Sentences with phrase «more philosophical understanding»

Her images of the world as God's body and her models of God as mother, lover, and friend of the world illuminate the more philosophical understanding I derive from process theology.

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Fundamentally, they constitute an understanding about how blacks should respond to the great philosophical and political problems created by our history of degradation, more recently followed by our unequal citizenship.

They were Muslim thinkers who came under the influence of Greek philosophical enquiry and adopted a more rationalist understanding of Allah and the Qur» an.

«39 Since few people read Lowe's entire 1949 article in which the details of his argument are really presented, I will select a few of the key contrasts Lowe reprinted in Understanding Whitehead, which contains an abridgement of the 1949 article, in an effort to show that Gunter has really answered them already rendering Whitehead not so much Bergson's mathematical alter ego, 40 as something more approaching his philosophical blood brother 41 According to Lowe, however, «it is fatal to the understanding of Whitehead's constructive metaphysical effort to define it in BergUnderstanding Whitehead, which contains an abridgement of the 1949 article, in an effort to show that Gunter has really answered them already rendering Whitehead not so much Bergson's mathematical alter ego, 40 as something more approaching his philosophical blood brother 41 According to Lowe, however, «it is fatal to the understanding of Whitehead's constructive metaphysical effort to define it in Bergunderstanding of Whitehead's constructive metaphysical effort to define it in Bergsonian terms.

It involves the development of Whitehead's major metaphysical ideas into a more complete philosophical theology, and the development and use of those ideas for an understanding of Christian faith.

Recognition of the need for an interpenetrative societal view of the world, perhaps more than any specific philosophical requirement, has led process - thinkers to place their emphasis upon «becoming», as a dynamic movement of development in relationship, rather than upon «being»; here, they insist, is the best «model» for our understanding of God.

He understood himself to be renewing the Reformers» emphasis on scripture alone, but he was more rigorous than they in excluding philosophical support.

I lean more towards a philosophical / rational faith, perhaps that helps to understand stuff better, than wishy - washy - feeling stuff...

Anyone making a thorough scientific study of religious and philosophical thought through out the world, including not only a culturally self centered conceited study of Judeo - Christain - Islamic Western forms alone... would find a much more rich variety of understanding, meeting the needs of the many levels of developed conciousness in the human species.

For example, a curriculum that seems to privilege courses having to do with religious experience, worship, spirituality, counseling, and the like over, say, systematic and philosophical theology may reveal a commitment to the assumption that God is understood effectively rather than discursively; while a curriculum relatively more rich in offerings in ethics, sociology of religion, liberation theology, and the like than in offerings in historical theology, patristics, liturgics, and mystical traditions may reveal a commitment to the view that God is better understood in action than in contemplation.

There's more to these findings than just lofty philosophical quandaries, though: If ravens really do possess a level of social cognition comparable to humans and other large primates, the birds might serve as better animal models to study this kind of behavior in the lab — which could help scientists understand why some humans are better at this kind of inference than others, and why some individuals can't manage it at all.