Sentences with phrase «narrow sense which»

Although the questions which I was driven to raise were political in the broad sense, they came only gradually to focus on politics in the narrower sense which seemed to dominate those who called themselves political theologians.

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Write down all your ideas without judging them and then figure out which make the most sense or eliminate the ones that don't to narrow it down.

The introduction to process theology which David Griffin and I wrote together in 1975 as a summary of where we had come accurately reflects the interests and concerns that had dominated our reflection prior to that time.11 Political interests, in the narrower sense of political, were consciously omitted because we had not engaged them sufficiently to have anything distinctive to say.

Hence we must conclude with Professors Branscomb, Lohmeyer, Werner, Bishop Rawlinson, and other recent writers, that Mark's point of view is that which was «in general characteristic of the Gentile - Christian Church of the first century,» but that it was not, «in the narrower and more distinctive sense of the words, a «Pauline» Gospel.»

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.

April 1999), which shows that home schooling families are at least as involved in civic activities and the building of «social capital» as those who send their kids out for education, and she ends with this thought: «I don't think we need worry much about their socialization in the narrow sense, either.

Now the «feelings» toward which the «prehending subject of the proposition» is drawn are not simply affective in the narrow sense.

He is, rather, a very complex structured society which sustains, among many other societies, a regnant, personally ordered, subordinate society (an enduring object) which Whitehead refers to as «the soul of which Plato spoke» (Adventures of Ideas 267 — see also pp. 263 - 264 for a clear statement of the distinction between «the ordinary meaning of the term «man,» which includes the total bodily man, and the narrow sense of «man,» where «man» is considered a person in Whitehead's technical sense, i.e., as the regnant, personally ordered society which he identifies as his equivalent of Descartes» thinking substance and Plato's soul).

And until we recover the ancient and deeply Catholic axiom of the primacy of the common good, which is also the primacy of supernaturalized politics and Christianized culture, we can not make much sense out of the narrower Rerum Novarum tradition.

Theologians influenced by positivism, whose adherents saw reality as strictly that which can be experienced through the senses and knowledge as that which can be obtained through a narrow definition of the scientific method, and linguistic analysis, which purported that the only proper function of philosophy is the study of the usage of words and sentences, also treated science and religion as separate realms, distinct «language games,» each with its own set of rules.

Yet may we not claim, observing the precipitate growth of democracies and totalitarian regimes during the past hundred and fifty years, that it is the Sense of Species, which for a time seemed to have vanished from human hearts, dispelled in some sort by the growth of Reflection, that is now gradually resuming its place and reasserting its rights over narrow individualism?

The teaching of that there are many ways is absolutist in the sense that it excludes the way, there there is one way, or one, best, most enlightened way, a narrow way, which needs treading.

So, gospel, in it's narrow sense is «the message leading to eternal life,» the content of which is defined in 1 Cor.

There is no future in universities for theology that is confessional in a narrow sense (not being open to the range of disciplines and of religions); but neither is there a future for religious studies in a supposedly ideologically neutral sense, which fails to engage with truth - and - practice questions.

In the narrow sense, all that an actual entity can do is to determine how it will synthesize the data from which it originates; it does this as it concresces (to borrow Whitehead's terminology).

For these appetites to be configured, they will have to be narrowed, disciplined, and restricted — that is, deranged in the second sense of the word — from the infinitely open range in which they wander.

Our understanding of sex in the narrower sense of genital activity and in the wider sense of relationship with others has been so altered in recent years that the assumed fixity of thought in this area, with reference to auto - erotism, homo - erotism, and hetero - erotism, along with the related fixity which has been traditionally accepted in respect to judgements upon the right or wrong ways of sexual expression, has been shown to be indefensible by any intelligent standards.

It is true that I have never felt any inward call that I could recognize as divine in its inspiration to join the Christian Church in the narrow sense in which some evidently use the term.

Such examples should be sufficient to show that the good news of deliverance from bondage, the theme which runs through the whole of the Bible, must not be interpreted in any one narrow sense.

The particular brand of scientific humanism which affects so much of our thinking is either agnostic, in the less narrow sense of that term, or rigidly atheistic.

A narrow win on a poor show could lead to the public having a sense of a judgement «not proven» which could prove to be difficult and disruptive for a long time to come and could further fuel that feeling of distance from democracy.

The device enhances the sensing properties of the technique by creating «hot spots,» or narrow gaps within the nanostructure which intensified the Raman signal, the researchers said.

The doctors concerned themselves not only with unintended firings but also with accidents such as Walker's, in which the gun itself functions properly in only a narrow mechanical sense and the risk is more clearly seen in retrospect.

The only way I could grip a dumbbell and perform Side Rows with the Tyler Grips handle on there was to have my index finger wrapped around the narrow side and my pinky wrapped around the wider side, which made about as much sense as using a lifting strap on my row...

Unhappily, the problems with character education (in the narrow sense, which is how I'll be using the term unless otherwise indicated) are not restricted to such strategies as enforcing sartorial uniformity, scheduling a value of the week, or offering students a «doggie biscuit» for being good.

Correction - in some * very * specific, narrow circumstances in which the author has a built - in audience for the book, working with a vanity / subsidy outfit can still make financial sense.

I am not talking about execution in the narrow sense, which is actually placing the trades and may or may not involve a human.)

It creates a sense of tension rarely seen within the racing genre which makes every escape and narrow shave feel like a substantial victory.

Games and LEGO — so we work together on that and once we've narrowed down that list of brands and we have a good idea of which character gets released in that pack, then we start to work on the vehicle — what makes sense from a brand point of view?

Visually I think its fair to say this game looks stunning, the stage starts in a dense forest section with a narrow road which gives a decent sense of danger and good feeling of speed.

13 This sentiment recurs in Sculpture and Touch, the book Jaeger shared in her studio: «Sculpture is formed of a narrow and specific history, concerned with processes of making and informed by the ways in which human beings use objects to attempt to make sense of the surrounding world.

Kruger is not concerned with politics in a narrow sense — she is not working for or against a particular issue — but rather, she interacts in a broader sense, which makes her the perfect interlocutor.

Sculpture is formed of a narrow and specific history, concerned with processes of making and informed by the ways in which human beings use objects to attempt to make sense of the surrounding world.

A term used in its narrow sense to denote an American style of painting which emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in the works of a variety of artists, such as Philip Pearlstein, Neil Wellilver and William Bailey.

Those arguments would make sense in a world in which only narrow design patents are granted.

It just narrows the scope of situations in which adding comprehensive makes sense to the policy holder.

He also claims that iPhone 6 will come with a bezel that is 10 to 20 % narrower, which makes sense as increasing the size of the display would not increase the size of the device proportionally.

At 5.8 x 2.7 x 0.33 inches, the S9 is a shorter and narrower, which makes sense because it has a smaller, 5.8 - inch screen.

As we look for the ways in which clients have been adversely affected by their trauma, it can inadvertently narrow our sense of who they are, and solidify their identities as «damaged» or «broken.»