Sentences with phrase «narrower sense»

In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities.

This term sometimes is used to encompass a broader set of initiatives, but for analytical purposes, I want to use it in the narrower sense.

In in that narrower sense, within a state power is not devolved from an authority outside the state but from the voters of the state.

In a narrower sense, what was Modernist was not necessarily also postmodern.

Unfortunately, achievement is typically conceived in a much narrower sense, excluding much of the vocabulary and knowledge expected of well - educated people in the workplace and in life.

Firstly, if the phrase was to be interpreted that way by the executive, why not construct it in a narrower sense, such as the human rights committee's «public emergency threatening the life of the nation»?

Philia, on his showing, may have a wide range of meanings, but, within the circle of those with whom one had affectionate relationships, the ancient Greeks were quite ready to designate some as friends in a narrower sense corresponding more closely to that «abiding image» of friendship we still share with them.

In some quarters the wisdom of this was doubted in regions where there was yet only a tiny Church and virtually all Christian work was still in the narrower sense «missionary» work; in other quarters where it was felt that «Church» meant an absorption in the problems of the ecclesiastical institutions.

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.

Some may wish for more precise and detailed regulations for sexual behavior in the narrower sense, but I believe that in this area of human experience, perhaps above all others, room must be left for spontaneity and freshness.

In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities.

In a narrower sense we can only believe in Christ in connection with the sacramental baptism.

One chief characteristic of liturgical worship, understood both in the wider and the narrower sense, is that it is ordered according to plan and therefore provides for a regular and undeviating repetition of word and action such as shall enable those present to participate in it as fully as possible.

The difference between the Biblical and non-Biblical conceptions of myth is indeed implicitly recognized by HBK, for it quotes Alfred Jeremias's definition of Biblical myth: «Myth in the narrower sense... is one of the supreme creations of the human spirit.

Most of us can testify to the sense of hurt we have felt when someone with whom we thought we were in close rapport in some group of friends — or in family life in the narrower sense — demonstrates by act that he or she does not really very much care for us.

[1][2] In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities.

The breadth of Moltmann's interests may be one reason that the term political does not appear as the encompassing horizon of his theology, even though he is never oblivious to the political dimension, in the narrower sense, of what he is doing.

Its concern is with what is sometimes called «liturgical preaching», but I do not mean this in the narrower sense of preaching upon the appointed lections in the celebration of the Eucharist.

Once accept the disclosure of God in Christ (and in all that is Christ - like in human experience, for we ought not to be exclusively christo - centric in the narrower sense); once take that disclosure with utmost seriousness — and then God as «pure unbounded love» becomes central in our thinking.

When this surrounding culture is at the same time «worldly» — cultured in the narrower sense, demanding conformity at the peril of loss of social status — the problem is intensified.

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.

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.

It means that he has voluntarily renounced sex in the narrower sense, the way of expressing love and creating family as is proper to marriage.

They're doing it with a clear, narrow sense of purpose, a sublime customer experience, and the kind of coherence that seems all but impossible when a company gets old and big, and its founding idea lost to time and well - intended meddling.

Ethereum in the narrow sense refers to a suite of protocols that define a platform for decentralised applications.

When historians use the term in a narrow sense, «Christian humanism» refers exclusively to the Renaissance — often presented as a departure from Christianity, or even anti-Christian.

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.

We could then suppose that when Whitehead developed the idea of the consequent nature in the narrow sense, he created the «primordial nature» as a contrasting term This hypothesis would make sense of the present text of PR without supposing that Whitehead began working on the Gifford Lectures only with a noninteractive God little different from the abstract principle of concretion of SMW» (PS 15: 200).

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

We could illustrate from stories like Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins that are apocalyptic in the narrow sense; these would raise the question, as old as Hebrew prophecy, of the paradoxical tension between threat of inevitable destruction and summons to new, creative action.

Even if we consider the three major religious groups as ethnic traditions rather than religious in the narrow sense, their brightest and most creative intellectuals and artists have been absorbed into the general American intellectual and artistic community so as to deprive the communal groups of their natural cultural leaders.

Whereas in Marx's day, most wealth consisted in land and capital in the narrow sense, today financial wealth, often called financial «capital,» dwarfs both of these.

For example, the distinction between land and capital in the narrow sense is important as is that between both of these and financial capital.

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.

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).

But this question presupposes a very narrow sense of «influence.»

In the narrow sense, I view these as precursors of process thought.

Nobody doubts that evolution occurs, in the narrow sense that certain changes happen naturally.

That would seem to mark those respondents as creationists in a relatively narrow sense.

But, still, a chance of controversy comes up over the word «divine,» if we take it in the definition in too narrow a sense.

To be sure, their approach has not been «technical» in the narrow sense of giving exclusive attention to such questions as enrollment, funding and school reorganization.

We shall hopefully conclude that the word «listen», understood in the narrow sense, is woefully inadequate for the job at hand.

Hartshorne does not discuss distributive justice in its narrow sense in any of his writings.

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

But in the narrow sense of rationality and technical reasoning, its function seems to be abating.

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.

Only in a rather narrow sense of the word «reality» can we talk about «process and reality.»

This is, in the narrow sense, what we mean by «deployment.»

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).

However, we want to suggest that the word politics need not be understood in this narrow sense of «party politics».