Sentences with phrase «of systematic reflection»

Reason, as a process of systematic reflection, replaces absolute axiomatic laws as the basis on which cultural meaning and coherence rests.

Not exact matches

Those who engage in regular and systematic reflection on political / cultural issues will, unless they are utterly mindless, come to some set of interrelated conclusions — however tentatively held — as to how the world does and should work.

Ultimately, the systematic wholeness of truth can be traced to the fact that God is himself the author of all truth... The recovery of the Christian mind and the development of a comprehensive Christian worldview will require the deepest theological reflection, the most consecrated application of scholarship, the most sensitive commitment to compassion, and the courage to face all questions without fear.

The illusion that the now is either so insignificant and commonplace as to be unworthy of study, or that it is so well known anyhow — without analysis, critical reflection, or even systematic observation — as to be beneath serious notice, has become all too characteristic of a theological tradition that knows perfectly well that we can not understand either God's grace or man's sinfulness without in some fundamental sense understanding the other first.

A full defense of this intuition as true (i.e., as «public») demands the kind of argument and modes of reflections which I have attempted in my recently completed work on systematic theology (The Analogical Imagination).

Furthermore, there is systematic reflection on how each aspect of the program can become more productive of healing, growth, and social change.

The secret call as always remains important, but in the conception of the ministry that is emerging out of the Biblical and systematic theology of the day and out of the personal reflections of young people and their pastors, the divine action whereby men are chosen for their station and calling is less spiritualistically understood than was the case for the past hundred years.

I see the need of what I would call an «intermediary theology,» a style of theological reflection which stays close to characteristics of the parables but also, as a discursive mode, is coherent, consistent and precise — characteristics of systematic theology.

Philosophy has of course always had a considerable role to play in theological reflection, in directing attention to the need for conceptual clarity and systematic completeness, demanding rigor of thought, seeking comprehensiveness.

Similarly, the New Testament writers almost never develop any doctrines about Christ as part of systematic theological reflection.

Just as the kerygma provided a rapprochement to the current view of history and historiography, it also provided the unifying factor between the twentieth - century reconstruction of primitive Christianity and its own systematic theological reflection.

The concreteness, fullness, and irreversibility of God's Incarnation and death in Jesus of Nazareth is one of the most striking elements of Altizer's Christology and an important departure from the merely moral rendition of the Incarnation's meaning that one seems to encounter in so much of modern Protestant systematic reflection on the Incarnation.

The prolegomena, or things to be said first, of the larger (and multivolume) systematic reflection on the matter, subtitled «a theology of the Jewish - Christian reality,» has already appeared (Discerning the Way [Seabury, 1980]-RRB-.

A theology is a systematic reflection on a religious experience, an encounter between God and man (for the Christian, an encounter in Jesus Christ), the experience are that of a religious founder, of prophet, of religious men, or of communities.

Theology is the systematic and self - critical reflection of a paradigm community concerning its beliefs.

(This will also involve an affirmative answer to a question posed by Donald W. Sherburne, namely, whether these Whiteheadian «conjectures» could «provide a systematic, rational framework capable of grounding the many insights into the relation of «mind» and «body» which have emerged from the reflections of such phenomenologists as Merleau - Ponty» [WPP 406].)

If faith in the Word of God can only be the work of the Holy Ghost operating through intelligent decision, it follows that the understanding of the text is attainable only in systematic interpretation, and the terminology which directs this understanding can be acquired only from profane reflection, which is the business of the philosophical analysis of existence.

All theology implies a systematic reflection on the content of religious experience, aiming at a deeper and clearer understanding of the relationships between God - Creator and man - creature.

But we all have our ideologies, explicit or hidden, and whether we call reason «critical reflection on praxis» or systematic thinking about ongoing experience, reason remains one's attempt to make sense out of all dimensions of life's experiences, including those of the oppressed and oppressor, the poor and rich, white and black, female, and male, and so on.

Although the concepts of polarity and of the coincidentia oppositorum have been used in a systematic fashion since the beginnings of philosophical speculation, the symbols that dimly revealed them were not the result of critical reflection, but of an existential tension.

The action implications of these findings, as well as some of the dos noted earlier, are to promote a genuine and broad sense of inclusiveness by educating for true understanding of diversity, especially as manifest in one's own school, to ensure that school codes of conduct and core values are integrated into everyday routines, including opportunities for student reflection and feedback on student report cards (versus being relegated to statements in handbooks or on web sites), and to require that all students are given systematic training in social problem solving or related social - emotional skills and encouraged specifically to use those skills in finding alternatives to mistreating others, seeking help effectively, and upstanding in the presence of injustice and inequity.

When teachers see themselves as learners, are open to new ways of teaching and are willing to modify their current teaching practice through repeated cycles of systematic practice and reflection, they can gradually arrive at this accomplished level of formative assessment practice.

These and other pipeline strategies that effect broad - based systems must strike a balance between stability and flexibility in order for them to change as school improvement strategies evolve, say both The Wallace Foundation and education reformers such as Michael Fullan, whose concept of «motion leadership» reflects the need for a systematic culture of continuous reflection and growth.

Publishes rigorously reviewed original research, systematic literature reviews, analyses of promising and innovative practices, critical reviews of books and other materials, and thoughtful reflections on the profession