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This exhibition focused on the religious practices of the ancient Mediterranean world and
the modern challenges in piecing together an accurate picture of classical religion from surviving material fragments.
By bringing in perspectives from the media, activists, historians and the refugees themselves, Belzberg presents a view of
modern challenges in combating genocide that, while not entirely thorough, is a sobering reminder of the difficulty of those efforts.
Not exact matches
The broad scope of
challenges facing the world's top financial executives is unlike any other period
in modern business history.
Charna Halpern was recently heralded as the «hidden architect of
modern comedy,» but she's faced many
challenges in building a profitable theater business.
Another
challenge is to strike the appropriate tone at a time when the initial shock over the deadliest mass shooting
in modern U.S. history has quickly given way to a vicious political brawl
in Washington and on the campaign trail.
During his speech, Schmidt was
challenged by moderator Gideon Lewis - Kraus about what role the garage inventor could play
in the development of
modern AI.
As Tonbo explains,
modern - day battlefields, critical infrastructures, unmanned reconnaissance, transport vehicles driving
in the dark — all offer
challenging environments for effective visualization.
But with the recent shift
in power, the
challenges faced by
modern salespeople are very different.
This is an increasingly
challenging paradigm to execute upon today
in the more
modern commerce era we live
in.
What is more unfortunate is that contemporary bishops, who have been exposed to and educated
in the
modern world and its global
challenges — at least by comparison with their predecessors, who were restricted by the «iron curtain» or oppressive xenophobia — appear less interested
in transcending any prejudice and parochialism.
Buber contends that the fact that the Holy Land is also inhabited by another people (as it always has been, from biblical to
modern times) should not be an obstacle but instead is a
challenge to embody that divine call
in the
modern world.
A doctrine
challenged by science can be abandoned; a commandment that clashes with
modern attitudes ignored; the problem of evil washed away
in a New Age bath.»
Mr Deighan will have read
in these pages «something very close» to the idea that Thomistic epistemology tends to emphasise «immutable essences» and static forms, and that this emphasis has been powerfully
challenged by the success of
modern science (for example Jaeger's article
in our last issue and
in our September 2006 issue the editorial and the quotes from Ronald Knox's God and the Atom).
Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living,
in order to take up the
challenge of making Christ known
in the
modern «metropolis».»
Indeed many of the
challenges facing the family
in the
modern world are probably symptoms of the mostly uninformed rejection of this beautiful teaching, held as truth by the entire Christian community until the 1930s.
A
challenge for the religious reader
in the
modern age has been the promotion of biographies of Jesus that stand at considerable variance from all four gospels.
Questions also are raised about the identity of the church that plays such a major role
in the Radical Orthodox account of history, about whether there is a doctrine of providence implicit
in it, about the dismissal or ignoring of Protestantism, about the role of Jesus
in its Christianity, about the role of Socrates
in its Platonism, about its failure to engage with the
challenge of
modern scientific and technological developments, about how other faith traditions are related to this version of faith, and about whether this is a habitable orthodoxy for ordinary life.
A
challenge to renew integrity, purpose, and commitment
in the complexities of
modern life.
The great dual
challenge of his mission
in the Jewish state had been, on the one hand, to reform
modern Christianity's understanding of Judaism, while on the other hand, to bring salvation to the Jews.
Buddhism surely fares no better
in offering a constructive response to the
challenge of our
modern culture.
Given the choice between the canon of scripture and
modern principles of interpretation, I have no question where to camp, but I am, to a large degree,
challenged by what looks like a major disconnect between
modern scholarly discipline and the understanding of our ancestors
in the faith.
The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which
challenge religion
in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and
modern philosophy
in the universities, and the
modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.
This is now the
challenge of
modern theologians to develop a religion where Jesus is God, sent by Him to save humanity but most doctrines
in the bible must be revised.
Whereas the dichotomy of subject and object has been
challenged by experiments
in modern physics, a Cartesian dualism still provides the philosophical background of
modern molecular biology and, more recently, sociobiology.
In recent discussion, some so - called communtarian or republican thinkers have, in their own way, challenged the Kantian and, thereby, the modern natural law traditio
In recent discussion, some so - called communtarian or republican thinkers have,
in their own way, challenged the Kantian and, thereby, the modern natural law traditio
in their own way,
challenged the Kantian and, thereby, the
modern natural law tradition.
to devin, at this point of our existence or civilization, our consciousness has reach a point of complexity that God
in His will, wanted us humans now to implement it through our evolved
modern wisdom.that we have to all unite and focus our concern and attention to the greatest
challenge of our existence, which is survival, Its not the rituals or praising Him, or outwardly expressing our belief or love for Him, but our positve contribution to the good of humanity.
As cities boomed
in late - nineteenth - century America, Evangelicals discovered innovative ways to meet the overwhelming
challenge of
modern cities.
«Because some scholars have treated miracle claims
in the Gospels and Acts as purely legendary on the premise that such events do not happen, I intended to
challenge their instinctive dismissal of the possibility of such claims by referring to a few works that catalogued
modern eyewitness claims of miracles.»
Paul manages to both remind
modern viewers of the incredible safety
in which most of them can practice their faith, and call them to respond to any
challenge with love.
manages to both remind
modern viewers of the incredible safety
in which most of them can practice their faith, and call them to respond to any
challenge with love.
«Vatican II,» George Weigel writes
in Freedom and Its Discontents, «posed a basic
challenge to the many monisms, religious and secular, ancient and
modern, that continue to beset human life and the cause of human freedom.»
In his book The Secular City, theologian Harvey Cox in 1965 presented a significant challenge to Western theological thought by highlighting the difference which existed between the natural agricultural environment in which biblical thought had developed and the urban social environment of modern lif
In his book The Secular City, theologian Harvey Cox
in 1965 presented a significant challenge to Western theological thought by highlighting the difference which existed between the natural agricultural environment in which biblical thought had developed and the urban social environment of modern lif
in 1965 presented a significant
challenge to Western theological thought by highlighting the difference which existed between the natural agricultural environment
in which biblical thought had developed and the urban social environment of modern lif
in which biblical thought had developed and the urban social environment of
modern life.
But my pedagogical error consisted
in seeking to
challenge modern optimism with the theological doctrine which was anathema to
modern culture.89
The intramural dialogue over what Mark Noll has called «the scandal of the evangelical mind» worries that intellectually serious people have passed evangelicals by while we were allured by the sensations of revivalism, seduced by a materialistic market - driven culture, overtaken by the «disaster of fundamentalism»
in the face of
challenges from
modern science and technology, and robbed of our universities through negligence and the inertia of secularized education.
Though it originates
in antiquity, this cosmic pessimism has become a serious option among
modern intellectuals, always
challenging any religious vision as unrealistic and unscientific.
Not only, then, is
modern atheism addressed
in the most plausible of ways, but so too now is postmodernism, one of the great
challenges the Church faces as the 21st century unfolds.
It can be quite
challenging to decide whether one religion is sillier than another, but Mormonism certainly seems to have an edge, if only because they made up such amazing stuff
in relatively
modern times.
Fosdick sensed this weakness
in liberalism when he declared
in the 1930s: «What Christ does to
modern culture is to
challenge it.»
I
challenged neither Heidegger's devotion to «thinking» nor his claim that it is an activity
in which (
modern) science does not engage.
But he's also become one of the more controversial figures
in evangelicalism after releasing the book Love Wins, which
challenged conventional,
modern understandings about hell and the afterlife.
These visions of God
in the heavenly court and God's assistant Wisdom
challenge the
modern technological and power - oriented images of creation.
Now even as ancient Jewish apocalypticism profoundly
challenged the orthodox guardians of the Torah, a
challenge which is profoundly renewed
in Paul,
modern apocalypticism profoundly
challenges Christian orthodoxy.
This experience, crystallized into permanent form
in the Old Testament, constitutes the most remarkable theory of government that came out of the ancient world and at the same time an ideal that rebukes and
challenges the distressing imperfections of our boasted
modern democracy.
For MacIntyre, the practices necessary for training
in practical reason through which we acquire the ability to act intelligibly requires the systematic growth of human potential by acquired excellence that can not help but
challenge the character of
modern moral practice and theory.
Specifically, I have ventured to
challenge both of the simplifications whereby the problem before us is most commonly rendered incapable of solution — namely, the simplifications that one can be truly secular only by accepting
modern secularism and that one can believe
in God only by accepting the claims of classical theism.
Fr Dylan James powerfully presents Edward Holloway's Christocentric attempt to
challenge the «sex is for loving» philosophy which is so clearly at the heart of the incoherence of much Catholic catechesis
in this area, and of the
modern breakdown of the family.
Furthermore, those approaches, sometimes found
in Catholicism, which tend to depict God's coming as Man and his agonised death on the Cross as more than was strictly necessary or as under the primary control of evil are insufficient for meeting the
modern challenge of allowing God to be God.
It is
challenged by
modern physics,
modern biology and by frontier thinking
in theology and philosophy.
The main theme of the Conference was, «Christians
in Technical and Social Revolutions of Our Time», and its purpose was to look at the problems of the
modern world
in technological revolutions as it affects the economic, political and cultural life of the peoples, communities and states and to consider the
challenge and relevance of theology to the social revolutions of our time.