Sentences with phrase «upon their knowledge in»

We first assess their current abilities and then build upon their knowledge in order to improve the player's overall grasp of the fundamentals of the game.

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With this knowledge in mind, it's no surprise that millions upon millions of articles and advice circulates the internet on how to solve these two key components to a business owner's journey.

Noticing that there was an apparent lack in the market for good quality, simple, organic infant and kids basics, Alyssa drew upon her fashion industry knowledge and started the children's apparel brand mini mioche.

Our authors are experienced entrepreneurs drawing upon their successes and failures to provide practical, in - the - trenches strategies for all knowledge levels.

Our paramount goal is to provide our students with a working knowledge of the myriad of factors that play a role in determining how retirees can achieve the maximum benefit available to them from Social Security and, in so doing, provide a solid foundation upon which an overall retirement income plan can be built.

Mr. Hayward, you say that God has «pressed upon your mind» in a way that is «beyond knowledge» and «beyond proof».

Although I am not religious, the condescending nature of your Professors tone is exactly the reason why when I was trudging through med school, I came to the conclusion upon entering the workforce — I would politely decline invitations to become a cog in the domesticated medical system and instead take my knowledge elsewhere — medical missionary work overseas.

A transcript of a seminar he gave at Berkeley in 1983 imparts well the burden of knowledge he set upon the students.

This expectation is unwarranted, however, because God's existence is directly relevant to moral knowledge and action: If appeals to God get ruled out, either by disbelief in His existence or reluctance to rely upon it, then it isn't possible to demonstrate that there are moral absolutes.

In his whole treatment of natural theology, Luther is always intent upon this one thing: men must learn that sure and true knowledge of God can be found only in God's revelatioIn his whole treatment of natural theology, Luther is always intent upon this one thing: men must learn that sure and true knowledge of God can be found only in God's revelatioin God's revelation.

What religion offers: — The opportunity to avoid eternal punishment for not worshiping / believing in my god (not worried enough to care)-- An explanation for the universe and why we are here (I'll take the knowledge gained from the application of the scientific method, but thanks)-- Living forever in heavenly bliss (I am content with this life)-- The opportunity to divide humanity based upon different belief systems (There is enough dividing us already)-- Purpose, a code of ethics, and fulfillment (I have that already, without religion)-- Develop a personal relationship with god (I've never seen or heard from any gods nor have I seen any independantly verified scientifically collected peer reviewed proof.

Any true advance in knowledge will shed light upon Christ.

Every advance in our knowledge of reality, every new truth discovered, impinges upon how we understand the truth given to us in Revelation.

It looks specifically at the impact of Jewish beliefs upon the pursuit of knowledge and the role of natural knowledge in encouraging interaction with other cultures and faiths such as Islam during the Medieval period and Christianity during the Renaissance.

What is agreed upon is that the self - consciousness involved in the satisfaction of an actual entity can not have the status of knowledge (for knowledge refers us to reflection, and hence to an additional process), nor can it have the structure of intentionality (for intentional self - awareness fractures unity and leads to an infinite regress).

Yet in his Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, John Henry Newman insists on the necessity of individual experience and weakness of theoretical knowledge in forming religion and morality: «many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a syllogism.»

And, certainly a knowledge of them is a vast help in understanding the people who have been nourished upon them and hold them sacred; for example, the sacred writings of Japan.

Even scientific knowledge, which apprehends a thing exactly as it is in all its causes, depends for its truth entirely upon the primary premises given to it by experience (cf. Posterior Analytics 2.19).

In view of the emphasis which has been placed upon distinguishing the new quest from the original quest, it needs to be explicitly stated that a new quest can not take place without the use of the objective philological, comparative - religious, and social - historical research indispensable for historical knowledge.

For example — Often used by many christians as an arguement for intolerence towards human rights... I pose that every religiously ran nation like that of Iran and Iraq are exactly what the religious in this supposedly tolerent country wish to turn this country into, where science and logically thought are frowned upon and knowledge of fairy tales are rewarded.

Once, when he came upon a drunken scene, probably in connection with the temple sacrifices, where priests and prophets, as he says, reeled with wine and staggered with strong drink until the tables were full of «vomit and filthiness,» he was greeted with the intoxicated jeers of the people's religious leaders: «Whom will he teach knowledge?

Yet no matter what their degree of certainty, all notional assents agree in being farther removed from and dependent upon our direct knowledge of the world.

and these interpretations will depend in part upon some other knowledge of God than that given in the experience itself.

It could even be said that Whitehead goes far beyond most theologians in insisting upon the empirical and historical basis of all knowledge about God.

A clergyman's degree of effectiveness in counseling will depend, to a considerable extent, upon his ability to relate to people; his sensitivity and insight in recognizing the nature of the problem; his non-judgmental acceptance of the person in distress; and his knowledge of whether, when, and where to involve other helping resources.

Here the pastoral specialist will function in a role which capitalizes upon his clerical identity, religious knowledge, and contact and identification with the religious community.

Contemporary theology is indebted to this Christocentric emphasis as it has developed in the century and a half since Schleiermacher, Ritschl and other liberal theologians pressed further the position that the Christian knowledge of God is based upon the history of Jesus.

If metaphysics is indeed the elaboration of the first principles upon which all experience depends, then it is essential to get clear on both what those principles are and how one might proceed in securing a knowledge of their basic structure.

The whole point of these lessons we're supposed to learn is the idea that one day we become fathers, that we will grow up and have the same knowledge and experience of our fathers, sometimes more than but in terms of our relationship with god, we're supposed to accept that we're eternally children, that as much as we learn, grow and generally build upon past knowledge, we'll never attain the level of understanding or power that god has, this being is on a completely different level.

Shouldn't we encourage them to expand upon knowledge of those that came before them instead of haphazardly agreeing with some book that hasn't changed in hundreds of years??

Adam 1, created in the image of God, does so by conquering the universe, imposing his knowledge, technology, and cultural institutions upon the world: religion affirms this apparently «secular» mandate.

His conviction that this can be accomplished rests upon his faith in God on the one side and logical rigor on the other — his belief that his tools are indeed adequate (for humans to have the kind of knowledge humans can have); that our knowledge of God, although partial, is really knowledge of God as God is.

In Brightman's view, that is always knowledge of the given; for Hartshorne only God can know the given with complete clarity, and the rest of us can not be certain (due to the vagueness of the given to our consciousness) what we know when we reflect upon, imagine, and infer things from the given.

When Plato acted it was probably in the belief that his freedom to act could only affect a small fragment of the world, narrowly circumscribed in space and time; but the man of today acts in the knowledge that the choice he makes will have its repercussions through countless centuries and upon countless human beings.

It is curious that the early days of clinical pastoral education, which has done more than any other movement to foster the present knowledge and skill in pastoral care, actually relied only in part upon interviewing methods and yet made the interview image dominant as the ideal.

Santayana thus identifies two aspects of mind or spirit, intuition of essences and intent directed upon things and processes in the natural world, and conceives knowledge as arising from their combination (see ED 350, 663 - 665 and 726).

Santayana would reject the principle in both forms since he holds, as we have just seen, that there is no special immediacy about mind's knowledge of itself: What is ordinarily, and properly, called «knowledge» is, for Santayana, the intuition of an essence combined with an act of intent directed upon some reality beyond which this essence is taken as a description.

What is important in all this for our story of the self is Augustine's emphasis upon knowledge and reason.

We can emotionally embrace the knowledge that God is like the sea beneath the sun — he always changes as we look out upon him, but in fact he never changes.

With that discovery it becomes impossible even for a moment to take seriously either a realistic metaphysics according to which metaphysical propositions state our empirical knowledge of the categorical characteristics of reality, or an idealistic or psychological metaphysics according to which these depend upon the way in which the human mind as such is always and everywhere constructed... We must start again at the beginning and construct a new metaphysical theory which will face the facts revealed by history.

Dear heavenly father, I give thanks for torturing and killing your son to end the eternal curse of your wrath & vengeance you put upon all of humanity because, in the beginning, two people wanted knowledge.

For millions of years a tide of knowledge has risen ceaselessly about him through the stuff of the cosmos; and that in him which he calls his «I» is nothing other than this tide atomically turning inward upon itself.

well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?

The ultimate object of man wherein lies his greatest happiness in future life is to gain knowledge of the realities of things so far as his nature allows, and do what is incumbent upon him.

What feeling, knowledge, or will a man has, depends in the last resort upon what imagination he has, that is to say, upon how these things are reflected, i.e. it depends upon imagination.

The knowledge of the power that creates and limits our existence is not a theoretical knowledge, but, on the contrary, is a knowledge that breaks in upon us at critical moments in existence itself.

William Charlton, retired lecturer in philosophy at the Universities of Edinburgh, Newcastle and Trinity College, Dublin, carefully reflects upon how Christians use the word «Faith» for a God - given knowledge fruitful in good works.

Reading scripture does not have to be a chore but can be a satisfying ministry that draws upon your gifts, while helping you to grow in your knowledge of the Bible.

For it is as true of us as it was of the Corinthians that we have shamefully lost the knowledge of God and must renew our faith in the resurrection and the claim it lays upon the church of Christ before we can get on with the mission of liberation.

Drawing upon both Hegel and Heidegger, these scholars affirm that real knowledge is self - knowledge and that the role of the text is to aid us in self - understanding.