He begins with his mother, herself a product of Russian antisemitism, and works outwards, testing beliefs and motives.
Episcopal clerics, who have often been guardians of the tradition, theological reformers, pastoral counselors or community leaders, are now also expected to be spiritual guides for religious searchers less interested in social change or therapeutic help than in testing beliefs and spiritual practices of all kinds.
Additional file 4: Study dropout by AD and genetic testing beliefs.
They found that the concept of a hidden infection not detectable by HIV tests, belief in immunity, the beliefe that gentle sex protected against HIV transmission, and protection by God against infection [ 3].
The sight of this one tests belief.
Its humour is sometimes wincingly broad, while its characters, who leap from frying pan to fire and back in a blur of drama, test belief.
Don Gregorio, with his passion for science and stubborn (and frequently tested) belief in the decency of the boys he teaches, personifies the flawed, valiant attempt at modern secular democracy that was driven underground and all but extinguished by Franco.
Strangely, the following morning I would often find myself back in this same Burger King on the way to work, testing my belief that a sausage bacon and egg sandwich and the rest were a potent hangover cure.
By manipulating these phenomena, he hopes to record visitors' responses to physical changes in their surroundings - testing his belief that "haunted" feelings are caused by responses to the environment, not ghosts.
Various worries have been raised about the design of the studies testing for belief and perceptual attribution in great apes.
In calling the woman a dog, he was testing her belief in his ability to heal.
