A theory may be viewed rather broadly as a statement purporting to describe, or to explain, or to help one to understand a phenomenon. More narrowly, a theory may present a claim of truth, or assert the presence of relationships between phenomena, or predict the occurrence of phenomena. |
Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict. |
Christian kindness, gentleness, and thoughtfulness for others are a showcase of God's light, which even an epistemology cannot completely screen off. |
Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ. |
Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results. |
Experimental syntax, of a mathematical type, geared to referential axioms, may help further along these lines - or others not imagined as yet. |
Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. |
God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis. |
I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it. |
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. |
If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar. |
If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning. |
If one refuses to view self as needing integration with God and neighbor, one shrivels like a shrub in the desert. |
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience. |
In my view, a child is born with the INNATE POTENTIAL to learn to handle deliberate focus shifts such as are seen in the kaleidoscopic poetry shifts, but both the young and old need to learn such matters from available oral or written culture or from teachers - or must have initiative and imagination to develop some such devices on their own. |