Sentences with phrase «many moderns understand»

And by doing that, we'll be able to help push the conversation towards a new, more modern understanding of America's middle class challenges — and spur fresh ideas for a new era.

Christianity, particularly that flagrantly practiced and grossly over-preached by evangelists, is also anti-science and is therefore putting our young people and our future workforce at a disadvantage relative to competing nations that now have better science education without religious bias and without the ancient supersti - tions that block modern understanding and technological and medical progress.

Philosophically and theologically, Aristotle and Aquinas do not deal with addiction, but they do write extensively concerning the power of vice, which is intimately related to the more modern understanding of addiction.

To understand why Behe's argument is so uncontested in the realm of fact, and yet why so many scientists find the concept of irreducible complexity not only difficult to accept but even impossible to consider, we should start by summarizing the modern understanding of Darwinism, as set out by Richard Dawkins.

I also believe that the idea of evolution or development is an essential key to a nonscholastic doctrine of analogy, if only because it is the modern understanding of organic and historical evolution that brought to an end the scholastic idea of Being (as is so brilliantly demonstrated by Arthur O. Lovejoy in The Great Chain of Being).

The «democratic» Christianity you speak of is nothing more than the product of your modern understanding of history.

Modern understanding of human behavior and sociology recognizes morality as an emergent phenomenon.

I worry the modern understanding of God owes more to Colton Burpo than the prophet Isaiah.

Noting the contemporary ambiguity even among dedicated Christians as to the deeper meaning of belief in God, Moltmann asks himself what the cross of Jesus means for our modern understanding of God.

You had to opt out to not be part of his community (this is where the «parish» idea got developed into it's modern understanding, and historically why some areas of the US still refer to geographic areas of their cities as «parishes»... if you live there, you're part of the parish.)

However, many mission readings of Matthew 28:18 20 today still carry the influence of the term «heathen» which clashes with modern understandings of «ethne» as nations, and thus distorts the thrust of mission as the proclamation and practice of the good news.

«We do not here advocate an unheard - of modern understanding of Jesus; we ask rather that the implications of what the church has always said about Jesus as Word of the Father, as true God and true Man, be taken more seriously, as relevant to our social problems, than ever before.»

Nonetheless, Altizer's thesis that Eliade has given us our only Christian and dialectical modern understanding of religion is not to be taken lightly.

If nothing is found wrong with this neutrino - velocity measurement, then of course the modern understanding of physics is thrown entirely «up in the air.»

The Reformation, seeking to restore something of the prophetic emphasis, provided the basis of modern understanding by conflating four modes of ministry — priestly, kingly, prophetic, and pastoral — into one problematic, always ambiguous, but powerful model of ordained ministry.

But he's also become one of the more controversial figures in evangelicalism after releasing the book Love Wins, which challenged conventional, modern understandings about hell and the afterlife.

It'd be like discounting the modern understanding of reproduction by citing middle - age beliefs regarding spontaneous generation of maggots and flies from dead meat.

School and church have failed to communicate to large segments of our population ai clear and convincing modern understanding of the universe.

Develop a strong understanding of the classical view of freedom — particularly the classical relationship between freedom and truth — as an alternative to the modern understanding of freedom as license.

Even if you maintain a literal view of the creation account, attempting to «disprove» modern understandings of our origins shouldn't be a faith - defining concern, because God never asked us to prove He existed to anyone.

All of this can be presented to the world once again as a seamless vision of truth, understood all the more deeply and beautifully against the backdrop of a modern understanding of science and history.

Bishop John Austin Baker, as dean of Westminster Abbey, put it this way — in a guide to the Abbey — commenting on the fact that the Abbey is the final resting place of Charles Darwin: «Today most Christians... are glad that one of the intellectual giants who laid the foundation of our modern understanding of the world should lie here in the house of God in whom he himself did not believe but whom we know so much better as a result of his discoveries.»

Reconciling the words of these inspired prophets with the modern understanding of inspiration and inerrancy is a difficult task indeed.

Anyone doubting that Bleich is prepared to have the proponents of a modern understanding of the halakhah go climb a tree need only consult his response to Gordis» essay in the same symposium in which Jacobs» reflections appear.

Does it illuminate any larger truth about the relationship between traditional and modern understandings of the halakhah?

Such a posture toward reality reflects the way many moderns understand scriptural events.

That too may be a move forward if it leads to a reassessment of what is worth saving and how that can be brought to bear on modern understanding.

He wishes to be modern, yet he is aware that any modern understanding of the halakhah sharply conflicts with «fifteen hundred years of [prior] halakhic activity.»

You should consult Sir Roger Penrose or Sir Anthony Leggett about the modern understanding of quantum theory and Bell's fundamental contribution before publishing such a misleading article.

As far as I know the apocalyptic language and expectation of the early Church was not in error (perhaps some of our modern understandings are incorrect).

In this age of rapid change, and with our modern understanding of the human condition, we can see how much alters in a person's lifetime; we must remain open to what may come, and free to respond to new circumstances.

Be sure to make minor adjustments based on our modern understanding of nutrition; for example, many Beef Bourguignon recipes call for using wheat flour as a thickener, which I omitted (although I sometimes use white rice flour instead).

Uncompromising support of a sensible alliance between traditional approaches to vineyard management and a modern understanding of the life cycle of the vine.

This situation resonates with the schematic, contractual in essence, modern understanding of the terms nation and nationality.

It was, however, only after the advent of the computer that a modern understanding emerged of how fossil fuel use would impact the climate.

He proved the neuron is the basic unit in nervous system and provided a modern understanding of the nerve impulse.

Alaska's new map reflects the changes in our modern understanding of geology as it builds on the past.

THE AUTHOR CAROLINE MALONE, ANTHONY BONANNO, TANCRED GOUDER, SIMON STODDART and DAVID TRUMP have extensively explored the ruins of ancient Maltese culture and contributed to its modern understanding.

A single cure is still elusive, but for people touched by his disease, modern understanding is paying off in better treatments, better prevention and brighter prospects

Pirahã, with its unusual features, has helped shape modern understanding of what those commonalities might be.

And those led to the modern understanding that many corals reproduce only once or twice a year, in coordinated mass releases of eggs and sperm.

The modern understanding of the brain is that rather than being a static structure (which is what I was taught in medical school), this organ is constantly remodeling itself, a phenomenon scientists call neuroplasticity.

If anything, a modern understanding enhances one's appreciation of this older thinking.

This alternative view of learners is also more consistent with modern understandings of brain plasticity and human learning.

Her work makes new connections across time and experience to show how old ideas can illuminate modern understanding.

It is in an English encyclopaedia in 1757, that for the first time, the meaning of the verb to humiliate describes our modern understanding of humiliation as an antisocial violation of a person's dignity (W. I. Miller, 1993).

Pupils are exposed to modern understandings of the divide and how it originated.

The earlier conception of the role of fertilizers as being that of making «two blades of grass grow where only one grew before» has given way to the more modern understanding of their function as being to make a crop yield $ 2 where only one was yielded before.

Crowell - Davis, S.L., T.M. Curtis, R.J. Knowles (2004) Social organization in the cat: A modern understanding.

From Plato's elaboration on the idea that art imitates nature in antiquity to our modern understanding of art as creative expression in nearly any and every form, art is constantly present in our everyday lives.