Sentences with phrase «old perspective of»

«One needs to put this MENA contagion into the millennium - old perspective of the Shia - Sunni schism in Islam,» he noted in a recent market commentary.

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Renewal is a necessary process of shedding stale, old, backward - looking perspectives and focusing on the new and exciting opportunities ahead.

That's just too narrow a perspective and far too limited an approach to succeed in the new world of global competitors — many of whom aren't saddled with your legacy systems or the need to support the old enterprise offerings while the customers want tomorrow's technologies.

Munger, sitting in the reading room of his L.A. home — the 88 - year - old is currently enjoying a biography of Deng Xiaoping — ticks off a lot to like about See's from a management perspective.

One way to mitigate this risk is to focus on disproportionately collecting businesses that have the financial strength necessary to survive even the darkest days of a period like 1929 - 1933 without having to issue stock at severely depressed prices (which, from an economic perspective, amounts to you, the old owner, having to sell off your ownership in exchange for a bailout).

With a decade of research, he brings a fresh perspective to the 150 - year old evolution debate.

Our business was built on old - fashioned trust and discretion, but it comes with a very modern perspective making us one of the most trusted dealers of gold bullion.

My old friend Alistair Milne recently published a very interesting paper on Cryptocurrencies from an Austrian Perspective (SSRN, 12th April 2017) in which he explores the use of new technology to reimplement money by taking away money creation from commercial banks and proposes:

The extent of the initial plunge raised new fears that some investors who tend to track past price movements of stock indexes would conclude that the nine - year - old bull market has run its course, making the recovery later in the day somewhat important from that perspective.

it's the old 3 blind men & elephant story — but you are claiming the perspective of the one who actually has sight.

When it comes to dogmatic absolutism you, Frank, Old Adam and even Brigitte to a lesser degree have a similar epistemology and, for all of our disagreements, neither Gary nor I are dogmatic absolutists and so share a similar epistemological perspective.

Being in the presence of something millions of years old helps me keep my life and my ministry in perspective.

Only through the gift of faith can we know the full reality of guilt and meaninglessness, for only the perspective of the new Adam or the new man of faith has sufficient distance from the old Adam to realize the full weight of brokenness.

But along with the story of the Bible being extended, the depth of spiritual understanding must grow and the moral perspective must develop, just as it did from the Old to the New Testaments.

12, or Elijah in I Kings 21), from the seemingly objective perspective (of Amos, for example) to the intensely participating attitude (of Jeremiah) This is only to suggest the breadth of range of application of the term in the Old Testament.3

The 14 essays are divided into three categories: «Biblical and Historical Perspectives on Aging,» «Critical Perspectives on Modem Problems of Aging» and «The Christian Practice of Growing Old.»

However, as I've gotten older, I've developed a less idealistic perspective on adoption, realizing that adoption carries with it its own set of challenges, challenges I don't want to take lightly.

old son recently shared honestly with me re: his perspective on life, our family and his experience / understanding of God thus far.

It chronicles thirteen months in the life of the would - be-poet thirteen - year - old Jason Taylor, who lives in a sleepy English town in 1982 — it's told from his adolescent perspective, in his own British vernacular, at his own meandering pace.

Finally, it may be useful to ponder whether thinking about death from the perspective of our nature as finite and free can give us guidance about how we ought to live as we grow older.

Thus, there is a sense in which the perspective of these diverse Old Testament materials represents one way in which Israel tried to reflect theologically on its own prosperity.

John Buckeridge on the perspective of a wise old man Titled The Ambassadors, the large oil on oak in London's national gallery features two wealthy, educated...

He seemed to view faith as a romantic adventure and the universe as a wild fairy tale — I had a similar perspective on the world, as a twenty - one - year old in D.C. Chesterton died long before YouTube, but if he were alive today, I think he would advocate new, creative methods to revolutionize the practice of journalism.

I believe Wright is wrong with his «New Perspective on Paul» idea, but I think he is right on target with this essay and helped confirm some of what I have been thinking about a new (or old) approach to reading the Bible.

Then I came across an essay by C.S. Lewis called, «On the Reading of Old Books,» and it completely changed my perspective.

The God who last week was a highway engineer making new ways through the wilderness, a gardener turning deserts into flower gardens, is now the artist painting a new perspective of the age - old promise of the messiah.

Conversely, from a more detached or perhaps more cynical perspective, the Justices» pronouncements might be merely a source of mirth, as when the family's four - year - old emphatically declares that «I've decided we're all going to Disneyland today,» and that the way to pay for the trip is to «just write a check.»

From the old moralistic perspective, «weakness of will» would probably be held up as a major cause of alcoholism, while a biological - medical model would look for nutritional deficits or metabolic disorders and a psychologist might try to uncover a «personality disorder.»

If in the Old Testament, in Judaism, and in the New Testament, the unworldly takes the form of a future hope, of eschata — «last things» in the traditional sense — that is only one among other possible conceptions of man's relation to the unworldly, though no doubt it enshrines a genuine insight into human existence, namely that from a human perspective the eschaton can only be future.

From the perspective of the old man or the old creation, this new power is terrifying, for it demands not only a total immersion in the here and now, but also a total responsibility for the world.

Where it was safe to teach from a perspective informed by historical criticism, successive editions of Bernhard W. Anderson's Understanding the Old Testament served as a standard introduction.

Had a strict demand for consistency among these various perspectives been present, no new understanding of God could have emerged without a repudiation of the old.

The genius of the Hebrew imagination was that it was able to accept and affirm the witness to God's former acts, even as understood from an older perspective, while at the same time proclaiming what God was about to do as grasped from a newer standpoint.

As a congregation within the United Church of Christ, the Spring Glen Church exemplifies «liberal, Protestant» or «old, mainline» ecclesial perspectives.

(See, for example, George Schlesinger's provocative book New Perspectives on Old - Time Religion [Oxford University Press, 1988], William Charlton's Philosophy and Christian Belief [Sheed & Ward, 1988], and Diogenes Allen's Christian Belief in a Postmodern World: The Full Wealth of Conviction [Westminster / John Knox, 1989].)

First, it is important to remember that from an Old Testament Hebrew perspective, the forces of rebellion and chaos arrayed against God were often identified with the sea, and especially with the storms and waves that often rage across the sea.

In order to get a clearer perspective on the development of the doctrine of love we must examine the main themes of love in the Old Testament, including the covenant with the Hebrews as God's act of love, the human love required in faithfulness to the covenant, and the suffering of God as a result of human sin in failing to keep the covenant.

The trial scene is constructed from a Christian perspective, which highlights the Pauline dichotomy of Old Testament legalism opposed to the New Testament gospel of grace.

The interpretation of the Old Testament (and indeed of any literature) is both a technique and an art embracing a much broader perspective than is sometimes recognized.

Living with the poor and understanding the Bible from their perspective helps to discover the particular caring with which God both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament thinks of the marginalized, the downtrodden and the deprived.

He places strong emphasis upon cult and oral tradition; and he predicates meaningful unity only in extended sections of the Old Testament: the Tetrateuch, Genesis — Numbers, is a unity characterized by the pervading priestly point of view dominant in the entire section; and Deuteronomy — II Kings is a second major unit reflecting chiefly the perspective of the Deuteronomic point of view.

Should we attempt to have our distinct intellectual perspectives heard, or must we simply give way before overwhelming trends, perhaps living off the residual capital of the old establishment or finding refuge at university divinity schools?

Douthat and Salam's youth» they're among the brightest lights in the next generation of conservative writers» gives them a new perspective on the contemporary political scene, allowing them to step out beyond traditional conservative fixations on tax cutting and limited government» where the supposed Reagan solution is always the correct solution» and to offer incisive criticisms of how the Grand Old Party's ideology frequently serves as a blinder to effective policies for the working class.

conclude: «Growing numbers of women are working together to create new solutions to the old problems of poverty, famine and racial prejudice, adding not only their energies and skills but also different perspectives on these problems».

We may add here, therefore, parenthetically, that whatever else we may mean when we speak of inspiration and revelation in the Old Testament, we certainly do not mean any radical or miraculous emancipation from the general mores, perspectives and knowledge of the age.

For the same reason, each looks back to the basic documents of Christian belief, the writings of the Old and New Testaments and the credal formulations of the early Church, from his own point of view and in a perspective conditioned by his personal belief.

In 1927, when only 21 years old, he completed his doctoral dissertation entitled «Santorum Communio», which was a perspective theological enquiry into the Sociology of the church.

Some of us «old timers» surely have an obligation to make an appraisal of new trends in mission in terms of our mission experience and the theological and philosophical perspective of the mission board that first sent us to the field.

There is something remaining in the vacated space, and perhaps the idea of one's historical perspective or point of view can be used to rebuild the old notion of faith as assensus and fiducia before God.

In thinking of Christianity as old, our modern pagans are unconsciously looking at history in the short perspective of a prescientific age.