Sentences with phrase «universal understanding of»

The database will lay the groundwork for a more universal understanding of the diversity of laws between nations and will create new opportunities for peace and international partnership.

I believe there will be universal understanding of the climate problem when barley and hops yields drop dramatically and beer sells at $ 14 per six pack.

The fossil fuel industry has only two rivals: nuclear power and a more universal understanding of the gigantic impacts of fossil fuel combustion.

The exhibition provides a universal understanding of what it means to love music, particularly across culture and class, and also includes a number of autobiographical works that explore the role Robleto's family played in his conception of music.

The union of Japanese artists alongside their Western friends shine through the album, sidestepping the language gap and communicating entirely through the universal understanding of music.

She helped teachers create rubrics with consistent language and format, which gave both students and teachers a universal understanding of the given task.

The Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (PSEL) unite leaders around a clear, universal understanding of how and in what ways leadership contributes to the success and well - being of each member of the school community.

Women of all ethnicities, religions, and backgrounds trust Lauren's universal understanding of love to help them get where they want to be.

Would Jesus» Jewish listeners have heard this parable as a plea for a more universal understanding of God's relationship to human beings, in that God welcomes home both Jew and non-Jew?

So the real questions are: 1) how can there even be a universal understanding of «right» and «wrong» without a creator 2) how can purely random genetic mutations preserved by natural selection have resulted in the desire to do «right» even amongst those that do not believe in life after death?

While rightly denying that natural - law theory is a distinctly Catholic theory, he suggests that it may well be that the Catholic contribution to our common life is to have preserved a universal understanding of reason that is in no way peculiarly Catholic.

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«I can not defend the Director's handling of the conclusion of the investigation of Secretary Clinton's emails, and I do not understand his refusal to accept the nearly universal judgment that he was mistaken,» Rosenstein said.

«I don't understand how Apple could ruin the record business in one year on Mac,» said Doug Morris, the head of Universal Music, according to Appetite for Self - Destruction, a new book about the record industry's ills by Rolling Stone writer Steve Knopper.

He is also the Managing Partner of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm, which has helped companies like American Express, NBC Universal, Ernst & Young, Deutsche Bank, Oracle, Fidelity and Monster better understand the millennial generation.

So god splits up the universal language into thousands at the tower of Babel, then only issues the 10 commandments AFTERWARDS, so that just the Jews get to read and understand them...

The overriding message of Jesus» parables is a universal axiom that all people probably can understand and even accept.

One of the universal lessons and binding threads that can be gleaned from the Bible is that we are to constantly strive and look for ways to grow in our understanding and practice of the love and grace of God.

From the moment I could understand what murder meant, I was taught that it was «wrong» — a relative consensus that seemed to be universal; that came from people of different philosophical backgrounds.

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.

Yet while his pontificate has come to an end in a moment of universal catechesis, his understanding of the uniqueness of the femininity of holiness will be, thankfully, continued and developed.

While employing the Hegelian categories of the «universal» and the «objective» as a means of understanding the new reality created by modern man, Kierkegaard came to understand the modern consciousness as the product of a Faustian choice.

Catholicism today must leave the shallow and brackish waters of institutional maintenance, understanding that the Great Commission of Matthew 28:19 is addressed to each of us in baptism, and living the universal call to holiness in such a way that the world meets Christ in us — and thus meets the truth about itself.

Thus, the struggles against torture and terrorism require us to recover and recast a genuinely ecumenical and normative public theology, one willing to engage in the patient yet urgent task of identifying, clarifying and defending those universal principles of right and wrong inherent in the Christian understanding of life.

It serves now as a transitional period for a future cosmic fullness of the sacred, Altizer states: «We can not understand the «Unhappy Consciousness» unless we realize that it too, like the «Dark Night of the Soul,» is a transitional state between an individual and particular realization of the truth and the reality of Spirit, a realization whose very particularity demands a chasm between itself and Spirit, and a universal and total epiphany of Spirit which obliterates this chasm.

To understand the role of Islam in society one must first realize that Islam is a universal religion in which all Muslims are brothers, regardless of differences in homeland, race, color, or rank.

This great universal sense of sorrow helps to unite all human hearts and dissolve all other feelings into those of common sympathy and understanding.

Walter Harrelson's little book, The Ten Commandments and Human Rights (Fortress, 1980), is one of the most important recent attempts to show how the biblical understanding of human obligation under God gave rise to the principles present in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

As Richard John Neuhaus warned three decades ago, in demanding exemptions, protections, and accommodations, we need to be careful not to be understood as champions of universal non-judgmentalism, or of a naked public square.

Altizer betrays his assumption of a metaphysics when he states, «Hegel's central idea of kenosis, or the universal and dialectical process of the self - negation of being, provided me with a conceptual route to a consistently kenotic or self - emptying understanding of the Incarnation, an understanding which I believe has been given a full visionary expression in the work of William Blake.»

I suspect that the Catholic has always most deeply identified the church as the true and universal body of all humanity, and has furthermore understood the church as being a fully natural as.

Their appeal to love, their partial adoption of the thought of Krishna, their repudiation of nationalism in favor of a sense of common humanity and universal understanding, are all laudable.

Since «universality» does no longer justify itself by «exemplary instantiations» of laws and rules, but proceeds as the universal effectiveness of the unique, this structure enables us to understand how singular events can become reasons of universal revealing.

It is surely possible to think that Whitehead's understanding of the consequent nature of God or the kingdom of heaven is implicitly if partially grounded in a genuine eschatology, and is so because it apprehends a transmutation of evil into good by way of a cosmic and universal process.

In order to interpret this core - principle of revelation, we must understand its essential presupposition; namely, that events are present «in» other events - present not just abstractly (through «eternal objects»), i.e., mediated by the «general,» but as singular events that effect their further history by their unique concreteness (PR 338).12 Whitehead recognizes precisely this constellation when he says:» [T] he truism that we can only conceive in terms of universals has been stretched to mean that we can only feel in terms of universals.

Both the universal need for empathy and the slighting of it in the Christian tradition can be seen in the way that we have understood God.

Could we not say that this understanding of God is grounded in Christ, and not only in the sayings of Christ but also in the Cross, and in the Cross as a universal and forward - moving process of atonement?

I have pursued an outline of formative human rights in order to argue programmatically that a moral and political theory backed by neoclassical metaphysics may be understood to prescribe the universal principle of communicative respect as an indirect application of a comprehensive telos.

When it is objected that we are dealing with a universal revelation, we must raise the issue of finite human understanding, through which God's self - disclosure is communicated.

The categorical imperative to «treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only» (46) was, for Kant, the «universal law of nature» (38) and his understanding of it is the most radical conception of natural law in its modern sense.

i have a decent understanding of the troubles i think — i only reference them to show how the trappings of tradition and prejudice are a universal issue, one that we as a people are all struggling with.

This understanding includes sacramental communion with Jesus, especially in baptism and eucharist, but also communion among all the members of the Church, who participate in that communion with Jesus, as well as the local congregations that participate in the one body of Christ, the universal Church.

As a group, Christians and others may come to understandings on love or compassion or certain universal concepts... but even they wouldn't say that the «god» they know is exactly as they describe him... in part because you can't have that kind of universality without also haveing the humility to know you only have partial comprehension in the face of an infinite, and ultimately unknowable, god.

The past was understood not as the universal past of Christians everywhere but as the past of Christians in this place: our forebears, our ancestors, our elders.

Studying the images of Jesus cherished by successive ages — from rabbi in the first century to universal man in the Renaissance to liberator in the 19th and 20th centuries — Pelikan suggests that the way a particular age depicted Jesus is an essential key to understanding that age.

Movements such as de-colonization, the rise of Communism — especially the expulsion of missionaries from China by the Communists — and the attempt to vindicate Human Rights culminating in the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) have direct and indirect impact on mission understanding.

Quoting Whitehead, he indicates what he thinks might be the reason for this lack of understanding: «The truism that we can only conceive in terms of universals has been stretched to mean that we can only feel in terms of universals.»

Martin Luther presented the theology of Sola scriptura that the bible is the sole source to live and understand what Christianity is all about... but the bible itself does not come with a table of contents to prove that it is correct which is why the bible itself says that the CHURCH is the pillar and foundation of truth... remember that the church existed before even the bible was even put together... To understand the bible you cant just rely on your own interpretation like the protestants often say... The truth is always absolute and hence the teachings of the bible HAS to be absolute which is why the church is said to be ONE in nature (in every sense of the word), HOLY, CATHOLIC (Universal in teaching in every corner of the world) and APOSTOLIC (roots dating back to Jesus himself)... Now figure out what is that one church... The church put together the bible and the holy spirit always protected the church against false teachings and 1600 years later came about the teaching of Sola Scriptura... Protestants... look within and see whats wrong with this teaching.

His genius lies in his ability to discern more clearly what is open to all to see and understand in the universal experience of the race.

For Aphrahat, the election of Israel needs to be understood in the light of God's plan of universal salvation.

A literal understanding of inspiration, according to which a god delivers messages to special persons, can not be intelligible in terms of universal experience.