Sentences with phrase «into genuine understanding»

Lincoln's political thought has moments of imaginative genius — his collected works are still the best initiation into a genuine understanding of the regime under which we live.

Not exact matches

A second set of marks of excellence in theological schooling comes into view when we turn to reflect on the concreteness of a theological school: Its concreteness consists in part in its having institutionalized practices of governance, and its schooling is excellent to the extent that its polity leaves room so that the effort to understand God can be genuine by being free to err.

My own inclination is to say that genuine historical existence, understood as relation with the Other, is possible only when all ideologies, including religious ideologies, are called into question.

It is surely possible to think that Whitehead's understanding of the consequent nature of God or the kingdom of heaven is implicitly if partially grounded in a genuine eschatology, and is so because it apprehends a transmutation of evil into good by way of a cosmic and universal process.

I hope, nevertheless, that my comments may indicate why one person at least on this side of the Atlantic (and hence somewhat isolated from the technical expertise, vocabulary, and sometimes apparently frenetic debates of the community of process thinkers) finds in Hartshorne's work «genuine philosophic wisdom,» especially as it develops insights into the logical status and conceptual structure of a theistic understanding of the concept of God.

He gives the neurotic the understanding which the world has denied him and makes it more and more possible for him to step out of his self - imprisonment into a genuine relation with the analyst.

Privileging ethnic survival makes sense only when one understands that the survival of the Jewish people is not self - justifying: As a genuine task for Jews, survival requires a transcendent purpose and reason for existence, and a claim that without ethnic survival, Jews will sink into individual or collective nihilism.

If one is talking about further understanding of and investigation into a truth taught by the Church in the process of the development of dogma then the hermeneutic criteria given by the Church herself apply in the case of infallible teaching and non-infallible teaching: genuine further understanding must retain the same meaning and judgment regarding the teachings put forward by the Church (cf. Dei Filius, Vatican I).

The action implications of these findings, as well as some of the dos noted earlier, are to promote a genuine and broad sense of inclusiveness by educating for true understanding of diversity, especially as manifest in one's own school, to ensure that school codes of conduct and core values are integrated into everyday routines, including opportunities for student reflection and feedback on student report cards (versus being relegated to statements in handbooks or on web sites), and to require that all students are given systematic training in social problem solving or related social - emotional skills and encouraged specifically to use those skills in finding alternatives to mistreating others, seeking help effectively, and upstanding in the presence of injustice and inequity.

For the most part the critical mass welcomed this return to realism and their passive disregard for homegrown modernism had knock - on effect; lack of attention led to public's lack of understanding, constituting what Davis would call the «cultural monopoly» he saw to be taking place in the U.S. Genuine efforts had been made to incorporate new formal elements and meanings into art but this progressive aesthetic spirit had eventually waned in the face of cultural provincialism, which was being «exploited... at the expense of progress.»

I hope that while placing the Tunguska event into perpspective we also come to realize that our false sense of security regarding impacts like this and worse is largely perceptual based on our limited understanding of our own history and its woefully human timescale, and I hope we realize that impacts might not be the rare events we've come to consider them as being, and that they may not arrive singularly and only on rare occasions, but as swarms of potentially devastating event producers, as our planet enters into regions of our Milky Way where clouds of potentially planet - disrupting objects are a genuine concern and are something we can and should do something about... and soon.

Emotive orthodoxy wipes out this defence, and explains why (as Kahan finds) folks get * more * polarized on CAGW as they get more science literate; initial bias vectors them either further into orthodoxy, or to a better understanding of the genuine uncertainties (this aspect is covered in my guest post here at Climate Etc. on 30th January this year).

But care should be taken to distinguish between a genuine concern and puzzlement («I can not understand the rapid transformation of my small town into a place where so many people from other parts of Europe now live and work») and something more sinister («I do not like and I fear these incoming different people»).

We work closely with our candidates to ensure that we understand what is important to them both in terms of the scope of the role and the cultural fit and our specialist sector knowledge enables us to provide our candidates with a genuine insight into the markets they are interested in.

Instead, use your cover letter to highlight your genuine interest and understanding of the role and provide a clear insight into how you would make a positive contribution and add value.

A conversation which may activate your native abilities to understand, tolerate, and ease internal stress, gain genuine insight into troubling relationships, and develop more ease and control over the challenges in living that each of us faces daily.»