Sentences with phrase «one's traditional understanding»

«Throughout this report, the committee aims to challenge traditional understandings of science literacy,» the authors note.

The photographic works reflect a variety of approaches by contemporary artists that extend or break with traditional understandings of the photographic medium.

It was the accepted, traditional understanding of marriage at the time.

In order to do so, we are expected even to reconstruct some of the theological concepts in relation to, but different from traditional understanding of theology as we have seen in the life of Wycliff.

The difference in attitude is clear: high ranking Irish churchmen cast doubt on traditional understandings of marriage (upheld by both church teaching and civil jurisprudence for millennia) and neglect to offer bold leadership of their congregations in adhering to doctrinal norms, while Mexican church leaders restate their dedication to the Christian ideal of marriage.

Like Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning Drawing, which was also created in fall 1953, Automobile Tire Print challenges traditional understandings of art and authorship.

The paradox of agape expressed in Jesus» words that «He who saves his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake and the gospels will find it» is explored both in the critics of Christian self - sacrifice, including Fromm, Camus and others, and in the more traditional understandings of agape including the monastics, Luther, Kierkegaard and others.

Dr. Cobb lends processes theological concepts to those who systematize the teaching of the Bible, to those who consider contemporary thought as normative and access the Bible in that context, to those who give simplistic traditional understanding of the Bible, and to those searching the perplexities and mysteries of quantum thought.

The issue with plural marriage, whether it is the somewhat traditional understanding of one man, multiple women, or the more modernized take that can be any mix of men and women together, is in the complexity of financial and legal entangling of more than two lives.

Thus even if Funk goes on to criticize Ogden's metaphysical bent on the basis of a Heideggerian understanding of language, he has nevertheless linked his critique to a rather traditional understanding of the sense of New Testament christology.

McLuhan argued that the speed of electronic transmissions — be they telegraph, telephone or television — collapsed traditional understandings of space and time.

In a culture where what constitutes a reasonable religion is shifting, it does no good to expect people to ratify traditional understandings of religious liberty.

Luther may well turn out to have backed the right horse in the end, to judge by current Roman Catholic theology, veering as it is towards Reformed theology on this point, but what he said was a contradiction of official Roman Catholic theology, and put him outside traditional understanding, teaching and practice.

Wendell Gladstone's first exhibition at Shulamit Nazarian represents a amalgam of gorgeously rendered surreal mindscapes that defy traditional understanding.

This parallels traditional understandings of the role of women to serve others.

By concentrating on these emotional responses I was able to focus on situations where the stakes were high — and thus states were unlikely to act frivolously — and, furthermore, there were implications for state behaviour that differed from traditional understandings of statecraft.

«Our amendments will not only put the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation on a sustainable economic footing but will also bring existing legislation in line with traditional understandings of country, which do not distinguish between land and sea.

One can see recent standoffs in Geneva on so - called traditional values resolutions as manifestations of a conflict between two rival conceptions of human dignity: one, supported by most Western advocates, that focuses on individual autonomy; and the other, proposed by voices from the global East and South, that focuses on traditional understandings of human nature.

In a down - to - earth and intensely practical writing style, Sharon Baker shows the problem with traditional understandings of the atonement and the violence of God, and reveals an alternative way of looking at the cross of Jesus and the violence of God in the Bible.

Importantly, it's also begun to evolve the traditional understanding of what accounting itself looks like in the age of blockchain.

But the trajectory here is not encouraging for those who support the traditional understanding of marriage.

Scharlemann apologized for troubling the church and withdrew from circulation — though, significantly, he did not retract — a paper that seemed to turn away from the synod's traditional understanding of the Bible.

God's Power: Traditional Understandings and Contemporary Challenges.

They rip apart the traditional understanding of the legitimate use of deadly force in self - defense and invite people to kill.

This post looks at what is wrong with the traditional understanding of the death of Jesus, and how we can understand it differently.

The Supreme Court, meanwhile, has declared the traditional understanding of marriage anathema, and left wide open many vexing questions about the standing of individuals, groups, and institutions who continue to uphold that understanding.

The whole of Whitehead's philosophy rebels against the traditional understanding of the nature and relationship of power and value.

They reenforce our traditional understanding of the inseparability of personal salvation and social justice.

At the same time, he scandalized churchmen because his explanation seemed irreconcilable with their traditional understanding of God, and sometimes it even sounded blasphemous.

If so, what is the cost to traditional understandings of church and ministry?

If we think this means the traditional understanding of maternity and femininity, consider the social, political and economic implications for rebirth in Mary's Magnificat»:

Healthy congregations in the 21st century will undoubtedly be more «seeker friendly,» but they will balance marketing efforts with a more judicious use of traditional understandings of the church and its ministries.

Let it be said here and now, however, that we need not conclude that the very sciences which are forcing us more and more to abandon as invalid our traditional understanding of the nature and destiny of man, have thereby solved the riddle of life and of the mystery of man.

When he says, «You have heard it said... but I say to you» in Matthew 5:21 - 22, and when he challenges traditional Sabbath restrictions in Luke 14, he is challenging traditional understandings of the Bible and introduces what we might call «a new hermeneutical principle»: namely compassion.

You do realize that if God exists and is anything like the traditional understanding of God, he doesn't exist in time at all.

The essential elements in the traditional understanding of tradition were left intact by the Second Vatican Council but it was made a more fluid reality to be defined as much by the people of God as by the magisterium.

Moked, a leading portal for Italian Jews, praises recent statements by Benedict XVI and Paris» chief rabbi, Gilles Bernheim, in defense of the traditional understanding of marriage.

That is, they have set aside the traditional understanding of God as a unique spiritual substance in which all three persons somehow share and have moved to a more contemporary understanding of God as an interpersonal process or a community of three coequal persons.1 In effect, they have abandoned the Aristotelian world view in which individual substance was the first category of being and have accepted (even for the doctrine of God) a process understanding of reality.

Representatives from liberal church groups in the USA have responded to the Nashville Statement, a document affirming the traditional understanding of marriage and sexuality.

But I pointed out that there was new evidence — from biblical studies and from various empirical studies in the human sciences, especially psychology and sociology — that completely undermined the traditional understanding of homosexuality as a chosen and changeable state.

Focus on the Family founder James Dobson once said that Obama distorted the traditional understanding of the Bible «to fit his own world, his own confused theology.»