Sentences with phrase «meant only the study»

It stemmed from a fateful turning point that came at the height of medieval Islamic civilization, with the advent of «new interpreters of Islam who taught that acquisition of knowledge by Muslims meant only the study of Islamic theology.

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Fine print: Those in the study ate only 1 1/2 cups of cooked pasta a week, which means there's no chance you can indulge in Olive Garden's never - ending pasta bowl.

A 2015 study of Internet use distribution found that only about 27 percent of Internet users are 55 or older, meaning our survey likely found its way to primarily younger business owners simply because they were more likely be using sites where the survey appeared.

There are numerous studies that show that not only weight loss can be achieved but also some important health benefits when using intermittent fasting as a means to lose weight.

Only teaching every view of «creation» would qualify as a scientific study, meaning Baal and Ishtar and Quetzecoatl and Jupiter and Tiamat and Shiva and Odin and Tiki and Quan Yin and The Great Spirit and Ahura Mazda / Ormuzd would have to be included with Yaweh (who is all «creationists» mean)

Although the legislation in the Qur» an which may have two or more meanings is the subject of theory and study, the legislation which is explicit and open to only one meaning is binding on all Muslims.

While it might be true that those who lived in the time of the Prophet could understand religion better than the people of today who must study Islam by means of documents only, we can not ignore the considerable change in the social situation and world conditions during the past fourteen centuries.

My article is a very brief, popularly written condensation of not only many hours studying this particular story in both Hebrew and English, but many years coming to an understanding of the meaning of these Bible stories in their own context.

One should bear in mind that studies of populations show that condom use for contraceptive purposes has a failure rate of 12 \ % [6]- where «failure» means conception, which can occur only once a month, whereas HIV can be transmitted any day of the year.

While this is a study in «Jewish political theory,» it is by no means of interest only to Jewish thinkers.

That a theological school inescapably has some concrete identity and ethos does not mean that it schools by focusing study only on congregations whose own identities bear the strongest family resemblances to the school's identity.

If «the reality of the religion of a people can be studied only through the empirical enquiry into the meaning appropriated by them as persons and community of persons in their life situations, «32 then Dalit theology needs to look carefully into popular level of Hindu - Christian religious encounter.

Because if not, then you can be very glad that there are scholars and pastors who study and research Greek and Hebrew, because they are the only reason you are able to read a Bible in English so that you can supposedly believe what it «plainly means.»

If the basic purpose of the study of man is defined by the image of man as the creature who becomes what only he can become through confronting reality with his whole being, then the specific branches of that study must also include an understanding of man in this way, and this means not only as an object, but also, to begin with, as a Thou.

Our study of the path followed by the idiom, however, has made it abundantly clear that while the Lucan tradition has been dominant throughout most of Christian history, it is by no means the only view that has been held by Christians, particularly in the first and twentieth centuries.

P. F. Fichter, the author of The Southern Parish, has rightly said that a systematic understanding of the role of Catholicism in modern society requires us to study not only its values and meanings but more especially the «vehicles» employed to activate them and the agents who believe in these values and employ these «vehicles.»

In studying the Jesuit tradition, Garfield learned a little more about what it means to live a life beyond service to only yourself.

I am not saying disappointment on your article, my only point is that its faith, and only God can judge the correctness... The word of God cultivates the mind, and the seed of faith should bloom in its natural way, urging anything to study by words and its meaning is in - vain because the use of that will not gain you anything from God, but yes maybe in politics and people like you.

Yet we can hope, by means of this study, to recognize the historical phenomenon «Jesus» only on the basis of one's own historic (geschichtlich) encounter.

We need context and interpretation, and sometimes that means we need historical insight or other kinds of analysis that comes only from a lot of study.»

A critical study of this inheritance provides a constant source of new lessons, lessons which, today, place the emphasis on long term transition, on the multiplicity of strategies and on democracy as a means and not only as an objective.

Or do you mean that we should only encourage folks to make a decision after studying the entire Bible?

It is as though the church's ministry is meant only for the elite and thus for those educated for future leadership, not at all for those who study for immediate employability.

Almost every department of theological study is involved at this level, and this means not only attention to the symbols and images of the Christian faith; it also means attention to the symbols and images and art forms of the contemporary world, as they are encountered in literature and the fine arts, but also in popular expressions, community rituals, social ideologies, and not least in the mass media of the time.

David after forty plus years in and out of churches hearing and reading even studying and dissecting (if that matters) For me, and that is the only one I ever speak for, if it is a song, a scripture that I may recall, a line in a movie or something one might share here, its only those that breath hope, light the way, give courage, inspire, and comfort to me as an individual that have meaning.

Only a few people are «called» to do what Jesus plainly says to do, but every «Christian» must study the Bible more (which means more religious and political indoctrination).

Because Jung wrote about myth and considered all religions worthy of study and respect, many have wrongly assumed that he interpreted religion as myth in the sense that it is deluded belief, something childish and meant only for the unthinking masses.

To practice Torah means not only ethical and responsible living hut also reflective study and pious devotion and worship.

Moreover, one can understand the meaning of a certain type of Cosmic Tree only after having studied the most important types and varieties.

Every classical literature possesses such power of continuing its life and of developing new meanings in the minds of those who study not only it but the realities with which it deals.

The mean (± SD) age was 61 ± 17 y. Two studies consisted of only men, and the other studies combined both men and women; the mean duration of follow - up was 16 ± 7 y.

I hadn't known about this center's work, and it is highly illuminating and also offers hope for those of us who'd like to see men feel accepted and embraced in that role My only concern is that of the 31 fathers in this study most were at home with babies / young children (meaning they probably hadn't been married too long) and the mean number of years spent caregiving was slightly greater than 5; I wish the authors indicated how many had been doing it for 17 years.

This means that when certified midwives (CMs) or certified nurse - midwives (CNMs) attended births, the outcomes were the same except that no increase in neonatal death rates were seen, or stated in another way, only was the neonatal death rate increased when studies in which uncertified midwives were included.

The only surprising thing about the study is that the authors are cheerfully ignorant about the meaning of what they found.

I've been considering completing my studies and going into teaching as it will mean that I can have a career that will fit around Sausage when she starts school, but really, my heart isn't in teaching, and I think it's one of those professions that you should only go into if you're passionate about it.

Recent studies have indicated that not only is bed rest not a good remedy to keep the baby cooking longer, but it can actually cause premature births, the one thing it is really meant to help to prevent.

If learning that certain drugs used in labour (and they are not talking only about pain relief drugs in this study) means that these drugs will be used less, then tens of thousands of women could potentially be SPARED the difficulty of low milk supply.

A retrospective series of SIDS cases indicated that mean maternal body weight was higher for bed - sharing mothers than for non — bed - sharing mothers.172 The only case - control study to investigate the relationship between maternal body weight and bed - sharing did not find an increased risk of bed - sharing with increased maternal weight.173

The feasibility study is meant to explore options for Brookdale Medical Center, Interfaith Medical Center, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center and Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, the only unaffiliated hospitals remaining in the borough.

The study only included women who intended to exclusively breastfeed their babies for at least a week, meaning they did not plan to use formula in the hospital.

Commenting on the study, Dr Kuehni said: «The study stands out from many others, in that it does not content itself with showing that putative risk factors and health outcome are associated (which means only that they occur more often together than would be expected by chance).

More than half of the studied restaurants designate some healthy choices on their menus, but the meaning of that designation varies; in most cases, only calorie content is considered and they may still have high sodium levels.

To put this in context, the mean per capita income per month for people living in the rural areas studied was only $ 74 USD.

«Most studies that have so far dealt with this question by means of functional imaging have mostly examined only very small and heterogeneous samples, which clearly differ with regard to age, gender or duration of illness.

«Though participants in our study didn't experience significant weight loss, that doesn't mean that all incentive programs are ineffective, only that we need to move to more creative designs that might better leverage predictable barriers to behavior change,» said David Asch, MD, MBA, a professor of Medicine and Health Care Management and director of the Penn Center for Health Care Innovation.

Kristen Marhaver, who began this work while she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Merced, USA, said: «Now that we've successfully reared juvenile Pillar Corals in the lab, not only can we study them in more detail to find out what factors could be threatening their survival in the wild, but it also means that we can try to out - plant a small number back to the reef.

Although the «Jen» and «Halle» neurons behave much like a grandmother cell, the findings do not mean that a given brain cell will react to only one person or object, notes Christof Koch, one of the study's researchers at the California Institute of Technology.

That could mean that a longer study might uncover skeletal benefits that hadn't appeared after only 12 weeks, she says.

Study limitations included: Since no women were studied the results may not apply to them; results were self - reported, which could mean physical activity was over reported; results were based only on time outside of work and can't be applied to overall sedentary activity; and participants were members of comprehensive health plans, so results may not apply to men lacking health insurance.

«As an archaeologist who studies Arctic and Subarctic coastal peoples, erosion associated with intense storm activity, loss of permafrost, rising sea levels, and increasing human activity is devastating to comprehend; however, this study not only documents those processes, but provides a means to examine their highly variable impacts that, hopefully, can lead to constructive ways to prioritize research and mitigate destructive processes in this extremely important region.»