Sentences with phrase «understand from an outsider»

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A lot of christians and people from overtly christian populated countries do not understand that they are outsiders when they step away from their home soil.

This understanding can be used by outsiders as a way of removing the beliefs of religious communities from serious consideration as to their truth.

I wouldn't expect you to be able to understand judaism from an outsiders point of view, the same way I will never understand christianity for the same reason, just know Chad that trying to explain my own religion to me through the lens of yours doesn't really make sense and just seems foolish.

Perhaps, however, it is legitimate not merely to argue against his conclusions but to urge against his position from the start the general principle that an outsider can not understand a civilization or a great religion unless he approaches it with humility and love.

We need Hispanic theologians and social scientists who will reflect from within the common experience of faith of our people, not as outsiders but as believers who are seeking to understand, clarify and enrich our own life of faith.

He explores how Methodism grew from a barely perceptible impulse in the Church of England in the 18th century to a foremost expression of Christianity in the modern world; how the mixing of Enlightenment rationality and evangelical enthusiasm resulted in Methodism's perennial doubleness of vision; how the Methodist message was heard, internalized and enacted in a bewildering variety of social and geographic locations; how opposition from Outsiders fostered strength while conflict between insiders fostered weakness; how money was raised, spent and symbolized; how women and racial and ethnic minorities found nourishment in the Methodist message; how the movement managed to circle the globe completely; and finally, how a gaggle of theories about secularization might help us understand Methodism's decline in the latter half of the 20th century.

To an outsider, you will find it difficult to understand that sitting next to friends and family will be the righteous persons of civic activism — those that lead, those that volunteer, those that opt out of the public spotlight from any sort of recognition while they do God's work here in Queens.

The research paper «Preservation of 5300 year old red blood cells in the Iceman» -LRB-[free access] Interface: Journal of the Royal Society) written by Marek Janko, Robert W. Stark, and Albert Zink helps outsiders like me better understand why there is excitement about finding blood, from the Introduction to the paper (footnotes have been edited out),

While technically an outsider (McIntyre came to Knoxville from a post in Boston), he's been in Tennessee for some time now and understands the state's education landscape.

Splatoon 2's third - person shooting mechanics and controls may seem pretty simple from an outsider's perspective, but dive into multiplayer without a proper understanding of the game's nuances and you're bound to sink (much to the chagrin of your fellow vandals).

Anyone from the People's Republic of China will understand the references — or so I've been told — but for the outsider it's a curve ball to nostalgia - ized painting.

So, being called an Urban Artist, when you've been a Graffiti Writer or Street Artist your whole aesthetic life, can be infuriating because it seems like an insult from outsiders who don't understand the difference, subtracts the illegality from the art form thereby sanitizing it, and seems like a sell - out move if any artist chooses to use it themselves.

I follow this discussion as an outsider to scientific publications and realize that a little knowledge can be very dangerous (as with opinions such as this one taken from partial understandings).

«After becoming a foster parent, we just had this sense of being outsiders — that no one understood us or could see where we're coming from,» Craig says.

In addition to being remote, small - association AEs often say their area — its housing stock and its home buyers and sellers — are so unique, outsiders from neighboring areas wouldn't understand local practices, ordinances, issues, and challenges.

«As outsiders and non-registrants in the real estate industry, we needed some help from an insider who understands the regulatory frameworks and can help us do things right.»