Sentences with phrase «in narrow conceptions»

Not exact matches

Religion tends to be understood in ways narrower than Berger would have had us recognize, while behaviorist and reductionistic conceptions of the individual — which discount the importance of religion — continue to hold sway in many places of power and influence.

By contrast, a teaching such as the Immaculate Conception, as with so much Marian dogma, makes claims that not only stand on a highly contestable reading of an extremely narrow scriptural base but also seem to stand in tension with, if not even in contradiction to, significant biblical texts.

The difference between the Biblical and non-Biblical conceptions of myth is indeed implicitly recognized by HBK, for it quotes Alfred Jeremias's definition of Biblical myth: «Myth in the narrower sense... is one of the supreme creations of the human spirit.

In the young Marx there was a double vision of the nature of alienation,... Marxist thought developed along one narrow road of economic conceptions of property and exploitation, while the other road, which might have led to new, humanistic concepts of work and labor, was left unexplored.2

The narrow view that only voters in the affected region can vote is consistent with a federal conception of regions that existed in the 1957 Constitution but is inconsistent with the 1992 Constitution's unitary conception.

«Chief among them is vitamin A. Individuals who have been deprived of sufficient vitamin A during gestation tend to have narrow faces and skeletal structure, small palates and crowded teeth.16 Extreme vitamin A deprivation results in blindness, skeletal problems and other birth defects.17 Individuals receiving optimal vitamin A from the time of conception have broad handsome faces, strong straight teeth, and excellent bone structure.

A diet of this type, before and during pregnancy, may make the birth process easier and faster — especially if the mother does not have narrow pelvic arch / hips caused by nutritional deficiencies in her own conception and early gestation

We stipulated a narrower conception of shared leadership for the research reported in Section 1.2.

Third, current pre-service teacher education and subsequent in - service professional development (PD) is characterised by very narrow conceptions about how teachers should teach — aided and abetted by the content of Australian State and Territory curriculum documents.

Successful policy and practice therefore needs to take an approach that is at once broad in its conception of disadvantaged, and narrow in targeting the specific aspects of disadvantage pertinent to particular young people or settings.

This speaks about the very narrow conception of «freedom» in environmentalism in general, and in Monbiot's perspective in particular.

Difficult in conception and more costly in resources (whether brain cells, time or cash), narrow and constrained thinking often fosters not just far from optimal but simply bad decisions.

They are narrower in that nothing in that TWU covenants prohibits a TWU student from being openly gay — indeed, I understand that TWU has had a number of openly gay students in recent years, and the provisions of the covenant prohibiting prejudicial language and mandating that one «treat all persons with respect and dignity, and uphold their God - given worth from conception to death» would tend to serve to protect gay students from the prejudice one might find on more secular campuses (and who are we kidding, anti-gay prejudice exists in secular universities).

(102) In more recent cases, the Court has indicated that a narrow conception of ambiguity is to be rejected.