Sentences with phrase «preface for»

[ANONYMOUS LISTSERVE RESPONSE]: «I am going to make a few leaps to conclusions as preface for my recommendation.

An abbreviated version appears in the preface for Poor Richards Almanac, written by Benjamin Franklin around 1758.

This preCOP proposal comes as a preface for the Latin American COP20 in Lima, Peru and it also comes at a time when the UNFCCC process is nearing the 2015 COP21 crossroad: agreeing or not on a global deal that could tackle climate change in the next two decades, or condemn most of the world's population to its impacts.

Sidney Janis wrote the catalog preface for her solo show at Guggenheim's gallery in 1946, noting her «self - invented method for applying paint.»

Sweeney writes the preface for the catalogue, The evolution of Calder's work epitomizes the evolution of plastic art in the present century.

Plus: David Roberts to close London gallery and open Somerset sculpture park Promotions and appointment at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and Hockney writes preface for forthcoming Kitaj memoir

He wrote the preface for the 6th edition of Margin of Safety.

Get third party contributions early — Sometimes authors want to ask a third party to write an Introduction or a Preface for their book.

It is therefore surprising that Gardner wrote the preface for Thomas Armstrong's book, Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, which includes many such trivial ideas, such as singing spellings and spelling with leaves and twigs, as mentioned earlier.

Preface for blog: The first two - thirds of this essay deals with the rock formations of the Grand Canyon — what they are, and how and when they formed.

In these few chapters which formed the preface for Israel's testimony to what YHWH had done in her history, Israel strikingly portrayed the spiritual poverty and bankruptcy of the human race.

The preface for the eucharistic prayer for the Epiphany season in the Book of Common Prayer says that in the mystery of the Word made flesh God has caused a new light to shine in our hearts «to give the knowledge of your glory in the face of your Son Jesus Christ.»

One should not forget that this metaphysics is not some arid self - indulgent speculation but, as the preface for the fourth Eucharistic prayer states: «[God]... made all that is, so that you might fill your creatures with blessings and bring joy to many of them by the glory of your light.»

It's impossible to use religion as a preface for gun control, unless you manipulate the bible into meaning what you want it to mean.

Perhaps it was being «overcome with Paschal joy» (as the Prefaces for Easter put it).

Not exact matches

For two days, Facebook's CEO stuck to his bland talking points, claimed a degree of ignorance about his company's operations that strains credulity, and made sure to preface every answer with «Senator» or «Congresswoman.»

«This year once again breaks the previous record for the number of resolutions filed, and companies are having less success than ever in knocking out proposals under SEC rules,» says Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, in the preface to the report.

Toward the end of the call, Musk was blunt with Ben Kallo, a Robert W. Baird & Co. analyst who prefaced a question by saying he understood the CEO's frustration for «how myopic we are right now.»

Most of the students and parents invited from the Florida school appeared to support Mr. Trump, many of them prefacing their comments with praise for his leadership.

It shows that assertions questioning the capacity of the FEDERAL government to pay for programs, usually prefaced with the call for â $ ˜â $ ˜adult conversationsâ $ ™ â $ ™, and couched in terms such as fiscal sustainability, solvency, and unfunded liabilities, are red - herrings that will lead to needless reductions and privatizations of public programs in health care, elder care, pensions and so on.»

One of the FIF socially relevant songs «A New Hope» is presented for the listener, with Reese, giving a preface as he usually did about the meaning of the song.

For Mark's Gospel, the connection occurs almost immediately, as Jesus's statement that some «will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power» prefaces the event of the transfiguration (Mark 9:1 — 2).

I am not sure what is more depressing / amusing: That the editor felt it necessary to add this platitudinous preface; Or that we live in a world where such nonsense now passes for a coherent comment.

In the preface to Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, Hartshorne celebrates «our English inheritance of critical caution and concern for clarity»; he seeks to learn more from Leibniz, «the most lucid metaphysician in the early modern period,» as well as from Bergson, Peirce, James, Dewey, and Whitehead, «five philosophers of process of great genius and immense knowledge of the intellectual and spiritual resources of this century.

The story of the raising of Lazarus is prefaced by a statement of its purpose: it is not only for the glory of God but «that the Son of God may be glorified by means of it» (V. 4).

McAuley was so disliked in the Kremlin, for instance, that a Soviet anthology of Australian poetry carried a preface announcing: «We deliberately decided not to include his poems.»

Permit me to preface my remarks by saying that I do not wish to take a position on the thorny doctrinal question whether we know that some (unknown) persons will be damned, although I take it for granted» as do von Balthasar and Neuhaus» that Catholic theology does not hold or teach that we know all will be saved, a proposition it is unlikely even the optimistic Origen affirmed with certainty, and is surely difficult to square with Jesus» repeated teaching on the «two ways» (e.g., Matthew 7:13 «14), especially his answer to the question whether only a few would be saved.

As Stratford Caldecott wrote in his preface: «There is a crying need for holiness, among both clergy and laity, a holiness which takes the example of Christ himself as its source, and it seems to me that it would be most helpful to have such «centres of holiness» in this country.»

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, «Thy Kingdom Come: The Prayer of the Church for God's Kingdom on Earth», Preface to Bonhoeffer: The Man and Two of His Shorter Writings, ed.

Two and a half centuries later the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, in the «Preface to the Second Edition» of his Critique of Pure Reason (1787), appropriated this «Copernican Revolution» in thought for his own shift from the presumed objectivity of what we know to the act of conscious knowing itself.2 It remains a contestable assessment because the movement is precisely in the opposite direction: After Copernicus, we humans are no longer understood to be in the center of the universe, whereas Kant concentrated precisely on the subjectivity of individual knowing.

Kierkegaard's own brief preface to Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing does little more than begin this process, and tempts me to suggest that one who is not familiar with other works of Kierkegaard, will find himself still better prepared for immersion in this address if he turns immediately to Section Twelve and reads from that point to the end.

For example, «All the elements of Creation... are interdependent» (says the unsigned preface) «in such a way that our actions can have repercussions for creatures we will never see.&raqFor example, «All the elements of Creation... are interdependent» (says the unsigned preface) «in such a way that our actions can have repercussions for creatures we will never see.&raqfor creatures we will never see.»

In the preface to the Kojiki, Yasumaro, the reputed author, after a brief résumé of the earlier part of the book, tells us that in the year 673 A.D. the Heavenly Sovereign, Emperor Temmu, laid the basis for its writing.

In his preface to Hans Trüb's book Buber points primarily to the trail which Trüb himself broke as a practising psychoanalyst who saw the concrete implications of Buber's thought for psychotherapy.

But that kind of clarification of my understanding of biblical teaching for evangelical groups has usually been a preface to a plea for sexual humility.

Preface On December 21, 1988, individuals converged on Kennedy Airport in New York City to welcome family members home for the holidays who were en route from London on Pan Am Flight 103.

Such arguments as «the Church teaches --» were destined to become less and less sufficient to win immediate acceptance for the ideas they prefaced The validity of traditions was questioned; general beliefs about physical phenomena were subjected to various tests.

Verses 20 - 21 are a kind of preface to the discourse to follow: popular guesses about the coming of the kingdom are futile, Jesus argues, for the kingdom is now in the midst of men (verse 21).

In the Sunday Preface 2, Qui humanis miseratus erroribus is translated as out of compassion for the waywardness that is ours.

In A Preface to Morals, an attempt at humanistic theology, Lippman charged Whitehead with having a conception of God «which is incomprehensible to all who are not highly trained logicians,» a conception which «may satisfy a metaphysical need in the thinker,» but «does not satisfy the passions of the believer,» and for the purposes of religion «is no God at all.

He says in his preface that he intends his book for religious readers and his aim is that they will be atheists by the time they finish reading it.

Nelson, a senior zoologist at the American Museum of Natural History, wrote that statement in the preface to a recent book by Wendell Bird, the leading attorney for the creationist organizations.

Father White's brilliant reading of one of the foundational texts of Western civilization is well - introduced by series editor R. R. Reno, in a preface that should be required reading for anyone doing serious study of the Bible.

By the beginning of this century a great change had taken place and James Orr prefaced his defense of the traditional position by sketching the widespread questioning and rejection of «bodily resurrection» by Christian scholars.10 In 1907 Kirsopp Lake published the first study of the resurrection, in English, which rested upon a thorough application of historical criticism to the New Testament records and he concluded that «The empty tomb is for us doctrinally indefensible and is historically insufficiently accredited.

So it is that in the Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit (paragraph 11), Hegel can declare that ours is a birth - time and a period of transition to a new era, for Spirit has broken with the world it has previously imagined and inhabited, and is now submerging it in the past, and doing so in the very labor of its own transformation.

But he warned in a recent book preface that «schismatic temptations and dogmatic confusion» were sown as a result of the debate over the document and said such confusion was «dangerous for the unity of the Church.»

When, for the Roman Missal, the translating committee came to the dialogue between the priest and congregation at the beginning of the Preface of the Eucharistic Prayer, the question was raised about how to translate Sursum corda from Latin to English.

Perhaps the editors of the anthologies read only Trumpp's preface and became discouraged about finding suitable material for their collections.

There are too many statements in the Bible affirming that those who believe are saved (including, of course, John 3:16, which is cited as the preface to «The Gift of Salvation») for us to say that something other than belief is necessary for salvation.

From the preface to the Lineamenti for the 2012 International Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelisation.