Sentences with phrase «modern definition of»

Hull was close to our modern definition of reserves in 1864, and his 85Gt came closer to the mark than any survey before 1984.

I'm guessing your using the modern definition of the term «truth», meaning «something that conforms to my beliefs», which is more akin to the term «faith» than the classical meaning of any definition of «truth».

A Modern Definition of Space: Calder Sculpture.

Calder: A Modern Definition of Space: Calder Sculpture.

Notable exhibitions at the Chelsea gallery, all accompanied by publications, included Richard Serra: Prop Sculptures 1969 - 1987; Bruce Nauman: Neons, Sculptures Drawing, with an essay by Robert Storr; Alexander Calder: A Modern Definition of Space, featuring an interview with Alexander S.C. Rower of the Calder Foundation; Donald Judd Single Stacks, curated by Peter Ballantine with a catalogue essay by Richard Schiff; Ellsworth Kelly; Andy Warhol Dollar Signs, with a text by Trevor Fairbrother; Andy Warhol Self - Portraits, with an essay by Vincent Fremont; and Jean - Michel Basquiat Works on Paper, with contributions by Richard Marshall and Johnny Depp.

The second in a series of exhibitions presented at Kemper at the Crossroads, The Center is a Moving Target addresses the evolving rhythm and elusive modern definition of «regionalisms» in contemporary art.

In Rosemary Feit Covey's «Peep Show» series, she combines the secret, sexual world associated with the modern definition of «Peep Show» with the innocent world of Victorian - era peep show boxes.

Measuring student success requires moving beyond standardized test scores toward a multi-dimensional and personalized set of indicators that collectively capture a more modern definition of readiness.

An updated and modern definition of FAPE has the promise of bolstering our ability to press for the needed instruction, intervention, accommodations and supports that students need in order to succeed.

Yet they're not good schools today by any modern definition of good schools.

As the # 1 website for conscious women, EcoSalon is leading the way to a holistic and modern definition of green.

The modern definition of artificial intelligence (or AI) is «the study and design of intelligent agents» where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions which maximizes its chances of success.

A modern definition of metals is that they have overlapping conduction bands and valence bands in their electronic structure.

Havighurt comments that learning can not occur unless the timing is right that has made its way into the modern definition of the term.

The modern definition of usury is the taking of interest at an excessive or exorbitant rate.

It needs to be clearly understood that the ancient and biblical definition of pistis differs from the modern definition of «faith.»

Yes, lending at an excessive interest is a sinful violation of justice, and could be called usury under its modern definition of undue interest, but this is different than the condemnation of usury as taught by the Church.

This is apparent in Mark's «messianic secret» and finds expression in the modern definition of the Gospels as «passion narratives with long introductions».

Nevertheless, while acknowledging that this notion of freedom in its individualistic extreme can not remain uncriticized, we must also assert that the sense of personal human dignity is very much a feature of any modern definition of human existence and can not be facilely discarded.

The pressure to conform to our modern definition of Christianity is very strong.

«I believe we can own the modern definition of value,» McDonald's Chief Executive Steve Easterbrook said at the company's investor meeting last week, where he said new value platform was in the works.

Most modern definitions of God are based on Platonic philosophy anyway, so maybe it is time for a reset on the entire debate about God anyway...

I think there are ways to argue that Paul thought that maybe he was writing inspired Scripture, BUT, I don't know if he would have agreed with some of the modern definitions of «inspiration = inerrancy.»

So, here are the various modern definitions of Israel, from smallest to largest.

Staying Current with Farm Animal Welfare Issues: A Review of the Science and Ethics Presented by Barry Kipperman, DVM, DACVIM and Michael Blackwell, DVM, MPH Explore conventional and modern definitions of animal welfare and societal changes that are driving legislation affecting farm animals.

Not exact matches

Saying that Jesus came to save us * from * religion might make for Tweetable theology but it is not an accurate representation of what the word means (via the dictionary definition), how it was defined in both the ancient and modern worlds, and how the New Testament presents it.

Assuming that relatively modern / western definitions are somehow a necessity for the continuation of the species is a flawed assumption.

I survey some of Aquinas's modern disciples and cobble together this definition: beauty is a mysterious harmony that dazzles us.

While a definition of faith as subjectivity — i.e., authentic human existence culminates in faith — could be real in Kierkegaard's time, it can no longer be so at a time when the death of God has become so fully incarnate in the modern consciousness.

As inhabitants of the modern world, we are religious now perhaps to the extent of our desire to crack open the coffin of materialism, and to give to reality a larger, freer definition than is allowed by the militant materialists of the corporate economy and their political servants, or by the mechanical paradigm of reductive science.

Even the modern Unitarian, insofar as he or she would make claim to the Christian name whatever may be thought about theological definitions of Jesus Christ's significance, will say that his or her religion is toward God as God is defined by Jesus Christ — which is to say that the specifically Christian understanding of God must be in terms of what Whitehead styled «the Galilean vision.

Unfortunately, because of the many definitions of the modern term «church,» the meaning of the word when we read it in the New Testament is often muddled.

Depending on how you draw up definitions, the first can blend into the second, and even the second and third can overlap on some belief systems and philosophical overviews (such as from Whitehead — if you're wondering who he is, he co-wrote the modern founding treatise of logic).

A good working definition of modern science might be the study of those things in nature that are repeatable and only those things that are repeatable.

When Luke begins to doubt his own commands to endure violence with kindness, Paul brings his Corinthian definition of love to bear in a way that far transcends modern wedding cliches.

there are several flaws in that — not the least of which is the definition of a pastor as an «authority» figure in a premodern / modern western context.

Modern liberal Christianity believes that it can ignore the doctrine of original sin in its definition and attainment of the good, both individually and socially.

Neo-Darwinism at present holds the ascendancy in the eyes of biologists, partly owing to a clearer and more statistically substantiated definition of «the fittest», but principally because of the immense part, now recognized by modern genetics, played by the «action of large numbers» in the formation of species.

But the clear insight into its meaning which is given by modern scientific philosophy shows that by its inherent nature and definitions it is but an abstraction and that, with all its great and ever - growing power, it can never represent the whole of existence.9

Since insufficient time has passed to assure to the books here discussed a permanent place among the sacred books of the world, such as that enjoyed by the ones that have so far been discussed, I feel it necessary to draw up a definition of a sacred book which will enable me to pick out of our modern world what may be called its sacred books.

A typical Hartshornian restatement of Anselm's argument in the language of modern modal logic runs about like this: Since God is by definition not conceivably surpassable, and since a being whose existence is necessary surpasses one whose existence is merely contingent, therefore, God's existence must be necessary existence.

The definition of the minister in the modern community is faced as well as the authority of the minister and his director.

Yet by modern definitions, Jesus certainly was not too intent on pursuing pleasure or fulfilling His own needs at the expense of others.

ìWar, î as Hauerwas puts it, ìis America's altar.î Central to this American self - definition is the blood sacrifice of the Civil War, which became a form of total war once it acquired a divine purpose and had ìbecome for both sides a ritual they had come to need in order to make sense of their lives.î American moderns have no answer to death, no way of living well with death.

The answer to the practical aspect of the problem moderns find in prayer, then, must be found in a definition of praying that makes sense in and makes sense of our daily life.

The definition of myth which corresponds to this level of demythologization is that of a prescientific explanation of the cosmological and eschatological order, an explanation which for modern man is unbelievable.

No one was more influential in the definition of the modern state than Thomas Hobbes, who through the conceit of the «state of nature,» portrayed humans as naturally autonomous and individual, with a shared membership solely through one institution» the State.

He is following closely the definition given in Gaudium et Spes (The Church in the Modern World) of «the duty of scrutinizing the signs of the times and of interpreting them in the light of the Gospel».

The resistance that arises within the congregation to this definition of its reason for being will be the modern clergyperson's equivalent of the persecution that arose within Judaism to the ministries of Jesus and the early church.

DAN... calling all religions cults is rather shortsighted as you are not differentiating between the archaic definition of the word «cult» from the modern usage.