Sentences with phrase «studying discipline in»

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«I disciplined my son and he threw a tantrum that I thought was so funny that I disciplined him again just so I could video it,» wrote one participant in a new study about social media addiction.

That's a surprising finding, considering 1 in 13 financial advisors has been disciplined for misconduct, according to a recent study.

Rather, it is in the incorporation of Asia - relevant material into mainstream disciplines and in an expansion of opportunities for study, research, and co-op opportunities in Asia.

However, a new field of study is proving extremely popular in Illinois colleges, drawing students from multiple disciplines.

@ Chris At this point in my life I am comfortable with my current conclusions and, barring any new earth shattering evidence or sound deliberation, I will stick to this and focus my time and energy on other disciplines and studies.

I should point out that biblical studies has a distinct advantage over theology when it comes to finding a place in the university, since it is a historical discipline which can and often does just as well locate elsewhere — for instances in a department of Near East studies.

The charges went higher and higher up the ladder of generality until the sex crime committed at UVA became a confirmation of the basic theory of privileged Western male oppression that is so widely subscribed to in the disciplines of cultural studies.»

Without such discipline (in its good and bad senses), evangelical theologians and scholars who study them are free to describe trends or affinities among born - again Protestants.

But as I studied God's letter for myself and began to discipline myself in reading, even before my age was marked with double digits, I found time and time again that this was true; the Bible was constantly reminding me of God's love for me in the words that He said about me and in the great acts of love He displayed.

Sufi orders have been banned by the government of Turkey, but Sufism continues there as a powerful factor in the Islamic life of the country; both intellectuals and common people study the writings of their famous Sufis and continue their personal Sufi disciplines.

But if one studies the anthropologies that have appeared in the various disciplines, one finds that this agreement has little affect on what transpires.

There also are institutional challenges to be met if the delicate ecology of theology and religious studies is not to succumb to the commodification of education, to ideologies with no room for theology (least of all for its celebratory mode), or to absorption in a range of other disciplines.

In order for it to be fruitful, our study must be disciplined.

The three questions can serve as horizons within which to conduct rigorous inquiry into any of the array of subject matters implied by the nature of congregations, disciplined by any relevant scholarly method, in such a way that attention is focused on the theological significance of what is studied:

«When was the last time you engaged in a serious, church - wide Bible study or launched a series on the spiritual disciplines?

Furthermore, in my view the refusal to study historical facts when they conflict with theory illustrates the worst features of academic disciplines.

For the past several years Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, has been in the forefront of efforts to establish this new field of studies as a fully respectable discipline.

Rather, the proposal is that study of every subject matter that is selected for study (using whatever academic disciplines are appropriate) be shaped and guided by an interest in the question: What is that subject matter's bearing on, or role in, the practices that constitute actual enactments, in specific concrete circumstances, of various construals of the Christian thing in and as Christian congregations?

Small but growing numbers of Christian theologians in Europe and North America have begun to meet regularly with Buddhists to foster mutual understanding and growth, one result of which is the recently established international Society for Buddhist - Christian Studies.4 In addition, following the lead of the late Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, many Roman Catholic monastics have begun to use meditative practices as an adjunct to their own spiritual disciplines (Walkerin Europe and North America have begun to meet regularly with Buddhists to foster mutual understanding and growth, one result of which is the recently established international Society for Buddhist - Christian Studies.4 In addition, following the lead of the late Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, many Roman Catholic monastics have begun to use meditative practices as an adjunct to their own spiritual disciplines (WalkerIn addition, following the lead of the late Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, many Roman Catholic monastics have begun to use meditative practices as an adjunct to their own spiritual disciplines (Walker).

I join a number of mission thinkers in insisting that missiology is a complementary discipline and could not exist independently from other fields of theological study.

Logic is used in most intellectual activities, but is studied primarily in the disciplines of philosophy, mathematics, semantics, and computer science.

Both movements have influenced religious studies, posing a clear, frontal challenge to objectivity in the discipline.

But by the time «catechetics,» as the study of instruction, became a theological discipline in the seventeenth or eighteenth century, a curious reversal had taken place, and most of the talk was about dealing with children.

In the process of my slow reconciliation to the term I have been especially aided by experts in child study, who have been redefining discipline as protection of the child from that from which he is not yet ready to protect himselIn the process of my slow reconciliation to the term I have been especially aided by experts in child study, who have been redefining discipline as protection of the child from that from which he is not yet ready to protect himselin child study, who have been redefining discipline as protection of the child from that from which he is not yet ready to protect himself.

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

As noted by Greeny, I was distinguishing between the commonly accepted qualifications for successful scholarship in virtually every secular discipline as opposed to the apparent extra requirements to «objectively» qualify one to study and comment upon questions of theology.

Performance studies was developing, at that time, into a discipline of inquiry within communication studies that acknowledged many ancestors in its family tree including rhetorical theory, dramaturgy, and literary criticism.

Performance studies is an emergent discipline that can break open the words «art» and «communication» in fresh ways for homiletics and help it to tread on new conceptual ground.

The preacher of the Reformation needs institutional empowerment, but ordination plays no such role in his accreditation as do first of all the study and personal appropriation of Scriptures and especially of the gospel, and, secondly, the corresponding discipline of life.

With the advent of National Socialism the official philosophical and racial teachings of the Third Reich, prepared by its ideological forerunners, began to make themselves felt in all disciplines concerned with the study of religion and of society.

Hence bits and pieces of the totality of things can become the subject of an academic discipline that can then develop suitable methods of study with little attention to what is happening in other disciplines.

Many — if not most — studies — such as literature, philosophy, history, religion, geography, and anthropology (to name only some of them)-- by their very nature draw upon a variety of other fields of study and thus are particularly suited to general education, provided they are not ruined for that purpose by professional zeal to make them into precise, technical, exclusive disciplines — as occurs even in such a naturally general field as literature, when its promoters restrict it to technical textual analysis.

While these are properly regarded as special subjects of study and are taught as separate disciplines, skill in reasoning and in the use of language is also a necessary aspect of every other intellectual discipline.

This vocational emphasis affects not only the manifestly practical fields of study, such as the technical and professional disciplines, but even the «pure» liberal arts and sciences, which have commonly been represented as the studies appropriate for the nurture of the free man — studies whose justification and worth lie solely in themselves and not in any extrinsic purposes.

In these places the course of study consists of a series of preparations for a series of loosely connected acts In this situation each one of the more general disciplines — such as study of the Bible, theology, church history, psychology, sociology — may then be directly related to a specific function such as preaching?

The discipline of economics in the West is the study of how to make the economy grow.

The twentieth century has seen considerable growth in the study of religions as an academic discipline and much discussion about what is involved in this study.

If the goal that makes a school «theological» is to understand God more truly, and if such understanding comes only indirectly through disciplined study of other «subject matters,» and if study of those subject matters leads to truer understanding of God only insofar as they comprise the Christian thing in their interconnectedness and not in isolation from one another, then clearly it is critically important to study them as elements of the Christian thing construed in some particular, concrete way.

A great flaw in turning study into play is that it deprives students of the ability to derive the great enjoyment that follows from substantial knowledge of and affinity with one discipline.

All of the disciplines actually employed in the study of various subject matters in a theological school are also used in a variety of types of schooling that do not claim to be and are far from being theological.

That is to say that not only the incentives to the study of the history of religions have varied in the last century — the first of its existence as «Wissenschaft» — but that ideas as to the aim and scope, the nature and the method of this discipline also have been changing.

Studies in language, mathematics, science, art, history, and philosophy are not made liberal merely by recognizing and calling attention to the creative factors in these disciplines and in the human activities with which they deal.

This same dual freedom applies to all of the social sciences — both in respect to the conceptual structures of political science, sociology, anthropology, and other behavioral disciplines, and to the deliberate social arrangements and processes studied.

Mathematics, then, is the study par excellence for the development of disciplined self - awareness in all its purity.

It will be shown that all three branches of knowledge have to do with all three of the traditional aspects of human nature, and that every discipline in fact studies man as a whole, comprising body, mind, and spirit.

In this way religious studies can more closely approximate the university norm, where academic disciplines are distinguished by particular subject matters, not by perspectives, and the subject matters are not themselves defined as perspectives.

Such a philosophy in turn imposes on the several contributory disciplines an obligation for scope and depth of application that may be lacking in the customary pursuit of these specialized studies.

That there are courses in the history of a number of disciplines, taught as part of the study of those disciplines, holds promise.

I now propose to show more concretely just how liberal studies entail the practice of freedom, by examining briefly the nature of the knowing process in some of the main disciplines in the liberal arts and sciences.

I'd study a particular discipline every year in some depth.