries represent the most important contributions to traditional metaphysics of their time in English, and probably in any language.

Or to put it in more contemporary language.

In this way the sound reasons for contemporary philosophy's attention to language use can be acknowledged.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

Ironically, it was a visit by Ramsey and his attendance of a lecture by the great intuitionist mathematician Brouwer that set Wittgenstein again to the task of philosophy.8 His Logical Investigations in which he established a new — how shall we say it — relational philosophy based on simple language games has become the primary reference of the contemporary philosophical position called language analysis and was a massive attack on Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus.

First of all, responsible liturgical revision can not consist only in the use of more contemporary language or in the avoidance of what are known as «sexist» phrases (which are so dominantly masculine that women often feel excluded from what is going on) or in a return to biblical idiom to replace other (perhaps medieval) terminology.

In clear, idiomatic prose, deployed for both scholars and lay readers in fourteen dense but short and readable chapters, Jaki uses Aristotle's fundamental doctrine of noncontradiction to give a classic but also contemporary defense of the inescapably metaphysical character of will, mind, cognition, reason, and especially of language itselIn clear, idiomatic prose, deployed for both scholars and lay readers in fourteen dense but short and readable chapters, Jaki uses Aristotle's fundamental doctrine of noncontradiction to give a classic but also contemporary defense of the inescapably metaphysical character of will, mind, cognition, reason, and especially of language itselin fourteen dense but short and readable chapters, Jaki uses Aristotle's fundamental doctrine of noncontradiction to give a classic but also contemporary defense of the inescapably metaphysical character of will, mind, cognition, reason, and especially of language itself.

While his philosophical views would seem to underwrite a notion of privacy and seclusion, there is no more public figure to be found in contemporary English - language philosophy.

The 84 year old writer's popular contemporary language bible that was published in segments from 1993 to 2002, doesn't use the word «homosexual» or «homosexuality» in the text.

In particular, I believe that secular studies can benefit from the framework of values and the wisdom about man's ultimate commitments generated over the centuries in the experiences of prophets and saints and articulated in fresh, contemporary language by critical theological inquirIn particular, I believe that secular studies can benefit from the framework of values and the wisdom about man's ultimate commitments generated over the centuries in the experiences of prophets and saints and articulated in fresh, contemporary language by critical theological inquirin the experiences of prophets and saints and articulated in fresh, contemporary language by critical theological inquirin fresh, contemporary language by critical theological inquiry.

All this is the language of mythology, and the origin of the various themes can be easily traced in the contemporary mythology of Jewish Apocalyptic and in the redemption myths of Gnosticism.

You make the contacts, when you have time, and I'll open myself to the truly paradoxical language that the new theology will need to employ in the contemporary Christian dialectic.

It is therefore proper to our study of worship to inquire what this revolution in language means for the public worship in our churches; to ask whether perhaps it is not a task of contemporary obedience and praise to find fresh forms of statement whereby intelligibly to set forth ancient facts and encounters.

And now in some of its so - called postmodern variants, contemporary thought portrays symbols, and all of language for that matter, as a completely self - referential play of discourse devoid of any transparency to transcendent reality.

Where clarity of language is concerned, Fr Quigley gives insufficient weight to the power of the «informed choice» rhetoric in contemporary secular society.

But as the book's title suggests, from the beginning Cairns was unafraid of the language and categories of organized Christianity, though he tended to embody them in immediate and contemporary narrative situations.

In another closely related picture, Christ is the Word of God, God's address to man, the communication of God's thought, the mode of God's approach to his world, and, in accordance with the language of contemporary philosophy, the embodiment of that divine reason which permeates the cosmos, or the intermediary divine link between God and his creatures, the mode in which the transcendent God becomes immanent in the rational creatioIn another closely related picture, Christ is the Word of God, God's address to man, the communication of God's thought, the mode of God's approach to his world, and, in accordance with the language of contemporary philosophy, the embodiment of that divine reason which permeates the cosmos, or the intermediary divine link between God and his creatures, the mode in which the transcendent God becomes immanent in the rational creatioin accordance with the language of contemporary philosophy, the embodiment of that divine reason which permeates the cosmos, or the intermediary divine link between God and his creatures, the mode in which the transcendent God becomes immanent in the rational creatioin which the transcendent God becomes immanent in the rational creatioin the rational creation.

Of course the language of the Alternative Service Book lacks the oratundty and elegance of the similar «exhortation» in the old Book of Common Prayer; but it says the same things in a more contemporary idiom and speaks directly to the persons who hope to serve in the ministry.

In the language of many of those influenced by Barth, statements about what is real independently of human experience and thought are «metaphysical,» and these theologians hold that metaphysics is clearly disallowed by Barth as by contemporary philosophy in generaIn the language of many of those influenced by Barth, statements about what is real independently of human experience and thought are «metaphysical,» and these theologians hold that metaphysics is clearly disallowed by Barth as by contemporary philosophy in generain general.

In our contemporary setting, we find Derrida and other deconstructionists asserting that we are «selves» trapped by» the buildup of past structures, above all by our language.

Contemporary philosophers have also shown some of the varied ways in which religious language is used.

Even the language that the Christian once employed in speaking of Christ has become archaic and empty, and we could search in vain for a traditional Christian language and symbolism in contemporary art and thinking.

We must note, however, that it has been Western scholarship which has unraveled the depths and subtleties of the Oriental mystical vision; or, at least, it has been Western thinkers who have succeeded in translating the exotic language of Eastern mysticism into the contemporary language of Western experience.

In contemporary terms, Bergson's general adherence to intuition would be seen as a paradigm case of «the myth of the given» and his specific intuition of the self as committing him to either pre-linguistic knowledge or the possibility of a private language.

His understanding of the major elements of contemporary philosophy, his careful and penetrating analysis of the multidimensional nature of the religious use of language, and his grasp of the tacit and mediated character of religious awareness and knowledge all exhibit a kind of thinking badly needed in religious circles today.

To suggest associations which will help people encounter the word of God in contemporary images is a precarious undertaking and a highly uncomfortable one, but the alternative is a dead language and a ghettoized Christianity.

Catholics have not used the language of primordiurn much because they see biblical history within the tradition and the tradition within history, but the conservatives are often primitive in their views about origins of episcopacy and papacy, and contemporary moderates often try to settle things by going back to biblical accounts of early ministry and communal life.

The true testing ground for the implicate - order strategy, it seems to me, may indeed be biology rather than physics, where abstract methods are so powerful as to perhaps make it dispensable: just as the old style building - block materialist was refuted not by philosophical polemic, but by the one authority in which he trusted, i.e., by physics itself, so the nothing - but reductionist in contemporary biology will modify his views should it be possible some day to provide him with a mathematical language that fills the currently existing gap between our formal knowledge of gene structure and combinations, and our intuitive apprehension of growth and shape.

From the Jules Vernes to the Dorchester, from a private residence in Kuala Lumpar to the Campus In & Out in Boulogne Billancourt, Sanjit Manku integrates each project into a dimension in which the two creators» inspirations and ideas join forces to create a universal and contemporary languagin Kuala Lumpar to the Campus In & Out in Boulogne Billancourt, Sanjit Manku integrates each project into a dimension in which the two creators» inspirations and ideas join forces to create a universal and contemporary languagIn & Out in Boulogne Billancourt, Sanjit Manku integrates each project into a dimension in which the two creators» inspirations and ideas join forces to create a universal and contemporary languagin Boulogne Billancourt, Sanjit Manku integrates each project into a dimension in which the two creators» inspirations and ideas join forces to create a universal and contemporary languagin which the two creators» inspirations and ideas join forces to create a universal and contemporary language.

In contemporary British politics, this idealist language is present in various political discourses: the project of a «Big Society» championed by the Conservatives aimed at reinvigorating altruistic values in citizens» behaviours so that they would help themselves and their fellow citizens instead of being «assisted» by the StatIn contemporary British politics, this idealist language is present in various political discourses: the project of a «Big Society» championed by the Conservatives aimed at reinvigorating altruistic values in citizens» behaviours so that they would help themselves and their fellow citizens instead of being «assisted» by the Statin various political discourses: the project of a «Big Society» championed by the Conservatives aimed at reinvigorating altruistic values in citizens» behaviours so that they would help themselves and their fellow citizens instead of being «assisted» by the Statin citizens» behaviours so that they would help themselves and their fellow citizens instead of being «assisted» by the State.

Not only does this mean that colleges are now awash with therapy groups, workshops such as «Keeping Calm and in Control», «Mindfulness for Depression» «Anxiety 101», but many contemporary free speech disputes are couched in the language of psychological harm.

English will continue to be the # 1 language in the EU even if the U.K. leaves because it has a clear hegemony among the non-native speakers - it is the actual lingua franca of the contemporary Western world, and arguably mostly thanks to the influence of the U.S., and not U.K., in the recent 100 years.

The way in which audio and video are cut together in ads, TV shows, and online marketing these days has created a contemporary film language that's like shorthand to us.

The dialect in which the characters speak (peppered with frequent profanity; this R - rated film has no nudity, no sexual depiction, no physical violence and is rated R solely on account of its language, and possibly its themes) presents an arguably contemporary portrait of what would conventionally be called a bad alliance / marriage.