Sentences with phrase «of radical thinking»

49 Cities is a call to re-engage cities as the site of radical thinking and experimentation, moving beyond «green building» toward an embrace of ideas, scale, vision and common sense combined with delirious imagination in the pursuit of empowering questioning and re-invention.

What is his value for theology in this age of radical thinking?

Nobody really believes that the effects of radical thought on mainstream marriage or sexual life has been altogether positive, and «radical feminism» has been displaced largely (outside the academic world) with a chastened defense of women's rights (and some appreciation of the dilemma of the resulting birth dearth, lonely single moms, and all that).

But I also see how that keeps happening: how decades of radical thought on what it means to be queer in the mainstream might all come down to bear, too forcefully, on every scrap of mainstream queer art we get.

Not exact matches

In addition, I think we're going to see — or begin to see — a radical rethinking of the clinical trials process.

What makes this book so radical — and thought - provoking — is its ingenious composition: fifty dart - like essays that shoot to the heart of an equal number of components of public health in the current age.

You'd think that even in these crazy times of radical change most people would have learned to stick with what has worked for them — at least until it doesn't work any longer — and also to hang on to the advisors, the tools and the techniques that got them to where they are.

It is simply at the advance of a powerful wave that represents a radical new way of thinking about how to transact business.

As a result, Finnegan is a big advocate of the concept of working backwards, «especially when thinking about building businesses based on emerging technologies and ideas that are truly radical and transformational.»

Other companies with world - class R&D groups built radical innovations only to see their company fumble the future and others reap the rewards (think of Xerox and the personal computer, Fairchild and integrated circuits, Kodak and digital photography, etc.) Common themes in these failures were, 1) without a direct connection to the customer advanced R&D groups built products without understanding user needs, and 2) the core of the company was so focused on execution of current products that it couldn't see that the future didn't look like the past.

Each new wave of innovation — microwaves, defense, silicon, disk drives, PCs, Internet, therapeutics, — was like punctuated equilibrium — just when you thought the wave had run its course into stasis, there emerged a sudden shift and radical change into a new family of technology.

Change Number 6 is that Starting a Company means you no longer Act Like A Big Company Since the turn of the century, there's been a radical shift in how startups thought of themselves.

The results of this radical experiment are now in — Roberts has written about his experience in a long, thought - provoking piece for Outside magazine.

Ideas to make your company more friendly to a broader range of talent can appear «radical» at first, but given a little thought, they turn out to be just good sense.

It probably won't bring jetpacks and hoverboards, but it will usher in other radical technologies, business models, customer experiences and even a new breed of entrepreneurs — a wave of so - called digital natives who think and act differently from every generation before them.

This may be a radical reversal of how you've thought about learning, but it's the only way learning becomes an integral part of your culture.

That radical notion is precisely what some of the most forward - thinking people in healthcare are pondering.

Fonstad had long been thinking about the radical changes taking place in the workplace, and was «looking for companies that could take advantage of the extensive disruption.»

So what Singapore is doing, which I think is so interesting and is a reminder that there are much more radical fusions of left wing and right wing ideas than people give credit for, is the government is overwhelmingly regulating both supply and prices to keep costs down.

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company — FALAK Consulting — to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world.

About Mindset Social Innovation Foundation Mindset Social Innovation Foundation is a private charitable Foundation based in Vancouver and founded by Alison Lawton that explores complex social problems that will only be solved by radical new ways of thinking and organizing.

Jacoby's occasion for recycling this tired truism is David Gelernter's new book, America - Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats), which he thinks is short on arguments and full of shrill right - wing clichés about tenured radicals and rootless intellectuals.

Our message is a message of warning to the radical element of Islam, and I think what we see right now around the globe provides exactly what we're talking about,» he said.

When Jesus returns, I don't think he will automatically fall into the Conservative camp, with all his radical beliefs about shunning wealth and individual rights, Jesus just may be the biggest Liberal of them all.

Since the fundamental and indispensable unit of Christian community is the Church, these trends in general intellectual culture have in the last fifteen years stimulated a great deal of ecclesiological reflection: one can draw an interesting line of influence from MacIntyre and Habits of the Heart to Stanley Hauerwas and then to John Milbank and the other proponents of radical orthodoxy, all of whom tend to be pronouncedly ecclesiocentric in their thinking.

I am thinking here especially of our friend Patrick Deneen — read his latest here — , of the «radical orthodoxy» theologians, etc..

Readers with a sense of history may remember when such «radical religious thought» was radical.

Radicals, by contrast, think American liberalism and Catholicism have been incompatible from the start, and that the friendly cooperation of the Forties and Fifties was an aberration.

Oh, something like «Do unto others as you would have them do unto you» might work, but I think many of these folks would consider that too radical an idea.

However, there are good reasons for thinking that few were really prepared for the radical events of the sixteenth century, which are generally referred to collectively as «the Reformation.»

The educational radical thinks that since there is no natural canon the best society is an unregulated one, and that the design of an undergraduate curriculum should therefore be the responsibility of each individual student.

The polarization is so deep that when, in 1996, the late Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernardin founded the Catholic Common Ground Initiative as a means of addressing division in the church, he was criticized by some liberal Catholics who thought that the project was not radical enough and by some of his brother cardinals who believed that it jeopardized the essential truths of the faith.

Theological thinking that folds in the face of imperial interests and supports actions that are destructive of people and of hopes for peace in the world — one definition of demonic religion — is in need of radical challenge.

The philosophical discussions of justice after Plato have not been the most fruitful bases for radical social thought.

Like a good protestant should, I think Mary's act of radical obedience means more when she is one of us.

But the charge puts me in mind of the colloquium discussion in the January issue of First Things which treated the debate between so - called «liberal» and «radical» Catholics, perhaps because my contribution to that discussion has elicited similar accusations of political irresponsibility or moral cowardice from people sympathetic to the liberal line of thought.

It has freed men personally and intellectually to raise radical questions and to develop whole new disciplines of thought.

Heres a radical thought, maybe the being who is intelligent and sophisticated enough to design a universe or two has a more developed higher since of justice than us.

What they lost to was a radical, liberal read of what Jesus» teaching was regarding human equality and loving your «neighbor», and I think the same thing will win the day here.

If radical dialectical thinking was reborn in Kierkegaard, it was consummated in Friedrich Nietzsche: the thinker who, in Martin Heidegger's words, brought to an end the metaphysical tradition of the West.

suffering, true sociality, as qualities of the divine, along with radical differences (as we shall see) in the meanings ascribed to creation, the universe, human freedom, and in the arguments for the existence of God, those inclined to think that any view that is intimately connected with theological traditions must have been disposed of by this time should also beware lest they commit a non sequitur.

Now insofar as Whitehead thinks of these «eternal objects» as forms, we have in fact a case of a radical identification of form and potentiality.

These differing meanings depend on if our concern is with conformity, fulfilling norms, and subordination, or instead if our focus is radical thinking infused with the spirit of God blowing as it wills and marked by grown - up, freely affirmed responsibility.»

I think radical is perfectly adequate, though there is often a kind of arrogance in ascribing this to oneself.

The radical theologians are aware of their moral flaws, which seem about the same as those of their friends in other schools of theological thought.

Certain radical feminists think it unfair that, in the past, a higher standard of morality has been expected of woman than of man.

For example, what has come about in the shift of imagery exemplified in the new physics and in emergent thinking generally represents not so much a reaction as a radical reconception of fundamental notions, altering the modern consciousness itself.

Despite its great relevance to our situation, the faith of the radical Christian continues to remain largely unknown, and this is so both because that faith has never been able to speak in the established categories of Western thought and theology and because it has so seldom been given a visionary expression (or, at least, the theologian has not been able to understand the radical vision, or even perhaps to identify its presence).

We must be willing not only to accept, but to embrace the radical transformation brought about by the renewing of our minds and our thinking though the fundamental principles of God's Word.

He was definitely a nonconformist in a lot of ways (the things he said and taught were pretty radical), though he was also the biggest conformist in all of history if you think about him being the only person to perfectly abide by the law and conform to the pattern of humanity as God originally intended.