Sentences with phrase «in general structure»

In general their structure mostly still resembles that of their ancient ancestors, and hasn't been overly polluted by fads or fashions that can so often result in health problems.

When we have recognized the fact that in general structure the catechesis of early Christianity followed the lines of other ethical teaching of the time, we shall be better prepared to recognize the points at which specifically Christian motives and sanctions are introduced.

If God is perfectly good, and if God chose to actualize our particular world not only in its general structure but in its every detail (which God foresaw), including not only (say) the Nazi holocaust in general but every barbarous inhumanity that occurred during it, can we consistently believe that some of the details are genuinely evil?

It must be authentic in its general structure, or it would not have been preserved.

which also concerns the individual».41 She illustrates this as follows: «It is not enough to criticize property rights... so long as we, as «powerless» individuals, are not able to clarify how we are entangled in the general structures, that is, how we profit from the structures and how we conform to the introverted norms that we regard as self - evident — for example, the norms of achievement, consumerism, reasons of state — and pass them on to others, even when we reject them privately and verbally.

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In general, «they seem to encounter «glass walls» that keep them from venturing out of big companies or structured academic settings to launch their own firms at the same rate men do,» says Lesa Mitchell, a vice president with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundationdevoted to entrepreneurship.

But I think in regard to the general structure of the traditional fixed income markets, there is no denying we are at relatively rich levels so we proceed with some caution.

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This history illustrates a general trend in modern physics: The more deeply it has probed the structure of matter, the greater the mathematical order it has found.

Feminists have persistently awakened us to the depth to which patriarchy shapes all our disciplines, the disciplinary style of thinking in general, our way of teaching, and the hierarchical structure of our institutions, as well as our ignoring of the consequences of our actions for the Earth.

That is to say at least the following: God does not enter into metaphysics as a system seeking to interpret the most general structures of experience in the world (PR 3).

The implication is that the causes of the malaise are internal; they are to be found in the structure of the church, the curriculum, the strategy for evangelism, the quality of pastoral leadership, or the general level of Christian commitment.

Hence «God's primordial nature» is but an imprecise way of speaking about the order of nature — a formal structure expressing the theory of extension in its most general form (PW 58/56).

But that we can today speak of «Christian virtues» is due to the fact that one who reads the Gospels seriously is left in no doubt as to the general structure of what a life lived in obedient love would embody.

3, centers directly upon the «structure of faith as trust in God» (6:91) and, in effect, «pierces [Paul's] own system of thought» (6:102) by allowing Abraham's faith actually to define the content of Christian faith; (3) Mt. 25:31 - 46, the description of the last judgment, in which humanistic actions of a general nature actually «interpret what the Christian confession really means (6:73).

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

I prefer the small tight knit church communities to huge ones... though I love the brothers and sisters in both structures and feel empathy for pastors in general.

Both offer large scale systematic accounts of the nature of reality in general, largely dismissing the suggestion that the only world we can know is one whose main structure is determined by the human cognitive system and which, therefore, only exists for us.

The challenge is to ground the intuition of a character of permanent rightness in the general categories one uses for an understanding of reality, i.e., so to relate the intuition to the structures of the real that its integration into those structures validates the intuition while giving it specific content.

Whitehead took the subject - object structure as general and fundamental and interpreted causal efficacy in terms of it.

Whereas Aristotle, as we have seen, took the first factor to be peculiar to conscious experience and the second to be the more general factor lying at the base of consciousness, Whitehead took the subject - object structure as general and fundamental and interpreted causal efficacy in terms of it.

The distinction arises because in some instances a group of occasions, such as, for example, a particular enduring entity, could have retained the dominant features of its defining characteristic in the general environment, apart from the structured society.

In contrasting origin and development, nature and purpose, structure and attitudes of the religiously motivated group with that of other types of grouping, the sociologist will attempt to define its general characteristics.

American Protestant institutions in general are in flux; the common life of the Protestant church is in part seeking institutional forms through which to express and discipline itself, in part it has developed such forms without officially recognizing their presence, continuing to think in terms of historic structures or polities that do not fit the actual situation and operations of the various agencies.

Analysis of the nature and structure of society as well as of religion is carried out in the disciplines dedicated to this purpose (general sociology, theology, and philosophy of religion).

For the United States, the general structure of political life is set forth in the Federal Constitution.

The study of the structures of religious groups should be carried on without prejudice in favor of one or the other principle of organization, e.g., the charismatic as against the hierarchical, or vice versa — and application of the general methodological requirement discussed above.

But it is also important that Europeans who come here are challenged, as well — particularly by our American cautiousness about the tendencies of states, institutions, and power structures in general.

The purpose of this chapter is to describe what distinguishes the structure of human existence in general from the structure of subhuman animal existence in general.

For not only does it assign genuine value to nature by incorporating the characteristics of contingency, open - endedness, growth and decay in a general metaphysic, but it also assigns an important place to reason as a means for making explicit our understanding of the general structures which may be said to underlie the world as a whole.

Given Whitehead's general principle of reciprocity (of the interconnectedness of all things) we are more than justified in concluding that nature possesses structures analogous to those which we find present in mind (though the exact nature of those structures must remain open to particular investigation, that is, they must be discovered through specialized modes of inquiry such as those of the special sciences).

Aside from the obvious disparities in the general social situation, there are major differences between Israel's political structure and our own.

Here Niebuhr, Brunner, and Barth share the same general position, though with some differences in emphasis.13 They all agree that the social orders which form the structure of human history, such as the family, the state, the economic order, betray an essential separation of man from God.

The difference between a subordinate society and a subordinate nexus is that the subordinate society is a group of occasions which can retain its»... dominant features of its defining characteristic in the general environment, apart from the structured society.»

The aspects of reality which the sciences select for study are, in general, those about whose detailed structures religion has nothing to say.

While they amplify understandings of the structures of becoming that seem to be exemplified everywhere in history, and while they build general arguments based on those structures, they can not be said to be primarily interested in examining any particular historical society This is not to deny that, say, Whitehead or Charles Hartshorne made pungent and perceptive commentaries on the histories in which they lived — for they did.

And, as was already well known, children in general benefit from having at least one caretaker with whom they can establish a close bond, and from having structure and rules in the home environment.

The most general structure of metaphors, then, includes two conceptually accessible terms rendered initially not accessible when taken literally in combination.

In a letter to the Guardian, Jayne Ozanne, a senior member of the general synod for the diocese of Oxford, said: «Abuse of power, particularly in relation to sexual misdemeanours, will never be dealt with by those within the same said power structureIn a letter to the Guardian, Jayne Ozanne, a senior member of the general synod for the diocese of Oxford, said: «Abuse of power, particularly in relation to sexual misdemeanours, will never be dealt with by those within the same said power structurein relation to sexual misdemeanours, will never be dealt with by those within the same said power structures.

This admixture appears based upon the conjunction of revealed religion with the natural law as set in creation by its Creator, at the head of which is the mind of man — law which defines nature's constitution from the physical to the structure of human society, including the general moral precepts by which it must be governed.

What Whitehead called the «genetic» and the «morphological» manner of thinking, Piaget summarized in the idea of the general method and interpretation of «genetic structuralism» (ESH 7); both explicitly assert that structure and genesis are interdependent: each structure, from the biological to the cognitive, is to be understood as the result of a process of formation, which conversely can only be understood as the continuous development of potential structures (BC 193; S 121).

[16] Thus, Maximus assumes the general Dionysian structure, but it does not have the same significance that one would find in most Neoplatonist works.

In general, a certain variety in the contents of worship within a familiar structure would seem to be a desirable approacIn general, a certain variety in the contents of worship within a familiar structure would seem to be a desirable approacin the contents of worship within a familiar structure would seem to be a desirable approach.

There are important modifications in Whitehead's theory in his later, more metaphysical, writings; but these modifications only serve to emphasize that the development of such a theory remains a major task in his attempts at philosophical analysis (see especially chapters IV and VII in SMW and part IV in PR).1 In general, Whitehead constructs a theory that is reactionary in its analysis when compared with the theories of space - time structure in the special theory of relativity (STR) and in the general theory of relativity (GTR), 2 and that is in opposition to the theory of absolute space and absolute time in the Newtonian cosmology (see PNK 1 - 8; and PB part II, chapters II, III, and IVin Whitehead's theory in his later, more metaphysical, writings; but these modifications only serve to emphasize that the development of such a theory remains a major task in his attempts at philosophical analysis (see especially chapters IV and VII in SMW and part IV in PR).1 In general, Whitehead constructs a theory that is reactionary in its analysis when compared with the theories of space - time structure in the special theory of relativity (STR) and in the general theory of relativity (GTR), 2 and that is in opposition to the theory of absolute space and absolute time in the Newtonian cosmology (see PNK 1 - 8; and PB part II, chapters II, III, and IVin his later, more metaphysical, writings; but these modifications only serve to emphasize that the development of such a theory remains a major task in his attempts at philosophical analysis (see especially chapters IV and VII in SMW and part IV in PR).1 In general, Whitehead constructs a theory that is reactionary in its analysis when compared with the theories of space - time structure in the special theory of relativity (STR) and in the general theory of relativity (GTR), 2 and that is in opposition to the theory of absolute space and absolute time in the Newtonian cosmology (see PNK 1 - 8; and PB part II, chapters II, III, and IVin his attempts at philosophical analysis (see especially chapters IV and VII in SMW and part IV in PR).1 In general, Whitehead constructs a theory that is reactionary in its analysis when compared with the theories of space - time structure in the special theory of relativity (STR) and in the general theory of relativity (GTR), 2 and that is in opposition to the theory of absolute space and absolute time in the Newtonian cosmology (see PNK 1 - 8; and PB part II, chapters II, III, and IVin SMW and part IV in PR).1 In general, Whitehead constructs a theory that is reactionary in its analysis when compared with the theories of space - time structure in the special theory of relativity (STR) and in the general theory of relativity (GTR), 2 and that is in opposition to the theory of absolute space and absolute time in the Newtonian cosmology (see PNK 1 - 8; and PB part II, chapters II, III, and IVin PR).1 In general, Whitehead constructs a theory that is reactionary in its analysis when compared with the theories of space - time structure in the special theory of relativity (STR) and in the general theory of relativity (GTR), 2 and that is in opposition to the theory of absolute space and absolute time in the Newtonian cosmology (see PNK 1 - 8; and PB part II, chapters II, III, and IVIn general, Whitehead constructs a theory that is reactionary in its analysis when compared with the theories of space - time structure in the special theory of relativity (STR) and in the general theory of relativity (GTR), 2 and that is in opposition to the theory of absolute space and absolute time in the Newtonian cosmology (see PNK 1 - 8; and PB part II, chapters II, III, and IVin its analysis when compared with the theories of space - time structure in the special theory of relativity (STR) and in the general theory of relativity (GTR), 2 and that is in opposition to the theory of absolute space and absolute time in the Newtonian cosmology (see PNK 1 - 8; and PB part II, chapters II, III, and IVin the special theory of relativity (STR) and in the general theory of relativity (GTR), 2 and that is in opposition to the theory of absolute space and absolute time in the Newtonian cosmology (see PNK 1 - 8; and PB part II, chapters II, III, and IVin the general theory of relativity (GTR), 2 and that is in opposition to the theory of absolute space and absolute time in the Newtonian cosmology (see PNK 1 - 8; and PB part II, chapters II, III, and IVin opposition to the theory of absolute space and absolute time in the Newtonian cosmology (see PNK 1 - 8; and PB part II, chapters II, III, and IVin the Newtonian cosmology (see PNK 1 - 8; and PB part II, chapters II, III, and IV).

6 While some variation of the «vitalist» hypothesis appears necessary in historical perspective, the recent findings of Nobel - laureate chemist Ilya Prigogine regarding the tendency toward self - organization and greater complexity in dissipative chemical structures shows that the evolution of complexity is itself compatible with, rather than contrary to the general physical principles of thermodynamics.

The interpretive scope of a categoreal structure is determined in part by its subject matter: a general ontology is wider in scope than a more specific theory.

Just as, in general, good works are distinct from faith and not to be identified with it, and yet are also demanded by faith and not to be separated from it, so justice in its political meaning as right structures of society and culture is both distinct from faith and demanded by it, and hence neither identifiable with faith nor separable from it.

Rather, the more general principle or structure frames in the sense that it provides possibilities of interpretation; it involves a commitment to what it entails.

We can make the general statement that inter-personal relations constitute a field of force in which action in any part of the field alters the structure of the field and all the elements within it.