Sentences with phrase «understanding of the nature»

Our understanding of the nature of creativity has undergone a revolution in the past few decades.

The reasons are not obvious, and it takes a bit of understanding of the nature of business, mixed with a dash of technological know - how and a small pinch of economics to fully understand how a mere 10.1 % decline in miner commitment could spell disaster for Segwit2x.

«The truly great advances in our understanding of nature originated in a way almost diametrically opposed to induction.

It hasn't fundamentally changed the way think about financial system stability, though we now have a deeper understanding of the nature of the risks and the potential channels of contagion.

This is a fallacy that has forced believers to slowly retreat with the progress of our understanding of nature and the universe that science has brought.

Perhaps Quest's slow, quiet expansion into the former Mars Hill territory is symbolic; an indicator that Cho's understanding of the nature of evangelical Christianity has far greater longevity than Driscoll's «sock it to»em», masculine approach, which sadly collapsed as quickly as it grew.

The goal is a fuller understanding of nature, which entails a fuller understanding of the humanum.

(5) All of this is to argue that the very logic of the Wesleyan tradition is basically at odds with the fundamentalist experience and that this extends to the understanding of the nature and function of Scripture.

In terms of my own field - oriented understanding of the nature and function of Whiteheadian societies, Wolf's model is ingenious but still flawed.

I will distinguish later between materialist and theological understandings of nature and their differing implications, but most often I will use the term nature in this generally universal sense common to both materialists and theists.

But though I will argue for this teleological view of nature and human nature from empirical premises and from reason, my purpose here is not to debate or attempt to prove this point, but rather to illustrate how some teleological understanding of nature and human nature is a necessary premise for the idea of environmental stewardship.

The use of nature is enhanced by the community of craftsmen and technicians, the understanding of nature by the scientific community, the appreciation of nature by communication among poets and naturalists.

Even as my theology, my hermeneutics, and my understanding of the nature of the Bible have shifted and changed, this fact remains.

Altizer's approach to Christology is consistent with this understanding of the nature of theology.

Part of the lack of belief today may be attributable to a faulty and inadequate understanding of the nature of belief.

This generalization indicates the decisive point at which Whitehead's transformed understanding of nature breaks with that of the ancients: the word that sums it up is «Evolution.»

Finally, insofar as a mechanistic understanding of nature and a pragmatic conception of truth are the correlates of the abstract individual and the liberal notion of freedom as power, even a Newtonian understanding of nature, reason, and freedom will eventually destroy the foundations for the rationality of natural law, as reason is reduced to the calculation of forces and law becomes an extrinsic imposition.

By his own public statements and also through his role of helping to develop an alcoholism education emphasis for the youth and adults in his church school, the minister helps to plant the seeds of understanding of the nature and treatment of alcoholism.

Since all prayer rests back upon our understanding of the nature of God and his relation to the world, we must now look at this more directly.

New understandings of the nature.

It was this primitive understanding of the nature of man which was given clear and classical exposition in the writings of the Greek philosopher Plato (427 - 347 BC.)

Let it be said here and now, however, that we need not conclude that the very sciences which are forcing us more and more to abandon as invalid our traditional understanding of the nature and destiny of man, have thereby solved the riddle of life and of the mystery of man.

The minister's understanding of the nature and prognosis of the problem puts him in a stronger position to help guide the family and interpret the patient's behavior and the therapy to them.

In the chapter in Adventures from which I shall quote, Whitehead is speaking of the contribution of early Christian thought to the developing understanding of the nature of the world's relationship to God.

With this in mind Christians rightly turn to biblical authors who go beyond stewardship to stress a just treatment of animals; to Orthodox traditions with their emphases on a sacramental understanding of nature; and to classical, Western writers such as Irenacus, the later Augustine, Francis of Assisi, and the Rhineland mystics who stress the value of creation as a whole.

First, Pannenberg's central significance lies in his understanding of the nature of theology and the nature of truth to which theology is related.

There are still plenty of people around who would like to argue that a moral code can be discerned from nature, but the modernist understanding of nature undermines their efforts.

So long as our understanding of the nature of God and the nature of personhood lack wholeness we will continue to destroy ourselves and others.»

I have argued that practical theology can and should be the center of theological studies (both in the seminary and the university) and that this practical theology needs a clear understanding of the nature of practical moral thinking (practical reason).

Tietjen's memoirs provide insights into the Missouri Synod controversy which can inform our understanding of the nature of controversy and schism within the broader context of American Protestantism.

All religions including Christianity, all cultures and all secular ideologies are in informal and formal dialogues about what is the meaning of our common humanity and about the path of common action - responses to the situation from their respective understanding of the nature and destiny of the human selfhood.

the gospel of Matthew — that will be carried out in two stages: first, the attestation of a genuinely «universalistic» undercurrent that overextends the christological witness but buttresses the theocentric emphasis; second, an attempt to make use of a Whiteheadian understanding of the nature of language in developing an adequate hermeneutical perspective on the significance of this undercurrent.

But James and Whitehead saw insuperable difficulties in the confusing of becoming and change, and it is their insight into these difficulties, and their solution, which gave rise to a more adequate understanding of the nature of time.7

The Roman Catholic case against the technological timing and mechanization of» reproduction draws on a certain understanding of the nature of marital intimacy.

I'm sorry if I went on at quite a length at this, but I hope I impressed that this is a serious and deep issue in the understanding of the nature of God, some might not be in any position to accept it as true, but it is not to be rejected out of hand as a silly or tricky little thing that people are foolish for falling into believing.

The third trend is characterized by (1) a clearer methodological consciousness concerning the field, purpose, and method of the sociology of religion; (2) a profounder understanding of the nature of religious communion; (3) a rapprochement between students of religion from theological and philosophical points of view, and of students of society.6 Outstanding are the works of Raoul de la Grasserie and H. Pinard de la Boullaye, S. J., of Roger Bastide and Robert Will.

It is precisely the question of how love is powerful in God, in contrast to traditional understandings of the nature of divine power, that continues to whet the theological appetite.

Yet this assumption, which to a large extent is undeniably true, may be serving to hinder a clear understanding of the nature of the conflict, as long as it remains what it is: an (unquestioned) assumption.

The biblical understanding of nature, therefore, inheres in a human ethical vision, a vision of ecojustice, in which the enmity or harmony of nature with humanity is part of the human historical drama of good and evil.

To answer this we need to consider some other developments one, paradigm shift in theological thinking and two, a new understanding of the nature of pedagogy itself.

Clear understanding of the nature and mission of the Church are prerequisite to any effective solution of the problems that present themselves.

My view here hinges on my understanding of the nature of a concrescence and its relationship to its region.

The biblical understanding of nature inheres in a human ethical vision, a vision of ecojustice, in which the enmity or harmony of nature with humanity is part of the human historical drama of good and evil.

Consequently the kind of history and biography attempted unsuccessfully for Jesus by the nineteenth century is now seen to be based upon a false understanding of the nature of history and the self.

If the conclusions of this study are accepted, the understanding of the nature and function of the theological enterprise as a whole will be affected.

Commenting on his understanding of the nature of inspiration, he wrote:

If the conclusions of the study are accepted, the understanding of the nature and function of the theological enterprise as a whole will be affected.

(By the way, I prefer to refer to this view as «the open view of the future,» since the most distinctive aspect of Open Theism is not its understanding of the nature of God, but its understanding of the nature of the future).

True understanding of the idiom of resurrection starts from the true understanding of the nature of death.

If one begins with the understanding of the nature of things as isolated independent «things,» one won't be able to put them together.