Sentences with phrase «own form and content»

A good business plan follows generally accepted guidelines for both form and content.

To see belief not as a set of beliefs but as a story, an experience of coming to belief, means that theological reflection ought itself to be shaped by the story, take to itself, both in form and content, the story.

The contention is not that they are art for art's sake, to be enjoyed with no thought of meaning, but that their meaning is to be found in their own form and content, not in anything outside of themselves.

They interact with the broader environmental conditions in ways that shape the eventual form and content of ideas.

But what do we mean by form and content in this connection, and in what way do they differ from one another?

The general form and content of the «Proclamations can be discovered from the account given in the Acts of the Apostles of the preaching of Peter and Paul, (See Acts 2:14 - 39, 3: 13 - 26, 4:10 - 20, 5: 30 - 32, 10: 36 - 43, 13:17 - 41.)

As on the day which created it, myth must be refashioned from the possibilities furnished by its content and history, and its form and content redefined: its obsolete elements must be removed and its permanent truth restated.

metaphysics demands «not a random flexibility, a mere looseness in the application of a method nowhere quite appropriate; it is a uniform or methodical flexibility, in which the method changes from one topic to another because form and content are changing pari passu as thought, traversing its scale of forms, gradually approximates to the ideal of a perfectly philosophical subject - matter treated by a perfectly philosophical method» (EPM 192).

We need to develop contextualized, coherent and celebrative liturgies, balancing form and content.

Whatever wisdom these contain, they must be recognized as mythical in form and content.

Are form and content well integrated?

We should take pains to avoid both a fusion of form and content (as in the older orthodoxy) and a separation of form and content (as in liberalism).

Similar questions can be used to evaluate the purpose and function of all regular church programs.10 Programs should be evaluated with attention to both form and content.

The form and the content of the burial story in Mark's Gospel is therefore no guarantee of its historicity.

The life and teachings of Jesus Christ provide the form and the content for traditional spiritual formation.

• How well do both form and content contribute to positive faith formation for group members and leaders?

Because images, in a book or in a sermon, are generally regarded as decorative and hence optional in their bearing upon the principal form and content of the communication, the imaginative preacher may have to endure such comments as «His sermons don't seem theologically weighty» or «It was too interesting to have contained much truth», or perhaps such inverted compliments as «I was much involved in your talk, or whatever it was.

My reflections arose, as I have indicated, in part from formative books and teachers, but they also grew out of grappling with Scripture (one of the lightning bolts here was the simple but profound insight of realizing once again the ineradicable connection of form and content — for instance, what is said in a parable can not be said in any other way), and with the complex business, endemic to academic theologians, of, as Kierkegaard would put it, becoming a Christian (not in general or for someone else but in particular and for me).

This does not of course assume that there are, in the apostolic tradition, clear and commanding directives concerning the form and content of public worship; it affirms, rather, that ways of worship which ignore or distort the liberating message of God's Christly action must be corrected from that central action.

If the Christian church is the community serving the secular world, then the question has been asked: What is the form and the content of salvation which Christ offers in the secular world?

As will be discussed later, the separation of form and content is fatal for preaching, for it fails to recognize the theology implicit in the method of communication.

But the parables represent by all odds the most markedly individualistic characteristic of the teaching of Jesus; both in form and content they were highly original and strongly stamped with the personality of their author.

The idea of revelation points to the graciousness, extravagance, and surprisingness of a future that always lies somehow beyond our calculation and control, and that breaks into our midst with a form and content that has not been anticipated in its every aspect.

The concept of essence, therefore, taken with respect to some definite thing, includes within itself the possibility of the distinction between universality and particularity, between form and content, between concept and the object of knowledge.

The ethical materials in gospels and epistles alike have a general similarity of form and content, but in the epistles they are related to theological doctrine, while in the gospels they are related to a narrative of events.

It appears, then, that the ethical portions of the epistles are based upon an accepted pattern of teaching which goes back to a very early period indeed, and whose general form and content can be determined with considerable probability.

We shall start at the ethical end, by investigating the form and content of ethical instruction in the early church, on the basis of the ethical portions of the epistles.

In this regard there are standards as to form and content.

What is the criterion for distinguishing between form and content, context and content, linguistic formulation and propositional truth?

The important difference of course is that in the experience of tongues there is no figure of Jesus giving form and content to the coming kingdom, so that the subjectivity of the early charismatic had little to guide it.

Rather the meaning is to be found in the total patterned texture of the form and content of the story itself.

The author states some of the analytical similarities between Deutsch (Karl W. Deutsch: The Nerves of Government) and Whitehead in the hope that they will provide an organic philosophy with a clearer sense of the terrain upon which can be discovered the form and content of its own particular political speech.

The marriage of form and content at the abovementioned colleges, which neither specialize nor departmentalize nor ignore mathematics and science any more than literature and philosophy, is a promising alternative to the research university.

This paper is an attempt to state some of the analytical similarities between Deutsch and Whitehead in the hope that they will provide organic philosophy with a clearer sense of the terrain upon which it can discover the form and content of its own particular political speech.

Only limited freedom and justice — which are given actual form and content by moderation and humane realism — can hope to achieve what is achievable by limited, flawed creatures like ourselves.

It is false, I believe, to separate form and content to such an extent that one calls whatever appears «good» or «religious» or concerned with the «transcendent» in a poem, novel, or autobiography «Christian.»

Schindler's contrary opinion, however, bears serious consideration: «My own view is that the habit of communication of the dominant culture, which knows no discreet activities that ought not to be fully exposed, and no mysteries that ought not to be fully unveiled, is precisely what needs to be called into question, by both the form and the content of an authentically Christian - human response.»

It indicates the context of a pericope or saying, but «context» understood in a most dynamic sense, as influencing form and content.

The fourth book, called a description of individuals, is closer in form and content to the Suttas than any other sections of the Abhidhamma, though, in general, most of the life has been squeezed out of it.

The convenient and specious separation of form and content in worship often lies at the heart of the broader Evangelical movement as a means of facilitating inter-church alliances and building consensus has, I suspect, spilled over into other Christian traditions too.

For years, I made carrot cake and thought it's popular, but like a popular girl, it's all form and no content.

It is very thin in both form and content.

Both form and content.

In addition, the form and content of that training is left wide open.

The blurring of the traditional boundaries of authority is an overriding theme of both the form and the content of the book.

Before you turn the outline to prose, check that all sections of the proposal parallel each other in form and content.

So is the pleasure of playing with form and content.

An Event - related Neuroimaging Study Distinguishing Form and Content in Sentence Processing.

Its structure is similar in form and content to the well - known Myers - Briggs Type Indicator, which divides people into psychological types.

If it doesn't feel as fresh and bracing as «Ida» did, that film may have been the perfect combination of form and content.