Sentences with phrase «what earlier understandings»

Bynum does not claim to know exactly what earlier understandings of bodily resurrection say to us, but she intuits that they tell us something if we have ears to hear and eyes to see.

Not exact matches

So there's been a lot of great work by NASA and other organizations in early exploration of Mars and understanding... what Mars is like, where could we land, what's the composition of the atmosphere, where is there water — water ice, I should say — and so we need to go from these early exploration missions to actually building a city.

Acknowledge that you understand what they want and need by making reference to the conversation or earlier email, detailing or even better, summarizing what they have asked for and even posing the question - «Have I understood you correctly?»

Getting an understanding of what your business is worth is important to do early in the process because this is the starting point for many decisions.

Shontell: From what I understand, you had a pretty awful family tragedy happen early.

From Ashley Madison's early days to its current international incarnation, Biderman has understood that the service wouldn't just sell itself, which is why he pursued what he calls a «Hollywood red - carpet» approach to PR.

Today's Boomer Consumer Businesses need to understand today's boomers from three perspectives: 1) where they are in their heads in terms of what drives their behavior; 2) where they are in their lives in terms of lifestyle and life stage; and 3) how their shared generational experiences coming of age in the late»50s to early»70s shape their perceptions.

Whatever you call the firm (its post-merger name hasn't been revealed as of this writing), much of its success in early seasons was due to creative director Draper's ability to see beyond what clients and customers said they wanted, and understand instead what they truly needed.

Besides the absurd valuation (and the existential angst the valuation has apparently unleashed for some) I just never understood something more basic: What's the incentive or value of taking on that much VC at such an early stage?

Anastasia Gentles, cofounder of Sugar Land, Texas - based Nightlight Pediatric Urgent Care (No. 2,306), says catching the ear of a female banker at Louisiana - based Whitney Bank who understood the importance of what she and her two co-founders were doing was the turning point in her business's early days.

Get organized and discuss project objectives early on so that you understand what your boss wants to accomplish.

Watching this young entrepreneur go through the difficult steps to truly understand what he wanted for himself and his ultimate company was inspiring, because he did the work early on to better understand what created his drive.

The BlackRock Investment Institute took some of the firm's most senior portfolio managers to Frankfurt, Berlin and Milan earlier this month to understand what's taking place on the ground, and whether the recovery is for real.

We will best understand what Carl Elliott is doing, I suspect, if we think of him as reclaiming the outsider status of early bioethicists.

Then again, it's not like you'll actually understand what I'm saying, nor will you actually address any earlier points.

As I read the posts here, I think the HATERS still mock them, but now are to dumb to understand what the early haters were meaning as they cried, «Washed and saved!»

Get»em hooked early so they don't understand or question what it is they supposedly believe

As recommended earlier, a dictionary is useful for gaining a better understanding of what words mean.

To understand 1 John, we must understanding the early form of Gnosticism he was writing against and what they were teaching.

What is more important, the earlier critics did less than justice to the fact that the Bible has its own doctrine about the nature of history, which deserves to be understood and appreciated in itself.

The early Church struggled to understand what God meant when he said he would return, and over time they were forced to adjust their assumptions.

It is fascinating in itself; it throws light on every portion of the Bible; it clears up obscurities, explaining what is else inexplicable; it distinguishes the minor detours from the major highways of Biblical thought; it gives their true value to primitive concepts, the early, blazed trails leading out to great issues; and, in the end, it makes of the Bible a coherent whole, understood, as everything has to be understood, in terms of its origins and growth.

Before we come to an exposition of what early Protestants were trying to say positively with their new image, it is important to understand precisely what struck them as negative about the image of the Middle Ages.

The beauty of the written word in Genesis strikes me with an understanding of what the greatest thinkers of those early days saw when they looked into the wonder of man and the awe in the universe around them.

Their whole analysis of decline hangs on a prescriptive or normative understanding of church - relatedness, and that normative understanding resembles suspiciously what the colleges were, or at least claimed to be, sometime earlier in the century, in perhaps some «golden age» of church - relatedness (and, unfortunately, often concomitant ethnic insularity and academic mediocrity).

This story reminded the early church readers that not even the disciples understood what was happening in their midst.

But we have seen that the earlier part of the paragraph can be better understood if we take Jesus» faithfulness to be what discloses the justice of God.

sounds more like «corporate brainstorming», but what I was trying to suggest is that it appears that we're witnessing (not intentionally) an evolving understanding of what wd become more central to the narrative and eventually orthodox.That is, if you cdn't believe it, you were out the door.A good example wd be the higher Christology that the fourth gospel reflects and more specifically, the virgin birth which it (like Mark and Paul) doesn't mention.If the birth narratives that we're familiar with are absent from the earliest gospel and the most theological gospel that came decades later, and can only be found in the other two gospels that we know used the first, it at least suggests a growing and evolving understanding of who Jesus «was» and «is».

Amos Wilder adds a piece to our understanding of what these performances might have been like: When we picture to ourselves the early Christian narrators we should make full allowance for animated and expressive narration... oral speech also was less inhibited than today... when we think of the early church meetings and testimonies and narrations we are probably well guided if we think of the way in which Vachael Lindsay read or of the appropriate readings of James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones (56).

It would be to do for the modern era what Aristotle succeeded in doing for an earlier age — it would be to find a way, given the modern world's understanding of nature, to do justice to human being as a part of nature so understood.

It was appropriate, then, for early 20th - century Social Gospel theologians like Walter Rauschenbusch to observe how prejudice and social discrimination are passed from one generation to the next, and it is consistent for theologians today to incorporate observations about social inheritance — what liberation theologians and feminist theologians call «social location» or «systemic evil» — into our understanding of the human condition.

Jesus understood what it meant to pray without ceasing, and these early mornings of prayer were a small part of His overall prayer life.

One of the striking things about the Easter and post-Easter narratives in the New Testament is that they are largely about incomprehension: which is to say that, in the canonical Gospels, the early Church admitted that it took some time for the first Christian believers to understand what had happened in the Resurrection, and how what had happened changed everything.

We are now in position to see more clearly how Paul understood the necessity of the incarnation, (This term can scarcely be avoided, but will be understood, when applied to Paul, in the light of what I tried to say earlier), about which we were speaking in the preceding lecture.

If not, then we have ended up with a different version of Christianity than the one of those early Christians, which is what some of understand has indeed happened.

Early in Faith and Order inquiries it became apparent that formal comparative examination of the confessional and other utterances of the churches was not adequate for a responsible understanding either of what these churches affirmed in common or asserted in difference.

I can understand making the point that the people of Ferguson should be invited to forgive what they perceived as a wrong on the part of the officer...... but for you to make the assumption and then state that the Officer's action was «wrong» (if that is what you meant to say) is not something I can agree with, not without your full rationale (which maybe I missed from an earlier post)....

If we want to understand why the earliest Christians kept the Hebrew Bible, we must know what they meant when they said Jesus was the Christ.

Applied to the Whiteheadian notion of a society, this understanding of Spirit illuminates what I said earlier about a society vis - à - vis its member actual entities.

What becomes evident then is the similarity which exists between the genetically early forms of the understanding of reality and the explanations of the philosophy of organism.

There may well be earlier theological reflections on Paul's assertion that God's weakness is more powerful than what we typically understand as power, but I have not surfaced them.

[40] On other important aspects of Tertullian's understanding of what it meant to be in ecclesiological communion and the role of baptism, see Killian McDonnell, «Communion Ecclesiology and Baptism in the Spirit: Tertullian and the Early Church,» in Theological Studies, Vol.

They were attracted to what they saw of the faith and practices of early Christian communities; only later did they come to understand very much about the faith, after a prolonged program of catechesis made them proficient in an alien grammar and way of life.

In explaining his early books of artistic photography — particularly Occupations, which contains many photos of him giving the Nazi salute against a variety of backgrounds — Kiefer offers a comment that is consistent with his expressionistic need to «fuse» himself with his subject: «I do not identify with Nero or Hitler, but I have to re-enact what they did just a little bit in order to understand the madness.

What took place then is to be understood with the earlier experience at Caesarea Philippi in mind.

It is the story of the early leader's and follower's STRUGGLE to understand who they were and what they were supposed to do in the midst of the void of questions Christ left us in.

Early in my own discipleship, I was privileged to attend a class that taught one how to explore what particular gifts one had been given and how to work within the Body by focusing on those and also understanding how members with other giftings functioned best.

There are dangers in our phrasing here which we shall clarify later on, but it is legitimate to state that at least some things which appear without intelligibility from an earlier perspective may in principle become intelligible within a later and wider perspective.8 If this is the case, then, it may be simply impossible for us ever to have a controlling and objectively comprehensive understanding of what chance really is.

@Ed What was objectionable in your earlier statement is that you were implying that while gravity is a known fact that is still less than 100 % understood (hence the term «theory of gravity»), evolution is somehow controversial within biology and is called a theory for some very different reason.

We must understand that what we read in the book of Genesis comes from a religion and culture which is at its early stages of growing into