Sentences with phrase «in the natural context of»

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Second, using «ecosystem» in this particular business context implies that there's some sort of natural order in how these players interact, with each participant playing a pre-ordained role.

«So to me it was sort of natural to put dog studies in the context of human disease.»

But it is one thing to state that all human beings have some access to God's law within and through human nature, quite another to expect natural law theories based on reason alone to persuade others about contested moral issues in a context where such theories are stripped of their foundations in God as creator, lawgiver, and judge.

In this context of aughties - unease, older conservative assumptions of a natural alliance between more libertarian Americans and more socially conservative ones, around the supposedly shared attributes of religious Liberty, economic Liberty, and political Liberty, with the threat of Islamist terror cast as the substitute for that of Communist domination, fell flat.

That's an indoctrinated belief placed upon a natural human reaction, just as much as the Hindu idea that good deeds only make sense in the context of people trying to improve themselves through reincarnation, isn't it?

If Einstein actually said that you have to take it in context with the «God» that he said that he believed in, Spinoza's God, which is nothing like the personal God of Christians, but more like a poetic way of describing the natural laws that govern the universe.

My point is not to underplay the cross, but to see it in an unfolding context that includes a broader picture of humanity and the natural world.

Yet in its texts and applications, as in the Declaration and the Constitution, the language of natural rights, natural law, natural reason and nature's God still has power if the right speaker (ethos) with an intuitive understanding of audience (pathos) finds the right words and mode of reasoning (logos) in the right occasion or context.

Now it was natural that the first Christian evangelists should proclaim Jesus against the background of Jewish thought and in the context of what they conceived to be God's historical manner of dealing with his people Israel.

In this context we should like to warn against the snobbery of certain circles who imagine that natural science, technology and social planning have nothing to do with culture, which in their view can only be created by individualistic eliteIn this context we should like to warn against the snobbery of certain circles who imagine that natural science, technology and social planning have nothing to do with culture, which in their view can only be created by individualistic elitein their view can only be created by individualistic elites.

Mascall sees that if he is to establish his case for natural theology in the context of modern philosophy, he must refute those epistemological views that lead to the denial of the existence of finite entities.

That a congregation is constituted by enacting a more broadly and ecumenically practiced worship that generates a distinctive social space implies study of what that space is and how it is formed: What are the varieties of the shape and content of the common lives of Christian congregations now, cross-culturally and globally (synchronic inquiry); how do congregations characteristically define who they are and what their larger social and natural contexts are; how do they characteristically define what they ought to be doing as congregations; how have they defined who they are and what they ought to do historically (diachronic study); how is the social form of their common life nurtured and corrected in liturgy, pastoral caring, preaching, education, maintenance of property, service to neighbors; what is the role of scripture in all this, the role of traditions of theology, and the role of traditions of worship?

A «natural grouping» is a small social unit made up of people whose fives are in some measure interlaced and who provide for each other a stable context in which the orderly transmission of values can take place from parents to children.

On this suggestion, «emancipation» means the opportunity to be creative, the measure of power that «issues from coordination,» and individuals are more or less emancipated depending on the natural and human context in which their lives are set.

Principles of interpretation (Hermeneutics) 1) Literal Principle — Scripture is to be understood in its natural, normal sense, read literally 2) Grammar Principle — Deal with what it says in the way it says it, be it using metaphor, simile, narrative, etc. 3) Historical Principle — Read the Bible in its historical context 4) Synthesis Principle — No one part of the Bible contradicts any other part (Scripture interprets Scripture) 5) Practical Principle — It contains a practical application 6) Illumination of the Holy Spirit — It is the job of the Holy Spirit to enlighten the child of God to the meaning of Scripture, without Him, one is without the ability to interpret Scripture

Instead of chiding a user of ain't for violating a natural law of speech or failing to improve himself, we simply advise, «In this context, it's best to use is not.»

Striving for independence, striving to isolate her natural loves from the only context in which they could ultimately flourish, Orual had been making war on the reality principle of the universe.

The natural process that is at work in the agricultural context calls for the need to withdraw from activities for a time, then to sit back and ponder over the working of creation and to enjoy it.

We experience this relational character of reality also in our heightened sensitivity to the natural environment and to the historical context out of which things emerge.

The reason that such an admission is out of the question is that it would open the door to creationism, which in this context means not simply biblical fundamentalism, but any invocation of a creative intelligence or purpose outside the natural order.

For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

It thereby provided a context in which the capacity for careful and objective observation of the natural world could make great advances.

Secondly, most futurist theology, and recent theology generally, has seen man's life too exclusively in the context of society and history and has neglected the natural and cosmic setting of the human enterprise.

In each instance, the specifically Christian reality was a manifestation of God in act, set in the context of a wider manifestation of God in act in all human experience, in all history, and in the whole natural ordeIn each instance, the specifically Christian reality was a manifestation of God in act, set in the context of a wider manifestation of God in act in all human experience, in all history, and in the whole natural ordein act, set in the context of a wider manifestation of God in act in all human experience, in all history, and in the whole natural ordein the context of a wider manifestation of God in act in all human experience, in all history, and in the whole natural ordein act in all human experience, in all history, and in the whole natural ordein all human experience, in all history, and in the whole natural ordein all history, and in the whole natural ordein the whole natural order.

If one accepts this doctrine, one can account for the highly complex conscious experiences of human beings in a fully non-reductionistic way, while at the same locating human beings fully in the context of the natural world.

But it can find little place for freedom in the context of a deterministically understood natural environment.

What we call novelty in most artistic, scientific, ethical, and other cultural contexts as well as the natural creativity of the physical and biological world refers to the novelty inherent in creativity - characterization.

But if we interpret such texts in their appropriate context and with due regard for their cultural setting, and if we regard the argument from natural law as lacking content (even if Aquinas» generalized summary of that law as «doing good, not evil» is formally true), we must acknowledge the goodness of homosexuality when and as it is practiced with due regard for the genuine moral norms, to which I shall refer at the end of this chapter.

The apostle Paul makes the very same appeal to «natural» and «unnatural,» in the context of gender roles, when he argues that women should wear head coverings: «Judge for yourself,» he writes, «Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

In previous times we lived and worked within the context of the natural environment.

Though Leclerc carefully locates his thought in the context of the natural philosophy of the seventeenth century, he modifies it considerably, as we have said, by drawing especially on the insights of Aristotle, the schoolmen, and Leibniz.

In both the short and long - term, human beings have an enormous and abiding burden of responsibility for maintaining the viability of the natural world within the context of an evolving physical and biological universe.

They work with schools, run seminars for young married couples, meet with the large community of sex workers in the border town of Nyanza Lac, broadcast a weekly radio program, and use the natural contexts of young people — like soccer matches — to share the message of creaturely self - respect and divine love.

The dangers of the expressions of natural law are in association of natural law with time bound statements of natural law and in the neglect of the degree to which natural law reflects its historical context.

So in this attempt to explicate Christian ethics love is related to a particular tradition of moral norms understood as both revelation and natural law in a particular communal context.

Even here, no one contemporary has developed philosophy of religion as a natural theology in the context of a total theology, but the materials for the task are readily at hand.

In relating ourselves to the promise given to Abraham (who stands to Jews, Muslims and Christians alike as «our father in faith»), and by observing the partial fulfillment of this promise in surprising ways time without number, we sense that we have been given a new context, beyond the purely natural, within which to dwelIn relating ourselves to the promise given to Abraham (who stands to Jews, Muslims and Christians alike as «our father in faith»), and by observing the partial fulfillment of this promise in surprising ways time without number, we sense that we have been given a new context, beyond the purely natural, within which to dwelin faith»), and by observing the partial fulfillment of this promise in surprising ways time without number, we sense that we have been given a new context, beyond the purely natural, within which to dwelin surprising ways time without number, we sense that we have been given a new context, beyond the purely natural, within which to dwell.

If this is in fact the context, then pre «evangelization by teaching «natural theology» first makes a lot of sense» and the proposition needs, at least, to be publicized and debated.

The first good is children: Marriage provides the fitting and proper context for us to fulfill our natural desire for sexual union, to respect the intrinsic possibility of fertility in that union, and to accept responsibility for the children that union produces.

Once Christianity became permanently divorced from its Semitic origins in Judaism, and was proclaiming its Gospel in a pagan context where the ancient mythology was still very much of a reality, it was natural that the idea of the unseen divine world above should steadily become more dominant in Christian thought.

Despite my keen interest in Whitehead's philosophy as philosophy and my conviction of its great value in that context, this book is about Christian natural theology.

They are capacities and abilities to act in certain characteristic ways in relation to God, and to ourselves, other persons, and the social and natural contexts of our lives insofar as all of these are related to God.

In the context of a healthy, real food based diet, small amounts of these natural sugars won't cause harm.

She is the author of Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa 1993, and the co-editor of Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives (1995), which includes her chapters «Beauty and the Breast: The Cultural Context of Breastfeeding in the United States,» and «A Time to Wean: The Hominid Blueprint for a Natural Age of Weaning in Modern Human Populations.»

The solstice is described primarily in the context of the natural world, making this book widely appropriate for both freethinker and religious families of all denominations.

GE food like Golden rice is simply unnecessary in the Philippines» context of natural food diversity.

«Moving with people is a natural part of our musical experience in a social context,» she says.

Her «crusade» would be a totally natural response to a loss such as the one she experienced, and I accept her statements in that context (though I don't necessarily agree with all of them.)

Kim's heir apparent is his youngest son Kim Jung - un, who is perhaps too young in his twenties and too inexperienced in political and military affairs to receive natural respect from his fellow Koreans, particularly in the context of a socialist Confucian culture.

«Despite the natural concordance of our work with the principles and ideas embodied in Article 15, we didn't always put our work into a «right to science» context,» said Frick.