Sentences with phrase «language category of»

But the foreign - language category of ebooks is making tremendous headway.

Not exact matches

News of Lucara's discovery of the Lesedi La Rona diamond (it was named in a national contest held in Botswana and translates into «our light» in the Tswana language) has helped invigorate a mining category that has languished in the wake of a global recession, not to mention a campaign by Blood Diamond star Leonardo DiCaprio to promote synthetic alternatives to alleviate working conditions of miners in Africa.

Porter raised additional concerns about language used in posting tools that allows users to post about «suspicious activity,» a category she views as overly broad, as opposed to restricting reports to notifications of specific crimes that were witnessed.

Several of his previous books, from the 1993 classic Marketing Without Megabucks to his groundbreaking previous collaboration with Jay, Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green (a category bestseller for 34 months), have won awards and / or been translated and republished in other languages.

The McMillan project's opponents say that kind of contradiction would be less clear under new language the Bowser administration wants to insert in the Comprehensive Plan that asserts that references to such categories are «intended to give broad guidance and are not intended to be strictly followed.»

First, the tax code's borrowed language does not apply to «any religiously affiliated employer that has nonprofit status,» but to a much tighter category of churches and their «integrated auxiliaries.»

Surely God would not stoop to employ the lowly earthbound categories of ancient cosmologies or descend to the language of common appearances!

And beware of language that assumes categories like «heterosexual» and similar terms are now solid and fixed entities which are somehow established.

«5 Whitehead shows how this concept of a thing, a concept that grew out of practical dealing with the actualities of the world, entrenched itself in the subject - predicate structure of language and from there made its way into Aristotle's theory of the Categories.

One would wish Whitehead used the part / whole language more often, particularly when discussing the Category of the Ultimate.

As Moltmann points out, God - language must be set in the category of expectation, since this is appropriate for a God of promise.15 Our problem here, therefore, is not to establish the ontological foundation for God - talk but to consider the position and claim of linguistic analysis in relation to the question of the validity of God - talk.

Because of God's transcendence it would be mythological to refer to God's action in terms appropriate only to objects available, in principle at least, to ordinary sense perception.13 This especially means that one can not speak of God in terms of the categories of time and space; 14 i.e., whatever is predicated of God can not apply only to some particular time and space, but must apply equally to all times and spaces.15 Thus the implication of Ogden's criterion for non-mythological language about God corresponds to his statement of several years ago, that «there is not the slightest evidence that God has acted in Christ in any way different from the way in which he primordially acts in every other event.

My positions on all three are probably still best described as revisionary (Le, the use of a «limit - language» approach to the questions of religion and revelation; the use of process categories for understanding the reality of God; and the use of symbolic literary - critical analyses for interpreting Christology).

Let me rephrase this essential point in the language of the fourteenth category of explanation: A set of mutually contemporaneous actual entities does not have a «unity of the relatedness constituted by their prehensions [i.e., simple physical feelings] of each other» (Process 24).

The problem is the much more complex one of relating religious language to empirical categories, to bodily feelings, and to concrete social energies and relations.

The criticism of Reagan at the time was that, by referring to «evil,» he was reintroducing to public discourse a moral category that is dangerously close to the language of religion and divine destiny that America had long since outgrown.

Granting that Whitehead speaks of the subjective form of all events and the category of subjective unity, Mays is undaunted and proceeds to demystify Whitehead's language.

This is the very sort of thing Adam meant when he was talking about decolonizing our theology — because our theology has been shaped by colonial categories and language.

They believe that such language is defined by the categories of the Enlightenment, that there are different ways of reasoning, and that the church must make its claims to truth on a contested field without shouting in advance that others are wrong and it alone is right.

The thinkers and the seekers from the two backgrounds would have used different language and different categories of thought, but fundamentally they would have been saying the same thing and searching for the same thing.

This we affirm and yet acknowledge the brokenness of our language which never permits a simple application of any category in precisely the same way to man and to God.

The dinosaur belongs properly to the scientific language of the reconstruction of biological history, and the Genesis story be longs to a biblical category of mythic thinking.

«We are ready to reconsider the case of Compassion International, the US donor, which was put under «prior permission category» for alleged violation of [FCRA],» one senior Home Ministry official toldIndia Today, an English - language news magazine based near New Delhi.

Just as in so much of Paul's language the Jesus who was raised from the dead must be understood in terms of spirit, so also this remains the most satisfactory, if not indeed the only, category in which to understand the nature of the risen Christ.

On the other hand, he stresses that God is not an exception to the categories and uses much of the same language about him as he uses about actual occasions.

Most religious language makes use of other categories, and it is important to know which language - game one is using and how language - games may be mixed.

Any mixture of categories of language can be dangerous, and yet some mixing is essential if one is to gain insight into religious meanings.

He has already mixed his language - games and it is necessary to establish the proper categories of language before either Adam and Eve or extinct Mesozoic Saurian reptiles can profitably be discussed.

Moreover, as Christianity has spread around the world, it is often a new confession that expresses the faith of Third World peoples in their own distinctive languages in contrast to the languages and categories of their colonizers.

Thus St. Augustine would have theological difficulties with some feminists» proposal to replace traditional trinitarian language with the functional categories of creator, redeemer and sanctifier.

This is the discovery that the real meaning of all religious language, regardless of its terms and categories, is existential, or, if you will, metaphysical, rather than scientific or historical.

The analysis and synthesis of the philosopher, the imagination and insight of the poet and artist, the experience of the prophet and the mystic — these involve distinctive categories, distinctive methods, and distinctive languages of communication.

What Our Lord in this Gospel is telling us in the language and categories of the time, and what the Church has developed and applied in practice, is that the only exception to the life - long bond of marriage is where there is in fact no legally binding covenant to begin with.

Each of the categories of language has its specific uses, and the problem is to be clear about which language - game one is using and to avoid improper mixing.

His position is that intensive analysis of all the fundamental categories of language discloses either unavoidable paradoxes or the reality of God as an indispensable aspect of the categories» meanings.12 In his own words, «Language is bound to generate paradox if one attempts to purify it of all theistic implications; standard language is essentially theistic.

So in what sense can we continue to proclaim the special authority of Christian revelation while at the same time fully embracing the implications of our two axioms: on the one hand that our religious language, including our Christological categories, is never adequately representative of God, and on the other that it is always conditioned by historical relativity?

Internalizing the language, concepts and communicative norms of a particular field is crucial to the development of competencies in that field (see, for example, P. N. Johnson - Laird, Mental Models: Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness [Harvard University Press, 19831 and George Lakoff, Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind [University of Chicago Press, 1987]-RRB-.

There are categories for people of color (POCs) and for people with primary language other than English (PLOTEs).

While both prophecy and tongues are inspired by the Holy Spirit, the gift of tongues calls attention to the realm of the Spirit's working that is not irrational, but that can not be adequately comprehended by conventional languages, categories of thought and rational explanations.

As Whitehead moves more and more fully into his own visionary understanding, he progressively negates and transcends the inherited categories of his own language and does so on the basis of an ever fuller vision of a mutual and total coinherence.

Of course, given our immersion in a culture for which these categories seem as connatural as the English language, uprooting them from our vocabulary and worldview will not be anything like a simple task.

But as the book's title suggests, from the beginning Cairns was unafraid of the language and categories of organized Christianity, though he tended to embody them in immediate and contemporary narrative situations.

Static categories were jettisoned in favor of language which took seriously the fluid and relational nature of the world, its processes, and its interconnections.

The world which his speculative vision apprehends is obviously neither the world of our common sense nor even the world of modern physics; it is far rather a religiously apprehended world mediated through the language and categories of modern science and our common experience.

Certainly our established Western categories and ways of language and thinking provide no manifest way of so conjoining brute fact and final salvation or everlastingness and matter - of - fact entities.

These systems or categories of language usage are called language - games by Wittgenstein.

This approach is continued from another perspective in the thinking of Horace Bushnell and Francis H. Drinkwater who work through the language of the heart and provide us with the category of poetic - simple.

To tell the Story through the language and categories of football would in all likelihood be no less profitable than St. Paul's attempt to liken the Christian disciple to a Roman soldier or the early missionaries» attempt to portray Christ as a divine tribal chieftain or the rock generation's creation of Jesus Christ Superstar.

Likewise, metaphysical systems can be considered as speculative extensions of interpretive categories which within religious language itself are applied to distinctive types of experience and key historical events.

If teachers are acquainted with the categories of religious language, even younger pupils can participate in the analysis and come to their own conclusions.