Sentences with phrase «humanism finds»

The lead story is a beautifully written and heartbreaking piece about the precarious situation an Afghani school firmly rooted in humanism finds itself in as U.S. military forces leave.

In order to match the new curve of Time, Christianity is led to discover the values of this world below the level of God, while Humanism finds room for a God above the level of this world.

This aspect of humanism found m Marx's atheism can be elucidated in these words of Erich Fromm:

Not exact matches

I do find it puzzling, however, to watch theologians, both conservative and liberal, come to the defense of the human, the rational, objectivity, the «text,» «moral values,» science, and all the other conceits the modern university cherishes in the name of «humanism.»

Röpke's neoliberalism was founded on a Christian humanism: «My picture of man is fashioned by the spiritual heritage of classical and Christian tradition.

The seventh lecture of William James's pragmatism series bore the title «Pragmatism and Humanism,» and included the statement: «When we talk of reality «independent» of human thinking, then, it seems a thing very hard to find.»

In the second place, this love certainly has in Christianity a strength which is not found elsewhere: otherwise, despite all the virtues and all the attraction of the tenderness which characterizes the gospel, the doctrine of the beatitudes and of the Cross would long since have given place to some other, more winning, creed — and more particularly to some form of humanism or belief in purely earthly values.

It is such considerations as these that have weighed with those who have insisted that the atoning work of Christ must be construed in objective terms, who have indeed sometimes found themselves driven by recollection of the Cross to give this temper to their humanism.

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

Far and away the funniest of Percy's satirical salvos against our deadening scientific humanism is found in Love in the Ruins.

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.

What many folks seem to encourage jovially are rival bickering between young blooded humanists who banter about incessantly never judging their owned amorous infidelities and always trivializing the bitterness of others» written and even oral wordage... «I am what I am Sam» are the earmarks of standalone infidels who dare not seek the fidelities of devotional humanisms flavored austerities emanating with frugal discourse above the plainness of written and / or spoken dysenteries... «Bite the bullet» antagonists on both young sides might never find frugally endorsed concessions nor open their doors ever so gently...

Shaw argues that the present struggles of the Church to be who she is amid governmental mandates and the ascendant «state religion» of secular humanism are the legacy of Baltimore's Cardinal James Gibbons and other early churchmen who found America to be so accommodating to religion as to warrant a reciprocal accommodation to nationalism.

Now the dominant approach to study of the founding era, its many able advocates — Bernard Bailyn, Gordon Wood, J. G. A. Pocock, Drew McCoy — maintain that the period was profoundly shaped by the long history of republican «civic humanism.»

The ironic and indirect ways of affirming and denying — God bless the Czar and keep him far, far away — modes of speaking that are so important for Jewish humanism, are found in Yiddish, a plastic language that hung like a long suspension bridge over the chasm that separated the world of an isolated, vulnerable religious minority from the dangerous Gentile - dominated majority culture.

A better alternative is scientific skepticism and humanism with a moral founding based in human solidarity and a systematic way to distinguish truth from fiction.

I find their arguments convincing, I am less convinced by their contention that echoes of secular humanism's world view in certain.

Hence, in the pursuit of development, there is a need for «the deep thought and reflection of wise men in search of a new humanism which will enable modern man to find himself anew.»

And it also makes a place for a religiously minded «humanism,» such as that found in some words of the ancient Christian writer Tertullian when he said, «When you see your brother, you see your Lord.»

Unfortunately, religious humanism has not yet found a Barth to articulate its inner logic.

Nothing is further from the spirit of the sages than the idea of an autonomy of thinking, a humanism of the good life; in short, of a wisdom in the Stoic or Epicurean mode founded on the self - sufficiency of thought.

Usually one finds among all four humanisms greater moral sensitivity about problems of justice and peace, about reconciliation between races and nations, than one finds in the Moral Majority.

If Science say Irene is caused by global warming; & If Religion say it is an «act of God» whether in warning or punishment; & If Humanism say we have a problem - let's find a solution together.

Although «secular humanism» is a term used most frequently by Protestant Fundamentalists, it was Justice Hugo Black» in delivering the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in a 1961 case, Torcaso v. Watkins» who distinguished between «religions based on a belief in the existence of God» and «religions founded on different beliefs,» such as «Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism, and othershumanism» is a term used most frequently by Protestant Fundamentalists, it was Justice Hugo Black» in delivering the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in a 1961 case, Torcaso v. Watkins» who distinguished between «religions based on a belief in the existence of God» and «religions founded on different beliefs,» such as «Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism, and othersHumanism, and others.»

So one has to find a new pattern of ideologically pluralistic secular humanism and religiously pluralistic spiritual humanism entering into dialogue with each other on anthropology, the nature and meaning of being and becoming human.

However, having read the article, its all about loving your neighbour and caring for the poor — these are values found not only in many religions, but is part of secular humanism too.

Having arisen out of a profound aversion to the modern spirit, fundamentalism finds «humanism.»

One should also appreciate the fact that though an institution founded by Christian Missions, considering the inter-religious character of the academic community of the college, the founders emphasized the Christian «values» of self - giving service to the poor and concern for the whole person rather than Christian salvation, thereby somewhat separating the common «culture» and values of humanism of academic community of the college, from the Christian «religion» and thus relatively secularizing it to keep the academic community free from discrimination on the basis of religion.

One of the expressions was a humanism which found its goal not in life beyond the grave but in an exuberant appreciation of life in the present world.

For those, like Rod Dreher, who see no room for committed Christians in the nation's public square, Noonan's Erasmian life in law and literature provides a robust affirmation that yes, there is always space in secular America for truly gifted practitioners of a humanism that finds its center in the Incarnation.

I find it a bit humorous that the writer did include «Christian humanism» and also «religious humanism» in his ranting way (s)

Humanism is founded on a certain Christian conception of man.

If you find yourself in conflict with someone like that, just imagine what the opposition is all about: secular laws vs religious laws, and racism vs humanism, to name but two of the many battlefields to be found here.

Nehru once said, that he could not find any scientific reason for saying that human beings would succeed in realizing the goals of humanism.

Why Humanism, Feminism, and Attachment Parenting Are Compatible Last week a new study found that the principles of attachment parenting are more popular with feminists than with other women.

Founded in 1896, Humanists UK is trusted by over 55,000 members and supporters and over 90 local and special interest affiliates to promote Humanism, a secular state, and equal treatment of everyone regardless of religion or belief.

The British Humanist Association was founded in 1896 and is the national charity promoting Humanism, campaigning for a secular state and an open society and representing and supporting non-religious people.

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In his»60s films one finds the through - line between the terse professionalism of Anthony Mann and Budd Boetticher in the»50s and the messy violence of Francis Ford Coppola and William Friedkin in the»70s, and the bridge between the implosive emotionalism of Elia Kazan and Nicholas Ray and the raw humanism of Altman and John Cassavetes.

Imbued with élan and humanism from beginning to end, Mud is very much a film about the limitless (often agonizing) power of love — and the great lengths many of us go to find it, obtain it, and ultimately, keep it.

Yet the characters» lives are utterly defined and guided by science fiction elements (of the sort that could soon be science reality), and the kind of ethical questions implicitly explored are those of classic science fiction going back to Asimov and Wells, here told with a poignant humanism and thoughtfulness rarely found on the screen today.

New guidelines were released by Morgan following the High Court ruling that found there had been a «breach of duty» in omitting humanism from the new religious studies GCSE.

Readers new to Coetzee may find this to be somewhat more accessible than some of his other novels, but with its curious tapestry of biblical themes, modern social commentary and ambivalent humanism, TheChildhoodofJesus may actually be one of his most enigmatic.

The word snugly adheres itself to the late artist's work like skin, as though humanism could not be found, one way or another, in every portrait of a human.

He gathered inspiration as much from Allen Ginsberg's Beat poetry and Eastern philosophies such as Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, as he did from Western humanism, his own training as a priest and the growing firmament of Conceptual art, which revolved around the founding of Lisson Gallery and other experimental art spaces in the late 1960s.

Contrast the American war of independence (and the British reformation) founded on «the laws of nature and of nature's God» vs the mayhem of the French revolution founded on atheistic humanism.

But in fact we don't need to look far to find intensely anti-human and influential currents within the Green movement that stand opposed to political and material freedoms — so much of it fails Burnside's test of humanism, comprehensively.

So, Unconditional Positive Regard, Unconditional Parenting, and Positive Psychology and Positive Parenting - all rooted in Humanism - believe that the most important part of parenting is to meet your child's needs, help him find his strengths and passions, and teach him how to use those «virtues» to be future minded, independent, and «self - actualized».