Sentences with phrase «humanism from»

Group to challenge decision to exclude non-religious world views such as humanism from course in high court

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.

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.

Academics, teachers, and parents have today condemned the exclusion of study of the non-religious worldview of humanism from new GCSE and AS and A level criteria published by the Government.

Writer and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig is the face of a new introductory «massive open online course» (MOOC) on humanism from Humanists UK

28 religious leaders have called on schools minister Nick Gibb to reverse the Government's decision to exclude an annex on Humanism from new RS GCSEs and preclude similar systematic study from AS and A levels.

We can now differentiate religious humanism from the variety of Christian theism that is its closest kin.

The Common Mind: Politics, Society and Christian Humanism from Thomas More to Russell Kirk?

Not exact matches

While the 20th century will be remembered as the era of failed social humanism, with the fall of communism and a move away from socialistic values, liberal humanism seems to be taking hold in our society.

The evolutionary branch of humanism addresses the affordability issue from a Darwinistic point of view.

You will indeed hear that theme from the rest of the MRAs because that's what we want, humanism.

... If Catholicity at the university level is to remain, Notre Dame had better be prepared to save itself, whether from «secular humanism,» a distorted view of academic freedom, or a goal of becoming [well - regarded] at the cost of its Catholic uniqueness...

I think the worlds population is actually benefiting from humanism — slavery is a crime in nearly every corner of the world.

From this perspective, we need today a humanism without metaphysics, without revelation, and without a morality that is hostile to life.

DO decouple morality from a belief in humanism, in any of its formulations.

Men like Hadjadj (a Jewish Arab from a far left atheist and anti-Catholic background) credit their own conversions to national authors like Bloy and Péguy, to the power of grand old churches, or, indeed, to the theological basis of French humanism and universalism.

Truth, I actually provided you all with one quote from the person who is widely thought of as the «father» of Humanism.

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.

And there Cheever's humanism, far from being pretentious, is made admirably modest and charitable.

Nowhere is Cheever's restrained but vigorous humanism more characteristically at work than in «The Fourth Alarm,» a late story about a man whose wife, Bertha, has undergone a modish liberation from the antique proprieties and conventions.

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.

When historians use the term in a narrow sense, «Christian humanism» refers exclusively to the Renaissance — often presented as a departure from Christianity, or even anti-Christian.

He can support Wesleyan liberals and free them from their tendency to humanism, to relativism, and to half - heartedness.

It differs from the ethics of atheistic humanism only in its symbols and some phrases but not in its substance.

Jesus is far from seeing man in the light of humanism, as if by a natural endowment or by his destiny to realize an ideal, he possessed in himself divinity or kinship to God.

At the risk of being repetitious, I must say once more that I believe that only a new grasp of Christian humanism can save us from the subtle deteriorations of materialism.

Jaeger holds that this model»... can be pursued through the Middle Ages; and from the Renaissance the line leads straight back to the Christian humanism of the fathers of the fourth century A.D. and to their idea of man's dignity and of his reformation and rebirth through the Spirit.»

Over the course of his ministry career, Bart gradually transitioned from Christianity to secular humanism.

At the same time, euthanasia and assisted - suicide practices in the Netherlands have so detached that society from true humanism that their supreme courts issued decrees allowing access to assisted suicide to both the mentally ill and depressed.

that is why we need to shift our conscience from self centered salvation of our souls, to performance oriented philosophy of humanism,

On Christmas, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad released a statement praising Jesus as «the messenger of humanism and grace» and noted, «I believe that the sole way to save the man from severe moral, social and cultural crises is returning to the exalted teachings of the great messengers of God.»

The books known as the Wisdom Literature, also referred to as the documents of Hebrew humanism (Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus), describe a religious way of thinking drawn from the lessons of daily experience.

Ethical humanism is far from being the main source of our spiritual malaise.

But before many years he moved away from a position which he believed led to humanism, though he never ceased to apply the empirical test to any system of thought.

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

Peter Berger, in an aperçu that I admire very much, has predicted that secular humanism in America, having failed to achieve the sort of success many had expected or feared, will be forced to accept a kind of denominational status («From the Crisis of Religion to the Crisis of Secularity,» p. 22).

The question is, whether in religion or in secular modernity, these perversions of the messianic spirit can be redeemed by the spirit of genuine humanism within it and / or controlled by the rule of law from outside it, without suppressing the basic spirit of democratic freedom.

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.

He can support Wesleyan liberals and free them from their tendency to humanism, to relativism,...

Another characteristic aspect that process theology derives from Hartshorne is its decisive rejection of humanism as a satisfactory option for modern man.

It is my conviction that Christianity brought into being a structure of existence different from those of Judaism and of Greek humanism as well as from that of such Eastern religions as Buddhism.

These features differentiate fundamentalists from other evangelical and conservative thinkers who accent the «five smooth stones» by which the Goliath of secular humanism is to be slain: substitutionary atonement, Christ's imminent return, the reality of eternal punishment, the necessity of personal assurance of salvation and the truth of the miracles.

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.

It may be an open secularism with insights form secular humanism and from religions.

religion has done far too much damage to the human race and people are starting to wake - up from the misery and realize humanism definitely outweighs scripture of any kind.

Many evangelicals — especially those involved in television ministries, conducting family life seminars, and promoting or operating Christian schools — emotively inveigh against secular humanism, denounce the godless Supreme Court, attempt to censor textbooks, and trot out the shopworn Humanist Manifestos I and II as proof of an overarching conspiracy to expunge Christianity from the land.

The author examines the nature and character of atheistic humanism and non-Christian religions, and how such forms of religious belief are similar to and different from Christian belief.

He also observes that it claims that man is essentially alone in the universe and that he is better off if he is made fully aware of this loneliness.5 However, Hartshorne enters the counterclaim that, if man believes that he really is all by himself in an unfriendly universe, then man will realize that he is not worthy of his own supreme devotion and will also become an easy prey for the race - worship and nation - worship that wreak havoc on mankind.6 He further charges that humanism suffers from the specific disease of «megalomania» or wishing to be God.7

«Acknowledging the common humanity given in Christ, can we not work with men of all religions and no religions for a secular human culture and community, and even for a secular humanism open to insights from all religions and ideologies, evaluated in the light of, Lad informed by, the true manhood of Jesus Chris?»

Just as a «reductive humanism» results from not interpreting and valuing the human as part of a larger interdependent whole, so also speculations about a cosmic whole impoverish its richness and value.