Sentences with phrase «systematic forms of»

We are of course in very different circumstances today, for the days of systematic forms of race discrimination defended at the highest level of government are mercifully behind us.

SIP plans provide a systematic form of investment where you can organize or plan your investment and break into smaller payments rather than invest a huge lump - sum amount in one go.

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This highly flawed concept, widely taught in MBA and financial engineering programs, perceives volatility as an exogenous measurement of risk, ignoring its role as both a source of excess returns, and a direct influencer on risk itself... Systematic strategies are based on market volatility as a key decision metric for leverage... The majority of active management strategies rely on some form of volatility for excess returns and to make leverage decisions.

«The later stages of the 2009 — 2017 bull market are a valuation illusion built on share buyback alchemy... The technique optically reduces the price - to - earnings multiple because the denominator doesn't adjust for the reduced share count... Share buybacks are a major contributor to the low volatility regime because a large price insensitive buyer is always ready to purchase the market on weakness... Share buybacks result in a lower volatility, lower liquidity, which in turn incentivizes more share buybacks, further incentivizing passive and systematic strategies that are short volatility in all their forms... Like a snake eating its own tail, the market can not rely on share buybacks indefinitely to nourish the illusion of growth.

Therefore, the appropriate way to present it will be in the form of a Christian systematic theology.

One need no longer ascribe to God the «many forms of systematic suffering and social malfunctioning in the world which continue to oppress Black Americans, women, Africans, American Indians and other social groups...» Theodicy no longer pertains solely to divine agency.

The science side of me looks at the systematic ways that systems, elements, molecules and atoms come together to form life and I realize it is very easy for me to believe that an intelligence greater than mine is definitely a possibility too.

But I must mention especially a work by the late Daniel Day Williams called The Spirit and the Forms of Love (Nisbet, 1968); this is a full - length presentation of a process - theology systematic, soundly argued, eminently readable, and deeply Christian in tone.

Perhaps the quickest way to encapsulate that difference is as follows: while Process and Reality represents a systematic cosmology, Difference and Repetition develops a speculative «chaosmology» At its most simplistic, the distinction in play here is that between a cosmos in which order is imposed upon a primordial chaos «from outside,» or transcendently, (as when Form is imposed upon matter by the Platonic demiurge, or harmony established a priori by the Leibnizean deity), and a chaosmos in which order is generated «from within,» by a wholly immanent process of self - organization.

Paul's theology, although it failed to assume a systematic form, revolved about a response to the advent of a New Creation, a New Aeon or New Being that delivers its participant from the Old Aeon of sin, the Law, and the «flesh» (sarx, or existence apart from grace).

Now this variety of usage in the biblical talk of God (and modern scholarship has shown that the biblical statements can not all be neatly fitted together into a systematic whole, in the way some earlier Christian thinkers assumed that to be possible) makes it clear that the Bible is not wedded to any particular form of words concerning God.

When I wrote Blessed Rage for Order, I did state that even if the arguments for the public character of fundamental theology in that book were sound, those arguments could not determine the distinctive form of publicness proper to systematic theology or that proper to practical theology.

Paul Tillich defined this approach with particular clarity (and therefore in extreme form) in his «method of correlation»: «systematic theology proceeds in the following way: it makes an analysis of the human situation out of which the existential questions arise, and it demonstrates that the symbols used in the Christian message are the answers to these questions.»

At that time (1975) I knew that there was a real difference between fundamental and systematic theology and, therefore, between the forms of publicness proper to each.

And if it is sifted and criticized and verbalized, and submitted for criticism, it may become some form of systematic theology.

• the systematic use of symbolic and mathematical techniques to determine the forms of valid deductive argument.

A systematic just war theory came only some time later, beginning with Gratian's Decretum in the middle of the twelfth century, maturing through the work of two generations of successors, the Decretists and the Decretalists, and taking theological form in the work of Thomas Aquinas and others in the latter part of the thirteenth century.

Systematic inquiry into the forms and contents of belief, worship, and rites will be based on the study of the religious act and its motivation and meaning.

The form in which the answers to these questions have come is not so much that of systematic treatises as of concretizations of alternative philosophical models: the open classroom, gay marriages, tire commune, house churches.

But it is one form of equality that can be broadly attained without destructive side effects, and systematic progress toward it is an essential object of any society that wishes to place capitalism in a context of justice.

The second set — the questions of a systematic theology — may then attempt to determine exactly how the vast and diverse material of past and present Christian experience may be ordered to form a coherent theological whole.

Thus Meland's approach is generally not highly systematic but more nearly in the form of explorations into the felt meanings of cultural and religious phenomena.

While he... obviously does not lack a uniform grasp of the whole, he does not build it up from abstract terms in the form of our modern scientific systematics, but everywhere in terms of the concrete and real conditions he has to deal with;... nowhere does he present an overview systematically summarized [Luthers Theologie, by Theodosius Harnack]

But, in my biased opinion, it offers the most thorough and systematic way around these problems and encourages a form of Christianity that could make a positive contribution to working out the relationship among the religious communities of China as well as their relations to the prevailing secular society.

Imaginative reason in the form of a speculative philosophy such as Whitehead's can surmount the interminable conflicts between man and nature, mind and body, freedom and determinism, religion and science, by assigning each its rightful place within a larger systematic framework.

When, that is to say, it becomes the effort of biblical theology to penetrate to the divine realities, forms, and intentions that have been temporally invested in reportorial forms available to the moment, it becomes the principal effort of systematic theology to interpret the biblical story in amplest symbolic dimensions.

The introduction to NTIPP says, «Any form of systematic theology is fundamentally truncated where its rootage in Scripture is not clear and strong» (IPTNTE 25).

(op.cit., p. 175) In this situation persecution was «less the result of a systematic policy than of denunciation by pagans who spread damaging falsehood about the new forms of worship» (Bruno Chenu, et.al.

There is, of course, a more general form of theological ethics that appears within historical theology and systematic theology.

Also, in a letter to Mark Barr concerning the possibility of being offered a post at Harvard, Whitehead says the post would be very attractive because it would provide him the opportunity of developing in systematic form his «ideas on Logic, the Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, and some more general questions, half philosophical and half practical, such as Education» (ANW - 2 134).

This abstraction has ultimately to be expressed precisely in some mathematical form that will give us a new description of implicate order, which is as systematic and coherent as that given in classical physics by the Cartesian co-ordinates.

Yet the ultimate aim of his sociological (systematic) study of religion was «to gain new insights into the relations between the various forms of expression of religious experience and eventually to understand better the various aspects of religious experience itself» (p. 5).

A word more about the inner character of the event - theoretical framework, which consists of (1) the usual quantificational theory of first order, extended to include the theory of virtual classes and relations, (2) the theory of identity, (3) Lesniewski's mereology or calculus of individuals, (4) logical syntax in its modern form, (5) a semantics or theory of reference both extensional and intentional, (6) variant renditions of systematic pragmatics as needed, (7) the theory of events, states, acts, and processes, and, finally, (8) a theory of structural or grammatical relations of the kind needed for the analysis of natural language.

His book, The Spirit and the Forms of Love (1968), remains the most impressive systematic theology written from this perspective.

Two influential, non-Catholic figures immediately come to mind: sociologist Max Weber described a «Protestant work ethic» that explained the rise of capitalism and modernity on the basis of a disembodied understanding of salvation inherited from the Reformers; and systematic philosopher Georg Hegel hailed the Reformation, «the all - enlightening Sun,» as ushering in modern times by freeing «the specific and definite embodiment of Deity» from any «outward form» so that one may be reconciled to God «in faith and spiritual enjoyment.»

Yet the three Americans named — Schubert Ogden, Gordon Kaufman and David Tracy — if they constitute «the center of mainline academic theology,» form an exceedingly broad center, since each approaches theological issues from very different perspectives and comes out with very different systematic positions.

The theory of composite authorship had been held in one form or another for a century and a half or more, by at least some scholars, before Wellhausen, a German scholar, gave it so systematic and convincing a statement that it has since been associated with his name.

• Our systematic review identified 57 randomised controlled trials, which compared parenting programmes to a wait list control or to an alternative form of parenting programme or other treatment

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For them, the systematic abuse of these girls may have been, in essence, a twisted form of self - empowerment.

In a letter to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo last month, the newly formed Long Island Coalition of All - Electric Senior Communities charged the «systematic raising of electric rates on Long Island is significantly impacting their lives.»

If you happen to be combing through the scientific literature for inspiration, you might just find it in the form of a, quote, «systematic review on converting online contact into a first date.»

This is another form of agricultural welfare in my view and it is not a systematic approach, and so let's go back, why is the system so important?

In a new systematic review appearing this week in PLOS Medicine, Meghan Bohren and colleagues of the WHO Department of Reproductive Health and Research, including HRP, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health synthesize qualitative and quantitative evidence to form a clearer picture of the extent and types of mistreatment that occurs during childbirth in health facilities.

We anticipate that systematic surveys of cocoon fossils coupled with advances in non-destructive analytical methods may open a new window into the evolution of minute, soft - bodied life forms that are otherwise only rarely observed in the fossil record.

The lack of systematic interrogation of late development leaves large aspects of the genetic regulation of adult form and physiology unresolved.

To address this need in a systematic way, we have undertaken a multi-band survey of all types of star - forming galaxies in the local Universe.

A new systematic review of the research finds early evidence that yoga may reduce the incidence of various forms of heart disease, but concludes that more high quality studies are needed before making definitive recommendations.

Now, another study delivered by the Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz delivers a study asserting that Carnitine, a compound found in red meats, appears to be cardioprotective in a systematic review — a finding that comes barely a week after a Nature Medicine study sounded an alarm about the heart risks of carnitine in the form of derivative TMAOs.

Chicago tells us no more about this than does Atlanta, where cheating was systematic, or Kentucky, where another study that I cite in Charade found that 9 to 36 percent of teachers in Kentucky reported various forms of cheating in their own schools.