Sentences with phrase «question of the nature»

Prior to the question of how the world comes into being is a question of the nature of being itself.

I am no expert in Vatican politics, but I know better than to close my eyes to the fact that there are those who do not share the insight that Weigel attributes to John Paul II and to Benedict» the insight that Nielsen herself embraces» «that all social issues, including political and economic questions, are ultimately questions of the nature of the human person.»

The position of Muslim minorities raises the whole question of the nature of religious authority.

The liberation theologian does not first work out questions of the nature of God and Christ and the church in one context, such as that of the academic community, and then apply these answers to the social situation.

Hence, the suggestions that arise from the application of the general scheme of thought to this special question of the nature of God may be weakened or may gain cogency according to the reading of these great intuitions of the race by which men live.

And finally I shall relate the contributions of both thinkers to the larger question of nature and purpose.

As I have stated throughout this book, it is neither possible nor desirable to respond to the question of nature's purpose in a purely scientific way.

The question of the nature of such visions is more difficult, for it involves criteria by which visions are to be distinguished from invented ones or those due to mere subjective human conditions.

On the question of the nature of God, there seems to be little prospect of achieving conceptual rapprochement.

It's the old question of nature vs. nurture; in this case, whether it's more important to have Jewish genes or a Jewish mother.

The church can aid the married and the unmarried only by refusing the victim posture and by incarnationally addressing the questions of nature, purpose and destiny.

To questions of destiny, questions of nature adhere.

These questions of the nature of man and the goal of life remained peripheral to the concerns of the Sophists as a class.

This problem is so fundamental to the whole question of the nature of Christian hope and the existential analysis is so widely influential that I propose to examine Kierkegaard's formulation more closely and to offer a criticism of it.

I'd also point out that the orthodox Church has always embraced a wide variety of views on a number of topics, including the question of the nature and content of God's foreknowledge.

Only then can one distinguish scientific inquiry from the deeper question of the nature of what science studies.

Then there are questions regarding the nature of mind and matter as such, the concepts of becoming, and of unchanging natures, the philosophical question of the nature of the substantial soul and its relation to the body.

This process reaches its culmination in the fourth and fifth centuries, when the attention of theologians was focused almost entirely upon the question of the nature of the person.

Moreover, the extent and intensity of his lifetime of concentration upon the questions of the nature and existence of God have few equals in the history of philosophy.

In Pilgrim, she detaches herself from the ordinary, conventional human world, plunging into nature to wrestle with the question of nature's ethics.

BREWER: This is the sort of question that really underlies a good deal of the problem: the question of the nature of the evidence for the Resurrection.

The urbanization of the church, the changing social and institutional structures of the church, and the new demands upon the minister, all combined to pose acutely the question of the nature of the training of men for ministry.

But Whitehead's response to the vexed question of the nature and genesis of our ideas and capacity for reason was bound to differ radically from that of both Berkeley and Kant, given that one of his overriding concerns was to observe the indissociability of conceptual bipolarities.

This makes the question of the nature of the entities with which it is concerned all the more acute.

If we could grasp somehow that our subjectivity is a blossoming forth of nature itself, and not some enigmatic «nothingness» or separate substance over against nature, we would have at least the context in which to discuss once again the question of nature and purpose.26

In particular, the perennial question of the nature and size of the physical universe, while not strictly a spiritual question, is still an awesome question for mankind.

In other words, why bother with the question of the nature, attributes, and characteristics of God until and unless we first determine the existence of God?

The question of nature and purpose would not arise in the first place, nor would it have any interest to us, apart from our own unique historical situation with its own particular hopes and threats.

No contemporary theological question is so urgent as the question of the nature and function of the church.

(c, f, I catered my own vegan - & gluten - free - friendly wedding reception even tho I am omnivorous and have no issues with gluten) So if anyone has more questions of this nature, feel free to ask me.

A Fathers Direct spokesman said the research raised important questions of the nature of parenting education.

The question of nature versus nurture in the creation of giftedness is an old one.

I can design and build accelerators that are used to study the most fundamental questions of our nature, to study the Higgs particle or dark matter and dark energy.»

So if you were to accept this, the government spends wads of money addressing, indirectly, this question of nature and nurture through incarcerating people.

It's a question of nature being efficient.

Even so, says Harvard's David Haig, «this is beautiful work; it appears to have resolved the long - standing question of the nature of the monotreme sex - chromosome system.»

To answer this question of nature versus nurture, the researchers took cells that would grow to become chandelier cells in the hippocampus and transplanted them into the neocortex, and took cells that would grow to become neocortical chandelier cells and transplanted them to the hippocampus.

The question of nature versus nurture in the creation of giftedness is an old one.

Questions of this nature engage students in classroom dialogue that both uncovers and expands learning.

I'm assuming this is to be expected for a question of this nature.

All the artists whose works are «fused» by The Mud of Compound Experience bring powerfully singular purpose to their practices, directed towards a questioning of the nature and earning of individual art objects.

Works on paper, large scale bronze and marble works, and the delicate replication of a single grain of sand are included in a context that brings a poignant resonance to Penone's interest in questions of nature and identity in todays industrialised society.

A generation of artists emerged in Italy in the second half of the 20th century who, influenced by a questioning of the nature Piero Manzoni's artwork and the ground - breaking concept of Lucio Fontana's space, and turning to the use of simple, everyday materials (that is, stripped of any auratic encumbrance), realised a series of works that, without relinquishing a kind of poetic awareness of the world, were profoundly critical of industrialisation and consumer society.

Even so, this absent picture, owing to the long shadow it has cast in its persistent questioning of the nature and purpose of art, is perhaps the most dominant presence in the entire show.

If you have questions of this nature, you should consult with a lawyer.

In a letter participants received in September, we were informed that «the Working Group is instructed to continue its work towards elaborating a non-binding descriptive document reflecting elements of an ODR process, on which elements the Working Group had previously reached consensus, excluding the question of the nature of the final stage of the ODR process (arbitration / non-arbitration)».

Rather than to throw in the towel, UNCITRAL decided to redefine the Working Group's mandate to «elaborating a non-binding descriptive document reflecting elements of an ODR process, on which elements the Working Group had previously reached consensus, excluding the question of the nature of the final stage of the ODR process».

[78] As I have said, there was evidence that was relevant to the crucial questions of the nature of prolonged partial asphyxia and whether and when the earlier period of prolonged partial asphyxia could and should have been detected.

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