Sentences with phrase «european civilization»

He is also pointing out the degree to which a light song from the centre of 19th century European civilization is given precedent over the tormented laments of an African American in what was then the impoverished and backward Jim Crow south.

From then on, his art was as closely tied to the roots of European civilization as to the culture of contemporary America.

While A1a male dogs would like to claim credit for having the best genes, the success of this lineage is probably based mostly on the recent successes of European civilization and colonization than any kind of natural selection.

This was the view of the founders of the United States of America who envisioned and desired a free, peaceful and prosperous white European civilization for America.

As the agents of the Australian Government penetrate into ever more remote mountain valleys, they find these backwaters of antiquity already deeply disturbed by contact with the ideas and artifacts of European civilization.

Western culture, sometimes equated with Western civilization, Western lifestyle or European civilization, is a term used very broadly to refer to a heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, and specific artifacts and technologies that have some origin or association with Europe.

He hypothesized a century ago that «the fundamentals of European civilization — organized village life, agriculture, domestication of animals, weaving, etc. — were originated on the oases of Central Asia long before the time of Babylon.»

Although Bakir Izetbegovic's correct and justified reminder that Islam is not foreign to Europe and should be accepted as part and parcel of our European civilization, culture and history, his eulogy on the Bosniak people and the one - sided assessment of their history was a mockery to many in the audience.

In 1844, the Spanish priest, philosopher, and polemicist Jaime Balmes published the third and final volume of his massive Protestantism and Catholicism Compared, With Respect to European Civilization.

@ Jenni actually this country WAS a third world country when it began (in European Civilization terms based on 16th century standards).

Reformation Debates In his review of Brad S. Gregory's The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society («The Reformation Wrongly Blamed,» June / July), Ephraim Radner traces the genealogy of Gregory's argument to the 1844 publication of Jaime Balmes» Protestantism and Catholicism Compared, With Respect to European Civilization.

In this new revolution could European civilization, now in a state of flux, more nearly than previously approach the ideals presented in the Gospel?

By processes already recounted, Christianity had become intertwined, seemingly inextricably, with that structure of Western European civilization which the new stage in the revolution undermined.

Yet much of the vigor in European civilization and the religion associated with it had expressions which were in striking contradiction of the New Testament.

Christianity had become intertwined, seemingly inextricably, with that structure of Western European civilization which the new stage in the revolution undermined.

Such apparent identification arose from inherent vitality in the faith and the ability to survive and to grow in potency in the successive eras of Western European civilization.

The identification of Europe and «the faith» implied, on the one hand, that those who accepted European economic, political and military domination and who adopted European civilization thereby came under pressure to undergo conversion to the European faith in Jesus Christ.

NT scholarship ignores the Afro - Asiatic landscape of the Eastern Mediterranean in favor of western Mediterranean world, which is regarded as the sea - bed of European civilization.

The Jesuit Alessandro Valignano (1539 - 1606) was among the first to articulate missionary policies, not only emphasizing the importance of «accommodation and adaptation to Chinese culture,» as historian Daniel H. Bays writes, but also «indirect evangelism by means of science and technology to convince the elite of the high level of European civilization.»

Muchembled also resists a Western triumphalist narrative by suggesting that the taming of domestic violence was not simply the result of a progressive civilizing process» marking European civilization as the height of human evolution» but came at the price of colonial conquest on other continents and terribly destructive wars among nations in Europe.

Having had the pleasure of knowing Hannah Arendt, albeit much too slightly, and moreover of having known more closely Heinrich Bluecher when I was his assistant in the World Civilizations program at Bard College in 1958 «1959, I can say there are few people who, in their writings and their persons, could face with such clear determination the heights and the depths of European civilization in the last century.

• The history of European civilizations is at present living through one of its epochal shifts.

In addition to the new civilizations, The WarChiefs also includes new maps and three new units to all European civilizations; cavalry artillery, petards, and spies.

Not exact matches

Is European culture perhaps nothing more than the technology and trade civilization that has marched triumphantly across the planet?

«The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilization».

First they lose faith in the 6 - day creationist god, then in the bible - dictation god, then in the male - supremacy god, then in the european - supremacy / western - civilization / colonialist god, then in the anti-gay god, then in the pro-war god, then in the American - exceptionalism / manifest - destiny god, then in the anti-palestinian god, then in the controller - of - everything - that - happens god, then in the design - engineer god, then in the penal - substitutionary - atonement god, and so on.

Paradoxically, it is the manifestation of this European mind, set in an African context, which dramatizes that his philosophy of civilization is pro-Western.

Once in Africa, Schweitzer gradually came to understand what well may be the most important mistake made by the Europeans (and Americans) since the rise of Western civilization — namely, their pride in their superindustrialized «mastery» over the forces of Nature, a much - vaunted control which is leading to the destruction of our biosphere.

He urges an European reader to acquire a vision of an extra-European civilization».

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

Other civilizations had everything the pagan Europeans had and even much better, except for the fast - spreading Christianity and the Bible.

Le Goff sought to help Europeans recognize themselves as still connected by the cultural fabric of a common medieval civilization.

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.»

Most wars have been by nonMuslim civilizations (like WW1, WW2, European Wars, Wars of Colonization, Wars in the New World, etc).

Moreover, this Russian Orthodox civilization — what Patriarch Kirill, head of the Moscow Patriarchate, has called «Russkiy Mir,» the «Russian World» — offers a necessary and important alternative to Western European and North American secularism and individualism.

Yet it manifests many of the values and ideals of western Christendom (partly because this new civilization was fostered by the spread of European culture).

While Herrin does not make the point, it is worth remembering that Byzantine civilization owes its durability to one singular geographical fact: The emperor Constantine chose to build his new capital on the site of a small and insignificant city named Byzantium on the European side of the Bosporus.

His later travels confirmed for him a statement made early in his Chicago days: «The European centers of learning, nearly all of which were affected by war, continue to devote great interest to the study of Eastern civilizations and religions.

Western Civilization also owes a lot to Islam for maintaining the early pre-Christian scientific and philosophic knowledge of the Greeks etc., until Western Eurpoe was able to pull itself out of the mud huts and restrictive church control of the European Dark Ages, and understand its usefulness.

A claim to the legacy of Greece could be found in civilizations that did not view themselves as European or even having something in common with Europe, i.e., Islam and Byzantium.

Protestantism, as he insists all along, «ruined» the integral march of Catholic civilization by introducing socially disintegrative ideas into the habits of European life, weakening the otherwise powerful sway of a unified religious political power.

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.

I am mostly not a conservative in the American or even European political sense, but I am conservative in the sense of seeking to preserve and build upon the achievements of Western civilization — including the development of its logical implications for future decades and centuries.

«Muslims were the co-creators and thus co-owners of European culture and civilization... Muslims made a colossal contribution to the world culture and civilization».

He reminded the audience that European culture, history and civilization is not only Judeo - Christian in spirit but also Muslim.

Emerging as an element of the European «standard of civilization» in the 19th century, the laws of war were meant, in part, to distinguish «civilised» Europe from the «uncivilised» rest of the world.

President Trump cast himself as a defender of Western values in a clash of civilizations during a speech in Warsaw, rebuking the news media, U.S. intelligence agencies and Barack Obama during his visit to the European capital most hospitable to his right - wing nationalist message.

In particular, he has a vision of the United States has a Christian nation, guided by European concepts of civilization.

In Poland, President Trump raised alarm over the future of western civilization and the impact of radical Islamic terrorism on European governments.

As a result, later European explorers had no idea that a civilization had once flourished in the Amazon, despite clues in kilometer - long earthworks and unusually fertile so - called terra preta (dark) soil.