Sentences with phrase «own philosophical studies»

Professor of Philosophy & Church - State Studies Co-Director, Program in Philosophical Studies of Religion (Institute for Studies of Religion) Baylor University

For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.

My preoccupation with the conflict between faith and suffering deepened when I began my philosophical studies at Shorter and Philander Smith colleges.

The philosophical study of any human activity aims at exhibiting the «logic» of that activity, that is, at uncovering the principles relevant to its understanding and criticism.

oxkarbaz Metaphysics is a philosophical study, and stopped being a scientific one once the scientific method was adopted.

Philosophical studies have experienced a radical shift from considerations of Substance to those of Being and Time.

To the Stagerite, we owe: the idea that the natural world is a coherent object of philosophical study, the structure of that philosophy, and the rational and logical tools with which to study it.

We can see here an emphasis on the dignity and value of the human person that was at the heart of Pope John Paul's philosophical studies and is echoed both in the teachings of the Second Vatican Council — to which he made noted contributions as a bishop — and in subsequent teachings of the Magisterium.

For example, the historical and theological areas may be combined into an area described as «Interpretation of Christianity» while the older «practical» field is divided into two, one dealing with «Church and Culture» (sociological, psychological, and philosophical studies of church phenomena in American culture) and the other dealing with the practice of ministry construed as the application of social scientific and psychological theory to clergy responsibilities.

Yet, as my practice and philosophical studies progressed, I was able to access the true purpose and benefits of the final resting posture.

As a philosophical study, it's shaky beyond belief, but as a humorous trifle, it admirably makes up the difference.

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Inspired by the civil rights and women's liberation movements as well as her own philosophical studies, Piper created performances designed to catalyze the viewer's social awareness.

Philosophical studies provided me with a solid grounding in critical thinking and reasoning, whilst also instilling in me an awareness of the bigger picture.

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This study, published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, found that 22 patients who played the memory game made significantly fewer errors and needed significantly fewer attempts to remember the location of different patterns specific tests.

While the study by Melanie Rudd, Jennifer Aaker, and Michael I. Norton doesn't pretend to offer answers to eternal philosophical quandaries of meaning and satisfaction nor sort out serious psychological issues, it does indicate that for day - to - day good vibes, we might all do better aiming a little closer to the earth.

But if you are looking for consilience, in which multiple lines of independent evidence converge on the same target, then Schwartz's argument is a good one to have in your arsenal, for it fits nicely with biological arguments for intelligent design (cf. Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box), recent philosophical work on mental causation (cf. Robert Koons» Realism Regained), cosmological fine - tuning (cf. John Barrow and Frank Tipler's The Anthropic Cosmological Principle), and consciousness studies (cf. Dean Radin's The Conscious Universe).

Careful scrutiny of historical record and comparative religious study makes it plain enough without invoking deep philosophical questions.

I'm concerned about Tony's theology, whose philosophical foundations I criticized pretty consistently while I was involved in EC in 2004 - 7 before bowing out because Tony seemed more into pushing with some arrogance a pomo philosophy he never really studied in school than he was into fostering dialogue (I went back to just reading the wonderful books of Brian McLaren which is how I got involved in the first place).

In itself this would have had minor philosophical consequences if the subatomic entities could be understood as smaller exemplars of the sorts of entities that physicists had been studying.

«The term can refer to theological accounts of the world as God's creation; or to philosophical reflection on the categories of space and time; or to observational and theoretical study of the structure and evolution of the physical universe; or, finally, to «world views»: unified imaginative perceptions of how the world seems and where we stand in it» (Tracy and Lash, vii).

The study concludes with an analysis of the insights Newman brings to bear upon contemporary philosophical understandings and his status as a latent forerunner of the phenomenological movement.

Silcox and Fisher agreed that «philosophical differences» among the groups they studied were powerful, such as in arguments over birth control.

The whole animistic approach to man, which in both religious thought and philosophical analysis can be traced back to man's earliest attempts to understand himself, has been destroyed by the modern sciences most closely related to the study of man.

Moreover, study of each of them may involve the use of any or several of a variety of well - established types of inquiry: sociological, anthropological, psychological, philosophical, or - the dominant mode of inquiry in theological schooling today — historical.

I think it would be beneficial both to Whitehead studies and to relevant portions of analytic philosophy to bring Whitehead more back into the American philosophical mainstream by considering his specific problems and solutions in light of current interests and as susceptible to criticisms from current perspectives.

Even throughout his period of theological and philosophical formation, when he produced important translations and studies of works by Origen, Gregory of Nyssa and Maximus the Confessor, among others, he also wrote about drama and dramatists.

Even as structuralism was being adapted for the study of biblical literature, its assumptions and claims were being challenged in the wider world of philosophical and literary studies.

Anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists, especially those who study folklore and oral traditions, have done much good work in classifying such stages, all the way from the most primitive animism to the most sophisticated philosophical monotheism.

Whittemore, Robert C., «Prolegomena to a Modern Philosophical Theism,» Tulane Studies in Philosophy 5 (1956), 91n, 92.

Farley, Edward, The Transcendence of God: A Study in Contemporary Philosophical Theology.

Although philosophical anthropology can not replace the specific disciplines dealing with the study of man, neither can those disciplines be entirely separated from it.

With the advent of National Socialism the official philosophical and racial teachings of the Third Reich, prepared by its ideological forerunners, began to make themselves felt in all disciplines concerned with the study of religion and of society.

The broader purpose of Ashcraft's study is to demonstrate by example the virtue of taking political and religious ideology out of the realm of abstract philosophical discussion and considering it «in relation to a socially defined audience whose members seek to obtain certain practical advantages through social action.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

After the study is done, the Germans put him on the shelf next to Hegel, Schelling, and Hermann Cohen (an important inspiration for Rosenzweig), so that they can continue their pedagogical task of instructing students in the sequence of philosophical stories.

He clarifies his rather vague definition of the field by contrasting biblical theology with five other modes of study: doctrinal theology, nontheological biblical studies, history of religion, philosophical and natural theology, and «the interpretation of parts of the Bible as distinct from the longer complexes taken as wholes.»

Buber defines «philosophical anthropology» as the study of «the wholeness of man,» and he lists the following as among the problems «which are implicitly set up at the same time by this question»:

For critical discussions of Ogden's argument and the entire book, see Langdon B. Gilkey, «A Theology in Process,» Interpretation, XXI, 4 (October 1967), 447 - 459; Ray L. Hart, «Schubert Ogden on the Reality of God,» Religion In Life, XXXVI, 4 (Winter 1967), 506 - 515; Antony Flew, «Reflections on «The Reality of God»,» The Journal of Religion, 48, 2 (April 1968), 150 - 161: and Robert C. Neville, «Neoclassical Metaphysics and Christianity: A Critical Study of Ogden's Reality of God,» International Philosophical Quarterly, IX, 4 (December 1969), 605 - 624.

As a transition to the study of sight in the Bible, I would like to refer here to the remarkable study by Paul Ricoeur that expresses this contradiction in philosophical terms: proclamation as opposed to manifestation.

«Neoclassical Metaphysics and Christianity: A Critical Study of Ogden's Reality of God,» International Philosophical Quarterly, IX (1969), 605.624 on p. 615.

Dr. Cobb honors Dr. Ford for his independent metaphysical reflections and that he made clear his interest was not merely the scholarly study of particular texts but the solution of basic philosophical problems.

«Neoclassical Theology and Christianity: A Critical Study of Ogden's Reality of God,» International Philosophical Quarterly.

[1] Nicholas Reseller, Pascal's Wager — a study of practical reasoning in philosophical theology (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1985).

His founding of Process Studies and editing it for a quarter century retained for a Whiteheadian form of process thinking a visibility it would otherwise have lost in an unfavorable philosophical environment.

Her invitation to me in June 2001 to help prepare her father's philosophical papers to be shipped to the Center for Process Studies in Claremont made it possible for me to examine the variations in the manuscripts, the better to make balanced editorial decisions.

Perhaps I could say now in retrospect that my being drawn to the study and development of a process mode of thinking may also have been related to an unconscious awareness that it offered me not only a more viable theological and philosophical framework than any other, but also an opportunity to integrate my identity as a woman within a religious framework.

Two good examples of the confusion of philosophical and systematic concerns occur in a recent issue of Process Studies in articles by John B. Cobb, Jr. and David Lull.

Here she encountered pressure to choose: the literary classicists understood their task to be «philological and to some extent aesthetic» rather than philosophical, while the ethical theories she encountered in studying philosophy were in different ways and for different reasons «hostile to literature.»

Though the objects of study for each of the two disciplines are different, nonetheless both should be answerable to the same philosophical scheme, and appropriately enough we find in the very opening chapter to Process and Reality just such an assertion on Whitehead's part — note the justification which Whitehead offers for his cosmology.