Sentences with phrase «systematic understanding of»

Taken together, the recommendations outline an integrated action plan aimed at achieving a systematic understanding of the technical and regulatory aspects of distributed ledgers, and developing a roadmap.

If psychologists could possess a systematic understanding of these nonrational motivations they would have the power to influence the smallest aspects of our lives and the largest aspects of our societies.

I obtained a LLM degree from Penn Law in 2013, where I had a systematic understanding of case law study.

Since the IPCC Third Assessment, many additional studies, particularly in regions that previously had been little researched, have enabled a more systematic understanding of how the timing and magnitude of impacts may be affected by changes in climate and sea level associated with differing amounts and rates of change in global average temperature.

I say «reasoned justification» because it is clearly inappropriate to reject out of hand all claims to systematic understanding of reality.

P. F. Fichter, the author of The Southern Parish, has rightly said that a systematic understanding of the role of Catholicism in modern society requires us to study not only its values and meanings but more especially the «vehicles» employed to activate them and the agents who believe in these values and employ these «vehicles.»

Not exact matches

But do make sure that everybody understands the U.S. won't be the dumping ground of the world, with systematic losses of wealth, jobs and proprietary technology.

Now, my understanding of your position is that you made that original prediction based on the belief that the PRC would be instituting reforms to deleverage aggressively and transfer wealth to the consumer (such that the incorrect prediction was more that you were overly optimistic about the PRC's willingness to head off these systematic risks) and that your current prognosis of ~ 3 % GDP growth has an entirely separate causative element; that is to say, your previous prediction was based on the idea the PRC would be enacting reforms to ward off systematic risks, whereas your current estimation of GDP growth is instead based on the drag produced by these very systematic risks the PRC has failed to deal with.

Your salespeople will walk away with a new understanding of how to be distinct from the competition, adopt a more systematic sales approach and, finally, have a consistent set of prospecting activities that will ensure they hit sales goals.

Although these features of the functioning of the initial aim are not stressed by Whitehead, they have considerable systematic importance for understanding the relation of God to the occurrence of new occasions.

If we are to understand why Protestant thinkers today accept the peculiar difficulties that confront them when they reject the kind of natural theology that Thomism represents, we must understand the systematic difficulties that Thomism itself encounters.

The lack of a systematic theory of communications / technology ethics, or an understanding of media in society.

As I understand it, the relevant features of a «proposition» are these: A «proposition» is a «concrete possibility; it is abstracted from some objective event in the actual world; it is proposed as a possibility that an entity may want to consider for itself in a future moment in its process of self - creation; it is apprehended by the entity in «feeling» and so is preconceptual and largely preconsciously apprehended; it stands in a complex of relationships with other «propositions,» and the set of propositions presupposes a systematic universe; its «interest» (as «lure») is more important than its «truth.»

The illusion that the now is either so insignificant and commonplace as to be unworthy of study, or that it is so well known anyhow — without analysis, critical reflection, or even systematic observation — as to be beneath serious notice, has become all too characteristic of a theological tradition that knows perfectly well that we can not understand either God's grace or man's sinfulness without in some fundamental sense understanding the other first.

Systematic Theology can be read as a much fuller account of the vision first put forward in Revelation as History twenty - five years before: Eschatology remains the key theological locus; Jesus continues to be understood as the anticipatory realization of the final reign of God over all things; Christianity is rational, though this claim is somewhat chastened.

Less familiar are two further aspects developed in his systematic theology: his understanding of the intuition of the infinite and his view of religion as the struggle for truth.

Conservatives, despite their substantive disagreements about the ultimate nature of things, have resisted liberal and radical calls for «transparency» in social life precisely because they understand that society can not withstand a too systematic or energetic analysis of its sometimes fragile foundations.

Yet despite minor structural differences at Vanderbilt and elsewhere there was an inflexible understanding at work: that a rigorous academy would not harbor learned discourse about religion in its central precincts unless conducted with the systematic detachment of nonbelievers.

The secret call as always remains important, but in the conception of the ministry that is emerging out of the Biblical and systematic theology of the day and out of the personal reflections of young people and their pastors, the divine action whereby men are chosen for their station and calling is less spiritualistically understood than was the case for the past hundred years.

Understanding of the teaching - learning process can be enhanced by systematic study of Nathaniel Cantor's volumes, Dynamics of Learning and The Teaching - Learning Process.

We usually have not understood that Amos concerns are not with incidental acts of injustice, but with the systematic economic distortion in which the royal - urban managers participate.4

While not denying the systematic possibility of a «naturalized» Whiteheadian metaphysics, Hall argues that Whitehead grounds rational religion in distinctive aspects of experience which can not be reduced to ethical modalities, as Sherburne suggests, without greatly impoverishing «the sources of thought, action and feeling to which civilized men refer for self - understanding.»

Christian's most influential work, An Interpretation of Whitehead's Metaphysics, is a systematic study of impressive scope and originality.58 Its challenge to the Hartshornian understanding of Whitehead has won varying degrees of support from many, including Lewis S. Ford and Donald W. Sherburne.

They usually are content to demythologize it.11 Here again, if one makes the opposite judgment as a systematic theologian, based in Scripture and tradition, that belief in the resurrection of Jesus is not only necessary to Christian faith, but one of its most distinctive and important elements, one may find it possible to express that belief in Whitehead's understanding of the person.

My supposition is that the individualization of sin is the trivialization of sin, and given the systematic connection between our understanding of sin and our understanding of God as the one who addresses us in our human plight, the trivialization of sin has an inexorable affect upon two areas: the doctrine of God, and the sense of individual and corporate responsibility for social ills.

And in some recent ethical thinking, this understanding of the highest good has been given a philosophically systematic and rigorous expression.

As far as yoga, it is the systematic and precise technique for purifying consciousness and reviving one's self awareness and one's understanding of God.

A fuller understanding of revelation may eventually require such historical knowledge, but it is the task of systematic theology, as distinct from historical theology, to sift out of the traditional material what strikes it as the content most suitably challenging, as well as Good News, for our time and for our present readers.

In traditional Catholic systematic theology, revelation is generally understood as the locutio Dei, the «speech of God.»

The simplest way of understanding Whitehead's systematic need for a principle of order and novelty is to reflect on the individual occasions of experience and how they come into being.

Whitehead returned quite unquestionably to experience, without, however, having given his theories a systematic empirical basis in the sense of empirical human science as we now understand it.

My point is that, at the time Leclerc wrote his interpretation of Whitehead, he understood Whitehead's systematic position to be that past actual entities function in the present concrescence only as passive perceived data, not as truly causally efficacious.

I fear for good ppeloe who don't understand that it is the Word of God ITSELF that is living and active... and who feel compelled to minister what amounts to Systematic Theology in its place.Is this what results from being Reformed rather than Reforming?

Though they get in the way of the systematic reconstruction of his position, these anomalies are invaluable clues to the understanding of his development.

In order adequately to understand the notion of «importance» it is necessary to complement the method of «assemblage» with the systematic approach of Process and Reality.

In my own case, it was not only Tillich plus Troeltsch with his sometime roommate Max Weber and Adams with his colleague George H. Williams who were influential, but also Walter Rauschenbusch's use of the social analysis of his day to restate biblical themes; Reinhold Niebuhr's refutation in The Nature and Destiny of Man of Marx's, Kant's, Nietzsche's and Freud's understanding of human nature; Talcott Parsons's systematic study of the role of religious values in The Structure of Social Action; George Ernest Wright's exposition of the Prophets; and Masatoshi Nagatomi's gentle introduction to Asian modes of thought.

He emphasized that both historical and systematic dimensions are necessary to its task, and he argued that the discipline's goal was «understanding» (Verstehen): «The task of Religionsruissenschaft is to study and to describe the empirical religions.

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).

When it has understood the historical and systematic aspects of the concrete religious configurations, it has fulfilled its task» (p. 68).

This inevitable procedure of systematic thought not only breaks down because of its own inadequacy and because of its failure in helping us to understand ourselves but in the long run results in idolatry.

Further, in the same way that the church has wrestled with its understanding of Christ and the Scripture through creeds, commentaries, systematic theologies, and the like, so also the church has developed ways to do its worship.

Thus the understanding of the immediate brute fact requires its metaphysical interpretation as an item in a world with some systematic relation to it.

At the University of Chicago Divinity School, thinkers who participated in the social gospel tradition developed the socio - historical understanding of Christianity and applied this perspective to Biblical, historical, and systematic study.

If faith in the Word of God can only be the work of the Holy Ghost operating through intelligent decision, it follows that the understanding of the text is attainable only in systematic interpretation, and the terminology which directs this understanding can be acquired only from profane reflection, which is the business of the philosophical analysis of existence.

All theology implies a systematic reflection on the content of religious experience, aiming at a deeper and clearer understanding of the relationships between God - Creator and man - creature.

For example, a curriculum that seems to privilege courses having to do with religious experience, worship, spirituality, counseling, and the like over, say, systematic and philosophical theology may reveal a commitment to the assumption that God is understood effectively rather than discursively; while a curriculum relatively more rich in offerings in ethics, sociology of religion, liberation theology, and the like than in offerings in historical theology, patristics, liturgics, and mystical traditions may reveal a commitment to the view that God is better understood in action than in contemplation.

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.»

Systematic study of activities and topics discussed during home visits is essential for understanding whether content was delivered as intended and how content varies across families and over time.

Treatment goals and the method of treatment need to be discussed and the older teen or young adult needs to understand that treatment will be both challenging and systematic.

Research is systematic study directed toward more complete scientific knowledge or understanding of the subject studied.