Sentences with phrase «universal common denominator»

Remember that oxygen, a deadly poison, is irrelevant, and the one so - far - universal common denominator of known life - hosting environments is liquid water.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

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The common denominator in these two controversial topics is that they are both universal and inclusive in substance.

In each of these cases Wood's proposal is consistent with acknowledgment of pluralism because the proposal assumes no universal structure in «human nature» — neither a universal structure of «reason» nor one of «consciousness» — to which these pluralisms could be reduced as to a least common denominator.

The discipline does not give up the search for universals or types, but it has moved far beyond the possibility of locating these in a few clear moral, ethical, or national common denominators.