These arguments are probability judgments since they rest on the claim that, even after careful reflection, one can see no good reason for God ’ s permission of evil.

A claim of " matriarchy " in the ancient Near East is also found in The Cambridge Ancient History ( 1975 ): " the predominance of a supreme goddess is probably a reflection from the practice of matriarchy which at all times characterized Elamite civilization to a greater or lesser degree ".

Denton's music culture makes the smaller town Texas ' only other city, outside of Austin, that could claim such a title as " music town ", a reflection of city's own creative and progressive dominant cultural base.

Advocates claim that learning is enhanced through direct application in appropriate social contexts of principles and practices taught through formal instruction concurrent with guided reflection of the student's experiences.

Its proponents claim that it is a continuous process of what they call " unlearning ," " learning ," and " relearning ," " reflection ," " evaluation ," and the impact that these actions have on the students, in particular students whom they believe have been historically and continue to be disenfranchised by what they call " traditional schooling.

They also claim that total benefits to wealthier individuals are a reflection of higher taxes paid.

It would be a mistake to claim that Missouri's answer to Neil Young's Crazy Horse has gone soft but their first release in more than three years shows greater range and reflection than is typical for the rock-solid quartet.

The view of the Church is that celibacy is a reflection of life in Heaven, a source of detachment from the material world which aids in one's relationship with God.

Materialism is a realist philosophy of science, which holds that the world is material ; that all phenomena in the universe consist of " matter in motion ," wherein all things are interdependent and interconnected and develop according to natural law ; that the world exists outside us and independently of our perception of it ; that thought is a reflection of the material world in the brain, and that the world is in principle knowable.

:: In this reflection, the practitioner thinks about the difficulties to practice all of these in the practical world and work through the challenges depending on one's current capabilities and circumstances.

Alice is playing with a white kitten ( whom she calls " Snowdrop ") and a black kitten ( whom she calls " Kitty ")— the offspring of Dinah, Alice's cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — when she ponders what the world is like on the other side of a mirror's reflection.

If the world is reflected in a mirror which switches the left and right side of the car, the reflection of this angular velocity vector points to the right, but the actual angular velocity vector of the wheel still points to the left, corresponding to the minus sign.

The conundrum created by our certainty that abstract deductive propositions, if valid ( i. e., if we can " prove " them ), are true, exclusive of observation and testing in the physical world, gives rise to a further reflection ... What if thoughts themselves, and the minds that create them, are physical objects, existing only in the physical world?

This is a theatre of philosophical and existential reflection in whose centre is situated the modern human being, attempting to find a place in an ever more dehumanised world.

There are many who feel that " the comic fable that ends in horror has become more and more clearly a reflection of the altogether uncomic and horrifying realities of the world in which we live and hope to survive.

The World Social Forum prefers to define itself as " an opened space – plural, diverse, non-governmental and non-partisan – that stimulates the decentralized debate, reflection, proposals building, experiences exchange and alliances among movements and organizations engaged in concrete actions towards a more solidarity, democratic and fair world .... a permanent space and process to build alternatives to neoliberalism.

The mundus cerialis ( literally " the world " of Ceres ) was a hemispherical pit or underground vault in Rome ; Cato describes its shape as a reflection or inversion of the dome of the upper heavens.

Davidson concludes that in the figure of Iðunn " we must have a dim reflection of an old symbol: that of the guardian goddess of the life-giving fruit of the other world.

His theological writings reveal a continual interest in the natural world as a major resource for theological reflection and a unique ability to read Greek sources ( if he ever learned Hebrew it would be not until he became bishop of Lincoln ).

" Reviewer Sheldon Richman explains that for Shahak, Zionism was both a reflection of, and capitulation to, European antisemitism, " since it, like the anti-Semites, holds that Jews are everywhere aliens who would best be isolated from the rest of the world.

Holocaust theology ( from the Greek: hólos, " whole " and kaustós, " burnt "), refers to a body of theological and philosophical debate and reflection, and related literature, primarily within Judaism, that attempts to come to grips with various conflicting views about the role of God in the universe and the human world in light of the Holocaust of the late 1930s and 1940s when approximately 11 million people, including 6 million Jews, were subjected to genocide by the Nazi regime and its allies.

Today, the works in the genre of lives of the saints represent a valuable historical source and reflection of different social ideas, world outlook and aesthetic concepts of the past.

If the world is reflected in a mirror which switches the left and right side of the car, the " reflection " of this angular momentum " vector " ( viewed as an ordinary vector ) points to the right, but the actual angular momentum vector of the wheel still points to the left, corresponding to the extra minus sign in the reflection of a pseudovector.

Whereas Libertarian Extension can be thought of as flowing from a political reflection of the natural world, Ecologic Extension is best thought of as a scientific reflection of the natural world.

Another theory from 1962 highlights the game's focus on one's opponents mother is a reflection of the dominance of females in African American families and how young males may feel rejected by females and react accordingly.

As one of his final works before his death, Camera Lucida was both an ongoing reflection on the complicated relations between subjectivity, meaning and cultural society as well as a touching dedication to his mother and description of the depth of his grief.

* " Proshai, Livushka ": when Tony Soprano opens a closet at the gathering after his mother Livia's funeral, Big Pussy's reflection can be briefly seen in the mirror of the closet door.

She gets into mild vocal quarrels with her reflection and her feminist mother, Lydia Pearson, although Lydia usually gives the moral at the end.

A mother of two, Minsky published a reflection, " The Mother Load ," on balancing time between her work and family in Literary Mama.

A Fold in the Map looks back, in the first instance, to South Africa from Scotland and England, while in the second, is a reflection on the authors late and much loved father, his illness and death, and also about her four sisters, and her mother, the women who loved him.

Hearing his wife and mother scream in horror, Paul flees into the swamps and peering into the water, sees his reflection.

His mother drags him before the only mirror in the house in retaliation and upon seeing his visage, Erik mistakes his reflection for that of a horrible monster.

*** Leading up to the 2006 Assembly, a church wide process of response, reflection and preparation has been initiated.

Without a great deal of thought about where this would lead, without consciously copying any other denomination's model of church government, and without much theological reflection, the Church of the Nazarene became an international body.

In the interior of the church a quatrefoil shape was cut out of the wall through which she could receive the Eucharist and a squint ( or hagioscope ) for her use for prayer and reflection.

For example, in a Christian Methodist faith organization silence and reflection during the sermons might be appreciated by the congregation, while in a Southern Baptist church, silence might mean disagreement with what is being said, or perhaps disconnectedness from the congregated community.

A huge quantity of theological reflection emerged in the early centuries of the Christian church – in a wide variety of genres, in a variety of contexts, and in several languages – much of it the product of attempts to discuss how Christian faith should be lived in cultures very different from the one in which it was born.

For example, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in his " text of reflection " The Challenge and Hope of Being an Anglican Today, released in 2006, described the three " components in our heritage " as " strict evangelical Protestantism ", " Roman Catholicism " and " religious liberalism ", accepting that " each of these has a place in the church ’ s life ".

It is open daily, intended as a place for quiet reflection and has a church hall which is well used by the local community.

Her funeral took place in the church, referred to as one of her most important accomplishments and " the truest reflection of her visionary leadership " in March 1905.

Eden is called to strengthen and support the life and mission of the church by educating pastors and teachers, enlivening critical reflection on faith, and encouraging Christian discipleship.

The church pledges itself to education, reflection, and action for peace and justice and the realization of the vision of the heavenly banquet where all are loved and blessed.

The CNI participates in many ecumenical bodies as a reflection of its commitment towards church unity.

When an inspired document is presented to the church by the prophet-president, its consideration and the decision of whether or not to include it in the Doctrine and Covenants becomes the primary matter of reflection for the body.

" " This is only initial preference because further reflection may reveal that at some points the church in earlier times was more able and willing to be guided by the Spirit than the contemporary church.

The town was made wealthy by the medieval wool trade of the 15th century, and the main church is of impressive size and quality in reflection of this fact.

Brother Roger was awarded the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education in 1988 and wrote many books on prayer and reflection, asking young people to be confident in God and committed to their local church community and to humanity.

Formerly, to stop paying church tax, one had to formally leave the church by personally going to local register office and waiting during an allowance of time for reflection.