Sentences with phrase «with modern understandings»

This alternative view of learners is also more consistent with modern understandings of brain plasticity and human learning.

However, many mission readings of Matthew 28:18 20 today still carry the influence of the term «heathen» which clashes with modern understandings of «ethne» as nations, and thus distorts the thrust of mission as the proclamation and practice of the good news.

Reconciling the words of these inspired prophets with the modern understanding of inspiration and inerrancy is a difficult task indeed.

In this age of rapid change, and with our modern understanding of the human condition, we can see how much alters in a person's lifetime; we must remain open to what may come, and free to respond to new circumstances.

Not exact matches

With much of our modern athletic world catering to convenience — fitness clubs, treadmills, protection from the elements — it can be hard to understand why someone would pull on a pair of sneakers, open the front door and start running.

I chatted with Ryan Zagata of Brooklyn Bicycle Company to understand how the humble bicycle has spurred a modern lifestyle industry.

When you do, our modern psychological understanding suggests that mirroring positively affects the other person's thoughts and / or feelings about you, which can lead to building quicker rapport with them.

To this point, he said he would be working with therapists and lawyer Lisa Bloom to better understand gender dynamics in the modern day.

As faithful readers of this blog will know, I make only very sporadic contributions to this blog but a substantial fraction of those contributions have made reference to modern monetary theory (MMT), the view (crudely put) that, based on a detailed understanding of the institutional mechanisms behind monetary operations, calls into question our obsession with -LSB-...]

What is interesting to see with this bitcoin hype is how uneducated writers still are when it comes to the question of what money actually is — especially the assumption that money, e.g. US Dollars, are tied to any real world values like gold is one of these modern fairytales that is repeated often — I can not understand that even after the big corporate crimes (aka as «financial crisis») that US Citizens cost millions of dollars there is still such a lack of understanding of what money actually is.

By combining our deep insurance knowledge, understanding, and experience with modern technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence, we have created an entirely new and more effective way do distribute an essential business service to the deeply neglected small business market.

«Through this data, we hope to provide organizations a richer understanding of how modern supporters engage with fundraising campaigns,» said Dr. Cipollini.

Understanding Gadamer reveals how modern thinking has infiltrated even the notion of dialogue with God.

Although there are parts of the encyclical that are difficult to understand from our modern American perspective (and I say that with the greatest affection), I believe the encyclical speaks as a voice crying in the wilderness, holding out the truth to those who have the power to incarnate it in the world through their policies and actions.

One might paraphrase the version of the summary of the law as actually understood by many representatives of modern Western theology as «Thou shalt love thy neighbor with all thy heart, soul, mind, and strength.

With adept recourse to an impressive (but never name - dropping) array of anthropologists and literary theorists, folklorists and linguists, philosophers and theologians, she shows that these Catholic writers engage modern and even postmodern culture by way of a revolutionary understanding of the imagination.

Philosophically and theologically, Aristotle and Aquinas do not deal with addiction, but they do write extensively concerning the power of vice, which is intimately related to the more modern understanding of addiction.

Suffering with all that profound knowledge that the modern world just doesn't understand.

That said, translating the KJ bible into something speakers / readers of Modern English can understand is not in any way tampering with words that came directly from God.

He had drawn heavily upon Benedict's moral theology in his latest book and thought the former pope understood the modern world with rare insight and knew how to speak about it.

One of the unintentional cruelties sometimes practiced by the United States Government in dealing with American Indians has sprung from failure to understand this contrast between primitive and modern culture.

It can be argued with evidence that some modern psychological theories have themselves become obstacles to understanding personal relationships.

Building on but moving beyond psychological understandings of guilt, and excavating the reality of wrong «being that underlies our wrong» doing, Pieper brings the wisdom tradition of Plato, Augustine, and Aquinas into conversation with moderns, both Christian and anti-Christian, who try to make sense of sin and evil in the human condition.

In defining the complex notion of wisdom, Deane - Drummond introduces the concept of wisdom as an understanding of different facets of reality, a contemplative «way of knowing» lost by modern science with its focus on specific discoveries.

However debased Hawking's understanding of basic philosophy, it has been encouraged by the lack of real engagement with modern science by Catholic theologians.

This understanding of art, now of the gallery and simply open to view rather than created with a purpose, seems to symbolise our modern era: at once a loss of God, purpose and meaning, yet at the same time a search for deeper and more lasting realities.

In fact some churches do a good job of enhancing their understanding of ancient wisdom with modern knowledge.

Better to understand Chesterton's idea that Jews were not naturally a part of English culture without the inevitably determinative intervening lens of the Nazi holocaust, we might compare it with modern English perceptions of the problem of multiculturalism as it applies particularly to the Moslem community, still widely seen as being impossible to assimilate: thus, there is understood by many decent and tolerant people to be what might be termed a «Moslem problem» (just as many decent and tolerant gentiles in Chesterton's day thought there was a «Jewish problem»).

Modern science has extended rather than radically altered our understanding of the universe, in two directions: the very large, with the expanding universe, and the very small, in genetics and particle physics.

Furthermore, it is impossible to understand the Church's teaching about the sacramentality of marriage without some reference to the modern papal Magisterium that begins with Leo XIII and continues under John Paul II, whose instruction on marriage and family remains one of the outstanding features of his pontificate.

The impact of the technologies and institutions of electronic culture need to be understood in relation to their intertwinement with two other major modern movements, each of which is dependent on the other.

The problem may not be with rights per se, whose articulation is invaluable to our conception of modern republicanism (and may even help more fully articulate what is true about Christian morality), but with an interpretation that takes rights as the whole of moral discourse and therefore, understands the abstract Lockean individual to be a comprehensive account of the human person.

It implies a static understanding of culture in which God can not do something new which is consistent with Scripture and thereby provide a fresh musical interpretation which reflects modern sensitivities.

There are two truths about Jesus that seem to be at odds with the modern Christian understanding.

I did not understand him to be equating Freudian therapy with modern neuroscience; I thought, rather, that he took his own distaste for what he sees as certain mystifications in the former as a point de départ for reflections on a deterministic and mechanistic philosophy he finds even more distasteful.

The acknowledgment of the role of language (and thereby history) in all understanding combined with the awareness of the large role unconscious factors play in all conscious rationality have made those theologically necessary transcendental forms of reflection not impossible, but far, far more difficult to formulate adequately than modern theology (including my own) once believed.

And so, if we moderns are to share in the blessings of which the New Testament speaks, we need the help of someone who understands the language of mythology and can translate it into a language with which the modern world is familiar.

Under modern conditions, with changes occurring so rapidly that most specific occupational preparation becomes quickly out of date, it even appears that a fundamental liberal education is the best vocational education, for it develops the powers of imagination needed to meet new situations and the understanding of interrelationships required by life in an increasingly interdependent civilization.

Modern political theory from Machiavelli to Montesquieu had been preoccupied with understanding its greatness and its decline.

Modern philosophy shares with Christianity an emancipation from entities and concepts and thus an understanding of spirituality as «an existential meditation on the horizon within which it finds itself.»

We have also suggested interpretations that are consistent with our modern common sense, with our understanding of how the world works and with our understanding of the physical sciences — interpretations that are also consistent with our faith.

The modern subject is perhaps best understood as the being who tries to maintain the status of personhood and transcend the world, but without relying upon ecstatic communion with the person of God.

The whole history of Christian theology makes it clear that those who come to Christ with other preconceptions about God are able to understand their encounter with him apart from any implication that God is Person in the modern sense.

Many of these writers will go a step further and claim that in our modern world, with our Darwinian understanding of biology, there is, in fact, no need for religious belief at all.

There are several arguments that can be advanced against this position: first, that there is no need to adapt or interpret the Bible this way because this «modern common sense» is quite uncommon; second, that the current popularity of a belief or point of view is no guarantee of its truth, so the Bible ought not to be adapted to suit the understanding of a particular time; third, that the Bible can not be adapted to this common sense, because this common sense excludes God; and fourth, that if our common sense disagrees with the Bible, then we must change our common sense after all, because the Bible is true.

We can not share in this mythological picture, continues Bultmann, because we live and think within «the world - picture formed by modern natural science» and within «the understanding man has of himself in accordance with which he understands himself to be a closed inner unity that does not stand open to the incursion of supernatural powers.

But our modern, indeed very recent, understanding of the psychosomatic unity comprising a person, and of the deep influence of environmental factors upon personality, raises in acute form the question whether our present personality can be raised individually and clothed upon with a resurrection - body in a resurrection - environment.

He was, of course, always more neo-orthodox than orthodox in his beliefs, and his essay on the concept of «basic Judaism» shows him struggling, as so many other thoughtful modern Jews do, to extract what is enduring and imperishable in the Jewish understanding of life: «groping to establish rapport with the Jewish tradition, standing at the synagogue door.»

I had read a similar explanation many years ago — about oil being the «medical preparation» for healing of the day — with a modern - day understanding that the oil we might use today could be symbolic of the medical preparation for healing — yes, even as we take advantage of the wonders and miracles of modern medicine.

If nothing is found wrong with this neutrino - velocity measurement, then of course the modern understanding of physics is thrown entirely «up in the air.»