Sentences with phrase «particular communities as»

According to a white paper by Mozilla, badges «support connected learning environments by motivating learning and signaling achievement both within particular communities as well as across communities and institutions.»

Moreover, priestly religion in all its expressions binds its adherents to a particular Word and a particular community as the sole arena of the redemptive sacred.

Not exact matches

Typically, they look for ones who are passionate about a particular group on campus, such as the LGBT community or the Greek community, and encourage them to become Islands evangelists to that group.

New Democrats have long been advocating for the expanded use of midwifery services across the province as we believe that midwives play an integral role in the health care system and can be of particular benefit to women, families and First Nations communities by bringing specialized maternity care to otherwise isolated areas.

This includes donor - advised funds at houses of worship and as well as those that have a mission to serve a particular faith group or in the name of a particular faith, such as Jewish Federations or Catholic Community Foundations.

«The lack of transparency in assigning public funds and the discriminatory impact on how vulnerable communities in particular are devastated by austerity may become evident again as Puerto Rico awaits disaster relief funds, and communities await to see how those funds will be distributed,» she wrote.

By midday, Mr. Frazier was joined by a handful of other executives as a voice of dissent in the business community, which has particular sway of the president, himself a businessman.

It's obvious that the Old Testament rules were made up by the community leaders — some for good reasons particular to that situation and others as a rather heavy - handed means of control.

Largely I would echo what Christine has already said about the way in which we feel accepted within our community, but if you'll bear with me for a little bit, I'd like to attempt to explain to Trey in particular what I see as the difference between this type of acceptance and the attitude of the many Christians who view homosexuality as sinful such as what you have encountered with your sister.

Even the various forms of theological activity can be redescribed in narrative terms, as when Newbigin writes of «the congregation as hermeneutic of the gospel»: interpretation of Scripture for Newbigin is not so much what a particular scholar writes as what a particular community of believers enacts.

Regardless of the particular emphasis in various groups, the experience of women, individually or as a community, is the determiner of truth and, as we have seen, the force that determines how history is to be interpreted or remade.

Now, I realize I could just as easily call it «How to be Decent to One Another on the Internet» or «How to be Human on the Internet,» but given this particular community of readers, I wanted to frame the discussion around specifically Christian values and concerns, (many of which also apply to those of other religious persuasions, of course).

For me (as for most of us in the movement I think) it's always been about ideas and action and communities, not about any particular personalities or so - called «leaders.»

Hebegan by asserting that «the promulgation of the great doctrines of religion... [can] never be a matter of indifference to any well ordered community,» «A republic» in particular required «the Christian religion, as the great basis, on which it must rest for, its support and permanence.»

what upsets people is what i DO N'T do: such as lead in a particular way, teach with authority, be more charismatic, not setting a higher moral standard, stuff like that... it's not about what i or we DO as a community.

Above all, I think it's critical that college students — particular Christians — seek out a welcoming community of like - minded peers to serve as a support structure.

As Ochs puts it, SR developed from the particular logic of scripture itself: «I think SR is a return to how the primary community has tended to read scripture throughout history.

Thus, we can say that this was a question that had fascinated him from the beginning: and that his understanding of what Zionists too called «the Jewish problem» was from the outset determined in the context of his hostility to anti-Semitism and did not arise later in the contexts of his hostility to particular plutocratic Jews (in 1911, he was reported as saying that «speaking generally, as with most other communities, «THE POOR JEWS [ARE] NICE AND THE RICH JEWS [ARE] NASTY» «-RRB-[My italics].

Wow, As a member of this particular blog community, I am offended by the language.

The psychologist interprets this as due to the fact that the adolescent is unconsciously under the pressure to do that which his particular community expects of him.

Every new settlement of that community, every new disjunctive multiplicity of attained actualities, gives rise, through the transcendent process of transition, to a new occasion in which that particular settlement is reproduced and in which the settlement as reproduced is then synthesized into a final unity of experience by the immanent process of concrescence.

b) Some of the discussion about conversion tends to concentrate on the rejection of proselytism as an illegitimate way of adding members to one's own particular community.

As for saying that these other associations are ecclesial communities rather than churches in the full sense — as, for instance, the «particular churches» of Orthodoxy are churches — this should cause no hard feelingAs for saying that these other associations are ecclesial communities rather than churches in the full sense — as, for instance, the «particular churches» of Orthodoxy are churches — this should cause no hard feelingas, for instance, the «particular churches» of Orthodoxy are churches — this should cause no hard feelings.

In light of that pivotal text, Volf understands the church as «a community of grace» which gathers in Christ's name in a particular locality.

The New Testament records indicate the presence in the early communities of a particular functionary known as the teacher (didaskalos).

Although their particular tactics are enormously diverse, many fundamentalist groups impose creedal tests on their followers, many have rites of passage such as conversion experiences that demarcate entry into the community, and many enforce conformity in such matters as dress, sexuality and the use of alcohol.

Rorty would have philosophers stop playing these particular language - games and «treat everything [his italics]-- our language, our conscience, our community — as a product of time and chance» (CIS 22).

Often raised in several places in no specific cultural or religious community, educated with no deep connection to a particular region, history, or tradition, and now employed mostly in academia, the American writer is becoming as standardized as the American car — functional, streamlined, and increasingly interchangeable.

Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means of achieving real if limited justice for human life in the world, and a corresponding theory of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus of injustice and the goals of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms of the United Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.

One of the patron saints of this particular community of Dutch Calvinists is Abraham Kuyper, who died in 1920 after a career as a philosopher - theologian, founder of the Free University of Amsterdam, and prime minister of the Netherlands.

I think of our group as representative of a fairly large community of Christian thinkers who are a product of a very particular history.

As a result, its counter-terrorism efforts have been largely driven by informants, intelligence reports or specific incidents that direct attention to a particular group or community.

More work in the line of H. Richard Niebuhr's still suggestive notion of a «confessional» theology that authentically re-presents a particular community's vision of reality without rendering that vision merely private strikes me as the kind of direction to pursue.

Kuhn, according to his critics, portrayed scientific choice as irrational, subjective, and relative to particular scientific communities.

There are, in each case, courses of action or attitudes that are considered, according to basic religious principles, or according to tradition or custom within a community of faith, as very specifically not in harmony or actually contrary to the spirit of the particular cult group.

Just which members are so bound will depend upon variables specific to particular communities — such things as the authority structures in place, or the function of representative intellectuals.

Suppose, to make this abstraction concrete, that I, as a member of a particular religious community — in my case, as I have said, the communion of Anglican Christians — find myself in contact with a Gelukpa Tibetan Buddhist who, so far as I can tell, believes and teaches things that I think are incompatible with what I believe and teach.

For example, until recently a British magistrate in India, where an Indian citizen had to be judged on the basis of the law of his particular religious community, had to be instructed in Hindu requirements as set forth in the Code of Manu, as well as in the Koran, which is the basis of Moslem law.

The third factor which is both obstacle to and reason for giving new emphasis to the neglected function of the church as critic grows out of the fact that the churches reflect the assumptions and attitudes of particular communities, often of a particular social class or residential area.

To stop at the abrupt particulars, he thought, to treat particular persons or particular groups as though they could exist apart from community, let alone mean anything, was «the mad, the insane thing to do» (AE 194).

As a result, Prof. Cole makes Yoder's pacifism appear to be constituted by individual pacifists in enclaves of the similarly minded, rather than the presence of a global community of followers of Jesus opposed to the use of force on behalf of, or in opposition to, particular nations precisely because it is transnational.

A canonical approach, in Brevard Childs» words, «interprets the biblical text in relation to a community of faith and practice for whom it served a particular theological role as possessing divine authority.»

In faith we judge for ourselves as a community of Christians, even if the truth we come to know is not the currently accepted «truth» of a particular congregation, denomination, or culture.10

Thus at every point in its development the Bible stands in a double relation to its context: it comes from the community (in a particular setting), but it reshapes its traditions so as to address it.

Intensely personal and devoid of much theological content, her phrasing of religious individualism was seen by Bellah and his colleagues and by many of us who analyze American religion as a threat to community in general and to our denominations in particular.

So desperate was the state of the American Jewish community that the federations could no longer operate on the basis of business as usual, relying on the generosity of «a few generous men or the patrons of particular projects whose concerns do not transcend their project.»

Panikkar then introduces another criterion: the Christian has to be recognized as such by the others, more specifically, by a particular community.

«13 Utilizing this particular event as the criterion of all true hope, Moltmann rejects romantic and Marxist utopian ideas for attempting to establish hope in human community.

Which is to say, the leader of the community in this or that place acts as the designated «elder» and performs what can rightly be known as priestly functions, even if that particular word is not employed.

It should be emphasized that to say this is not thereby to invalidate any particular claims made on behalf of the liberal agenda for the society — just as one does not invalidate a political program simply by pointing Out that it may benefit the business community.