Sentences with phrase «questions about the purpose»

And that question is much more enlightening than some grand question about purposes.

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Questions about purpose become meaningless since there is no longer an intelligence or guiding hand giving inherent meaning to anything that occurs in nature.

Thus, well - being could be said to derive simply from the sum of responsibilities performed in everyday life, quite apart from broader questions about the purpose of one's life.

When I tell people about the trip, they often have questions about purpose and logistics of child sponsorship that I don't know how to answer.

In this situation more than a hundred theological schools have agreed to examine themselves and the status of theological education in general, to raise immediate and ultimate questions about their purposes, their methods and their effectiveness in discharging their duties; to seek also ways of improving their own ministry.

From civic faith to the practice of transformation: With their churches no longer part of the religious establishment, and with the country increasingly diverse culturally and pluralistic religiously, mainline leaders have had to ask bottom - line questions — questions about purpose, not profit.

It should be evident by now that our question about purpose in nature is one way of raising the problem of the intelligibility and validity of religious discourse in a scientific age.

If the notion of revelation is to be of any real consequence to us, it must offer some response to our questions about the purpose of human existence on this planet.

In an abundance of caution, and to avoid any question about the purpose of the travel, which was to bring jobs to New York, or about whether it was appropriate for the sponsor to pay for its costs, I am reimbursing the sponsor personally for the full value of the trip»

The results hint that organizations espousing extreme views may be especially attractive to people with questions about their purpose.

This raised a question about the purpose of the post-encoding protein synthesis.

The movie, for its part, is also fairly cerebral, raising questions about the purpose of this conflict in particular, but also about war in general.

The lesson aims to explore the Buddhist celebration of Wesak / Vesak by incrementally «feeding» students with small bits of information about the celebration in order that they develop questions about the purpose and symbolism used in the festival.

Examiners will then question you about the purpose of the lesson, when it might be offered to a child, why you did it a certain way, why it's organized in a certain way.

The Head Start reauthorization currently under way in Congress is raising some important questions about the purposes and nature of early - childhood - education programs.

This case does just that, introducing deeper questions about the purpose of education in Kakuma, and in refugee camps in general.

This documentary raises questions about the purpose of memorials, as it provides an example of what it means to «choose to participate.»

In their annual poll of the public's attitude toward public education, what prompted the well - respected PDK (Phi Delta Kappa) association's new question about the purpose of education?

This relatively short theoretical piece, written for all students of the law, asks foundational questions about the purposes of written opinions that will provide context for the three goals of a judicial opinion writing course and assure the students that learning about writing judicial opinions matters.

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This is useful for two reasons: First, you explain the purpose of the meeting to anyone who didn't take the time to read your preparatory messages, and second, you open the floor to any questions or concerns about the meeting's topic.

«Edwards wasn't convicted, but his jury hung on several counts, and the trial was driven by factual questions: Did Edwards know about the payments, and was their purpose political, or were they simply intended to keep the peace within Edwards's marriage?»

Then the question comes if you've managed to do that, you as a society, then the next question is about things like purpose and those kind of higher level questions, which I think are very interesting things to think about.

Automation is the all - purpose bogeyman of today's workforce: millions of jobs could be taken over by machines in the next few years, experts say, and the big question is what to do about all the humans left behind.

But before we get into classification of employees for employment tax purposes, I want to address your question about compliance checks.

The Conservatives would argue that this was a question about government business — you see, even when rules are applied, there are ways of getting around them for your partisan purposes.

Our questioning can not be an expression of a cynical spirit about God's purposes.

your conclusions about purpose assume relativism, thereby begging the question.

I resent them because I believe them to be less about what is stated to be accountability's purpose — my spiritual growth — and more about an unScriptural motive underlying the questions — playing God in someone else's life.

Purpose sees him asking the same questions about life and faith as many of us, as well as facing up to his headline - grabbing mistakes.

There are bigger questions here about discipleship, leadership, and the purpose of the church, of course, but I'll leave it there.

Part of our purpose was to give one another permission to ask very nosy and practical questions about what «worked.»

The purpose of this study guide is to suggest questions that will encourage frank discussion about Christology.

In my opinion it probably served a purpose for a time, but I agree that what may have started as a sincere desire to question presuppositions now has become a place where people are about name, career, money, ego, etc. just like every other established religious structure.

Religion was born to serve the same purpose as science; it answered questions about the world and how it worked.

He considers it entirely appropriate for biologists to be concerned not only with how biological traits came about but also with what specific organic features are for, even though most scientists and philosophers of science place questions of purpose outside the realm of research.

At the heart of this approach are the individual's concerns about questions of suffering, purpose in life, coping with grief or ecstasy, and so on.

But it also remains clear that science by itself is ill - equipped to answer the big questions about any possible purpose and meaning to the cosmic process.

But people still obstinately keep asking questions about the whereabouts of departed loved ones, the meaning and purpose of their own lives, whether good will prevail over evil and whether we can know anything about the transcendent.

Still, to answer your question about why it seems like we don't presently see extravagant spectacles like seas splitting, the lame walking, donkeys talking and axe heads floating, we need to establish the biblical meaning and purpose of miracles.

When teachers examine themselves and their schools for the sake of discovering how to overcome difficulties or how to improve their work they are quickly led to ask far - reaching questions about the nature and the purposes of education.

Studies of medical, legal, engineering and theological education, unlike the inquiries referred to above, frequently ignore the community and raise few questions about social purposes.

Of course, this is not all that Christians believe, or even the major part of what Christians believe, about Jesus Christ; but for our purpose, it is enough now just to admit at least that much, to see here life given in love to the point of complete surrender of self, to agree that the ages witness that this is healthy life, this is wholeness, and then to turn to oneself and ask the very simple but very searching question, «How do I measure up to that standard?»

Today's Russian propaganda isn't aimed at promoting Russia, though; its purpose is to undermine and demoralize us, destabilizing Western societies by throwing election results into question, creating suspicions about Western intelligence services, and generally mucking things up.

You might wan na try this blog, http://esoriano.wordpress.com/ — it solved my million questions about God's existence and more so, the real purpose of life.

Scientists have complete freedom to investigate, but decisions about the purposes science should serve involve essentially religious questions concerning the meaning of life and the goals of men.

Students often turn to philosophy in hopes of finding help in reflecting about questions of meaning and purpose.

It's entirely possible that all the above questions are addressed with depth and subtlety in actual RE lessons, and that the school's pupils can talk knowledgeably about the nature of the priesthood, the goods of marriage, the purpose of sex, and the many and varied Christian responses to the «problem of pain».

Too often the answer to this question is left implicit in proposals about the nature and purpose of theological education, and the answer's coherence with the view of theology that the proposals adopt is left unexamined.

What the Old Testament especially teaches us is this: «that zeal is as essentially a duty of all God's rational creatures, as [are] prayer and praise, faith and submission; and, surely, if so, [then] especially of sinners whom He has redeemed: that zeal consists in a strict attention to His commands» a scrupulousness, vigilance, heartiness, and punctuality, which bears with no reasoning or questioning about them» an intense thirst for the advancement of His glory» a shrinking from the pollution of sin and sinners» an indignation, nay impatience, at witnessing His honor insulted» a quickness of feeling when His name is mentioned, and a jealousy how it is mentioned» a fullness of purpose, an heroic determination to yield Him service at whatever sacrifice of personal feeling» and an energetic resolve to push through all difficulties, were they as mountains, when His eye or hand but gives the sign» a carelessness of obloquy, or reproach, or persecution, a forgetfulness of friend and relative, nay, a hatred (so to say) of all that is naturally dear to us, when He says, «Follow me.»