Greek was also the language in which many of the foundational texts of Western philosophy, such as the Platonic dialogues and the works of Aristotle, were composed ; the New Testament of the Christian Bible was written in Koiné Greek.

His analysis showed the Puritans as providing the foundational values of America, based on their strong Hebrew Bible view of the world, which included fighting for earthly political justice, an emphasis on laws and education, and the " chosenness " which the Puritans identified with, giving them a sense of moral mission in founding America.

The CLBA emphasizes the foundational place of the Bible, stating, " We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God and free from error.

He supported the society's programme to send a bible to every court in Scotland and wrote in support of " The Bible in Scots Law ", a pamphlet it distributed to Scottish lawyers which described the Bible as a " foundational source book for Scotland's legal system ".

The Hidden Book analyses the punctuation patterns, word choice, sentence structure and allusions used in the biblical stories ; and reconstructs what Friedman says is the original, foundational text at the heart of the Bible.

Prince, who taught on many themes and subjects including the foundational truths of the Bible, was probably most noted for his teachings about demons, deliverance ministry, and Israel.

The Certificate in Bible and Missions is the foundational program consisting of the first year ( two semesters ) courses and requirements of the BA and AA degrees.

One of the foundational concepts in the literary criticism of the Hebrew Bible in general and the Pentateuch in particular is the notion that the various literary components, whether small or large, were put together by redactors or editors rather than authors in the modern sense.

More specifically, Dependent Rational Animals tries to make a holistic case on the basis of our best current knowledge ( as opposed to an ahistorical, foundational claim ) that " human vulnerability and disability " are the " central features of human life " and that Thomistic " virtues of dependency " are needed for individual human beings to flourish in their passage from stages of infancy to adulthood and old age.

He perhaps is best known today for his successful tenure as President of Hampden-Sydney College from 1992 – 2000 and earlier tour as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from May 1976-August 1977 ; for his foundational work in doctrine for small wars down at the lower end of the spectrum of conflict ( low intensity conflict ), where he coined the term " counterinsurgency " ( COIN ); and for facilitating the drafting and passage of the Nunn-Cohen Amendment to the Goldwater-Nichols Act creating the US Special Operations Command ( USSOCOM ) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict ( ASD / SOLIC ).

He is especially known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry.

His key contributions include topological tensor products of topological vector spaces, the theory of nuclear spaces as foundational for Schwartz distributions, and the application of L < sup > p </ sup > spaces in studying linear maps between topological vector spaces.

He went on to plan and execute a major foundational programme for rebuilding the foundations of algebraic geometry, which were then in a state of flux and under discussion in Claude Chevalley's seminar ; he outlined his programme in his talk at the 1958 International Congress of Mathematicians.

These foundational applications of category theory have been worked out in fair detail as a basis for, and justification of, constructive mathematics.

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that EP is not simply a subdiscipline of psychology but that evolutionary theory can provide a foundational, metatheoretical framework that integrates the entire field of psychology, in the same way it has for biology.

Possible candidates for foundational beliefs are thought to include perceptual and memory beliefs, especially reports of one's own subjective experience ; beliefs about the meanings of sentences or words ; and a priori intuitions.

Set theory has come to play the role of a foundational theory in modern mathematics, in the sense that it interprets propositions about mathematical objects ( for example, numbers and functions ) from all the traditional areas of mathematics ( such as algebra, analysis and topology ) in a single theory, and provides a standard set of axioms to prove or disprove them.

The understanding that Mark was the first of the synoptic gospels and that it served as a source for Matthew and Luke is foundational to modern critical scholarship.

Calvin provided many of the foundational documents for reformed churches, including documents on the catechism, the liturgy, and church governance.

These Judeo-Christian values were especially important at the key foundational moments of the settling of America, the War for Independence and the Civil War.

According to the Zohar, a foundational text for kabbalistic thought, Torah study can proceed along four levels of interpretation ( exegesis ).

This structuralist view of language was first introduced by Ferdinand de Saussure, and his structuralism remains foundational for most approaches to language today.

At the core of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy is a sustained argument for the foundational role that perception plays in understanding the world as well as engaging with the world.

Quantum mechanics has superseded classical mechanics at the foundational level and is indispensable for the explanation and prediction of processes at molecular and ( sub ) atomic level.

Because of its applicability in diverse fields of mathematics, mathematicians including Saunders Mac Lane have proposed category theory as a foundational system for mathematics, independent of set theory.

Applications for constructive mathematics have also been found in typed lambda calculi, topos theory and categorical logic, which are notable subjects in foundational mathematics and computer science.

It would also cause foundational problems for general relativity, because in the presence of a naked singularity, general relativity cannot make predictions about the future evolution of spacetime.

Organizations can participate in a continuing certification process to ISO 9001: 2008 to demonstrate their compliance with the standard, which includes a requirement for continual ( i. e. planned ) improvement of the QMS, as well as more foundational QMS components such as failure mode and effects analysis ( FMEA ).

For example school choice may enable parents to choose a school that provides religious instruction for their children ; stronger discipline ; better foundational skills including reading, writing, mathematics, and science ; everyday skills from handling money to farming, or other desirable foci.

In the foundational text of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching, Laozi explains that Tao is not a ' name ' for a ' thing ' but the underlying natural order of the universe whose ultimate essence is difficult to circumscribe.

Hence, wave-particle dualism, which is foundational for the quantum theory, is replaced by wave ( continuous field ) monism.

* July 18 – The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundational stone laid for the new campanile ( bell tower ) of the Florence Cathedral.

One arguing from the theory of suspension of disbelief would contend that while Superman's abilities and vulnerabilities are the foundational premises the audience accepted as their part of the initial deal ; they did not accept a persistent inability for otherwise normal characters to recognize a close colleague solely because of minor changes in clothing.

He is also a Doctor of the Church, most remembered theologically for issuing the Tome of Leo, a document which was foundational to the debates of the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon.

' Deconstruction ' is somewhat less negative than the Heideggerian or Nietzschean terms ' destruction ' or ' reversal '; it suggests that certain foundational concepts of metaphysics will never be entirely eliminated ... There is no simple ' overcoming ' of metaphysics or the language of metaphysics.

These concepts are discussed in a more precise way in functional programming and its foundational disciplines, lambda calculus and combinatory logic.

The foundational concepts are found in Greenleaf ’ s first three major essays, " The Servant as Leader ", " The Institution as Servant ", and " Trustees as Servants.

The topological phenomena were subtle enough to need better foundational concepts ; technically speaking, the Tor functors had to be defined.

He has defended his material as being significantly different from Wicca at the roots level, and asserts that many of the foundational concepts in Gerald Gardner's Wicca can be found earlier in works on Italian Witchcraft and ancient Mediterranean mystery sects.

The term is often used to refer specifically to the inability to perform arithmetic operations, but it is also defined by some educational professionals and cognitive psychologists such as Stanislas Dehaene and Brian Butterworth as a more fundamental inability to conceptualize numbers as abstract concepts of comparative quantities ( a deficit in " number sense "), which these researchers consider to be a foundational skill, upon which other maths abilities build.

Some institutions focus more on pleasing the computing industry by teaching the most popular programming languages, or teaching the use of commonly available development tools, than they do on imparting the foundational concepts of computing science.

" Within their presuppositionalist framework, Van Tillians do often utilize foundational concepts for Thomistic and Evidentialist arguments ( belief in the uniformity of natural causes, for example ), but they are unwilling to grant that such beliefs are justifiable on " natural " ( neutral ) grounds.

In many areas, foundational scientific concepts transcend disciplinary boundaries.

Anti-foundationalists use logical or historical / genealogical attacks on foundational concepts ( see especially Nietzsche and Foucault ), often coupled with alternative methods for justifying and forwarding intellectual inquiry, such as the pragmatic subordination of knowledge to practical action.

Philosophical approaches in decision theory focus on foundational concepts in decision theory-for example, on the natures of choice or preference, rationality, risk and uncertainty, economic agents.

Another defense of the Living Constitution is based in viewing the Constitution not merely as law, but as a source of foundational concepts for the governing of society.