Sentences with phrase «take account of»

Evolutionary biologists for the most part deal with living organisms as objects and not as subjects, so it is not altogether surprising that they do not take account of the subjective.

He suggested that we might need a Teilhardian / Rahnerian perspective upon spirit emerging from matter, and also a good «natural theodicy» to take account of the fact that «death is constitutive of evolution».

Just as I have a world of the past behind me pressing forward upon me, limiting my options, providing a concrete context for the shape of a new possible «me» that God is proposing, so does God have degrees of chaotic disorder to take account of in every specific lure God initiates.

Evolutionary theory will be reformulated to take account of this role.

The story will take account of what is generally included in Church history.

In other books, those of us who are process thinkers have endeavored to work out a theological or religious position, an interpretation of Christian prayer and worship, and a moral attitude, which will take account of what we have learned but which will also be in genuine continuity with the past we have inherited.

One had to take account of special cases.

This means that the present occasion must take account of past occasions and reenact aspects of them.

All organisms both take account of their environments and act upon their environments.

He says that the mental pole of an occasion can take account of the mentality of other occasions spatially removed from it, even though physical effects must be mediated through spatially - contiguous occasions.

Evolutionary theory needs to take account of the interaction between short - term purposive behavior on the part of animals and the survival value of particular characteristics.

In what ways does faith and our church practises need to be changed to take account of consumerism, and in what ways does faith need to stand apart and challenge the society in the name of the One who is supreme, and jealous for love of his people?

Every being must take account of its own relatedness to other occasions in its environment.

It would be interesting to compare Hartshorne's comments here with those of Maritain in his little book on evil, and with the Thomistic doctrine that homo prima causa mali.17 It is rather to be feared that Hartshorne does not take account of the full complexity of the view he parodies.

Therefore, and in summary, process philosophy does try to take account of the discontinuities of existence, and it does not try to explain all of life in terms of one dimension or category of experience.

The new occasion must take account of every occasion in its past.

Bohm's paper indicates that, whether or not biologists are ready to take account of internality in their theoretical formulations, there is at least one physicist who sees this as the way ahead in quantum theory.

It does not take account of the depletion of resources or the pollution of the environment.

The new occasion must occur in just that world and it must take some account of all that has occurred in that world.

To experience is to take account of things outside the self and to allow them to affect the self, and this implies undergoing some change in the self.

My expectation is that they would call for adjustments in the current global economy to take account of the special needs of Africa and perhaps some other regions.

But these models take account of the phenomena observed at the more complex levels.

It becomes an objective datum for future occasions to take account of, positively or negatively, in the continuance of process.

... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one deniesâ $» all this is indispensably necessary.

Although this theory of material atomism came to dominate by the end of the seventeenth century — and continued to do so completely until the present century — we should take account of the alternative theory of Descartes in order further to elucidate the philosophical problem of the status of the plurality of entities.

It is possible for one to take account of the needs of another, and there is a rational and a humanly sensitive concern about justice.

Accepting this definition, we may infer that «ultimate reality» covers everything that we are all finally obliged to take account of insofar as we exist humanly at all, whatever other things we may or may not have to take account of in each leading our own individual human life.

Let's then amend Mackie's thinking about the concept of omnipotence to take account of the difficulties just uncovered.

But if changes in Christian morals are to this extent inevitable, what never changes is that the returning love for God in which faith by its very nature eventuates always has just such properly moral implications and that they always pertain to acting in the situation in a distinctive way — namely, so as to take account of all the interests affected by our action in order to realize these interests as fully as circumstances allow.

To take account of them I would suggest the event model of life be modified in the following way.

Secondly in its newfound recognition that it has poorly presented and satirised many religions, I would ask the BBC to take account of those of us who would describe ourselves as evangelical Christians.

Clearly, if it is God whom we are to love with all of our powers, God must be one individual as distinct from all others whose interests we can take account of and act to realize.

But if, as I hold, God can function as principle of limitation only by entertaining a specific aim for each becoming occasion, that aim must take account of the actual situation in the world.

To think of ourselves as totally corrupt would be far too pessimistic: it would not take account of the patent fact that there is much goodness in the world and in human experience as we know it.

It is these unitary, indivisible events that are the final subjects that take account of others and act on others.

We have set prayer in the context of the Christian faith that God is Love as revealed in Jesus Christ; and we have sought to take account of modern knowledge of the world so that prayer does not seem an unreal escape from the facts that we all know about that world.

But they must perceive, take account of, past events around them.)

He has pointed out that a theology which is strictly confined to the world of «here and now can not take account of the ultimate questions which men must ask, whereas every sound Christian theology is required indeed to speak of that «here and now», but to relate it to God as a creative principle and to see God at work in the immediacies of human existence in the whole range of what we style «secular existence».

There was, in the early part of this century, a considerable stirring of effort to rethink nature so as to take account of this new development.

Two leading American economists, William Nordhaus and James Tobin, undertook to take account of the criticisms and come up with a better measure of genuine economic progress.

They, too, in much simpler ways, nonconsciously take account of their situation and constitute themselves in one of the ways that situation allows.

It is now being recognized that such reductive procedures yield a superficial understanding of man, and that new approaches are required, which take account of what is uniquely human.

However, very few policies in Christian institutions or in public life are actually decided on these bases, in part because class analysis simply does not and can not take account of the cultural factors that shape much of what is decided.

Thus the statement that electronic occasions take account of their past and influence their future can evoke propositions that may have some correspondence to physical states of affairs.

If the answer is to be in line with Whitehead's cosmological scheme, it will have to take account of the idea that conscious occasions are a subclass of presiding occasions — actual occasions that dominate a physical system so that it functions as an individual rather than as an aggregate.2 But my ideas about what the features of presiding superjects should be are not exactly the same as Whitehead's.

Yet it is to be noted that there can be no theological attitude to the problem of myth which does not take account of what Bultmann says on the subject.

On the other hand, since the nonbeliever is by no means the only person excluded from the social and political order in which the traditional witness of faith is implicated, to think of theology as having to give answer to the questions of the nonperson is more likely to take account of all those to whom theology owes a serious response.

Edvard Munch's art has an insistent quality that requires viewers to take account of their private worlds.

The Church insists that sex education must take account of the stateof development of the child.

Religious thinkers concerned with protecting the well being of persons must take account of these unprecedented scientific developments, particularly as they pave the way for further experiments in the modification of DNA molecules.