Evolution is obviously a real and
practical theory, so to say that the God who created the world in 7 days exists is nonsense.
This weekend will provide
practical theories and techniques that will allow you to live the answers to the question: What do the insights of the great traditions of yoga, Tantra and Vedanta tell us about how to use practice to best prepare for life and ultimately, spiritual fulfillment?
The techniques and
practical theory in the book has helped me focus my instruction and has been vital when teaching my students new skills or concepts in the lab.
They will reflect on their own
practical theory of teaching and examine the characteristics of 21st century society and what this means for their learners and context.
Without assigned reflection prompts, preservice teachers can «draw on
their practical theory to explore topics and seek understandings that are personally relevant» (Shoffner, 2008, p. 128).
This presentation explores the tripartite elements of
practical theory, reflective practice and weblogs as examined through a qualitative research study conducted in a secondary MAT program at a large southeastern university.
While
the practical theory makes sense, the reality is there is no magical set of «Key Words» or «Key Phrases» that will better position your resume against the competition.
Not exact matches
While Szuchman and Anderson spoke with dozens of economists,
theory here is subsidiary to
practical application.
If you've already learned the basics, and went to get into something a bit heavier — such as exploring the
theory behind coding — take advantage of MIT's free courseware site that includes classes such as Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Introduction to Programming in Java and
Practical Programming in C.
While the fundamental concept of coding makes up for around 20 percent of the
theory, the rest is
practical.
GUERRILLA MARKETING GOES GREEN provides both the
theory and the
practical roadmap.
This framework combines two important principles that both
theory and
practical experience about monetary matters have taught us.
Small Business, BIG Vision is no pie in the sky
theory but the nuts and bolts
practical information that every entrepreneur needs to succeed in the dog eat dog world of starting and growing a profitable business.
The book combines the best of marketing and relationship
theory with real - world examples and
practical advice to create a winning, inspirational package.
Its so good to know that someone out there understands the need to fill the gap between class
theories nd the
practical end that determines the success of start ups.
A
practical and precise thinker, Jaggi has built a career based on the economic
theory he learned at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Now a full - time operations engineer at Cenovus, Pandya is a beneficiary of work - integrated learning (WIL)-- an umbrella term for co-op placements, internships and other programs that combine classroom
theory with
practical on - the - job experience.
I would call this the «
practical supplement» to the
theory I knew before.
This is great in
theory but I think there are many
practical problems with this approach, like:
The only answer which is plausible can be given by the biological
theory of knowledge: in the same way as our perception carves Out of the whole physical reality only that zone which has
practical importance for our organism, only those recollections which are relevant to our present situation are transmitted into our present moment.
Having established his core argument, and its foundations in natural law
theory, Duddington proceeds to a series of
practical discussions of the way in which Christianity can be mobilised in order to shed light on difficult contemporary political issues.
«5 Whitehead shows how this concept of a thing, a concept that grew out of
practical dealing with the actualities of the world, entrenched itself in the subject - predicate structure of language and from there made its way into Aristotle's
theory of the Categories.
It is as though the underlying picture of theological schooling came from engineering: we receive
theories from «pure» scientific research, generalize applied
theory from parts or from implications of the «pure»
theory, and then devise techniques and technologies governed by the applied
theory to solve well - defined
practical problems.
Reflecting on his experience of attending seminary after first gaining considerable experience in the parish, one older participant wondered if maybe we're doing it backwards»; in other words, perhaps schools ought somehow to require
practical experience before — or at the beginning of — formal education (such an arrangement would, of course, run counter to essentially all currently respected educational
theories) For himself, he said, the
practical application of what was being taught in seminary was plain in light of his experience of parish ministry.
Darwin's
theory did not create the era; it provided it with the rationale that enabled it to give «full speed ahead» to the process of adaptation, accentuating the concern with
practical demands and function.
In nineteenth - century philosophies elaborating the evolutionary
theory it appears as an overtone of agnosticism, as in Herbert Spencer's reference to the Unknowable.5 Even in modernist theologies like that of Shailer Mathews one senses this agnostic note accompanying the formulation of its
practical or functional rationale, as when he wrote,
As this is discussed theoretically (and under the guidance of the Spirit), it could be helpful for theologians to be aware that, on the
practical level, these issues are linked to communication
theories and technologies that have transformed organizational patterns in our day.
It is clear that this is precisely what Paul's statement is about; but because he was expressing a vision of reality that he himself was unable to spell out in a
practical application to his own culture, we also have continued to stumble around in the slavery of the old law regarding relationships, catching the vision in some areas — in
theory, at least — and ignoring it in others.
Practical theology has come to contain a good dose of
theory of practice with very few theological ingredients.
But however this goes, it is clear that even a religiously informed
practical reason must have some
theory, knowledge or intuition about these needs if it is to serve the purposes of a
practical theology
Generally the more «
practical» side of my work has been concerned with biomedical ethics and democratic
theory.
I make that unhappy admission not just because I still do not know my own mind clearly and systematically enough about four central issues of that
practical theology task — contemporary social
theory, ethics, ecclesiology and the history of spirituality.
If I can ever successfully think my way forward to the most complex task of all,
practical theology, the same ratio will hold: the principal methodological issue will be the relationship of
theory and praxis in: both personal and social terms, and the principal theological topics will be Spirit and church.
And such fretting might, further, lead us to consider how «
practical» it was of the ancients to praise the supremacy of «
theory.»
It is not possible in this context to develop a
theory of religious experience and of its theoretical,
practical and sociological expressions.
God's reality is posited rather than simply affirmed, and it is removed from the realm of
theory and located in that of
practical thought.
Not as a matter of
theory only but of
practical application, this hope is what our present distraught, endangered, and morally unstable world needs most.
Again, astronomy appears to be a «useless» subject, but has yielded a number of
practical results, from the discovery of helium to the
theories of the properties of gas plasma currently important in hydrogen fusion projects.
For MacIntyre, the practices necessary for training in
practical reason through which we acquire the ability to act intelligibly requires the systematic growth of human potential by acquired excellence that can not help but challenge the character of modern moral practice and
theory.
I think that the best Catholic independent schools in England represent a
practical model that should be considered alongside the
theory of this most interesting book.
The fact is that most chaotic motion is not, on limited average, utterly unlike regular or nearly regular behavior, and while this qualitative judgment is very difficult if not impossible to make into mathematically rigorous conclusions, its
practical value as a perception is an important starting point for constructive results in the
theory.
The guiding principle of British philosophy has in fact been that every difference must make a difference, every theoretical difference somewhere issue in a
practical difference, and that the best method of discussing points of
theory is to begin by ascertaining what
practical difference would result from one alternative or the other being true.
It does seem that Strauss makes a fairly big deal of not being critical of Burke's
practical judgments or even of his understanding of the threat
theory poses to practice.
We do not need to construct a qeneral
theory of civil society in the context of contemporary political philosophy: that could lead to an endless discussion of different positions and the myriad attempts in the with the
practical question of the role of Christian communities in attempts to refurbish, or newly establish, participatory democratic societies across the globe.
«People in both camps would quickly discover that some long - cherished divisions — the favorite one, for instance, between the academic and the
practical, the reflective and the active,
theory and practice — are confounded when you look with any care at the life of an actual congregation, and see the ways that
theory is always in practice, that even the act of theorizing is an act of practice.
The embryos could be stored or destroyed, they could be used for experiments, they could be bought and sold, they could be put on display, they could — at least in
theory if not yet in
practical possibility — be inserted into any woman's womb, with or without her full knowledge or consent.
For example, in physics, a gravity - based
theory is
practical for macro, and a probability - based
theory works for micro — but physics isn't satisfied with that, even if it is pragmatic and meets all your criteria above.
This vulgarly
practical and relativistic
theory of truth perhaps most closely approximates the current, popular sense of the word «pragmatic,» and one can find warrants for it in the writings of all the pragmatists, even including some of James».
Thus critical reflection does not involve a movement from detached
theory to
practical application.
My intent is not to canonize Parsons's
theory, but to note that he undertakes the systems - thinking that Browning's view of strategic
practical theology may require.