As the source of canon law, Burchard's Decretum was supplanted around 1150 by the Decretum Gratiani, a much larger collection that further attempted to reconcile contradictory canon law.

Some commentators ( like Georg Brandes, the Danish Shakespeare scholar of the late 19th century ) have attempted to reconcile these contradictory claims by arguing that the play was composed originally around 1600 – 02, but heavily revised shortly before its 1609 printing.

In an attempt to answer the students ’ question and find a way to bridge the many apparently conflicting and contradictory viewpoints in psychology, Graves created an epistemological theory that he hoped would help to reconcile the various approaches to human nature and questions about psychological maturity.

The issue of slavery forced antislavery theologians, including William Ellery Channing, Francis Wayland, and Horace Bushnell, to reconcile what they perceived as contradictory loyalties to the Bible and to antislavery reform.

He is aware that ‘ to talk about ‘ reconciling ’ the Maimonidean idea and the Documentary Hypothesis is futile, for you cannot reconcile two contradictory theories.

The Brahma Sūtras attempt to reconcile the seemingly contradictory and diverse statements of the various Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gītā, by placing each teaching in a doctrinal context.

Furman's first Headmasters story, " Worlds Apart ", even seemed to reconcile the two contradictory ideas-that the process was intended to create a singular mind, but had malfunctioned, leaving two minds in one body with the Nebulan in ultimate control.

The counter-argument to this interpretation is that politicians may start out in their career as hopeful idealists aiming to serve the community, but as soon as they become deeply entangled in political processes, they abandon their high ideals because they must reconcile many contradictory situations, and in the process begin to compromise themselves.

Aristotle ’ s genius was to reconcile these two apparently contradictory views of the world.

Both stressed the realist and scientific aspects of the movement, though Hunt continued to emphasise the spiritual significance of art, seeking to reconcile religion and science by making accurate observations and studies of locations in Egypt and Palestine for his paintings on biblical subjects.

The definition of urban agriculture as an industry that responds to the nutritional demands of a city, from within that city, with the use and reuse of that city's resources while acknowledging economic and resource use does not reconcile aspects of regional health, food security, and application of grassroots organizations.

The fellowship also is opposed to certain aspects of the Ecumenical Movement such as the attempts to reconcile Protestantism and Roman Catholicism, as it believes that the teachings of the latter are contrary to the Bible.

Oftentimes philosophical theologians attempt to reconcile certain aspects of Christian doctrine with developments in philosophy.

In The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien uses the main dwarf character Gimli to finally reconcile the conflict between Elves and Dwarves through showing great courtesy to Galadriel and forming a deep friendship with Legolas.

Currently, the town is at a crossroads trying to reconcile the town's rural history and character with exploding residential and now even commercial development.

He focused on character structure rather than on neurotic symptoms, and tried to reconcile psychoanalysis with Marxism, arguing that neurosis is rooted in physical, sexual and socio-economic conditions, and in particular is caused by a lack of " orgastic potency.

The focus is on character interaction as the Player Characters are among the sole survivors in an abandoned sanctuary, as all other vampiric forms are cleansed, with the Player Characters given a chance to interact with each other, reconcile and turn to God before 40 Nights are over.

The story has four narrators: Donald, a mixed-blood Indian, now middle-aged and dying of Lou Gehrig ’ s disease ; Donald ’ s wife, Cynthia, whom he rescued as a teen from the ruins of her family ; Cynthia ’ s brother David ( the central character of True North ); and her nephew and Donald ’ s soul mate K. Ultimately, the extended family helps Donald end his life at the place of his choosing, and then draw on the powers of love and commitment to reconcile loss and heal wounds borne for generations.

I cannot forget that ever since I was a child Fitzwilliam has been, in all situations, my warmest and most affectionate friend, and the person in the world of whom decidedly I have the best opinion, and so in most respects I have still, but as a politician I cannot reconcile his conduct with what I ( who have known him for more than five-and-thirty years ) have always thought to be his character.

In 1890, Lavigerie appeared in the new character of a politician, and arranged with Pope Leo XIII to make an attempt to reconcile the church with the republic.

Dave Hardenbrook wished to reconcile L. Frank Baum's original version of the character with Ruth Plumly Thompson's version.

Although some have argued that both paradigms do not align well, others have attempted to reconcile both paradigms.

It remains to be seen how well the IUCN will be able to reconcile its founding ideals with the pressures of incorporation into the development institutions.

In the Middle Ages, when Jewish thought met Greek thought, " Hakira " ( Jewish Philosophy ) developed to reconcile the two systems, as well as formulate creeds of belief, inherent within traditional Jewish thought.

Health advocates often claim that market systems are very difficult to reconcile with food, nutrition, agriculture or medicine's need to work well with living systems — a key complaint of the anti-globalization movement.

Self-taught people, mostly in two or three members of the different choices of old instruments, mostly in the violin, sacking, saz, drums, flutes ( zurle ) or wooden flute, as others have already called, the original performers of Bosnian music that can not be written notes, transmitted by ear from generation to generation, family is usually nasljedna. Smatra to be brought from Persia-Kalesi tribe that settled in the area of present Sprecanski valleys and hence probably the name Kalesiji. U this part of Bosnia is najrasprostranjenija. Ponovo became the leader of First World War onwards, as well as 60 years in the field Sprecanski doline. Ovu kind of music enjoyed by all three peoples in Bosnia, Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs, and she contributed a lot to reconcile people socializing, entertainment and other organizations through festivala. U Kalesija each year maintained and the Bosnian Festival Original music

Kate is torn between fitting in and embracing the Wiccan path ; Annie tries to reconcile her scientific, rational thinking with her new-found intuitive, emotional faith, as well as coming to terms with her parents ' deaths years before ; the headstrong and independent Cooper has trouble adjusting to both the unpredictability of magic and the novelty of intense friendship.

High levels of comfort are difficult to reconcile with a low center of gravity, body roll resistance, low angular inertia, support for the driver, steering feel and other characteristics that make a car handle well.

In the sixteenth century anyone who considered himself ‘ au fait ’ read Plato as well as Aristotle, trying as much as possible ( and not always very successfully ) to reconcile the two with each other and with Christianity.

Because the images of Shakespeare are either doubtful in provenance or lacking expression, no one image seems to reconcile well with readers ' imaginations.

Harold has invited the developer to the meeting, which the man takes as an attempt to humiliate him, before realizing Harold has invited his elderly mother as well and the two reconcile.

Meanwhile, some of the party's more widely influential members drifted away as well, including Bill Epton, PLP's vice chairman and Harlem branch leader, who presumably could not reconcile his own politics to that of PLP's rejection of nationalism in 1969.

" St Thomas Aquinas in mid-thirteenth century accepted the new Aristotelian view of slavery as well as the titles of slave ownership derived from Roman civil law, and attempted-without complete success-to reconcile them wit Christian patristic tradition.

Free from having to reconcile the first movement to sonata form, Tchaikovsky constructs his own form which succeeds well as an expression of the program.

One well known result that can seem hard to reconcile is that of a priest hearing a murder confession, but being unable to reveal details to the authorities.

As Buckner learns to reconcile his past with his present, Walker does as well.

In the course of the film, Roberts is shown smoking crack cocaine in a hotel room and attempting to reconcile with his daughter, as well as musing aloud about his increasingly illicit sexual dalliances while traveling.

Plotinus sought to reconcile Aristotle's energeia with Plato's Demiurge, which, as Demiurge and mind ( nous ), is a critical component in the ontological construct of human consciousness used to explain and clarify substance theory within Platonic realism ( also called idealism ).

Robinson wrote that, where the Gospel narrative accounts can be checked for consistency with surviving material evidence, the account in the Gospel of John is commonly the more plausible ; that it is generally easier to reconcile the various synoptic accounts within John's narrative framework, than it is to explain John's narrative within the framework of any of the synoptics ; and that, where in the Gospel Jesus and his disciples are described as travelling around identifiable locations, the trips in question can always be plausibly followed on the ground, which he says is not the case for any synoptic Gospel.

While Sitchin's scenario for the creation of the Solar System is hard to reconcile with the Earth's current small orbital eccentricity of only 0. 0167, Sitchin's supporters maintain that it would explain much of Earth's peculiar early geography due to cleaving from the celestial collision, i. e., solid continents on one side and a giant ocean on the other.

The Hebrew term pilpul ( Hebrew: פלפול, from " pepper ," loosely meaning " sharp analysis ") refers to a method of studying the Talmud through intense textual analysis in attempts to either explain conceptual differences between various halakhic rulings or to reconcile any apparent contradictions presented from various readings of different texts.

In the narrower sense, pilpul refers to a method of conceptual extrapolation from texts in efforts to reconcile various texts or to explain fundamental differences of approach between various earlier authorities, which became popular in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries: its founders are generally considered to be Jacob Pollak and Shalom Shachna.

Mike attempted to explain the President's situation in the hopes that the two would reconcile.