Sentences with phrase «christian humanist»

When Noonan moved on to senior member of the bench in 1996, his friend Kevin Starr, the prolific historian of the State of California, recognized John's stature as a Christian humanist.

Let us pray that this country will see the likes of his kind of Christian humanist again.

The narrator is again the sardonic, disheveled, bourbon - drinking psychiatrist who can not escape his Catholic past as a lineal descendant of the Christian humanist saint Sir Thomas More.

Markos argues that this Christian humanist vision that God's revelation answers our highest aspirations has suffered since the Puritans portrayed heaven as an escape from earth rather than as the redemption of creation.

Percy the convert became a Christian humanist.

Except in lonely outposts of faith — the crippled child Lonnie in The Moviegoer, the fierce nun Val in The Last Gentleman, the firewatching Father Smith with his remnant of faithful Catholics in Love in the Ruins — the old Christian humanist vision is dead.

It was, moreover, a Christian humanist vision which enabled him to reconcile his old science with his new faith and to reappropriate his Uncle Will's humanism in a religious framework.

We are, in sum, a nation where the venerable Christian humanist center has not held.

The baleful underside of Percy's Christian humanist faith is prone to explode in wrath at the deadness of our age.

He was a Christian humanist, to be sure, but he could say with the pre-Christian Terence, «I am a man: nothing human is alien to me.»

R. Lichtenstein chose to pursue a PhD in English at Harvard, with the Christian humanist Douglas Bush.

Being a Christian humanist was in no way a limiting factor.

But the Christian humanist knows that, at its heart, the conversation with the world is a love affair; to elicit what is already there and bring it to fuller and finer expression in what is, finally and simply and wondrously, the truth.

In the twenty «four surviving letters written from his imprisonment in the tower in 1534 to his death a year and a half later, we are presented with More the Christian humanist and martyr in the richness of his spiritual and moral integrity.

For the Christian humanists, culture is a kind of tumbling ground for the spiritual, the social, the historical, and the psychological.

Louis Bouyer, himself one of the great Christian humanists of our own age, wrote in 1959 a book about Erasmus and his times that remains as good an introduction to later Christian humanism as any I know; another good introduction is the book by Henri de Lubac about the times of Pico della Mirandola.

As Christian humanists in the public square, we should persist in making the very best arguments that we can.

As Randall Stewart pointed out nearly half a century ago, Hawthorne's lifelong literary models and companions were the great Puritan moralist - seers Spenser, Milton, and Bunyan, and of the eighteenth - century writers, the great Augustan Christian humanists, especially Dr. Johnson, whose boyhood home in Lichfield Hawthorne visited on what must be called a pilgrimage of veneration.

Like Luther, he was impressed by Augustine and was also attracted by the Christian humanists, especially Erasmus.

In Italy were Christian humanists; Savonarola had borne his witness; the titanic Michelangelo, who had been deeply impressed by Savonarola, maintained a committed life and dedicated his talent to the faith.

During his student years he was much impressed by the writings of the Christian humanists.

We lost also one the last great Christian humanists.

Not exact matches

Add to these types lapsed non-conformist Christians, secular utopians, humanists, Irish Catholics bitter about their

Many conservative Christians, among them Roman Catholics, will be offended at such a vitriolic attack on a famous conservative humanist author, and I use the term vitriolic advisedly («just a little spiteful,» in Hart's confession).

It will probably have Muslims of different views using it some of whom may be conservative but as long as they are willing to share with liberal Muslims, Jews, Christians, humanists, etc. why not.

Either we believe in that which all Christians (Catholic, Orthodox, Reformed) have always believed or we, in good faith leave and become Unitarian or secular humanists.

Also if I do not follow the canon believed by most Christians (give or take some duterocannonical books) I might as well be Baha'i, Muslim, or Secular Humanist.

Christians do so to save souls, secular humanists do so to better society.

You attempted to claim that Humanists believe everyone is born good and yet that is not the case... your one quote proves nothing and certainly doesn't cover all humanists, that is painting with a broad brush - something Christians scream and whine about having doneHumanists believe everyone is born good and yet that is not the case... your one quote proves nothing and certainly doesn't cover all humanists, that is painting with a broad brush - something Christians scream and whine about having donehumanists, that is painting with a broad brush - something Christians scream and whine about having done to them.

So, while I will say again that I am not an authority on either, I do know enough to be able to tell when a person belongs in the Christian camp or the Humanist camp, I believe.

I find it interesting that you claim a Judeo - Christian base and then almost immediately quote someone, as a Humanist, whose ideas were integral in the formation of the US, i.e. the social contract.

Your Baptist minister has gone the way of many in the church today and become a Humanist rather than a Christian.»]

Your Baptist minister has gone the way of many in the church today and become a Humanist rather than a Christian.

Their thinking would be far closer to secular humanists than Christians.

But Ronald Lindsay of the Center for Inquiry, a Humanist group, called it «striking and sad» that «five of the six Christian justices on the Supreme Court formed the majority.»

His comments drew fire from secularists, with a letter to The Daily Telegraph signed by 50 public figures headed by the president of the British Humanist Association, Professor Jim Al - Khalili saying: «We object to his characterisation of Britain as a «Christian country» and the negative consequences for politics and society that this engenders.»

Thus the Commission called for a Christian concern for Higher Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated religious traditions, technology and politics to personal values according to the principle «Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated in the idea of Incarnation of God in Christ.

Keith Barltrop's review of Alain de Botton's new book brings out the bankruptcy of an alternative, humanist approach, in which Christian ideas, cut free from their Christian roots, are appropriated by non-believers in their pursuit of an ideal secular society.

Today it is not the vague humanist who is regarded as the enemy of Communism in, for example, Eastern Germany; it is the Christian, who has standards and loyalties which are rooted in God.

Now apart from the nonsense of the supposed «competition in goodness» both Christians and humanists believe that it is important to lead a good life.

When a man becomes a committed Christian he sooner or later sees the falsity, the illusions, and the limitations of the humanist geocentric way of thinking.

'» The unspoken assumption — a questionable one — is apparently that the Christian consumer should find such merchants to be more honest, reliable and ethical in their business dealings than other merchants, who may identify themselves as Jewish, as secular humanists, as Christians who reject the «born - again» tag, or whatever.

And I really got ta say «progressive» Christians (two words that should never go together, the Gospel is timeless and therefore can not be progressive) have much more in common with atheists and secular humanists than they do with other actual Christians.

Apart from the social services run by the state in which, after all, Christians have as much a share as every one else, it must be said that the participations of «humanists» in private charitable enterprises for the poor, the sick, neurotics, lepers, etc., is relatively modest.

They must not join others in passionate condemnation (or support), in the name of fifty humanist motifs put forward by non-Christians, of such a politics conducted by a statesman who calls himself Christian.

That's why Nick Spencer and I wrote a report called The Case for Christian Humanism: Why Christians should believe in humanism, and humanists in Christianity.

Sponsored by the Humanist Community at Harvard, evangelical Christians, Jews, Buddhists and Zoroastrians, along with a number of atheists, were among those represented at a recent meal packaging event for hungry kids in the Boston area.

So it looks like Christians really do have more reason to call themselves «humanists» than atheists do.

One of the ironies of history is that, given a choice between siding with humanists or with scientists, most Christians tend to choose the former.

As an agnostic atheist humanist, I still see no reason not to call a christian on not following what their leader commanded.