Sentences with phrase «understood as a response»

theology is the Word of God — his address to us — and because theology must always be understood as response - as thinking God's thoughts after him — it must necessarily be an act of prayer itself.

If NT theology is understood as a response to certain key events of the life of Jesus in narrative form, a comparison of the different traditions (synoptics, John, Paul) suggest a development, if not different understanding.I view this as a «human construct».

The adverbial mode of perception must be understood as a response, a response that has some identity or correspondence with the patterned processes playing upon the organism but that, at the same time, is not unambiguously reproductive of these energetic activities.5 Even though some originative activity may occur at this primitive level of physiological responsiveness, it is holistic in nature.

«New Labour» can best be understood as a response to the chaos inside the party in the early 1980s.

As such, it must be understood as a response to the aesthetics and practices of Abstract Expressionism, the movement then dominating the New York art world.

Fear is here understood as a response to those aspects of the present that we do not know how to deal with it.

Ceramic pots carved to resemble wood grain, porcelain beach balls, pots painted with grids and lines, and miniature porcelain animals, can all be understood as a response to ceramic traditions.

Not exact matches

You always get an Australian - Perth based call centre who understand where you live, as opposed to the Telstra «go to your nearest store» response which is always a problem when that's 500 kilometers away!

«I was trying to explain, in response to a question about the election, that my limited understanding was that the President talked to a portion of America like an accessible person they could relate to, as he was NOT a politician.»

An auto response to emails is one way, but understand that comments on social media and other ratings companies need to be regularly monitored as well.

That was the context in which I was asked the question, and in that context, my answer was a fair and correct response to the charge as I understood it.

Rather than assuming that people understand their own interests and act according to them, the writers approach the negotiation process as a phenomenon that's only understood as a set of essentially irrational and emotional responses.

It has been relegated to many narrow use cases involving pattern recognition and prediction (some of which are very valuable and useful, such as improving cancer detection, identifying financial risk and fraud, and other high performance computing applications), but it has not developed a general «understanding» of human interactions, human emotions, speech patterns and human responses to information.

«Healthcare activities are social responses organized to face diseases and can be understood as a cultural system,» write two itinerary trackers from Brazil.

Clean Harbors understands these challenges and provides a host of services to overcome them, including disposal of non-hazardous and hazardous chemicals (such as mercury), laboratory chemical packing, on - site environmental cleaning services and emergency response.

When I asked about this within the Developer forum, the response I received — as difficult as it was for me to understand — was that this was by design.

In their responses, the panel of Ciphrex CEO and Bitcoin Core contributor Eric Lombrozo, Blockstream CEO Adam Back, JoinMarket developer Adam Gibson, applied cryptography consultant and sometimes Bitcoin Core contributor Peter Todd, SatoshiLabs CTO Pavol Rusnak, and Libbitcoin lead maintainer Eric Voskuil discussed the issues with the recent phenomenon of spinoff coins, a lack of understanding as to why Bitcoin is useful, and the fact that some of them sleep better today than they did in the early days of this new technology.

Such development of doctrine, typically in response to grave error and deviant traditions built upon such error, is to be understood not as an addition to the apostolic teaching contained in Holy Scripture but as Spirit - guided insight into the fullness of that teaching.

Never must one of these new religions be laughed at or dismissed easily; rather it must be understood on its own terms and as a serious response to some fundamental issues raised by the women's movement.

Steve... But, please clarify... Does it matter (to you) if any specific Biblical event is understood as metaphor or legend, if genuine faith in God is the response.

«Does it matter (to you) if any specific Biblical event is understood as metaphor or legend, if genuine faith in God is the response?»

Now since Paul understands the kerygma as calling for basically the same decision as did the historical Jesus, it would seem that faith in the heavenly Lord not only coincides with commitment to the selfhood of the historical Jesus, but also involves a positive response to his message.

One response to this situation is to understand Christianity as the creation in history of a new and in some sense final mode of human existence.

And faith, in the full sense, can be understood only as human response to this revelation.

Next, looking back to the introduction of contemplation in the sport chapter, worship is understood as flowing from a response to the reality that is, and the Mass is seen as fulfilling the human search (evident in the history of religious rites) for the right way to worship.

If we conceive of the Word or Spirit as moving more and more fully into the body of the profane in response to the self - negation of God in Christ, then we can understand how the Christian God gradually becomes more alien and beyond, receding into a lifeless and oppressive form, until it finally appears as an empty and vacuous nothingness.

In hopes of a deeper understanding of God, we study such subjects as Jesus Christ and Israel, scripture in tradition, the history of practices of interpretation of scripture and practices of response to God in worship, moral responsibility and institution building.

To recognize the factual nature of values as responses of actual human beings in actual or imagined situations is to remain on the solid ground of experience which all can understand.

After the tsunami in 2004 he wrote several commentaries in response to what he regarded as unhelpful attempts to understand that catastrophe theologically.

The generic characterization of the subjective forms which I describe in the next section as active in the formation of religious experience should be understood as depending upon, and leaving room for, a wide variety of historical embodiments, each with its own individual qualitative response.

But we suspect that the content of the narrative breaks down into absurdity except when it is read with the eyes of Israel's faith, as an expression of what Israel understands to be the necessary totality of the response of faith.

Second: to say that this particular book is true is to say that we can trust it, trust it as a guide to faith and life which provides not only specific claims about God's faithfulness and how we ought to live our lives in response to it, but also a way of understanding the whole world and a language in which to speak about that world.

Such a church is ready to change its practice to conform to new understanding, but it must do so as a faithful response to the gospel, not as compromise with the world.

In response, the proponents of «happiness» as the goal of life could point out that this term can be understood in much richer ways.

Understanding the differences as well as the likenesses in the sexual responses of men and women, and in the particular man or woman one is married to, stimulates the growth of intimacy.

Luke Timothy Johnson's basic response to scholarly research on the historical Jesus is embarrassment on behalf of the Church: embarrassment that Christ's own followers would treat him as a dead figure of history who can be understood only through strictly rational methods of inquiry, barring faith and hope from having their say.

It took a lot of thought and prayer for me to agree with what my mother understood as soon as Penny was born: The evidence of sin is in our response to her, not in her extra chromosome.

Nevertheless, they are to be understood primarily as expressions of the unconscious mind, designed to satisfy unconscious needs, rather than as conscious responses to conscious questions.

Lodged in the understanding of theology as reflection upon how we are to order our lives in response to God's ordering and reordering of our lives, individually and corporately, these theological definitions are somewhat arbitrary, though not without being informed by the tradition.

Brunner understands faith as the human response to God's revelation of himself in Jesus Christ.

As the changing socio - economic conditions of nineteenth - century urban, industrial America demanded of the church a reassessment of its understanding of people in society, it was the Social Gospel movement which arose to take seriously the reality of corporate sin and the need for corporate response.

If in contrast we understand God's disclosure of himself as personal, then we understand that our response must also be personal.

I also see my understanding of the Christian response as closely following Paul's.

Augustine was formed in this same world, and he begins his response by appealing to the Roman understanding of civic virtue as presented by Cicero in his treatise De Re Publica, a work both he and Volusian knew well.

As Congress holds hearings to determine a response to that attack, Middle East experts say it's imperative to understand the major religious players in Syria, and why they are fighting.

From them we glean what has previously been indicated as basic notes in the understanding of the kingdom: the timeless kingship, or kingly rule, of God; an ongoing and present kingdom to be entered and lived in by accepting God's sovereign rule in obedient response; and a final victory of God which is in God's hands, though he calls us to labor in faith and love for its coming.

If the Easter faith is understood primarily as the conviction of the exaltation of the crucified Jesus to be Lord and Savior, it is possible to understand how it could have arisen among the dispirited disciples as their response to the «offence» of the crucifixion of their Master, while they wrestled with that problem in the light of the impact made on them by the life and teaching of Jesus, and in the light of their study of the scriptures, of their current convictions about similar figures and of their belief about God.

God is understood as unchanging in his primordial nature which envisions the eternal objects and as changing in his creative response to the events of the world.

Jesus is presented as the fulfilment of natural human potentialities, with his «divinity» understood not in ontological terms but in relation to his divinely inspired response to God by which he became the brightest manifestation of God's action in human life.

I think the crux of understanding Christian nonviolence is to first relinquish the notion that it is some sort of theory that develops as a response to something called «violence.»