Sentences with phrase «rather than dialogue»

[18] This failure accords with Devlin and Morison's reflection that the governance of legal services in the US is a «monologue rather than a dialogue» overwhelmingly dominated by the ABA.

Puppet theater is of action rather than dialogue.

The events did not appear to link properly, and I found that I missed out on the little splices of story because I was concentrating on the gameplay rather than dialogue during the missions.

The trickiest aspect of character preparation for Manville was developing the kind of off - camera ease with Day - Lewis that would inform Reynolds and Cyril's interconnectedness on screen — so potent they often communicate with a look or gesture rather than dialogue.

However if plot is your main focus rather than dialogue and performances, you would probably seek your entertainment on another screen.

Though he's made films in English, French, and Dutch, Matthias Schoenaerts tends to communicate his characters» inner lives through physicality rather than dialogue.

Many just want to argue rather than dialogue and it's nice to meet someone who has some serious tough questions with which to start a conversation rather than demean that which he does not agree with.

It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue.

Not exact matches

According to Darren Barefoot of the Vancouver - based Internet market research firm Capulet Communications, rather than asking viewers to submit personal video testimonials (the site shows only four entrants in a contest to win $ 300 in Nicorette products), he suggests using blogs and other social networking tools to open up dialogue and?

Sometimes the best course of action is to lead a dialogue rather than give a straightforward presentation.

Rather than offering a meaningful opportunity for dialogue, management «acts as if, as a shareholder, you are an imposition, a waste of their time.

This is about creating a dialogue, rather than a monologue.

Leaders who engage in dynamic, interactive dialogues — rather than defaulting to stale monologues — establish trust, develop rapport and experience greater empathy from their audiences.

This is one of the problems that often hinders dialogue with radical atheists (not sure you are one, but you did answer a question I posed to people who believe God is a fantasy)-- rather than offer a defense they will attack in such a way as to obfuscate the purpose of the original discussion.

There can be no true dialogue when each side is relating to a phantom of its own projection, however benevolent that projection might be, rather than to a view of the other side that the other side can truly accept about itself.

To see Plato through fourth - century Athenian eyes as just another young aristocrat, his dialogues a way to attract a following by which to further his own political agenda or feather his nest financially, is to strip away the later accretions of canonicity and to see him for what he was rather than for what the Western world has made of him.

In his book, The Bible Tells Me So, Peter Enns invites Christians to read the Bible as a conversation or dialogue, rather than an infallible text or guide.

«The current BSA proposal constructively addresses a number of important issues that have been part of the ongoing dialogue including consistent standards for all BSA partners, recognition that Scouting exists to serve and benefit youth rather than Scout leaders, a single standard of moral purity for youth in the program, and a renewed emphasis for Scouts to honor their duty to God,» this week's Mormon statement continued.

The second was that Scripture became a dialogue partner rather than rule and norm.

«So rather than starting the debate himself, actually it's grassroots... because of the very specific situation in Brazil, have requested the Pope, and the Pope is a pope of dialogue and is saying, «yeah, let's talk about this».

One temptation is to opt for invulnerable positions and secure confrontations rather than risk thorough and respectful dialogues.

A third reason for selecting political theology rather than liberation theology for discussion in this book is that other process theologians have begun the dialogue with liberation theology, and I am confident that this will continue.

Rather than viewing Moltmann's thought on play as developing chiefly out of a dialogue with American theology, it would be better to conclude that (1) his systematic interest in exploring the various ramifications of a theology of hope led him to investigate ecclesiology, which he found playful, and (2) his desire to counteract the seriousness of student revolutionaries, both in Germany and in America, led him into a consideration of play as an antidote.

But for now, lest it appear to some readers that we are in dialogue with a phantom scientific ideal rather than with one that is seriously held, let us recall the famous statement of F.H.C. Crick, the celebrated Nobel - prize winning molecular biologist and author of the book, Of Molecules and Men:

That's a big part of what my new book tries to do: propose (by example rather than argument) new ways of reading the Bible, new ways of imagining church gatherings, new ways of inviting rather than suppressing questions and dialogue.

Rather than setting us loose in a sea of uncertainty and relativism, the Bible becomes a book which spurs imagination, dialogue, critical thinking, discernment, reason, intelligence, compassion, justice, and mercy.

When dealing with a community of hearers, however, rather than counseling in one - on - one dialogue, the task of pastoral care becomes infinitely more volatile and hazardous.

If the Bible is an ancient dialogue around the gradually growing picture of the character of God, fully revealed only in Jesus, it is also a dynamic conversation which, rather than ending with the finalisation of the canon of the Bible, continues beyond it and involves all of those who give themselves to Christ's ongoing redemptive movement.

By its very nature dialogue rather than monologue the Bible beckons us into discussion and debate in community.

Nor can it be genuinely founded if it thinks in terms of the «dialogue» between states rather than between peoples, between the representatives of states rather than between the responsible and tested leaders of genuine communities.

This dialogue should be regarded as the primary opportunity for teaching true democratic values, for in it the issues of what is really worthful and whether one shall live for satisfaction or for service become «existential» — personally decisive — rather than merely theoretical and speculative.

Thus, rather than place the insights of contemporary society in dialogue with Scripture and tradition in a way that maintains Biblical authority, she has compromised the sole authority of Scripture by qualifying it from feminist perspectives.

Rather than be divided into different groups that are then adversarial to each other I wonder if there is the opportunity now to consider constructive dialogue between movements that have otherwise been at each others throats.

In fact, Flourishing could also be seen as contributing to the dialogue with culture, though it lacks intensity of engagement and is devoted to the sweep of culture rather than to its detailed understanding, which is also a necessary element of the discussion.

The lamentable polarisation and confusion which has developed as a consequence of these conflicting interpretations of our present situation is only too familiar to anyone involved in the life of the Church and has led all too often into destructive polemic rather than real dialogue about the best way forward for Catholic Christianity in the third millennium.

is seen as an attack rather than honest dialogue.

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and others were and are much taken with Cullman's argument that the confessional divisions of the sixteenth century are the work of God's «left hand,» and the resulting differences must somehow be given the opportunity to play themselves out rather than being «negotiated away» in ecumenical dialogue.

13) How might we use new technologies to reinvigorate religious dialogue rather than merely to exacerbate mass» media's tendency toward monologue?

Believing in dialogue, as a true Buddhist, and a spiritualist rather than a religious person, however, I decided to give you a chance to continue the dialogue.

Although I early defined myself theologically in opposition to modern Protestantism (rather than in dialogue, as with Roman Catholicism, Judaism and China), I have constantly been preoccupied with Protestants.

I do believe, however, that parishioners will listen to and value the pastor's direct expression of his views if he submits them in the context of honest dialogue rather than through pronouncements.

In fact, these discussions can be regarded as an early form of the Christian - Marxist dialogue, even though the dialogue, for the most part, was internalized within these thinkers rather than being represented by «Christians» on the one side and «Marxists» on the other.

Without losing this latter emphasis we would urge that our dialogue is actually likely to bear more fruit if it is based on the (theological) agenda generously offered by Muslim leaders rather than the (anthropological) one suggested by us.

Of the pope, Frieling said, «My dream is of a servant of unity who, perhaps as president of a council, recognizes a reconciled diversity of the churches, who promotes dialogue and reconciliation rather than giving audiences and reaching final decisions.

When viewed as a general guide to faith rather than as a collection of specific teachings, the Bible can provide a basis for theological reflection and dialogue about every aspect of life for contemporary Christians.

«In the world in which we now live, with fears about «The Other» - whether that be Sunni, Shia, Jew, Christian, Yazidi, Hindu or Buddhist - stoked and spread through social media, and amplified by those who would seek to suppress understanding, rather than promote it, there is an urgent need for calm reflection and a genuinely sustained, empathetic and open dialogue across boundaries of faith, ethnicity and culture.»

In our dialogue with other traditions, the key to sustaining conversation (rather than cutting it short by claims that others will interpret as arrogant) is to keep before ourselves the possibility that in some way or other all religions may be relative, culturally specific ways of looking toward an ineffable mystery.

To be sure, those involved usually have represented only themselves, since Pentecostal denominational leaders generally have not endorsed formal participation in ecumenical dialogue, given the movement's historic alliances with fundamentalism and conservative evangelicalism rather than mainline Protestantism.

While I owe much to the stimulating ideas of Don Browning, David Tracy and James Fowler in Practical Theology, I wish to attempt a small, constructive personal contribution rather than to enter into dialogue with them.

However, if the kingdom of God — or alternatively, the kingdom of «heaven» — means the state of affairs in which the love and justice of God become the norm rather than the exception in the social actuality that is the world, then there is a fruitful area for dialogue.