Sentences with phrase «christian civilization»

I strongly recommend appealing to the foundational principles of the Judeo - Christian civilization on which to address the energy / climate debate.

That year Leon Ferrari's work Western Christian Civilization 1965 was controversially withdrawn from the exhibition.

Argentine Léon Ferrari, by contrast, went for the jugular with «Western - Christian Civilization» (1965), in which Christ is crucified on an American bomber.

This review stands out: This book will probably have as much influence over future generations as St. Augustine's City of God had on the people who built, over the ashes of the Roman Empire, an organic society we now call Christian Civilization or Western Culture!

Those essential features of our black and indigenous mother's culture, once despised by representatives of the patriarchal White Christian Civilization, are now seen as parameters to organize our Civilizations in a sustainable way.

The videos were posted by Britain First, a fringe group that insists that white Christian civilization is under threat from Muslims, which had received relatively little attention — until now.

If this Christian civilization has been involved in all manner of «crimes, follies, and misfortunes,» including terrible atrocities against Jews, it has also nourished Jewish life, a fact that can be seen by comparing the intellectual and religious development of European Jews with that of Jews in the Muslim lands of North Africa and Arabia.

Liberal democracy, humanism, even (ironically) the separation of church and state — all emerged from the matrix of a self - consciously Christian civilization.

Given the advantages Christianity provided, it is hardly surprising that modern science developed only in the West, within a Christian civilization.

Indeed, the post-Christian age we are now entering owes its very existence to the Christian civilization of the last two thousand years.

National Socialism especially, as the Hungarian Catholic philosopher Aurel Kolnai wrote in 1950, sought to negate «Christian civilization as such,» scripting a dark epiphany in which man «wrenched himself free from Christianity and construed the automatic workings of his fallen nature into a mirage of self «made heaven.»

But what is the future of Christian civilization?

To this topic we now turn, for, just as the ancient Roman calendar disappeared with the decay of Roman civilization, the decline of Christian civilization may ultimately lead to the adoption of a new and non-Christian calendar for universal use around the globe.

This, we have seen, is true of the Christian calendar and the millennium: they are simply cultural conventions, dependent on the Christian civilization that produced them.

It is not to be seen in the expansion of the church, or in the diaspora, or in the triumph of Christian civilization, or in the impressing of our forces into God's service.

In his Life, then, Boniface proclaimed victory over spaces considered by a good deal of early medieval literature to be inhospitable to Christian civilization.

But down to the present day, it still dominates all notions about the Christian West, «Christian civilization» and «the age of Christendom.»

Western nations led by the U.S. favored a united church front to protect a purportedly Christian civilization from the communist threat (think, for example, of the ecumenical activities of John Foster Dulles, secretary of state under Eisenhower), while countries under Soviet control supported the participation of their chiefly Orthodox churches in the ecumenical movement as an Eastern counterpoise.

Located on the edge of Western Christendom and historically bordering Orthodox Russia and Muslim Turkey, Poland often was a defender of Latin Christian civilization.

Since the heart of liberalism was its endorsement of the best in modern culture, scientifically based free inquiry, together with its technological benefits, would automatically advance Christian civilization.

In such a world, it did not matter much whether people talked about Christendom, Christian civilization or simply Christianity.

But, as the modern study of Christian origins has made clear, the idea of establishing a Christian civilization was entirely foreign both to Jesus of Nazareth and to the early Christian movement.

Is it only the ghostly remnant of Christian civilization?

Scottish theologian John Baillie responded in the question posed by his Riddell Lectures of 1945: What is Christian Civilization?

Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, recently said: We are witnessing the sudden eruption of a new civilization on the planet».10 This is certainly not the Christian civilization which Christians expected and hoped for at the beginning of the twentieth century.

The Jewish scriptures tell how Moses communed with God on the top of Mount Sinai, and returned with the tablets of stone on which were inscribed the Ten Commandments, which have served for more than three thou sand years as the basic moral code of the Judeo - Christian civilization.

With the demise of Christendom or Christian civilization in the western world, what kind of civilization is left?

World War II was itself a sign that Christian civilization was in an advanced form of disintegration.

He claimed that the essential element of Christian civilization is that the population as a whole believes what the church teaches.1

Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization.»

We need to examine what we mean by Christian civilization, or «Christendom», a word often used as a synonym.

These colleges understood their task to be helping students to incorporate the values of Christian civilization and to be prepared to serve their society as leaders.

It struck me that here I was in perhaps one of the last outposts of our dying Christian civilization, where a perfect stranger was prepared to treat me with something indistinguishable from love.

Henceforth, the unified Christian civilization could continue under the protectorate of the Roman bishop.

To be sure, the church succeeded in making the necessary adjustments, but it was difficult to ban a spirit of enlightenment which spread under the influence of foreign cultures upon the Christian civilization and which furthered the growth of skeptical attitudes toward the absolute validity of the ecclesiastical institution of redemption.

If Christian civilization is no more, if Christian orthodoxy is disintegrating and if Christian Modernism has failed to rescue it, where does this leave Christianity?

These are the principles of western Christian civilization.»

As if anticipating an objection, Miss Mac Donald brushes aside the old argument that atheists are simply living off the spiritual capital of a distinctive Jewish and Christian civilization.

After Constantinople fell in 1453, Ukrainian Orthodoxy became part of the Russian Church, which declared Moscow to be the Third Rome, now entrusted with defending Christian civilization in the East.

It was the Seljuk Turks (A MUSLIM CIVILIZATION) that attacked the Byzantines (A CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION) that caused the war.

Christian civilization rejected that circle, offering the spiral as a model.

Partly by the subtle influence of a partly Christian civilization and partly by processes of inner development analogous to that in which Christianity itself arose, Western Jews, at least, have already to a large extent entered into spiritual existence.

Yet Churchill saw himself as defending Christian civilization against tyranny.

John Rhys - Davies, the 6 - feet -1-inch tall British actor who played the dwarf Gimli in all of the Lord of the Rings movies, told comedian Adam Corolla that he fears the end of «Western European Christian civilization.»

They do so in the name of maintaining national security, defending Christian civilization, advancing the revolution of the proletariat.

She tells us more about womanhood in European Christian civilization than any other single figure.

Under attack as Winston Churchill so aptly stated is, «Christian civilization».

That is, there is no «Christian civilization» or «Christian culture» in the way that there is an «Islamic culture,» which you can recognize from Pakistan to Tunisia to Morocco.

In the great «transvaluation» that followed, there was no sphere of social, religious, or intellectual life that the Church did not claim for itself; much was abolished, and much of the grandeur and beauty of antiquity was preserved in a radically altered form, and Christian civilization — with its new synthesis and new creativity — was born.

Many who have abandoned all commitment to the tradition overlook the fact that many aspects of Christian civilization are also under threat in the post-Christian age.