Sentences with phrase «modern understandings about»

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.

Not exact matches

Some might scoff at the idea of using emojis and jokes about modern tech to communicate, but these are just small examples of Coach K's ability to communicate in a way that his players understand and appreciate.

When you do, our modern psychological understanding suggests that mirroring positively affects the other person's thoughts and / or feelings about you, which can lead to building quicker rapport with them.

He had drawn heavily upon Benedict's moral theology in his latest book and thought the former pope understood the modern world with rare insight and knew how to speak about it.

Furthermore, it is impossible to understand the Church's teaching about the sacramentality of marriage without some reference to the modern papal Magisterium that begins with Leo XIII and continues under John Paul II, whose instruction on marriage and family remains one of the outstanding features of his pontificate.

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.

The problem may not be with rights per se, whose articulation is invaluable to our conception of modern republicanism (and may even help more fully articulate what is true about Christian morality), but with an interpretation that takes rights as the whole of moral discourse and therefore, understands the abstract Lockean individual to be a comprehensive account of the human person.

There are two truths about Jesus that seem to be at odds with the modern Christian understanding.

AND THE IRONY IS THAT 99 % OF YOU UNDERSTAND VERY VERY VERY LITTLE ABOUT MODERN PHYSICS.

«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.»

BOOKS ABOUT WHITEHEAD»S THOUGHT Emmet, D. M., Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism, Macmillan, 1932 Johnson, A. M., Whitehead's Theory of Reality, Dover, 1952 Whitehead's Philosophy of Civilization, Dover, 1958 Lowe, Victor, Understanding Whitehead, Johns Hopkins, 1962 Peters, F. H., The Creative Advance, Bethany, 1966 BOOKS ABOUT PROCESS - THEOLOGY Hamilton, P. N., The Living God and the Modern World, Hodder & Stoughton, 1967 Hartshorne, Charles, Man's Vision of God, Harper, 1941 James, Ralph F., The Concrete God, Bobbs - Merrill, 1968 Ogden, Schubert, The Reality of God, S.C.M. Press, 1967 Pittenger, Norman, Process - Thought and Christian Faith, S.C.M. Press, 1968

It is a merit of modern existentialist thinkers, including nontheists like Martin Heidegger and Jean - Paul Sartre, that they understand and insist upon this truth about human nature.

The whole history of Christian theology makes it clear that those who come to Christ with other preconceptions about God are able to understand their encounter with him apart from any implication that God is Person in the modern sense.

Darwin's theory of evolution, as understood by most of the modern scientific community, has nothing to say about the «gap» between humans and «lower» animals, because no such gap is recognized.

I had read a similar explanation many years ago — about oil being the «medical preparation» for healing of the day — with a modern - day understanding that the oil we might use today could be symbolic of the medical preparation for healing — yes, even as we take advantage of the wonders and miracles of modern medicine.

Modern evangelicals do need to «bridge the gap» and speak more plainly about their faith in terms that everyone can understand rather than assume that what they understand among themselves will be automatically understood by those who are not of their community when they speak to others about their faith.

This optimistic approach to man's virtue and the problem of evil expresses itself philosophically as the idea of progress in history.17 The empirical method of modern culture has been successful in understanding nature; but, when applied to an understanding of human nature, it was blind to some obvious facts about human nature that simpler cultures apprehended by the wisdom of common sense.

There is an ambivalence about sexuality in some modern psychology that makes it difficult to understand the Christian attitude that sexual self - discipline can be an expression of love.

Often times I am looking for a clearer understanding of a time period in Christian history (generally because a modern author has made some wild and confrontational claim about how a certain doctrine or denomination arose).

This book is about the major theological themes in the Book of Revelation and how modern readers can understand and apply this difficult book to our lives today.

One has only to recall the dread which modern people have of cemeteries, particularly at night, to understand how the Egyptians felt about this.

Modern fundamentalists have already made up their minds about the entire Bible, and when you try to explain that some of their favorite Bible - thumping passages have been ripped out of the cultural and Scriptural context in which they were written, the Fundamentalist acts as if you are the stupidest person on the earth for trying to understand a text this way.

This has been a book about prayer, intended for modern men and women who find difficulty not only in seeing how prayer is possible but in understanding what it really is.

This was, if anything, even farther from the truth about the special problem of the modern middle - class American woman than the Freudian - type psychologizing, and even less helpful in offering her an understanding of it.

Theistic evolution or evolutionary creation is a concept that asserts that classical religious teachings about God are compatible with the modern scientific understanding about biological evolution.

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

And yet, so long as we fail to appreciate the full magnitude of this fact, we have understood very little about the nature of the modern secular world.»

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.

gjp, so you prefer the myths and best guests of ignorant iron age societies who had about a billionth of the knowledge and understanding of modern humans?

Modern knowledge can enrich and deepen Christian understanding if and when the church is clear about its own identity and normative convictions.

There are interesting and controversial historical events to learn about, but one should also try to understand how a modern day Mormon practices their religion before spouting off as if they know everything about Mormons from reading Maze of Mormonism.

He explores how Methodism grew from a barely perceptible impulse in the Church of England in the 18th century to a foremost expression of Christianity in the modern world; how the mixing of Enlightenment rationality and evangelical enthusiasm resulted in Methodism's perennial doubleness of vision; how the Methodist message was heard, internalized and enacted in a bewildering variety of social and geographic locations; how opposition from Outsiders fostered strength while conflict between insiders fostered weakness; how money was raised, spent and symbolized; how women and racial and ethnic minorities found nourishment in the Methodist message; how the movement managed to circle the globe completely; and finally, how a gaggle of theories about secularization might help us understand Methodism's decline in the latter half of the 20th century.

Against a background of these events and actions, in which more than fifty congregations are now involved and in which hundreds of people have gained experience in dealing with elected and appointed authorities, the story of the Nehemiah Project can he understood As Saul Alinsky said: «The relevant skill in modern urban life is that of knowing how to hold public officials accountable» — and that, as we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all about.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

From what I see, and understand, about modern football I «m not that I «m crash hot about that either.

I have no doubt that we will struggle (but then again, maybe not) in the following years in getting top players but if Leipzig taught us a lesson is that when you know how to put a team together and when pay your players decent but not obscene salaries (that was verified also on Leicester) and when you have a manager understanding the modern game then you can dream about anything.

Modern science has allowed our species to gain more information about itself physiologically, which means we understand how to use specific stimuli OVER TIME to elicit a desired result with our bodies.

i just do nt understand whats going on with mr Wenger pretty much a personal opinion which he is trying to convince everybody — is time is up in modern football too much royalty to some of his players who are not good enough and Arsenal fans pay huge price for that - when do does nt want to spend money he wait until last minute and use that as an example for not buying players to improve squad — the exceptional players it talking about he sounds to mean Messi in my definition!!

Warner at The New York Times understands the real argument here is about women who feel put - upon by all the expectations associated with modern motherhood.

It makes you understand the issues about complications and the results of modern - day delivery programs available to expecting moms in the hospitals.

As you browse through this article, you will have a thorough understanding of what this modern and stylish stroller has to offer and why parents rave about it in their 4 1/2 - star reviews.

She appears very knowledgeable about modern infant research and has incorporated this to a level parents can understand.

It would be easy, after a only a month in this strange modern - medieval world, to idealise Siena's contrada - based politics, about which what you most frequently hear as a visitor is that «no outsider can understand it».

What's interesting about the current [economic] situation is that no one could sit around a table and say, «Well, I really think those Tories have sketched out a clear shape and understanding of the modern world, that they've defined a policy agenda that's got rigour and drive at its heart.»

«It will be about who understands the modern world best and who can change it for the better.

Sweeney found that the mechanistic answers that Pinker offered about the mind — the brain - based mechanisms of thought and consciousness being discovered by modern neuroscience — inspired her to replace her Catholic faith with science's empirical skepticism, which she finds, after many hilarious detours, «a much more powerful and reliable tool for understanding the world.»

Instead of making unrealistically simplistic assumptions about human behaviour and the properties of markets, we can harness the number - crunching power of modern computing, coupled with our emerging understanding of the physics of complex systems, to rebuild economic theory from the bottom up.

«To better understand safety issues, we are making efforts to employ more modern investigational, molecular approaches to safety assessment — and increase our safety testing work force by about 10 percent,» says Phil Bentley, vice president and global head of preclinical safety at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in New York City.

Without understanding the first thing about molecular biology, he is contributing to one of the knottiest problems of modern science.

«It opens up our ability to ask questions about how Middle Pleistocene hominins lived in this region and it might be a key to understanding the nature of interbreeding and population dispersals across Eurasia with modern humans and archaic populations such as Neanderthals.»