Sentences with phrase «narrow its understanding of»

This has nothing to do with your narrow understanding of what «God» might mean to you.

I worry that the evangelical community has a narrow understanding of what an «American» is.

[8] One should note that the negative perception not only arose out of the narrow understanding of mission, but also the failure to read the development and changes of the mission conception through time.

Niebuhr's fatal concession to a very narrow understanding of the political made his Christology deficient.

Are we in danger of blinding ourselves to the spirit of Christ in all things by restricting ourselves to our narrow understanding of scripture?

All of those years of hearing sermon after sermon, youth camp after Bible study, about doing BIG things for a BIG God with BIG visions and BIG plans left us with crazy - high expectations on ourselves coupled with a narrow understanding of following Jesus.

We often try to exclude the contrast that makes for wider vision, (Today such exclusiveness may take the form of a refusal to encounter the challenging plurality of religions, thus narrowing our understanding of revelation and forfeiting opportunities for a widening of our notion of the mystery of God.)

Updike's novels and short stories are not «religious» in a narrow understanding of that term.

Yet that's a very narrow understanding of the role of the fan; indeed, it's slightly dehumanising.

Such a narrow understanding of a child or teenager, anchored only in gender, fails to fully see them as well as their needs in their entirety.

The Realist - inspired narratives have reflected an anthropomorphized view of the state, inspired from a narrow understanding of human nature.

Tina Blythe really opened up my narrow understanding of the use of protocols and facilitation.

In taking an extremely narrow understanding of learning styles and strongly denying it, an optical illusion emerges.

There are so many things that I lost time with and didn't learn because I had too narrow an understanding of the wisdom that was to be imparted.

I had such a narrow understanding of the wisdom that Warren Buffett had to impart.

Sociological perspectives that proceed from such deterministic premises do more to force people in real life into the narrow understanding of them, by such sociologists, than they shed light on why people function in certain ways.

The narrower understanding of the independence of the bar which relates it to the lawyer's duty of commitment to the client's cause is the aspect of the lawyer's special duty to his or her client that is most relevant to this appeal.

Yes... the SCC decision provides a narrow understanding of hate speech, but I am glad the SCC considers Human Rights Code provision on hate speech is still relevant in today's society and still address very major and unrelenting issues such as opinions and expressions that continue to expose a group to hatred.

Bias — decision making based on old or false assumptions or narrow understanding of the issues at hand

A: The earlier trial court judgment acknowledged that there was this much earlier decision called Gold Seal, where the Supreme Court took a narrower understanding of Section 121.

However, creating a carbon copy of your resume demonstrates a very narrow understanding of the multifaceted tool that LinkedIn is.

The article drew a swift response on social media with many criticising Sawyer and SMH deputy editor Ben Cubby for minimising the considerable impacts racism has on those who experience it, as well as for their narrow understandings of racism centred solely on intent and on extremism.

Not exact matches

«I think there are implications in a narrow area such as judicial decision - making, as well as in a more general area of «understanding and explaining human behavior,»» says Mocan.

Tyler McIntyre: Education is a key aspect in understanding how the world works — understanding things that can broaden your horizons and discourage the narrow - mindedness of an entrepreneur.

It has been relegated to many narrow use cases involving pattern recognition and prediction (some of which are very valuable and useful, such as improving cancer detection, identifying financial risk and fraud, and other high performance computing applications), but it has not developed a general «understanding» of human interactions, human emotions, speech patterns and human responses to information.

With the advent of short ETFs, new online trading tools and a better understanding of options, individual investors have narrowed the short - selling expertise gap over the last decade.

its not really atheism or religion that I have a problem with, its the hate, control, and fear that goes along with it that I have a problem with, you say that those who are spiritual are into new agey, crystal ball, stuff, see that's what I'm talking about, you assume to know what something is about when you don't understand something you naturally fear it, your self righteous clouds you, don't you get that by being narrow minded in your view towards things, you really act no better than religious fundamentalists, being spiritual is a lot more than just the new agey, think positive all the time that you think it is, its about being aware of who you are?

The explosion in information, the need for increasingly specialized skills to acquire or understand that information, and the resulting emergence of a professionalized faculty more interested in their narrow research programs than the general education of students: these have led, the canonicists argue, to a dangerous «dispersal of authority,» to a «loss of integrity in the bachelor's degree» (ICC; TM).

This understanding of the practical meaning of our first freedom makes it easier to see why the practice it protects so easily outgrows the narrow bounds of the exercise of religion as envisioned by our legal system.

Church freedom or the freedom of the church from narrow cultural norms, Bennett explained, was understood in a new light..

Its just plan stupid and a waste of time, if you believe in god or buddah or allah or anyother good thats great for you and if you do not believe in a god thats great too, Whats one big problem that i cant understand is why people are so narrow minded on both sides of the specturm and even within different religions.

For me, the z - theory has freed my mind from a narrow, fundamentalist way of thinking and has opened new vistas of understanding and, I hope, wisdom.

In view of the central importance of this doctrine it matters less whether it is readily accepted by our contemporaries, provided that its message is not interpreted in a narrow, selfishly individualistic sense, but that the gracious divine act which opens man to God is from the beginning understood also as creating authentic community among men.

Regardless of your view's on Santorum, the author offers us hope that Evangelicals are beginning to think beyond the narrow confines of strict Bible interpretations and understand the values that underlie the message of Jesus in the new Testament.

And being good meant trying to live in accord with the ethical teaching of scripture, whether that was understood as a narrow and highly specific code of righteousness, or more generally as following important principles such as the golden rule, loving your neighbor as yourself, and so forth.

SO, since your mind is obvously too narrow to understand the POINT of the article in mentioning the paragraph you quote, I will try to explain it.

Religion tends to be understood in ways narrower than Berger would have had us recognize, while behaviorist and reductionistic conceptions of the individual — which discount the importance of religion — continue to hold sway in many places of power and influence.

Supporters of the Weberian perspective have countered that this is, indeed, an extreme view, based more on a narrow reading of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism than on an understanding of Weber's more extended and mature works, especially Economy and Society.

This is especially so if one understands by the Single One not Kierkegaard's man, who finds truth by separating himself from the crowd, but Buber's man of the narrow ridge, who lives with others yet never gives up his personal responsibility nor allows his commitment to the group to stand in the way of his direct relationship to the Thou.

Since my concerns in this essay are with the ability to own and control capital in the narrow sense, my understanding of capital includes land and financial capital as well as capital in the strict sense.

The Revolution of 1989 in east and central Europe» a world - historical series of events ignited by moral passion, informed by moral conviction, sustained by deft and morally sophisticated politics, and supported by a resolute demonstration that the Soviet Union could not compete with the United States in a serious arms race» raised further questions about classic foreign - policy realism and its narrow focus on «hard power» as the analytic prism for understanding both the dynamics of world politics and the exigencies of American foreign policy.

One who understands the essence of man in terms of the dialogical relation between men must walk a narrow ridge between the individualistic psychology which places all reality within the isolated individual and the social psychology which places all reality in the organic group and in the interaction of social forces.

In profound moments of insight we are accorded a width of understanding and sympathy capable of including and transforming the narrower subjective stances of much of our past.

Jesus wanted love of neighbour to be understood in a universal sense as the quality of divine love than the narrow circle of natural affection and concern.

Rather than narrowing the focus of inquiry and polarizing discussion, a more appropriate and helpful function would be bringing to bear on a situation the sum total of perspectives, disciplines and facilities in order to form an adequate understanding of the options which can lead to solutions.

Many discussions of the Old Testament foundations for peacemaking have narrowed too quickly to the accounts of Israel's wars, without attention to the wider context of the Old Testament understanding of the world, and people's relationship to God in the world.

It's difficult to understand by the author — John Blake — would write such a ridiculously one - sided article based upon Borg's narrow, secular view of the Faith.

its so amazing there people is this world are so caught up in living for themselves, what if the rapture happened while reading my text, what then, will you stil care what clothes you are wearing or what what car you are driving,, while GOD is removed from this earth, and now society will have to make a real decision if they want to contine to live in sin or realize they now understand the truth and the warnings given before, but now bc of the anti christ have to denounce GOD (take the mark of the beast) or be killed, and if you do nt believe in christ now, will you be willing to die for christ then, i would rather be ridiculed by the world for being a true christian then be gay, seperated from GOD, and then cast in the lake of fire for all eternity tormented bc i refused to repent bc i wanted to live for myself, ready the story about the man in hades who to this day, still has not had a drop of water on his tongue to quench is thirst, THE BIBLE WAS WRITEN BC HELL IS REAL AND GOD IS REAL, DO NOT BE DECEIVED, YOU HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE WHO YOU WILL SERVE, THE NARROW ROAD WHICH LEADS TO LIFE OR THE WIDE, AND IF GOD CALLS YOU AND YOUR STILL ON THE FENCE, IN GODS EYES YOU HAVE ALREADY MADE A CHOICE, THE BIG QUESTION IS: WILL THE LIFE YOUR NOW LIVING BE WORTH SPENDING ETERNITY IN LAKE OF FIRof the anti christ have to denounce GOD (take the mark of the beast) or be killed, and if you do nt believe in christ now, will you be willing to die for christ then, i would rather be ridiculed by the world for being a true christian then be gay, seperated from GOD, and then cast in the lake of fire for all eternity tormented bc i refused to repent bc i wanted to live for myself, ready the story about the man in hades who to this day, still has not had a drop of water on his tongue to quench is thirst, THE BIBLE WAS WRITEN BC HELL IS REAL AND GOD IS REAL, DO NOT BE DECEIVED, YOU HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE WHO YOU WILL SERVE, THE NARROW ROAD WHICH LEADS TO LIFE OR THE WIDE, AND IF GOD CALLS YOU AND YOUR STILL ON THE FENCE, IN GODS EYES YOU HAVE ALREADY MADE A CHOICE, THE BIG QUESTION IS: WILL THE LIFE YOUR NOW LIVING BE WORTH SPENDING ETERNITY IN LAKE OF FIRof the beast) or be killed, and if you do nt believe in christ now, will you be willing to die for christ then, i would rather be ridiculed by the world for being a true christian then be gay, seperated from GOD, and then cast in the lake of fire for all eternity tormented bc i refused to repent bc i wanted to live for myself, ready the story about the man in hades who to this day, still has not had a drop of water on his tongue to quench is thirst, THE BIBLE WAS WRITEN BC HELL IS REAL AND GOD IS REAL, DO NOT BE DECEIVED, YOU HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE WHO YOU WILL SERVE, THE NARROW ROAD WHICH LEADS TO LIFE OR THE WIDE, AND IF GOD CALLS YOU AND YOUR STILL ON THE FENCE, IN GODS EYES YOU HAVE ALREADY MADE A CHOICE, THE BIG QUESTION IS: WILL THE LIFE YOUR NOW LIVING BE WORTH SPENDING ETERNITY IN LAKE OF FIRof fire for all eternity tormented bc i refused to repent bc i wanted to live for myself, ready the story about the man in hades who to this day, still has not had a drop of water on his tongue to quench is thirst, THE BIBLE WAS WRITEN BC HELL IS REAL AND GOD IS REAL, DO NOT BE DECEIVED, YOU HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE WHO YOU WILL SERVE, THE NARROW ROAD WHICH LEADS TO LIFE OR THE WIDE, AND IF GOD CALLS YOU AND YOUR STILL ON THE FENCE, IN GODS EYES YOU HAVE ALREADY MADE A CHOICE, THE BIG QUESTION IS: WILL THE LIFE YOUR NOW LIVING BE WORTH SPENDING ETERNITY IN LAKE OF FIRof water on his tongue to quench is thirst, THE BIBLE WAS WRITEN BC HELL IS REAL AND GOD IS REAL, DO NOT BE DECEIVED, YOU HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE WHO YOU WILL SERVE, THE NARROW ROAD WHICH LEADS TO LIFE OR THE WIDE, AND IF GOD CALLS YOU AND YOUR STILL ON THE FENCE, IN GODS EYES YOU HAVE ALREADY MADE A CHOICE, THE BIG QUESTION IS: WILL THE LIFE YOUR NOW LIVING BE WORTH SPENDING ETERNITY IN LAKE OF FIROF FIRE?

Thee good soil represents someone who; * admits and understands that they are indebted to God because of their sinful nature * that sin equals eternal damnation hellfire * they turn to Jesus as our own saviour to abide in his covenant to fully repent of sins and become holy enduring right to the end * remember Jesus said you can not serve the world and God, or money and god you can not be a master to both * the path to eternal life is very narrow and strait and only few are able to find it you have to let go of your desires and dictates of the flesh and always embrace and find happiness serving god set your eyes on Jesus... crucify your desires..

Hey Gaunt... I think you confuse the b @ $ tardization of religion by those who would use it for personal gain and to prove their narrow minded viewpoints with what religion is really trying to teach... peace, love, patience, forgiveness, understanding.