Sentences with phrase «on modern understanding»

Be sure to make minor adjustments based on our modern understanding of nutrition; for example, many Beef Bourguignon recipes call for using wheat flour as a thickener, which I omitted (although I sometimes use white rice flour instead).

That too may be a move forward if it leads to a reassessment of what is worth saving and how that can be brought to bear on modern understanding.

Not exact matches

It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

«The gig economy is typified by irregularity, meaning there is no job security and instead of having a boss who trains you and helps you improve, your performance is rated on a scale of 1 - 5 stars by strangers who have no understanding of your growth as a professional,» explains Scot Wingo, founder and CEO of Spiffy, a modern on - demand company.

With much of our modern athletic world catering to convenience — fitness clubs, treadmills, protection from the elements — it can be hard to understand why someone would pull on a pair of sneakers, open the front door and start running.

Most outsiders don't understand the principles of modern policing, nor the challenges presented by life «on the street.»

Though savvy investors, like Shakespeare's Antonio, have long understood the benefits of diversification, it was not until the 1950s when an academic named Harry Markowitz introduced research on what he called modern portfolio theory that people were able to understand diversification in an objective, mathematical sense.

In modern economic science, regressions of wage growth on tax rates can not be understood as causal without a theory of the level of tax rates.

During a panel session at Modern Customer Experience, Seth Lieberman, CEO of SnapApp; Gail Morag, VP at Minitgo; and Nick Edouard, President & Chief Product Officer at LookBook HQ, all reiterated that understanding the impact your content has on your audience is key to activating it, accelerating leads, and driving sales conversations.

As Mark Carney noted in his most recent speech, modern monetary policy depends crucially on making sure that people understand what is going on:

As faithful readers of this blog will know, I make only very sporadic contributions to this blog but a substantial fraction of those contributions have made reference to modern monetary theory (MMT), the view (crudely put) that, based on a detailed understanding of the institutional mechanisms behind monetary operations, calls into question our obsession with -LSB-...]

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What most of us think of today as modern medicine is heavily dependent on an understanding of genetics, but certainly the term «modern» is relative and those who still think a book of myths beats science might consider pasteurization and basic sanitation the height of modernity.

Trying to heap an ancient written Jewish code on modern Gentile Christians (and non --RRB-, tellingly without even an understanding of said code and a complete indifference to the message of Jesus and to the accounts in the very bible being worshipped in His place.

We try to contribute to the renewal of these treasures of salvation in the lives of Gods people through a renewed clarity of understanding of Gods plan of Wisdom and redeeming Love for his creatures, a renewed enthusiasm for handing on his Word, a deepened personal love for our Lord Jesus Christ and a fresh dedication to living the high standards of integrity in both charity and chastity which should mark his true disciples and apostles in the modern world.

«Male and female he created them» is not merely a statement from Scripture but a reflection on the physical and spiritual reality of things, and in the modern era we are coming to understand just how very interesting it is that we are male and female, how different and complementary we are, howsignificant this might be, and how much we need to study and reflect on it.

Whatever the merits of these claims, I would like to suggest that Dante exercised a similar influence on the Christian understanding of heaven — and that this influence is not what Dante's many modern devotees might suspect.

Primitive minds can't even understand the creations they have created in their own minds and here we are in the modern age and these nuts still carry no clue on how to even associate the «why» of giving a name onto their magical friends.

Building on but moving beyond psychological understandings of guilt, and excavating the reality of wrong «being that underlies our wrong» doing, Pieper brings the wisdom tradition of Plato, Augustine, and Aquinas into conversation with moderns, both Christian and anti-Christian, who try to make sense of sin and evil in the human condition.

Within modern American Christianity the dominant way to understand the cultural impact of Christianity has been largely in terms of social action on a range of issues.

In defining the complex notion of wisdom, Deane - Drummond introduces the concept of wisdom as an understanding of different facets of reality, a contemplative «way of knowing» lost by modern science with its focus on specific discoveries.

The great dual challenge of his mission in the Jewish state had been, on the one hand, to reform modern Christianity's understanding of Judaism, while on the other hand, to bring salvation to the Jews.

Furthermore, it is impossible to understand the Church's teaching about the sacramentality of marriage without some reference to the modern papal Magisterium that begins with Leo XIII and continues under John Paul II, whose instruction on marriage and family remains one of the outstanding features of his pontificate.

For example, Whitehead himself, in introducing his chapter on God in Science and the Modern World, says that Aristotle was the last European metaphysician of first - rate importance who was entirely dispassionate in his understanding of God.

The impact of the technologies and institutions of electronic culture need to be understood in relation to their intertwinement with two other major modern movements, each of which is dependent on the other.

Each biblical statement is a sentence which must be understood in terms of the vocabulary and grammar of its original language (Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek), but the better modern translations, such as the Revised Standard Version, have made it possible for one who understands English vocabulary and grammar to read and study the Bible without being seriously misled on most points.

Though Lutherans aren't entirely estranged from the modern world, we most certainly depart from its modus vivendi by trying to understand the world before changing it, to put a turn on Marx's famous line.

I am the very model of a modern ultramontanist I've been congratulated as an excellent dialogist I have degrees from all the best colleges of theology I do not know quite what it means but I reject ontology I understand the finer points both nuanced and theoretical and when I go on twitter Ross Douthat calls me heretical I've many sage remarks to make on what I call the Christ event and just how many tragic deaths forbidden condoms could prevent

In the West, human freedom has not, of course, always been understood in terms of individual autonomy (cf. the thought of St. Augustine and John Calvin on this point); and there is some evidence that the modern individualistic understanding of freedom is fundamentally responsible for some of our present cultural difficulties.

I did not understand him to be equating Freudian therapy with modern neuroscience; I thought, rather, that he took his own distaste for what he sees as certain mystifications in the former as a point de départ for reflections on a deterministic and mechanistic philosophy he finds even more distasteful.

A compelling aspect of Kilde's book is her reading of the buildings themselves in order to understand the religious culture that produced them: bold, confident, masculine and modern — yet slightly on the defensive.

Modern philosophy shares with Christianity an emancipation from entities and concepts and thus an understanding of spirituality as «an existential meditation on the horizon within which it finds itself.»

Modern scholarship lays stress on parables as metaphors.104 The root of the study of metaphor is traced to the Greek classics, where it was understood as a single word.

It is also due to assumptions on the part of such critics as Bultmann that the actual facts could not have been as they are reported, assumptions rooted in an already outdated understanding of the modern scientific world view.

He was, of course, always more neo-orthodox than orthodox in his beliefs, and his essay on the concept of «basic Judaism» shows him struggling, as so many other thoughtful modern Jews do, to extract what is enduring and imperishable in the Jewish understanding of life: «groping to establish rapport with the Jewish tradition, standing at the synagogue door.»

We have seen that the modern emphases on persons and their own past and future, on self - consciousness and self - awareness as the beginning of understanding, on a linear time and a hopeful history all begin with Augustine.

To hold on to them in the modern age when the understanding of the world around is improving by leaps and bounds is at best unnecessary and at worst id.iotic.

Perhaps a summary of the basics of Catholic teaching on each issue, arguments from scripture, arguments from natural law and empirical evidence from modern society and scientific understanding?

Our next issue will focus on Catholic approaches to the impact of modern science upon our understanding of physical being.

The method increasingly chosen by theologians who wish to understand anew the interdependence of Christianity and Judaism is to focus on the relationship between Jesus Christ and the Judaism of his day, and then to extrapolate some contemporary theological challenges for modern Christians and Jews.

In his final chapters, de Bary introduces us to some of the most influential of modern Confucians and then closes with comments on his college friend, Thomas Merton, whose understanding of Matteo Ricci he particularly appreciates.

The modern difficulty in understanding the Church's teaching on married sexuality stems in large part from a failure to distinguish between lust and what is (or should be) normal sexual desire, i.e. between assertive and unregulated sexual desire, bent foremost on physical self - satisfaction, and simple sexual attraction, which can include a desire for union and is characterised by respect and regulated by love.

Yet, if I understand your views regarding the modern state of Israel and its current conflict with its neighbors correctly, I do have some real concerns — particularly in light of the current political climate (the U.N. vote on Palestinian statehood) as well as a growing trend among certain Christian polemicists against Israel (see Gary Burge and Stephen Sizer).

The genre of the book of Esther has been debated, but very few scholars would identify this as a strictly historical text, particularly based on our modern, Western understanding of history as a relatively objective recounting of facts.

Bentham has here laid out, quite clearly, a fundamental dispute of the modern age: the good life understood as the satisfaction of preferences and unfoiled desires on the one hand and the Platonic idea that justice is found only through the kind of self - restraint that looks beyond pleasure and pain on the other.

As we explore these issues our itinerary will be as follows: (1) we shall look first at several ways in which reflection on science has contributed to the feeling of cosmic exile and therefore to our environmental carelessness; (2) then we shall examine how theologies from our own Christian tradition that have hovered closely, even though critically, around modern scientific cosmologies have perpetuated the same feeling of cosmic exile; and (3) finally we shall look briefly at how a cosmological understanding of religion centering on the notion of adventure can both reconcile us to the evolving universe and at the same time allow us to embrace the feeling of religious homelessness present in religious teachings.

Modern fundamentalists have already made up their minds about the entire Bible, and when you try to explain that some of their favorite Bible - thumping passages have been ripped out of the cultural and Scriptural context in which they were written, the Fundamentalist acts as if you are the stupidest person on the earth for trying to understand a text this way.

This is a modern kind of mentality which tends to be distrustful of any understanding based on «authority» alone or that takes place without the endorsement of reason and especially of scientifically enlightened reason.

If we are ever to understand modern exegesis and critique it correctly, we simply must return and reflect anew on Luther's view of the relationship between the Old and New Testaments.

But it must be understood that by this insistence on a direct return to the great Act of God on which Christianity is founded, I am by no means implying that all modern churches have lost their vision or reduced the revolutionary Good News to dull orthodoxy.