Sentences with phrase «influenced by the philosophy»

Both Shipp and Keller have been profoundly influenced by the philosophy and approach of AA.

Both authors — Birch as a biologist and Cobb as a theologian — are influenced by the philosophy of Whitehead.

He was influenced by both philosophy and physics.

I am greatly influenced by the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, although my concern for the oppressed does not come from him.

My Whiteheadian interpretation has also been influenced by the philosophy and theology of Karl Rahner.

John Cobb reviews the history of the relationship between science and religion focusing on how Western science and Christian theology are both influenced by philosophy.

While influenced by the philosophy of Buddhism and the practice of psychotherapy, her paintings emerge from a foundation in the great tradition of Western modernism and post-modernism and from her decades long study of classical South Asian and Tibetan art.

Influenced by philosophy and science, his practice is based on transformation, consumption and decay.

He was also a friend of many of the major painters involved in abstract expressionism, and the directness, immediacy, and elements of chance that characterize his work were heavily influenced by their philosophy and work.

Initially influenced by the philosophy of John Dewey and later by the teachings of Meyer Shapiro, John Cage, and Hans Hofmann, Kaprow believed in an expanded idea of art — prior to the conceptualists and long before the advent of postmodernism — that was inextricably bound to aesthetics and could encompass actions and ideas as much as objects.

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These characteristics are influenced by human psychology and philosophy.

He is deeply influenced by neuro - linguistic programming and a variety of philosophies.

Even Sullivan's chapter on «The Liberationists» does not include those we have come to associate with that term (the strident gay - rights activists or flamboyant gay liberationists) but focuses instead on a ragtag group of theoreticians influenced by French philosophy.

This was a militant organization which seems to have been influenced by Iqbal's philosophy of power.

The major contribution of interpersonal psychology to a comprehensive philosophy of human nature is that what a person becomes is decisively influenced by his relationships with other persons — chiefly those in his family in the first few years of life.

This book shows how much Iqbal had been influenced by Western philosophy.

Nevertheless, its original formulation was profoundly influenced also by Aristotelian philosophy and took over much of what Aristotle had said about a self - sufficient prime mover.

Some of our greatest leaders, Jefferson and Lincoln included, though profoundly influenced by modern philosophy, have risen to a biblical level of insight in our times of need.

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 speak.

It must be remembered that the early Christian community moved almost wholly into the Gentile world within a generation or two after its origin within Judaism, and that, as Christian thought took more definite shape within the next three or four centuries, it was inevitable that it should have been strongly influenced by the prevailing philosophy of the Hellenistic culture in which the church moved.

McCoy suggests that Whitehead, too, may have been shaped by biblical ways of thinking: «Indeed, it is highly probable that the process philosophies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries emerged from contexts influenced by the covenantal or federal tradition and thus are in part intellectual progeny of covenantal theology and ethics» (CCE 360).

«These lectures will be best understood by noting the following list of prevalent habits of thought, which are repudiated, in so far as concerns their influence on philosophy:... (vii) The Kantian doctrine of the objective world as a theoretical construct from purely subjective experience» (PR xiii [x]-RRB-.

Moreover, Charles Hartshorne was professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Divinity School was full of theologians profoundly influenced by Whitehead.

One, influenced by European philosophy, was dualistic.

An alternative to the interpretation of history as process is offered today in those Christian theologies which have been influenced by existential philosophy which has its primary source in Kierkegaard.

Meland traces the growing influence of Whitehead's philosophy on the images of thought both in modernism as stimulated by Darwinian evolution, and changes in the post-Darwinian era ushered in by the creative evolution movement in physics.

I would like to show this is simply not «what the Bible teaches» but is far more something rooted in man - made doctrines heavily influenced by western Medieval philosophy.

His philosophy was driven largely by skepticism about the reigning religious and philosophical traditions of his day, and his method was geared toward weakening their influence.

It includes all of the works by Whitehead and Hartshorne that have obvious theological importance, works on theological topics that have been significantly influenced by Whiteheadian philosophy, and essays that are critical of...

Theologians influenced by positivism, whose adherents saw reality as strictly that which can be experienced through the senses and knowledge as that which can be obtained through a narrow definition of the scientific method, and linguistic analysis, which purported that the only proper function of philosophy is the study of the usage of words and sentences, also treated science and religion as separate realms, distinct «language games,» each with its own set of rules.

Process thinkers influenced by the speculative side of the philosophies of Whitehead and Hartshorne argue to the contrary.

This writer distinctly remembers back in the»90s being told by a good and respected professor that he would be worried if the theology of Faith movement grew in influence in the Church, but not nearly so worried concerning its philosophy.

The influence of Eastern philosophies in Peris» thought is reflected in gestalt therapy, for example, in his Taoist - like admonition, «Don't push the river, it flows by itself,» (20) and in the paradoxical theory of change.

The word «ecological» is added because of the emphasis on relationships in the development of postmodern thought that has been influenced by process philosophy and in particular the thought of A.N. Whitehead.

The ruling philosophy of our Swedes is naturalism, the metaphysical doctrine that nature is a permanently closed system of material causes and effects that can never be influenced by something from outside» like God.

While old - line believers have convinced themselves that the theology they have developed under the influence of radical empiricism and specifically Whitehead and Hartshorne is responsibly biblical, we have known that are interpretation is deeply affected by our philosophy.

On the other hand, for minds deeply influenced by Nominalist traditions of philosophy in the West, a» mystery» means an intellectual conundrum, something one step removed from worldly experience and therefore not quite real in its psychological impact.

In general, this is a concern much more of process theologians, that is, of Christians influenced by Whitehead, than of the followers of Whitehead in other fields, such as philosophy, who may not be shaped by the biblical tradition.

Man creates his philosophy of life from the resources of his basic relationships; these relationships, in turn, are remolded by the influence of his faith, his values, his dedications, and his beliefs about life.

They tried to increase their influence in society by gaining more followers and defending Christian beliefs against the claims of philosophy and other religions.

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 general.

It includes all of the works by Whitehead and Hartshorne that have obvious theological importance, works on theological topics that have been significantly influenced by Whiteheadian philosophy, and essays that are critical of process theology.

Most of the remaining chapters are a selection from the works of Christian theologians who have been strongly influenced by Whiteheadian philosophy.

The overall ethos has been influenced by the Aristotelian political philosophy which later was embraced by the Stoic philosophy.

What is needed today, I believe, is the radical attempt to work Out a theological pattern for Christian faith which is in the main influenced by process - philosophy, while at the same time use is made of what we have been learning from the existentialist's insistence on engagement and decision, the understanding of history as involving genuine participation and social context, and the psychologist's awareness of the depths of human emotional, conational, and rational experience.

The vocabulary and imagery of the Prologue are clearly seen to be influenced by Old Testament wisdom literature and not Hellenistic philosophy.

I studied him as an important classical author but was more influenced by the French and English utopian socialists who, unlike Marx, were planners in the great tradition of the Enlightenment philosophy.

The reigning philosophies of nature, influenced as they still are by the scientific materialism of the classical era in physics, are incapable of sustaining any hope that things of value somehow escape being utterly forgotten.

I was first influenced by the impact of Paul Tillich's theology and its underlying existentialist philosophy in his classes at Union Theological Seminary and through my discussions with him as he advised me on my Ph.D. dissertation.

Under the influence of scientism, the Enlightenment's exaltation of reason, modern philosophy and the suspicions cast by social science many intelligent people today suspect that religious symbols are no more than psychic or social «projections.»