While there, she translated Thomas Aquinas ' De Veritate ( On Truth ) into German and familiarized herself with Roman Catholic philosophy in general and tried to bridge the phenomenology of her former teacher Husserl to Thomism.

While there, Father Sarto expanded his knowledge of theology, studying both Saint Thomas Aquinas and canon law, while carrying out most of the functions of the parish pastor, who was quite ill.

While Aquinas felt positive and negative theology should be seen as dialetical correctives to each other, like thesis and antithesis producing a synthesis, Lossky argues, based on his reading of Dionysius and Maximus Confessor, that positive theology is always inferior to negative theology, a step along the way to the superior knowledge attained by negation.

While in Paris, he read, and possibly met, Thomas Aquinas, and his own theology was thereafter purely scholastic.

While Catholics accept the Eastern Orthodox intuitive and mystical understanding of God as valid, they consider it to be complementary to the rational and philosophical Scholasticism of Thomas Aquinas.

This is a concept similar to Anselm's that we owe a debt of honor to God, with a critical difference: While Anselm said we could never pay this because any good we could do was owed to God anyway, Aquinas says that in addition to our due of obedience we can make up for our debt through acts of penance " man owes God all that he is able to give him ... over and above which he can offer something by way of satisfaction ".

While his condottieri took over the siege of Piombino ( which ended in 1502 ), Cesare commanded the French troops in the sieges of Naples and Capua, defended by Prospero and Fabrizio Colonna.

" While Dorchester planned for a defensive war, Simcoe urged London to declare war: " Upper Canada is not to be defended by remaining within the boundary line.

While these may be answered and allow for light weight, highly maneuverable vehicles that are strongly defended against missiles and rockets that are extremely well suited for urban and guerrilla warfare.

While strongly fortified against a naval assault, the town is lightly defended on the landward side.

While prazos were originally developed to be held by Portuguese, through intermarriage they became African Portuguese or African Indian centres defended by large African slave armies known as Chikunda.

While this decision process was made no less complex by being informal, common factors included the local power structure ( archbishops and nobles being the most likely recipients of a charter to collect tolls ), space between toll stations ( authorized toll stations seem to have been at least five kilometres apart ), and ability to be defended from attack ( some castles through which tolls were collected were tactically useful until the French invaded in 1689 and levelled them ).

While at Feyenoord Gullit became the focus of a race row as manager Thijs Libregts was alleged to have referred to Gullit as " blackie " and criticised him for being lazy, though Libregts defended himself by claiming that it was merely a nickname.

While scholars in Turkey allege that the Armenians launched a rebellion in Van in 1915, most historians agree that the Armenian residents, hoping to avoid the slaughter being inflicted on the rural populations surrounding Van, defended themselves in the Armenian quarters of the city against the Turks.

While some linguists deny the plausibility of the Basque substrate theory, it is widely assumed that Basque, the " Circumpyrenean " language ( as put by Basque linguist Alfonso Irigoyen and defended by Koldo Mitxelena, 1982 ), is the underlying language spreading around the Pyrenees onto the banks of the Garonne River, maybe as far east as the Mediterranean in Roman times ( niska cited by Joan Coromines as the name of each nymph taking care of the Roman spa Arles de Tech in Rousillon, etc .).

While serving in the Reagan administration, Olson defended President Reagan during the Iran-Contra affair.

While the Calgary Herald simply refused to run the ad, the Calgary Sun defended its position in an editorial.

While all the other judges " succumbed to royal pressure and, throwing themselves on their knees, prayed for pardon ", Coke defended the letter and stated that " When the case happens I shall do that which shall be fit for a judge to do ".

While the media sometimes labeled him a " turncoat ", some commentators, such as the Canberra Times columnist John Warhurst, defended his need to be a " team player " if he was going to play the political game " from the inside ".

While supporting ODM, Ngilu defended her parliamentary seat on NARC ticket.

While the Battle of Günzburg was being fought, Ney sent General Loison's 2nd Division to capture the Danube bridges at Elchingen, which were lightly defended by the Austrians.

While Hopton's Cornish infantry defended Devizes, Maurice was to collect a relieving force from Oxford.

While the bishop publicly defended the royal measures, Nordin became the king's private adviser.

" While the field has often been viewed negatively as history with the politics left out, it has also been defended as " history with the people put back in.

While having engine problems, Räikkönen successfully defended his 2nd position from Rubens Barrichello in Austria.

While the American Legion reportedly criticized the assessment, Glen M. Gardner Jr., the national commander of the 2. 2 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars, defended it generally, saying it " should have been worded differently " but served a vital purpose.

While he was chair of the department of philosophy at UVA, he vigorously defended to the Virginia State Legislature the University's refusal to award honoris causa degrees.

While the Free Democratic Party had earlier been a popular party for farmers, this changed during World War I when the party had mainly defended the interests of industrialists and consumer circles.

While everyone expected him to head for Royal Prussia, he disembarked on Zealand on 17 August, and headed for Copenhagen, which was defended by 10, 650 Danes and 2, 000 Dutch.

While most early ornithologists defended Bartram's honesty, Joel Asaph Allen argued that the Painted Vulture was mythical and that Bartram mixed elements of different species to create this bird.

While ascribing the divine attributes and divinity to each person of the Trinity, thus avoiding subordinationism, the first half of the Athanasian Creed also stresses the unity of the three persons in the one Godhead, thus avoiding a theology of tritheism.

While " there is an intentional editorial unity with a cohesive purpose and message in the canonical form of the book ," Job contains many separate elements, some of which may have had an independent existence prior to being incorporated into the present text.

While Wilde had long been famous for dialogue and his use of language, Raby ( 1988 ) argues that he achieved a unity and mastery in Earnest that was unmatched in his other plays, save perhaps Salome.

While practitioners of other forms of yoga maintain that competition contradicts the idea of peace and unity, Bikram contends, " Competition is the foundation for all democratic societies.

While the palace's styles are an accident of fate, a unity exists due to the use of pink bricks and a symmetrical, albeit vague, balancing of successive low wings.

While the BJP opposed the Sikh militancy that was rising in the state of Punjab, it also blamed Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for her divisive and corrupt politics that fostered such militancy at the expense of national unity and integrity.

While Probus ' image shows his monarchic Imperium, Roma displays his claims to restoration of Roman tradition and Imperial unity.

While other Maritime Republics withered under the strain of factionalism, Venice was renowned for its unity under the Doge.

While a significant step towards an independent air force, this dual authority created serious problems of unity of command for the next six years.

While there were substantial personal tensions between the four, they shared a fundamental view that the party should seek alliance with the unions and rather than an ideology-based socialist unity with the Marxist Social Democratic Federation.

While he had planned to run for president in 2007 he decided not to register as a candidate for the Socialist nomination in the name of party unity.

While enormously costly and destructive, the war " rejuvenate the drive for national unity and Islamic revolution " and " inhibited fractious debate and dispute " in Iran.

While never presented as dystopian, it is implied that the government is exploiting Captain Star's celebrity, presumably as a recruitment tool and to encourage patriotism, unity, and support for the government.

While riding back to the police station with Emmanuele and two homosexual prisoners, Oliveira conceives of yet another approach to finding his elusive sense of unity ; namely, by tearing himself down to the clocharde's level and beginning the search all over again.

While Zuken voiced concerns about anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union and restrictions on Jewish travel, Ross was unwilling to make public statements which violated the principle of party unity.

While this helped confederation, also necessary was the desire to survive and the need for self-defence ; the raids were crucial in showing Canadians that safety lay in unity.

While these statements would have shocked many at the time, when one considers the rapid raprochement between the two nations post-war, the general idea of Franco-German unity he expressed in some way presages the development of Franco-German cooperation and the pivotal role of both nations in the European Community / Union although the causes of this rapprochement may not have been what he foresaw.

As queen, Wealhþeow represents the “ female ’ s duty to maintain peace between two warring tribes ” and to “ signify the status of the court .” While her position may appear ritualistic, she also maintains “ the cohesiveness of the unity of the warriors .” The role of queens in the early Germania was to foster “ social harmony through active diplomacy and conciliation .” Wealhþeow inhabits this role by constantly speaking to each of the men in her hall and reminding them of their obligations – obligations to their country, their family, or their king.

While ascending to power, Hitler promised to restore faith in the Volk and to bring wholeness while accusing other politicians of tearing at German unity.

While the Reichstag fire was used to justify anti-Communist and anti-Semitic violence, Hitler himself spoke on a new life, honor, and unity in Germany.

While merger of the two organizations would have created a larger and more powerful organization, unity was stalled over terms of the union, including the composition of the governing bodies, divergent views on non-white membership, and disagreement over program owing to divergence between Southern and Northern farmers ' economic interests.

While Georgian experts disagree over the details of their interpretations of these accounts, they generally agree that they reflect a decline of the Mushki state and rise of Persian influence before the arrival of Alexander, who, perhaps more as a side-effect than by any effort on his part, ushered in a new era of unity in much of the Mushki state's former territories under a new dynasty, who preferred the name Kartli over Mushki.

While seeking thus to avoid the troublesome consequences certain Aristotelian theories would entail upon religion, Maimonides could not altogether escape those involved in Aristotle's idea of the unity of souls ; and herein he laid himself open to the attacks of the orthodox.

While filled with biographical hypotheses and historical unlikelihoods, the book offers a vivid description of the Renaissance world, with the decline of the traditional Muslim kingdoms and the hope inspired by the Ottoman Empire, as it grew to threaten Europe and restore Muslim unity.