Sentences with phrase «insights into the nature»

Hans Gruber makes for an unlikely business icon, but the villain of the classic 1988 action movie Die Hard (played with gleeful malevolence by the late, great Alan Rickman) had an apt insight into the nature of success.

She offers insights into the nature of abortion — but creates a world almost wholly devoid of three - dimensional human beings.

But such geometrical symbolizations of time are the source of endless confusions and vicious distortions which from the time of Zeno of Elea have interfered with our true insight into the nature of time.

When the church addresses public economic issues from a revisionist perspective, it presses the biblical imperative for justice while simultaneously accepting modern economic insights into the nature of productivity and growth.

Most generally, the term «conservative» means that I find myself more often than not appreciating the earliest Quakers» insights into the nature of faith, church, and society.

In spite of failing to fulfil its primary intention, it provides certain fundamental insights into the nature of his understandings of reality and into what may well be the conditions of metaphysical thought.

In religious experience, interpreted within process thought, the physical emotions, purposes, desires, and volitions of individuals are fused with conceptual insights into the nature of things for the purpose of transforming the individual, of enlarging his or her experience, and of advancing the creative process whereby new values emerge.

Nor is that parallel nothing more than an interesting accident; I believe that it is a parallel so profound and so revealing that it gives us insight into the nature of the Eucharist as the chief piece of Christian worship while it also provides us with the clue as to how the gospel which is proclaimed can become the life - giving reality of the Christian tradition down the ages to the present day.

When we discover the real nature of the relationships of one person to another we are gaining insight into the nature of nature itself at all levels, from protons to people.

The enormous progress which has been made in the understanding of foreign religions in the past century and a half proves that even if a total comprehension should be unobtainable a great deal of insight into their nature can be won.

Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 345) This was Whitehead's most startling insight into the nature of God.

The mythical thought of the New Testament on the other hand, does reckon with such interferences, and if such thought enshrines a profound and genuine insight into the nature of the human ego, it requires restatement to make it plain, and that means the complete abandonment of mythology.

A middle position sees the biblical record as neither completely divine nor completely human, but as Involving both God and man; its authors conveyed profound insights into the nature Of God, but expressed this religious message in poetic form and in terms of the understanding of the world then current.

His ideas regarding God's responsive involvement in the world, his ever - changing action upon it and reaction to it, and his own enrichment through history and human creativity must surely be accepted by Christians as authentic insights into the nature of the living God.

Prompted by his continuing experience with the institute courses, he began a serious research effort, convinced of the need «to find new ways to talk about the congregational body that can provide deeper insight into its nature, and enrich conversation with and among its members.»

Unusual insights into the nature and function of religion can be reached if we learn to look at it from this cosmic perspective.

Every day the conversion continues as I am changed by human encounters, the natural world and countless experiences that provide new insights into the nature of God.

There is an assumption in the American Constitution that rises out of a biblical insight into the nature of human life: given the self - centered, sinful nature of all human beings that causes us to operate from the vantage point of self - interest, no one person or one branch of government should ever be allowed to achieve total power.

Brown has made it clear, however, that he regards the book as a serious contribution to a revisionist history of early and medieval Christianity, a history that offers insights into the nature of real faith and the identity of the true church.

Buber expressed his great insight into the nature of true spirituality in the contrast between talking to God (first - and second - person pronouns) and talking about God (third - person pronouns).

Thus Christian intercession and prayer of petition are not only a possibility but provide a valuable insight into the nature of things.

It rather appears to be the degree to which, in and through the experiences to which these statements point, there is effected an actual deepening and widening of spiritual insight into the nature of ultimate reality, of human existence and of the destiny of man.

There can be no doubt of the profound insight into the nature and history of Brahmanism and the intimate acquaintance with the religious, literary and political manifestations of the spirit of India to which Radhakrishnan's oeuvre testifies.

Similarly, belief in God fosters insight into the nature of apoleia, the combating of which is the physician's special charisma.

Nothing is more striking than the secular alteration that goes on in the moral and religious tone of men, as their insight into nature and their social arrangements progressively develop.

But Jesus did much more than bring new insights into the nature of love by means of teaching.

Whitehead never completely applies his insights into nature to the human condition.

The point is that there is a lot of open space for thought about the nature of God or a higher power — atheists run around like they know everything that isn't, which certainly comes off sounding like they have some insight into the nature of the universe that non-atheists do nt.

In fact, I've always felt that the most impressive gauge of his triumph, and the best insight into the nature of the Channel's challenge, is that before the next man successfully swam it again 36 years went by.

Many adoptive families report, however, that their adoptive children resemble them in many ways, giving them fresh insights into the nature vs. nurture dichotomy.

This book, which has been years in the making, offers revolutionary insights into the nature of the medical system and the real agenda behind the violence of hospital birth.

Matriarchs are at the hub of a complex, multilayered social network, and we are now getting insights into the nature of the ties that bind these close - knit groups and the key role that wise old leaders play in enhancing the survival of their members.

She did field work for her Ph.D. in evolutionary biology, which gave her insight into the nature of much of the research done in sub-Saharan Africa.

And it seems likely that Shannon's intuition will provide even more insights into nature in the century ahead.

«Our research has shown how space based detectors will provide new insights into the nature of supermassive black holes.»

Cross-species comparisons offer some surprising insights into the nature of sexuality

Stephen Hawking is one of our greatest living geniuses — his insights into the nature of black holes, space and time have truly revolutionized physics.

Its study, titled «Imagined Speech Influences Perceived Loudness of Sound» and published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, offers new insights into the nature of brain activity.

The data give important insights into the nature of Saturn's rings.

But the history of the long march towards the gene also provides telling insights into the nature of modern biomedical research.

These are some of the observations made by Judah Levine, author of a riveting paper just published in EPJ H, which provides unprecedented insights into the nature of time and its historical evolution.

The team hopes to use Hubble again, in combination with the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) and other facilities, to more accurately measure the speed of the black hole and its gas disk, which may yield more insight into the nature of this bizarre object.

According to Cho, «those final revolutions could provide insights into the nature of neutron stars.

This new insight into the nature of the interrelationship between the nervous system and the vascular system will help in understanding diseases of the central nervous system.

But even though an Earthling has not set foot on the lunar surface since Apollo 17 in 1972, samples brought back during that mission continue to grace the science community with insights into the nature of Earth's satellite.

«This is a beautiful piece of work,» says Gijs Nelemans of the University of Cambridge, U.K.. He's particularly interested in the potential insight into the nature of the kick that sends black holes flying through space.

Results from these tests provide also in many cases insights into the nature of the sources of the false positives, which are generally produced by one of several kinds of configurations involving eclipsing binaries (EB).

Detailed analysis of the signal has already yielded insights into the nature of the black holes that merged, and how they formed.

If confirmed, the discovery will be only the fourth known phase of hydrogen, the simplest element and one long probed for basic insights into the nature of matter.

While the long - term future of studying exoplanet atmospheres surely rests in the next generation of telescopes and instruments that will enable us to directly image smaller and cooler exoplanets, transiting exoplanets like the ACCESS targets are the cosmic lighthouses that are providing the first insights into the natures of other worlds.