Sentences with phrase «scale of values»

An ecological perspective on theology and spirituality challenges us to adopt a new scale of values.

Neither repentance nor obedience is very high on the American scale of values.

In terms of tradition we must be able to distinguish different levels and, thus, to attach a corresponding scale of values to them.

This awareness has sharply challenged the modern view of reality and demands a revolution of previously held scales of values.

It is the reign of God in every department of human society, the divine scale of values for every individual, group, and nation.

It is the reign of God in every department of human society, the divine scale of values f or every individual, group, and nation.

He reverses our ordinary scale of values.

But within these limits, God may at any moment adopt a new scale of values.

Nevertheless, what is more general and lower on that scale of value is not therefore without any value at all.

In all these traditions, it needs to be added, what is «beyond» is certainly not what is «higher» on any scale of value.

Quite the contrary, what is more general is lower on that scale of value, a point that Jews who affirm the divine election of Israel and Christians who affirm the Incarnation can readily understand.

All this does seem unfair to us, but we are weighing the episode on our scale of values.

but material possessions did not stand high in his scale of values.

Such an account is inevitably conditioned by the historian's scale of values and by his fundamental convictions about human nature.

Under any conception of power, to refer to a person or group as powerless is to reduce that individual or group on the scale of value.

Hence the reluctance of many biologists to fix upon a scale of values for use within the animal kingdom.

What is the logic of the scales of value presumably invoked here?

Clearly this involves some standard — a scale of values — by which the relative value of the possibilities may be evaluated.

Perhaps, the scale of values may be summed up as follows,

«When I was growing up in New York, ecology wasn't really on the scale of values, and the term «carbon footprint» hadn't even been coined yet,»» he recalled in a statement.

In the scale of values implicit here, having fantastical clothes is more artistic than playacting masculinity, but still the question is raised: Who and what could painting possibly be for?

Lamothe's interest in establishing relationships between certain materials and people also reveals a concern to consider things and beings alike within a scale of values.

They are not enemies of philosophy, or me, or my students; they are enemies of democracy, and insofar as we refuse to admit that — insofar as we soft - pedal the value of the humanities when confronted by a scale of value keyed only to wealth --- we are not being serious about what democracy means.