Sentences with phrase «more shaped by»

Because seminarians have been trained by theologians who are more shaped by their graduate school training than by their ecclesial identification — they see themselves as process thinkers or Barthians rather than as Baptists or Episcopalians — we have seminarians who attempt to make congregations fit the images of their theological allegiances rather than trying to respond to the theological resources of the congregation.

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Second, and probably more annoyingly for those of us who aren't too bothered by the work of posting pictures of our kids or travel adventures, that data is then used to shape what you see.

We try to foster greater innovativeness at our businesses with new programs or processes, we scheme to get in shape by making healthy lifestyle changes, we strive for the good life by trying to accomplish more and be happier.

But a strange showdown is shaping up between the eurozone's powers, which can not and will not extend unconditional aid, and a country ravaged by austerity with little appetite for more.

The Google search bar on the Galaxy S9's home screen is white by default, but you can change it any color you want, and you can even change its shape to look more square, or make it more transparent.

Cons: Offers fewer features than more complex models, large or irregularly shaped kibbles may get stuck, operates by intervals not time, no smartphone or Wifi connectivity

Offers fewer features than more complex models, large or irregularly shaped kibbles may get stuck, operates by intervals not time, no smartphone or Wifi connectivity

But more than anyone, Mr. Schäuble has come to embody the consensus that has helped shape European economic policy for years: that the path to sustained economic recovery for financially troubled countries is to slash spending, raise taxes when necessary and win back the trust of bond markets and other investors by displaying commitment to fiscal prudence — even if that process imposes deep economic pain as it plays out.

By building a community of amazing entrepreneurs and investors, we hope to help more amazing companies succeed and see them shape, transform, and impact the world around us.

He starts with the EIA estimates of costs of different generation sources, realizes that with those numbers the GEA mix is cheaper than what it replaces according, declares that «it is likely to be the case that the new estimate has been shaped by political pressures within the Obama administration» and therefore dismisses them, and then shops around for a prediction more in keeping with his desired conclusion.

As of 3 p.m. EDT, WPX Energy (NYSE: WPX), Cobalt International Energy (NYSE: CIE), EP Energy (NYSE: EPE), Oasis Petroleum (NYSE: OAS) and Baytex Energy (NYSE: BTE) had all traded down as much as 10 % today, and all of them are shaping up to see close to, or more than, double - digit declines by the end of the day.

Bolton and Pompeo, though, seem like a return to something more familiar to those whose worldview and experience were shaped by the Bush administration, or even earlier Republican administrations.

But rather than sitting on the sidelines and complaining, Canada can have more influence by working with other trading nations to shape and harmonize global IP laws.

And how much was the timing of Trump's decision shaped by events spiraling out of his control — such as Monday's testimony about Russian interference by former acting attorney general Sally Yates, or the fact that Comey last week requested more resources from the Justice Department to expand the FBI's Russia probe?

We free persons have bodies, and our freedom is more shaped than limited by their embodiment.

Thomas Shepard, whose writings profoundly mentored and shaped Jonathan Edwards and who was quoted by Jonathan Edwards more often than anyone else, preached,

Revolutionary structures, he adds, can not serve this design except by providing occasion for each social group to participate more fully in shaping the community's economic and national life.

Less of you is more: more laughter, more tears, more people paying attention, more life amidst death, all by allowing the plurality of others» voices to shape the life of the deceased during the service.

In various instances (such as being a «burden») humans feel more or less guilt depending on their viewpoint shaped by their choices.

It must be remembered that the early Christian community moved almost wholly into the Gentile world within a generation or two after its origin within Judaism, and that, as Christian thought took more definite shape within the next three or four centuries, it was inevitable that it should have been strongly influenced by the prevailing philosophy of the Hellenistic culture in which the church moved.

That a congregation is constituted by enacting a more broadly and ecumenically practiced worship that generates a distinctive social space implies study of what that space is and how it is formed: What are the varieties of the shape and content of the common lives of Christian congregations now, cross-culturally and globally (synchronic inquiry); how do congregations characteristically define who they are and what their larger social and natural contexts are; how do they characteristically define what they ought to be doing as congregations; how have they defined who they are and what they ought to do historically (diachronic study); how is the social form of their common life nurtured and corrected in liturgy, pastoral caring, preaching, education, maintenance of property, service to neighbors; what is the role of scripture in all this, the role of traditions of theology, and the role of traditions of worship?

That a congregation is constituted by publicly enacting a more universally practiced worship that generates a distinctive social form implies study of that public form: What are the social, cultural, and political locations of congregations of Christians and how do those locations shape congregations» social form today (synchronic inquiry); what have been the characteristic social, cultural, and political locations of congregations historically and how have those locations shaped congregations» social forms (diachronic study); in what ways do congregations engage in the public arena as one type of institutionalized center of power among others?

«Deeply immersed in these values as they were, however, the women Stevens interviewed were hardly immune to the more mainstream ideals of womanhood shaped in part by liberal feminism.

More importantly, the «I - can't - imagine» argument seems inattentive to how much my imagination is shaped and limited by all kinds of cultural factors and sensibilities — including how I «imagine» the nature of love, etc..

Congregations that recognize the value of that work, emphasizing the denomination's service in the world, are more likely to describe themselves as strongly shaped by the denominational tradition.

I am haunted by having left a man in desperate shape in order to respond to another who, at the level of party conversation, had evinced interest in «doing more,» yet who had created a world of work which did not allow him to step into another world.

In the past it was identity - shaping in the sense that Methodists just sang songs by John Wesley and maybe two or three others, while the Presbyterians (in my country at least) would sing only the Psalms, and the Baptists would sing something more lively.

That this must be done has more than a spiritual necessity behind it, for there can be no lasting peace unless it is in considerable measure a just peace, and there can be no just peace unless its outlines are shaped, not by vengeance, but by a spirit of reconciliation and good will.

It continues and gets worse when the reverse, the shaping of social factors, conditions, and orders by spiritual (religious) forces is overlooked or denied, as we find it in a legion of modern studies more or less dedicated to economic determinism.

Like Teddy Roosevelt's Realpolitik internationalism, Wilsonian idealism was shaped by notions of Anglo - Saxon cultural superiority that contemporary progressives would find more than a little embarrassing.

But because this human life is shaped by human powers and capacities, it invites us to «think in terms of comparative degrees of human distinction or dignity — and of some as more dignified than others.»

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

As Dom Gregory Dix, in a now famous section of his book The Shape of the Liturgy, put the matter, Christians through the ages have known of no better and more appropriate way to remember» Jesus than by participating in the offering of the Eucharist as «the continual memory» of his passion and death — which also means, of course, the life which preceded Calvary and the knowledge of the risen Lord which followed the crucifixion.

The Church's doctrinal boundaries began to take on a more definite shape when, in response to the need to determine what falls within and what without the pale of authentic faith, it authorized a canon of Holy Books which it holds to be inspired by the Spirit of Jesus and his God.

But more decisive is the fact that in American culture, shaped so much by the Puritan tradition, work is more honored than leisure.

How can she be female (using her more generalized processing pattern) and still function in a social world shaped by a male - related way of specialized processing?

Sen argues that modern economics could become more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behavior and judgement.

How would a more just economic framework affect our consciousness, and how would a consciousness shaped by justice influence these structures?

Of her earliest faith we can not safely say more than that it was inherited and uncritically accepted from ancestors who had come, by the ways that have shaped the mind of primitive man, to a relatively high polytheism.

Our view of the church experience was shaped by personal choice, as we went to Sunday school engaging in a variety of activities, while the adults experienced church service more as a spiritual discipline.

I have tried, fortified by the most generally accepted and solid conclusions of science, to take the reader above this scene of turmoil; and as we have risen higher so has the prospect acquired a more ordered shape.

Perhaps more dramatic illustrations are found in hospital wards where a visitor's warm «hello» turns on the light, opens the shutters, straightens the linens, and brightens the faces; or in rural America where a major business transaction is sealed by one man giving his word to another; or in the quiet guidance of Anne Sullivan who with the one word «water» brought Helen Keller into the world of human experience; or in the nation - shaping speeches of Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill.

No doubt theological teaching would profit enormously by being more deeply shaped by such insight.

It is quite clear to him that «the way in which we have tried to hear the church has been shaped by patterns of convenience, rather than the much more difficult commitment to ascertain what's going on through close analysis of congregational life.

McLuhan's thinking on the subject began with the observation that societies are shaped more by the nature of the media through which they communicate than by the content of their communication.

Nor is this requirement altered by the observation, which Cobb seems to me to make rather more of than he should, that the philosopher, too, always stands in a special tradition which shapes his vision.

The situation in Europe, including Britain, is more nuanced than that in North America, largely because Europe's Muslim populations have a longer and more established social and political history in nations where Muslims (of the theological left, right and center) are represented by sophisticated networks of» mosques and political NGOs that defend the rights of Muslims and shape their participation in civic life, including the introduction of Islamic law for civil cases.

For more than a thousand years the ideals and commitments of the West were shaped by Christianity.

In general, this is a concern much more of process theologians, that is, of Christians influenced by Whitehead, than of the followers of Whitehead in other fields, such as philosophy, who may not be shaped by the biblical tradition.

And what the state provides is less and less education, and more and more a form of rough and ready crowd control, usually shaped by egalitarian principles, and calculated to prevent the emergence of an educated middle class.