Sentences with phrase «own modes of thinking»

As an Indian - born immigrant and tech entrepreneur myself, I have first - hand experience of some modes of thinking that, frankly, shocked me and rocked my belief in the Valley's story of its own openness.

In some industries, you have to fight against decades of inertia and sluggish progress; in others, you have to fight traditionalism and entrenched modes of thinking.

This requires revising certain modes of thinking, such as taking sides in a conflict.

If you want exposure to new ideas, modes of thinking, and a compounded aggregate of diverse knowledge, then reading is important.

Shenk doesn't advocate any particular pairing of personality types, but says the dyads with the most potential exhibit fundamental differences in temperaments, styles, backgrounds or modes of thinking.

It's healthy and invigorating for individuals, allows for creativity and stimulates new modes of thinking.

It leaves a mark on our mode of thinking — we become silo thinkers when people say «my department» or «my unit» thereby identifying themselves with small parts of a business solution rather than with its entire mission.

Rather I suspect it is because of an excessive commitment to existing models and modes of thought.

This will require a new mode of thinking, especially for those organizations with systems and processes set in stone.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

Borrowing from the work of sociologist Donald Miller, Wells sees «postmodern spirituality» at work in emerging, extra-denominational «new paradigm churches» characterized by three modes of thinking» the therapeutic, the individualistic, and the anti-establishmentarian.

Together they were elaborating a philosophical position which boldly challenged traditional modes of thinking and came to be called «The Chicago School» of philosophy.

It could be argued that Wesleyanism is more capable of assimilating these modern modes of thought.

Would that point to a mode of thinking which does not (for example) take feminist notions and human fatherly failures (or seeming successes) and press them back into the doctrine of God?

Also a part of this was the emergence of the social sciences which, in the application of the psychology of knowledge and the sociology of knowledge to classical modes of thought, had a significant relativizing impact.

When this mode of thought is really internalized, it should be possible to recognize the four dimensional past as the locus of the reality of past events.

The terminology favored by the movement is itself indicative of the degree to which modern scientific questions and secular modes of thought dominate the discussion of creation: Bible science, creation science, scientific creationism, creation research, origins research.

Its function is to stimulate interreligious, intercultural and interdisciplinary reflection aiming toward more inclusive modes of thought.

Nor do I find that other theologians are accustomed to this mode of thinking.

Perspectival analysis has had the concern to open us to the truth and value of modes of thought and expression that differ from our own.

Hence, in fact, what Buddhists invite us to notice about reality leads to modes of thinking that are deeply challenging to Western theism.

Whitehead's last book, Modes of Thought, and his late lecture, «Immortality,» provide evidence that there was no significant alteration of the major doctrines of Process and Reality.)

But then I have to examine my own heart and confess that when I look to myself and not to Christ, when willful sin begins to harden me because I have let it in, I too can begin to fall into legalistic, self justifying modes of thought and behavior.

They might be described as the feudal underlords of the personality, of which Whitehead speaks in Modes of Thought: «Finally, the overlord tends to relapse into the conventionality of routine imposed upon the subordinate governors, such as the heart.

Again, we may notice that the model used to picture God in much popular religious talk, and in some theological talk too, was borrowed, as Whitehead noted in his Modes of Thought (Free Press, 1968, p. 49), from «the characteristics of the touchy, vain, imperious tyrants who ruled the empires of the world.»

Indeed, I believe the greatest challenge before us is one of understanding the integral and mutual relationship between apocalyptic faith and a dialectical mode of thinking and vision.

One can not understand Edward Irving's turn to premillennialism, in my view, apart from an effort to interpret the world in light of Coleridge's use of symbolic modes of thinking.

In this view a basic cultic mode of thought, common to the ancient Middle Eastern culture, is seen.

Is not this whole mode of thought simply part of the evil legacy from deism, in which God was conceived as being absent from his world, and in which therefore he must be thought to «intrude» into his world, to «intervene» in it, whenever he would act in any distinctive and particular way?

And secondly, Stephen Barr's point seems to be a real solution: that theologians need to learn the language of science - not just absorbing the factual evidence of recent discoveries, but also the methodologies and modes of thought that scientists, whether quantum physicists or population geneticists, employ in their day - to - day grappling with problems in their fields.

Now the distinctions between «superior to actuality» and «superior even to possibility,» or between «superior to other possible individuals» and to «other possible states of oneself» (as an individual identical in spite of changes or alternate possible states), or again, between «superior in all,» «in some,» or «in no» respects of value — these distinctions are urged upon us by universal experience and common - sense modes of thought.

At the very least, the idea of contrast needs to challenge the dialectician to deal with a wider range of traditions and modes of thought with greater attention to their autonomous meanings.

Those who believe that the only fruitful thinking is that which attempts strenuously to clear the slate of all received opinion and to attain to methods that can be approved and accepted by men of all cultures, will disapprove of the continuance of a mode of thought that recognizes its dependence upon the particularities of one community.

(Isaiah 63:10 - 11) What thus barely began in the Old Testament, however, became one of the early church's most characteristic modes of thought and expression.

It is a disciplined mode of thinking that works, as the older generations used to say, with the «body of divinity.»

Three years later, in his review of Modes of Thought, he brought the period of transition to a gracious close.

In this late 20th Century, churches face a situation unprecedented since the Church's formation (comparable in magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation), in which most churches» thought and practice - and by implication God's revelation - are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural development.

But according to Mascall's own account, few if any thinkers had understood their experience in this way prior to the time of the great Scholastics, and they did so under the influence of Hebraic modes of thought.

Although the mode of thinking here is radically different from that of modern metaphysics, by following the lead of the new physics, it converges toward the latter in countering the positivism and the practically oriented modernism following from Darwinian evolution, with its stress upon «environmentalism» and «functionalism» as modes of adaptation within a secularized immediacy, an immediacy shorn of depth and ultimacy.

The theologian must be prepared to recognize that the death of God underlies every mode of our thought and experience.

In the late 20th Century, churches face a situation unprecedented since the Church's formation (comparable in magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation), in which most churches» thought and practice — and by implication God's revelation — are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural development.

It would be misleading to say that the challenge of the unknown was wholly absent from this modernistic mode of thought.

For almost two full seasons, the main characters were striving to make it to the Good Place, but their strivings were rooted in a legalism that kept them in a self - centered mode of thinking: This journey toward goodness is about me and my reward.

In the Preface to Process and Reality, after having stated that his philosophy is a recurrence to pre-Kantian modes of thought, Whitehead asks if his cosmology is not a transformation of some main doctrines of Absolute Idealism onto a realistic basis.

Now the shift in mode of thought and sensibilities which has marked our recent thinking as a post-Darwinian era has to do chiefly with the reconception of this preoccupation with immediacies.

To focus entirely on paradigmatic modes of thought is to pull away from attending to consciousness, and therefore, to the human act of sense - making.

To cite but one example, in Modes of Thought Whitehead says, in respect to occasions of human experience, that «there is a dual aspect to the relationship of an occasion of experience as one relatum and the experienced world as another relatum.

There was also that sneaking suspicion that we would not be taken seriously by our Western counterparts unless we could show that we were also knowledgeable in Western modes of thought.

Nevertheless, influenced by more atomistic modes of thinking inherited from the Greeks, many Christians came to think of the self as a soul isolated from the body and cut off from the world by the boundaries of the skin, an immortal substance in a perishable body.

Since the theme of this symposium is the meaning of process thought for us, my paper will discuss the use that I have made of this mode of thinking to articulate and develop my views, especially in the philosophy of religion.