Sentences with phrase «catholic thinkers»

Loisy and other liberal Catholic thinkers had been tolerated and even encouraged during the reign of Pope Leo XIII (1878 — 1903), who had real respect for academic scholarship.

From the fifth century onwards, Western Catholic thinkers have believed that each individual soul is immediately created by God.

Surely the intellectual influence of Catholic thinkers who tended to confuse matter and spirit, such as Teilhard and Rahner, is of greater relevance than McKenna acknowledges.

It was clear to him that there were Catholics, including Catholic thinkers, whose main concern was with the temporal tasks of «justice, peace and happiness.»

I wonder if we could do a better job in the formation of Catholic thinkers — perhaps with Youth Education classes, perhaps in the Newman Centers — in preventing the assumption that the life of faith has to be compartmentalized away from all other mental activity, where it can have no real effect.

These non-Catholics saw in the Reformation the seed of a Cartesian dualism of which Catholic thinkers are so critical.

There is very much more discussion between Protestant and Catholic thinkers on a theological level in Europe than there is in this country.

In response to our reader's objection, Mr. Solomon writes: «While I would not wish to oversimplify the case, and though I recognize that there are many liberal Catholic thinkers who are tolerant on this subject, the Catholic Church as an institution remains singularly and aggressively antagonistic on the subject of euthanasia, and does more than any other organization in the world to stand in the way of death with dignity.»

Catholic thinkers take considerable theological freedom and they are especially free in their thinking about political issues.

The church does acknowledge that influential Catholic thinkers over the centuries have had different views on when exactly life begins, with some putting that milestone well after conception.

As did the medieval Roman Catholic thinkers, Calvin said that the holy community contained both Church and State, each with its functions assigned by God.

Here he convincingly defends the existence of the human soul — a task strangely neglected by most Catholic thinkers today, yet in such urgent need of updating.

Their attraction to phenomenology would foreshadow its influence on numerous other Catholic thinkers, not least the future pope and saint, Karol Wojtyla.

He cites numerous gay and gay - friendly Catholic thinkers who agree with him.

For Catholic thinkers also dwell within the same general intellectual and cultural world out of which Hauerwas and Thiemann are writing.

Despite these reservations, we are ready at this point to pay serious attention to what these Catholic thinkers are saying.

Yet the key point for Catholic thinkers to acknowledge is that the philosophy of science from Bacon right through to modernity has shown that the success of modern experimental observation does challenge Aristotelian - Scholastic «natures».

This situation is witnessed to by the fact that the only metaphysical issue where there is a virtual consensus among mainstream twentieth century Catholic thinkers, apart from the reality of human subjectivity mentioned above, is the claim that the discoveries of modern science should not have a significant influence upon metaphysics.

Hundreds of Protestant and Catholic thinkers were polled for ideas on the script, and most endorsed the plan of sticking to one Gospel — Luke — rather than blending Gospel accounts, Eshleman said.

American Catholic thinkers have not rivaled Jacques Maritain or Karl Rahner, and American Jews have hardly produced figures of the magnitude of Martin Buber or Franz Rosenzweig.

After Popes Gregory XVI, Pius IX, and Leo XIII corrected the Kantianism and Hegelianism of some early - nineteenth century Catholic intellectuals» namely Georg Hermes and Anton Günther» a tradition - oriented ethos developed in which Catholic thinkers, by and large, resisted the temptations of modernity and instead harvested the wisdom rooted in ancient and medieval sources.

Although a growing number of Catholic thinkers agreed with Dubois, as a traditionalist Dominican who understood Israel from within, his position was almost unique, and invaluable.

Second, evangelical Protestants will benefit immensely from listening to Roman Catholic thinkers engaging with the pressing public square issues of abortion, sexuality, and religious freedom.

In response Catholic thinkers from Descartes down to Cardinals Schonborn and Dulles have tried to claim that scientific observation prescinds from formality.

Even worse over the centuries since Descartes right up to the invariably profound pages of First Things Catholic thinkers have downplayed the metaphysical relevance of modern science.

Two years ago, William Saletan¯Slate.com's science reporter ¯ compared the typical approaches of Jewish and Catholic thinkers to bioethical questions.

Benedict's principles are obviously correct ¯ and yet they point to a problem that serious ethical thinkers, especially Catholic thinkers, have not really faced up to.

In the years since Humanae Vitae's appearance, numerous distinguished Catholic thinkers have argued, using a variety of evidence, that each of these predictions has been borne out by the social facts.

And Catholic thinkers — the writings of Jacques Maritain are a prominent case in point — have long promoted a «Christian Humanism,» a perspective that celebrates the created dignity of the human person in God's design for the world.

You find it, for example, in the work of the neglected American Catholic thinkers John Courtney Murray and Orestes Brownson.

Leahy is a deeply contemporary and a deeply Catholic thinker, and his first book, Novitas Mundi (1980), intends to be a revolutionary breakthrough to an absolutely new thinking, and while conceptually enacting the history of Being from Aristotle through Heidegger, at bottom this book is an apocalyptic calling forth and celebration of the absolute beginning now occurring of transcendent existence in pure thinking itself.

It wishes to be taken seriously in secular intellectual circles, yet no Catholic thinker alive today has the respectability in those circles which Gilson, Maritain, Dawson, Mauriac, or Waugh enjoyed.

Surveying the Pope Emeritus's life and works, it is difficult to think of any other Catholic thinker who so profoundly shaped the Church's theology since the Second Vatican Council.

Yet no recent Catholic thinker has attempted to explore social and political realities with anything like the comprehensiveness and trenchancy of Maritain or Dawson.

The German, Roman Catholic thinker and activist, Hans Kung, has formulated a statement of values that has been accepted by persons from many different cultural and religious backgrounds.

What then does Aeterni Patris have to say to the Catholic thinker of 2008 regarding the relationship of Scholastic philosophy to the faith?

In a manner reminiscent of France's great Catholic thinker Gabriel Marcel, he understood man's vocation to be the task of entering into the mystery of being.

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In this work, the well - known postmodern thinker urges the Catholic Church to abandon the truth claims she connects to her faith.

(5) The most urgent ecumenical dialogue between Russia and Rome today must focus on a new generation of Russian Orthodox thinkers: those who, having looked hard at the crisis in Ukraine and their Church leadership's propaganda activities on behalf of the Putin regime, have concluded that Russian Orthodoxy needs a new theory of Church - and - state — and should develop one in vigorous conversation with serious scholars of Catholic social doctrine.

There is, as I see it, a paradigm shift taking place in contemporary Roman Catholic theology away from the classical worldview of Thomas Aquinas and other scholastic thinkers in which the philosophy of Aristotle plays such an important role to a more interpersonal approach to the God - world relationship in which God is thought to be constantly interacting with creatures in the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth.

In this case, the backlash was most forceful from influential Catholic writers and thinkers.

In the century just past, a whole host of great thinkers and writers (mostly Catholic, but not all of them) wrote on the proper way to live.

Tell me why Paul Ryan, Catholic Republican would state this: «The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand,» Ryan said at a D.C. gathering four years ago honoring the author of «Atlas Shrugged» and «The Fountainhead.»

And what will be remembered about Joseph Ratzinger, thinker and author, is a body of work that bent the course of Catholic theology in a more richly biblical and patristic direction.

Drawing on and quoting extensively from a number of favourite thinkers, his exploration of these topics points in each case to the truth of the Catholic faith.

I had no idea, on that rainy day in Cambridge, that as I opened Newman's Apologia I was to discover not an enemy but a lifelong friend, not a dusty Victorian but a vital thinker, and not a hectoring Catholic insisting I must convert but a guide toward a truer Protestantism.

Changing political circumstances altered political ideals over the next seventy years, such that pro-Catholic thinkers such as Félicité de Lamennais gradually began to endorse liberalism's doctrine of religious liberty as a way of providing safe harbor for the Church's social influence within a French state that was no longer officially Catholic.

Nonetheless, the Berns thesis does throw some doubt upon the generous and affectionate thesis about the American founding propounded by the genial Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, one of the thinkers who prepared the way for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The essays in this reference work are of uniformly high quality» especially Thomas J. J. Altizer's fine essay on D. G. Leahy, an American who might have been the Catholic Church's most apocalyptic thinker since Boethius.

His thesis is that in basing their theologies on philosophies fundamentally alien to Catholicism — Teilhard on «evolutionism» (the idea of evolution raised to the status of a cult) and Rahner on Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger — both these «Catholic» thinkers allowed themselves to be led away from the faith.