Sentence examples for influential conception from inspiring English sources

The most influential conception of the visible church was the historical-evolutionary doctrine of the German theologian Albrecht Ritschl, who saw the institutional church as the actualization of the Kingdom of God progressively realized in history.

Rather surprisingly, he authored a series of articles that moved away from the influential conception of scientific theories as formal calculi combined with empirical interpretations that had been characteristic of logical empiricism.

The thought that conceptions of power are themselves shaped by power relations is behind the claim, made by many feminists, that the influential conception of power as power-over is itself a product of male domination (for further discussion, see section 4 below).

The most influential conception of such pluralism or disagreement is Rawls's account of the burdens of judgment and the subsequent fact of reasonable pluralism (Rawls 1996, 36 37, 55 57), though this account is controversial, and has been subject to extensive criticism (e.g. Galston 2002, 46 47; Gaus 1996, 131 136; Wenar 1995, 41 48).

Indeed, influential conceptions of ideal democracy have been offered by democracy's enemies as well as by its friends.

The interconnections between these alone are complex; but there were other influential conceptions in antiquity as well most notably, Galen's amalgam of previous methodologies in the context of medicine, and the Neoplatonists' theological transformation of Plato's method of division.

The only recent attempt at a somewhat comprehensive inventory of the term's uses is due to Leslie Stevenson (2003), who enumerates (without claiming exhaustiveness) twelve of "the most influential conceptions of imagination" that can be found in recent discussions in "philosophy of mind, aesthetics, ethics, poetry and … religion.

Some of the more influential feminist conceptions of objectivity include the following: Feminist/nonsexist research methods.

Aristotle's influential and powerful conception of such a fundamental subject is, of course, that of a subject which is incapable of also figuring as a predicate or as he himself puts it, rather more precisely, it is that which is 'neither said of nor present in a subject'.

In an influential article on Socrates' conception of the soul (one that Lovibond 1991, 35-6, for instance, treats as authoritative concerning the Greek notion of soul), Burnet claimed that when Socrates conceived of the soul as the 'seat' or bearer of wisdom and excellence of character, this was a dramatic departure from the conception of soul embedded in ordinary Greek thought and language.

I think this lose-lose feeling is rooted in a culturally influential but historically false conception of the relationship between science and religion as one of perpetual warfare.