Sentences with phrase «own way of understanding»

It's a search engine's way of understanding a website's structure and information hierarchy.

«It is an act of freedom in its recovery and reconstruction of African culture, our return to its best values and practices and our resistance to the imposition of Eurocentric ways of understanding and engaging the world.»

We take time to explain the cost of acquiring a customer and our gross margins, so people do not just see these as metrics we need to manage, but ways of understanding if we are doing the best job finding and serving our customers well.

Communism westernized the Russian political imagination in a perverse way, to be sure, but its triumph put a complete end to older, more traditional ways of understanding society as a hierarchical system underwritten by a sacred authority.

At certain points, this way of understanding Kierkegaard's life seems useful.

In fact, religion may actually get in the way of understanding that God loves and forgives you!

Most of those gods represented natural phenomena that our relatively primitive ancestors had no way of understanding.

This has resulted in a way of understanding Christian faith that maximizes the «forensic» rather than the actual impact of grace and tends to contrast faith and reason, faith and works, and so on.

It can suggest new ways of understanding the relationship between the Jewish scriptures and the New Testament.

Under the general editorship of Robert Louis Wilken of the University of Virginia, the series (titled The Church's Bible) makes available to scholars, preachers, and the general reader a strikingly fresh way of understanding the Scriptures: the way they were read in the first millennium of Christian history.

People often can not understand the question of human nature because their way of understanding it is framed (whether they know it or not) by the ideas of positivist empiricism.

But now I admit to be speaking in the language of natural philosophy, that old - fashioned way of understanding reality which quickly faded into the intellectual shadows after the arrival of the new knowledge of Galileo and Newton.

But they do so more as a way of understanding Jesus and his message than as the primary goal.

Yes, Jesus did say that, but they had different ways of understanding where the intellect, emotions, and will resided.

Sometimes there are a dozen or more ways of understanding that text.

A religion brooks no rivals, but destroys or converts or lives in uneasy tension with different ways of understanding human life and destiny.

Whitehead did work out a complex theory of value, but my point here is only to indicate that Whitehead's way of understanding human beings as part of nature both requires that we extend the ethical discussion and gives us clues as to how to do this.

The relation between Christian faith and the scientific way of understanding nature involves many complex and unresolved issues, but the plain fact is that scientific understanding had to grow largely under secular auspices, with too little encouragement and understanding from the religious tradition.

This is at least one way of understanding Teilhard, albeit a peculiarly Protestant way, and it might open a way for a Protestant appropriation of the dynamic pantheism for which Teilhard and his contemporary Catholic followers call.

For example, the Marxist analysis of alienation provides her with a way of understanding Paul's doctrine of sin in Romans 1:23.

One way of understanding this language would be to suppose that this is simply a new way of speaking of «doctrines of.»

However, beyond this level of conviction, life in a community also produces a primary perspective, a basic way of understanding the nature of things, a fundamental vision of reality.

The late Hans Frei of Yale persuasively contended that the modern world's typical way of understanding human life was through «realistic narrative.»

The practical challenge faced by those who wish to evangelise contemporary culture through the way of beauty is to envision how it might effectively challenge and transform secular values and ways of understanding.

And Mormonism does have ways of understanding this mystery that preserve Mary's antepartum virginity.

But Plato's was the way of understanding paideia that historically most deeply influenced Christian theological schooling.

Furthermore, a love of cheap can get in the way of understanding and living out the extravagance of God.

He rather affirms categorically that God is a real entity co-extensive in time with the reality of the universe, and that creativity is a way of understanding the whole process of reality, not the beginnings of reality.

This chapter is not written with the view that Christianity answers every question raised in Judaism, or to prove that the Christian way of understanding God's redemptive work is superior to that of Judaism.

According to one way of understanding faith, it is just belief in something without any evidence.

One way of understanding the identity as a matter of degree is in terms of the persistence of common characteristics.

We experience God and revelation as perennially - unfolding, which means there's always room for new ways of understanding divinity and sacred text, especially when the old ways of understanding them (e.g. antiquated readings of Leviticus 18:22) turn out to be hurtful or to seem misguided.

Second, we need to develop a way of understanding God that shows God to be concerned with and intimately connected to the whole of life, not human life alone.

Once the hypothesis found its way into footnotes at the bottom of each page, the 44 system» became a way of understanding the Word, which understanding, in practice, is not itself really subject to correction by that Word as long as those Bibles are in existence.

That search for more adequate ways of understanding our experiences led to my involvement with process thought.

The objection to this way of understanding Romans 9:3, of course, is the phrase «from Christ.»

In the 47 pages of the national economics standards there are no references at all to religious ways of understanding economics.

Valid a priori arguments, indeed, may be held only to «impoverish» experience in the sense that they show the intrinsic unsatisfactoriness of certain ways of understanding reality and bring to light the structures involved in any understanding of it which presupposes and is consistent with the principle of rationality.

Recent defenses of the Greek ideal of liberal education are couched in terms of «forms of knowledge» or publicly distinguishable ways of understanding and organizing experience that are structured around distinctive sets of concepts, statements, and tests against experience (LE 113 - 118).

But we are cautious about changing our comfortable ways of understanding life.

But there are two fundamentally different ways of approaching such an explication, and they are correlative with the two primary ways of understanding the language in which the confessional statement is made: the univocal, which takes the language as rigidly discursive, and the imagistic, which sees it as highly analogical or symbolic.

I think what Jesus was trying to convey is that there is a way of understanding that can only come from doing.

For a viable way of understanding mission, we suggest a defining principle in which two modes are operative, namely deductive and functional.

If we were to adopt Wood's way of understanding what theology is, what picture of theological schooling would follow?

For me, it was the «missing piece» to a way of understanding the crucifixion, the Old Testament, and many aspects of my own life that I had been searching for.

I believe that science is a way of understanding and explaining that wonder.

For Ammerman, the notion that strong beliefs determine the success of churches suggests «a very Protestant and for that matter a very conservative Protestant way of understanding the strength of religion.

3 For a discussion of this way of understanding the reception of form «without matter, see my article «Sensing and the Sensitive Mean,» The New Scholasticism 47/3 (Summer, 1973), 279 - 310.

They were already in opposition to the establishment's conduct of the Vietnam war, but most of them still had plenty at stake in the American way of life: it provided them comforts, potential careers, values, ways of understanding themselves, which they were far from ready to give up.

Another way of understanding the proposition represented by this clause is: Some entity named John loves another unnamed entity.