Sentences with phrase «for humanism»

Auerbach later got corralled into the ghastly «School of London», a journalistic catch - all that saw him and his contemporaries - Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Michael Andrews, RB Kitaj and others - as standard - bearers for humanism and hard - won values.

Known as the Severe Style, it allowed for humanism to pierce official art's utopian armor.

Having come of age in an intellectual climate dominated by an overwhelming sense of endangerment due in no small part to the discovery of AIDS, Feher, opted for a humanism grounded in contemporaneity, proudly imbuing his work with a sense of vulnerability, transience, and emotion that is firmly anchored in and concerned with the politics of his time.

Dr. Herbert served as 2002 - 3 President of the Society For Humanism in Medicine and spearheaded their CME program «The Human Embryo: Issues Surrounding the Beginnings of Life.»

A genuine Christian interiority must provide the inspiration for a humanism capable of living a vigorous, free and open life within one's culture, whatever its condition may be.

That same story assessed that the leading theology of the already liberal - leaning city was replaced by a reverence for humanism.

Not exact matches

The Heart of Humanism, our highest award, for outstanding contributions to compassionate humanism, goes to David Tamayo of Hispanic American Freethinkers (Humanism, our highest award, for outstanding contributions to compassionate humanism, goes to David Tamayo of Hispanic American Freethinkers (humanism, goes to David Tamayo of Hispanic American Freethinkers (HAFree).

No, what poisons everything is atheism / secular humanism as evidenced by the fact that 93 % of all of humanity's wars were started for non-religious purposes.

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.

The term «humanist» was a bad word at that time among evangelicals, and the antagonism would soon intensify with the appearance, in 1980, of Tim LaHaye's bestseller, The Battle for the Mind, which called for an all - out evangelical campaign against «secular humanism.»

Just because most wars are started for non-religious purposes doesn't automatically associate them with atheism or secular humanism.

Third, it was the tradition of Christian humanism which led the White Rose to see the essence of the anti-humanism of the Nazis in their disregard for the sanctity of individual human life.

Atheistic secular humanism is not the answer for man's debased, violent nature.

More strikingly, it represents an appeal for the modern world to recognize that its achievements can not be sustained apart from the authentic humanism of Christian faith.

Mr. Secular Humanism had no use for nut - case atheists.

This Christian humanism has important political and economic ramifications, establishing for Röpke the true foundation of political and economic liberty that modern appeals to mere utility do not provide.

Vatican II, in his view, inaugurated a two - way dialogue in which Catholicism not only listened to the world's hopes and anxieties but also proposed to the world a Christian humanism: the «passionate love of God for all humanity, made visible in... Jesus Christ, crucified and risen,» that same Christ who fully and uniquely reveals to humanity its incomparable dignity and high calling.

These are much better than the biblical commandments and they don't involve an arrogant god demanding worship: TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR A GLOBAL HUMANISM (Dr. Rodrigue TREMBLAY) 1 - Proclaim the natural dignity and inherent worth of all human beings.

But the pattern of appropriation is what I would want my students to notice most, for it is the typical and fundamental gesture of Christian humanism: to respond to the world by taking it over, by embracing it, by showing that no beauty, intelligence, or goodness is alien to Christianity or incompatible with it.

And Roy Peachey's brilliant description of the emergence of the novel from the British tradition of Christian «protest», and of the related de-Catholicisation of the English school curriculum, sets the scene for the Church to reclaim this tradition in the name of true humanism.

You expose your outdated beliefs and understandings in such a seemingly trivial mistake: no one uses a phone book anymore, but, a quick Google search will provide contact information for literally dozens of support groups, organizations and communities ready to embrace and assist those seeking to practice Secular Humanism with others of like mind.

My own suggestions for a syllabus of Christian humanism are certainly not cast in stone.

De Waal recently published a book called «The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates,» which synthesizes evidence that there are biological roots in human fairness, and explores what that means for the role of religion in human societies.

For Christian humanism — faithful in this to the most firmly established theology of the Incarnation — there is no real independence or discordance but a logical subordination between the genesis of humanity in the world and the genesis of Christ, through his Church, in humanity.

The tale he relates about Saint Dimitri could serve as the paradigm for Camus» own humanism:

In such books as Beyond Humanism, Man's Vision of God, A Natural Theology for Our Time, Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, and The Logic of Perfection, Hartshorne has been indefatigable in the presentation of this «di - polar» position.

So the knowledge imparted was at different levels, - technical rationality, critical rationality to evaluate ends, universal human values, and the humanism of the person of Jesus - but with search for the unity of their inter-relationship realized in the renewal of personal and community life as the ultimate goal.

The situation calls for the search for a new more holistic humanism and a common public ethic for state and social reform developed through dialogue of religions and secular ideologies.

Immersed in the Greco - Roman world, the Knight's Tale hints that the very best of rational humanism outside of Christ can not ultimately fulfill our natural longing for temporal peace.

There are also organizations for those who find their primary religious practice in Judaism, Buddhism or Humanism.

16 of Beyond Humanism, and in «Metaphysics for Positivists,» Philosophy of Science, II, 287ff.

This shift largely came as a result of increased access to information (printing press), a new, more scientific view of the world, and the rise of humanism (which is to basically say that human beings had been given the faculties to «figure it all out» for themselves).

But with Lawrence she pleads for a new Humanism which will supersede Christianity, not by annihilating it, but by incorporating and transforming it; a messianic Humanism.32

One reason for resistance to the greening of theology is a fear that this deep - seated humanism will be weakened.

One day after Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters he gets on his knees every day and prays for rain, the Council for Secular Humanism - a leading atheist group - accused the Obama administration of sending the wrong message to farmers caught in one of the worst droughts in decades.

For all his radical Protestant insistence on the nonsacramental encounter with God in the lonely leap of faith, Kierkegaard served to confirm Percy's Catholic humanism.

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 ChrisHumanism: Why Christians should believe in humanism, and humanists in Chrishumanism, and humanists in Christianity.

But the deeper strain of Percy's Christian humanism sounds another chord altogether: the exultant conviction that we long for the grace of God not because of our own capacity for it, but because we have already been found by it.

2 Shalom: For the beginnings of such a theory, see my essays «On the Structure of the Person: Time and Consciousness» (in Dialectics and Humanism, Journal of the Polish Academy of Science, 1975) and, more particularly, «The Problem of the Person: Philosophy and the Neurologists» (to appear in Dialectics and Humanism, 1979).

Perhaps Percy's Christianity and his humanism remain in conflict precisely because transcendent grace and the human quest for it are not the two halves of a perfect equilibrium.

His real satirical spleen is reserved for the scientific humanism which, in his view, has permeated every pore of our national life, Our schools and churches, our social and governmental agencies — even the armed forces!

It is the ardent search for the new, powerful God - talk that Bonhoeffer yearned for, but thought would be forthcoming only after a period of necessary silence and renewal (at least in those quarters where Christianity was most acculturated and where the experience of the Holocaust and two World Wars shattered the confidence of both Western religious streams and alternative humanisms).

I long for the day when we rescue our government from the zealots and put science and humanism in their rightful places.

For Aunt Emily also shares Uncle Will's stern ethical humanism in its paradoxical regard for defeat as its finest justificatiFor Aunt Emily also shares Uncle Will's stern ethical humanism in its paradoxical regard for defeat as its finest justificatifor defeat as its finest justification.

Binx Boiling vents his rage, for instance, by calling ours «the very century of merde, the great shithouse of scientific humanism where needs are satisfied, everyone becomes an anyone, a warm and creative person, and prospers like a dung beetle.»

Having begun with the quest for God, Percy's Christian humanism comes, at its worst, to value the pilgrimage more than the Shrine.

The unconscious sector of his humanity Eliade's humanism provides a new scenario for understanding human beings.

Georg Lukacs's claim that dialectical materialism is the culmination of Western humanism would strike Solzhenitsyn as all too true, for dialectical materialism makes explicit post-Enlightenment humanity's quest to remake the world in people's false self - images as creatures of reason.

The only «ism» that is we should all focus on is «HUMANism» Which deals with what is best for the entire human race.

Humanism, Reformation, Counter-Reformation — these may stand for the forceful uprush of new ideas, which, with some unfortunate accompaniments, shaped a new world and inspired a new culture of which we became the heirs.