Sentences with phrase «much as a reflection»

Perhaps when the boy looks into Pete's eyes, and contemplates the poor creature's bleak prospects, he doesn't see a friend so much as a reflection of himself.

That doesn't seem to be a calculated strategy as much as a reflection of his age and life.

As far as biennials go, this one is important for including a high number of artists of color, which should be seen as much as a reflection on New Orleans as it is a rebuttal to the usual structure of the art world, which tends to skew white and male.

Your invoice is as much as a reflection of your image as your office or your business card.

Not exact matches

Finally, for as much as we want to believe that polls are a scientific reflection of reality, polls can also affect reality.

The fact that it's cutting back is seen as a reflection of a changing mentality among Silicon Valley startups that largely enjoyed an easy funding environment that allowed them to grow at all costs — without generating much profit or cash.

Types of Moral Argumentation Regarding Homosexuality by Pim Pronk Eerdmans, 350 pages, $ 24.99 paper An interesting book not so much for the position it advances (approval of homosexual relations) as for the claim that any position on homosexuality (or anything else) must be reached on the basis of moral reflection independent of nature, science, or theology.

LoL The Prophet used to, as did all the Prophets before him, go spend a couple days in the cave of Hira» from time to time as we all do go out hiking & camping or to the top of a mountain for a vantage point, reflection, & peace & quiet, & to get away from it all, when it all becomes too much for us to deal with characters like you for instance LoL.

The second recent book to advance the response of process theology to liberation theology significantly is Delwin Brown's To Set at Liberty.7 This is not so much a critical response to the challenge of the liberation theologies as a reflection on freedom stimulated by this literature.

By the way, my blog is pretty much based on my reflections as I read through the Bible.

As I increasingly realized the incompleteness of much Western theological reflection, I first turned to, then became disillusioned with, the exclusively materialistic, behavioristic bias so dominant in much of secular psychotherapy.

These and similar questions occupied much of our intellectual reflection as we attempted to reconcile the reality of our everyday experience with our faith in Jesus Christ,

But, granted those conditions, then reflection upon them — in that context, with those motives, and with that perspective — is fully as much an act of theologizing as any apprehension that strikes us out of the Bible, or Bultmann, or Barth, or any other alphabetical characters past or present.

Finally, I have written as a priest of the Anglican obedience and much but not all of what I say is naturally a reflection of that particular allegiance.

He understands that the thing of letting the self go is a pretty serious business after all, he is not so apoplectically muddled by the blow as the immediate man is, he understands by the aid of reflection that there is much he may lose without losing the self; he makes admissions, is capable of doing so — and why?

The kind of reflection that was involved in articulating this understanding of Israel's relation to its God was at much the same level of sophistication as that displayed by Homer in his poetic objectification, aestheticizing, and ordering of the gods.

As their power of rational reflection grew, they accepted the tribal myth of a divine lawgiver, much as the Indians accepted the myth of transmigration and the Greeks that of their ancestral godAs their power of rational reflection grew, they accepted the tribal myth of a divine lawgiver, much as the Indians accepted the myth of transmigration and the Greeks that of their ancestral godas the Indians accepted the myth of transmigration and the Greeks that of their ancestral gods.

The Christian claim is a problematical one to me, as it is to many Christians, and the years of reflection that lie behind the present formulation might, so far as I am consciously aware, have led to much more relativistic conclusions.

«A theology of liberation», writes Gustavo Gutierrez, «offers us not so much a new theme for reflections as a new way to do theology».

Third, scientific reflection (in the form of observation and much speculation) on the nature of time itself also has profound implications on how man conceives of his reality as a succession of events (how man connects events in his reality)- interpreted as the passage of time - and whether those events are intrinsically connected, and, if so, whether or not such a connection is changeable.

The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.

But Sacks» reflections — as well as the particular cases he chooses to reflect upon — provide a much richer picture of the subject and its identity than what Sandel offers.

It's not so much of a movement as it is a reflection of how sick and tired people are of being controlled by man - made religion.

At its heart, the movement that undergirds these written reflections arose out of the gatherings and shared reflections of the oppressed poor themselves, in groups called comunidades eclesiales de base — communities of the Christian wretched who met together to study scripture in light of their own impoverished situations and reflect on how each one informs the other (praxis).15 But our access to their groundbreaking work is through the printed page, and so I proceed with a full awareness that the persons under consideration here are as much reporters as originators.

(And yet Hans Urs von Balthasar, who in many respects appears more cautious in his theology than either Rahner or Schillebeeckx, has endorsed, through his reflections on Trinitarian theology, the notion of a suffering and dying God much more strongly than most other Catholic theologians: «the death, and the dying away into silence, of the Logos so become the centre of what he has to say of himself that we have to understand precisely his non-speaking as his final revelation, his utmost word: and this because in the humility of his obedient self - lowering to the death of the Cross he is identical with the exalted Lord.»

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

It doesn't take much reflection to see the writing on the wall if we are to believe this survey: some people are now OK with wrong as long as they get the guy on the right.

Though Whitehead sees the church as one of several civil institutions that could strengthen families, she is not much interested in the church's potential role as a source of ethical reflection and public - policy recommendations.

Accordingly, Christ as «logos,» «chit,» «the Son of the living God,» «one with the Father,» and «God - man» predominate much of Upadhayaya's reflection of Jesus.

In what follows my aim is not so much to provide as to provoke that kind of reflection.

Much later reflection favors the determination of standpoint through the concrescence itself: «it is to be noticed that «decided» conditions are never such as to banish freedom.

If a man in despair is as he thinks conscious of his despair, does not talk about it meaninglessly as of something which befell him (pretty much as when a man who suffers from vertigo talks with nervous self - deception about a weight upon his head or about its being like something falling upon him, etc., this weight and this pressure being in fact not something external but an inverse reflection from an inward experience), and if by himself and by himself only he would abolish the despair, then by all the labor he expends he is only laboring himself deeper into a deeper despair.

Even a brief reflection upon the darkness in our own lives bears testimony to the fact that we need to be evangelized as much, if not more, than those around us.

Like a Rorschach test, the meanings we attribute to scripture are often as much a reflection of our psyches as they are God's intentions.

In a continuation of that reflection Fr Barrett proposes this sacramental theology as the much needed foundation for modern catechesis for which thinkers such as Rahner and Kasper have been searching.

There he defined a Modernist as «a churchman who believes in the possibility of a synthesis between the essential truth of his religion and the essential truth of modernity».7 Like Loisy, he was critical of the Protestant Liberals, making the much - quoted remark that the Christ that Harnack saw, looking back through nineteen centuries of Catholic darkness, was only the reflection of a Liberal Protestant face seen at the bottom of a deep well.

I am super privileged in countless ways (including being in university at all), so this isn't so much a complaint as it is a reflection of the different ways in which we push ourselves and the different kinds of stress we face.

On reflection, this would have been a better bet and would have lasted us two days; as it was, there didn't seem much point hanging on to just one lone pudding!

Just my reflections on why we struggled to break down a team we should be opening up much more comfortably if we are going to be serious contenders over a season which, as a fan, is what I want... Can't speak for fanatics it's a mind set i do nt understand

Player salaries are a reflection of their value on the market, which is influenced by salary cap (how much capital teams can spend on players), which is, in turn, influenced by NFL profits as a whole, which is influenced by ticket revenue, advertising, merchandise, TV contracts, etc..

Basically — when you've got someone like Coutinho getting the nod over other clearly more adept players you can pretty much disregard the validity of the whole thing as just picking «flavour of the month» rather then actually a reflection of the best players.

Couldn't agree more with you regards the negative postings however I think it's more a reflection on how divided our fans are, bad results and wenger out posts get thumbs up, a win of any kind and wenger out posts get thumbs down.me personally a wins a win and I actually thought we did ol but I'm very much in the wenger out brigade, the wins really do cloud the reality in my opinion which is wenger has built a squad so unbalanced its scary, miss managed it and not focused at all on the defensive side of the game, I do however feel that some though not all on both sides are guilty of stepping over the edge as regards personal abuse and it's all getting a bit ott

This sophisticatedattitude toward team spirit is as much a reflection of San Francisco as it isof the players.

The film itself is a bit scattered — in trying to cover so much ground, it sometimes feels as though the story itself is all over the place, and some of the points it makes (like the societal pressure on men to eat meat as a reflection of their manhood) are much stronger than others.

In a clear reflection of the of the two protagonists» current Bundesliga status (23 points separating Wolfsburg as runners - up from seventh - placed Dortmund), generally offered much more in terms of control, tactical awareness and flexibility.

Well as I sat down to write my last newsletter the reflection of this year is almost too much to imagine.

His decisions became a reflection of their decision, with the result that as he's begun to falter they have needed to do that much more to distance themselves from him.

That President Xi has accumulated so much personal power is partly a reflection of his political acumen, and partly a recognition by the Party that China needs a single strong leader at the moment as it transitions from a weak local power recovering from the disasters of Japanese occupation in the early 20th century followed the cultural revolution and the great leap forwards, and instead becomes a global power.

«It seems to treat it as inevitable, rather than saying after sober, proper reflection «We don't need to do as much as we do at the moment.»

But the interest in the possibility is at least as much a reflection of the political class's frustration with the predictability of the David Cameron versus Gordon Brown contest as of any convincing likelihood that the next parliament will be hung.