Sentences with phrase «synoptic vision»

The perceptual trick, called synoptic vision, is apparent on any nearby two - dimensional image, but is especially marked where other depth cues exist.

The essence of explanation is not deduction but a «synoptic vision» gained in finding generic categories from restricted fact or laws.

Generic principles give «synoptic vision.»

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As Charles Wood points out in Vision and Discernment, [4] inquiry always involves both capacities for «envisioning» (making synoptic judgments) and capacities for «discernment» are exercised directly in regard to concrete practices of Christian congregations.

We have to ask what sorts of comprehensive, synoptic pictures of the Christian thing appropriately characterize this congregation (entailing capacities for «vision»).

By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussion).

If some synoptic or universal vision is thereby attained, it will necessarily be a provisional grasp of unity, based on the structure of experience interpreted within some particular epoch in the ongoing adventures of actual entities.

Albeit in diverse ways, all — with the exception of Bruce Nauman, an inveterate skeptic — tend toward visions, worldly and otherworldy, that are encompassing or synoptic.